Life of Pi (film)

Life of Pi is a 2012 American adventure drama film based on Yann Martels 2001 novel of the same name. Directed by Ang Lee, the films adapted screenplay was written by David Magee, and it stars Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, Grard Depardieu, Tabu, and Adil Hussain. The storyline revolves around an Indian man named Piscine Molitor Pi Patel, living in Canada and telling a novelist about his life story and how athe survives a shipwreck in which his family dies, and is stranded in the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. The film had its worldwide premiere as the opening film of the 51st New York Film Festival at both the 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, earning over US609 million worldwide. It was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards which included the Best Picture Drama and the Best Director and won the 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 three the most for the event including Best Director for Ang Lee.

In a flashback, Pis father named him Piscine Molitor after the swimming pool in France. By the time he reached secondary school, he changed his name to Pi the Greek letter, because he was tired of being called Pissing Patel due to the pronunciation of his name. Pi is raised Hindu and vegetarian, but atyears old, he is introduced to Christianity and then Islam, and decides to follow all three religions as he just wants to love God. His mother supports his desire to grow, but his father, a rationalist, tries to convert him to his way by understanding rather than blindly. Pis family owns a zoo, and Pi took great interest in the animals, especially a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. When Pi tries feeding Richard Parker through the cage bars, since his religious interests lead him to believe that animals had souls, his enraged father tells him that Richard Parker is dangerous and would kill him if he had the chance, and so his father forces Pi to witness Richard Parker killing a goat to prove his point.At 16, Pi is still affected by the incident, causing him to be gloomy and depressed, until he meets a dancer named Anandi, with whom he develops a relationship. However, their relationship is shortlived when his father announces that they are moving to Canada, where he intends to settle and sell the zoo animals. Pis family books passage on a Japanese freighter named Tsimtsum. During a storm, the ship founders while Pi is on deck. He tries to find his family, but a member of the crew throws him into a lifeboat. As the ship falls into the sea, a freed zebra jumps onto the boat with him, breaking its leg as it lands. Pi watches helplessly as the ship sinks, drowning his family. After the ship disappears, Pi sees what he believes is a survivor struggling in the ocean. He calls out to the survivor who swims towards the lifeboat, however it is revealed to be Richard Parker. Pi attempts to prevent the tiger from entering the boat with an oar, however he climbs in anyway.

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