#lucy trailer

[arcadebroke]

[rugenepyu]

Damn!! Gusto ko talaga panuurin ang LUCY,

[johnbasedow]

LUCY - Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman - New Media Stew Movie Review John Basedow (@JohnBasedow) reviews ‘Lucy,’ starring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman, with special guest Krystin Goodwin (@KrystinGoodwin). MOVIE DESCRIPTION - LUCY LUCY is set in a world that is run by the mob, street gangs, drug addicts and corrupt cops. Lucy (Scarlett Johansson), a woman living in Taipei, Taiwan, is forced to work as a drug mule for the mob. The drug implanted in her body inadvertently leaks into her system, changing her into a superhuman, due to accessing much more than the normal 10% of her brain capacity. She can absorb knowledge instantaneously, is able to move objects with her mind and cannot feel pain and other discomforts. 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. Stars: Scarlett Johannson, Morgan Freeman, Min-sik Choi Director: Luc Besson Writer: Luc Besson Release Date: August 8, 2014 Watch NEW MEDIA STEW for the latest in celebrity and pop culture news!

[acrimsonphoenix]

If this doesn't convince Marvel that a Black Widow movie would be worth making in every way, I don't know what would.

[midnightblaine]

So we're talking about this or...

[filmbash]

[formosanaster]

So I was really looking forward to the movie Lucy (2014), with Scarlett Johansson as the lead. I love Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow, I like the idea of a woman being the sole protagonist of an action movie, and I was excited to see how Taiwan is presented on the big screen. And then I saw the trailer. 

The experience of watching that trailer is really uncomfortable and enraging. That scene with Lucy killing a Taiwanese taxi driver because he doesn't speak English is especially horrible. Seriously, what on earth are they trying to say? That people who can't speak English, who don't meet white people's needs deserve to be murdered? I'm Taiwanese, and a lot of the people I know don't speak English, or at least not very well. So it's cool or funny to kill them off for that like an afterthought? And that taxi diver? I've meet countless like him, listening to them talking about the state of Taiwan's politics, their families, or just life in general, while they got me safely to my destination. It makes me really angry to see that taxi driver made into a prop to show how bad-ass Lucy is.

And the other parts of the trailer aren't much better, either. They present Taiwanese people as sexual predators, third rate villains (you know, those that exist to be killed off by the protagonist to show how awesome he/she/they are ), and the protagonist's means to an end (e.g. the taxi driver for transportation, the doctors for taking out the pack of drugs). Some people might say that the movie itself might provide more of a context, but I think the way these scenes are framed in the trailer speaks enough about the attitude towards Taiwanese people.

I've been looking forward to this movie for a while, but I don't think I will go to the theater to see it now. I don't really want to spend money just to see people like me killed off in droves or used as props to glorify the white protagonist.

[lokis-queen]