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        superbly believable acting from the whole cast bolstered by the amazing less is more approach to the... i can't belive i'm saying this... beautiful CGI. the only ang lee reel i've liked. considering it was well hyped up i was pleasantly surprised.

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        Une histoire magnifique, des images extraordinaires, de bons acteurs ... rien de mieux pour une r\u00c3 (C)ussite incomparable. Certains trouveront le film un peu long, mais \u00c3\u00a7a en vaut la peine!!!

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        Beautiful... Just beautiful. Ang Lee brings to life one of my favorite books and does it with such passion and determination. This adaptation, thought to be "unfilmable", achieves wonders in 3D and visual effects, as well as emotional story telling and great time first performance by Suraj Sharma.

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        Honestly, I read the book long ago before I watch this movie and when I heard that 'Life of Pi' will be made into a movie my question were : how can a boring book turned into a movie that will drawn the audiences' attention? But after I heard a lot of positive reviews on this movie, I was tempted to watch this movie.. And after I spent almost 2 hours watching this movie, I must gave a big two thumbs up to Ang Lee for making a beautiful visualization of this novel.. Suraj Sharma also make a great and quite impressive performance for his Hollywood debut performance as Pi Patel.. Overall, the Oscars that this movie got shows us how great the quality of this movie had..

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      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 of the same name, it stars Suraj Sharma in his film debut, Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Rafe Spall, G\u00e9rard Depardieu and Adil Hussain in lead roles. The storyline revolves around two survivors of a shipwreck who are on a lifeboat stranded in the Pacific Ocean for 227 days. One is a sixteen-year-old Indian boy named Pi Patel (Suraj Sharma) and the other is a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.\n

      The film began development shortly after the release of the book and would see directors M. Night Shyamalan, Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n 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.\n

      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 positive reviews from critics, who praised Lee's direction, the screenplay, the editing, the music, the sound design and especially the effects and the cinematography. It was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards, including Best Picture \u2013 Drama and Best Director, and won for Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. At the 85th Academy Awards, it had eleven nominations, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, and won four, including Best Director for Ang Lee.\n

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      In Canada, a writer meets Pi Patel, who he has been told would be a good subject for a book. Pi tells the writer the following story:\n

      Pi's father names him Piscine Molitor Patel after Piscine Molitor, a famous French swimming pool. In secondary school in Pondicherry, he adopts the Greek letter \"Pi\" as his nickname to avoid bullying. He is raised in a polytheistic Hindu family, but at 12 years old, he is introduced to Christianity and then Islam, and decides to follow all three religions as he \"just wants to love God\". \n

      Pi's mother supports his desire to grow, but his rationalist father tries to secularize him. Their family owns a zoo, and Pi takes interest in a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. After he gets dangerously close to Richard Parker, his father forces him to witness it killing a goat.\n

      When Pi is 16, his father announces that due to \"The Emergency\", they must move to Canada, where he intends to settle and sell the animals. The family books passage with the animals on a Japanese freighter. During a storm, the ship founders while Pi is on deck. He struggles to find his family, but a crewman throws him into a lifeboat. A freed plains zebra jumps onto the boat with him, breaking its leg. The ship sinks into the Mariana Trench, drowning his family. \n

      After the storm, Pi awakens in the lifeboat with the zebra and is joined by a bornean orangutan. A spotted hyena emerges from under a tarpaulin, forcing Pi to retreat to the end of the boat. The hyena kills the zebra and later the orangutan. Richard Parker suddenly comes out from under the tarpaulin, killing the hyena before retreating back to cover.\n

      Pi fashions a small raft which he tethers to the lifeboat to be safe from Richard Parker. Despite his moral code against killing, he begins fishing, enabling him to sustain the tiger. When the tiger jumps into the sea to hunt for fish and then swims toward Pi, he considers letting him drown, but ultimately helps him into the boat. One night, a humpback whale destroys the raft and its supplies. Pi trains Richard Parker to accept him in the boat and realizes that caring for the tiger is helping to keep himself alive.\n

      Weeks later, they encounter a floating island. It is a lush jungle of edible plants, freshwater pools and a large population of meerkats, enabling Pi and Richard Parker to eat, drink and regain strength. At night, the island transforms into a hostile environment. Richard Parker retreats to the lifeboat while Pi and the meerkats sleep in the trees; the water pools turn acidic. Pi deduces that the island is carnivorous after finding a human tooth embedded in a flower.\n

      Pi and Richard Parker leave the island, reaching Mexico after over 200 days at sea. Pi is heartbroken that Richard Parker does not acknowledge him before disappearing into the jungle. While he recovers in a hospital, insurance agents for the Japanese freighter company interview him, but do not believe his story and ask what really happened, specifically concerning why the ship sank. \n

