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".
如果命题作文Venus&Serena，电影音量会更强。Beyoncé催泪配方响起之后哭了好久。你可以无视所有白人特权居高临下说Williams姐妹并非与男人作战，她们的球网对面自然不是男性，但她们挥出的每一击，都拼尽全力将肤色隔离的歧视藩篱敲出裂隙，以黑人女性身份的社群榜样作用，无时无刻不在对抗父权世界——尤以走出暴君父亲阴影家庭内部的痛苦角力为甚。此类传奇宣传只是顶配励志神话广告，显然为传主背书的目的使得反思批判点到为止，文过饰非放大非裔力量的立论切入，精确的颁奖季大男主算法框架下，四平八稳的竞技场面足够好看，但无论是情节还是人物实际都被后见干涉的还原对照削弱了应有呈现。片尾「一切如理查所料」字幕的兜售反而违背制作本意暴露了家长操盘年少成名的噩梦一面，集体不公的图景也遗憾仅在画外草草点缀。
采访孩子的部分像是看了一集《人生七年》。全片下来更像是和观众谈一场心理治疗 ？吧
饰演落魄父亲的威尔史密斯很容易让人联系到《当幸福来敲门》
威尔·史密斯的表演确实加分，至于颇受争议的教育理念，你看人家孩子都没什么大意见
就其实还蛮不错的另类传记片啊 有Vee和Serena在注定也不会很客观的展现老威廉姆斯的全部过往 但是关注点也并全部在他的身上 本质上还是一部社会进步写照
现实中这么搞的人，百分之九十九都死在沙滩上了
这位操控一切如“国王”般的虎爸告诉你，万事都要沉着冷静，一切都在掌控计划中…面对100万刀要不屑一顾保持头脑清醒才有可能赢得1200万刀。
PFF#….5? Potentially my fav one
采访的孩子个个金句迭出 也是穿插于影片中的亮点
模板传记片没什么新鲜劲，而且我更多看到的是理查德的独断自负，诚然培养了两个天才，但无法忽略的是大小威本身的天赋。史皇的表演拿影帝真不太够啊，对于他自己来说根本没有突破，今年实在是暗淡无光的一个超小年。
小男主的表演也毫无痕迹、充满灵气，尤其是家里有个同样可爱同样闹腾的差自己十几岁的弟弟 看着真的好有共鸣
国王理查德=大小威父亲，用近乎专制的父爱指导家里的女孩们，要么好好学习好好打球，要么沦落街头被警察抓走，以强大的自信颠覆各种固有的球星培养路线，好在他的策略是有效的，且两个女孩都非常争气。很佩服他要求女儿坚持学习的想法，但整条路有借鉴意义吗？我打了个问号。
还不错，看完就知道碧昂斯为什么愿意做主题曲了。
中规中矩的八序列法剧本，威尔史密斯影帝锁了吧，导演的功底很一般。
自負又自卑的父親，自負於女兒網球天賦，又自卑於自身身份，固執的父親最後還是遂了女兒的意。
相较于大小威传记或者说网球电影感觉这个根本是个种族、家庭电影，落点也不在大小威在她们的爸爸。但是这样一想，有种挂羊头卖狗肉的感觉，何必要借用大小威的名头呢。反正我个人感觉麻麻的，不过好莱坞经典套路嘛，体育+真人+励志+家庭，这种剧本你跟着哭就对了
电影里对大威小威家庭的描绘，对理查德这样严父角色的塑造，其实这不是我们国内这些人最缺失的？来自家庭与父母的支持，而非代际之间的隔阂与断裂。
国王，有打造大美江山的能力，也有太不温善的专制和独裁。传记电影的价值远远不在人物本身，这部片子做到了。不能说是家庭教育教科书，至少要学习他对尊严、理想的解构，以及运筹帷幄的能力。
有点受不了这种处处插入意识形态宣传的activist鸡汤…小演员演的确实真的好
中途观感还不错，但越到后面觉得这个爹越讨人厌，明明非常自以为是还教小孩to be humble？？女儿是天才虽然靠爹培养但拍个电影记录这个人物完全就不讨喜。有些加入的表现黑人stuggle的情节略感勉强，比如拒绝俱乐部老板那里（明明就take 了free coach很久了啊）。时长短一些删掉一些多余情节还会算是比较好看的体育传记片。
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