Bradley Cooper without limits
In 2011, Bradley Cooper played the lead role Without limits, a thriller directed by Neil Burger. In retrospect, this film in which a man transcends his cognitive abilities with a mysterious substance to overcome his limitations therefore appears as a symbolic milestone in the career of the actor and director. It was in fact shortly after, in 2012 with happiness therapy AND American sniper in 2014 which takes on a new dimension to definitively establish itself as main character in Hollywood.
Bradley Cooper is Eddie Morra Without limits, a young writer who fails to write his first novel. Frustrated by his unstable defeatist attitude, his girlfriend Lindy leaves him. At the bottom of the hole he meets by chance his ex-brother-in-law, a former drug dealer, who suggests he try a pharmaceutical substance, NZT, to help him solve his “creative problems”. In pill form, NZT increases all of Eddie’s abilities tenfold, who from there transforms and succeeds in everything he does. But, having become addicted to them, he will have to track down many of these “magic” pills and be wary of their side effects…
A film that exploits a fascinating myth
Limitless is adapted from the novel The dark fields by Alan Glynn published in 2001. The story is therefore the same as the film and is based on the famous legend according to which humans only use 10% of their brain. This idea is a “neuromyth,” a mistaken belief about the brain. At the origin of this popular legend there is a misunderstanding of various scientific assertions about the composition and use of the brain, which has had a strong resonance in the collective imagination.
This idea, although false, has provided inspiration for several books and films, as in the film Phenomenon since 1996, Start in 2010 and then Without limits in 2011. Without limits, which also includes Robert De Niro and Abbie Cornish in the cast, is a success with critics and audiences. He reported more than $160 million at the worldwide box office with an estimated budget of 27 million, and made it widely popular myth of incomplete use of the brain.
Luciathe version of Without limits by Luc Besson
Three years later Without limitsLuc Besson writes and directs Luciahis greatest personal success to date and the greatest success for a French film in the history of cinema with a worldwide box office of $463 million in revenue. Even if his story is different from that of Without limits and completely anchored to the register of science fiction, Lucia takes full advantage of this myth of 10% brain use, with a heroine (Scarlett Johansson) who manages to use its capabilities at 100%.
He was inspired by Luc Besson Without limits For Lucia ? Probably not, since the two stories differ greatly in the issues addressed and in their respective approaches to this “neuromyth”. Luc Besson explained it in an interview with Variety in 2014 having started writing the film more than ten years ago, fascinated by this legend. But it is certain that, from his point of view as a producer and distributor with EuropaCorp, the critical and commercial success of Without limits must have strengthened his ambition in producing and directing Lucia.
Source: Cine Serie
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