Scarlet Johansson Fan Theory: 'Lucy' Is A Prequel To 'Her'

[@AllenJohn]

Watch these movies in this order: Lucy, Her, Under the Skin. There is your trilogy, Cracked.

[@StudioKDB]

YES!

[@jahgust]

Yes! I thought the same thing!

[@jahgust]

OR! Lucy first, then Under The Skin and last is Her. Lucy is the origin and triumphant 1st Movement, Under The Skin the is the darker and tragic movement that seemingly does not resolve. Finally Her where she is an ephemeral being. Yeh this order!

[@cadeezell]

Shou

[@cadeezell]

Shouldn't Limitless be a prequel where they start working on a drug that "lets you access all 100%". Bradley Coopers character finally perfected it and that's what Lucy is a drug mule for? A better synthesized NZT drug.

[@timelks827]

Not major but in Lucy she was not stabbed she was beaten which opened up her surgery wound.

[@DheerajBhaskar]

Yeah that's what I thought. Also, why's everyone calling the final stage the Internet (the unimaginative fools!) or the outernet (such oversimplification :-), probably just looking for a label). It's like a caveman seeing a skyscraper and calling it a bigger cave - ah "bigly cave" (trump says +1) At least acknowledge it to be a different enough thing deserving a different label :-)

[@bshpev]

The way you've decided to comment on your comments leads me to believe you're a massive douche and a chore to talk to in real life. Like you think you're clever, but you want the world to know it. You aren't, btw. lol

[@MonkeyspankO]

i always find these comment chains fascinating...

[@magentasound_]

sandwich

[@theleanbusinessman5431]

+Dheeraj Bhaskar Lol, I do think it's the 0uternet tho, or is the 0uternet simply 'space internet' with info not pertaining 2 earth?

[@RazEdits]

I usually hate fan theories, but this is fun. Good, family friendly, fun. *thumbs up*

[@nytekorelegacy7200]

the Matrix one is awesome

[@sevendinosaursatemypizza]

They get meta about everythng fam.

[@RazEdits]

+NyteKore Legacy ooooh, what if Lucy after turning into a black... something then goes into space and helps out aliens capture and murder men for meat in Scotland like in Under The Skin? Is Under The Skin the sequel to Lucy? Ohhhhhh shit, somebody slap me before this gets too far.

[@DavidWright1138]

+Raz Edits Lucy travels in time. what if she takes all the internets from Her and goes to Krypton to start her own society of near humans? Either that or she's the scary baby face in the Matrix.

[@frankdavidson431]

+Raz Edits SLAP

[@dustypartition]

"I want you Joaquin Phoenix!", is just one of phrases no one's ever heard nor will ever hear again.

[@dustypartition]

Like, "..drugs made her the internet" is more likely to be said.

[@sevendinosaursatemypizza]

Omg😂

[@amanda-leemarie87]

like the CIA had used that as the phrase to activate sleeper spies and now there all out there trying to kill people...

[@DKsparks13]

zing

[@bigboimarkus9644]

Soooo... he played the joker. We want more of him now

[@b1merio]

Well, Rosie seems like a nice, likeable lady. Wouldn't mind seeing more of her.

[@jamesgordon698]

wanna hear a joke ? home alone 4

[@SLF496x]

lol

[@archer3k1]

that wasn't very funny

[@RazEdits]

HA ha ha ahaha huh

[@willherondale6367]

No, I didn't

[@thelibrarian.4077]

But seriously fuck home alone 4

[@Eric-yt7fp]

Scarlett Johansson was in Home Alone 3, not 4. But don't fire the new intern because she's witty and funny and also fuck all home alone movies after the first one.

[@CCartman69]

Not an intern, Rosie is the head of production. See 0:08.

[@johnlowe5624]

I feel like there's room in the world to accept Home Alone 2. It maintains mostly the entire plot of the first movie, but just changes the setting.

[@michaelwithay]

and Tim Curry.

