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".
香港后生已经唔识梁朝伟了，边个又愿记住梅艳芳。梅艳芳开口唱《心债》时我就开始喊，是站在结局望住起点。想起梅姐徒弟hcc唱的“若是没有这意外也许经已快乐地重回平淡家中等你”。两个钟看的非戏，是自己卅几年来时路的回望，尝尽了失意的我将一切都褪去，再到这风中心中竟仿似伤痕累累，但我信我会走得更好。
好像什么都说了，又好像什么都没有说。一切发生的事情，就好像在昨天
每每放出原片，如此风华绝代。镜头切回演员，又瞬间失了神色。只有一个梅艳芳，只有一个张国荣。
我比较纠结：一方面我不了解她，不知道她的真实经历是如何的，不知道电影对她感情生活的刻画是否过于肤浅；叙事主线也有点奇怪。但另一方面，又觉得女主角的还原度其实还蛮高，电影与真实场景切换也不出戏。而且梅姐的个人魅力实在是太强了，回家后忍不住翻她的所有资料看。现在的两地，实在都缺少这样一位有担当的公众人物啊。
因为离2003年太近，还有许多在世人的影响，要避开一些艺人，所以也是局限之处。
事业和拍拖也没那么互斥吧…原来我菲这一批是接的梅姐的班(也翻过Postman!~…(《千千阙歌》跟《夕阳之歌》同曲!~这个时期从外面拿了好多哦，尤其是🇯🇵
多经典的歌后，一刹眼已走。颀长的身形、百变的造型、醇厚的嗓音，梅姑担得起一句“天生我高贵艳丽到底”。电影虽然采用了最为保险的平铺直叙，但台词缠绵悱恻，众多配角的弧光交相辉映。人情味的倾注，使得电影的情感脉络和梅姑的音乐风格相吻合——慢节奏时讲述唏嘘，快节奏时表达反叛。从技术角度来看，镜头语言比较纯熟，框架构图、背影特写和镜面视角都运用得恰到好处。而《梅艳芳》作为一部明星传记片，不止用2.5小时的体量凝炼了天后的生平，还完成了香港社会变迁的侧写。当年的SARS摧折经济，人人自危，如今的新冠疫情侵袭全球，阴翳笼罩，同类悲剧跨越时空形成了残酷互文。年月变幻，世事莫测，人总是容易被流离失所的孤独打倒。正因此，毕生都在传递归属感的梅姑，必然被时代铭记。
前100分钟讲的东西都有些隔靴搔痒，啥都想讲却啥都讲不好。后面20分钟讲到哥哥的离世和对后一场演唱会才有点感觉。除了三个离世的人有全名，其他都没用全名，和片尾的声明一样小心谨慎，毕竟中国人讲究的就是盖棺定论。
梅艳芳人生历程展示PPT。爱梅艳芳和一定要爱梅艳芳的人物传记电影是两回事。
1105提前場+映後見面會。
这选角不行啊 长得和金星似的 没有梅艳芳的神韵
电影的深度不够，更像一部影像式记录电影，主要介绍了梅姐的一些重要节点，新秀歌唱大赛，红馆演唱会，胭脂扣，审死官，KTV打耳光，包括最后谢幕夕阳之歌。。电影亮点在于王丹妮的表演还是很有梅姐形的，歌不错，古天乐很帅。。缺点在于作为电影剧情张力不够，哥哥的选角是一大败笔。另外如果是梅姐粉丝可能觉得太简化。作为不是梅姐粉丝的我还是让我更了解这位香港女儿，致敬双栖天后梅艳芳！
每每放出原片，如此风华绝代。镜头切回演员，又瞬间失了神色。只有一个梅艳芳，只有一个张国荣。
电影公布选角的时候，内心是有落差的。但电影看下来，主要角色的演绎并没有拖后腿，整体呈现非常不错。原因在于，电影对于八十年代的香港的构建，完成得太漂亮了，以至于主要角色的外貌与原角色的相似度，显得不那么重要。观影的过程中，我清楚地认识到，王丹妮不是梅艳芳，刘俊谦也不是张国荣，但这并不妨碍我进入那个未曾谋面的香港。让人感动的是，尽管现实有这么多的不堪，电影仍然用了一种美好的方式去回忆梅姐的恋情。梅艳芳是一位坚强的女子，分手也大方体面，没有激烈争吵，而是在公园长椅上轻松地聊天，告别。最催人泪下的是告别演唱会的还原，那是许多人深刻怀念又未能企及的高光时刻。电影在夕阳之歌中落幕，但这夕阳永不下沉。
1）张国荣好出戏。找了个神似张新成的演员，气质也迥异。
直接看了225分钟的导演剪辑版，后两集太好哭了！王丹妮的还原水平我觉得已经是非常惊艳了，尤其对比那个看起来尽力了但还是很好笑的张国荣。啊，人间再无梅艳芳。
剧本稀烂，太多说教，太多抒情，不利索，女主演有的地方处理非常好，有的地方处理太浅，表情像木头人，人物前后看不到成长，看不到变化。摄影一般，配音太明显，但是已经不错了，所有的泪点都来自真实，来自自己。
万达影城（五角场店）杜比影厅
最后我想说，我是不会忘记梅艳芳，不会忘记张国荣的。我相信，在天上他们仍然也是最好的朋友。
电影一般，更重要的是纪念意义
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