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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 30, 2012 20:09:59 GMT
They haven't got the shape exactly right and it is missing the corners. That was on QI a while back.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Dec 1, 2012 18:12:21 GMT
Nifty!
If only the book and movie were about something as interesting as math it would be a whole lot more fun!
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Post by Alvamiga on Dec 2, 2012 21:53:51 GMT
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Post by tangent on Dec 2, 2012 22:57:37 GMT
That's awful
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Post by Alvamiga on Dec 3, 2012 8:33:51 GMT
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Post by charliebrown on Dec 3, 2012 10:13:48 GMT
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Post by Miisa on Dec 4, 2012 10:55:56 GMT
The plot sounds a bit like a book I read about 30 years ago. But it was a children's book, and probably not so heavy on the philosophy (but I can't remember). An American Ghost, it was called, about a boy trapped on a raft in a flood with a mountain lion.
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Post by Kye on Dec 19, 2012 16:00:00 GMT
I just saw it last night --in 3D! I was hoping to be impressed, but I wasn't. It was okay, but I liked the book better. There were some nice special effects though.
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Post by Alvamiga on Dec 19, 2012 19:20:53 GMT
I saw the advert for it on the side of a bus this morning and it doesn't look like the sort of thing I might watch. 3D films make me nauseous so I have made some 2D glasses, which I can use to watch the film for a bit to recover.
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Post by Shake on Dec 20, 2012 5:37:16 GMT
Nifty! If only the book and movie were about something as interesting as math it would be a whole lot more fun! Still another reason you and I get along so well! ;D
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Post by juju on Feb 17, 2013 0:19:44 GMT
I finally go to see this movie last night. I was really impressed - Ang Lee is one of my favourite directors, but I realised that the story is a lot deeper and darker than I remembered. It's not just about a quest for spirituality, it's about how humans deal with guilt and very traumatic events. It's beautifully made, but quite disturbing in many ways.
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Post by tangent on Feb 17, 2013 8:45:42 GMT
I must go and see it.
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Post by Alvamiga on Feb 17, 2013 10:12:12 GMT
It just occurred to me... ...they should have made it in 3.141592654D! *Awaits groans* ...I find it disturbing that I just typed that number from memory, hardly ever having used it since school. I normally use the PI button on calculators (after all, that's what it's for) or "pi()" when writing computer programs. ...I got the value of PI right, but then had to correct "distrubing"
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Post by tangent on Feb 17, 2013 14:47:26 GMT
Why the D?
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Post by Miisa on Feb 17, 2013 19:13:51 GMT
Because then it wouldn't be a 3D movie, but a πD movie...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2013 8:01:31 GMT
I still haven't finished reading the book. It's alright, but won't be one of my favourites.
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Post by Karen on Feb 19, 2013 15:12:53 GMT
Ang Lee (the director) discusses the various interpretations of the film: www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/02/which-story-do-you-prefer-how-different-cultures-saw-life-of-pi/273265/I have to say, I cannot generalize. But in Asia, I found, as a group—from India to China and Taiwan—they really enjoyed the third act the most, which is a surprise to me. They perceive it as a thinking movie. Maybe it's because the culture is more skeptical about what they see and what they're told, or maybe it's the Buddism, Hinduism, or Daoism culture ... I don't know what it is exactly, but very commonly, they return to watch the movie again. They take the second story quite literally and start to view the whole journey as a psychological journey that really focuses on what the tiger is to Pi, and not so much as a relationship between a man and a beast. They see it almost as the alter ego of Pi. They love that tragic, disturbing, challenging, and therefore, emotional ending. They love the fact that the tiger doesn't look back. And then they start to decipher what the first story is, why he has to coexist with inner violence and survival instinct. What did he lose? The paradise lost in order to grow up from a boy to a man, what does that mean? Is the tiger related to the father? People really try to decipher the movie.
In Northern Europe, I got a lot of questions about what god is. They would ask me, "What is god to you?" When they see the movie, I would assume, that's what matters to them. So when they ask me, I think they're asking themselves where that internal/external kind of philosophy is.
I hear a lot of the American audience is amazed by the journey, the ocean part. But they find the mention of faith uplifting. Whether you're religious or atheist, just to talk about faith in the very tolerable, reasonable way was uplifting, I would say that's the bulk of reaction. Some were amazed that you can put a little bit of thinking at the end and give a different perspective.
In Latin American—particularly Mexico—they rated the movie G. It's a family movie. They really enjoy the journey. They're Catholic, most of them, and I asked them, "what about the second story?" They say, "Oh, it doesn't matter. How wonderful [the film] is, regardless of the second story, we can still enjoy the first one. Faith is a good thing. Let's enjoy it and celebrate it."
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Post by juju on Feb 21, 2013 18:35:09 GMT
*SPOILER*
My husband was quite disturbed by the movie, which he thought was essentially about cannibalism. I must admit that I had forgotten the second part, and it disturbed me more than I thought it would - the realisation that the whole thing was just a fantasy to cope with the guilt of a horrific experience.
'Which story do you prefer?' 'The first one' 'And so it is with God'
In other words, we choose what to believe in order to make our lives meaningful and cope with disaster.
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Post by Kye on Feb 21, 2013 19:17:28 GMT
Or God prefers to see us in the light of fantasy.
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Post by jayme on Feb 23, 2013 2:48:09 GMT
Because then it wouldn't be a 3D movie, but a πD movie... Then it would be a circumference movie.
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