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".
其实选角比想象中的好，有些裁剪痕迹也能看出原本子应该是有试图处理一些真实人物“不可或缺”的段落，但总体就会让我想起小学时梅姐刚走的时候写的一片命题作文，那个时候我并没有了解梅姐太多（虽然现在也没有了解吧），先把了解、有无感情等等放一边，结果写得就很——流水账。部分春秋笔法还算蛮好玩，金马和97前夕移民潮放进来也蛮显“努力”，不过总体就还是有些缺缺，而看到最后，说是为梅姐感动，说是为香港感动，好像都不是因为电影本身感动。3.5归3吧。
从歌女到风华绝代，梅艳芳惊艳的又何止是一个时代。忘不了，终相见，这场电影也算是我们和梅姐之间一种特殊的见面吧
张：多谢！
三星半。这片子太不好拍了，梅艳芳的很多故事都不能触碰，最终选取的素材已经是可控范围内的极限了。影片以40年为跨度：通过梅艳芳几段恋情的无疾而终，姐妹的亲密/隔阂，表达梅艳芳向往婚姻、家庭而不得，与刘培基、苏孝良的关系如同父女；一边点出与张国荣的挚友关系，一边也在突出前辈对后辈的提携；Anita是为了舞台而生，几段演唱表演与私生活状态形成鲜明反差；梅艳芳做慈善、在sars期间开动员演唱会，表达热爱香港。最终落脚点是香港的女儿。表达上很诚恳，完全弱化了商业属性，尽可能用情绪带动叙事节奏。摄影和剪辑帮助很大，整体很利落，清迈部分虽略显拖沓，但不算大问题。王丹妮的气质比梅艳芳弱，但整体来讲算是合格了，几段爆发戏份的表演比较亮眼。古天乐的刘培基意外的不错，是他少见的戏路。
一部注定失败的电影。在这个年代要拍梅艳芳又受限于大陆上映，只能用最糟糕的百度百科式叙事匆匆讲完一本流水账。其实如果导演能像前作那般有野心，是可以做出一曲时代挽歌的，但很多事情又不能挑明了说，所以就拼命拿真实的影像去找补。即便如此，纪实部分依然是残缺破碎的，所有的感动也不过是单纯的情怀作祟，与电影本身无关。
1、虚实结合就像红酒里边兑了葡萄汁
意料之中哭着看完，也希望看完电影的人，无论是不是梅姐的粉丝，走出电影院后都能去看看她留存下来的一场场演唱会视频，去音乐平台听听她的歌曲，去看看她参演过的影视作品，希望会有更多的人爱她。
唏嘘、反叛
揣着巨大的可用素材量，剪辑却稀碎，尤其是声音剪辑，真人原音很多时候渺小得像画外音，就为了衬主演，有点弄反了。
演张国荣的演员不像也就算了，还多出了一丝猥琐，比起马思纯冒着砸招牌的风险演葛薇龙，这位简直是冒了欺师灭祖的风险……
1.会流泪，在重现张国荣葬礼时，在梅艳芳着婚纱嫁给舞台时，在演员王丹妮缓缓离开的侧颜而切入梅艳芳的告别演出时，在《夕阳之歌》响起时，在一声拜拜时…
古天乐演梅艳芳的服装设计师Eddie，很多镜头都挺感人。
拍成这样真的不如做成一部纪录片全部用真实影像更真诚。
目前只有137分钟这版的资源，这个版本的剪辑没有突出梅艳芳一生中最重要的场景和画面。
太好哭了，這才是真正時代的眼淚。而且確實基本上必須要在香港待過20年以上才會有感覺。
再过30年拍肯定不同。
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！
PS：近藤那段看的我笑出声，看采访说是为了拿《夕阳之歌》的版权跟他和其事务所沟通过剧本，按时间算当时火柴还没退社，所以藤岛景子社长为了给火柴洗白渣男人设扣了一口大锅给自己舅舅嘛！片方可千万别作死日本上映，万一让堂本光一看见那个片中拆散一对鸳鸯的恶人社长，怕不是连夜打飞的来HK揍飞导演哦！顺便一提，渣男电影里洗再白也屁用没有，现实中的渣男同传闻中一样，渣到没眼看。
她沒有驚艷的外貌音色，也受困過無端是非，感情路上也是折戟沈沙鐵，但仍是香港樂壇的傳奇人物，Anita的耿介個性、多變造型、時代擔當、仗義同行、獎掖後進是一股難得的清流。《夕陽之歌》實在是世紀絕唱。在電影院看粵語版也算是沈浸式了。我所記得的Mui的兩個小插曲，一是她來春晚唱《床前明月光》，一是她在《鍾無艷》反串齊王。【PolyBB】
梅姑最重要的原生家庭的部分缺失了，得亏廖子妤演得不错，姐妹情深这个点立住了。电影的本身恐怕连流水账都不如，百度百科我相信都比这个电影要更为好看，或者是供人思考，梅艳芳的事业部分说得浮光掠影，把她变成了恋爱脑，用Siri的话说这个片也许只有刘培基的粉丝才能满意。王丹妮勉强合格，但也不算好，不过比起其它人奇奇怪怪的表演她已经很规矩，虽然舞台的部分还是不够好，和原版一比就显得像是全民造星的水平，但是演感情戏更差，这也使得影片更在恋爱脑明星传记上倾斜，而她一路的作品的幕后基本没说，感情还是美化过的恋爱小说。
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