The scenes throughout the award-winning film, Life of Pi, have captured the hearts of those who have watched them. The unique way in which the filmmaker utilized light and color through CGI, helped develop these incredible images that conveyed the powerful messages behind the film. The films cinematographer Claudio Miranda, won an Oscar for Best Cinematographer in 2012 (Picone, 2014). This award not only demonstrated the incredible work that went into the cinematography and all its elements, it also revealed how the audiences who watched this film felt about it. The film itself was also one of the movies that "won the most Oscars in 2012" (Picone, 2014). After reading the novel Life of Pi, skepticism took over when I heard that a movie would …show more content…
To accurately design this complex film, there was heavy reliance on the book Life of Pi as pre-visualization, to bring to life author Yann Martel's vision. The importance of having this novel serve as the inspiration during the pre-visualization period of the film was that it guided the filmmaker and the cinematographer when producing this film. The main focus was to bring to life what the book presented to the reader through vivid scenes and extraordinary techniques to do …show more content…
In this case, the cinematographer knew exactly where to place his lenses to make the viewer understand the solitude Pi was experiencing as well as controlling the intensity of the sun light to ensure that the viewer did not lose focus of Pi Patel. Since most of the events that occurred in the film came directly from the protagonist's imagination, it posed a challenge for the filmmakers to bring this imagination to life. Through the use of controlled light to have beautiful reflections as well as the use of CGI, it enabled the filmmaker to develop a film that was technically
Stranded for 227 days at sea in a lifeboat, with no one else except an adult Bengal tiger. This is exactly what the main character Pi, in "The Life of Pi" went through. "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel is a story about a boy named Piscine Molitor Patel, an Indian boy who survives more than seven months floating on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean, with no one else but a 450-pound tiger (Cooper). Yann Martel was born on June 25, 1963, in Salamanca, Spain. His parents, Emile Martel and Nicole Perron, were both born in Canada. He spent his childhood in several different countries, including France, Mexico, the United States, Canada, and Costa Rica. As an adult, he lived in many other places but one of them was India, which may be where he got inspiration for writing “Life of Pi”. Yann Martel uses the literary elements similes and foreshadowing, to express the theme that believing in religion can give you the faith to want to survive.
The use of cinematography helps to convey the superior relationship between characters. This occurs during the film frequently to demonstrate the superiority
Fear is one of human's emotions that sometimes prevent humans to be successful. The other acceptable definitions for fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the nearness danger or expectation of pain. The main character in the novel that called Life of Pi written by Yann Martel is Pi who challenges with many issues in his journey from India to Canada. One of the issues is living alone on the lifeboat in the middle of ocean with a Bengal tiger for while. One can learn to deal with fear as Pi deals with the tiger that called Richard Parker. Pi faces his fears, takes practical steps, persevere, and acknowledge his fears.
The cinematography of this films has a clear continuity style often found in many of the directors films, the movie features many long takes. Also shot entirely on mobile frame cameras, with movement throughout to give the viewer the appearance of being there themselves. Much like when a person plays a video game and sees the world their playing through the animations eyes. The color scheme also is a huge aspect of the cinematography in this film with washed out coloring displayed in the scenery and even in actors costumes, all in dark colors like blue, black, grey,
Religion is and always has been a sensitive topic. Some choose to acknowledge that there is a God and some choose to deny this fact to the death. For those who deny the presence of a higher being, “Life of Pi” will most likely change your thought process concerning this issue. Yann Martel’s, “Life of Pi”, is a compelling story that shows the importance of obtaining religion and faith. Piscine (Pi) Patel is both the protagonist and the narrator of Martell’s religious eye-opener who undergoes a chain effect of unbelievable catastrophes. Each of these catastrophic events leaving him religiously stronger because he knows that in order to endure what he has endured, there has got to be a God somewhere.
The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities that interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional — but is it more true?
