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''JCVD'' is a {{Dramedy}} film directed by Mabrouk El Mechri and starring [[Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme Jean-Claude Van Damme]] as [[AsHimself Jean-Claude Van Damme]].
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''JCVD'' is a {{Dramedy}} film directed by Mabrouk El Mechri and starring [[Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme Jean-Claude Van Damme]] as [[AsHimself Jean-Claude Van Damme]].Damme]], released in 2007.
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A {{Dramedy}} starring [[Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme Jean-Claude Van Damme]] as [[AsHimself Jean-Claude Van Damme]]. A tired, washed-out failure, struggling for work and (subsequently) money, the film starts with JCVD returning to his hometown of Brussels, Belgium. When one day going to the local Post Office to arrange a wire transfer, he suddenly finds himself smack-bang in the middle of a robbery, held at gun point and marched into the back with the [[HostageSituation other customers and staff]], where he's forced to juggle their expectations of "the Muscles from Brussels" with the fact he's a 48 year old man who ''really'' doesn't want to get shot.
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A tired, washed-out failure, struggling for work and (subsequently) money, the film starts with JCVD returning to his hometown of Brussels, Belgium. When one day going to the local Post Office to arrange a wire transfer, he suddenly finds himself smack-bang in the middle of a robbery, held at gun point and marched into the back with the [[HostageSituation other customers and staff]], where he's forced to juggle their expectations of "the Muscles from Brussels" with the fact he's a 48 year old man who ''really'' doesn't want to get shot.
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* AscendedFanboy: One of the robbers is a huge fan of Jean-Claude Van Damme, and his hero just come in the post office he is working in. The two boys in the video club also count.
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* AscendedFanboy: One of the robbers is a huge fan of Jean-Claude Van Damme, and his hero just come comes in the post office he is working in. The two boys in the video club also count.
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* ActorRoleConfusion: The robbers see Jean-Claude as "The Muscles from Brussels", Jean-Claude sees Jean-Claude as a washed-up middle-aged B-movie star who is very passionate about not getting shot.
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A {{Dramedy}} starring [[Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme Jean-Claude Van Damme]] as [[AsHimself Jean-Claude Van Damme]]. A tired, washed-out failure, struggling for work and (subsequently) money, the film starts with JCVD returning to his hometown of Brussels, Belgium. When one day going to the local Post Office to receive a wire transfer, he suddenly finds himself smack-bang in the middle of a robbery, held at gun point and marched into the back with the [[HostageSituation other customers and staff]], where he's forced to juggle their expectations of "the Muscles from Brussels" with the fact he's a 48 year old man who ''really'' doesn't want to get shot.
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A {{Dramedy}} starring [[Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme Jean-Claude Van Damme]] as [[AsHimself Jean-Claude Van Damme]]. A tired, washed-out failure, struggling for work and (subsequently) money, the film starts with JCVD returning to his hometown of Brussels, Belgium. When one day going to the local Post Office to receive arrange a wire transfer, he suddenly finds himself smack-bang in the middle of a robbery, held at gun point and marched into the back with the [[HostageSituation other customers and staff]], where he's forced to juggle their expectations of "the Muscles from Brussels" with the fact he's a 48 year old man who ''really'' doesn't want to get shot.
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->''"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."''
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->''"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! beautiful. So, today, I pray to God. I truly believe it's not a movie. It's real life. Real life."''
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->''"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."''
-->--'''Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme''', in a moment of reflection
-->--'''Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme''', in a moment of reflection
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* TakeThat: Jean-Claude's fanboy complains about {{John Woo}}'s behavior, how he dumped JCVD when he became famous in Hollywood. There is also a joke about Creator/{{Steven Seagal}}.
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* TakeThat: Jean-Claude's fanboy complains about {{John Woo}}'s Creator/JohnWoo's behavior, how he dumped JCVD when he became famous in Hollywood. There is also a joke about Creator/{{Steven Seagal}}.Creator/StevenSeagal.
