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".
从求婚到葬礼，从死亡到新生，一切依然那么优雅高贵精致，完美得几近童话。
开头是tom的婚礼，结尾是老夫人的葬礼。全家南法度假，mary给电影配了个音小暧昧了一把，姐夫全程不在。不过汤马斯为什么要离职，去美国了嘛？
不只是关于百老汇，也是关于格林威治村，以及两者的互哺关系。吞噬生活的艺术创作过程注定是孤独的。从《傲慢》到《倒数时刻》再到《吉屋出租》，乔纳森·拉森倒在了功成名就的前夜，而林聚聚在这部传记音乐片中有着太多自我投射，反而让我出戏了。Anyway我还是要给加菲打call，哪怕你已不再是少年...
2022.6.14，可能因为双线故事相比上一部这一次的电影有些不足力，但是看到那个人都更幸福的美好结局，非常治愈
旧时代的远去，新事物（电影）的入侵；阶级壁垒被打破，贵族平民化，奴仆们坐上了长条桌。
唐顿庄园里面最灵魂的人物落幕了，我也是实在不希望再续拍下去了
British core最后还是驾驭了Hollywood technique
编剧扎实，亮点很多，依然是令人心满意足的结局。音乐方面大有提升，摄影虽然还是没有明显优点，但大银幕的体验弥补了这个弱项。这一部还是很棒的，毕竟角色的气质和服饰美术已经足够令人赞叹。
【NO.47】一晃十二年过去了……挥别老太太
全员出场人物都要有故事线带来的问题就是台词和场次真的太过于密集，但是人家就是有本事全部满满当当塞下并献上华彩段落，对这个系列也算是一个完美的阶段性交代，期待这一大家子还能带来后面的新篇章
感觉更像是一部主线无关的番外，虽然唐顿跟随世界迎来了新的时代，但还是希望能继续保持优雅平和的气质，而不是在纷纷乱乱的新世界中丧失自己的步调。
本粉丝看得很满足。婚礼开始，葬礼为尾，新生作为结束，在这座充满故事的庄园进行电影拍摄也是绝佳选择，默片有趣地走向了有声片。几段感情的拉扯，群像的刻画，各种呼应，最终granny的和Barrow的离开也是唐顿的某种结束和新的开始。
太喜欢了，超好看的！电影还是比较舞台风，但对于一个宽街迷妹，处处都能看出各种彩蛋，我在电影院里从头到尾都超激动。Jonathan Larson的歌确实是好好听！加菲展现出了不为人知的一面，唱歌超棒，还是自弹自唱，采访里一直说到他开拍前不会唱歌不会弹琴，但从电影的效果来看，他的唱跳表演都被林聚聚调教得非常好，非常具有舞台感！当年我没看成AIA，加菲什么时候再回宽街啊，不一定要演话剧，音乐剧绝对可以啊！加菲明年男主必须要提名，我希望他拿奖！我家Ben出场不多，但非常可爱，竟然都没让他开口唱歌，好歹也让他唱两句呗！林聚聚首次执导还是可以的，剧情流畅，节奏很好，唱歌和文戏转换我觉得都很自然！还有不愧是林聚聚，整个宽街的人都被他请来客串，我就在那数星星！
【NO.47】一晃十二年过去了……挥别老太太
比第一部电影好看，老夫人不在了还是有些落寞啊。
虽然婚礼开场葬礼结束，还是留了一个标准的新生命诞生做尾声。老太太的去世因为太顺理成章，反而比任何狗血的戏剧冲突更显悲伤。“在他们看来，女性通常是两种形象，要么邪恶，要么愚蠢，而你最好让人以为你是前者。”金句老太太最后还是变成了挂在墙上的一副肖像画。
虽然看过第一部，但我是直到结尾才分清角色。这部剧的人际关系，其中的浪漫，奢华，高雅可能对女生比较有吸引力，我后排两个女生对于剧中几位女性的讥笑、嘲讽、阴阳怪气，能给出很灵敏准确的反应，很吃年老后拿着定情信物回忆过往这一套。我对剧中人物的表现也有几个比较深刻的印象，只是整体上比较迟钝。我更感兴趣的是这个电影呈现的知识点，英国仆人的骄傲，英法庄园的差异，英国人到法国度假的生活方式，电影从无声到有声的历程，有声电影的制作。更有趣的是我发现仆人们是在地下室的餐桌上也很严肃的吃饭，最后因为一场戏能像主人一样在坐在大餐厅的餐桌上。大家听莫斯利求婚很浪漫，告别老奶奶很伤感。
形式大于内容，本就复杂的叙事结构因为歌舞加入更乱了，两段叙事时空的交错，两种表现形式的混合，不断造成的断层以至于很难融于故事当中。而且除去结尾几首歌，大部分歌曲也没什么亮点。加菲的表演状态则更像是在出演舞台剧，脱离了传记片的真实感，可矛盾的是，剧中剧结构却又允许了这种表演形式。当然，电影是最容易表现这一复杂剧本的方式，但最适合它的舞台，其实还是剧院。
印象深刻的一幕是加菲拥抱女友时手指轻敲女友的后背，不要爱上艺术家，他会汲取你生命的能量和养分豢养他的作品。
人事有代谢，往来成古今。婚礼开始，葬礼结束，有新生，有老去，有机遇，有遗憾，而唐顿庄园依旧伫立。大屏幕上看唐顿，总会感到温暖又难过，为那个回不去的旧世界。
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