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The Fantasy Drifting of Pi is adapted from Yann Martel's novel of the same name, which is popular all over the world. Directed by Hollywood China director Ang Lee, this film tells the story of Pi and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker drifting at sea for 227 days. The Fantasy Drifting of Pi premiered at the New York Film Festival on September 28th, 20th12nd, and was officially released in China on October 22nd, 20th12nd. The 85th Oscar Ang Lee won four awards: Best Director Award, Best Photography Award, Best Visual Effect Award and Best Original Music Award.

Chinese Name: The Fantasy Drifting of Juvenile School

Mbth: The Fantasy Drifting of Youth School

Fantasy drifting of juvenile Pi, drifting juvenile Pi

Production date: 20 12

Producer: Twentieth Century Fox Film Company

Production area: USA

Director: Ang Lee

Screenwriter: David Margo

Producer: Gil Netter

Type: plot, adventure

Starring: suraj sharma, Rafe Spall, irfan Khan and adil Hushan.

Length: 127 minutes

Release date: 2012165438+122 October (China).

Category: USA: PG

Dialogue language: English

Color: color

Imdb code: tt0454876

The main characters in The Fantasy Drifting of Pi? Juvenile School (suraj sharma)

Other roles? Screenwriter (Rafe Spall)? Older Pi (irrfan khan)? Pi's father (adil Hushan)

Petty Pie (Ayush Tandon)? Father (Gérard Depardieu)? An China sailor (Wang Baijie)

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Tiger's name

The moral of this story

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Role introduction suraj sharma

Rafe Spall

Irrfan Khan

Wonderful dialogue

Acoustic data

Movie tidbits

General review of film reviews

Netizen film review

Winning record

Background of film production and creation

Shooting process

Sound effect production

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The encounter between Shen Huixing's new music MV and the film "School of Youth"

Nomination for the 85th Academy Awards.

The director was interviewed.

Box office information

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The basic plot of a movie plot

Tiger's name

The moral of this story

cast

Employee list

Domestic version translation list

Role introduction suraj sharma

Rafe Spall

Irrfan Khan

Wonderful dialogue

Acoustic data

Movie tidbits

General review of film reviews

Netizen film review

Winning record

Background of film production and creation

Shooting process

Sound effect production

Investment publicity

Production company:

Issuing company:

The latest news The dark horse at the box office framed Taiwan Province and saved Taiwan Province Province from free travel.

The encounter between Shen Huixing's new music MV and the film "School of Youth"

Nomination for the 85th Academy Awards.

The director was interviewed.

Box office information

Watch online

Start editing the basic information of this paragraph. Life of Pi

[1] Director: Ang Lee.

Screenwriter: Yann Martel)/david mckee.

Starring: suraj sharma)/Rafe Spall)/irrfan khan)/Gérard Depardieu)/Tabu/Adil Hussain/Ayush Tandon/Shravanthi Sainath [2].

Genre: fantasy/plot/adventure

Country of manufacture: USA

Language: English [3]

Format: IMAX+3D Edition /3D Edition

Release date: 20 12-09-28 (New York Film Festival) /20 12- 1 (USA)/2012-1.

Length: 127 minutes

Also known as: Fantasy Drifting/Juvenile Pi's Drifting Juvenile Pi

The Fantasy Drifting of Pi (20 photos) Ang Lee nominated eleven nominations for the 85th Oscar according to The Fantasy Drifting of Pi, including best film, best director, best cinematography, best score, best editing, best adapted script, best visual effect and best artistic direction. And won the best director award [5], the best photography award [6], the best visual effect award and the best original music award. [2][7]

Edit the basic plot of this film.

The trailer story of "The Fantasy Drifting of Pi" began in Montreal and ended in Montreal. A writer looking for inspiration (Rafe Spall, Rafe Spall) overheard the legendary story of Pai Patel (irrfan khan, irfan Khan). Pai's father (Adil Hussain Adil Hussain) runs a zoo. Because of such a special living environment, Juvenile School (played by suraj sharma suraj sharma) has its own views on faith and human nature. When Pai 17 years old, in order to pursue a better life, his parents decided to immigrate to Canada with his family, and he had to leave his first love.

The hero's father runs a zoo, which makes him know the habits of animals very well since he was a child. Later, the family moved to Canada and met a cruel French chef (Gérard Depardieu Gé rard Depaty) on the boat. Some animals in the zoo were with them because their father planned to sell them at a high price. However, the cargo ship sank halfway, and all the family members of Pai were killed.

