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Life of pi zoo zebra drawing10/2/2023 ![]() Lee’s screenwriter David Magee ‘solved’ the problem of adapting the unadaptable with a great deal of voiceover, which covers the ruminations on God turned up by Pi’s rummaging through eclectic faiths. The job of filming Martel’s book passed through many hands over the last decade before finally landing in Lee’s. Nothing in Ang Lee’s film dispels that impression. I have, though, never read Martel’s book: based on the it-will-change-your-life tenor of recommendations by the converted, I assumed it to be ‘wisdom literature’ residing somewhere in the neighbourhood of Kahlil Gibran and Jonathan Livingston Seagull. ![]() Its provenance is literary, based on the Canadian author Yann Martel’s 2001 novel of the same name. Life of Pi does not, at first, seem a promising candidate to add to this list. ![]() Anderson, however, is the worthier inheritor of Lang’s master-builder mantle.) Christopher Nolan’s strongest suit, his spectacular orchestration of catastrophe as it trickles through every stratum of a city’s life, owes a great deal to the Fritz Lang of UFA. Griffith’s Intolerance was the obvious precedent for the Wachowski siblings and Tom Tykwer in their Cloud Atlas, while Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life and, on a far more modest scale, Miguel Gomes’s Tabu draw more or less overtly on the legacy of Murnau. Ravi Patel aged 18/19 years Vibish Sivakumarĭistributor 20th Century Fox International International (UK)ĭ.W. Supervising Sound Editors Eugene Gearty, Philip Stockton Produced by Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark US/Taiwan/Australia/United Kingdom/Canada 2012 This extends not only to such obvious content-based examples as 2011’s The Artist and Hugo, but to a bevy of films that, in their frame of visual reference and the superfluity of their dialogue, hearken back to a world that supposedly ended in 1927. If this is, as many would have it, the fin de cinéma, then the dying of the light is playing a curious trick on the eyes: the silent cinema – doesn’t it seem? – has never been nearer.
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