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Teen Pie's Fantastic Drift Teen Pie's Fantastic Drift is based on Yann Martel's popular novel of the same name. Directed by Hollywood Chinese director Ang Lee, the movie tells the story of Junior Pie and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker's 227-day journey adrift at sea. The Fantastic Drift of Junior Pie had its world premiere at the New York Film Festival on September 28, 2012, and was officially released on November 22, 2012 in China. At the 85th Oscars, Ang Lee won 4 Oscars for Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects and Best Original Score for "Junior's Drift".
Chinese name: 少年派的奇幻漂流
External name: Life of Pi
Other translations: 少年Pi的奇幻漂流,漂流少年Pi
Production date: 2012
Production company: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Production area: the United States
Director: Ang Lee
Writer: David Margo
Producer: Jill Netter
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Starring: Sura Sharma, Rafi Spall, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussan
Length: 127 mins
Release Date: 22 Nov 2012 (China)
Rating: USA:PGP
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Dialogue Language: English
Color: Color
imdb Code: tt0454876
"Young Pi's Bizarre Adventure" Main Characters Main Characters ? Young Pi (Sula Sharma)
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Expand EditBasic Info Teenage Fantasy
[1] Directed by Ang Lee
Written by Yann Martel/David McKee
Starring Suraj Sharma/Rafe Spall ( Rafe Spall / Irfan Khan / Gérard Depardieu / Tabu / Adil Hussain / Ayush Tandon / Shravanthi Sainath[2]
Genre: Fantasy / Drama / Adventure
Production Country/Region: United States
Language: English[3]
Format: IMAX+3D Version/3D Version
Release Date: 2012-09-28(New York Festivals) / 2012-11-21(U.S.A.) / 2012-11-22(Mainland China)
Length: 127 mins
AKA: Teenage Pi's Fantasy Drift / Drift Junior Pi
"The Fantastic Drift of Junior Pi" beautiful stills (20) Ang Lee nominated the 85th Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Score, Best Editing, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Visual Effects, Best Art Direction, and eleven other nominations for the "Fantastic Drift of Junior Pi"[4] and won the Best Director award. It also won four awards, including Best Director[5], Best Cinematography[6], Best Visual Effects and Best Original Score. [2][7]
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The Teenage Fanatic TrailerThe story begins and ends in Montreal. A writer (Rafe Spall) looking for inspiration overhears the legend of Pai Patel (Irrfan Khan). Pai's father (Adil Hussain) owns a zoo. As a result of this unique environment, Pai (Suraj Sharma) has his own views on faith and human nature. When Pai turns 17, his parents decide to emigrate to Canada in search of a better life, and he must leave his first love behind.
The protagonist, Pie's father, runs a zoo, which has given him a great deal of insight into animal behavior since he was a child. When the family moves to Canada, they meet a cruel French chef (Gérard Depardieu) on a ship, and some of the zoo's animals are with them, as his father intends to sell them at a high price while he can. However, the freighter sinks midway and all of Pie's family are killed.
When the Japanese freighter wrecks, Pai and his lifeboat are smashed into the sea by a zebra that falls from the ship, and he survives by landing on the lifeboat's hatch cloth. He began a 227-day journey at sea, and he was in the lifeboat at the same time, in addition to the zebra with a broken leg, there is a hyena, an orangutan and an adult Bengal tiger. Due to a mistake by the zoo management, the Bengal tiger was registered with the name of a proper gentleman: Richard Parker. During his first three days on the lifeboat, the hyena bites the zebra, bites the orangutan, and Richard Parker kills the hyena. And so begins the story of 17-year-old Pai's survival at sea, as his initial wariness of Richard Parker and his desire to kill each other gradually turns into mutual dependence and a driving force for Pai's survival.
The Tiger's Name
Richard Parker is the name of the 17-year-old protagonist in a true story of a cannibalistic shipwreck.In 1884, the Mignonette sank, leaving a crew of four stranded in the South Atlantic Ocean, and in addition to the three ship's crew members there was also a manservant named Richard Parker. Adrift, the 3 adult crew members, their sanity gone, kill Parker and share him for survival.