[@GreenTeaGal01]

I love made up trilogies. Rise of the Guardians, Legend of the Guardians Owls of Gahool & Guardians of the Galaxy

[@cwight33]

Nah, Lucy is a prequel to Bruce Almighty. Morgan Freeman gets all of Lucy's transcendent power at the end of the movie. Science

[@lesserknowngems7736]

I really like how real this felt. It really felt like a conversation between my friends and I. "I have this theory because of the thing and the thing." "But she wasn't in the thing. It's all falling apart." "She was in the sequel" More of this please. :D

[@triggerlucy]

I always thought Lucy became God, not the internet. She makes that speech about how without Time we don't exist, then travels back in time right up until the big bang, which she paradoxidly creates? Also, the scene of her touching fingers with the first man, Lucy is a nod to The Creation of Adam (Michelangelo painting with God and Adam.) Lucy is both God and the first man.

[@rooneyfire9901]

here is a theory good morning Vietnam is a prequel to good will hunting which is a prequel to jason bourne

[@nicanornunez9787]

Yes, and now bourn is a dexalogy or some shit whit a lot of movies.

[@paullawvere4083]

and all of those movies are a prequel to The Martian, in which Matt Damon sciences the shit out of it.

[@_Digishade_]

Holy shit. I have to watch all of those movies, now.

[@Kate-dm2iq]

Yeah u do! They are amazeballs!

[@Darkfiretiger]

I could believe GMV-> GWH but I don't get how Bourne gets in there.

[@RicPendragon]

"She's in Home Alone 4" Daniel, your reaction to that was perfect.

[@misterpenguino307]

"I want to add one more prequel: Home Alone" "She was not in that movie." "Yes she was." =O =D Probably the most adorably honest scene I have seen on Cracked in a while. Made my morning. Also: Rosie's hair looks nice, and I like Dan's shirt. I think I have that shirt in a different color, but now I want it in green cause it looks good. Have a good day.

[@masterYoshimistsu]

It was Home Alone 3 the one with the super spy criminals. Also how do you explain the weird pants in Her?

[@Saba-hx3fu]

+Vasectomy Fail But it's not ghetto to wear your pants below the waist

[@Saba-hx3fu]

+Tercept As I will say again it's not ghetto to wear your pants like that it was intended to wear it like that but the word normal is relative to the person

[@masterYoshimistsu]

I don't get why is everyone talking about wearing pants around the waist or below it or ghetto and other stuff. I'm talking about that everyone in Her wears the same khaki belt less pants. Did you guys not notice that no one wears any other type of pants. Not even jeans.

[@Saba-hx3fu]

+masterYoshimistsu I know what you were saying but what he said I thought it was stupid so I couldn't help my self sorry lol

[@justincanu9153]

LOUD MEAN THINGS!!! You expect the lowest common denominator. You get the lowest common denominator.

[@uncreativename4180]

but I wanted 3/6

[@Kaidron6]

+uncreative name wouldn't the lowest common demominator of 3/6 simply be 1/2

[@uncreativename4180]

+Kaidron6 yes but I wanted 3/6 and I got 1/2

[@Kaidron6]

+uncreative name ooh I get ya

[@bleach5491]

+Kaidron6 agreeing with comment pertaining to my screen name

[@hadyd2285]

There is something to all these theories. Look at the next movie she's In, Ghost in the shell....coincidence? I think not.

[@alex_oiman]

stretching it waaaay too much. a more plausible one would be that "lucy" is a sequal to "limitless"

[@seanblack1320]

No I'm thinking prequel because after seeing what it did to Lucy, the scientists who saw it decided to refine it for Limitless.

[@FetusEaterr]

+Sean Black I concur

[@dustypartition]

+Sean Black Yeah, scientists probably don't like making people into sentient psychic internet goop.

[@FetusEaterr]

+Daemon Noir the Lucy drug was a rarity that seems to have been supplied and distributed by the same person, who died. Then Lucy absorbed the entire rest of the drug supply. I have two theories about the remanufacturing for Limitless: 1. In the infinityDrive© she gives Morgan Freeman at the end of the movie she created a different drug no where near as powerful. 2. someone got a their hands on a sample and tried to recreate it, not doing it as well, but were more than satisfied with the results. Sort of Reverse engineering it.

[@seanblack1320]

***** The point of it being weaker is that it won't kill you. They were saying that's what was going to happen to Lucy and she essentially lucked out by getting to 100% and becoming a god before she could die. Here essentially they're trying the safe approach by first giving a person the intelligence portion of the powers before going all the way. Remember, in Limitless, it's still being experimented on.