      So Pi retells the story, in which the animals are replaced by humans: his mother for the orangutan, an amiable Buddhist sailor for the zebra, the ship's brutish cook for the hyena, and Pi himself for Richard Parker. The cook kills the sailor and feeds on his flesh. He then kills Pi's mother, after which Pi kills him and uses his remains as food and fish bait. The insurance agents are dissatisfied with this story but leave without questioning him further.\n

      When the writer recognizes the animal story may be an allegory for the human story, Pi says that it does not matter which story is true because his family died either way, and neither story provides the explanation the insurance company wanted. He asks which story the author prefers, and the author chooses the first, to which Pi replies, \"and so it goes with God\". Glancing at a copy of the insurance report, the writer reads that Pi survived his adventure \"in the company of an adult Bengal tiger.\"\n

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      I wanted to use water because the film is talking about faith, and it contains fish, life and every emotion for Pi. And air is God, heaven and something spiritual and death. That's how I see it. I believe the thing we call faith or God is our emotional attachment to the unknown. I'm Chinese; I believe in the Taoist Buddha. We don't talk about a deity, which is very much like this book; we're not talking about religion but God in the abstract sense, something to overpower you.\n

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      \u2014Ang Lee, on the use of water and the spiritual element of Life of Pi, November 17, 2012.[3]

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      The project had numerous directors and writers attached, and the Los Angeles Times credited Fox 2000 Pictures executive Elizabeth Gabler with keeping the project active.[4] In February 2003 Gabler acquired the project to adapt Life of Pi into a film. She hired screenwriter Dean Georgaris to write a screenplay.\n

      The following October, Fox 2000 announced a partnership with M. Night Shyamalan to direct the film. Shyamalan was attracted to the novel particularly because its main character also comes from Pondicherry in India. The partners anticipated for Shyamalan to direct the film adaptation after completing The Village. He also replaced Georgaris as the screenwriter, writing a new screenplay for the film.[5] Ultimately, Shyamalan chose to film Lady in the Water after The Village; he said later, \"I was hesitant [to direct] because the book has kind of a twist ending. And I was concerned that as soon as you put my name on it, everybody would have a different experience.\"[6]\n

      In March 2005, Fox 2000 entered talks with Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n to direct.[7] Cuar\u00f3n decided to direct Children of Men instead, and in October 2005, Fox 2000 hired Jean-Pierre Jeunet to direct the film. Jeunet began writing the screenplay with Guillaume Laurant, and filming was scheduled to begin in mid-2006, partially in India.[8] Jeunet eventually left the project.[9]\n

      In February 2009, Fox 2000 Pictures hired Ang Lee to direct the film.[10] In May 2010, Lee and the producer Gil Netter proposed a reported budget of US$120 million, at which the studio balked, placing the project's development on hold for a short time.[4] David Magee was hired to write the screenplay, as Lee began to spend several months looking for someone to cast as Pi. Lee stated that water was a major inspiration behind making the film in 3-D: \"I thought this was a pretty impossible movie to make technically. It's so expensive for what it is. You sort of have to disguise a philosophical book as an adventure story. I thought of 3-D half a year before 'Avatar' was on the screen. I thought water, with its transparency and reflection, the way it comes out to you in 3-D, would create a new theatrical experience and maybe the audience or the studio would open up their minds a little bit to accept something different.\"[3] Following the premiere of the film, Lee stated that his desire to take risks and chances helped with his direction, saying \"In a strange way it did feel like we're the vessels, we have to surrender to movie god. We have to let things happen. I just had this feeling, I'll follow this kid to wherever this movie takes me. I saw the movie start to unravel in front of me.\"[11]\n

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      After 3,000 young men auditioned for the film's lead, in October 2010 Lee cast Suraj Sharma, a 17-year-old student and an acting newcomer.[12] Upon receiving the role, Sharma underwent extensive training in ocean survival, as well as in yoga and meditation practices to prepare for the part.[13] Two months after Sharma was cast, it was announced that G\u00e9rard Depardieu would play the role of the Cook, Irrfan Khan would play the adult Pi, and Adil Hussain would play Pi's father, while Tabu was in talks to play the role of Pi's mother.[14]\n

      Canadian actor Rajiv Surendra, who had played a small part in Mean Girls, was one of the auditioners for the role of Pi. In 2016, he published The Elephants in My Backyard, a memoir of his failed campaign to win the part.[15] In an interview with Deccan Chronicle in 2017, American actor Naren Weiss revealed that he too unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of Pi.[16]\n

      In April 2011, it was announced that Tobey Maguire would be joining the film in the role originally referred to as \"a reporter.\"[17] However, in September 2012, it was announced that Lee had cut Maguire from the film. He justified the cut by stating that he did it \"to be consistent with the other casting choices made for the film, I decided to go with an entirely international cast.\"[18] Like Shahrukh Khan, Lee described Maguire's presence also as \"too jarringly recognizable.\" He reshot the scenes with Rafe Spall in the role of the book's actual author.[18]\n

