Life of Pi (film)

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Pi Life is a 2012 American survival drama based on the 2001 novel Yann Martel of the same name. Directed by Ang Lee, the screenplay adaptation was written by David Magee, and starred Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, Tabu, Adil Hussain, and GÃÆ' Â © rard Depardieu. The story revolves around an Indian man named "Pi" Patel, telling a novelist about his life story, and how at the age of 16 he survived a shipwreck where his family died and floating in the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. The film has premieres around the world as the opening film of the 51st New York Film Festival at Walter Reade Theater and Alice Tully Hall in New York City on September 28, 2012.

Life of Pi emerged as a critical and commercial success, generating over US $ 609 million worldwide. It was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards which included Best Picture - Drama and Best Director and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. At the 85th Academy Awards, he received eleven nominations, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, and won four (at most for the show) including Best Director for Ang Lee.

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Plot

In Canada, novelist Yann Martel meets Pi Patel; Martel has been told that Pi's life story will be a good subject for a book. Pi tells his story to Yann:

Pi's father named him Piscine Molitor after a swimming pool in France. In high school in Pondicherry, he adopted the name "Pi" (Greek letter, ? ) to avoid a nickname similar to "Pissing Patel". He grew up in a Hindu family, but at the age of 12, was introduced to Christianity and then Islam, and decided to follow all three religions because he "just wanted to love God". His mother supported his desire to grow, but his rational father tried to secularize him. The Pi family owns a zoo, and Pi is interested in animals, especially the Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. After Pi approached Richard Parker, his father forced him to watch the tiger kill a goat.

When Pi is 16 years old, his father announces that they must move to Canada, where he intends to settle and sell the animals. Part of a family book with animals on a Japanese freighter. During the storm, the founders of the ship while Pi were on the deck. He tries to find his family, but a crew throws him into a lifeboat. The liberated zebra jumped into the boat with him, breaking his legs. The ship sank into the Mariana Trench. Pi briefly sees what appears to be a survivor, but it turns out Richard Parker.

After the storm, Pi woke up in a lifeboat with zebras, and joined the rich orangutans. The spotted hyena emerges from under the tarpaulin that covers half of the lifeboat and is locked in Pi, forcing it backward to the end of the boat. Hyena kills zebras and then orangutans. Richard Parker emerges from under the tarpaulin, killing the hyena before retreating for cover for several days.

Pi showed off a small raft moored from the flotation vest he was driving to safety from Richard Parker. Although his moral code is against murder, he starts fishing, allowing him to defend the tiger as well. When the tiger jumps into the ocean to hunt the fish and then comes threatening towards Pi, Pi considers letting him drown, but ultimately helps him get back to the boat. One night, a humpback whale crashed near a boat, destroying the raft and its supply. Pi trains Richard Parker to receive him on board, and realizes that taking care of tigers also helps keep him alive.

A few weeks later they found a floating island of interconnected trees. It is a fertile forest of edible plants, freshwater ponds and a large population of meerkats, allowing Pi and Richard Parker to eat and drink freely and regain strength. At night, the island turns into a hostile environment. Richard Parker retreated to the lifeboat while Pi and meerkat slept in the trees; pool water turns to acid, digest the fish in it. Pi concluded that the island is a carnivore after finding human teeth embedded in flowers.

Pi and Richard Parker left the island, finally reaching the coast of Mexico. Pi is sad that Richard Parker did not recognize him before disappearing into the woods. He was saved and taken to the hospital. The insurance agent for the Japanese cargo company interviewed him, but did not believe his story and asked what really happened. He told a different story, where the animals were replaced by survivors: his mother for orangutans, friendly sailors for the zebras, and rough chefs of ships for hyenas. In this story, the cook kills the sailor and eats his flesh. He also killed Pi's mother and subsequently killed her with a knife and used the rest of her food as a food and fish bait. Insurance agents are not satisfied with this story, but they leave without questioning Pi further.

Yann recognizes the alignment between the two stories, noting that in the second, Pi fills the role of the tiger. Pi asked which story the author liked, and Yann chose the first, the Pi answered, "and that's what happened with God". Glancing at a copy of the insurance report, Yann noticed that agents also chose the first story.