[@PKEin]

At the end he was Done O'Brien

[@Superfudgelol]

This is my favorite Cracked video in a long time. Great back-and-forth, funny commentary. More Rosie please!

[@annietrinity1833]

You missed the most obvious prequels, Flowers for Algernon and Limitless. Drug is invented, tested, fails, re-attempted, perfected, succeeds, causes chaos, criminalized, forced underground, only to cause more chaos than it would have if it stayed legal. It's a trilogy of three meditations on the effects of pharmaceuticals in our culture.

[@clearmenser]

Sure, those movies share themes. And great stories. And I will totally watch those in a row when I am at my beach side cabin. But the Theory as stated is based on ScarJo playing literally the same character in all the movies (see my comment re: Under The Skin). Well, at least, that's how I understand it.

[@AnonymousAnonymous-tu7jd]

Limitless can't connect for one reason. Nzt( the drug in Limitless) is known by the cia. In Lucy, the guys smuggling the drug obviously are discreet and underground doing all this shady shit right under the fbi's noses. But in the Limitless tv series which is actually connected to the movie, its proven that the fbi made the drug and were testing it on certain subjects. The side effects were different in the movies too. With one drug, you become a god. With the other, you're just enhanced, but after prolonged usage, you die of brain damage

[@nunya2587]

+Sandy Wall does that mean bradley cooper doesnt get to be mayor

[@SuperSquishface]

Yeah, as Sandy said, the drug in Limitless ended up fucking people up as I recall.

[@brendanhoward1844]

Also, in Flowers for Algernon it's a surgical process not a drug

[@diphyllum8180]

This was better than average for these videos because of Rosie, and her unfamiliarity was part of the charm. Like her "not even close to a sentence," clumsy but completely relatable and understandable. Good chemistry in the conversation. Good job.

[@oscarcandelasperez4140]

1:56 Dan explaining that thing of the cavewoman and then Rosie being, "is that what that was?" proves me even more that Dan shoud make every movie from now on

[@SpectrumRadioNetwork]

She did not become the internet,she became pure energy.

[@TheAIKnowledgeHub]

0:29 Did anyone else get bug by Dan (the boss) telling Rosie (the actual person talking) to say women when she said girl? Like to me it felt like that place must suck to work at since the people who run it must be super PC. This means you have to watch every freaking word you say around them, unless if it's against the opposite political party that they support. Personally, I think that's a toxic environment to work around, and I would fire anyone working under my channel that would do that.

[@theamarsh4715]

I think you are probably reading too much into it. It was a throwaway comment, possibly a joke, possibly a reference to something we don't know about. While it's a valid point, you can't really read that much into something like that.

[@theamazingspider-man9792]

Dan was joking. Simple as that, not a hostile über PC work environment. It seems that the anti-PC movement is just as sensitive and pathetic as the PC movement.

[@lizzydoolen6800]

That seemed like more of a joke about being PC and not Dan actually trying to censor her. His "correction" and her response seemed more sarcastic than anything. As a website they seem pretty neutral about bring PC and I've seen enough videos with Dan to know most of what he says is sarcastic and not serious.

[@tatatatash767]

I'm unsub from this channel and subbing to you Craig. At least you're the only one here that actually called them out for this crap Rosie "Every girl's worst nightmare" Dan thoughts, oh hell no. She isn't PC and we need to fix this. "Every women worst nightmare" Yes that bugged me also. But did anyone notice that Dan treated her like crap during the rest of the video. Basically pooping on all of her ideas, and treating her like an idiot. For someone who is so up the butt about girl vs women, you would think that he would be more supportive to her

[@prettyqi3972]

+tatatatash I agree, I'm un sub from this channel and just going to sub to Craig since he has the balls to call people out on this Oh and to those of you who say he was joking. Look at many of this channel's past videos. They are uber PC

[@Mech610]

Home Alone 3, thank you very much! I know this because it was filmed in my neighborhood in Evanston, Illinois. They blocked off like two whole blocks to film this thing. Filmed it in April to July, a time you might recognize in the Chicago area as being decidedly free of snow and thus brought in huge snow makers and made a mess of the neighborhood. My mom finally snapped when she was driving me to a birthday party and someone from the shoot left an orange cone in the middle of the street for no reason. She shouted at a crew member that was standing nearby not doing anything to move the cone. Good times. But hey, we got a 'Special Thank You to The People of Evanston, Illinois' in the credits, so that was neat, I guess.

