Lucy (2014)
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| German title | Lucy |
| Original title | Lucy |
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| Country of production | France |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 89 minutes |
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| Director | Luc Besson |
| script | Luc Besson |
| production | Virginie Besson-Silla |
| music | Eric Serra |
| camera | Thierry Arbogast |
| cut | Julien Rey |
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Lucy is a French action and science fiction film directed by Luc Besson from the year 2014 with Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman in the lead roles. The cinema release in Germany was on August 14, 2014. The plot of the commercially very successful film is largely based on the ten percent myth .
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The film begins with a prologue: An ancestor of anatomically modern humans ( Homo sapiens ), possibly an Australopithecus afarensis , draws drinking water from a lake. A female voice can be heard off- screen: “A billion years ago we were given life. What did we do with it? "
The 25-year-old US - student Lucy lives temporarily in Taiwan . Her friend Richard, whom she recently met, tries to persuade her to hand over a suitcase with an unfamiliar content to the South Korean gang boss Mr. Jang. When she refuses, he handcuffs her to the suitcase which, it turns out, contains a novel drug - synthetic CPH4. The gangsters shoot Richard outside the hotel where the handover is to take place. Against her will, Lucy is brought to Jang's hotel room, where she and three men from Germany, Italy and France are each implanted a package with the drug in their abdomen. The CPH4 is supposed to be smuggled into Europe in this way . One of Jang's henchmen explains to the body packers that his criminal organization has extensive knowledge of the relatives of every involuntary smuggler and that failure to comply with the order would have consequences.
Lucy finds herself chained in a container after the operation, where one of Jang's minions kicks her in the abdomen. This will burst the package in her stomach and part of the drug will be released into her body. This increases the efficiency of your brain rapidly. The substance ensures that Lucy can use more and more parts of her “brain capacity”. Her intelligence increases and she gains complete control of her body, allowing her to kill her guards and escape from captivity with ease.
Lucy frees her way of thinking, which is increasingly shaped by rationality, from ethical guidelines, her humanity and emotionality. At a hospital in Taipei she breaks into an operating room and shoots a patient on the operating table (after realizing that he has no chance of survival anyway) to seek self-treatment. She forces the surgeon to remove the drug package. Then she makes the plan to get the other three packages, because she thinks she needs more CPH4. To do this, she penetrates Jang's hotel and uses telepathy to extract the destinations of the remaining drug couriers from Jang's memory. The angry Jang then goes in pursuit.
In her apartment, Lucy begins researching her condition. Within a few minutes, she researched everything she knew about brain research. She then contacted the scientist Samuel Norman in Paris, a pioneer in the field of using larger parts of the brain. She has since acquired the ability to manipulate electromagnetic waves, and she piques Norman's interest by displaying the image of her webcam on his television in the hotel room while on the phone and controlling other electrical devices nearby. She also telephones the Paris policeman Pierre del Rio, to whom she sends information about the three drug couriers in order to arrest them at their destinations and transfer them to France. Then she flies to Paris. During the flight, the CPH4 concentration in Lucy's body decreases, causing it to begin to dissolve. She can just stop the disintegration process by taking the rest of her CPH4 package before she loses consciousness.
Lucy wakes up chained and sedated in a police hospital. Due to its abilities, sedation proves to be ineffective. She frees herself, puts an entire police force in a deep sleep and persuades del Rio to drive her to the hospital where the three drug couriers are. Jang's henchmen have now killed the police station there and are in the process of removing the drug packages. Lucy arrives and takes the drug packages from the gangsters with her now developed telekinetic skills. Then she goes to the university with del Rio to meet Professor Norman and other scientists. Since Jang is tracking what Lucy is telepathically filtering out of the cellular network, she asks del Rio for reinforcements to protect the room with herself and the scientists while she takes all of the CPH4 to boost her brain power to 100%. While the gangsters engage in a shootout with the police, Lucy goes through a metamorphosis in which her body incorporates all of the laboratory's equipment to create a new kind of computer. Lucy takes a journey back in time to the origins of the universe. On this trip she meets her namesake Lucy , the pre-human shown in the prologue. The encounter resembles the iconography of Michelangelo's fresco The Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel .
