The rain beats the wind

Demarco 2022-05-30 19:43:31

"JCVD" opens with a long mirror full of jokes, like a horizontal game, the old Shang Geyun passed five levels and cut six generals, knocking down a circus-like opponent with all kinds of tricks, and finally lost strength, just like his movie. career.
The movie itself is actually very interesting, including those structural tricks, multi-angle narratives, surreal techniques, and uninterrupted ridicule from beginning to end-if the protagonist is not Shane Yundun and plays himself. I mean, there is a lingering atmosphere of self-injury and self-pity in the movie-self-deprecating and self-pity are always only a fine line between them, and the only senior movie fan who has a good chat with Shang Gyunton is a robber. At the end He attempted to use a clean elbow to hold the high leg back to regain his courage, but he was pushed to the ground by the police. This kind of atmosphere reached its peak when Shangge Yundun was facing the camera with a lot of bitterness. A guy who was as hard as steel and never surrendered, a guy who could still make a beautiful air spin kick after being shot, suddenly looked tired and depressed. Sitting there, teary eyes whirling, it is really hard to bear to watch.
I can only complain about the utilitarian film industry, but I am still powerless, because you are just an action actor, and several of your companions have achieved great success. Most of the situations are similar to you or worse. They are entangled with small costs and finally disappeared—— Whether in Hong Kong or Hollywood. The meal of youth is unpalatable for a long time, and the beautiful movements are done a hundred times a thousand times, but when I can't do anything, then go to heaven or hell, it seems that I can only rely on chance. Moreover, the golden age of tough guy action movies is long gone.
When I was young, based on the Hong Kong film standardism, I was always a little dissatisfied with the ghosts who could be beaten. In my eyes, Shanggyunton, Ronger, and Stephen Seag were quite rough, like iron-blooded killers, lacking. The martial arts in Hong Kong movies are not very good-looking, and the action is blunt. The movies themselves are mostly things named after "hell" and "devil". After watching a lot, I finally realized that action actors everywhere have similar fate. They made similar movies and walked the same way, some skyrocketing, some rain and wind blown away.

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JCVD quotes

  • JCVD: This movie is for me. There we are, you and me. Why did you do that? Or why did I do that? You made my dream come true. I asked for it. I promised you something in return and I haven't delivered yet. You win, I lose. Unless... the path you've set for me is full of hurdles where the answer comes before the question. Yeah, I do that. Now I know why. It's the cure, from what I've seen here. It all makes sense. It makes sense to those who understand. So... America, poverty, stealing to eat... stalking producers, actors, 'movie stars', going to clubs hoping to see a star, with my pictures, karate magazines. It's all I had. I didn't speak English. But I did 20 years of karate. 'Cause before I wasn't like that.

    [points to flexed bicep]

    JCVD: This... this is me today. I used to be small and scrawny. And I took up karate. Hence the Dojo, hence respect, thou shall believe people who say, "Oss!" It's Samurai code. It's honor, no lies. So this guy in the US, it's not the same thing. No one says "Oss" to you. Sometimes people in show business say, "We're gonna fuck em". I believed in people, in the Dojo. I was blessed and had a lot of 'wives'. I always believed in love. It's hard for a woman with three kids to say, "Which one do I love more?" A mother... If you have 5, 6, 7, or 10 wives in a lifetime, they've all got something special, but no one cares about that in the so-called media. What about drugs? When you got it all, you travel the world. When you've been in all the hotels, you're the prima donna of the penthouse. And in all hotels the world over, traveling, you want something more. And because of a woman... well, because of love, I tried something and I got hooked. Van-Damme, the beast, the tiger in a cage, the "Bloodsport" man got hooked. I was wasted mentally and physically. To the point that I got out of it. I got out of it. But... it's all there. It's all there. It was really tough. I saw people worse off than me. I went from poor to rich and thought, why aren't we all like me, why all the privileges? I'm just a regular guy. It makes me sick to see people... who don't have what I've got. Knowing that they have qualities, too. Much more than I do! It's not my fault if I was cut out to be a star. I asked for it. I asked for it, really believed in it. When you're 13, you believe in your dream. Well it came true for me. But I still ask myself today what I've done on this Earth. Nothing! I've done nothing! And I might just die in this post office, hoping to start all over here in Belgium, in my country, where my roots are. Start all over with my parents and get my health back, pick up again. So I really hope... nobody's gonna pull a trigger in this post office... It's so stupid to kill people. They're so beautiful! So, today, I pray to God. I truly believe it's not a movie. It's real life. Real life. I've seen so many things. I was born in Belgium, but I'm a citizen of the world. I've travelled a lot. It's hard for me to judge people and it's hard for them... not to judge me. Easier to blame me. Yeah, something like that.

  • Policier: Central to Unit 27. Jean-Claude Van Damme's robbing a post office. I need back-up.