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      Principal photography for the film began on January 18, 2011, in Puducherry at the Holy Rosary Church in Muthialpet. Filming continued in Puducherry until January 31 and moved to other parts of India, including Munnar in Kerala, as well as Taiwan. The crew filmed in Taiwan for five and a half months in Taipei Zoo, an airport in Taichung, and Kenting National Park, located in Pingtung County where Lee was born.[19][20] The ocean scenes of the film were shot at a giant wave tank built by the crew in an abandoned airport.[21] The tank is known as the world's largest self-generating wave tank, with a capacity of 1.7 million gallons.[22] With production scheduled to last two and a half months at the tank, cinematographer Claudio Miranda assisted in the tank's design in order to get the most out of it for lighting, explaining, \"We knew we were going to be inside there shooting for 2.5 months, so it was worth it to be able to do anything we want. On all these kind of scenes, we had an idea of what the weather would be like. In that tank, I can create storm clouds, nightfall. We had curtains that I can block out [light], doors to open and let in real sunlight,\" Miranda says. \"So lighting-wise, [the movie] had a big ebb and flow.\"[23] After photography was completed in Taiwan, production moved back to India and concluded in Montreal into early 2012.[12]\n

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      The lead visual effects company for Life of Pi was Rhythm & Hues Studios (R&H). 3D effects for the film were created by a team of R&H artists in Los Angeles, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kuala Lumpur, Vancouver and Kaohsiung.[24][25][26][27][28][29]\n

      The R&H VFX supervisor Bill Westenhofer said that discussions of the project began with Ang Lee in August 2009.[30][31] Westenhofer noted that Lee \"knew we had done the lion in the first Narnia movie. He asked, 'Does a digital character look more or less real in 3D?' We looked at each other and thought that was a pretty good question.\"[32] He also stated that during these meetings, Lee said, \"'I look forward to making art with you.' This was really for me one of the most rewarding things I've worked on and the first chance to really combine art with VFX. Every shot was artistic exploration, to make the ocean a character and make it interesting we had to strive to make it as visually stunning as possible.\"[33] Rhythm & Hues spent a year on research and development, \" building upon its already vast knowledge of CG animation\" to develop the tiger.[34] The British Film Institute's Sight & Sound magazine suggested that, \"Life of Pi can be seen as the film Rhythm & Hues has been building up to all these years, by taking things they learned from each production from Cats & Dogs to Yogi Bear, integrating their animals in different situations and environments, pushing them to do more, and understanding how all of this can succeed both visually and dramatically.\"[35]\n

      Artist Abdul Rahman in the Malaysian branch underscored the global nature of the effects process, saying that \"the special thing about Life of Pi is that it was the first time we did something called remote rendering, where we engaged our cloud infrastructure in Taiwan called CAVE (Cloud Animation and Visual Effects).\"[36]\n

      Additional visual effects studios that worked on the film include MPC, yU+co, Buf, Crazy Horse Effects, Look Effects, Christov Effects, Lola VFX, Reliance Mediaworks, and Stereo D.[33]\n

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      The film's musical score was composed by Mychael Danna, who previously wrote the music to Lee's films The Ice Storm and Ride with the Devil. A soundtrack album of the music was released by Sony Classical Records on 16 November 2012.[37] The album features the track \"Pi's Lullaby\", which was co-written by Danna and Bombay Jayashri, who performs the song in Tamil.[38]\n

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      Due to the film's holiday release, Life of Pi's financial success was uncertain. Dorothy Pomerantz of Forbes said, \"It looks like chances are very slim that the film will earn back its production and marketing costs let alone turn a profit.\"[39] Pomerantz attributed this to the fact that film was not led by a big name star and faced other winter blockbusters.[39] John Horn and Ben Fritz of the Los Angeles Times compared the film to Martin Scorsese's Hugo, a large-budget 3D film that opened during the 2011 Thanksgiving week. They said that Life of Pi could have ended up like Hugo by \"failing to connect with moviegoers\" and become a \"financial failure\".[40] Similar speculation had been made by other news sources.[41][42]\n

      Whether or not Hurricane Sandy would affect the film's publicity was also a question. Because the film includes a massive storm, it was speculated that the recent storm might result in lower box office revenue due to the unintentional overtones of Sandy's devastation. A Fox spokesperson made note that there were no plans to change the film's marketing approach.[43]\n

      During the marketing campaign for Life of Pi, the film was promoted as \"the next Avatar\" in trailers and TV spots.[44] James Cameron, the director of Avatar, later became the subject of two featurettes that focus on the film's 3D and computer-generated imagery.[45] In addition, the original novel was re-released in a movie tie-in edition.[46] This was later followed by the release of The Making of Life of Pi: A Film, a Journey, a book by Jean-Christophe Castelli that details how Life of Pi was brought to the big screen.[47]\n

