Life of Pi ... A Remarkable Film

[Fred Weiss]

We watched the movie Life of Pi recently. What a remarkable piece of movie making! How they did it is still a mystery to me. How do you get a boy, a Bengal tiger, a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a rat all in a lifeboat and keep it looking real the entire time?

[video=youtube;9BrD_v5Vt70]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BrD_v5Vt70[/video]

 

[sardocs]

The movie was really good, but I just finished reading the book and it's one of the best novels I've read in years.

 

[JERHEMI]

Just watched it for the first time last night on HBO...excellent movie!

 

[PRS Bryan]

I will see it when the "Adult" version comes on on video.

Oddly enough the title will remain unchanged.

 

[phototec]

Fred, the Life of Pi is a great film, however I hate to bust your bubble, but all the animals in the boat are CG, even most of the water and the sky.

This entire film was shot in #D using 2K HD digital cameras and not 4K which is amazing.

[video=youtube;pNoEYvNXO0M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNoEYvNXO0M[/video]

 

[ddarlak]

How do you get a boy, a Bengal tiger, a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a rat all in a lifeboat and keep it looking real the entire time?

I took that as sarcastic.....





either i know fred.... or i don't

 

[SignManiac]

How do you get a boy, a Bengal tiger, a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a rat all in a lifeboat and keep it looking real the entire time?

[video=youtube;9BrD_v5Vt70]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BrD_v5Vt70[/video]

The same way Noah did of course. With a ramp!

 

[John Butto]

The next thing Phototec is going to tell us is that Superman really does not fly in the movie. Say it ain't so Fred.

 

[Fred Weiss]

Fred, the Life of Pi is a great film, however I hate to bust your bubble, but all the animals in the boat are CG, even most of the water and the sky.

This entire film was shot in #D using 2K HD digital cameras and not 4K which is amazing.

[video=youtube;pNoEYvNXO0M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNoEYvNXO0M[/video]

No bubble burst. I realize it was a combination of CG and reality. The visual effects were done by Rhythm and Hues, took more than three years to complete and Rhythm and Hues ended up in Chapter 11 bankruptcy afterwards.

If you haven't seen the film, my reference was to the scenes during and immediately following the shipwreck where we see all the animals end up in the lifeboat and the incredibly realistic interaction that occurs.