The official site for Life of Pi is newly flush with some cool content. As you enter the site, you are greeted with a brief clip of what looks like the beginning of a tiger mauling. Of course, in the book by Yann Martel, the Bengal tiger named Richard Parker kills a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra—everyone but our protagonist Pi (played by Suraj Sharma) as he and Richard Parker are stranded out at sea for 227 days. After the clip, you can click around to find four watercolor-like images from the movie accompanied a snippet from the soaring score. It’s a very impressionist glimpse into the film, but with a captivating premise in the very capable hands of director Ang Lee, I really like what I see. I am now disappointed that I opted for the 2D screening of Prometheus, since a scene from Life of Pi played in front of the 3D showings.
Tobey Maguire, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain, and Gerard Depardieu co-star in the adaptation. Life of Pi opens on November 21. Hit the jump for the images and the clip.
To listen to the song, head to the official Life of Pi site.
[via Lebanese Movie Guide].
Here’s the book synopsis:
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 who 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? [Amazon]
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I really wish people would stop posting that book synopsis. It hints at a major plot twist.
This site is pretty bad for it (Especailly Goldberg)
Just look away and carry on I suppose….
I saw Prometheus in IMAX 3D and there was no scene/trailer for Life of Pi; was it only for regular 3D showings?
It says right on the images, Non-IMAX.
Ah didn’t catch that. Well I guess I’ll wait for the scenes to go online, I liked Prometheus but I don’t think I’ll be seeing it a second time.
the uk screening of prometheus 3d only is showing a 6 minute the amazing spiderman preview
RAWRRRRRRRRRRRR!
I saw the most bizarre scene from this before Prometheus and the audience laughed and was like, ‘what the hell was that?’. They might want to explain it a little more for those of us that don’t know what it is.
The scene dealt with a swarm of flying fish overwhelming the boat just as the tiger is about to attack the boy. The 3D was nifty enough, but shown out of context, the scene seemed to go on f…o…r…e…v…e…r.
What?! You mean that wasn’t an ad for Frosted Flakes?
Visually very striking and beautiful clip. I’m sure it made an impression on people, but I’m not sure it would have made people want to see the film, because you don’t get any sense where it goes next.