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Life of Pi (film)
2012 film by Ang Lee
Not to be confused with Pi (film).
Life of Pi is a 2012 adventure-drama film directed and produced by Ang Lee and written by David Magee. Based on Yann Martel's 2001 novel, it stars Suraj Sharma in his film debut, Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Rafe Spall, Gérard Depardieu and Adil Hussain in lead roles. The storyline revolves around two survivors of a shipwreck who are on a lifeboat lost in the Pacific Ocean for 227 days. One is a 16-year-old Indian boy named Pi Patel (Suraj Sharma) and the other is a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
The film began development shortly after the release of the book and would see directors M. Night Shyamalan, Alfonso Cuarón and Jean-Pierre Jeunet involved at various stages before the hiring of Lee. Filming was split between India, Taiwan and Montreal in 2011, with Rhythm & Hues Studios (R&H) handling the visual effects work.
The film had its worldwide premiere as the opening film of the 50th New York Film Festival at both the Walter Reade Theater and Alice Tully Hall in New York City on September 28, 2012. It was theatrically released in the U.S. on November 21 by 20th Century Fox. Life of Pi became a commercial success, having grossed over $609 million, and received generally posi
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Life of Pi: Cat Away
Remember when I wrote about “unfilmable” novels in my review of Cloud Atlas a few weeks ago? Well, Yann Martell’s Life of Pi was supposed to be unfilmable, too — a largely plotless story filled with the philosophical ponderings of a guy drifting at sea for several months. Yet now that novel has been most decisively filmed by Ang Lee. The movie version of Life of Pi ranks with that director’s greatest achievements, and like his other masterpieces, it’s completely different from all of the others.
The hero is 16-year-old Piscine Molitor “Pi” Patel (Suraj Sharma), an eccentrically named boy in Pondicherry, India, whose zoo-owner father (Adil Hussain) fatefully decides to sell his animals and move his family to Canada. En route, the ship carrying Pi’s family and the animals sinks, leaving Pi stranded on a lifeboat with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Quickly this becomes just Pi and Richard Parker, and the boy has to figure out a way to coexist with the large carnivorous cat on that small boat.
Purely as a piece of spectacle, this movie is just glorious. Lee has always had an incredible sense of place, and he does not skimp on the visual pleasures of India in the early parts of the story, like a Diwal
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