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      Life of Pi had a wide release in the United States on November 21, 2012, in both traditional and 3D viewing formats. It was originally scheduled to be released on December 14, 2012, but when The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was announced for the same release date, Life of Pi was postponed a week. It was then shifted a month in advance.[48]\n

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      Life of Pi was released on DVD, Blu-ray, and Blu-ray 3D in North America, on March 12, 2013.[49] The film's 2D Blu-ray release contains many special features, including a one-hour making-of special entitled A Filmmaker's Epic Journey and two featurettes focusing on the film's visual effects, as well as two behind-the-scene looks at storyboarding and pre-production artwork. In addition, the film's 3D Blu-ray release contains five deleted scenes and a featurette entitled VFX Progressions that takes a look at what was shot and how it evolved to be what was rendered on screen.[50] The film was later released on 4K Blu-ray and digital copy on March 8, 2016.[51]\n

      In the United Kingdom, it was the eighth best-selling film of 2013 on physical home video formats.[52]\n

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      As of May 8, 2013[update], Life of Pi had grossed US$124,772,844 in North America, and US$484,029,542 in other countries, for a worldwide total of US$609,006,177.[53] During its opening on the extended Thanksgiving weekend, the film debuted in 2,902 theaters throughout the United States and Canada and grossed US$30,573,101.[54] On the Chinese mainland, from November 22 to December 24,[55] the film topped the box office for three weeks,[56] and grossed over US$91 million.[57] As of January 24, 2013[update], it had also topped the box office for three weeks in Australia and Chile,[58][59] and four weeks in Mexico[60] and Peru.[61] The film became the highest-grossing Hollywood film of the year in India,[62][63] and was the tenth highest-grossing Hollywood release in the country.[64] Life of Pi has earned HK$45,058,653 (US$5.8 million) at the Hong Kong box office, making it the highest grossing Ang Lee film in Hong Kong.[65] In the United Kingdom and Ireland, it grossed \u00a328.7 million (US$45.34 million) by February 2013. At the annual 2012 UK and Ireland box office, it was the year's eighth highest-grossing film, third highest-grossing 3D film, highest-grossing adventure film, and highest-grossing PG-rated film.[66]\n

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      Life of Pi has an 86% approval rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 253 reviews with an average rating of 7.90/10. The website's critical consensus reads, \"A 3D adaptation of a supposedly \"unfilmable\" book, Ang Lee's Life of Pi achieves the near impossible \u2013 it's an astonishing technical achievement that's also emotionally rewarding.\"[67] On Metacritic, the film has an average score of 79 out of 100, based on 44 reviews, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\".[68] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"A-\" on an A+ to F scale.[69]\n

      Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave Life of Pi four stars out of four, referring to it as \"a miraculous achievement of storytelling and a landmark of visual mastery\" as well as \"one of the best films of the year\".[70] He particularly praised the film's use of 3D that he described as \"deepen[ing] the film's sense of places and events\".[70] Similarly, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone highlighted the use of 3D in the film suggesting that \"like Hugo, from Martin Scorsese, Life of Pi puts 3D in the hands of a worldclass film artist. (Ang) Lee uses 3D with the delicacy and lyricism of a poet. You don't just watch this movie, you live it.\"[71] Parmita Borah of Eastern Fare says, \"There is this one scene in particular where the entire ocean is covered with jelly fish which makes you feel like 'this is what heaven must look like'.\"[72]\n

      The Los Angeles Times critic Betsy Sharkey referred to the film as a \"masterpiece\", stating that:\n

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      There is always a poetic aesthetic that Lee brings to his best work \u2013 the brutal martial arts ballet of or the homophobic hatred against the backcountry grandeur of Brokeback Mountain, which would win him an Oscar for directing in 2006. In Life of Pi, certainly given its technological achievements, the filmmaker has raised the bar. Not since James Cameron's breathtaking blue Avatar in 2009 has 3-D had such impact.[73]

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      Life of Pi breaks the paradigm that 3-D has to be some big, action fantasy spectacle, superhero movie ... The movie is visually amazing, inventive, and it works on you in ways you're not really aware of. It takes you on a journey, and unless you've read the book \u2013 which I hadn't \u2013 you have no idea where that journey is going. It does what good 3-D is supposed to do, which is, it allows you to forget you're watching a 3-D movie.[74]

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      According to French journalist Marjolaine Gout, the film is \"a philosophical tale where Noah's Ark metamorphoses into The Raft of the Medusa\". She adds that it is \"a visual masterpiece\" in which \"Ang Lee proves, once again, his talent as a universal storyteller\".[75] She also writes about the visual poetry of the movie reminding viewers of the works of classical painters and the symbolism of kolams. The film got 8 out of 10 stars, the readers gave 7 stars.[75]\n

      The novel's author, Yann Martel, found the film to be a \"delightful\" adaptation, saying,\n