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* TakeThat: Jean-Claude's fanboy complains about {{John Woo}}'s behavior, how he dumped JCVD when he became famous in Hollywood. There is also a joke about {{Steven Seagal}}.
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* TakeThat: Jean-Claude's fanboy complains about {{John Woo}}'s behavior, how he dumped JCVD when he became famous in Hollywood. There is also a joke about {{Steven Creator/{{Steven Seagal}}.
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* LogoJokeLogoJoke: [=JCVD=] himself appears in the opening Gaumont logo, trying to steal the daisy from the boy. The boy refuses, but [=JCVD=] responds with a roundhouse kick, before spending the daisy up in the sky as the rest of the logo plays normal (albeit sepia).
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* TakeThat: Jean-Claude's fanboy complain about {{John Woo}}'s behaviour, how he dumped JCVD when he became famous in Hollywood. There is also a joke about {{Steven Seagal}}.
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* ActorAllusion - there are several discussions about Jean-Claude's famous movies / TV appearance.
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A {{Dramedy}} starring [[JeanClaudeVanDamme [[Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme Jean-Claude Van Damme]] as [[AsHimself Jean-Claude Van Damme]]. A tired, washed-out failure, struggling for work and (subsequently) money, the film starts with JCVD returning to his hometown of Brussels, Belgium. When one day going to the local Post Office to receive a wire transfer, he suddenly finds himself smack-bang in the middle of a robbery, held at gun point and marched into the back with the [[HostageSituation other customers and staff]], where he's forced to juggle their expectations of "the Muscles from Brussels" with the fact he's a 48 year old man who ''really'' doesn't want to get shot.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: François Damiens (the police officer) is well known in Belgium for his role: ''François l'embrouille''
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[[caption-width:400:Van-Damme, the beast, the tiger in a cage]]
A {{Dramedy}} starring [[JeanClaudeVanDamme Jean-Claude Van Damme]] as [[AsHimself Jean-Claude Van Damme]]. A tired, washed-out failure, struggling for work and (subsequently) money, the film starts with JCVD returning to his hometown of Brussels, Belgium. When one day going to the local Post Office to receive a wire transfer, he suddenly finds himself smack-bang in the middle of a robbery, held at gun point and marched into the back with the [[HostageSituation other customers and staff]], where he's forced to juggle their expectations of "the Muscles from Brussels" with the fact he's a 48 year old man who ''really'' doesn't want to get shot.
His day does not improve from there.
Quite probably the finest film Jean Claude Van Damme has starred in for years (possibly ever), and immediately recognized as such when it was released. It gets a lot of mileage out of both the public's perception of him, and the current state of his career.
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!!This movie provides examples of:
* ActorAllusion - there are several discussions about Jean-Claude's famous movies / TV appearance.
* AnachronicOrder
* AscendedFanboy: one of the robber is a huge fan of Jean-Claude Van Damme, and his hero just come in the post office he is working in. The two boys in the video club also count.
* AsHimself
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: JCVD is in prison, but he can meet his daughter]]
* BoringButPractical: At the end, in his ImagineSpot, Jean-Claude first pictures [[spoiler: taking out the gunman holding him hostage with a flashy high kick]], but when it comes to the act itself [[spoiler: just goes with a straight elbow-shot to the guy's gut, which works just as well]].
* CharacterTitle: and also some kind of MononymousBiopicTitle, but it is not a Biopic of Jean-Claude van Damme.
* {{Deconstruction}}
* [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard In A Bank]]: A very clever deconstruction of this trope.
