The Quest

After Van Damme the Elder sees off some street punk robbers, the barman asks him where he learned to fight. The camera pushes in slowly as Jean-Claude Van Old looks wistfully into the middle distance, letting us know that we’re in for a feature-length flashback. Back in 1920s New York, Van Damme (character name Christopher Dubois) was a clown. I’ll give you a minute to process the ‘what do you mean, was?’ that inevitably just popped into your brain. All done? OK, good. Where were we? Oh yes; Dubois is a clown/street performer/hustler who looks after a bunch of pickpocket orphans