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      I'm happy it works so well as a film. Even if the ending is not as ambiguous as the book's, the possibility that there might be another version of Pi's story comes at you unexpectedly and raises the same important questions about truth, perception and belief.[76]

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      A. O. Scott of The New York Times was critical of the film's narrative frame, arguing that \"the movie invites you to believe in all kinds of marvelous things, but it also may cause you to doubt what you see with your own eyes \u2013 or even to wonder if, in the end, you have seen anything at all\".[77] Scott further criticized the film for repressing the darker themes of the tale.[77] Nick Schager of The Village Voice also panned the film, stating: \"A stacked-deck theological inquiry filtered through a Titanic-by-way-of\u2013Slumdog Millionaire narrative, Life of Pi manages occasional spiritual wonder through its 3-D visuals but otherwise sinks like a stone\".[78] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film 2 out of 5 stars, and states \"despite some lovely images and those eyepopping effects, it is a shallow and self-important shaggy-dog story \u2013 or shaggy-tiger story ... It deserves every technical prize going.\"[79]\n

      Richard Corliss of Time selected the film as the third-best movie of 2012, as well as calling it the next Avatar.[80]\n

      The film was noted for containing a \"subtle, artistic warning\" about the dangers of increased anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions and ocean acidification. The scene of the acidic island Pi and Richard Parker encounter saw comparison to Castello Aragonese in the Tyrrhenian Sea near Naples and Richard Parker's final dismissive departure representing the \"not too pleasant face of Gaia.\"[81]\n

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      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).[82][83][84] It was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and won for Best Original Score.[85]\n

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      An allegation was made that the Oscar nominated song \"Pi's Lullaby\", performed and co-written by Bombay Jayashri, used compositions by Irayimman Thampi. Jayashri denied the allegation.
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      Despite winning the Oscar for Best Visual Effects at the 2013 Academy Awards, Rhythm & Hues Studios (who provided most of the visual effects for the film) was forced to file for bankruptcy on February 11, 2013, citing unfair competition from subsidized and tax exempt foreign studios.[86] This sparked a demonstration of nearly 500 VFX artists who protested outside the 2013 Academy Awards.[87] Inside, during the Oscars, when R&H visual effects supervisor Bill Westenhofer brought up R&H during his acceptance speech, the microphone was cut off.[88] This started an uproar among many visual effects industry professionals, changing profile pictures on social media such as Facebook and Twitter to show the green key color, in order to raise awareness for the issues the industry was facing.[89] In addition, director Ang Lee was criticized by the protest leader for his failure to thank the effect industry, \"Ang thanked the crew, the actors, his agent, his lawyer and the entire population of Taiwan right down to the team that built the wave-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 that pool, making it look like a real ocean for 80% of his movie.\"[90] He was also criticized for earlier complaining about the costs of visual effects.[90][91] In February 2014, Christina Lee Storm and Scott Leberecht released the documentary Life After Pi to YouTube.[92] The documentary details the role Rhythm & Hues played in Life of Pi as well as the consequent bankruptcy. Bill Westenhofer also discusses his experience at the Oscars as he accepted a Visual Effects award for Rhythm & Hues' work on Life of Pi.[93][94][95][96]\n

      A trust named after Carnatic musician Irayimman Thampi has accused Bombay Jayashri's Oscar-nominated song \"Pi's Lullaby\" of not being an original composition.[97] The trust has alleged that the first eight lines of the song is a word-by-word translation of composer Thampi's lullaby in Malayalam \"Omanathinkal Kidavo\".[98] Jayashri has denied the allegation.[97][99][100] Earlier, Jayashri had used Thampi's lullaby in her Album named 'Vatsalyam', released in 2003.[101][102]\n

      A 2013 investigation by the Hollywood Reporter brought to light leaked emails suggesting that animals involved in the filming of Life of Pi had been mistreated during the filming despite the American Humane Association's \"No Animals Were Harmed\" certification on the film.[103][104][105] In an April 7, 2011, email, AHA monitor Gina Johnson wrote, \"last week we almost killed King\", in reference to a tiger used for filming. The email goes on to suggest that the incident, in which the tiger apparently nearly drowned while filming a scene, would be \"downplayed\" in the official report to the AHA. Additionally, the expos\u00e9 alleges that Johnson was involved in a romantic relationship with one of the film's producers, possibly representing a conflict of interest. Life of Pi director Ang Lee has described the animal abuse allegations as \"an accident\" in interviews. Following the publication of the Hollywood Reporter investigation, Gina Johnson resigned from her position with the AHA.[106][107]\n

      New animal welfare concerns were raised in 2015 when PETA released a video that showed Life of Pi animal trainer Michael Hackenberger swearing at and whipping a young tiger 19 times.[108] In April 2016, the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals filed animal cruelty charges against Hackenberger based on the video evidence.[109]\n

