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".
除了完美的视听美学享受，看完沙丘之后在想一个问题，一个故事的经典与陈旧的区别究竟在哪呢？
一部内容极为颓废无趣，形式极为宏大唯美，时长极为让人无语的震耳欲聋又莫名其妙的沙漠风光片。
故事可以不创新，什么高科技但冷兵器我都接受，故事和设定我这里都没问题，但是事无巨细的都挑出来强调，反而让情绪一开始就迅速消耗，音乐单独拿出来是出色的，但是因为很多镜头加都加这种史诗感的渲染，连大货车被空运装置带起飞都要用这么澎湃的音乐，我觉得很疲惫，有一种单曲循环一首歌的副歌部分的疲倦感。
真的只有两个part吗？这个序幕拍得仿佛是奔着连续剧去的，也确实更适合做成剧。故事和世界都没有任何溢出想象的东西，不能掀起任何情绪，只是工业并无美学。
原作一直号称“极难改编”以及总被拿来对标魔戒不是没有原因的，二者都属于倚重世界观构筑而非故事抓人。巨量篇幅用于不厌其烦地白描弗雷曼人风俗信仰等方方面面（而对叙事技巧兴趣寥寥，不太考虑读者阅读体验，爱读不读啃不动拉倒hhh） 国内nerd相对极少，无怪乎哈波受众远多于魔戒。沙丘除了劝退路人，也缺乏文青偏爱的那种文艺腔调而不方便搬出来装点人设，而未来古典画风亦不投“硬科幻”原教旨主义者胃口 。
听懂了甜茶的普通话，但是不知道张震说了什么。
本片最大优点是赫伯特已去世35年，不用看与自己思想背道而驰的东西被读者高呼神还原这种魔幻画面。我想这是对一个创作者最大的侮辱了。
谁懂，全片最有性张力的片段不是保罗与梦中情人蓝眼睛的实打实的接吻，而是与他妈妈在脱衣服时尴尬的眼神相交。
😅我知道这个电影很厉害：庞大的世界观、无比用心的服化道，视听盛宴美到失语，演员也都很赞。甚至还有普通话和油纸伞（🥲）……可是，我就是觉得看着很累…很累…150分钟➕我看了不知道多少遍手表，等来最后一句：一切才刚刚开始。
大，特别大。大构图，大留白，“大”节奏，“大”音乐，“大”声效，大场景，大怪物。我仿佛听到导演在创作会上拍着桌子对各部门长说，“除了甜茶可以小帅风，其他的东西都要大！”
华人在英美等盎格鲁撒克逊人的眼中始终还是低劣、阴暗的人物角色定位，永远高大不起来。但有些华人演员却趋之若鹜、不亦乐乎。结果被薅起头发弄死，看的一脸尴尬，也算是创造了欧美影史的一种新奇死法。一部以科幻为题材的作品，超脑的地方没看到，反智的地方倒不少。21世纪也不会用如此高密度的人潮战法吧，一挺加特林机枪不够么？宣传后时代科幻题材却多次出现古惑仔打群架式的作战方式，嗷嗷叫、抡刀砍。无语。打斗前开启的类似能量罩的玩意，自始至终没有发现有任何作用。就是增加了蓝色和红色显示作用，蓝色启动，我要准备被砍了。红色表示我被砍了。实在弱智。导演还安排了甜茶手把手教你如何完整躲避科幻巨兽的办法：在沙子上用脚划拉。看的我都尴尬的低下了头。新型冠状病毒可能侵入了原作者和制片方的脑瓜子。当然布洛林的灭霸式表演很稳健。
话说，就只有我觉得张震的造型神似傅满洲吗？？
视听体验极致，节奏把控优秀，让人从始至终沉浸在强大的氛围之中，以至于可以忽视有些单薄的情节和人物。科幻片拍出来宗教包裹的感觉，夹杂着几分神秘与邪典色彩。若你看出了星球大战、异形、异星灾变、甚至阿凡达的味道，不要惊讶，因为它们原本就是《沙丘》的产物。佐杜洛夫斯基的遗憾，维伦纽瓦算是填补上了一些。
那时，水不再昂贵，他们想喝水的时候就能喝水，想洗澡的时候就能洗澡。
感谢豆瓣评分拉低我的期待值。本人非常喜欢，非常buy it.说不上来，就是觉得节奏感符合我的呼吸，观感上也是美学巅峰。但心里也清楚大概很多人是不喜欢的，这种电影在受众上有它的局限性，就是喜欢的很喜欢，不喜欢的就不喜欢的那种。甜茶可长得太好看了！以及非常喜欢配乐，这个电影的氛围就是只有配乐才能成立。
无论行活多好 最后不也还是只剩奇观堆叠…吃人好莱坞罢了 20210919 3D w/ Leon
国王毫无尊严地被摊开，虚弱而无助，却骄傲而勇猛地咽下最后一口气，太精彩了！少主真是太帅了！母亲神经质的背后是对儿子深深的爱
维伦纽瓦故弄玄虚，汉斯·季默神经兮兮，跟华纳博弈非要拍成组曲，任性到让科幻受众如我也逐渐游离，铺陈得比《正义联盟》导剪版还要冗长，第二部只怕是遥遥无期。节奏缓慢不是问题，天选之子也不是问题，关键是要有明确的叙事目标和人物弧光吧。铆足了劲凹史诗感，对精神内核却语焉不详。战争戏一带而过，冷兵器肉搏更是让人疑惑。同样是序章，对比一下《指环王1》，人物出场、起承转合，照样可以波澜壮阔；或是《星球大战：新希望》，世界观展开，核心事件收束。《降临》是在一个小切口上做大文章，引入语言的哲学；《沙丘》却大而无当，拍的是某种宗教性预言的压迫。反商业片作者导演PUA的号角已经吹响，全世界无产影迷联合起来，我们曾经指认出《信条》的拉杂，也绝不能无视《沙丘》的空洞。千言万语汇成一句甜茶的台词：你什么意思？
故事可以不创新，什么高科技但冷兵器我都接受，故事和设定我这里都没问题，但是事无巨细的都挑出来强调，反而让情绪一开始就迅速消耗，音乐单独拿出来是出色的，但是因为很多镜头加都加这种史诗感的渲染，连大货车被空运装置带起飞都要用这么澎湃的音乐，我觉得很疲惫，有一种单曲循环一首歌的副歌部分的疲倦感。
威尼斯非竞赛单元全球首映，万众期待的《沙丘》。1.一部各方面都处于高水准的杰作。今夜，漫天黄沙掩过了水城威尼斯。2.维伦纽瓦在封神的道路上更进一步但仍未抵达属于他的王座。3.汉斯季默放弃诺兰的《信条》选择《沙丘》是明智的。4.《沙丘》的主体取自弗兰克赫伯特的同名原著科幻小说，由维伦纽瓦的个人风格和美学铸就了其内核，好莱坞工业体系构成了其外在。5.维伦纽瓦野心勃勃，沙丘宇宙诞生之时，纽瓦取代库布里克之日。
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