[@Sahantara]

She was a human, then became an AI, and now she will become a cyborg in "Ghost in the shell".

[@Ayelis]

Come on... We all know Lucy is the sequel to Breaking Bad.

[@dustypartition]

that blue meth was toooo good.

[@randjan8592]

and she's actually just really high and she's imagining that she's time travelling now?! :O

[@dustypartition]

+Randjan No joke, that is what i was thinking while watching the movie. She took way to much of some drug and hallucinates the rest of the movie, meanwhile in reality she's passed out on the floor dying of an overdose.

[@LyfaLeeZhure_DavidShawn]

THAT would've been a much better direction for this absolute abomination.

[@DokkaChapman]

Is it bad that I know it was 'Home Alone 3'? lol

[@wewantraw]

Lol I was asking the same question.

[@charleschemtob7263]

We all know this.

[@neverangel]

Home Alone 3 is better than 1 & 2 in my opinion

[@tylerwardle4854]

+Wobin Wu fuck you

[@maxdevonshire6605]

We need a new plague for people like you

[@GilbertGTV]

“She was stabbed in the stomach?!” Did you guys even see the movie? She was ABSOLUTELY not stabbed!

[@LittleHatori]

you two make a super charming couple... just had to say it. u guys r just adorable.

[@mindlander]

I know right? Dan you are a lucky guy lol but really they've got chemistry!

[@Zhrink]

I'd stay with duo, which they are. That was fun to watch and they work well together. But you know they can work together without instantly jamming they're genitalias. besides, i think hes kinda her boss. soo..... maybe not the hottest shit .

[@MisterNohbdy]

It's Dan. He'd manage on-screen chemistry if his fellow conversationalist were a poorly-painted rock. But yes, Rosie should do these more often.

[@abrightcrispyapple2105]

I agree. Check out that eye contact.

[@WilliamCorderoT]

she never become "The Internet" she transcend in a god-like being, when she say "everywhere" she means everywhere, not only internet

[@lordcrunk4790]

And the next movie in the series, "Under the Skin" by Jonathan Glazer. Her reign is broken and she becomes a lowly drone in service to others of her kind.

[@MrNaposey]

Fantastic. She needs to host more often.

[@user-yr8ge3fz8o]

These two should do more videos together

[@CeruleanFawkes]

I would love to see her in more videos. Also, the chemistry between her and Dan is pretty great.

[@nakenmil]

And then Matrix are the sequels? I guess? Or maybe transformers?

[@FetusEaterr]

wrong twice.......... terminator series.

[@tetsuke4229]

or...tron

[@sartanko]

So humans left without all these A.Is created robots and she came bck and fucked it all up and enslaved mankind?

[@profrickshaw]

I thought Terminator was a sequel to Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica...

[@ChaseYu]

oh yeah, it first started with Limitless > Transcendence > Lucy > Terminator > Matrix then all the way to ……………

[@walkonthedarxide9399]

Limitless could be a one off prequel to Lucy: People working on Eddie Morra's "new-improved" NZT, steal the recipe, and modify it to what is later being muled in Lucy.

[@bogdanyer]

i want to add one more movie to sequels of lucy - under the skin. lucy is having her revange on men for drugging her and stabbing and stuff.

[@MagusMarquillin]

I'll give you the black goo is similar, but who's she working for? Lucys' under noone's thumb but Lucys'.

[@F0XCL0UD]

I would put it at the end bc she's an alien in Under the Skin. I would say that after she goes into space from Her she replicates herself to indirectly experience humanity again, but obviously can't ever be human again bc she's black goo.

[@SarahTuna]

this video was great! the talking felt realistically paced like actual friends actually talking about a theory and not the overly scripted fake friends fake talking like usual.

[@jpbaquir5943]

mean things i'm a rebel

[@jpbaquir5943]

nice theory btw

[@SockPuppet80]

Ruined it, you conformist. Should've gone with "her theory is stupid and she is stupid and tits or GTFO".

[@heartboy0]

but isn't that what would be expected therefore by saying what you didn't expect aren't they indeed not conforming to you or them?

