LIFE OF PI [3D] [2012 / 2013] [3 Disc Collector’s Edition] [3D Blu-ray + 2D Blu-ray + DVD Digital Copy] The Next AVATAR! A Visual Miracle! A Stunning Masterpiece!
Embark on the adventure of a lifetime in this visual masterpiece from Oscar Award® winner Ang Lee Director of ‘Brokeback Mountain’ [2005] and based on the best-selling novel “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel. After a cataclysmic shipwreck, young Pi Patel finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with the only other survivor a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Bound by the need to survive, the two are cast on an epic journey that must be seen to be believed.
FILM FACT No.1: Awards and Nominations: 2012 Awards Circuit Community Awards: Win: Best Cinematography for Claudio Miranda. Win: Best Visual Effects. Nomination: Best Director for Ang Lee. Nomination: Best Film Editing for Tim Squyres. Nomination: Best Original Score for Mychael Danna. 2012 Black Film Critics Circle Awards: Win: Best Cinematography for Claudio Miranda. Win: Top Ten Film. 2012 Golden Schmoes Awards: Nomination: Trippiest Movie of the Year. Nomination: Best Special Effects of the Year. Nomination: Breakthrough Performance of the Year for Suraj Sharma. 2013 Academy Awards®: Win: Best Achievement in Directing for Ang Lee. Win: Best Achievement in Cinematography for Claudio Miranda. Win: Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score for Mychael Danna. Win: Best Achievement in Visual Effects for Bill Westenhofer, Donald Elliott, Erik De Boer and Guillaume Rocheron. Nomination: Best Motion Picture of the Year for Ang Lee, David Womark and Gil Netter. Nomination: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay for David Magee. Nomination: Best Achievement in Film Editing for Tim Squyres. Nomination: Best Achievement in Sound Mixing for Doug Hemphill, Drew Kunin and Ron Bartlett. Nomination: Best Achievement in Sound Editing for Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton. Nomination: Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song for Bombay Jayashri (lyrics) and Mychael Danna (music) for the song "Pi's Lullaby." Nomination: Best Achievement in Production Design for Anna Pinnock (set decorator) and David Gropman (production designer). 2013 Golden Globes: Win: Best Original Score in a Motion Picture for Mychael Danna. Nomination: Best Motion Picture in a Drama. Nomination: Best Director in a Motion Picture for Ang Lee. 2013 BAFTA Film Awards: Win: Best Cinematography for Claudio Miranda. Win: Best Special Visual Effects for Bill Westenhofer, Donald Elliott, Erik De Boer and Guillaume Rocheron. Nomination: Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music for Mychael Danna. Nomination: BAFTA Children's Award for BAFTA Kids Vote for Feature Film. Nomination: BAFTA Film Award for Best Film for Ang Lee, David Womark and Gil Netter. Nomination: BAFTA Film Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for David Magee. Nomination: BAFTA Film Award for Best Editing for Tim Squyres. Nomination: BAFTA Film Award for Best Production Design for Anna Pinnock and David Gropman. Nomination: BAFTA Film Award for Best Sound for Drew Kunin, Eugene Gearty, Ron Bartlett and Philip Stockton. Nomination: David Lean Award for Direction for Best Director for Ang Lee. 2013 3D Creative Arts Awards: Win: Lumiere Award for Best International 3D Feature in Live Action for Ang Lee and Fox 2000 Pictures. Win: Lumiere Award for Best Stereography in Live Action for Ang Lee and Fox 2000 Pictures. 2013 AACTA International Awards: Nomination: Best Direction for Ang Lee. Nomination: Best Film for Ang Lee, David Womark and Gil Netter. 2013 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA: Win: Best Fantasy Film. Win: Best Performance by a Younger Actor for Suraj Sharma. Nomination: Best Director for Ang Lee. Nomination: Best Writing for David Magee. Nomination: Best Production Design for Anna Pinnock and David Gropman. Nomination: Best Editing for Tim Squyres. Nomination: Best Music for Mychael Danna. Nomination: Best Special Effects for Bill Westenhofer, Donald Elliott, Erik De Boer and Guillaume Rocheron. 2013 AFI Awards, USA: Win: Movie of the Year. 2013 American Cinema Editors, USA: Nomination: Best Edited Dramatic Feature Film for Tim Squyres. 2013 American Society of Cinematographers: Nomination: Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Feature Film for Claudio Miranda. 