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      Life of Pi
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      AuthorYann Martel
      Original titleLife of Pi
      CountryCanada
      LanguageEnglish
      GenreAdventure fiction
      PublisherKnopf Canada
      Publication date
      		September 11, 2001
      ISBN0-676-97376-0 (first edition, hardcover)
      OCLC46624335
      Preceded bySelf 
      Followed byBeatrice and Virgil 
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      Life of Pi is a Canadian philosophical novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist is Piscine Molitor \"Pi\" Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry, India, who explores issues of spirituality and metaphysics from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger which raises questions about the nature of reality and how it is perceived and told.\n

      The novel has sold more than ten million copies worldwide.[1] It was rejected by at least 5 London publishing houses[2] before being accepted by Knopf Canada, which published it in September 2001. Martel \nwon the Man Booker Prize the following year.[3][4][5] It was also chosen for CBC Radio's Canada Reads 2003, where it was championed by author Nancy Lee.[6]\n

      The French translation L'Histoire de Pi was chosen in the French CBC version of the contest Le Combat des livres, where it was championed by Louise Forestier.[7] The novel won the 2003 Boeke Prize, a South African novel award. In 2004, it won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Best Adult Fiction for years 2001\u20132003.[8] In 2012 it was adapted into a feature film directed by Ang Lee with a screenplay by David Magee.\n

      In 2022, the novel was included on the \"Big Jubilee Read\" list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors, selected to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II.[9]\n

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      Plot[edit]

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      The book begins with a note from the author, which is an integral part of the novel. Unusually, the note describes mostly fictional events. It serves to establish and enforce one of the book's main themes: the relativity of truth.\n

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      Part one[edit]

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      In the 1960s, the narrator, Piscine Molitor \"Pi\" Patel, grows up as the son of the manager of a zoo in Pondicherry. While later recounting his life there, he proffers insight on the antagonism of zoos and expresses his thoughts on why animals react less negatively than proponents of the idea suggest.\n

      The narrator describes how he acquired his full name as a tribute to the swimming pool in France. After schoolmates tease him by transforming his first name into \"Pissing\", he establishes the short form of his name as \"Pi\" when he starts secondary school. The name, he says, pays tribute to the transcendental number which is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.\n

      In recounting his experiences, Pi describes several other unusual situations involving proper names: two visitors to the zoo, one a devout Muslim, and the other a committed atheist, bear identical names; and a 450-pound (200-kilogram) Bengal tiger at the zoo bears the name Richard Parker as the result of a clerical error which switched the tiger's name with the name of his human captor.[10]\n

      One day, Pi and his older brother Ravi are given an impromptu lesson on the dangers of the animals kept at the zoo. It opens with a goat being fed to another tiger, followed by a family tour of the zoo, during which his father explains the aggressive biological features of each animal.\n

      Pi is raised as a Hindu and practices vegetarianism. At the age of fourteen, he investigates Christianity and Islam, and decides to become an adherent of all three religions, much to his parents' dismay (and his religious mentors' frustration), saying he \"just wants to love God\".[11] He tries to understand God through the lens of each religion, and comes to recognize benefits in each.\n

      A few years later in February 1976, during the period when Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares \"The Emergency\", Pi's father decides to sell the zoo and emigrate with his wife and sons to Canada.\n

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      The second part of the novel begins in July 1977 with Pi's family aboard the Tsimtsum, a Japanese freighter that is transporting animals from their zoo to North America. A few days out of port from Manila, the ship encounters a storm and sinks. Pi manages to escape in a small lifeboat, only to learn that the boat also holds a spotted hyena, an injured Grant's zebra, and an orangutan named Orange Juice. Much to the boy's distress, the hyena kills the zebra and then Orange Juice. A tiger has been hiding under the boat's tarpaulin: it is Richard Parker, who had boarded the lifeboat with ambivalent assistance from Pi himself sometime before the hyena attack. Suddenly emerging from his hideaway, Richard Parker kills and eats the hyena.\n

      Frightened, Pi constructs a small raft out of rescue flotation devices, tethers it to the bow of the boat, and makes it his place of retirement. He begins conditioning Richard Parker to take a submissive role by using food as a positive reinforcer, and seasickness as a punishment mechanism, while using a whistle for signals. Soon, Pi asserts himself as the alpha animal and is eventually able to share the boat with his feline companion, admitting in the end that Richard Parker is the one who helped him survive his ordeal.\n

      Pi recounts various events while adrift in the Pacific Ocean. At his lowest point, exposure renders him blind and unable to catch fish.\n

      Sometime later, Pi's boat comes ashore on a floating island network of algae inhabited by hundreds of thousands of meerkats. Soon, Pi and Richard Parker regain strength, but the boy's discovery of the carnivorous nature of the island's plant life forces him to return to the ocean.\n

      Two hundred and twenty-seven days after the ship's sinking, the lifeboat washes onto a beach in Mexico, after which Richard Parker disappears into the nearby jungle without looking back, leaving Pi heartbroken at the abrupt departure without even a farewell.\n

