Life of Pi: Shipwreck with Tiger
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Life of Pi: Shipwreck with Tiger |
| Original title | Life of Pi |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English , Tamil , Japanese , French |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 127 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 10 |
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| Director | Ang Lee |
| script | David Magee |
| production | Ang Lee, Gil Netter , David Womark |
| music | Mychael Danna |
| camera | Claudio Miranda |
| cut | Tim Squyres |
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Life of Pi Life of Pi (AKA Life of Pi ) is an American adventure - drama from director and screenwriter Ang Lee from the year 2012 . It is based on the 2001 novel Shipwreck with Tiger by Yann Martel .
action
A book author visits Piscine Molitor Patel from India in Montreal to hear his extraordinary life story, which he would later like to publish as a biography .
Piscine grew up in Pondicherry , a former French colony in southern India , as the son of a zoo director. His father named him Piscine Molitor after the Parisian swimming pool . When he is teased by his classmates and his name is pissed off as a pisser , he gives himself the nickname Pi, like the circle number , and learns several hundred digits after the decimal point by heart. Pi is fascinated by religion and tries everything that is presented to him. Soon he is Hindu , Christian and Muslim at the same time , he gains new spiritual sides from every religion, even if his atheistic father asks him to choose at least one belief. In the zoo he is particularly fond of a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker . One day when he wants to feed him by hand, his father forces him to watch the tiger tear down a live goat that has been placed in front of him for food, in order to show Pi how dangerous the predator is.
A few years later, the zoo is no longer bringing in enough money and Pi's father decides to emigrate with the family and all the animals. His plan is to sell the animals overseas and start a new life with his wife and two sons in Canada . Pi, newly in love with a girl, is reluctant to board the freighter that is supposed to transport the family. At first, the voyage goes well. But when a violent storm raged one night and Pi went on deck, he daredevilly challenged the heavenly powers: The storm became even more powerful and the freighter sank. Pi is the only human survivor on a lifeboat , after all . With it, only two of the zoo animals can initially save themselves, an injured zebra and a hyena . Later, a female orangutan who has lost her child joins them.
The hyena first kills the zebra and then the orangutan, only to be killed by the tiger Richard Parker himself , who surprisingly bursts out from under the tarpaulin of the boat. Pi and the tiger are the only survivors on the boat. To get away from the tiger, Pi builds a raft out of life jackets and oars, which he attaches to the lifeboat with a line. After a while, however, he realizes that even this would not protect him permanently from the predator, and he begins to train the now very hungry and visibly emaciated tiger and to share with him the food that has been caught from the store of ship's biscuits There is fishing and rainwater. Eventually they “share” the boat and continue to drift across the ocean. In between there are moving, fantastic natural spectacles, but rescue is not in sight even after months.
At some point Pi and the tiger arrive at a strange floating island . Instead of human help, they only find a huge meerkat colony and rich, nutritious vegetation, which at night turns into a hostile, carnivorous environment. After a refreshing stopover and replenishing their supplies, they get back on the boat and leave this deadly idyll. Much later, they land on a coast, this time in the human-inhabited world, Mexico . Pi collapses powerless on the beach, while Richard Parker disappears into the jungle without looking back at Pi. This almost breaks Pi's heart. He is found by some men and taken to a hospital.
Here ends the story that Piscine tells the author. This is incredulous and persists. He learns that there is another version of events. Pi reports that he was visited in the hospital by two Japanese insurance inspectors who, on behalf of the shipping company, were investigating the causes of the ship's sinking. When he told them the story of himself and the tiger, they were disappointed and did not want to offer their client this unbelievable, fantastic version. So he told them an alternative version: he had landed in the lifeboat with a seriously injured sailor and the unfriendly French ship's cook, and his mother soon joined them. The rough cook amputated the sailor's broken leg, but he died anyway. The cook now used the deceased's meat as bait for fishing and ate it himself. When Pi and his mother, disgusted and afraid of the rascal, wanted to move to a makeshift raft after a while, the cook killed the mother who had stood protectively in front of her son and then threw her into the sea with the sharks. Pi then killed the cook and then stayed alone on the boat for a full 227 days.
The author recognizes that the animals in the first story were only symbols: the hyena stood for the cook, the zebra for the injured sailor, the female orangutan for Piscine's mother and the tiger for himself and his will to survive. When Piscine asks the author which story he liked better, the realistic or the fantastic, he decides on the one with the tiger, as it is "the better story". To this Pi replies: "And that's exactly how it is with God". He leaves the choice to the author to give the story a happy ending. When looking at the insurance report, the book author reads that the Japanese inspectors also decided at the time to pass on the fantastic version with the tiger.
