比利时又一次贡献了她的小城,上次是Bruges,这次是Brussels,并且将冷峻/灰色的风格更推进了一步,《JCVD》里始终蒙上一层纱,一层迷雾。镜头前的这层迷雾,加上真实出演“自己”的JCVD[尚格云顿],Jean-Claude Van Damme缩写,并且可能使用的现实中JCVD的“糟糕”状况,电影本身的虚构和真实人物的生活叠合在《JCVD》中,迷雾笼罩着真相。
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至于被调笑的吴宇森[John Woo],好歹也是和JCVD合作了电影《Hard Target[终极标靶]》,吴在西方的第一部电影。怎么能这样说“Without him(JCVD), he’d still be filming pigeons in Hong Kong!”。吴宇森人家现在明明是在大陆放大陆百姓的鸽子呢。
“I should have been dead a couple of times,” the Belgian martial-arts star says of a Hollywood lifestyle full of hard drugs, fast women and loose money. ”
Van Damme reduces himself to tears by confessing the sins of his stardom. “I was dying to say something to people with more education than myself but who didn’t dream as much as I had, and explain maybe that’s why I became JCVD.” The performance may not get Van Damme back into the big-studio productions he yearns for — Quentin Tarantino may never call — but it’s the work of a daring, questing, real actor. “We cannot judge people by their first apparition,” he says. “Like Arnold Schwarzenegger — in the beginning he was only seen as an action hero. Now he is a governor.”