In some English contexts, "Richard Parker" is often associated with shipwreck, implying drift and fratricide. [8]
Moral of the story
The movie follows the journey of Pai and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, who spend 227 days at sea. The movie has been a hit on the mainland since its release. The movie has been a big hit in mainland China since its release, and the heated debate over the validity of the two different versions of the "drifting story" given by Pai at the end of the movie is even more thought-provoking.
Irfan Khan, an actor in the adult faction, said in an interview, "This movie is a teenager's adventure on the surface
The Fantastic Drift of Junior Faction Posters (8), but in fact, it hides a lot of metaphors, and there are a lot of parallel spaces, a lot of layers."
Writer Ma Boyong offered his opinion in the movie review "Ang Lee's Metaphorical Forest and the Three Stories of Junior Pai," arguing that in fact the first and second stories are broken, the first one is too unreal to be true, but the second story also has its own broken pai in evading the question about where his mother is going. Therefore, Ma Boyong proposed his own "third story": Pai actually ate his own mother. [
The first story: The drift between man and tiger is illusory
The first story is about the "drift" between Pai and the tiger, which the movie spends a great deal of time depicting.
Pie is a teenager born in India and practicing both Christianity, Islam and Hinduism, and his father runs a zoo. As Pai's family moves to Canada, the ship they are traveling on is caught in a storm and sinks at sea. All of Pai's family is killed, but Pai survives by landing on the hatch cover of a lifeboat with a hyena, a zebra with a broken leg, a female orangutan, and a full-grown Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
During the first three days of the rafting trip, the hyena killed the orangutan, ate the zebra alive, and the tiger killed the hyena, leaving Pai with the tiger. Knowing that he can't defeat the tiger, Pai finally chooses to face the rafting life with him. 7 months, he has to collect fresh water, catch fish and shrimp, and he has to use all his sea survival skills to feed the tiger and keep himself alive. After all the challenges and tribulations, they were rescued from the beach in Mexico, while the tiger disappeared without looking back.
If that's where the plot of "Junior's Bizarre Adventure" ends, it would be lackluster indeed. But that is, until Pie tells a second, supposedly fabricated story: there are no animals on the lifeboat, just a cook, a sailor with a broken leg, Pie and his mother. The cook kills and eats the sailor, then kills his mother, and Pie can't stand it any longer, so he kills and eats the cook and survives. As the back-and-forth sequence flashes in and out of your mind, the snarky details that didn't seem to have a deeper meaning before become a pretext for the whole story to come together, breaking up the otherwise harmonious and fantastical adventure into a somewhat brutal and unforgiving tale of blood and gore.
In other words, the man and the tiger in the first story are a projection of the celestial battle between humanity and the beast in the second. Unwilling to face up to the reality of cannibalism, Pai has to split in two into a fantastical drift of man and tiger. [9]
The second story: the true whereabouts of the mother are concealed
The course of the second story: Pai, his mother, the sailor and the cook board a lifeboat. The sailor is injured and dies quickly. The cook eats him. Pie then accidentally releases a turtle and is beaten by the cook. The mother argues with the cook and is killed by the cook. The cook throws the mother's body into the ocean to feed the sharks. Pie kills the chef in anger and eats him.
In this story, the various elements correspond perfectly to the first story, mother=orangutan, chef=hyena, sailor=zebra
Screenshots of Teen Pie's Fantasy Drift episode (26), tiger=Pie's instincts, which seem so perfect and logical that even the most rational insurance company is on the verge of agreeing with it, but which has two breaks in it.
The first brokenness is bananas. When Pie tells the first story, it says that the orangutan came in a floating banana. The insurance investigator immediately pointed out that bananas don't float. When Pie tells the second story, there is surprisingly no revision of this detail, still insisting that the mom came in a floating banana. It doesn't matter whether bananas float in reality. In the world of the movie, the insurance investigator's pointing out that bananas don't float represents a kind of common sense that functions to draw out the anti-common sense in the story Pie tells, and the internal logic is self-consistent.
The second breakdown is the death of the mom. The cook was a man obsessed with food; he would eat rats and kill sailors to use the meat as bait. To him, every piece of meat was extremely valuable. But when mom died, the cook didn't eat her and threw her into the sea to feed the sharks it was a waste, especially since the cook had already eaten the sailor, and for him, the biggest psychological barrier had been removed, there was no reason why he would do such a wasteful act.
