Behind-the-scenes production of juvenile fantasy drifting

The Fantasy Drifting of Pi, adapted from Yann Martel's novel of the same name, not only won the ManBooker Prize, but also stayed on the best-seller list of The New York Times for 1 years. The story of this novel caught the attention of filmmaker Gil Netter. Nate and Elizabeth Gueble, director of FOSS production, spent several years developing this project. Because Ang Lee likes to make movies with strong feelings and his works are changeable, the investor decided to make this movie by Ang Lee. The task of adapting the original work was assigned to David Margo, who won the 77th Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for finding neverland. After Magotan took the job, he began to think about how to turn the original into a script. Finally, he decided to tell another story with one story. In the book, the pie is telling stories to writers; Similarly, Ang Lee is telling a story to the audience through movies.

Role selection

The whole casting process of the film "Boys' School" took about six months. Director Ang Lee arranged three auditions and finally selected twelve people. When auditioning with each child one by one, the director was moved by the profound emotion, warm characteristics and talent shown by Sura Martha's monologue, and suraj sharma was completely involved in the story situation. At the end of the monologue, suraj sharma cried; From that moment on, Ang Lee decided that suraj sharma was the candidate for the leading role.

View shooting

The Fantasy Drifting of Pi was mainly filmed in Indian and Taiwan Province provinces. Pai's childhood was filmed in Ponticelli, India. The production team moved into the studio and office area covering an area of 200,000 square feet in the city. The film was shot in Ponticelli and its surrounding 18 places. Only the first few scenes of the film used 600 staff members, nearly half of whom were locals. In addition, about 5,500 local residents were sent as extras. In response to the needs of movies, the botanical garden in the city was transformed into a fictional Ponticelli Zoo. In addition, the production team was allowed to enter the thousand-year-old Virianur Temple to shoot. In addition to 2,000 extras who stayed up late to take part in the filming, there were 20,000 traditional candle lamps wrapped in leaves lit up all night, and all the staff present were staring at the candles.

Patel's other family outing scene was filmed in Muna. The live part of the film was shot in the depths of Bai Rong Garden in Kenting, Taiwan Province. With the support of the local government of Taiwan Province Province, Ang Lee and his production team completely transformed the facilities and hangar of Taichung Shuiling Airport into a fully functional film studio. There are countless meerkats living in the story, and the surreal and mysterious floating island is the result of the combination of real-life shooting, art design and digital technology.

post production

After the main filming work is completed, the film will enter the post-production stage. Tim Squier is in charge of editing the film, and Meshel Dana is a music composer. Ymychael Dana used instrumental music to construct the overall framework of the film. For example, the music related to Youth School is played by Indian bamboo flute, and the plot of Tiger is the unique and mysterious woodwind timbre of Persian Naiyi flute. Music is not only played by orchestras, but also by Indonesian orchestral instruments such as Gameland, French Zhong Qin and accordion, and Indian sitar, percussion and Datura chorus. In addition to the creation of the soundtrack, ymychael Dana and Indian singer Jayashili * * * wrote the song "The Lullaby of Youth School" for the film.