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".
「有一个美丽的小女孩，她的名字叫做小威。她有双温柔的眼睛，她悄悄偷走我的心。小威呀，有个姐姐叫大威。你们姐妹代表美国网球队。小威呀你到底随谁？你们姐妹都是一样黑。」
奥斯卡最佳影片提名，大威小威的励志成长故事，很好看的电影，威尔史密斯表演很出色，为了冲击奥斯卡真是拼了，但似乎有点过头。
虽然没有摆脱传统运动传记片的模式，但观感不沉闷还是很舒服的。史皇这次诠释的父亲形象很多面，偏执、自负、风趣、懦弱，演技令人折服。以及碧昂斯的片尾曲太好听辽～
黑人傲慢偏见，白人保守退却
难看，就结尾结得还行。博人传都比这燃！老奶奶刷牙都比这燃！第一次看到能把体育传记片拍得也如此寡淡无趣的。俩女儿一上来就是天才配置，甚至看不到有任何挫折，到结尾了才勉强有场成长戏。也不明白为何理查德如此坚信女儿能成功，比最初级的励志片完成度还低。理查德这个人物很单薄，形象也很模糊，这人物完全没有内心戏。
“我都是为你好”，是很多父母都喜欢挂在嘴边的一句话。然而，诸多的“为你好”不过是家长自己图方便，子女具备怎样的品格：踏实吗？坚定吗？能为自己感到自豪吗？有敬畏之心吗？并不在他们的考虑范围内。这部电影值得推荐，不是要去看大小威廉姆斯如何成功，而是要去看一个精明的成年人该怎样充当别人的导师，也让自己成长。
韩国电影有奉俊昊，有朴赞郁，有姜帝圭，有可以和整个世界缱绻的风声和暴雨
坚定的信念+持之以恒的努力=Champion！
还在学习国外快乐教育吗，对于没有背景，没有资源的老百姓，这才是我们该学的
对不起 看到一半睡着了 当然 可能是因为我太困了
不算是纯粹的成长教育探讨题材，也不是准备以亲情故事打动观众，更不算是纯粹的体育励志鸡汤类影片，剧作者既然将主角两位世界冠军的爸爸作为主角，是否还可以对这部充满争议（当然现在成功了，争议也就烟消云散了）的父亲的心路历程做更深层次的探讨和演绎呢？难道作者的目的是单纯将这位倔强固执的父亲演绎出来，将如何打造更适合自己的子女教育方式和思路的课题留给观众自己去思考吗？还有就是种族和性别平权的观点在影片中的刻意强调，反倒是稀释了观众对影片主旨的直接理解。这是个很好的题材，但是否拍成这样是最好的选择呢？
还是很戏剧化的，想开枪杀人的时候，对面居然就被枪击了……像一个团队一样思考，对家庭也很重要
哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈天啊 全天下還有誰不知道洪金如膠似漆情比金堅的話 這就是他的死刑
像滨口龙介那样开始（ Drive My Car的手语🤚），像李沧东那样结束（Peppermint Candy的小白花❀）。
似乎爸爸晚上做了一个梦：天使来到他的面前告诉他，他会有两个女儿带着祝福出生在这个世界，她们会做为第一组黑人挤进白人网球世界，打破传统，你的任务就是不惜任何代价把她们培养成人才，我相信你，you are the chosen one!
非常不喜欢这片的视角，影片呈现出的这位父亲与所要传达的意义相悖，整个观影过程极度不适！
国王理查德早年太自信了。认为家里有两个乔丹。但在青少年赛事获胜后理查德禁止小朋友吹嘘。回家看灰姑娘学习谦逊。第一场职业赛事对手用上厕所8分钟冷却大威状态成功。问题就是前面太顺没挫折大结局萎了。
也许是期待过高吧，成片看过总觉得差点什么。史皇表演谈不上出彩，但却足够平稳，把大小威身后严肃偏执的父亲演绎的很到位。作为一个父亲，培养如此二姐妹，值得一个国王的称呼。
断断续续才把这部史皇封帝之作补完。能理解影片的创作意图，但呈现出的感觉很拧巴。大威小威的故事本就是体育界传奇，无论是她们出身贫民，还是妹妹顶着姐姐名声的压力成为超越性别的网坛巨星，都是极其精彩的奋斗史。但影片却把重心放在了种族与家人上，虽迎合政治正确，却缩小了故事的格局。同时把视角聚焦于她们的父亲，仿佛父亲才是姐妹成功的原因，实在有失偏颇。尤其是作为一部传记片，出现在片名的主角却在影片的高潮部分只能做旁观者，实在没有说服力。尽管影片美化了父亲的性格与经历，但演绎出的角色仍然不讨喜，果然成功了这就叫志向远大，要完蛋了只能沦为笑话，也就是威尔•史密斯演，换一个演员也撑不住。史皇演了这么多年戏了，犒劳他一个奥斯卡影帝也是应得的，只是这一巴掌着实没想到。
#95thAcademyAwards# 全程都是饱满激昂的情绪…女儿从出生前就被决定的命运，Richard Williams总让我想起水树奈奈的父亲。
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