Life of Pi bags 11 Oscar nominations!!12/01/2013
After captivating critics and masses alike and the box-office by earning the status of 2012's No 1 Hollywood Film in India, Ang Lee's 3D magnum opus LIFE OF PI has done India immensely proud with 11 nominations in the prestigious Oscars aka the Academy Awards to be held shortly!!
In what is surely one of the proudest and historic moments for fans across India, Fox Star Studios' stunning visual drama starring rising star and debutante Suraj Sharma along with stalwarts Irrfan Khan and Tabu have sweeped the Oscar nominations by winning a nomination in eleven categories just announced: 1. Best Director 2. Best Film 3. Adapted Screenplay 4. Cinematography 5. Music Original Score 6. Music Original Song 7. Film Editing 8. Production Design 9. Sound Editing 10. Sound Mixing 11. Visual Effects The Oscar front runner has far exceeded all expectations, overcoming perceived obstacles such the story being popularly called ''unfilmable'', its cast a complete unknown with its main lead Suraj Sharma a debutante, LIFE OF PI being Ang's first 3D film and a CGI tiger that is almost impossible to differentiate from a living creature!
The film is about a 16-year old boy named Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, who survives a shipwreck in which his family dies, and is stranded in the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. His family is moving to Canada, and one night, the ship encounters a heavy storm and begins to sink while Pi is on deck marveling at the storm. He tries to find his family, but a crew member throws him into a lifeboat; from the rough sea, he watches helplessly as the ship sinks, killing his family and its crew. After the storm, Pi finds himself in the lifeboat with an injured zebra, and is joined by an orangutan who lost her offspring in the shipwreck. A spotted hyena emerges from the tarp covering half of the boat, and kills the zebra. To Pi's distress, the hyena also mortally wounds the orangutan in a fight. Suddenly Richard Parker emerges from under the tarp, and kills and eats the hyena. The lifeboat eventually reaches the coast of Mexico. The tiger looks into the jungle for a while and goes in. Pi, too weak to follow, lies in the sand. He is rescued by a group who carry him to hospital, but he weeps that the tiger had walked away without him. In hospital, insurance agents for the Japanese freighter come to hear his account of the incident. They find his story unbelievable, and ask him to tell them what "really" happened, if only for the credibility of their report. He answers with a less fantastic but detailed account of sharing the lifeboat with his mother, a sailor with a broken leg, and the cook. In this story, the cook kills the sailor to use him as bait and food. In a later struggle, Pi's mother pushes him to safety on a smaller raft, and the cook stabs her as she falls overboard to the sharks. Later, Pi returns to grab the knife and kills the cook. A commercial success, Life of Pi has earned an estimated $392,896,152 worldwide. Life of Pi received mostly favorable reviews from film critics. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, the director James Cameron highlighted the use of 3D in the film stating that - "Life of Pi breaks the paradigm that 3-D has to be some big, action fantasy spectacle, superhero movie [....] The movie is visually amazing, inventive, and it works on you in ways you’re not really aware of. It takes you on a journey, and unless you’ve read the book -- which I hadn’t -- you have no idea where that journey is going. It does what good 3-D is supposed to do, which is, it allows you to forget you’re watching a 3-D movie." |
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