When the Japanese freighter crashed, Pai and his lifeboat were thrown into the sea by zebras falling from the ship. He was lucky enough to land on the roof of the lifeboat and survive. So, he began to drift at sea for 227 days. Besides the zebra with a broken leg, there is also a hyena, an orangutan and an adult Bengal tiger. Due to the mistake of the zoo manager, this Bengal tiger registered the name of a serious gentleman: Richard Parker. In the first three days on the lifeboat, hyenas killed zebras and orangutans, and Richard Parker killed hyenas. Then, the story of 17-year-old Pi's survival at sea began. At first, he and Richard Parker were wary of each other, and their psychology of killing each other gradually became interdependent, which also became the motive force for Pi's survival.

Tiger's name

Richard Parker is the name of a hero 17 years old in a real cannibal story. 1884, the luteolin sank and four crew members were trapped in the south Atlantic. Besides the three sailors, there is also a footman named Richard Parker. In the process of drifting, three adult crew members lost their minds, killed Parker and shared his life.

In some English contexts, "Richard Parker" is often associated with shipwreck, which means drifting and killing each other. [8]

The moral of this story

This film tells the story of Pai and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker drifting at sea for 227 days. After the film was released, there was an upsurge of watching movies in the mainland. At the end of the film, the dispute between the right and wrong of the two different versions of "Wandering Story" given by Juvenile School is even more thought-provoking.

Adult actor irrfan khan said in an interview: "On the surface, this movie is a teenager's adventure."

In fact, there are many metaphors hidden in the story of "Life of Pi", with many parallel spaces and many levels. "

Ma Boyong, a writer, put forward his own opinion in the film review "Three Stories of Ang Lee Metaphoring Forest and Youth School", arguing that the first and second stories are flawed, the first story is too unreal and untrue, but the second story also has its own flaws, so as to avoid the question about the whereabouts of the mother. So, Ma Boyong put forward his own "third story": Pie actually ate his mother. [9]

The first story: the drift between man and tiger is illusory.

The first story is about the "miracle of drift" between Pie and Tiger, which is also described by a lot of handwriting in the film.

Pai is a teenager born in India who believes in Christianity, Islam and Hinduism at the same time. His father runs a zoo. On the way to send their family to Canada, their ship was caught in a storm and sank at sea. In this disaster, all Pai's family were killed, but Pai was lucky enough to survive on the canopy of the lifeboat. There is also a hyena, a zebra with a broken leg, a female orangutan and an adult Bengal tiger "Richard Parker".

Three days before drifting, hyenas killed orangutans, ate zebras alive, and tigers killed hyenas, leaving only pies to get along with tigers. Knowing that they could not defeat the tiger, the school finally chose to face the wandering life with it. In seven months, he will collect fresh water, fish and catch shrimp, and he will feed the tiger with all the skills of survival at sea to keep himself alive. After all kinds of challenges and hardships, they were rescued on the beach in Mexico, but the tiger disappeared without looking back.

If the story of "The Fantasy Drifting of Pi" ends here, it is really lacking. But it wasn't until juvie told the last so-called

The second story of Pi's fantasy drifting (Figure 6): There are no animals in the lifeboat, only a cook, a sailor with a broken leg, Pi and his mother. The cook killed the sailor, then killed his mother. Pai couldn't bear to kill and eat the cook in the same way, and finally survived. Scenes flashed in my mind, and the seemingly meaningless banter details became the foreshadowing. The whole story is connected in series, breaking the original harmonious and fantastic adventure story, and a somewhat cruel and bloody story is presented.

In other words, the man and the tiger in the first story are the projection of the war between man and nature in the second story. Factions don't want to face up to the reality of cannibalism, so they have to split in two and become a fantasy drift between people and tigers. [9]

The second story: Mother's true whereabouts were concealed.

The process of the second story: the pie, mother, sailor and chef boarded the lifeboat. The sailor was injured and died soon. The cook ate it. Then Pai accidentally released a turtle and was beaten by the chef. Mother quarreled with the cook and was killed by the cook. The cook threw his mother's body into the sea to feed the sharks. Angrily sent out to kill the chef and eat him.

In this story, various elements perfectly correspond to the first story, mother = orangutan, chef = hyena, sailor = zebra.

Screenshot of the fantasy drifting plot of the Youth School (26), the instinct of the Tiger School seems perfect and reasonable, and even the most rational insurance company will soon agree with it, but there are two flaws in it.

The first flaw is the banana. When Pai told the first story, he said that orangutans came by floating bananas. The insurance investigator immediately pointed out that bananas would not float. Pai didn't change this detail when telling the second story, and still insisted that his mother came in in a floating banana. In reality, it doesn't matter whether bananas can float. In the movie world, insurance investigators point out that bananas cannot float, which represents a common sense. Its function is to draw out the anti-common sense in the stories told by factions, and its internal logic is self-consistent.

