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".
多一颗星是给这个时代还会拍“梅艳芳”缅怀香港女儿。但整部影片太过平庸：王丹妮应该是由头到尾配音，与同期声的古天乐林家栋杨千嬅好像两个时空对话；重要人物如罗文徐小凤等集体缺席，梅在娱乐圈唯一一个好友只有张国荣；按时间记叙流水账皆琐碎无重点，明明有大把真事却平添编剧敷演，如姊妹吃醋、近藤因事业悔爱；切入视角单一，王丹妮充斥镜头，没有香港娱乐黄金时代众生相一瞥，遑论按图索骥把玩细节；梅艳芳当年视频穿插其中却不得法，节奏断裂风格脱轨；梅艳芳鼻端下方人中旁边的一粒痣由头到尾在王丹妮脸上欠奉，但复刻《胭脂扣》时出现在如花脸上；王丹妮面相像第一届港姐冠军张玛丽，某个角度像tvb韩马利。
90年代看广东队踢甲A，要是临门一脚踢飞，全场3万名球迷会爆发出一声“妖”还是“丢”？这声长长的“妖”或者“丢”就是对这部梅艳芳传记片的最佳注解。感觉导演回归后又在大陆电影学院进行过一番深造。。。嫁给舞台的明星就是要万人爱，激情歌手就是要展现她的恐惧渴望快乐和痛苦，这有什么丢人的呢？又不是要让梅艳芳去做圣女贞德，刻意回避整个90年代反而是欲盖弥彰。
好看 治愈。和ziyi 在Charles Theatre的一场电影。他带了实验室顺来的巧克力和焦糖味的马卡龙，以及蓝莓干。
拍传记真是一件难事，梅艳芳，绝代芳华，同样也是普通人一个，怎么讲这个故事都有被攻击的可能性，导演算是带着虔诚与善良完成这部电影了。故事里阿梅的仗义、大方，对公益的热衷，对演艺事业的热爱，以及她不太幸福的童年都有了。印象最深刻的还是演唱会上的婚纱，《夕阳之歌》也很让人泪目。当然粉丝还是会有一些更多的期待吧，难以提及的江湖往事，在这一部里是没有体现的，嫁给事业时代巨星，大梦一场。
4.5/10。如果你是梅艳芳的粉丝，哪怕随便去看一部关于梅艳芳的纪录片，带来的震撼都比这个电影来得强烈；如果你是一个对梅艳芳完全不了解的人，去看一次03' Anita Classic Moment演唱会或者02年与张国荣合作的《芳华绝代》liveshow，你就知道这部电影的「还原」有多么肤浅。（225min ver.）
美式小清新，有点舒服的无聊，剧情三星，男主加一星，97的自导自编自演属实厉害。有一些无伤大雅的臭屁，但是狗狗眼真的很真诚！
Larger than life是对梅艳芳最恰当的形容，她身上过早的沧桑感、行走江湖的傲岸，空前绝后，不可模仿。香港的女儿更是香港的女神，她的命运隐伏着此城的命运。电影可称水准之作，色调与画面边框晕影、后期配音化入一片朦胧中的声效，都暗示这只是梦回昨日，而昨日本身则定格于插播的梅艳芳片段，不在戏中。我更喜欢前2/3，剧本编写很细腻，正剧、诙谐小插曲、爱情场面，情调都不错。可惜从避居清迈开始，故事渐趋浮光掠影。新人女主角镇不住临终演唱会的舞台，情有可原，因为连化妆都欠缺说服力；然而一搬进实况片段就马上催泪：掩不住的病容，是艺术家正在用生命作人间绝唱！导演说过拍此片没有野心，目标只是让更多人（重新）认识梅艳芳，这目标相信已达到，凭这一点它就值得尊重和赞赏。
I'm a soulmate, he is one too.
Real smooth 真的挺丝滑。达妹声音细细软软柔柔的，是我也会爱上她。
吃饭的时候断续看完的，结尾太墨迹了，确实像林克莱德，前面台词很精彩，导演兼主演有些才华，Joseph长得不像律师，像瑞典足球运动员或者帮派成员。
两个好的地方：胭脂扣两人穿着戏服说现实的台词，间离感让人不知是哪段戏；阿Ben和女主分手，如果很多地方像这样淡化，剧情也不至于紧绷吧。ps：没想到杨祐宁在这里还不错，一点都不油腻。
片子的确有点流水账，缺少点灵魂，但能大屏幕听到梅姐的歌，演员又那么形似，还有一众大牌保驾护航，已经很满足了。芳华绝代，芳华永在！
从童年到92年期间几乎一出现经典歌就泪目，一出现演唱会场景就激动，但电影对掌掴事件淡化得很厉害，当年可是重磅炸弹，两个黑帮成员死于非命，传梅姐花8位数字才平息事件，后来向太也曾提起当晚事情经过。复出后的梅姐的确身体越来越不好，到哥哥自杀那里观众席好多啜泣声，最后用演唱会婚纱夕阳之歌结束，再度泪目。她真的是一个义气仔女，有几句台词挺深刻也贯穿她一生。“前辈提携后辈是天经地义”、“如果遇到肯学的，就好好去教”，还有她和哥哥都说过的那句“你会记得我吗？”
10.30广州Fun范影城杜比全景声点映+路演——
即便从小已听过无数遍，影片最后绝唱《夕阳之歌》时我还是流泪了……
男主的眼睛看起来很真挚，挺温馨的一段露水情缘
电影过于平铺直叙了，拍摄手法也很单一，没有很好表现出梅艳芳的神韵和气质…人物塑造不知道为什么很单薄。很多剧情的安排很莫名其妙，什么都想要顾到的传记片看起来真的很错失重点。不过无论电影本身如何，还是要为梅艳芳喝彩，goodbye Anita!
一星给演员，一星给美术妆化。演员很棒！梅姐的扮演者王丹妮，哥哥的演员刘俊谦，都很惊喜，拿捏的神态和气质非常到位。片中有很多真实影像的穿插，电影和真实之前撞击出很多唏嘘和感慨。导演太差了，梅姐的性格和情感一样都没拍出来。
先天缺失+后天乏力，内容上极为保险，拍法上更是无趣。我不明白此时此刻推出《梅艳芳》的动机是什么，创作者应该很清楚，要在现有的环境下呈现梅艳芳的完整人生，最佳的形式是纪录片。
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