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".
画面超一流，整体故事还不如新版星战。。基于原作的世界观过于陈旧，连摄影比2049也差很多，甜茶和张震的中文对话让人在影院里笑场了，还有贯穿整部的近身肉搏，这又不是拍角斗士2.0，本来还打算imax 2刷，算了。
维伦纽瓦用摄影、音乐和人物特写撑住了一个平铺直叙的故事……开头。然后你琢磨了一下，还挺好看的，不知不觉过去了两个半小时，这是得了老谋子的真传吧。（张艺谋来拍科幻大概就是这样了）
一言以蔽之，王子复仇记（序）。
8.3.氛围感真的太好了。一直未读原著，只是憧憬于那些呈现于各电影和游戏中出现的经典原素，而本片极大地满足了我对于《沙丘》的想象。首先在视听的呈现是完全史诗质感的，维伦纽瓦塑造了一个磅礴的沙漠异世界，同样渲染《降临》以来多维度的造型符号元素，似有星际争霸的借鉴，也有《2049》的废土式沙漠场景，恢弘的闷鼓配乐一直环绕，越往后越入佳境，而这些都仅是在塑造整个磅礴文本的故事序幕而已。当然，很明显在叙事上是拖沓的，或者说节奏慢，连动作戏也慢，而且强拉政变权谋什么的其实也没啥新意，但科幻氛围感极佳，还是配乐塑造的气氛太棒了。场景背景环境因为太像现实世界伊斯兰文明而形成互文对照（挖香料就是挖石油，连皇帝都叫沙大目），很难让人不联想。近半年都没看过如此恢弘磅礴的科幻大作了，观感甚佳。如果当年乔治卢卡斯拍沙
放在权游里面也就是50分钟的剧情 X（慢镜头 + 歌声）= 两个半小时 还好人美景美 是道好菜
故事其实是很老套的故事，无论天选之子还是王子复仇记都是被反复演出过无数次已经不太感冒的设定了。如果换成普通的商业导演估计会被拍成群星荟萃的口水片。但怎么说呢，审美是硬道理，纽导用自己标志性的美学、带有文艺氛围的叙事节奏以及冷峻紧张的动作赋予了这个俗套故事独特的气质。一种漫天黄沙中的宿命因果。还挺期待下部的。PS：演员也都受这种审美的关照，无论Issac还是海王都很帅。以及我虽然吐槽甜茶何德何能这么多大咖作配，也不得不承认里面好多镜头太好看了（。
疫情以来第一次影院大片体验。1.张震成为了好莱坞大片史上中文口语的巅峰！维伦纽瓦这些年最大的进步就是电影里的中文进步了！从《降临》里Amy Adams关键时刻一秒出戏的外星“中文”，到《沙丘》里“玉也”医生的正常中文，胜却木兰无数。2.预告里渲染了半天的女主角其实只有一个MV的戏份。3.女祭司换蒸馏服的裸体镜头被删减了，可恶！这场戏原很重要，它代表母亲眼中的儿子已经是男人了，也铺垫了少年主角微妙的性觉醒。这部电影几乎没有停下来喘息的细腻的心理戏份，删残了这场戏，电影失色不少。4.男主父母教育理念不同，慈父对儿子无额外要求，虎妈要培养儿子做救世主。结果后来母子遇到杀虫的时候，甜茶摔倒落后了，虎妈独自在前面跑得可溜，都没回头看儿子一眼，遥遥领先，细思极恐。5.故事基本就是权力的游戏第一季写不下了
兔鼠好萌
花了 50多看了一部 废土朋克版《哈姆雷特》的预告片
非常维伦纽瓦了，曲线大起大落断断续续，好处是让人总有期待，坏处是情绪稀稀拉拉。我对原著故事不了解，感觉神神叨叨的部分太多，不过视觉上可是很对得起票钱了。看完满脑子都是那句：你什么意思？说得还挺标准。在Odean Luxe，旁边坐了一个毫无公德心明显得了流感又吸鼻涕又咳嗽还不戴口罩的人，只能祈祷别被传染
比遮遮掩掩的《银翼杀手2049》好。全片弥漫New Age Sentimentality，越过创痛直通拯救，这是由Malick的《新世界》所确立的。
欧美人是不是资本主义太久了这么喜欢搞封建迷信，旧的皇帝死了新的皇帝站起来了，欧美人走不出莎士比亚就像中国人在红楼梦里打转
期望不高，反倒是近期体验最好的一部电影。设定是沙漠版权力的游戏，美术是降临版中土，剧情是狮子王。配乐太吵。
影片最大的反派是虚无。整部影片其实在讲，当你得知人生只是一场虚无的游戏时，要如何面对。显然，母女对此有着不同的答案。最终，母亲用爱感化了女儿，把她从虚无的边缘拽回来。
最后我才明白，沙虫和甜茶第一次面对面时它其实在说: “请问是你叫的滴滴吗？”科幻版《阿拉伯的劳伦斯》之少年战士成长史。虽然剧情有点拖有些不合理，但是看2D巨幕的摄影+汉斯季默音效加持，整个氛围我很喜欢！用影厅一妹纸的话说这是沉浸式沙漠生存游戏，她总下意识戴好口罩因为感觉风沙有点大。最大槽点是张震这个老中医咋回事啊喂……
看完满脑子都是背景嗡嗡嗡声的沙漠，非常汉斯季默+维伦纽瓦。总的来说挺看人的电影，原著粉表示满足，新观众梦境部分可能云里雾里（其实这已经是原作最不神道的部分剧情了），不过看看沙漠奇观也可以嘛；改名叫沙丘1或者沙丘上可能对路人观众好一点。凯恩斯这角色改编的挺莫名其妙的，为了zzzq么？
在这个“星期五为未来”的时代，在这个把自然当作新神灵崇拜的时代，维伦纽埃拍出了一部恋物癖的作品。人的先知都失败了，人在争夺对物的控制权，但最终的方案是人顺应巨大的沙虫，go with the flow。“人新世”下的自然诗歌，作者们都试图把自己写入自然，创造出人与自然的共生体，在这种哲学下，不应把物当作崇拜的对象，正如维伦纽埃在这里做的那样，因为在崇拜这种动作下，人依然占有对物的最终解释权。
找一万个理由也没法说服自己“两个半小时的预告片”是个好电影。/ 当你发现所有的影评都以氛围感为核心发散开来找角度吹，但没人说它“精彩”，那它注定不精彩。银翼杀手2049的内核比沙丘更通俗，美学更普世，沙丘这个德行蹭银翼杀手属于越级了（就是说银翼杀手好看不一定这部就好看
星球殖民。总让我觉得像是西班牙人征服南美洲的感觉。为了黄金白银，开始派驻到南美洲。如今为数不多的白人后裔，身居高位，领导着底层的印第安民族。
美术和音乐都十分优秀，人物以外的场景都太漂亮，有种冷冷的俄式气势磅礴的感觉（明明是沙漠）剧情上实在隐晦了太多，涉及到了宗教和东方风格的点缀，看原著似乎小公爵会更冷漠迷人？甜茶真的顶不住…=。=没有别的新生代小生了吗……
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