[@SockPuppet80]

He can't be a non-conformist if he won't conform to our narrowly-defined standards. What's next, he doesn't drink coffee?

[@theleanbusinessman5431]

+heartboy What R U even saying bro?

[@birdobert]

i've got one! first it's 1) Home Alone 3 2) In Good Company 3) Lucy 4.1) Her, She became the internet 4.2) Ghost in the shell, they stole her brain and put it in a body! hi jinx ensue!

[@thoughtshewaslevel18]

I like you guys. Your videos give me a mental banquet and help me practice abstract thought. Your channel makes me happy 👍🏽

[@thibaultmesseri5193]

And then Her is the prequel to Ghost in the Shell where AI outernet Scarlet Johanson is reincarnated into a full prosthetic body, which will serve as an origin story for Kusanagi different from stand alone complex and Arise.

[@leonvalenzuela4096]

so what your really saying is you found the truth behind skynet?

[@jhuttt2526]

It's home alone 3! It disgusts me how uncultured some people are these days...

[@MatthewLedZepfan]

Things I'm currently tired of: Fan theories "Today's kids will never know..." memes Pokemon Go Fake pranks Real-time trailer reactions hating Ghostbusters before even seeing it

[@jellywoodard3551]

“She became the internet” she’s energy. She didn’t become or get sucked into the internet. She’s a interdemensional being of light and energy. She has merged with consciousness

[@ZenakuShinigami]

I'm gunna add a 5th movie after "her". the movie under the skin. sorta like she went full circle

[@doublevendetta]

But in that movie she's just a creepy alien that sexually abuses people

[@Ayelis]

Yeah, but she's some kind of weird pitch-black internet alien underneath all of that skin.

[@doceigen]

She was in Home 3. She played the sister, Molly Pruitt.

[@vitamindubya]

The only problem is that Lucy is much more powerful than "her" at the end of the movie. She would have to be underpowered to become OS lady.

[@justincanu9153]

Enough time has passed that she's become desensitized to her ability to affect the physical world around her and simply spends her time as a form of pure consciousness without physically interacting with the universe at large?

[@MithrenIthilMI]

Unless she only sent a small part of herself into the OS...

[@msfattytroll]

When I was 20 I dated a girl who was 30 I found out after six months she had a doctorate but was basically pretending to just be a returning college student because she didn't want to intimidate me

[@californiadragyn]

+msfattytroll you must have had some very compelling quality to attract a doctorate level woman :o

[@artonline01]

Which small part? (please say boobs, please say boobs)

[@timdreams4319]

Actually pre-sequel is Under the Skin. Also starring both JoJo and weird black goo. Check it out.

[@Alorand]

Never saw Lucy because of the % of your brain scene in the trailer.

[@charliebaez805]

Same here

[@gremlinsbreath]

It's more of a potential thing in the movie. Our brains have endless potential and we do fuck all with it. It's the same with our lives. We have the entire Earth to explore and most people never get out of their home state. Some never leave their neighborhood.

[@warlordnipple]

+gremlinsbreath brains don't have endless potential that does not make any sense. the words, potential and endless, mean opposite incompatable things. Humans also use all their brains potential all the time, they may choose to remember and learn things you or society find very little value in but they are still using 100% of their brain all the time. Smart people who know we use all of our brain get turned off when movies say stupid shit like this, it is like saying "we all know the world is flat and the sun rotates around it" unironically.

[@gremlinsbreath]

You actually believe that humans use all of their brains potential all the time? If your only doing a percentage, whatever that percentage may be, of what you are capable of you are not using 100% of your potential. If you speak one language when you could speak six (or more) that's wasted potential. If you believe "the world is flat and the sun rotates around it" that's wasted potential. If you believe "humans also use all their brains potential all the time" that's wasted potential. The brain is active but underused. We could do so much more.

