Bolt/JCVD/Slumdog Millionaire/Quantum of Solace

Film within film - with mocumentary elements

Jean-Claude Van Damme in The Eagle Path (2010)

Jean-Claude Van Damme in Jean-Claude Van Johnson (2016)

Jean-Claude Van Damme in JCVD's Make My Movie Challenge (2014)

Jean-Claude Van Damme in Hard Target (1993)

Jean-Claude Van Damme in Lionheart (1990)

Nigel Barber in Save the Animals, Save the World (2016)

Jean-Claude Van Damme in Monaco Forever (1984)

Jean-Claude Van Damme and Michel Qissi in Kickboxer (1989)

Jean-Claude Van Damme in Double Impact (1991)

Jean-Claude Van Damme in Sudden Death (1995)

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.

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.

Jean-Claude Van Damme, Karim Belkhadra, Zinedine Soualem, Jean-François Wolff, Mabrouk El Mechri, and François Damiens in JCVD (2008)

Jean-Claude Van Damme and Jenny De Chez in JCVD (2008)

Jean-Claude Van Damme and Karim Belkhadra in JCVD (2008)

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Valérie Bodson

Hervé Sogne

Mabrouk El Mechri

Frédéric Benudis

Frédéric Taddeï

Jean-Claude Van Damme gets involved in a bank robbery with hostages situation and reflects about his life during it.

JCVD

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JCVD (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a struggling B-movie action actor trying to maintain some artistic integrity despite everyone around him. He has custody problems and returned from family court in LA. He has been sleepless for 2 days. He goes into the bank and shots ring out. He&apos;s taken hostage but the cops think that he&apos;s the hostage taker.

JCVD shows some acting chop or he&apos;s tapping into his inner self. It&apos;s so fascinating that he is such a mess. It&apos;s also a mess that isn&apos;t unrealistic. There is a bit of action but that&apos;s not the heart of this movie. It is to watch JCVD break down his public image and then break down his character. The movie could use an A-list actor to be the bad guy as his foil. Nevertheless this is one of the greatest performance from JCVD ever.

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JCVD (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a struggling B-movie action actor trying to maintain some artistic integrity despite everyone around him. He has custody problems and returned from family court in LA. He has been sleepless for 2 days. He goes into the bank and shots ring out. He's taken hostage but the cops think that he's the hostage taker.

JCVD shows some acting chop or he's tapping into his inner self. It's so fascinating that he is such a mess. It's also a mess that isn't unrealistic. There is a bit of action but that's not the heart of this movie. It is to watch JCVD break down his public image and then break down his character. The movie could use an A-list actor to be the bad guy as his foil. Nevertheless this is one of the greatest performance from JCVD ever.

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