At the end, Piscine introduces his wife and children to the author.
background
Deviations from the novel
In the book, Pi meets another lifeboat with a French castaway. This incident does not appear in the film. Nor is it shown in the film that Pi was blind for a certain period of time. In the book, however, there is no night scene with thousands of luminescent jellyfish. The whale leaping out of the water in this sea of lights is also only present in the film; In the book, Pi meets several whales, but he only describes the first encounter in more detail: A whale wakes Pi from a state of delirium with the water of its fountain. The whale pauses with its eye right next to the boat so that Pi can look inside for a moment before the whale swims away again. In the film, the boy touches the hungry tiger as he is near death and lays the animal's head on his lap. There is no tender touch between the two in the novel. In the film, Pi and his brother are given a lesson in which a goat is fed to Richard Parker. In the book, this is done using another tiger.
production
First, Jean-Jacques Annaud , director of The Name of the Rose and Seven Years in Tibet , should direct the film. But he refused to be able to shoot The Last Wolf . The film was shot in Kenting , Montreal , Munnar , Pondicherry and Taichung, Taiwan by the Rhythm & Hues and Fox 2000 Pictures studios. Life of Pi: Shipwreck with Tiger by 20th Century Fox is marketed . The budget is estimated at $ 120 million.
5,000 young people in India took part in the selection process for the main character Pi Patel. The large wave tank was built in Taiwan. The entire film was shot digitally, although Ang Lee once declined to do so for his earlier films. Lee was taking pictures to show the second version of the story, but eventually abandoned the idea. Because of the danger to the boy, the animal recordings are largely animated, but not using the motion capture process.
synchronization
The German dubbed version was created in 2012 by Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH, Munich / Berlin, based on the dialogue script and dialogue direction by Christoph Cierpka .
| role | actor | German Dubbing voice |
|---|---|---|
| Pi Patel | Suraj Sharma | Patrick Baehr |
| Adult Pi Patel | Irrfan Khan | Ilya Richter |
| writer | Rafe Spall | Philipp Moog |
| Piscine Patel (11/12 years) | Ayush Tandon | Nicolas Rathod |
| Santosh Patel | Adil Hussain | Martin Umbach |
| Gita Patel | taboo | Sanam Afrashteh |
| Ravi Patel (13/14 years) | Mohd Abbas Khaleeli | Dilagshan Thurairasa |
| Ravi Patel (18/19 years) | Vibish Sivakumar | Patrick Roche |
| Ship's cook | Gérard Depardieu | Joe Haggége |
| priest | Andrea Di Stefano | Christian Weygand |
| Science teacher | TM Karthik | Imtiaz Haque |
| Damage investigator | James Saito | Ryosuke Saito |
| Damage investigator | Jun Naitō | Shingo Kohno |
reception
Audience numbers
In 2013, 1,377,920 visitors were counted at the German box offices nationwide, making the film 20th place among the most visited films of the year.
Reviews
The reviews for the film were mostly positive:
“With 'Life of Pi: Shipwreck with Tiger', Ang Lee has created a masterpiece. A visually impressive, but above all tearful film that really has what it takes to make the viewer believe in a benevolent higher power. "
“With a screenplay by David Magee, Ang Lee has actually succeeded in turning a difficult-to-film novel into great cinema, which seems overwhelming as well as modest and at the same time follows a clear concept that is not just about the spectacle. The fact that the film also presents the most amazing 3D that has ever been seen in a feature film - goblins and hobbits or not - is nothing more than a (extremely pleasant) side effect. "
“As a narrative and visually impressive cinema experience, the film combines the brilliant adventure story with the question of the existence of God […]. A rousing drama condensed into breathtaking images, in which stereoscopy sometimes degenerates into optical adornment, but is mostly used in a remarkably clever way. "
One of the negative reviews comes from Martin Gobbin from Critic.de , who described the film as a feelgood movie with an "awkward plot and completely sugar-coated kitsch":
“Compared to his quiet interpersonal dramas, Lee goes with the bombastic Life of Pi, whose budget of around $ 100 million and thousands of extras bathe. Sometimes, very rarely, the additional titles that German distributors are so happy to add to foreign productions fit. In this case, those three additional words sum up the film perfectly: Shipwreck with Tiger. "
Awards
| price | category | Winner / Nominee | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFI Awards | Film of the year | Ang Lee , Gil Netter, and David Womark | Won |
| Annie Awards | Character animation in a real film adaptation | Orangutan - Erik de Boer, Amanda Dague, Matt Brown, Mary Lynn Machado, Aaron Gray | Nominated |
| Tiger - Erik de Boer, Matt Shumway , Brian Wells, Vinayak Pawar, Michael Holzl | Won | ||
| Chicago Film Critics Association | Best camera | Claudio Miranda | Nominated |
| Critics' Choice Movie Award | Best movie | Nominated | |
| Best director | Ang Lee | Nominated | |
| Best young actor | Suraj Sharma | Nominated | |
| Best adapted script | David Magee | Nominated | |
| Best camera | Claudio Miranda | Won | |
| Best production design | David Gropman (production designer); Anna Pinnock (Set Decorator) | Nominated | |
| Best cut | Tim Squyres | Nominated | |
