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Lucy (2014 film): The Box Office Success Movie Ever Made About Brain Capacity
Lucy is a 2014 English-language French science fiction action film written and directed by Luc Besson and produced by his wife Virginie Silla for his company Europacorp. This film was shot in Paris, New York City and Taipei. It stars Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Choi Min-sik and Amr Waked. Johansson portrays the title role, a lady who gains psychokinetic capacities from a nootropic drug being absorbed into her bloodstream.
The film was released on 25 of July 2014, and turned into a box office success, grossing over $458 million against a budget of $40 million. It received mainly positive, but also polarized, critical reviews, with applause for Johansson's performance, intriguing or entertaining topics and visuals, and feedback for having a nonsensical plot, particularly its focus on the ten percent of brain myth and resulting abilities.
Produced by: Virginie Besson
SillaWritten by: Luc Besson
Music by: Éric Serra
Cinematography: Thierry Arbogast
Edited by: Julien Rey
Production company: EuropaCorp
TF1 Films Production
Distributed by: EuropaCorp Distribution (France)
Universal Pictures (International)
Budget $40 million[4]
Box office $458.9 million
Starring:
Scarlett Johansson ...... Lucy
Morgan Freeman ......... Professor Norman
Min-sik Choi ................. Mr. Jang
Amr Waked .................. Pierre Del Rio
Julian Rhind-Tutt .......... The Limey
Pilou Asbæk ................. Richard
Analeigh Tipton ............ Caroline
Nicolas Phongpheth .... Jii
Jan Oliver Schroeder .... German Mule
Luca Angeletti ............... Italian Mule
Loïc Brabant ................. Professor
Pierre Grammont .......... Professor
Pierre Poirot .................. Professor
Bertrand Quoniam ........ Professor
Pascal Loison ............... Drug Addict
STORY LINE:
In the opening shot, we see a cell split up or dividing via mitosis into two identical duplicates, then four and into multiple cells. At that point we see a human in prehistoric times drinking from a lake. (Scarlett Johansson) Lucy narrates by saying that life was given to us a billions years ago, and what have we done with it? Flash forward to a montage of skyscrapers, full of cars and buses, modern metropolises buzzing away and clothed people engaging in spoken language. It looks like Johansson’s question was rhetorical? Because it actually seems as though we’ve accomplished quite a lot since then.
In the present, Lucy is a young American woman outside a hotel in Taiwan with her week-long boyfriend (Pilou Asbæk) Richard .He is requesting her to take a briefcase up to the room of a Mr. Jang (Min-sik Choi). Even though offered $500, she refuses to do anything for Richard without knowing what it is inside the briefcase to be deliver, all of a sudden he forcefully handcuffs a briefcase around Lucy’s arm
to the handle of the briefcase, making her no option. She enters the lobby and tells the clerk that Richard is sending her up to Jang, and a while later, she anxiously gives her name to the clerk. She watches out the window to see Richard smiling and trying to be encouraging, till he is shot and killed. After seeing her boyfriend shot and killed, Jang's thugs group members come out of the elevator and force Lucy to go up with the group. This scene is compared with footage of a cheetah chasing a gazelle, battering it and after that carrying the gazelle's corpse in its teeth.
They take Lucy to Jang's loft. There are bloodied corpses on the floor, bringing about Lucy to vomit. With his hands soaked in blood Jang comes out . He rings up a man on the phone to translate for Lucy. Not knowing what is going on or why any of this is happening, and can do nothing but cry. Jang writes down number '140' on a piece of paper, a code number to open the briefcase. Before lucy opens the case Jang steps into the next room while his men arm themselves with guns and shields.Then Lucy opens the briefcase, containing four 1 kg bags of blue powdered crystals. Jang gets in a drugged-up man to snort a percentage of the blue powder. The man quickly convulses and after that begins snickering twistedly until Jang shoots him in the head. She is then ordered to carry out work, which she refuses to do until she gets smacked.
Lucy wakes up in a hotel room. There is a bandage on her stomach. Members of Jang's group come in and throw her some clothes. Lucy is taken to Jang, alongside three other men. A British man known as "The Limey" (Julian Rhind-Tutt) comes in to explain to Lucy that she and the other men have had a drug called CPH4 stuffed into their lower digestion systems. The drug is supposed to be the next huge thing available on the market, and they intend to smuggle it all over the world. A while later, Lucy is taken to a room and tied up, where one of the thugs, tries to get into her pants, then begins kicking her in the stomach, right where they cut into her. A break in the drug bag inside the body accidentally occurs, releasing a large quantity of the powder into Lucy's system. She starts to writhe and thrash all across the room, notwithstanding reaching up to the ceiling until she falls back down to the floor.At this point as the movie progresses, Lucy’s increasing cerebral capacity ( 20 percent 30 percent! 60 percent!) will now regularly kept abreast.