The second story, which is already very satisfying in itself, has these two rather striking additional snake feet. In fact, they are also labels deliberately kept in place to remind the audience that the second story isn't true either, or at least conceals some of the truth.
Both of these breakdowns have to do with the mother. There is no doubt that the truth concealed in the second story is the whereabouts of the mother." [9]
The third story: it's Pie who eats his own mother
Ann Lee likes to use various metaphors to repeatedly reinforce the present-metaphor relationship. The teenage pie and the tiger are the most striking of these, but there is another pair of vernacular metaphors that are easily overlooked.
Mother and Lotus. The relationship between Lotus and Mother is so close that it has been hinted at prominently twice before this. Once at the beginning, when the mother draws the lotus flower with chalk on the floor for Pie to see. Once in the middle of the movie, when Pie looks down at the bottom of the ocean, first the fish form into a lotus flower, then the mother's face, and finally superimposed on the shipwreck. So it's accurate to say that the lotus flower represents Pai's thoughts and love for his mother.
Meanwhile, Ang Lee has arranged for Ananti to explain the dance to Pai, leading to an important metaphor for the lotus flower: the lotus in the forest The mongoose, which appears in the movie,[9]
flower. When Pai asks Anandi what the lotus flower in the forest means, she doesn't answer. It's not until we get to one of the most pivotal episodes of the entire movie: Cannibal Island, that the realization dawns. Pai picks a lotus flower in the forest at night, and when he opens it, there is a human tooth inside. And so the "lotus flower in the forest" metaphor and reference is complete.
The first story is Pai's fantasy. His actions on the island, then, must be a projection of various realities as they occur. The lotus flower is Pai's thoughts of his mother; the human teeth in the lotus flower represent her remains, i.e., death. And the mother's body is, in fact, the entire cannibalistic island.
The island is the mother, and the acid tide that rises under the island is the mother's downfall.
The acid tide is a metaphor with an unusually clear and horrific meaning. If you want to express the imagery of the mother's death, there are many ways to do it, the simplest being, for example, the tide slowly flooding the island, representing the mother's drowning; or the sharks gnawing at the roots of the island, representing the burial in the shark's belly, and so on....... But Ang Lee chose an extraordinary metaphor, one that has almost nothing to do with the ocean at all: acid. This acid, naturally, is human stomach acid. The acid tide pounces on the island, and the imagery suggests that the mother was eaten, digested by stomach acid, so the remains are represented by teeth.
Pie ate the roots of the plant on the island, and the tiger ate the fox, which is an allusion to mother-eating. There is an argument that the rhizome and the fox represent the muscle fibers and maggots of the corpse and represent cannibalism, and these two metaphors can't be found in the movie at a point of reference. If Ang Lee were to set up a metaphor, he wouldn't just set it up once, he would repeat it many times or find another point of reference, so it's debatable whether or not this conjecture is valid, and whether or not it needs to be insinuated to such a degree of detail. But the mother-eater is conclusive."
There's also a suggestion that there's another allusion about what happens to the mother. In the first half of the movie, during Pai's childhood, his mother tells Pai that the Hindu god Krishna, also known as the "black sky," eats dirt, and that the black sky "holds the whole universe in its mouth. In the middle of the movie, Pai and the tiger look down at the bottom of the sea, and the fish and jellyfish and coral are constantly changing to look like the universe, then to a lotus flower, then to the face of the mother and the shipwreck. Not only is this imagery of eating the mother, but the shipwreck also seems to represent Pai's belief that he has devoured the entire ship's chances of survival in order to survive, with a sense of reflection on bestiality.
Ma Boyong concluded his review by saying, "Ang Lee depicts the first story extremely beautifully, but skimps on the second to the point of not having a single shot, and is even willing to carry the third story only in metaphor. He wraps reality within a nice sugar coating and puts a cruel sandwich inside reality and hands it to everyone. The writers and insurance companies believed the first story; Piper himself believed the second. How many layers of sugar paper the audience is willing to peel away is up to them.
When Ang Lee was asked about the second story in an interview, his evasive answer, that the story was filmed and then handed over to the audience, was a smart move, giving up the most authoritative power of directorial interpretation and letting the audience keep the debate going. Indifference is a sure-fire way for a movie to maintain its long-lasting appeal. So we don't have to expect definitive answers from him, just trust your heart." [9]