Lucy (2014 film)
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| Directed by | Luc Besson |
| Produced by | Virginie Besson-Silla |
| Written by | Luc Besson |
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| Music by | Éric Serra |
| Cinematography | Thierry Arbogast |
| Edited by | Julien Rey |
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| Budget | $40 million |
| Box office | $463.4 million |
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| Soundtrack album by Éric Serra, Various Artists | ||||
| Released | 22 July 2014 | |||
| Genre | Film soundtrack, film score | |||
| Label | Back Lot Music | |||
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Lucy is a 2014 English-language French science fiction action film written and directed by Luc Besson and produced by his wife Virginie Besson-Silla for his company Europacorp. The film was shot in Taipei, Paris and New York City. It stars Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Choi Min-sik and Amr Waked. Johansson portrays the title character, a woman who gains psychokinetic abilities when a nootropic drug is absorbed into her bloodstream.
The film was released on July 25, 2014, and became a box office success, grossing over $463 million, 11 times the budget of $40 million. It received generally positive, but also polarized, critical reviews; although praise was given for Johansson's performance, entertaining or intriguing themes and visuals, a number of critics found the plot nonsensical, especially its focus on the ten percent of the brain myth and resulting abilities.
Lucy is a 24-year-old American woman living and studying in Taipei, Taiwan. She is tricked into working as a drug mule by her new boyfriend whose employer, Mr. Jang, is a Korean mob boss and drug lord. Lucy delivers a briefcase to Mr. Jang containing a highly valuable synthetic drug called CPH4. After seeing her boyfriend shot and killed, she is captured. A bag of the drug is forcibly sewn into her abdomen and that of three other drug mules who will also transport the drug for sale in Europe. While Lucy is in captivity, one of her captors kicks her in the abdomen, breaking the bag and releasing a large quantity of the drug into her system. As a result, 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. She kills off her captors and escapes.
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