As all of this happens, we meet Professor Samuel Norman (Morgan Freeman) giving a lecture to a classroom on his research of the brain's capacity. He essentially explains what could happen if humans could exceed beyond the suggested 10% brain capacity that they use, as well as its responses to certain environments that would allow the brain to submit to immortality or reproduction. Basically, if the subject doesn't like their environment, they would choose immortality and move elsewhere, but if they were happy with their setting, they would be inclined to reproduce (complete with images of every species engaging in intercourse). If, say, humans could reach up to 40%, they could manipulate matter (footage of a magic show is juxtaposed here as an example). One student asks Norman what would happen if humans reached 100%. He says he has no idea.
Lucy reawakens, with her eyes glowing bright blue. She sits upright, calmer than before, sparking a complete change in the percentage of cerebrum Lucy begins using. At 20%, she begins acquiring increasingly enhanced physical and mental capabilities, such as telepathy, telekinesis, mental time travel, and the ability not to feel pain or other discomforts.
The news about Lucy shooting the patient has spread, so as she makes her way through the airport, she changes her hair color and style. She calls a French policeman, Captain Pierre Del Rio (Amr Waked), to inform him of the other drug mules. She then boards the plane and continues her research on the brain, typing on her laptop at rapid-fire pace. The flight attendants ask her to turn off her computer, and Lucy asks for a glass of champagne, while also telling one flight attendant to wipe her nose without looking, and the lady's nose bleeds after. Lucy is given the champagne glass and toasts "To knowledge." She sips, and then "40%" flashes onscreen. She discovers a tooth in her glass, and then she spits up three more teeth. Then her skin starts to disintegrate, in plain sight of the passengers and flight attendants. Lucy runs to the bathroom, where her fingers start to disappear, and her face begins to sort of melt. She pulls out the rest of the CPH4 and snorts it, restoring herself to normal, but she passes out.
Lucy wakes up in a hospital room, with Del Rio and a few other officers and doctors waiting, right after they have apprehended the other mules. She sits up instantly, to the alarm of a nurse. Meanwhile, one of Jang's henchmen, Jii (Nicolas Phongpheth), comes in with more armed men to find the other mules. They take them into a room and cut the drugs out of them after killing them. Lucy leaves the room and is surrounded by armed men. With a wave of her fingers, she is able to put them all to sleep, except for Del Rio. Together, they find Jang's men, and, with her brain function now at 60%, she moves them around the hall and prevents Jii from escaping with the briefcase full of drugs by creating a sort of invisible wall. She swipes the drugs from Jii and starts to leave, but orders Del Rio to go with her. He thinks he is of no use to her, but she walks over to him and kisses him, asking him to come "as a reminder."
Lucy uses her powers to find a new location, taking over Del Rio's car and driving manically through the streets, admitting she's never driven before. Jang and Jii follow her. Lucy and Del Rio find Norman and his colleagues in a university, where she begins to divulge all she has come to realize with her brain power now exceeding that of a normal human being. While this happens, Jang and his men infiltrate the place and start shooting. Lucy gives the rest of the CPH4 to the professors for them to synthesize into a liquid material that goes into her bloodstream. Her brain function goes to 70% and her hands start to turn into a black wormy sort of goo that attaches itself to the computers in the room, giving Lucy more energy from matter, and thereby supplying her with an insane amount of power. As her brain function continues to increase, she manipulates matter in such a way that she seems to erase everything in the room, leaving the professors standing in white space before creating some kind of new age super computer before their eyes. From outside, as Jang's men are shot down by the police, he orders Jii to do something. Jii takes a rocket launcher and blasts through the room, sending Lucy thousands of miles to Times Square. She manages to move time with a wave of her hand. She travels backwards, from early 20th century New York, to colonial times, even all the way to prehistoric times to come face-to-face with the proto - human from the opening scene. They touch fingers, sending Lucy through the cosmos and all of space and time, giving her unlimited and infinite power.
Jang enters the room and slowly raises his gun to Lucy's head. And then she reaches 100%. Her body disappears, leaving her clothes behind. Jang fires his gun at nothing. Del Rio comes in and shoots Jang to death. The black matter in the room disappears and morphs into a flash drive that lands in Norman's hands, thus expanding and completing his research. Del Rio asks where Lucy is. A message appears on his phone saying, "I AM EVERYWHERE."
The film concludes with an overhead shot of Jang's corpse while Lucy's voice is heard stating, "Life was given to us a billion years ago. Now you know what to do with it."
