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Lucy “100% Pure Entertainment”
Sep 2nd
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
LUCY is the latest film from writer and director Luc Besson that is equal parts high concept, equal parts fast-action thriller, and all parts female protagonist played by Scarlett Johansson as Lucy.
The name “Lucy” is also the name given to the remains of the first human being found in Africa, and there is a connection between the two Lucys.
The story begins in Taipei, and we see Lucy and Richard on the street in front of a large building.
Richard has a briefcase, and he tells Lucy that he was given $1000 to deliver it to a Mr. Jang inside the building, but he wants Lucy to deliver it for him.
In fact, Richard will give Lucy $500 to do it for him, and the next thing she knows, he handcuffs the briefcase to her hand so that she has no choice.
Once she gets upstairs to meet Mr. Jang, who is protected by many menacing bodyguards, Mr. Jang refuses to be in the same room when the briefcase is opened, telling Lucy that he doesn’t trust Richard.
Lucy says, “I don’t trust Richard, either. I dated him only a week.”
The briefcase contains packets of a drug called CPH4, which supposedly allows people to use more than the false idea that humans use only 10% of their brains.
And to make a long, complicated story short and simple, Lucy is forced to be a drug mule and carry a packet of the drug to another country after it is surgically implanted in her stomach.
Unfortunately, a fight with one of Mr. Jang’s army of bodyguards causes the packet inside Lucy to rupture, and as the drug enters her bloodstream, her mental capacities increase and so do her physical powers.
So, Lucy escapes the clutches of Mr. Jang and contacts Professor Samuel Norman, played by Morgan Freeman, who is based in Paris and who is an expert on the human brain.
Then it is off to Paris for Lucy to meet with Professor Norman, and where she also engages he help of a French policeman, Captain Pierre Del Rio, but she is also being chased by Mr. Jang and his men.
Of course there are chases, shoot-outs, and more as Lucy increases her mental and physical powers to 100%.
LUCY is nothing but 100% of pure entertainment.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
Lucy – Movie Trailer
Sep 2nd
From La Femme Nikita and The Professional to The Fifth Element, writer/director Luc Besson has created some of the toughest, most memorable female action heroes in cinematic history. Now, Besson directs Scarlett Johansson in Lucy, an action-thriller that tracks a woman accidentally caught in a dark deal who turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
“Rush” about Two Beautiful Drivers
Oct 6th
“Two Beautiful Drivers”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
Rush is the latest film from Ron Howard, maker of many successful films, and it is about the 1976 Formula 1 championship race, which was notable because of the closeness of the race and the rivalry between the two competing drivers on different teams, James Hunt and Niki Lauda.
The races lasted all year long, and the championship that year came down to the final race held in Japan.
However, that year the intense race for the championship was unique in what happened in August to Lauda, the 1975 world champion.
Chris Hemsworth plays Hunt, the flamboyant playboy driver from England, and Daniel Bruhl plays Lauda, the methodical brilliant technician from Austria, who was a genius at setting up his car for a race.
The two drivers met in 1970 when they were both driving Formula 3 races, and Hunt tells his current girlfriend, “The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.”
However, they both want to move up and drive the more prestigious, more glamorous, and more dangerous Formula 1 race cars, and because of his family background, Lauda gets a ride first with the successful Ferrari team.
Then Hunt quickly follows by signing with the McLaren team, and the race to the top of their sport is on.
Then the movie starts following each race in 1976, and with beautiful cinematography and excellent camera work we get a terrific feel for how tight, how dangerous, and how exciting Formula 1 racing is.
In the meantime, we meet the love interests of the two drivers, Suzy, played by Olivia Wilde, whom Hunt beds and weds, and Marlene, who eventually becomes Lauda’s wife.
Incidentally, there is a hitchhiking scene with Lauda and Marlene that is reminiscent of the hitchhiking scene in the 1934 It Happened One Night, but with a much funnier ending.
Hunt begins to have trouble at home as well as on the racetracks, and Lauda is affected by marriage, because he believes that “happiness is the enemy” and now he has something to lose, which is a distraction while he is racing.
And then comes the race in August in Germany which changes everything for both drivers.
By the way, you don’t have to be a racing fan to enjoy this tremendous film.
Rush is about not one, but two beautiful drivers.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