Eventually the gangsters incapacitate the cops with a missile , and Jang gains access to the laboratory. Just before he can shoot Lucy, she vanishes into thin air, so del Rio takes advantage of Jang's amazement and shoots him. Only Lucy's clothes and the supercomputer she created are left behind. From this a USB stick manifests itself , which Professor Norman removes, then the computer crumbles to dust. Del Rio asks Norman about Lucy's whereabouts, whereupon the policeman's cellphone receives the message “ I AM EVERYWHERE ”.
The film ends with a view from above of the dead Jang, who is sitting in the swivel chair, and Lucy's voice off-screen: “A billion years ago we were given life. Make something of it! "
background
- The film production companies TF1 Films Production and EuropaCorp were involved in the realization of the film . The film was shot in France and Taiwan . Angelina Jolie was originally intended for the lead role, but canceled. The same was true for Milla Jovovich , who refused because of her pregnancy .
- With a budget of 40 million dollars , the film loud played Box Office Mojo to 2016 US Dollars 463.4 million worldwide.
Awards
The film was given the rating of particularly valuable by the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) .
Since the film recorded more than 1000 visitors per copy on the opening weekend in Germany, it was honored with a Bogey Award .
Reviews
“With 'Lucy', Luc Besson succeeds in a genre mix that is well worth seeing [,] which is able to entertain with its mixture of action and science fiction. Solely the lack of figure drawings of numerous people as well as one or the other logic hole reduce the viewing pleasure, which one can overlook in this entertaining film. "
“You don't even need one percent of your mental capacity for Lucy. The interesting basic idea is full of logic holes, and unfortunately none of the secondary characters are presented in more detail. [...] But actually it doesn't matter because the action is right. If you are willing to overlook the many illogical aspects, you can sit back and enjoy a crazy trip. "
“Following comedy conventions of the dreary kind in“ Malavita - The Family ”, Gaul's Action Maître Luc Besson explains how popular cinema can stimulate the mind if it only excellently stages furious F / X and a frenetic high concept. With the creation of a Wonderwoman, mimed by Scarlett Johansson in an incredibly close manner, the Frenchman surpasses himself and presents his best contribution for many years. "
"Luc Besson ignites an eccentric action inferno with hellish entertainment value with the bold science fiction cracker 'Lucy' - somewhere between crazy nonsense and philosophical insight."
“What sets the film apart from some of its kind: Lucy remains human, feels responsibility, even willingness to make sacrifices. To know and see everything gives us unearthly abilities, but it is terrible and far too much for a single creature - a moral, yes, comforting message that, with all the predominantly delicious hubbub, is easily accessible to fans of more down-to-earth cinema material. "
“Unfortunately, it takes far too long for the film to do justice to this self-imposed megalomania. Director Luc Besson [...] translates the richly colored opulence of his earlier works this time into pure acceleration. Associative scraps of images are confused on the canvas [...] but mainly because it looks dead chic. But as long as Besson clings to the remnants of a plot, the whole construction soon appears as boring as it is vulnerable [...] But the almost abstract work of art that he makes his film into at the end also stands for itself as soon as he has the pictures from the prison of the plot. "
Web links
- Official website for the film
- Lucy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lucy at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Expert opinion of the German film and media rating
- Lucy in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Lucy . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2014 (PDF; test number: 146 068 V).
- ^ Age rating for Lucy . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Lucy (2014). filmstarts.de, accessed on July 20, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Lucy (2014). Internet Movie Database , accessed February 5, 2016 .
- ^ Lucy accessed on Box Office Mojo on July 18, 2016
- ↑ Lucy. German Film and Media Rating (FBW), accessed on August 12, 2014 .
- ↑ Kinocharts Germany: Lucy in the sky full of diamonds at mediabiz.de, accessed on August 19, 2014
- ↑ Lucy (2014). In: cinetastic.de. Kowtun GmbH, July 29, 2014, accessed on August 12, 2014 .
- ↑ Lucy (2014). In: OutNow.CH. OutNow AG, July 28, 2014, accessed on August 12, 2014 .
- ↑ Lucy. In: kommsieh.de. August 1, 2014, accessed August 12, 2014 .
- ↑ Lucy. In: www.filmstarts.de. FILMSTARTS GmbH, accessed on August 12, 2014 .
- ↑ Jan Schulz-Ojala: Scarlett Johansson in the science fiction film "Lucy" - stay human! August 12, 2014. Retrieved August 29, 2014 .
- ↑ Tim Slagman: Action Film "Lucy": Scarlett Almighty . Spiegel Online, August 14, 2014