Clip "Access All Of Your Brain"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh3nHKrTxG0 Clip "What's it called?"
Clip "Alive for the whole shebang"
I have obtained three key clips from the movie Limitless, they each refer to the prop significantly.
NZT, it is the name of a performance drug used by the main character in this film, "Limitless". and it is the prop that I plan to analyse.
In the first clip I chose the one of the first clips to introduce the prop. He meets his old sisters cousin, who was previously a drug dealer, to see how he is getting on.
The cousin explains that he is "no longer a drug dealer" and works for a pharmaceutical company with a new drug. They chat about it for a little, what it does. Then Vernon leaves, also leaving behind the prop NZT. ( Which later Eddie decides to try.)
In this scene the prop is made significant from the narrative because before it is even seen, it is mentioned and there is controversy already, leaving hesitation on the use of it, but caves in because it is said to be okay, It also makes the audience believe that maybe the character Vernon has changed and may have been helping him.
When the NZT is passed over the table to Eddie, it was hidden under Vernons hand, and left, in the middle of the table, between the two for a couple of seconds, to let the NZT sink in. But again, hesitation sinks in, and when it does, the camera changes to middle shots, hiding the NZT again, as Vernon tries to hoax him into trying it.
The next clip is after Eddie has tried the drug, he decides to go back to Vernon's home and see if he can get some more of this incredible drug that he feels addicted to now. And he feels like he'd do anything to take it again, although, when he enters the flat, he realizes that Vernon was attacked, and that this may be dangerous, along with the fact that he finds that the drug may not be completley legal. Again even though the NZT is never shown during this clip, the whole narrative is affected by it.
It was hard to find a clip with the NZT in it, but there is a clip in the film in which he hold it in his hand, the background is dark and grey and his hand is bright, almos white and dazzling, and the pill in centred in the middle of the frame.
Maybe the NZT being centered in the middle of the screen shows a relation to the fact that everything in Eddie's life at that point is "Centered" around the NZT.
In the last clip I have chosen, Eddie is being held hostage by a man who he owed money to, who stole his drug once, and wants more, at this point he is willing to torture and look everywhere for it.
In this scene though, the character talks about how he has changed, how he has "evolved with the affect of the drug."
He says that he is moving to a new business with more money, how he has learned new words. In short how it has changed his life.
He uses this new knowledge, to intimidate Eddie, to show how he is better than Eddie, in the hope to recieve more of this "life changing drug".
Even though in all these clips the NZT is never seen apart from once, the use of narrative and the development of the characters shows how NZT is predominant and significant even with the lack of it's presence.
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