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Cast

• Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel
  • Gautam Belur as Pi, age 5
  • Ayush Tandon as Pi, age 11/12
  • Suraj Sharma as Pi, age 16
  • Irrfan Khan as Pi, adult
• Rafe Spall as Yann Martel, the Canadian real-life novelist who wrote the novel Life of Pi
• Tabu as Gita Patel, mother Pi
• Adil Hussain as Santosh Patel, father of Pi
• Ravi Patel, older brother Pi:
  • Ayan Khan as Ravi, age 7
  • Mohamed Abbas Khaleeli as Ravi, ages 13/14
  • Vibish Sivakumar as Ravi, age 18/19
• GÃÆ'Â © rard Depardieu as Cook
• Wang Po-chieh as Sailor
• Jag Huang as Sailor
• Shravanthi Sainath as Anandi, teenage boy Pi
• Andrea Di Stefano as Priest
• Elie Alouf as Francis

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Production

Development

The project has many directors and authors attached, and the Los Angeles Times praises Fox 2000 Pictures executive Elizabeth Elizabeth's executive by keeping the project active. In February 2003, Gabler acquired the project to adapt Life of Pi into a movie. He hired screenwriter Dean Georgaris to write a customized scenario.

The following October, Fox 2000 announced a partnership with M. Night Shyamalan to direct the film. Shyamalan is interested in novels mainly because his main character also comes from Pondicherry in India. The partners anticipate Shyamalan to direct the movie adaptation after completing the The Village . He also replaced Georgaris as a screenwriter, writing a new scenario for the film. Finally, Shyamalan chose to film Lady in the Water after The Village ; he said later, "I hesitate [to direct] because the book has a very complicated ending, and I'm afraid that as soon as you put my name on it, everyone will have a different experience."

In March 2005, Fox 2000 entered talks with Alfonso CuarÃÆ'³n to direct. CuarÃÆ'³n decided to direct Children of Men instead, and in October 2005, Fox 2000 hired Jean-Pierre Jeunet to direct the movie. Jeunet began writing scenarios tailored to Guillaume Laurant, and the filming was scheduled to begin in mid-2006, partly in India. Jeunet finally left the project.

In February 2009, Fox 2000 Pictures hired Ang Lee to direct the film. In May 2010, Lee and producer Gil Netter proposed a reported budget of US $ 120 million, in which the studio balked, putting the project's development on hold for a while. David Magee was hired to write a screenplay, when Lee began spending several months looking for someone to act as Pi. Lee stated that water is the ultimate inspiration behind the 3-D filmmaking: "I think this is a very impossible movie to make technically It's so expensive for what it is You have to disguise philosophical book as an adventure I think about 3-D half a year before 'Avatar' is on screen I think water, with transparency and reflection, that way out for you in 3-D, will create a new theater experience and maybe the audience or studio will open their minds a bit to accept something different. "After the premiere of the film, Lee stated that his desire to take risks and opportunities helps with his direction, saying" In a strange way it feels like we are a ship, we have to surrender to the movie deity.We should let things happen. this feeling, I'm going to follow this kid wherever this movie takes me.I see the movie begin to unravel in front of me. "

Pre-production and transmission

After 3,000 youth auditioned for the film lead, in October 2010 Lee threw Suraj Sharma, a 17-year-old student and a newcomer who acted. After receiving the role, Sharma underwent extensive training in ocean survival, as well as in yoga and meditation exercises to prepare for his role. Two months after Sharma was cast, it was announced that GÃÆ' Â © rard Depardieu will play the role of Cook, Irrfan Khan will play the adult Pi, Adil Hussain will play Pi's father, while Tabu is in talks to play the role of Pi's mother.

Canadian child actor Rajiv Surendra, best known at the time for a small part in Mean Girls, was one of the auditions for the role of Pi. In 2016, he published The Elephants in My Backyard , a memoir of a failed campaign to win that part. In an interview with the Deccan Chronicle in 2017, American actor, Naren Weiss, revealed that he also failed to audition for the role of Pi.

In April 2011, it was announced that Tobey Maguire would join the film in a role originally referred to as "a reporter." However, in September 2012, it was announced that Lee had cut Maguire from the film. He confirmed the cuts by stating that he did "to be consistent with the other casting choices made for the film, I decided to go with a full international player." Like Shahrukh Khan, Lee describes Maguire's presence as well as being "too recognizable." He re-recorded the scene with Rafe Spall in the true bookwriter role.