Lucy (2014 film): The Box Office Success Movie Ever Made About Brain Capacity
Lucy is a 2014 English-language French science fiction action film written and directed by Luc Besson and produced by his wife Virginie Silla for his company Europacorp. This film was shot in Paris, New York City and Taipei. It stars Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Choi Min-sik and Amr Waked. Johansson portrays the title role, a lady who gains psychokinetic capacities from a nootropic drug being absorbed into her bloodstream.
The film was released on 25 of July 2014, and turned into a box office success, grossing over $458 million against a budget of $40 million. It received mainly positive, but also polarized, critical reviews, with applause for Johansson's performance, intriguing or entertaining topics and visuals, and feedback for having a nonsensical plot, particularly its focus on the ten percent of brain myth and resulting abilities.
Lucy (2014 film):
Directed by: Luc BessonProduced by: Virginie Besson
SillaWritten by: Luc Besson
Music by: Éric Serra
Cinematography: Thierry Arbogast
Edited by: Julien Rey
Production company: EuropaCorp
TF1 Films Production
Distributed by: EuropaCorp Distribution (France)
Universal Pictures (International)
Budget $40 million[4]
Box office $458.9 million
Starring:
Scarlett Johansson ...... Lucy
Morgan Freeman ......... Professor Norman
Min-sik Choi ................. Mr. Jang
Amr Waked .................. Pierre Del Rio
Julian Rhind-Tutt .......... The Limey
Pilou Asbæk ................. Richard
Analeigh Tipton ............ Caroline
Nicolas Phongpheth .... Jii
Jan Oliver Schroeder .... German Mule
Luca Angeletti ............... Italian Mule
Loïc Brabant ................. Professor
Pierre Grammont .......... Professor
Pierre Poirot .................. Professor
Bertrand Quoniam ........ Professor
Pascal Loison ............... Drug Addict
STORY LINE:
In the opening shot, we see a cell split up or dividing via mitosis into two identical duplicates, then four and into multiple cells. At that point we see a human in prehistoric times drinking from a lake. (Scarlett Johansson) Lucy narrates by saying that life was given to us a billions years ago, and what have we done with it? Flash forward to a montage of skyscrapers, full of cars and buses, modern metropolises buzzing away and clothed people engaging in spoken language. It looks like Johansson’s question was rhetorical? Because it actually seems as though we’ve accomplished quite a lot since then.
to the handle of the briefcase, making her no option. She enters the lobby and tells the clerk that Richard is sending her up to Jang, and a while later, she anxiously gives her name to the clerk. She watches out the window to see Richard smiling and trying to be encouraging, till he is shot and killed. After seeing her boyfriend shot and killed, Jang's thugs group members come out of the elevator and force Lucy to go up with the group. This scene is compared with footage of a cheetah chasing a gazelle, battering it and after that carrying the gazelle's corpse in its teeth.
They take Lucy to Jang's loft. There are bloodied corpses on the floor, bringing about Lucy to vomit. With his hands soaked in blood Jang comes out . He rings up a man on the phone to translate for Lucy. Not knowing what is going on or why any of this is happening, and can do nothing but cry. Jang writes down number '140' on a piece of paper, a code number to open the briefcase. Before lucy opens the case Jang steps into the next room while his men arm themselves with guns and shields.Then Lucy opens the briefcase, containing four 1 kg bags of blue powdered crystals. Jang gets in a drugged-up man to snort a percentage of the blue powder. The man quickly convulses and after that begins snickering twistedly until Jang shoots him in the head. She is then ordered to carry out work, which she refuses to do until she gets smacked.
As all of this happens, we meet Professor Samuel Norman (Morgan Freeman) giving a lecture to a classroom on his research of the brain's capacity. He essentially explains what could happen if humans could exceed beyond the suggested 10% brain capacity that they use, as well as its responses to certain environments that would allow the brain to submit to immortality or reproduction. Basically, if the subject doesn't like their environment, they would choose immortality and move elsewhere, but if they were happy with their setting, they would be inclined to reproduce (complete with images of every species engaging in intercourse). If, say, humans could reach up to 40%, they could manipulate matter (footage of a magic show is juxtaposed here as an example). One student asks Norman what would happen if humans reached 100%. He says he has no idea.
Lucy reawakens, with her eyes glowing bright blue. She sits upright, calmer than before, sparking a complete change in the percentage of cerebrum Lucy begins using. At 20%, she begins acquiring increasingly enhanced physical and mental capabilities, such as telepathy, telekinesis, mental time travel, and the ability not to feel pain or other discomforts.