The second defect is the death of mother. The chef is a person who is very persistent about food. He will eat rats, kill sailors and use meat as bait. For him, every piece of meat is extremely precious. However, after mom died, the chef didn't eat her and threw it into the sea to feed the sharks. This is a waste, especially since the chef has already eaten the sailors. For him, the biggest psychological obstacle has been eliminated, and there is no reason to make such a waste again.

The second story itself is very satisfactory, only with the addition of these two rather eye-catching snake feet. In fact, it is also a deliberately reserved label to remind the audience that the second story is not true, at least partially concealing the truth.

These two flaws are related to the mother. There is no doubt that the truth hidden in the second story is the whereabouts of the mother. "[9]

The third story: the pie ate mom.

Ang Lee likes to use various metaphors to strengthen metaphorical relations repeatedly. Youth and tiger are the most striking couple, but there are also a pair of metaphors that are easily overlooked.

Mother and lotus. Lotus has a close relationship with its mother, and there have been two major hints before. Once, at the beginning, my mother drew lotus flowers on the ground with chalk to show the pie. Halfway through the film, the pie overlooks the bottom of the sea. First, the fish formed a lotus flower, then it became a mother's appearance, and finally it was superimposed on the sunken ship. Therefore, accurately speaking, lotus represents Bai's thoughts and love for his mother.

At the same time, Ang Lee specially arranged for Antie to explain dance to the school, which led to an important metaphor about lotus: Brother Liao [9] appeared in the film of Lin Zhonglian.

Flowers. When Pai asked what the lotus in Antioch forest meant, she didn't answer. It was not until we entered the most critical episode of the whole movie: Man-eating Island that we suddenly realized. Pai picked a lotus flower in the forest at night and opened it. It contained a human tooth. So the metaphor and direction of "Lotus in the Forest" can be completed here.

The first story is pie's fantasy. Then his actions on the island must be a projection of various realities. Lotus is the school's yearning for mother; The human teeth in the lotus represent the mother's remains, that is, death. And the mother's body is actually the whole cannibal island.

The island is the mother, and the acid tide under the island is the end of the mother.

Acid tide is a metaphor, meaning extremely clear and horrible. If you want to express your mother's death, there are many ways. The simplest thing is that the tide slowly submerges the island, which means your mother is drowning. Or the shark bit the root of the island, which means to be buried in the shark's stomach, and so on ... But Ang Lee chose an unusual metaphor that has almost nothing to do with the ocean: acid. This acid is naturally human gastric acid. The acidic tide washed up on the island. This image shows that the mother was digested by stomach acid, so the representative of the remains is the teeth.

The pie ate the roots of the plants on the island, and the tiger ate the fox, metaphorically eating the mother. There is a saying that roots and foxes represent muscle fibers and maggots of corpses, representing cannibalism. These two metaphors can't be quoted in movies. If Ang Lee wants to set a metaphor, he will not set it once, but will repeat it many times, or find another reference point. Therefore, it is debatable whether this conjecture is true or not and whether it needs to be alluded so carefully. But there is no doubt about the mother eater. "

There is also a saying that there is another metaphor about the fate of the mother. In the first half of the film, during Pai's childhood, his mother told the Hindu god Krishna (also known as "dark sky") to eat dirt, saying that the mouth of the dark sky "contains the whole universe". In the middle of the film, Pie and Tiger overlook the bottom of the sea. Fish, jellyfish and corals are constantly changing. They look like the universe, then they form lotus flowers, and then they become mothers and shipwrecks. This is not only the image of eating a mother, but the sunken ship seems to represent the school that swallowed up the whole ship's survival opportunity in order to survive, which means rethinking the nature of animals.

At the end of the film review, Ma Boyong said: "Ang Lee described the first story beautifully, but he was so stingy with the second story that he didn't even have a shot. He even used metaphor to express the third story. He wrapped the reality in a beautiful sugar coating and handed the cruel sandwich to everyone in reality. Writers and insurance companies believe the first story and send themselves to believe the second. As for whether the audience is willing to peel off several layers of candy paper, it depends on themselves.

When Ang Lee was asked about the second story in the interview, his answer was evasive, saying that the story would be handed over to the audience when it was finished. This is a clever move. He gave up the most authoritative director's interpretation right and let the audience argue endlessly. Disagreement is the only way to maintain the long-term charm of movies. So we don't have to expect a definite answer from him, just trust our hearts. "[9]