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".
史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格2021年作品，翻拍1961年版，剧情及歌舞走得都有点不伦不类。
斯皮尔伯格竟然也能拍这么难看的片子，还是歌舞片，有种米其林大厨做西红柿炒鸡蛋，做出食堂味儿的感觉。咱就是说，您真喜欢《西区故事》那就重映嘛，搞这么麻烦干啥。
分全给cinematography，以及女配男配。男女主真的不行，文戏硬演，唱段的画面和声音都是硬生生的割裂感。也难怪拿America片段做宣传，DeBose和Alvarez老道太多。而有Faist的画面Ansel再高也没存在感。我看的最后一场musical theater就是澳巡的西区故事，我宁愿再看一遍那个。这电影烂番茄新鲜度95，搞笑来的？
2022-03-20
史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格2021年作品，翻拍1961年版，剧情及歌舞走得都有点不伦不类。
看这版西区故事前，我一直很担心，因为老版的剧情实在糟心，但斯皮尔伯格几乎化腐朽为神奇般地用镜头，调度与高质量的舞美碾压过平庸的剧情叙事，让歌舞成为本片真正的主角，而叙事逻辑反倒退居其次。
技术上特别厉害，故事虽然我有些疑虑但在当下特别有意义，人与人间分歧产生的争端升级后只会带来伤害，愿大家平和，愿世界和平。这是我在豆瓣标记看过的第3000部电影。
篮球场斗舞，居然还是交际舞，虽然调度复杂但感受不到意义何在
對於原作那種美好的記憶猶新，實在不忍心給大師差評，含淚註記三星。
有一处高级黑是林肯中心成了废墟，伊莎贝拉博物馆还完好无缺。运镜的确无比流畅，但莎翁故事用如此愚蠢的枪战不能忍。
音乐、舞蹈、摄影都没得说，光影魔法。教堂场景美翻了。小瑞秋唱功极佳。
抛开政治正确滤镜，对于导演本人之外毫无意义的一次翻拍——无论在戏剧改编还是电影升级层面。如果斯皮尔伯格或任何创作决策者肯将西语去字幕化的政治嗅觉灵光度拿出一半用在视听上，恐怕也不会呈现各式镜头被60多年前旧作吊打的窘境。
除了全方位360°无死角的史皮堡对场景，演员的调度和他强大的控场能力之外全都是full shit。没看过原版，也想象的出原版多难拍，而这版因为男女主角特别是男主角演技差到一直跳戏，歌难听，演技差。一直很好奇国产剧出了个"只看ta"的功能，这一次全用在主角身上，除去主角们的狗血，情爱之外，就是一场对旧时代的拙劣致敬了。
优缺点都过于明显，太长了实在是
我听不出来安塞尔唱的好坏，当年悲惨世界都说罗素唱得差，我也听不出来，只听出来阿曼达气喘🌚
对于1961年的《西区故事》，已然记不住太多画面。庆幸的是，艺术终归在任何时代都有人向往，现在电影绝大部分已经变的更加现实与深刻。而真正只为美好与艺术的状态，是越来越少了。好在斯皮尔伯格翻拍了一次《西区故事》！
又一个技术层面上好莱坞顶级水准的代表，好是确实好但没有打满分的欲望，翻拍永远绕不过的坎就是不符合时代进步的老故事和价值观
而片中波多黎各移民对于彼时生活在美国多好多好的歌颂，也早已经早已经过了时，现在恐怕再也没人能把那些唱词夸的出口了。
调度不输原版，老爷子发挥稳定。没有更多新时代的表达，也符合对他的期待吧。可能他只是单纯想拍一部歌舞片了。【6】
女主可以不要这么恋爱脑吗？
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