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Lucy And Her Brain Capacity (IMDB)

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25th, 2014, one of the most anticipated movies of the year finally made its’ debut. The movie Lucy made a mind blowing amount of $40 million opening weekend (Forbes). Even I have been chewing my nails to see this movie when I saw the previews for it. For individuals who are not familiar with the movie Lucy, it is about a young woman caught in a deal who seeks revenge on her captors. Lucy then gains the ability to use more than ten percent of her brain capacity. Throughout the movie, it shows the progression of Lucy as she gains a higher percentage of her brain capacity (IMDB). This movie, Lucy, has had a great amount of success. Lucy appeals to the human imagination and movies such as Lucy serves as an informational source for many individuals. …show more content…

The main purpose for Luc Besson is to push the viewers of this movie to question which parts are real and which parts are false. In that aspect, the movie gained success and it appeals to the human imagination. Lucy is an escape from reality, which is something that attracts us. A particular scene in Lucy that portrays this well is the ending scene. In the final scene, we see the protagonist, Lucy at the level of 100% of her brain capacity. At this percentage, Lucy is able to control everything around her, even time. An interesting part about the final scene is to see Lucy travel through time and go into the past to when the first human beings are on the Earth. As intriguing as it all sounds, it is false and will never be possible. Many of these elements have contributed to the success of the movie of Lucy, but later it will be clear how this can be …show more content…

Although Lucy could have been a lot better with the story line, the concept behind the movie is captivating. The real science behind our brains is that humans only understand how ten percent of our brain works, but humans use 100% of their brain capacity (Robyn Boyd). Simple acts such as waking up, walking to the bathroom, turning the water on, brushing your teeth, and other daily activities require the use of every part in our brain. Neuronal activity occurs each second, our brain is always active. The various cells in our brain remains a mystery for scientists to discover. About ten percent of brain cells are neurons and 90% are glial cells. Glial cells hold and support neurons, but the main function of glial cells remain unknown (Robyn Boyd). This is where scientists only understand about ten percent of how the brain actually

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Lucy’s, Claudette seeks help from Jeanette when it time to do her Sausalito, a dance they girls had been practicing strictly for the ball. She forgets her steps as the spotlight hits her and the only thing she can remember was how to pump, meaning waging her invisible tail. “In a flash of white-hot light, my months at St. Lucy’s had vanished and I was just a terrified animal again” (249) Claudette utters. Then, just when she was about to revert, Mirabella saves Claudette by tackling her to the ground. In turn, Claudette repays her by using her as a scapegoat to save herself.

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Lucy’s. They begin to start adapting to the human culture by changing their food habits. Before they come to St. Lucy’s, they make a promise to their parents that they will adapt at St. Lucy’s and change their host culture to a human culture. Later, most of the girls are beginning to progress at St. Lucy’s, but Mirabella is not. They find her “wading in the shadows to strangle a mallard with her rosary beads”.

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In the vein of most coming of age stories, there is a distinct change in Claudette during the course of St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. Though it should be noted, her lycanthropic to human transition is a bit out of the ordinary from typical stories of teenagerhood. Regardless of this notable difference, there is a maturation, and it can be seen progressing easily through the stages. Claudette's development can be tracked in direct correlation the stages she's in at the home for girls.

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Lucy’s it is evident that Claudette is now a civilized, conformed member of human society. There are several pieces of evidence to support this statement. For instance, when Claudette visited her parents near the end of her time at the facility “The woodsman had to accompany me; I couldn’t remember how to find the way back on my own.” This shows just how far Claudette has ventured from her animalistic mindset, because if she was still a wolf she would never forget the way back to her home.

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Her life has left her to Dracula, her soul is assumed trapped, and her flesh remains the same. The process even corrupts Lucy into a nightmarish version of herself. In her UnDeath Lucy specifically feeds on the blood of children (Stoker 198). It’s almost like Dracula corrupted Lucy into a dark version of motherhood. Instead of protecting children, she predates

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Van Helsing begins to treat lucy without much explanation for the other narrators. He wants them to come to the same conclusion he has come to without bias. This is a very interesting point if the reader were to think back to Stoker’s preface. Stoker states that the truth of the book will become clear at the end of the book. He does not want to bias your interaction with the truth just like Van Helsing wants the group to come to the conclusion on their own.

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She has fallen victim to Dracula and becomes undead herself. She is one of two female characters, who is pursued by the vampire. Bram Stoker may have given the impression that Lucy was of that a ‘free’ and gossipy female. I do believe that from reading a few passages from Dracula that apply directly to Lucy, this portrayal could be false, and this is in reference to her once she has become undead. Lucy could be a victim, an innocent woman sabotaged by Dracula.

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The ways in which Van Helsing and Seward customarily address Lucy with pet names and terms of endearment, is the same as how an adult would treat a child that denies their maturity. In spite of the fact that these appear affectionate on the surface, it is a manipulative tactic exercised frequently by the band of men. Whether or not they are aware that they are doing such, revoking Lucy of her name strips her of her identity and, essentially, her authority over her personhood. Women in Victorian could only be two things; either you were a pure woman or you were a fallen woman. Lucy can only be one or the other, it was not common for women of the time to possess the traits of both types.

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Lucy showed the ideal Victorian woman and the frowned upon one too. At some points, Lucy is a lot like Mina in the way that she loves one man. She has multiple men wanting to be with her and although she doesn’t mind being with all of them, she turns them down for the man she loves the most, Arthur Holmwood. Lucy’s best friend is Mina, which tells us where she gets the ideal traits from. Stoker also characterizes Lucy as sexual when Dracula turns her into a sexual vampire and she goes to the dark side.

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Everyone has their demons, and Stoker’s possibly could have been that he wants to kill people who have wronged him, and created Dracula to sort of relieve himself of his evil desires. Lucy can resemble someone maybe a lover of Bram’s that passed tragically, and needed a way to vent his pain. Either way you look at it Stoker wrote this book with passion and any reader can tell that he put personal affection into his writing

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Lucy is illustrated as someone who is continuously driven by sexual temptations and flirtatiousness. Stoker puts emphasis on her beauty, which is what grabs the attention of men. Lucy ends up getting killed because her sexual openness was seen as a threat to Victorian society. Stoker uses a character like Lucy in his novel to portray that sexually assertive women who try and use their beauty to win over men will not make it in the Victorian culture. On the other hand, when Dracula intimidates Jonathan during his effort to attack Mina, she reacts in the correct matter of what the Victorian culture would want her to.

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