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      The third part of the novel describes a conversation between Pi and two officials from the Japanese Ministry of Transport, who are conducting an inquiry into the shipwreck. They meet him at the hospital in Mexico where he is recovering. Pi tells them his tale, but the officials reject it as unbelievable. Pi then offers them a second story in which he is adrift on a lifeboat not with zoo animals, but with a Taiwanese sailor with a broken leg, the ship's cook, and his own mother. The cook amputates the sailor's leg for use as fishing bait, and the sailor dies soon after. Pi and his mother are disgusted by the cook, but they cooperate with him to survive. However, after Pi fails to catch a turtle, the cook hits him, causing his mother to hit the cook in retaliation. They get into a violent fight, and the cook kills Pi's mother. Soon after, the cook is killed by Pi, who dines on him.\n

      The investigators note parallels between the two stories. They soon conclude that the hyena symbolizes the cook, the zebra the sailor, the orangutan Pi's mother, and the tiger represents Pi. Pi points out that neither story can be proven and neither explains the cause of the shipwreck, so he asks the officials which story they prefer: the one without animals or the one with animals. They finally choose the story with the animals. Pi thanks them and says: \"And so it goes with God.\" The investigators then leave and file a report expressing belief in the first story.\n

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      Themes[edit]

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      Martel has said that Life of Pi can be summarized in three statements: \"Life is a story\"; \"You can choose your story\"; \"A story with God is the better story\".[12] Reviewer Gordon Houser suggests that there are two main themes of the book: \"that all life is interdependent, and that we live and breathe via belief.\"[13]\n

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      Inspiration[edit]

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      Martel said in a 2002 interview with PBS that he was \"looking for a story\u2026 that would direct my life\".[14] He spoke of being lonely and needing direction in his life, and he found that writing the novel met this need.[15]\n

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      Richard Parker and shipwreck narratives[edit]

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      The name Richard Parker for the tiger was inspired by a character in Edgar Allan Poe's nautical adventure novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838). Richard Parker is a mutineer who is stranded and eventually cannibalized on the hull of an overturned ship, and there is a dog aboard who is named Tiger. Martel also had another occurrence in mind in the famous legal case R v Dudley and Stephens (1884), where a shipwreck again results in the cannibalism of a cabin boy named Richard Parker, this time in a lifeboat.[16] A third Richard Parker drowned in the sinking of the Francis Spaight in 1846, with a cabin boy cannibalized during an incident involving the same ship in 1835.[17] \"So many victimized Richard Parkers had to mean something\", Martel suggested.[18][19]\n

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      Moacyr Scliar[edit]

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      Martel has mentioned that a book review of Brazilian author Moacyr Scliar's 1981 novella Max and the Cats accounts in part for his novel's premise. Scliar's story describes a Jewish German refugee crossing the Atlantic Ocean with a jaguar in his boat.[20][21] Scliar said that he was perplexed that Martel \"used the idea without consulting or even informing me,\" and indicated that he was reviewing the situation before deciding whether to take any action in response.[22][23] After talking with Martel, Scliar elected not to pursue the matter.[24] A dedication to Scliar \"for the spark of life\" appears in the author's note of Life of Pi. Literary reviews have described the similarities as superficial between Life of Pi and Max and the Cats. Reviewer Peter Yan wrote: \"Reading the two books side-by-side, one realizes how inadequate bald plot summaries are in conveying the unique imaginative impact of each book,\"[25] and noted that Martel's distinctive narrative structure is not found in Scliar's novella. The themes of the books are also dissimilar, with Max and the Cats being a metaphor for Nazism.[26] In Life of Pi, 211 of 354 pages are devoted to Pi's experience in the lifeboat, compared to 17 of 99 pages in Max and the Cats depicting time spent in a lifeboat.[26]\n

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      Characters[edit]

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      Piscine Molitor \"Pi\" Patel[edit]

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      He acquires layer after layer of diverse spirituality and brilliantly synthesizes it into a personal belief system and devotional life that is breathtaking in its depth and scope. His youthful exploration into comparative religion culminates in a magnificent epiphany of sorts.\n

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      \u2014Phoebe Kate Foster of PopMatters[27]

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      Piscine Molitor Patel, known to all as just \"Pi\", is the narrator and protagonist of the novel. He was named after a swimming pool in Paris, despite the fact that neither his mother nor his father particularly liked swimming. The story is told as a narrative from the perspective of a middle-aged Pi who, now married and having a family, is living in Canada. At the time of main events of the story, he was sixteen years old. He recounts the story of his life and his 227-day journey on a lifeboat when the ship he sailed sinks in the middle of the Pacific Ocean during a voyage to North America.\n

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      Richard Parker[edit]

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      Richard Parker is an adult Bengal tiger who is stranded on the lifeboat with Pi when the ship sinks. Richard Parker lives on the lifeboat with Pi and is kept alive with the food and water Pi delivers. Richard Parker develops a relationship with Pi that allows them to coexist in their struggle.\n