* FakeActionPrologue: the opening scene is a ShowWithinAShow
* HeyItsThatGuy: François Damiens (the police officer) is well known in Belgium for his role: ''François l'embrouille''
* HostageSituation
* ImagineSpot: Jean-Claude imagines himself [[spoiler: taking out the final robber single-handedly, and the crowd cheering him on. He does manage to elbow the man in the gut before the police finish the job for him]]
* LogoJoke
* NiceGuy: JCVD is portrayed as one of these throughout the film, which is lampshaded by the owners of the shop across the street from the bank
* TheOner
* ProtagonistTitle
* RightHandVersusLeftHand: Most of the action of the film centers around the police and the robbers not being entirely sure what the other one is doing, or at least having a distorted perception of motives
* TakeThat: Jean-Claude's fanboy complain about {{John Woo}}'s behaviour, how he dumped JCVD when he became famous in Hollywood. There is also a joke about {{Steven Seagal}}.
* TakingTheKids
* WouldntHurtAChild: played straight for one robber, averted for another one.
* WrongfulAccusationInsurance: [[spoiler: Subverted. Jean Claude is convicted and serves time for embezzlement that he performed while being threatened by the actual robbers.]]
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[[caption-width:400:Van-Damme, the beast, the tiger in a cage]]
A {{Dramedy}} starring [[JeanClaudeVanDamme Jean-Claude Van Damme]] as [[AsHimself Jean-Claude Van Damme]]. A tired, washed-out failure, struggling for work and (subsequently) money, the film starts with JCVD returning to his hometown of Brussels, Belgium. When one day going to the local Post Office to receive a wire transfer, he suddenly finds himself smack-bang in the middle of a robbery, held at gun point and marched into the back with the [[HostageSituation other customers and staff]], where he's forced to juggle their expectations of "the Muscles from Brussels" with the fact he's a 48 year old man who ''really'' doesn't want to get shot.
His day does not improve from there.
Quite probably the finest film Jean Claude Van Damme has starred in for years (possibly ever), and immediately recognized as such when it was released. It gets a lot of mileage out of both the public's perception of him, and the current state of his career.
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!!This movie provides examples of:
* ActorAllusion - there are several discussions about Jean-Claude's famous movies / TV appearance.
* AnachronicOrder
* AscendedFanboy: one of the robber is a huge fan of Jean-Claude Van Damme, and his hero just come in the post office he is working in. The two boys in the video club also count.
* AsHimself
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: JCVD is in prison, but he can meet his daughter]]
* BoringButPractical: At the end, in his ImagineSpot, Jean-Claude first pictures [[spoiler: taking out the gunman holding him hostage with a flashy high kick]], but when it comes to the act itself [[spoiler: just goes with a straight elbow-shot to the guy's gut, which works just as well]].
* CharacterTitle: and also some kind of MononymousBiopicTitle, but it is not a Biopic of Jean-Claude van Damme.
* {{Deconstruction}}
* [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard In A Bank]]: A very clever deconstruction of this trope.
* FakeActionPrologue: the opening scene is a ShowWithinAShow
* HeyItsThatGuy: François Damiens (the police officer) is well known in Belgium for his role: ''François l'embrouille''
* HostageSituation
* ImagineSpot: Jean-Claude imagines himself [[spoiler: taking out the final robber single-handedly, and the crowd cheering him on. He does manage to elbow the man in the gut before the police finish the job for him]]
* LogoJoke
* NiceGuy: JCVD is portrayed as one of these throughout the film, which is lampshaded by the owners of the shop across the street from the bank
* TheOner
* ProtagonistTitle
* RightHandVersusLeftHand: Most of the action of the film centers around the police and the robbers not being entirely sure what the other one is doing, or at least having a distorted perception of motives
* TakeThat: Jean-Claude's fanboy complain about {{John Woo}}'s behaviour, how he dumped JCVD when he became famous in Hollywood. There is also a joke about {{Steven Seagal}}.
* TakingTheKids
* WouldntHurtAChild: played straight for one robber, averted for another one.
* WrongfulAccusationInsurance: [[spoiler: Subverted. Jean Claude is convicted and serves time for embezzlement that he performed while being threatened by the actual robbers.]]
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