Filming

The subject of photography for the film begins on January 18, 2011 at Puducherry in the Holy Rosary Church at Muthialpet. Filming continued in Puducherry until 31 January and moved to other parts of India, including the famous Munnar hill station in Kerala, and Taiwan. The crew was filmed in Taiwan for five and a half months at the Taipei Zoo, an airport in Taichung, and Kenting National Park, located in Pingtung County where Lee was born. The film's ocean scenes were shot in a giant waves tank built by the crew at an abandoned airport. This tank is known as the world's largest self-contained wave tank, with a capacity of 1.7 million gallons. With production scheduled for the last two and a half months in the tank, cinematographer Claudio Miranda helps in tank design to get the best out of it for illumination, explaining, "We knew we'd be in there shooting for 2.5 months, so it was worth it can do anything we want.At all these types of scenes we have an idea of ​​what the weather looks like In that tank I can make a storm cloud, night We have a curtain I can block [light], door to open and let real sunlight, "Miranda said. "So, the lighting, [the film] has huge ups and downs." After photography finished in Taiwan, production was moved back to India and ended in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Postproduction

The main visual effects company for Life of Pi is Rhythm & amp; Hues Studios (R & amp; H). The 3D effect for this movie is made by a team of R & H in Los Angeles, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kuala Lumpur, Vancouver and Kaohsiung.

The R & amp; H VFX (Visual Effect) Supervisor Bill Westenhofer said that the project discussions started with Ang Lee in August 2009. Westenhofer noted that Lee "knew we had done a lion in the first Narnia movie.He asked, 'Does the digital character look more or less real in 3D? 'We looked at each other and thought that was a pretty good question. "He also stated that during this meeting, Lee said,"' I hope to make art with you. ' This is really for me, one of the most valuable things I do and the first opportunity to truly combine art with VFX.Every shooting is an artistic exploration, to create a sea character and make it interesting, we must strive to make it a stunning visual maybe. "Rhythm & amp; Hues spent a year on research and development, "building on an extensive knowledge of CG animation" to develop tigers. The British Film Institute Sights & amp; Sound suggests that, "Life of Pi can be seen as a Rhythm & amp; Hues film has evolved over the years, taking on the things they learned from each production from > Cats & Dogs for Yogi Bear , integrating their animals in various situations and environments, encouraging them to do more, and understanding how all of this works out visually and dramatically. "

Artist Abdul Rahman in the Malaysian branch underscores the global nature of the securities process, saying that "the special thing about Life of Pi is that this is our first time doing something called remote rendering, where we are involved in cloud infrastructure we are in Taiwan called CAVE (Cloud Animation and Visual Effects). "

Additional visual studio effects working on the film include MPC, yU co, Buf, Crazy Horse Effects, Look Effects, Christov Effects, Lola VFX, Reliance Mediaworks, and Stereo D.

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Music

The film's music score was composed by Mychael Danna, who previously wrote music for Lee's The Ice Storm and Ride with the Devil movies. The music soundtrack album was released by Sony Classical Records on November 16, 2012. The album featured the song "Pi's Lullaby", co-written by Danna and Bombay Jayashri, who performed the song in Tamil.

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Distribution

Marketing

Due to the movie holiday release, Life of Pi ' has been successful in review. Dorothy Pomerantz of Forbes said, "It looks like a very slim possibility that the movie will re-produce its production and marketing costs, let alone make a profit." Pomerantz attributes this to the fact that the film is not led by a big name star and is dealing with other winter bestselling films. John Horn and Ben Fritz from The Los Angeles Times compared the film to the movie Martin Scorsese Hugo , a great budget 3D movie that opened during Thanksgiving week 2011. They said that Life of Pi can end up like Hugo by "failing to connect with cinema audiences" and becoming "financial failure." Similar speculations have been made by other news sources.

Whether Hurricane Sandy will affect the film's publicity is also a question. Because the film covers a major storm, it is speculated that recent storms could result in lower box office revenues due to accidental tone of Sandy's destruction. A Fox spokeswoman noted that there were no plans to change the movie marketing approach.

During the marketing campaign for Life of Pi , the movie was promoted as "next Avatar " in the trailer and TV spot. James Cameron, director of Avatar , later became the subject of two featurettes that focus on 3D movies and computer-generated imagery. In addition, the original novel was re-released in the tie-in film edition. This was then followed by the release of Pi Pi: Film, Travel, a book by Jean-Christophe Castelli detailing how Life Pi was taken. to the big screen.

Cinema release

Life of Pi has a wide release in the United States on November 21, 2012 in traditional and 3D display formats. Originally scheduled to be released on December 14, 2012, but when The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is announced for the same release date, Life of Pi is delayed a week. It then shifted a month earlier.