      In the novel, a hunter named Richard Parker is hired to kill a panther that has been terrorising the people of a small village in Bangladesh and thought to have killed seven people within two months. Instead, he accidentally immobilizes a female Bengal tiger with tranquilizer darts while her cub is caught hiding in a bush. Parker names the cub Thirsty after his enthusiasm when drinking from a nearby river. The paperwork that accompanies the shipment of the two tigers to Pi's family's zoo in Pondicherry states that the cub's name is \"Richard Parker\" and the hunter's given name is \"Thirsty\" and his surname is \"None Given\", due to a mix-up with the names. Pi's father finds the story so amusing that they continue to call the tiger \"Richard Parker\".\n

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      Reception[edit]

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      Brian Bethune of Maclean's describes Life of Pi as a \"head-scratching combination of dense religious allegory, zoological lore and enthralling adventure tale, written with warmth and grace\".[28] Master Plots suggested that the \"central themes of Life of Pi concern religion and human faith in God\".[29]\nReutter said, \"So believable is Pi's story telling that readers will be amazed.\"[30] Gregory Stephens added that it \"achieves something more quietly spectacular.\"[31] Smith stated that there was \"no bamboozlement here.\"[32] Gary Krist of The New York Times praised the book, but added that at times Martel \"pushes the didactic agenda of his story too hard.\"[33]\n

      In 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama wrote a letter directly to Martel, describing Life of Pi as \"an elegant proof of God, and the power of storytelling.\"[34]\n

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      Illustrated edition[edit]

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      The first edition of Life of Pi was illustrated by Andy Bridge. In October 2005, a worldwide competition was launched to find an artist to illustrate Life of Pi. The competition was run by Scottish publisher Canongate Books and UK newspaper The Times, as well as Australian newspaper The Age and Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail. Croatian artist Tomislav Torjanac was chosen as the illustrator for the new edition, which was published in September 2007.[35][36][37]\n

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      Main article: Life of Pi (film)
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      A 2012 adaptation directed by Ang Lee and based on an adapted screenplay by David Magee was given a wide release in the United States on 21 November 2012. At the 85th Academy Awards, it won four awards from eleven nominations, including Best Director.\n

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      This novel has also been adapted as a play by Keith Robinson, artistic director of the youth-oriented Twisting Yarn Theatre Company. Andy Rashleigh wrote the adaptation, which was directed by Keith Robinson. The premier/original cast contained only six actors \u2013 Tony Hasnath (Pi), Taresh Solanki (Richard Parker), Melody Brown (Mother), Conor Alexander (Father), Sanjay Shalat (Brother) and Mark Pearce (Uncle).[38] The play was produced at the Alhambra Theatre in Bradford, England, in 2003.[39] The company toured England and Ireland with the play in 2004 and 2007.\n

      Keith Robinson also directed a second version of the play. He brought some of his company to work with students of the BA (Hons) Drama, Applied Theatre and Education Course at the Central School of Speech and Drama. The joint production was performed at the Minack Theatre, in Cornwall, England, in late June 2008.[40]\n

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      Main article: Life of Pi (play)
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      A new adaptation by Lolita Chakrabarti premiered at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, in June 2019.[41] It was directed by Max Webster, with puppetry and movement directed by Finn Caldwell. Unanimously well received by critics,[42] the play opened in November 2021 at Wyndham's Theatre, West End.[43] In 2022, the production won 5 Olivier Awards including Best New Play,[44] and subsequently extended to October 2022.[45]\n

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            superbly believable acting from the whole cast bolstered by the amazing less is more approach to the... i can't belive i'm saying this... beautiful CGI. the only ang lee reel i've liked. considering it was well hyped up i was pleasantly surprised.

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            Une histoire magnifique, des images extraordinaires, de bons acteurs ... rien de mieux pour une r\u00c3 (C)ussite incomparable. Certains trouveront le film un peu long, mais \u00c3\u00a7a en vaut la peine!!!

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            Beautiful... Just beautiful. Ang Lee brings to life one of my favorite books and does it with such passion and determination. This adaptation, thought to be "unfilmable", achieves wonders in 3D and visual effects, as well as emotional story telling and great time first performance by Suraj Sharma.

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            Honestly, I read the book long ago before I watch this movie and when I heard that 'Life of Pi' will be made into a movie my question were : how can a boring book turned into a movie that will drawn the audiences' attention? But after I heard a lot of positive reviews on this movie, I was tempted to watch this movie.. And after I spent almost 2 hours watching this movie, I must gave a big two thumbs up to Ang Lee for making a beautiful visualization of this novel.. Suraj Sharma also make a great and quite impressive performance for his Hollywood debut performance as Pi Patel.. Overall, the Oscars that this movie got shows us how great the quality of this movie had..

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