Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
开心麻花最成功的地方也是最大的局限性就是没有现实感，只能讲一个虚化背景的逻辑构建，核心内容往往是身份的突变，让人物在莫名其妙中二次投胎，角色细节靠周星驰的小人物的不自知，风格靠三谷幸喜的场域构造，在各种借势拼贴中完成好笑的自洽。这没什么不好，但也不可能再往前走一步了。酒吧那场戏以后不好笑，对前面笑点的反复回收再利用，比较顺拐了。不过还是简单有效，合格的喜剧。
老板无时无刻地竭尽浑身解数地pua员工是无国界无文化隔阂地非常统一。老板对员工大多时候都是很过分地干涉，总是要把员工个人一切与老板的切身利益关联，刻意制造出 ‘公司/工厂是一个大家庭，好像一个父亲照顾关爱每一个人’等这样的洗脑式的虚伪情感，绑架员工的情感以使他们牺牲自己的一切将老板的利益展最大化。电影里的老板经常说的一句话是‘你的问题（麻烦）就是我的问题（麻烦）；如果事情令我变得糟糕，你的情况只会更糟’，大多数员工为此极为感动，他们确实把老板这句话当药吃，哪怕付出生命的代价；只有一个员工，Khaled，对此一语道破“我有我擅长的本事，我工作干得好，你付我薪水，一切止步于此。别拿家人那套狗屁说词对我。你看好我的肤色，我不是你儿子！” 拒绝老板pua！（写不下了）
夸张的表演方式、廉价的布景/特效、
女性视角当了市场部主管，多元文化当了生产部主管，好老板是一碗水端平的大师。
有被吓到，谢谢开心麻花。也谢谢万达，四张票273.4。过年就是好啊，有贺岁片可以看，谢谢国家。
极尽讽刺之能事。一位“竭心尽力”将公司打造成大家庭的老板，打着关心的幌子做着操纵他人的行为，一切努力都是出于自身利益。天秤雕塑的隐喻很妙，资本主义下哪有真正的公平，维持平衡的其实是藏在天秤下的那一颗子弹。
哪个外科医生想截肢，不想！ 很写实的内容，老板就是这样，也应该这样。
居然认真地看了一部喜剧，救火救得全世界着火的好老板，哈哈
这部电影成功与否取决于演员能否诠释这个复杂多面的角色，巴登显然出色地完成了这个挑战
辛辣老练，虚伪到底，把伪善的人和纯良的人全部讽刺了一遍
别跟原版比也还好，想那么多干嘛，怪费脑子的。。。
黑色的讽刺，无论是善良的天真的还是丑恶的伪善的全都讽刺了一番，永远将一家人这样的词汇挂在嘴上的老板，实际上却为了企业得奖从而拿到补助无所不用其极，对员工压榨到丝毫不剩，最终还是一副受害者的姿态。可怕的是看了好久我居然还是觉得这个老板没有什么的。
4.5。戏中戏还挺有意思的，这可能是目前为止为止我看过开心麻花最好的电影（自从《半个喜剧》之后看到开心麻花四个字就想躲远点），至少这部还是值票价的。如果春节档只能看一部，那就考虑这个吧。今年也够累了，我还是看点开心的吧。
搞笑，影院里气氛很不错，有能让人不尴尬发自内心的笑点。魏翔的演技着实让人惊艳了。情节略有点单薄，米兰被老魏感动的点不够那么有说服力，感觉只能用她本身的责任感和善良来解释。老魏回头又来救姐弟俩也是差点意思。
我咋感觉这个老板也挺不容易的呢，是被我们这边的老板虐的三观都出问题了吗。
真心没觉得这老板有什么问题，剥削从何而谈？
用天平为切入口真的非常棒，当天平怎么都调节不平衡时，加了一颗子弹，诶，平了！就像“好老板”一样，前期费心费力的用柔软的手段去拯救公司的困局，却发现越整越乱，于是，一场小青年的捣乱，一个“秘密”的威胁，奖项最终还是入手了。（ps：这玩意定义为喜剧我是真有点不理解……还有那个开局被解雇的，唉，多留个心眼啊……）
哈维尔·巴登实在太强。平衡背后是老谋深算的不择手段，罗朱处的蒙太奇剪得漂亮！
用天平为切入口真的非常棒，当天平怎么都调节不平衡时，加了一颗子弹，诶，平了！就像“好老板”一样，前期费心费力的用柔软的手段去拯救公司的困局，却发现越整越乱，于是，一场小青年的捣乱，一个“秘密”的威胁，奖项最终还是入手了。（ps：这玩意定义为喜剧我是真有点不理解……还有那个开局被解雇的，唉，多留个心眼啊……）
很好看很好笑！煽情也恰到好处完全不尴尬！是那种又有笑点仔细想想又很辛酸的荒诞电影。
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