Home media

Life of Pi is released on DVD, Blu-ray, and Blu-ray 3D in North America, on March 12, 2013. The 2D Blu-ray release of this movie contains many special features, including one- making custom watches titled Filmmaker Epic Trip , two featurettes that focus on the visual effects of the movie, as well as two behind-the-scenes look at storyboard art and pre-production artwork. In addition, the release of 3D Blu-ray movies contains five deleted scenes and a featurette titled VFX Progressions that sees what is taken and how it evolves into what is displayed on the screen. The film was later released on 4K UHD on March 8, 2016

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Reception

box office

On May 8, 2013, Life of Pi has earned US $ 124,772,844 in North America, and US $ 484,029,542 in other countries, totaling worldwide US $ 609,006,177. During the opening weekend of an extended Thanksgiving weekend, the film debuted at 2,902 theaters across the United States and Canada and earned US $ 30,573,101. In mainland China, from November 22 to December 24, the film topped the box office for three weeks, earning more than $ 91 million. On January 24, 2013, it also occupied the box office for three weeks in Australia, Chile, and four weeks in Mexico and Peru. The film became Hollywood's biggest hit of the year in India and is also expected to become the third-time grossing Hollywood movie of all time in the country behind Avatar and 2012 . Life of Pi has received HK $ 45,058,653 (US $ 5.8 million) at the Hong Kong box office, making it Ang Lee's best-selling film in Hong Kong.

Critical response

Life of Pi received a very positive review, with praise directed at visual effects, Ang Lee's directives, David Magee's scenario, music score of Mychael Danna, and edits. It has an 87% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes' review aggregator website based on 232 reviews with an average rating of 7.9/10. The consensus reads "A 3D adaptation of a book that should" be unpicked ", Ang Lee's Life of Pi reaches almost impossible - this is a stunning technical achievement that also rewards emotionally. " At Metacritic, the film had an average score of 79 out of 100, based on 44 reviews, showing "generally favorable reviews."

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave Life of Pi 4 of 4 stars, calling it "the amazing achievement of storytelling and visual mastery" as well as "one of the best films This year." He specifically praised the use of 3D movies that he described as "deepening the taste and place of the movie." Relatively, Peter Travers from Rolling Stone highlights the use of 3D in movies that shows that "like Hugo , from Martin Scorsese, Life of Pi puts 3D in the hands of a world-class film artist. (Ang) Lee uses 3D with the delights and lyrics of the poet.You do not just watch this movie, you live it. "Parmita Borah from Eastern Fare says:" There is one scene in particular where the entire ocean is covered with jelly fish that makes you feel like 'this is what heaven should look like'. "

Los Angeles Times Critics Betsy Sharkey calls this film a "masterpiece", stating that

There is always a poetic aesthetic that Lee brings to his best work - the ballet of brutal martial arts Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or homophobic hatred against the majesty of Inland Brokeback Mountain, which will make him win an Oscar for directing in 2006. In Life of Pi, of course delivering its technological achievements, filmmakers have improved the standards. Not since James Cameron's blue Avatar in 2009 had 3-D having such an impact.

In an interview with Los Angeles Times , Cameron himself highlighted the use of 3D movies, noting that

Life of Pi breaks the paradigm that 3-D should be a big action fantasy spectacle, superhero movie [....] The film is visually amazing, inventive, and works on you in a way you do not really conscious. It takes you on a journey, and unless you've read a book - which I do not - you do not know where the journey is taking place. It does what a good 3-D is supposed to do, allowing you to forget you're watching a 3-D movie.

According to French journalist Marjolaine Gout, the film is "a philosophical tale in which Noah's Ark metamorphosed into 'Medusa Raft'". He added that it was a "visual masterpiece" in which "Ang Lee proves, once again, his talent as a universal narrator". He also wrote about the visual poetry of the film that reminds viewers of the works of classical painters and symbols of the ponds. The film got 8 out of 10 stars, the readers gave 7 stars.

Yann Martel, the novel writer who became the basis of this film, found the film as a "fun" adaptation, saying,

I'm glad it worked really well as a movie. Even if the ending is not ambiguous as the book, it is likely that there may be other versions of Pi's story coming to you unexpectedly and raising the same important question of truth, perception, and belief.

AO Scott from The New York Times criticized the frame of the film's narrative, arguing that "movies invite you to believe in all kinds of amazing things, but it can also cause you to doubt what you see with your own eyes - or even wonder if, in the end, you have seen something. "Scott further criticized the film for suppressing the dark themes of the story. Nick Schager from The Village Voice also highlighted a movie stating "a theological investigation of the piles filtered through Titanic - by Slumdog Millionaire i> narrative, Life of Pi organizes occasional spiritual wonders through 3-D visuals but instead sinks like a rock. "Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian delivers 2 of 5 stars, and states" despite some beautiful pictures and effects eyepopping, it is a shaggy-shallow or self-important dog story - or shaggy-tiger story [....] Worth every technical prize. "

Richard Corliss from Time chose this movie as the third best movie of 2012, and called it the next Avatar.

