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Sep 12, 2026
David McWilliamsGUEST
So we had the four elements, and because-
Robin WigglesworthHOST
Then Luc Besson got in touch and said you couldn't do that
David McWilliamsGUEST
... yeah, he said, he said...
David McWilliamsGUEST
Yeah, exactly.
DomNARRATOR
And the producers have to rely on wealthy private investors to keep the shooting going on.
DomNARRATOR
That led to the bad press around the movie, and one article at the time even called it the most expensive French production in history before Luc Besson's The Fifth Element.
DomNARRATOR
After the movie's completion, and its release in 1991, it was met with mixed-to-positive reviews in France, ranging from enthusiastic to dismissal.
DomNARRATOR
But everyone praised Levant and Benoît's performances.
RemyHOST
'Cause this, this dude is, like...
RemyHOST
He's, like, v- ripping your whole shit off." And this was, this was not the only time that happened, right? He, he talks about it in the case of, uh, the Luc Besson movie, Lockout.
RemyHOST
Are you familiar with that?
NateHOST
No.
NateHOST
Is that also an Escape From New York?
RemyHOST
Uh, Lo- yes.
RemyHOST
Luc Besson made a essentially word for word, um, remake of Escape From New York, except set in space on a space station.
NateHOST
[laughs]
Andrew KlavanHOST
Pure action from start to finish.
Andrew KlavanHOST
Ronin by Luc Besson.
Andrew KlavanHOST
That's good.
Andrew KlavanHOST
A little pretentious.
Andrew KlavanHOST
Luc Besson can get a little pretentious on you, but I liked it.
Andrew KlavanHOST
Again, a B.
Andrew KlavanHOST
Now, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by Ang Lee is really interesting.
Ankur GuptaGUEST
Yeah, so this is, when was it made? Maybe about 2014, 2015, something like that.
Ankur GuptaGUEST
Luc Besson, the French director.
Ankur GuptaGUEST
And Lucy is this character who, however, let's skip how it happened, but she gains super intelligence by gaining access to greater portion of her brain.
Ankur GuptaGUEST
And then she gets powers like telepathy and psychokinetic powers.
Eric MolinskyHOST
And the materials in the costumes really shimmer beautifully.
Eric MolinskyHOST
The director of Barbarella was her husband at the time, Roger Vadim, and the movie feels like a love letter to her.
Eric MolinskyHOST
I did know one other thing about Barbarella.
Eric MolinskyHOST
The villain had a memorable name, or at least it stuck in the minds of a new wave band in the UK.
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Eric MolinskyHOST
That's actually one of the reasons why I wanted to learn French.
Eric MolinskyHOST
A lot of those comics are not translated into English.
Eric MolinskyHOST
The director Luc Besson is also a fan, and for his 1997 film The Fifth Element, he hired two of my favorite French comic book artists, Mobius and Jean-Claude Mézières, to work on concept art for the film.
Eric MolinskyHOST
This movie is a visual and auditory feast.
RachelGUEST
And then it didn't come out here until February, I think.
RachelGUEST
And it's like a Luc Besson movie.
RachelGUEST
And this is relevant because the entire movie plays like somebody watched Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula with Gary Oldman when they were really high or really drunk and they tried to remake it from memory.
RachelGUEST
And that is Dracula, a love tale.
Jen OffordHOST
Men? Men, yeah.
Jen OffordHOST
Are they men? And written and produced by Luc Besson, who we already know from previous ROD alumnus Leon, the professional hitman.
Jen OffordHOST
And my interview with La La La Let Me Explain About Close the Consent Gap, he has form as being totally fucking gross.
Jen OffordHOST
Yeah.
James IslingtonGUEST
Um, which is obviously it's a classic.
James IslingtonGUEST
Um, I think from there I went back and I watched, um, Luke Besson's other assassin film, La Femme Nikita.
James IslingtonGUEST
Um, and then there was a series of just called Nikita, I think, uh, in the, um, in the late nineties, um, which was sometimes great.
James IslingtonGUEST
Sometimes it wasn't, but,
DarrellHOST
Thanks for joining me today.
DarrellHOST
I'm Daryl, and today we're taking a look at Lucy, the 2014 film directed by Luc Besson and starring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman.
DarrellHOST
Let's get into it.
DarrellHOST
Now before we dive in, a bit of context because Lucy is very much a Luc Besson film.
DarrellHOST
And if you know Besson's work, you know exactly what that means.
DarrellHOST
This is the man who gave us La Femme Nikita, Leon: The Professional, and The Fifth Element.
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