2013 Annie Awards: Win: Character Animation in a Live Action Production for Brian R. Wells, Erik De Boer, Matt Shumway, Michael Holzl and Vinayak Pawar for "Tiger." Nomination: Character Animation in a Live Action Production for Aaron Grey, Amanda Dague, Erik De Boer, Mary Lynn Machado and Matt Brown for "Orangutan." 2013 Art Directors Guild: Win: Excellence in Production Design Award for Fantasy Film for Al Hobbs (art director), Anna Pinnock (set decorator), Dan Webster (supervising art director), David Gropman (production designer), David Meeking (scenic artist), Easton Smith (set designer), Giacomo G. Ghiazza (storyboard artist), Huei-Li Liao (set designer), Hui Chen (set designer), James F. Truesdale (art director), Jim Hewitt (set designer), Jing-Heng Ding (graphic designer), Joanna Bush (illustrator), Paul Gelinas (assistant art director), Ravi Srivastava (art director), Sarah Contant (set designer) and Scot Erb (model maker). 2013 BMI Film & TV Awards: BMI Film Music Award for Film Music for Mychael Danna. 2013 British Society of Cinematographers: Nomination: GBCT Operators Award for Lucas Bielan. 2013 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards: Win: Critics Choice Award for Best Cinematography for Claudio Miranda. Win: Critics Choice Award for Best Visual Effects. Nomination: Critics Choice Award for Best Picture. Nomination: Critics Choice Award for Best Young Actor/Actress for Suraj Sharma. Nomination: Critics Choice Award for Best Director for Ang Lee. Nomination: Critics Choice Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for David Magee. Nomination: Critics Choice Award for Best Art Direction for Anna Pinnock (set decorator) and David Gropman (production designer). Nomination: Critics Choice Award for Best Editing for Tim Squyres. Nomination: Critics Choice Award for Best Score for Mychael Danna. 2013 Camerimage: Nomination: Best 3D Feature Film for Claudio Miranda. 2013 Casting Society of America: Nomination: Outstanding Achievement in Casting in a Big Budget Feature in a Drama for Avy Kaufman (casting director). 2013 Cinema Brazil Grand Prize: Nomination: Best Foreign-Language Film (Melhor Filme Estrangeiro) for Ang Lee USA. 2013 CinEuphoria Awards: Win: Top Ten of the Year for the Audience Award for Ang Lee. Win: Best Film for the Audience Award for Ang Lee. 2013 David di Donatello Awards: Nomination: Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero) for Ang Lee. 2013 Directors Guild of America: Nomination: Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures for Ang Lee. 2013 Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association: Win: Dorian Award for Visually Striking Film of the Year. 2013 Gold Derby Awards: Win: Original Score for Mychael Danna. Win: Cinematography for Claudio Miranda. Win: Visual Effects for Bill Westenhofer, Donald Elliott, Erik De Boer and Guillaume Rocheron. Nomination: Director for Ang Lee. Nomination: Production Design for David Gropman. Nomination: Film Editing for Tim Squyres. Nomination: Original Song for Bombay Jayashri and Mychael Danna for "Pi's Lullaby." Nomination: Sound for Doug Hemphill, Drew Kunin, Eugene Gearty, Philip Stockton and Ron Bartlett. 2013 Hollywood Post Alliance: Win: Outstanding Color Grading for the Feature Film for David Cole and Technicolor. 2013 International Film Music Critics Award: Win: Film Score of the Year for Mychael Danna. Nomination: Best Original Score for a Drama Film for Mychael Danna. Nomination: Film Music Composition of the Year for Bombay Jayashri and Mychael Danna for Track: "Pi's Lullaby." 2013 London Critics Circle Film Awards: Win: Director of the Year for Ang Lee. Win: Technical Achievement of the Year for Bill Westenhofer (visual effects). Nomination: Film of the Year. Nomination: Technical Achievement of the Year for Claudio Miranda (cinematography). 2013 Motion Picture Sound Editors: Win: Filmmaker's Award for Ang Lee. Win: Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing in Music in a Feature Film for Erich Stratmann (music editor) and Mitch Bederman (additional music editor). Win: Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing in Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Film for Eugene Gearty (supervising sound editor), Kenton Jakub (supervising adr editor) and Philip Stockton (supervising sound editor). Nomination: Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing in Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film for Eugene Gearty (supervising sound editor, sound designer, sound effects editor), Frank Kern (supervising foley editor), Jamie Baker (editor), John Morris (sound effects editor), Kam Chan (editor), Marko A. Costanzo (foley artist) and Philip Stockton (supervising sound editor). 