The film is portrayed as "a delicate artistic warning" about the dangers of rising anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions and ocean acidification, the acidic island of Pi and Richard Parker compared to Castello Aragonese in the Tyrrhenian Sea near Naples and the final of Richard Parker. dismissal stop representing "Gaia's not-so-pleasant face (see Gaia's hypothesis)."

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Rhythm & amp; Kontroversi Hues Studios

Despite Oscars for Best Visual Effects at the 2013 Academy Awards, Rhythm & amp; Hues Studios (which provides most of the visual effects for the film) were forced to file bankruptcy on February 11, 2013, on the grounds of unhealthy competition from the subsidized and tax-free foreign studios. This sparked a demonstration of nearly 500 VFX artists who protested outside the Academy Awards 2013. Inside, during the Oscars, when R & H visual effects watcher Bill Westenhofer raised R & amp; H during his acceptance speech for Life of Pi, the microphone was disconnected. It started a ruckus among many professionals of the visual effects industry, changing profile pictures in social media like Facebook and Twitter to show the green key colors, to raise awareness of what happens to the securities industry. In addition, director Ang Lee was criticized by protest leaders for his failure to thank the securities industry. "Ang thanks the crew, the actor, his agent, his lawyers, and the entire population of Taiwan to the team that built waves-the pool on the soundstage where Pi was shot , but failed to mention hundreds of artists who made not only the main character of the tiger, but replaced the pool, making it look like a real ocean for 80% of the film. "He was also criticized for previously complaining about the cost of the visual effects. In February 2014, Christina Lee Storm and Scott Leberecht released the documentary Life After Pi to YouTube. The documentary explains the role of Rhythm & amp; Colors are played in Life of Pi and the bankruptcy of the consequences. Bill Westenhofer also discussed his experience at Oscars when he received the Visual Effects award for Rhythm & amp; The work of Hue on Life of Pi .

A belief named after Carnatic musician Irayimman Thampi accused the Oscar Bomb nomination song "Pi's Lullaby" not to be an original composition. The belief alleges that the first eight lines of the song were a word-for-word translation of the famous song song composer Thampi in Malayalam Omanathinkal Kidavo . Jayashri denied the allegations.

Allegations of animal abuse

A 2013 investigation by Hollywood Reporter revealed a leaked email showing that the animals involved in the filming of Life of Pi had been mistreated during filming despite the American Humane Association's "No Animals Were Harmed" certification in the film. In an ACA monitor April 7, 2011, Gina Johnson, wrote that "last week we almost killed the King." Emails continue to show that the incident, where the tiger seems to be nearly drowned while filming the scene, will be "underestimated" in the official report to the ACA. In addition, exposure states that Johnson was involved in a romantic relationship with one of the film's producers, possibly representing a conflict of interest. Life director Pi, Ang Lee described the allegations of animal torture as an "accident" in the interview. After the publication of the Hollywood Reporter's investigation, Gina Johnson resigned from her position with the ACA.

The new animal welfare issue was raised in 2015 when PETA released a video that appeared to show Life of Pi animal trainer Michael Hackenberger swears and whipped a 19-year-old tiger. In April 2016, the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty Animals filed animal cruelty charges against Hackenberger based on video evidence.

Accolades

Life of Pi was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won four (more than any other film from 2012): Best Director (Ang Lee), Best Cinematography (Claudio Miranda), Best Visual Effects (Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan de Boer and Donald R. Elliott) and Best Original Score (Mychael Danna). It was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and won for the Best Original Score. The film also won awards for cinematography, film editing, sound effects and original scores at several other award ceremonies. In addition to Academy Award, Ang Lee won the best director award from Kansas City, Las Vegas, and London Film Critics. The film was awarded Best Picture by the Las Vegas Film Critics Society and was named one of the top ten films of the year by New York Film Critics and Southeastern Film Critics.

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See also

• Film survival, about the genre of the movie, with a list of related movies

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References

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External links

• Official website
• Pi Life on IMDb
• Pi Life at AllMovie
• Pi Life at Rotten Tomatoes
• Pi Life in Metacritic
• Pi Life in Box Office Mojo

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