Lucy (Original title)
Dates: 2014 (Copyright), 2014 (Release)Countries: France, USADirector: Luc Besson
Synopsis: Science fiction. A young woman is forced to smuggle an experimental drug inside her body. When the container breaks and he body is suffused with chemicals she finds her intelligence enhanced and begins to use apparently superhuman powers.
Genre: Science Fiction
Subjects: Intelligence, Drugs, Brains
Releases
Date: 06 August 2014Country: FranceRelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour - Sound - Dolby Digital / Dolby Atmos / DataSatAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 90 mins Distributor: EuropaCorp
Date: 06 August 2014Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - Sound - Dolby Digital / Dolby Atmos / DataSatAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 90 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Universal Pictures International UK & Eire
Title: façade of feminism: Scarlett Johansson and miss representationAuthor: Matthews, MalcolmArticle type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Part of 'Stardom and sf: a symposium on the sf films of Scarlett Johansson', a collection of articles addressing issues of celebrity and the science fiction genre. This article sets out to identify Scarlett Johansson, in the context of four of her science fiction films (‘Under the Skin’ (2013), ‘Her’ (2013), ‘Lucy’ (2014), and ‘Ghost in the Shell’ (2017)), as a cultural mechanism with a distinct rhetorical function, and to challenge the suggestion that her roles in these films represent figures of female empowerment.
In: Science fiction film and television v11 n1 Spring 2018 Pages: 13-19
Title: Performing the inhuman: Scarlett Johansson and sf filmAuthor: Shetley, VernonArticle type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Part of 'Stardom and sf: a symposium on the sf films of Scarlett Johansson', a collection of articles addressing issues of celebrity and the science fiction genre. This article gives a reading of three of Scarlet Johansson’s films (‘Her’ (2013), ‘Under the Skin’ (2013), and ‘Lucy’ (2014)) through their respective forms of interplay between particular elements of Johansson’s star persona and the gendered hierarchies against which her characters rebel.
In: Science fiction film and television v11 n1 Spring 2018 Pages: 21-28
Title: Between attraction and anxiety: Scarlett Johansson, female knowledge and the mind-body split in LucyAuthor: Stevens, KirstenArticle type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Part of 'Stardom and sf: a symposium on the sf films of Scarlett Johansson', a collection of articles addressing issues of celebrity and the science fiction genre. This article examines Scarlett Johansson’s film ‘Lucy’ (2014), exploring how the mind/body and male/female binaries continue to operate as a site of tension within sf texts when it comes to gender roles.
Author: KENDRICK, James Pages: xiv, 494 pages
Description: Also iIncludes a chapter on the television series The 100 (2014-).
Dates: 2014 (Copyright), 2014 (Release)Countries: France, USADirector: Luc Besson
Synopsis: Science fiction. A young woman is forced to smuggle an experimental drug inside her body. When the container breaks and he body is suffused with chemicals she finds her intelligence enhanced and begins to use apparently superhuman powers.
Genre: Science Fiction
Subjects: Intelligence, Drugs, Brains
Releases
Date: 06 August 2014Country: FranceRelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour - Sound - Dolby Digital / Dolby Atmos / DataSatAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 90 mins Distributor: EuropaCorp
Date: 06 August 2014Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - Sound - Dolby Digital / Dolby Atmos / DataSatAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 90 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Universal Pictures International UK & Eire
Credits
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©: EuropaCorp, ©: TF1 Films Production, ©: Grive Productions, A Europacorp production: EuropaCorp, In co-production with: TF1 Films Production, With the participation of: Canal+, With the participation of: Ciné+, TF1, With the participation of the: Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit, presents: Universal Pictures, Executive Producer: Marc Shmuger, Produced by: Virginie Besson-Silla, Production Manager: Thierry Guilmard, Location Manager - France: Marc Guidetti, Location Manager - Taiwan: Claude Delfour, 1st Assistant Director: Ludovic Pernard, Script Supervisor: Isabelle Querrioux, Casting: Nathalie Chéron, Written by: Luc Besson, Director of Photography: Thierry Arbogast, Steadicam Operator: Lorenzo Donati, Steadicam Operator: Larry McConkey, Stills Photographer: Jessica Forde, Senior Visual Effects Supervisor .: Nicholas Brooks, Visual Effects by: Industrial Light & Magic, Visual Effects by: Rodeo FX, Visual Effects by: Digital Factory, Visual Effects by: Savage Visual Effects, Make Inc., Special Effects Supervisor: Philippe Hubin, Editor: Julien Rey, Production Designer: Hugues Tissandier, Art Director: Gilles Boillot, Art Director: Stéphane Robuchon, Art Director: Thierry Zemmour, Set Decorator: Evelyne Tissandier, Costume Designer: Olivier Bériot, Key Make-up Artist: Stéphane Robert, Key Hair Stylist: Guilaine Tortereau, Colourist: Marjolaine Mispelaere, Original Score by: Eric Serra, Sound: Guillaume Bouchateau, Sound: Stéphane Bucher, Sound: Didier Lozahic, Sound: Shannon Mills, Sound: David Parker, Co-sound Re-recording Mixer: Matthieu Dallaporta, Re-recording Mixer: David Parker, Stunt Choreographer: Alain Figlarz, Stunt Co-ordinator: Laurent Demianoff
Cast
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Scarlett Johansson (Lucy), Morgan Freeman (Professor Samuel Norman), Choi Min-sik (Mr Jang), Amr Waked (Pierre Del Rio), Julian Rhind-Tutt (The Limey), Pilou Asbaek (Richard), Analeigh Tipton (Caroline), Nicolas Phongpheth (Jii)
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library
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In: Science fiction film and television v11 n1 Spring 2018 Pages: 5-11Title: façade of feminism: Scarlett Johansson and miss representationAuthor: Matthews, MalcolmArticle type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Part of 'Stardom and sf: a symposium on the sf films of Scarlett Johansson', a collection of articles addressing issues of celebrity and the science fiction genre. This article sets out to identify Scarlett Johansson, in the context of four of her science fiction films (‘Under the Skin’ (2013), ‘Her’ (2013), ‘Lucy’ (2014), and ‘Ghost in the Shell’ (2017)), as a cultural mechanism with a distinct rhetorical function, and to challenge the suggestion that her roles in these films represent figures of female empowerment.
In: Science fiction film and television v11 n1 Spring 2018 Pages: 13-19
Title: Performing the inhuman: Scarlett Johansson and sf filmAuthor: Shetley, VernonArticle type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Part of 'Stardom and sf: a symposium on the sf films of Scarlett Johansson', a collection of articles addressing issues of celebrity and the science fiction genre. This article gives a reading of three of Scarlet Johansson’s films (‘Her’ (2013), ‘Under the Skin’ (2013), and ‘Lucy’ (2014)) through their respective forms of interplay between particular elements of Johansson’s star persona and the gendered hierarchies against which her characters rebel.
In: Science fiction film and television v11 n1 Spring 2018 Pages: 21-28
Title: Between attraction and anxiety: Scarlett Johansson, female knowledge and the mind-body split in LucyAuthor: Stevens, KirstenArticle type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Part of 'Stardom and sf: a symposium on the sf films of Scarlett Johansson', a collection of articles addressing issues of celebrity and the science fiction genre. This article examines Scarlett Johansson’s film ‘Lucy’ (2014), exploring how the mind/body and male/female binaries continue to operate as a site of tension within sf texts when it comes to gender roles.
Books held in BFI Reuben Library
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Title: companion to the action filmAuthor: KENDRICK, James Pages: xiv, 494 pages
Description: Also iIncludes a chapter on the television series The 100 (2014-).