This method used enormous quantities of film, thus being very costly, but Kurosawa preferred for the freedom it gave him to keep the angles he preferred. One of his particular trademarks, the use of human tides, sweeping down from higher places to lower ones is also present here, and highlight his ability to follow the action, instead of editing it in separate shots. Along with a number of meaningful closeups, and the use of deep focus in order to follow portray multiple actions in the background, simultaneously, the film's cinematography is one of the biggest achievements of world cinema. 8.
The Life of Pi, written by Yann Martel, is the story of a young man, Piscine, or Pi for short, who experiences unbelievable and unrealistic events, which are so unrealistic ambiguity is aroused amongst the reader. Duality reoccurs over the course of the novel through every aspect of Pi’s world view and is particularly seen in the two contradictory stories, which displays the brutal nature of the world. Martel wonderfully crafts and image of duality and skepticism though each story incorporated in this novel.
Darren Aronofsky’s 1998 debut feature film, Pi, helped paved the way for his illustrious career in the US independent film scene. Shot for a miniscule budget of $68,000, Pi follows an intelligent, yet paranoid man who discovers a link between numbers and reality, believing that with this knowledge he can predict the future. The drama thriller is short in length, but helps to convey its story in a number of cinematic techniques. These techniques would include the editing, soundtrack, and cinematography.
A human has a strong desire to survive and ready to transgress his inner borders and break his principles to save his life. There are three aspects of survival: psychological, emotional and physical survival. They are all related to each other and in order to sustain one has to go through all three stages. A person has to struggle with themselves: they have to breakdown their internal principles such as high morality and deep religious commitment in order to come through Psychological, Emotional and Physical survival.
It is said the a person’s process of discovery is shaped by their personality, culture, history and values, however the opposite is also true, someone’s personal, cultural, historical and social contexts and values, their personal aspects, can also be shaped by the discoveries they make, with discovery acting as the journey towards a change in one’s personal aspects. This is true of the film, “Life of Pi,” directed by Ang Lee and the illustration, “Self Help,” by Michael Leunig. The most striking features of the film is Pi’s faith to God and his connection with religion. His discovery and spirituality rely on each other, depicted as a gradual progression that spans his life, his childhood all the way to his time with Richard Parker on the life
Choices play a prominent role in ensuring comfort and happiness in life. People make choices, which ultimately shape their lives. In Yann Martel’s The Life of Pi, the main character, Pi Patel is forced to make choices, which go against his morals, but ultimately keep him alive. This becomes clear when Pi chooses to change his person by eating meat. Pi then chooses to eliminate all personal boundaries, due to his incredible will to survive. Finally, he chooses to view all of the people on the life boat as animals in order to cope with the psychological distress of being lost at sea. When faced with choices, Pi puts all morals behind him to survive.
As the reader examines the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel, the reader recognizes the similarities between the story of the animals and the factual story. The main character Piscine Molitor Patel, known as Pi, goes through many struggles once he is stuck on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean which are shown between both of his stories. Throughout the novel, Martel describes to the readers the relationships the Pi has between the animals in the story of animals and the real people in the factual story. In Life of Pi, Pi meets many different animals on his journey on the lifeboat that influence him in many ways, including the zebra, which represents the Taiwanese sailor; the hyena, which represents the chef; Orange Juice, the orangutan, which represents Pi’s mother; and the Royal Bengal tiger, Richard Parker, which represents Pi himself.
Due to the film’s quality and interest it became an award winning film. The film had excellent sound effects such as the battle scenes. The image quality was also outstanding; it used many different angles to depict the actor to make you feel involved in the scenes. In the action scenes the most common viewpoint used was a close up shot which allows the audience to see and feel the intensity of the scene. The second viewpoint mostly used was a tracking shot due to the actors c...
People don't truly accept life for what it is until they've actually tasted adversity and went through those misfortunes and suffering. We are put through many hardships in life, and we learn to understand and deal with those issues along the way. We find that life isn't just about finding one's self, but about creating and learning from our experiences and background. Adversity shapes what we are and who we become as individuals. Yann Martel's Life of Pi shows us that adverse situations help shape a person's identity and play a significant role in one's lief by determining one's capabilities and potential, shaping one's beliefs and values, and defining the importance and meaning of one's self.