2013 MTV Movie + TV Awards: Win: MTV Movie Award for Best Scared-As-S**t Performance for Suraj Sharma. Nomination: MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Performance for Suraj Sharma. 2013 Palm Springs International Film Festival: Win: Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing for Mychael Danna. 2013 PGA Awards: Nomination: Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures for Ang Lee, David Womark and Gil Netter. 2013 Rembrandt Awards: Nomination: Best International Film (Beste Buitenlandse Film). 2013 Society of Camera Operators: Nomination: Camera Operator of the Year Award for Feature Film for Lucas Bielan. 2013 The Operators Award: Nomination: Feature Film for Lucas Bielan (camera operator). 2013 USC Scripter Award: Nomination: David Magee (screenwriter) and Yann Martel (author). 2013 Visual Effects Society Awards: Win: Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture for Bill Westenhofer, Donald Elliott, Guillaume Rocheron and Susan MacLeod. Win: Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture for Betsy Asher Hall, Erik De Boer, Kai-Hua Lan and Sean Comer for "Richard Parker." Win: Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture for David Stopford, Derek Wolfe, Harry Mukhopadhyay and Mark Williams for "Storm of God." Win: Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture for Hamish Schumacher, Jose Fernández de Castro, Ryan B. Clarke and Sean O'Hara for "Storm of God." Nomination: Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture for Jason Bayever, Jimmy Jewell, Sho Hasegawa and Walt Jones for "Open Ocean." Nomination: Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture for David Horsley, Jason Bayever, Miles Vignol and Scotty Townsend for "Ocean." 2013 World Soundtrack Awards: Win: Film Composer of the Year for Mychael Danna. Win: Best Original Film Score of the Year for Mychael Danna. Nomination: Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film for Bombay Jayashri (music, lyrics and performance) and Mychael Danna (music and lyrics) for the song "Pi's Lullaby." 2013 Writers Guild of America: Nomination: Best Adapted Screenplay for David Magee (screenplay) based on the novel by Yann Martel. 2014 Grammy Awards: Nomination: Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for Mychael Danna.
FILM FACT No.2: Ang Lee, on the use of water and the spiritual element of ‘LIFE OF PI,’ on 17th November, 2012, said “I wanted to use water because the film is talking about faith and it contains fish, life and every emotion for Pi. And air is God, heaven and something spiritual and death. That's how I see it. I believe the thing we call faith or God is our emotional attachment to the unknown. I'm Chinese; I believe in the Taoist Buddha. We don't talk about a deity, who is very much like this book; we're not talking about religion but God in the abstract sense, something to overpower you.” The film's musical score was composed by Mychael Danna, who previously wrote the music to Ang Lee's films ‘The Ice Storm’ and ‘Ride with the Devil.’ A soundtrack album of the music was released by Sony Classical Records on 16th November, 2012. The album features the track "Pi's Lullaby," which was co-written by Mychael Danna and Bombay Jayashri, who performs the song in Tamil. A 2013 investigation by the Hollywood Reporter brought to light leaked emails suggesting that animals involved in the filming of ‘LIFE OF PI’ had been mistreated during the filming despite the American Humane Association's "No Animals Were Harmed" certification on the film. In a 7th April, 2011, ACA monitor, Gina Johnson, wrote that "last week we almost killed King." The email goes on to suggest that the incident, in which the tiger apparently nearly drowned while filming a scene, would be "downplayed" in the official report to the ACA. Additionally, the exposé alleges that Johnson was involved in a romantic relationship with one of the film's producers, possibly representing a conflict of interest. ‘LIFE OF PI’ director Ang Lee has described the animal abuse allegations as "an accident" in interviews. Following the publication of the Hollywood Reporter investigation, Gina Johnson resigned from her position with the ACA.