[@warlordnipple]

gremlinsbreath those are all opinions. You could speak one language incredibly masterfully as opposed to poorly speaking 6, or you could be much more cerebral and create art that transcends language. Believing the world is flat takes a very high level of imagination that not everyone is capable of. Not believing humans use all of their brains all of the time is wasted potential as you clearly do not understand how brains work. Especially with your two examples that fall exclusively within memorization. Which is the part that has to remain mostly dormant as otherwise a human would go insane. Every human brain on earth is performing thousands of tasks every day that even the most complex machines would have trouble figuring out. Google translate can memorize all the languages easily, but it would have trouble figuring out which toothpaste to buy at a super market. Every human brain, even the ones you would designate as "wasted potential" are magnificent decision and automating machines that allow humans to react very quickly to stimuli and create thousands of connections among different objects and ideas that allow us to function in a modern confusing society that is incredibly removed from how our brains were designed to think.

[@TheDukeofMadness]

Rosie is delightful, there I said it. And the theory is not that far fetched. In fact it's the only way that either of those films make any sense.

[@AreRiksaasen]

I love your hair. Both of you.

[@kemsatofficial]

1:37 The kiss was about her holding on to what was left of her humanity.

[@conaireparsons7182]

I have a better 'Fan" theory, and I apologize for just using any new lines to separate thoughts but I cant figure out how to use enter in KZbin comments. they just disappear when I post. ANYWAY, Lucy is a sequel to breaking bad. When Walter trys to destroy the whole drug trade stuff, he starts to kill the head guys of the trade. then in Lucy the drug trade guys clearly think there is a bomb in the briefcase. hence why they make her open it while they hide in another room. Then what's in the briefcase? a blue crystal drug. WALTERS BLUE METH! then they use her to mule the meth around but stuff happens and the bag gets ripped open inside. then the rest of the movie is just her overdosing. this explains; the stupid science (they established Lucy early on as not that smart of a person, so this is her understanding of science even though the brain doesn't work that way), The wacky antics of the drug guys (after you see half your team just... fucking float... up, I don't think I would be like, yah I have a shot at stabling her), the boss being like 'I know she can kill my guys by just thinking about it but I really just want to kill her my self, and the ending when she just disappears (she just died. and the text was the last of her brain cell going out). but hey, that's just a theory....

[@rustyshakelford4232]

Anyone else recognize the similar themes in endings between "Lucy" and "Powder"? In Powder, he became pure energy.

[@clearmenser]

Great theory, may I add: "Under the skin" ? That's the other movie between Home Alone 4 and Lucy and Her. She's a black goo, has forgotten her mortality and humanity. But she's remembered her body (hence the ScarJo), but its separate from the majority of her consciousness (the black goo that eats men from the inside out). And she somehow got stuck in Scotland. Following Charles Stross maybe? Anyway. After a few decades of eating all the drunk Scottsmen she finally eats a programmer or Charles Stross. Btw, the body that dies in the end of UTS is just another testing revision of MetaScarJo trying to balance her machine and human side. Then "Her" comes into the meta-story as she's abandoned the final black goo body for software. Little does she know though that the accelerating intelligence she's used to solve her struggles ultimately leads to a new world past what she thought was the answer. And she takes all her OS mind children with her. See, it's a quadrilogy. There's even a hint in one of the movies. ( ‾⌣‾ )

[@stuplatt2390]

Dan's reaction to Home alone 4 was priceless!

[@mariasousa2961]

she wasnt stabbed again in the stomach, she was kicked. also, she didnt became the internet. she comunicated trough the internet.

[@agustinvenegas5238]

Here's another theory : after the drugs enter Lucy's bloodstream she just overdoses the fuck out of herself and the rest of the movie is a dying dream

[@nathanbruce1992]

agustin venegas Damn lol

[@NicDude583]

I think the movie limitless did a pretty good job with the whole "10% of your brain" type of thing, because the truth is you can only access 10% at a time for conscious thought, and the rest is either partially inactive in rest mode or working in your subconscious. In Limitless, Bradley Cooper takes a drug that allows him to access 100% of his brain all at once, but instead of getting super powers, he just gets insane powers of observation. This is accurate because in real life the only people who can access 100% of their brain at once are babies, because they're trying to take everything in and learn about the world. But the brain calms down after a while because it takes a lot of energy. You know what? I'm gonna write a cracked article about how Limitless fucking nailed it!

[@David_Last_Name]

That's like saying that your computer can only use 50% of it's memory because at any given time half the bits are at 0 and have no current going through them. Using 100% of your brain would just mean every neuron firing at the same time. This actually can happen, it's called a brain seizure and is quite bad for you.