A thug comes into the room, and Lucy spread her legs to tempt him. The thug smiles and lays down his gun on the table. As he walks over to her, Lucy grabs his belt and flips him over, then pulls the table over to take the gun. After she frees herself, she shoots the other thugs as they're eating. She gets shot in the shoulder, but is able to dig the bullet out without feeling pain. She then eats all the thugs' food before leaving. She finds two taxi drivers outside, kills one and gets one of them to take her to the hospital.On her way to the hospital, Lucy has heightened senses and is able to hear peoples' voices from outside the car.
Lucy travels to the nearby Tri-Service General Hospital. She gets to an operating room where doctors are working on a patient. She looks at the patient's X-ray scans and then shoots the man, saying to the doctors that they wouldn't have been able to save him because the tumor in his brain had already spread far enough. She compels the doctors to get the bag of drugs removed from her abdomen. She then calls her mother to tell her that she feels everything the space, the air,the vibrations, the people.She can feel the gravity,the rotation of the earth,the heat leaving her body,the blood in her veins, her brain and is even able to access the deepest parts of her memories, like when she was sick as a child she can remember the feeling of her mother's hand on her forehead or even stroking a Siamese with blue eyes and broken tail cat that was so soft when she was barely a year old. Before hanging up, she tells her mother that she loves her. The doctor pulls the bag of drugs out of Lucy's stomach. After the bag is successfully removed, she tells the doctor that it's CPH4, the doctor tells her that this is something that pregnant women produce six weeks into their pregnancy as nutrients for the fetus. For a baby, it packs the power of an atomic bomb. It's what gives the fetus the necessary energy to form all the bones in its body. Lucy is also told by the operating doctor of the synthetic version of the drug, and its destructive side effects and that the doctor is surprised Lucy has survived this long with that amount of synthetic CPH4 in her body. Sensing her growing mental and physical capabilities, Lucy returns to Mr. Jang's loft, assaults Mr. Jang, kills his bodyguards and telepathically extracts the locations of all three drug mules from Jang's brain.Lucy goes to the apartment of her friend Caroline (Analeigh Tipton) to use her laptop. She reads all of Norman's research in a matter of seconds, which may be the key to saving her, then contacts him to tell him what she read. He is surprised to hear that she read everything, even as she continues to explain what she is feeling and experiencing, now that she has reached up to 20% brain capacity. She is able to manipulate electronics, making her appearance on the TV in Norman's hotel room, as well as his phone and the radio. She plans to meet with him in 12 hours. Before leaving, she prints out a prescription for Caroline, telling her that her liver and kidneys are failing and that she needs to make new lifestyle choices and she'll be okay.The news about Lucy shooting the patient has spread, so as she makes her way through the airport, she changes her hair color and style. She calls a French policeman, Captain Pierre Del Rio (Amr Waked), to inform him of the other drug mules. She then boards the plane and continues her research on the brain, typing on her laptop at rapid-fire pace. The flight attendants ask her to turn off her computer, and Lucy asks for a glass of champagne, while also telling one flight attendant to wipe her nose without looking, and the lady's nose bleeds after. Lucy is given the champagne glass and toasts "To knowledge." She sips, and then "40%" flashes onscreen. She discovers a tooth in her glass, and then she spits up three more teeth. Then her skin starts to disintegrate, in plain sight of the passengers and flight attendants. Lucy runs to the bathroom, where her fingers start to disappear, and her face begins to sort of melt. She pulls out the rest of the CPH4 and snorts it, restoring herself to normal, but she passes out.
Lucy uses her powers to find a new location, taking over Del Rio's car and driving manically through the streets, admitting she's never driven before. Jang and Jii follow her. Lucy and Del Rio find Norman and his colleagues in a university, where she begins to divulge all she has come to realize with her brain power now exceeding that of a normal human being. While this happens, Jang and his men infiltrate the place and start shooting. Lucy gives the rest of the CPH4 to the professors for them to synthesize into a liquid material that goes into her bloodstream. Her brain function goes to 70% and her hands start to turn into a black wormy sort of goo that attaches itself to the computers in the room, giving Lucy more energy from matter, and thereby supplying her with an insane amount of power. As her brain function continues to increase, she manipulates matter in such a way that she seems to erase everything in the room, leaving the professors standing in white space before creating some kind of new age super computer before their eyes. From outside, as Jang's men are shot down by the police, he orders Jii to do something. Jii takes a rocket launcher and blasts through the room, sending Lucy thousands of miles to Times Square. She manages to move time with a wave of her hand. She travels backwards, from early 20th century New York, to colonial times, even all the way to prehistoric times to come face-to-face with the proto - human from the opening scene. They touch fingers, sending Lucy through the cosmos and all of space and time, giving her unlimited and infinite power.
The film concludes with an overhead shot of Jang's corpse while Lucy's voice is heard stating, "Life was given to us a billion years ago. Now you know what to do with it."
