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.
Magic in the Moonlight “The Magic of Love”
Sep 2nd
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT is Woody Allen’s latest film, and it has been getting moderately mixed reviews.
Some reviewers generally liked it, some generally disliked it, but I liked it a lot.
It is a romantic comedy, but it contains more romance than comedy.
And if you believe that Allen has his ups and downs in the movies he makes, I believe this film is one of his ups.
It begins in 1928 in Berlin, and we see the stage act of a renowned Chinese magician named Wei Ling Soo, who is actually an Englishman, Stanley Crawford, played by Colin Firth and wearing elaborate Chinese stage makeup and clothing.
The magician makes a live elephant on stage disappear, he cuts a woman assistant in half and proves that her body is in two parts, and he himself disappears inside a box and suddenly reappears onstage sitting in a chair that he swivels around, which will be used again later in the story to a nice effect.
Stanley brags that he invented that last trick himself, and Stanley is a suffering, egotistical, obnoxious person in real life who ridicules anyone who claims to have psychic powers.
When Stanley is told about a young pretty woman who holds seances and makes contact with the dead, he says, “A pretty face never hurt a cheap swindler.”
Stanley is told about Sophie Baker, an American played by Emma Stone, by Howard Burkan, a childhood friend of Stanley’s and also a magician, although not as successful as Stanley is.
Howard says that he can’t spot any trickery in Sophie’s claims, and he invites Stanley to accompany him to the south of France, where Howard believes Sophie will be trying to fleece a rich widow out of a lot of money.
Of course, Stanley jumps at the chance to expose another public phony, and he goes to France using an assumed name to do so.
However, while Sophie conducts a seance and establishes contact with the wealthy widow’s dead husband, neither he nor Howard can find any evidence to expose Sophie.
And when Sophie tells Stanley about things in his life that she could never have guessed, he starts to believe in her powers and to fall in love with her.
MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT might have you believing in the magic of love.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