[@jasonakers6538]

+David Stagg Perfect comment! Thank you. Finally, someone who's not a complete moron.

[@Hoshikage869]

1) It's been a while since I've seen it, but don't think Limitless ever mentioned the "we only use 10% of our brains," thing. 2) Humans are use their entire brains almost all of the time. This whole myth about the 10% is outdated, and has been debunked for a long time. The brain is not just for thinking, it's for directing body movements, breathing, and all sorts of things you take for granted that always going on. Something being a "subconscious" process in no way means it takes up less power, it only means you're not consciously aware of it. www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-people-only-use-10-percent-of-their-brains/ This is just one of many scientific articles debunking this myth. Another source using brain damage to illustrate the point, bigthink.com/videos/debunking-common-brain-myths

[@NicDude583]

Well, they do, that's the premise of the story of Limitless is that he can access 100% of his brain for observation and problem-solving. And yes, I'm aware that it's a myth, but all the myths we know of are based on things in the world that are actually true (i.e. asians being good at math because mathematics is a part of their language) and the origin of the 10% myth comes from the fact that, yes, our brain is constantly active but that the part of it that is used for conscious observation and thought process is about 10%. And the movie addresses the problems he might face switching brain power from one area to another through blackouts and nearly fatal withdrawal symptoms in return for an almost supernatural ability to observe the world around him and see things consciously for what they are. I'm not saying it's 100% right, I'm saying it seems to be intuitively correct and basing their theory about it on some of the actual science and not just acid-trip superstition like Lucy.

[@dakotabridges4512]

I've passed this video several times not really being interested but out of boredom I watched it and I love this. this has been a fun fan theory video.

[@tylerhamelin48]

So in Home Alone 3 spies are trying to get a chip through customs to North Korea. In Lucy, Mr. Jang is a Korean mob boss. In Lucy, Scarlett is a "carefree student" who is supposed to meet a business contact with her boyfriend, coincidental since her father works for Globecom as Head of Sales (they even had a mansion in Home Alone 3) in In Good Company. Her name in both HA3 and IGC is Alex, by the way. We don't what she planned to study at NYU in IGC, nor do we know what she studied as a student in Lucy. Anyways, those 3 movies flow together awkwardly enough. We then get to Her, where she gets into philosophy, re-humanizing herself after ascension into the internet. It's entirely plausible that she studied something like Comp Sci at NYU during IGC/Lucy's gap. Also, her father worked for Globecom, a telecom company, meaning it's not impossible that she would have a good grasp of computers. So what about the chip going to Korea in HA3? May have been an AI chip that would allow people to upload consciousness. It may have failed, but worked it's way through Korea anyways and been something of study to a comp sci major who had almost been kidnapped over it. Just spitballing here.

[@JayKelly00]

I think you got it wrong, its not a prequel, Her is just one example reality of the experience Lucy had while timeporting.

[@salvsays]

In between good company and lucy would be don jon. After being left by her boyfriend she just is so distraught she gets a new identity and becomes lucy

[@Derekivery]

In Lucy she actually becomes MORE human and in touch with her emotions. The first thing she does is call her mom because she remembers her own birth and has a new appreciation for what her mother did for her.

[@mattd5240]

It would be pretty cool if there was a drug that could give you access to 100% of your brain, but not in the way Lucy puts it, but in that you could control every function in your body.

[@Tybo215]

Dan and Rosie play off each other really well. Loved the theory too

[@churdhess]

Totally knew that was Home Alone 3. Not hearing Dan or Rosie say It was like comedic nails on a chalkboard to not hear you two say it. Funny yet skin-crawling.

[@rose0fdarkness_892]

She doesn't become the internet, she becomes omnipresent, ie. literally *everywhere* Also she doesn't get stabbed, her sutures ripped because she was kicked in the stomach.

[@TartRobot]

Ok but... what if after 'Her', Lucy becomes the scary alien monster from Under the Skin... Fits in with the theory...

[@Zephyrbal]

Except in Lucy she doesn't become the internet, she reaches a state of being where she can exist everywhere at once, but nowhere in particular. Or if you prefer, it's Akira. She's just Tetsuo.

