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”?

Featuring Ang Lee and David McGee

Then, in 2008, Ang Lee (*5) was chosen as the director. Lee will work on the scenario with screenwriter David McGee.

Particularly ingenious was Pai's lines after she started drifting. Since he is basically the only person in the cast, if the script were poorly written, it would be full of explanatory soliloquy and monologues. Therefore, various methods were devised to eliminate the unnaturalness, such as Pi (Suraj Sharma) talking to the Bengal tiger Richard Parker, his inner voice when writing in his diary, and calling out to God. When all else fails, they bring in a writer (Rafe Spall) modeled after the original author and create a dialogue between him and adult Pi (Irrfan Khan).

Additionally, the scene in which Pi tells the ``second story'' at the end of the movie was a cruel one similar to the original (*6) in the original scenario. However, in the final scenario, he avoids direct expression by using the line, ``The cook dried the mouse in the sun and ate it,'' and compared it to ``The sailors suffered the same fate as the mice.''

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The domineering cook (Gerard Depardieu) and the kind-hearted Buddhist sailor (Wang Bojie) are specifically introduced in the depiction of life on board a cargo ship, which is not in the original story. In this scene, the cook only serves meat dishes to the mother (taboo), who is a vegetarian, and the sailor serves rice with gravy without meat juice, hinting at the "second story". It's tense.

Lee also brought in Stephen Callahan , who had spent 76 days adrift in 1982, as a consultant. Callahan vividly expressed the phenomena that occur at sea, and also taught the staff survival know-how.

*5 Speaking of Ang Lee, there are films such as `` Brokeback Mountain '' (2005), which won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice International Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Director, and `` Lust, Caution'' (which also won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice International Film Festival). 07), etc., have a strong image of literary works. However, when I visited ILM to cover `` Hulk '' (2003), Lee showed me how he played the Hulk using motion capture, and I remember understanding that he was a person who was proactive about new technology. There is.

*6 There is also a very mysterious scene in the original story where Pi, who lost his eyesight while adrift, encounters a French lifeboat at sea. The Frenchman tries to board Pi's boat and is eaten by Richard Parker. This scene was actually filmed and some VFX work was done, but it was removed during the editing stage.