What is the method used by master artist Ang Lee to brilliantly visualize the original work of “The Life of Pi: 227 Days adrift with a Tiger”?

“Life of Pi/227 days adrift with a tiger” synopsis

Pai Patel was born in Pondicherry, India in the early 1960s, and grew up interacting with animals at his father's zoo. However, the year Pi turned 16, his life changed completely. When her parents decide to immigrate to Montreal, Canada, the family and their animals head to Canada on a cargo ship, but the ship sinks in a sudden storm in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Pi was the only one who survived by clinging to the lifeboat. However, a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker was hiding on the boat... A small boat, some emergency food, and a tiger. Will the tiger take the boy's life or give him hope? And thus begins Pi and a tiger's unimaginable 227-day drifting life.

A family who runs a zoo in Pondicherry, India, decides to immigrate to Canada and boards the Japanese cargo ship Tsimtoom (*1) with their animals, but it gets caught in a storm in the Pacific Ocean and sinks. Aboard the only lifeboat, a 16-year-old boy, Pi (*2), a zebra, a spotted hyena, an orangutan, and a Bengal tiger named "Richard Parker" (*3) (*4) survived. was. Thus begins a harsh drifting life...

The film ``The Life of Pi'' is based on the novel ``The Story of Pi '' by Yann Martel, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2002, a British literary award, and is a fantastic and beautiful film. The film became a hot topic for its 3D images and moving story, and was nominated for 11 categories at the 85th Academy Awards, winning four, including Best Director.

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Index

• The path to filmization
• Featuring Ang Lee and David McGee
• How to draw Pi's religious views
• Compatibility with stereoscopic vision and expression of the sea

The path to filmization

Fox 2000 Pictures, which acquired the film rights in 2003, appointed M. Night Shyamalan, an Indian native of Pondicherry, to direct the film because the main character, Pi, is Indian. However, Shyamalan turned down the offer on the grounds that he was unable to coordinate his schedule with " Lady in the Water " (2006), which was also scheduled after " The Village " (2004).

After that, he entered into negotiations with Alfonso Cuaron and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Genet was particularly enthusiastic about this project, co-writing the scenario with Guillaume Laurent, with whom he worked on `` Amélie '' (2001) and `` The Long Engagement '' (2004), and planned to launch the project in India in 2006. However, this project also ended in cancellation.

*1 This unfamiliar word "TSIMTSUM" appears in Kabbalah, a mystical thought of Judaism. The story also features an adult Pi teaching Kabbalah at a university. By the way, in the original work, it is called "Tsushima Maru".

*2 The main character's real name is Piscine Molitor Patel, but because Piscine (meaning pool in French) is pronounced the same as Pissing (meaning piss in English), he is made fun of, so when he entered higher education, he decided to use pi for pi. They claim to be the same pie. This gives the audience the information that he had some degree of swimming training, and alludes to the marking behavior of animals to mark territory with urine. Also, since π is an irrational number, it also has the effect of making us read deeply into the story, suggesting that it is not simple.

*3 The name ``Richard Parker'' is based on a true story called `` The Mignonette Incident .'' The story goes, ``In 1884, the British-registered yacht ``Mignonette'' was shipwrecked, and the captain, two crew members, and a 17-year-old waiter, Richard Parker, escaped in a lifeboat. The captain killed Richard Parker, who fell into a collapsed state on the 20th day adrift, and used his body as food for the three men.They were rescued on the 24th day and survived, but were sent back to their home country. The British High Court ruled that this could not be considered an emergency evacuation and sentenced them to death.However, public opinion was overwhelming that they should be innocent, so Queen Victoria pardoned them. The sentence was reduced to six months' imprisonment.

*4 This setting was inspired by Mosial Skryer's novel " Max and the Cats ," which features a story about a man adrift in a lifeboat with a jaguar.Original author Yann Martel said, ``When it comes to the brilliance of life, Mosial...・A large part of the credit goes to Mr. Scryer.'' Brazilian Scrier is characterized by a style that can be classified as ``magic realism,'' which is common among contemporary Latin American writers, and no work has yet been translated into Japanese.

Featuring Ang Lee and David McGee