| Best visual effects | Won | ||
| Best film score | Mychael Danna | Nominated | |
| Golden Globe Awards 2013 | Best Feature Film - Drama | Nominated | |
| Best director | Ang Lee | Nominated | |
| Best original music | Mychael Danna | Won | |
| International 3D Society | Harold Lloyd Award | Ang Lee | Won |
| Las Vegas Film Critics Society | best picture | Won | |
| Best director | Ang Lee | Won | |
| Best camera | Claudio Miranda | Won | |
| Best visual effects | Won | ||
| Best film score | Mychael Danna | Won | |
| Youth in Film | Suraj Sharma | Won | |
| New York Film Critics Online | Best camera | Claudio Miranda | Won |
| Oscars | Best movie | Ang Lee, Gil Netter, David Womark | Nominated |
| Best director | Ang Lee | Won | |
| Best adapted script | David Magee | Nominated | |
| Best camera | Claudio Miranda | Won | |
| Best production design | David Gropman (production designer); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) | Nominated | |
| Best cut | Tim Squyres | Nominated | |
| Sound editing | Eugene Gearty, Philip Stockton | Nominated | |
| Sound mixing | Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill , Drew Kunin | Nominated | |
| Visual effects | Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan de Boer and Donald R. Elliott | Won | |
| Best film score | Mychael Danna | Won | |
| Best song | " Pi's Lullaby " Life of Pi, music by Mychael Danna; Lyrics by Bombay Jayashri | Nominated | |
| Phoenix Film Critics Society | 10 best movies | Won | |
| Best director | Ang Lee | Nominated | |
| Best real family film | Won | ||
| Best original music | Mychael Danna | Nominated | |
| Best camera | Claudio Miranda | Won | |
| Best film editing | Nominated | ||
| Best visual effects | Won | ||
| Breakthrough in front of the camera | Suraj Sharma | Nominated | |
| Satellite Awards | best picture | Nominated | |
| Adapted script | David Magee | Won | |
| Best camera | Claudio Miranda | Won | |
| Best sound and mix of cuts | Drew Kunin, Eugene Gearty, Philip Stockton | Nominated | |
| Best visual effects | Will Westenhofer | Nominated | |
| St. Louis Film Critics | Best movie | Nominated | |
| Best director | Ang Lee | Nominated | |
| Best adapted script | David Magee | Nominated | |
| Best camera | Claudio Miranda | Nominated | |
| Best visual effects | Won | ||
| Washington DC Area Film Critics Association | Best adapted script | David Magee | Nominated |
| Best camera | Claudio Miranda | Won | |
| Ministry of Tourism (India) | National Tourism Award | Ang Lee | Won |
| Academy Jimdo Award | Best movie | Nominated | |
| Best director | Ang Lee | Nominated | |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | David Magee | Nominated | |
| Best camera | Claudio Miranda | Won | |
| Best film score | Nominated | ||
| Best visual effects | Won | ||
| Best film editing | Nominated | ||
| Best sound | Nominated | ||
| Best sound editing | Nominated | ||
| Best production design | Nominated | ||
| Best 3D movie | Won | ||
| Best adventure film | Won |
Web links
- Life of Pi Life of Pi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official page for the film
- Expert opinion from the German Film and Media Assessment - rating particularly valuable
- German dubbing in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Life of Pi: Shipwreck with Tiger in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ Release certificate for Life of Pi: Shipwreck with Tiger . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2012 (PDF; test number: 135 843 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Life of Pi: Shipwreck with Tiger . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Lilian Lin: To Film 'Wolf Totem,' French Director Raised Chinese Wolves in The Wall Street Journal , May 27, 2014.
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Life of Pi: Shipwreck with Tiger. Retrieved February 4, 2018 .
- ↑ KINOaktuell: What you wanted: Münster's cinema year 2013, C. Lou Lloyd, Filminfo No. 4, January 23-29, 2014, p. 24f
- ↑ Life of Pi: Shipwreck with Tiger at filmstarts.de, accessed on January 9, 2013
- ↑ Life of Pi: Shipwreck with Tiger at filmgazette.de, accessed on February 23, 2013
- ↑ Life of Pi: Shipwreck with Tiger at critic.de, accessed on January 9th
- ↑ AFI AWARDS 2012 . 20th December 2013.
- ↑ 40th Annual Annie Awards . December 30, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
- ↑ 18TH ANNUAL CRITICS 'CHOICE MOVIE AWARDS NOMINATIONS . December 14, 2012.
- ↑ 2013 GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS . December 13, 2012.
- ^ "Life of Pi" Director Ang Lee to Receive Harold Lloyd Award at International 3D Society Creative Arts Awards . In: sys-con.com , December 4, 2012.
- ^ Las Vegas Film Critics Society 2012 Awards . December 12th, 2012. Archived from the original on December 29th, 2012 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved December 14, 2012.
- ↑ Academy Awards 2013 . January 16, 2013.
- ^ Phoenix Film Critics Society 2012 Annual Awards . December 20, 2013. Archived from the original on January 28, 2013 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ 2012 Winners . Retrieved December 20, 2013.
- ↑ St. Louis Film Critics Awards Nominees For 2012 Announced . Archived from the original on June 24, 2015 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved December 20, 2013.
- ^ The 2012 WAFCA Awards . December 10, 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
- ^ 'Life of Pi' Bags National Tourism Awards . Retrieved December 14, 2012.
