The Year of the Action Star

Freddie 2022-12-18 12:55:10

If Bruce Lee is the pride of the Chinese, then Shange Yunton must be the idol of the Belgian. Although the two have not truly become box office champions in Hollywood, they will still be loved and sought after by the people of their own countries. Although "Shangge Yundun" is only a movie of the same name by Shangge Yundun, it is more like a real-life autobiography film of Shange Yundun himself, telling the current life of a violent action star.

Shangge Yundun has been in Hollywood for more than 20 years. Although he has filmed such a wonderful film as "Ultimate Target", it was only a short-lived one. After that, he became the protagonist in a second-rate low-cost action movie. Shangge Yundun's other actions I have also watched some of the films, and I don’t have any deep impressions. Shange Yunton is far from the two muscular men Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger. It can only be said that the star luck is a bit bad. But Hollywood still generously offered Shangge Yundun with money, beauties, and drugs, and these temptations once made Shangge Yundun lost.

Various crises of Shange Yundun who have passed by for a long time have also followed. Personal deposits are no longer enough to pay attorney fees. There are fewer and fewer film appointments. They are all low-cost junk films, and they have to confront their ex-wife. Bo Gongtang vie for custody of his daughter. When Shange Yunton returned to his country, Belgium, he was involved in a robbery. This movie allows us to see the bleak figures of many stars after their halo fades. I remember that the queen singer Whitney Houston was also involved in drug cases and various lawsuits over children's custody for a while, and her career fell into a low ebb.

Although the idol is getting old, the enthusiasm of the fans is unabated. When he heard that Shange Yundun was involved in the robbery, fans gathered on the street and held up slogans to cheer for the idol. Among the three robbers, there is also a fan of Shangge Yundun, who chatted with Shangge Yundun about Shangge Yundun’s films, and also seriously asked Shangge Yundun about that Shangge Yundun. The classic karate action turned and flew. A lovely and serious movie fan. In fact, any super movie fan will behave badly when he encounters his idol, including forgetting that he is a robber.

In fact, after the idol's light faded, the star was just an ordinary person with all kinds of troubles.





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  • 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.