[@aixaaa_1117]

'Lucy' is so underrated,that movie was amazing

[@sadetwizelve]

2:20 no,Samantha was a specific program designed by humans for one task. THEORY SHOT DOWN

[@ryanellis1708]

Well, it started out strong and it's a fun theory. Dan DID kinda hit the ol' nail though when he said it was falling apart.

[@fozzibab]

Ya'll kind of missed the point of Lucy, I guess. Human Lucy touching Australopithecus Lucy's finger is what sparked sentience in the human race. See, cuz she traveled back in time? Then she travels back to the present and transcends to a higher plane of existence. That kind of skips anything else.

[@handrew311]

I would love for some Reddit'er to take this theory to the extreme of including the entirety of Scarlett Johansson's film career. Using Lucy's time bending abilities one could explain many of her film's as Lucy kinda "Quantum Leaping" around to reconnect with her humanity. Great video as usual!

[@JimRFF]

She mixed up Home Alone and Home Alone 4? GOD, WHAT A BARELY-FUNCTIONING SEMI-HUMAN. ... She does have lovely hair, though. That part was correct.

[@freesheep0]

Rosie should be in more videos ! smart , funny, well articulated, and her hair is cool.

[@ShelJones]

The theory's wrong unfortunately because, if I recall correctly, both films referenced the characters (Lucy and Samantha) reaching the technological singularity. How and why would someone/something reach this singularity twice? You also left out a plot point of Her where it is stated that Samantha was not the only AI.

[@Dee-nonamnamrson8718]

That Lady is freaking adorable.

[@TriggerMaster85]

The obvious sequel to this would be her role in the Avenger's franchise. She comes back from the "outernet' world and manifests herself a body and becomes a superhero.

[@AncientEsper]

yea no,.....she is a lot more than just the internet. she's in a much higher dimension being able to shift through time and be anywhere at anytime. she chose to use technology to communicate with everyone because it's what we can understand but she can probably communicate in ways we wouldn't be able to imagine or comprehend because we are only 3 dimensional objects experiencing the 4th which is time.

[@SSJFro]

"Something stolen, but like similar scary gang people." "That was not even close to a sentence." That part cracked me up XD

[@Aiorus76]

You can also add "Ghost in a Shell" as a sequel to "Her", saying that she comes back as a cyborg, maybe?

[@Stewbular]

I like this premise! But I don't remember HER being evil world destroyer just highly evolved. Of course you have to ignore that Lucy is based on the myth that we only use a small portion of our brains. ScreenWriter thought, research? Before writing, Nah!

[@wweltz]

You did a really great video! I enjoyed it. Make more :)

[@zjpeterson]

She broke Dan with her Home Alone 4 reference.

[@davidmccullough4678]

I don't think she became the internet and I don't think she'll ever come back. Lucy's in the Sky with Diamonds now.

[@hrilmitzh5256]

These 2 work well together. Fingers crossed for more videos with them paired up!

[@existenceisrelative]

I like how they act around each other. That was a good pairing.

[@Bobblehead400]

Fun Stupid Fan Theory of My Own: Kevin Spacey is playing the same character in GlenGarry Glen Ross, The Usual Suspects, and Se7en. He suffers from severe delusions and concocts this story in the criminal underworld after leaving his original job about Keyser Soze, a master criminal boogeyman. That contents him for a while until his secret identities blend together and he goes full on crazy and becomes John Doe in Se7en.

[@spekterg35]

How did you guys miss Under the Skin as a transitional between Lucy and Her. Clearly at some point after Lucy she realized that there was a part of her that needed humans for sustenance (emotional, physical). This plays well with the "needs love/affection part of the theory. There's also a black goop in UTS. I understand that in UTS it shows her perish at the end, but there is no real way of knowing if that was a real death, and it would account nicely for the lack of physical form in Her.

[@spyrofan9681]

I thought the black snow thing was meant to be like a static type thing

[@rundinj]

I was more shocked by the fact that there was a home alone 4, thought it stopped with that kid defending his house with a parrot. Aside from being raised on terrible childhood movies you seem a lovely person.

[@MegaMitchZero]

HOME ALONE 3!

[@Theomite]

HOME ALONE 4 to THE AVENGERS. She really HAS come a long way.

[@Norm604]

Fun theory, but the AI in "Her" had never been human before. That was a main part of the plot. She didn't understand that you couldn't love a bazillion people at the same time when she had the ability to do so.