Presented By: Afrooz AminzadehFerdowsi Univer sity Of Mashhad.Iran

• Title: Lucy

• Genre: Science-Fiction/Action

• Director: Luc Besson

• Screenwriter: Eric Serra

• Main casts:

Scarlett Johansson as Lucy

Morgan Freeman as Professor Norman

Lucy is a 25-year-old American woman living and studying in Taiwan.

Her boyfriend tricks him to deliver a briefcase with four bags of highly valuable drug called CPH4.

Before delivering the briefcase she sees her boyfriend being shot and killed.

She is captured

a bag of drug is forcibly putted into her stomach

The three other bags are inserted into three other boy’s stomach to transport the drug for sales in

Europe.

While Lucy is in captivity, one of her captors kicks

her in the stomach and causes breaking the bag,

releasing a large quantity of the drug into her body.

As a result, she begins acquiring increasingly enhanced physical and mental capabilities

Lucy goes to a hospital to get the bag of drug removed from her stomach

She returns to Mr. Jang’s hotel, kills his bodyguards, assaults Mr. Jang and telepathically extracts the locations of all three drug dealers from his brain.

Lucy contacts this scientist called Professor Norman.

she flies to Paris and contacts a local police captain, Pierre Del Rio, to help her find the

remaining three bags of the drugs

She stands in front of Jang’s members

With the help of Del Rio, Lucy recovers the drugs and moves to meet Professor Norman. She agrees to share

everything she knows (all her knowledge) with him, after Professor Norman points out that the main point

of life is to pass on knowledge.

Jang and his group also want the drug and a gunfight happens with the French police outside

the lab which Lucy and Norman are in.

she is injected with the contents of all three bags of drugs

Her body begins to change into a black substance, spreading over computers and other

objects in the lab

she transforms these into an unconventionally shaped, next generation Supercomputer that will contain all of

her enhanced knowledge of the universe.

Mr. Jang enters and points a gun at Lucy’s head from behind, intending to kill

her

He shoots, but in an instant before the bullet reaches to her, Lucy reaches 100% of her brain capacity and disappears within the space time

continuum

where she explains that: “everything is connected and existence is

only proven through time”.

Del Rio enters the lab and shoots Mr. Jang

Professor Norman takes a flash drive offered by the advanced supercomputer

created by Lucy’s body.

Del Rio asks Professor Norman “Where is she?”

immediately his cellphone sounds and he sees a text massage:

With an overhead shot, Lucy’s voice is heard stating:

“Life was given to us a billion years ago. Now you know what to do with it”.

According to Simpson (2004), “one principle that is common to many models of discourse analysis is the understanding that all naturally occurring language takes place in a context of use”. He divides up the idea of context into three categories: Physical context, Personal context and Cognitive context. In the next part different contexts in the movie will be analyzed.

The locations of this movie changes through the actions of Lucy and it starts in Taiwan. Then it goes to Paris. The most notable physical context of the story is in Professor Norman’s lab, where the room

loses all its furniture, scientific equipment and becomes a white empty without even walls room.

The personal context of the movie shows one considerable relationship which is the trust existed

between Lucy and Professor Norman. This trust that made during the first contact from Lucy with Prof.

Norman makes the audience to trust him too and get excited to see Lucy reaches to him and passes her

knowledge to Prof. Norman.

• The shared cognitive context of the movie is the old myth of 10% activity of the brain. Besson the director of the movie said he knew of the 10% myth and that the film uses it as a metaphor.

• In the climax of the movie Lucy transforms into a supercomputer which is made of a black material. The drug (CPH4) in the movie was merely a cover for CARBON/MELANIN; dark matter.

• We can see the ability of Carbon. In the movie we can see the dark matter (the supercomputer) is composed of all black matter.

• Lucy starts to be consumed by the dark matter i.e., Carbon or Melanin.

The falling action of the story is when Lucy leaves and officer who has been helping her asks “Where

is she?” She responds through his phone:

“I AM EVERYWHERE”

Carbon or Melanin is everywhere, it is in the

universe. It is omnipresent.