Cast: Gautam Belur, Ayush Tandon, Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, Tabu, Adil Hussain, Ayan Khan, Mohamed Abbas, Vibish Sivakumar, Gérard Depardieu, Po-Chieh Wang, Shravanthi Sainath, Andrea Di Stefano and Elie Alouf
Director: Ang Lee
Producers: Ang Lee, David Womark and Gil Netter
Screenplay: David Magee
Composer: Mychael Danna
Cinematography: Claudio Miranda (Director of Photography)
Image Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: English: 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
English: 5.1 Descriptive Audio
Spanish: 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround
French: 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround
German: 5.1 DTS Surround
English: 2.0 Dolby Digital Stereo Audio
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish and German
Running Time: 185 minutes
Region: Blu-ray: All Regions + DVD: NTSC
Number of discs: 3
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Andrew’s 3D Blu-ray Review: Director Ang Lee brings Yann Martel's “unfilmable” Booker Prize-winning novel ‘LIFE OF PI’ to the screen with dazzling effect. Suraj Sharma stars as “Pi” Patel, a 16 year-old zookeeper's son from Pondicherry, who finds himself stranded on a small boat in the Pacific Ocean in the company of a Bengal tiger following the shipwreck of the freighter on which he and his family were sailing for Canada. Over the course of several months Pi manages to survive on the meagre supplies of food and water he finds on the boat, and also takes up fishing, while in his half-delirious state he muses on various aspects of animal behaviour, religion and the meaning of life.
The Taiwan-born Ang Lee rapidly established himself in the 1990s as one of the world's most versatile film-makers, moving on from the trilogy of movies about Chinese families that made his name to Jane Austen's England ‘Sense and Sensibility’ and Richard Nixon's America ‘The Ice Storm.’ Ang Lee likes to adopt different styles to fit his new subjects, and while there are certain recurrent themes, among them the disruption of families and young people facing moral and physical challenges, there are no obsessive concerns of the sort once considered a necessity for auteurs. He has a fastidious eye for a great image but he also has a concern for language.
Ang Lee’s stunning and magnificent 3D film is adapted from the Yann Martel's Booker prize-winning novel “Life of Pi” which was finally adapted for screenplay by the American writer David Magee, whose previous credits were films set in England during the first half of the 20th century, ‘Finding Neverland’ and ‘Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.’ From its opening scene of animals and birds strutting and preening themselves in a sunlit zoo to the final credits of fish and nautical objects shimmering beneath the sea, the movie has a sense of the mysterious, the magical. This effect is compounded by the hallucinatory 3D, which is awesome, compared to when I went to the cinema to see it in 3D and I was not very impressed, where this 3D Blu-ray is out of this world and is so lifelike seeing via the 3D Blu-ray.
The form of the film is a story within a story within a story. An unnamed Canadian author whom we assume to be Yann Martel himself [Rafe Spall] who I thought had a most aggravating Canadian accent and why couldn’t they have got a Canadian actor to do this part? Anyway we find Rafe Spall with the adult “Pi” Patel [Irrfan Khan] in his Montreal home, who has a story that will make you believe in God. Piscine Molitor Patel [Irrfan Khan], a philosophy teacher and he tells the curious story of his own extraordinary life, beginning as the son of a zookeeper in Pondicherry, the French enclave in India that wasn't ceded until 1954.
The film's two central characters both obtained their names by comic accident. The deeply serious Piscine who is played by Gautam Belur at five, Ayush Tandon at 12 and Suraj Sharma at 16 and was named after an uncle's favourite swimming pool, the Piscine Molitor in Paris, but changed his name to the Greek letter and numinous number Pi after fellow schoolboys made jokes about constantly going to the toilet. He later became fascinated by a Bengal tiger in the zoo caught by the English hunter Richard Parker who called him Thirsty. On delivery to the zoo their names were accidently reversed and the tiger became Richard Parker. Was this fate or by chance?
Growing up, the ever curious “Pi” Patel becomes attracted to religion and the meaning of life, a spiritual journey that the film treats with a respectful wit as the boy rejects his father's rationalism and creates a personal amalgam of Hinduism, Christianity and Islam. His faith is tested as an adolescent when his father is forced to give up the family zoo, where “Pi” Patel realises he's been as much a captive as the animals themselves. A Japanese freighter becomes a temporary ark on which the Patel family take the animals to be sold in Canada. But it's struck by a storm as dramatic as anything ever put on the screen, and “Pi” Patel becomes a combination of Noah, Crusoe, Prospero and Job. Alone above the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the Pacific, he's an orphan captaining a lifeboat with only a zebra, a hyena, a female orang-utan and the gigantic Bengal tiger Richard Parker for company.
This is a grand adventure on a totally epic scale, a survival story that takes up half the film. It's no Peaceable Kingdom like Edward Hicks's charming early 19th-century painting, where the lion sleeps with the lamb. This is a Darwinian place that “Pi” Patel must learn to command. Using state-of-the-art 3D and digitally created beasts, Ang Lee and his team of technicians make it utterly real and totally perfect, as they do with the totally mysterious island that briefly provides a dangerously seductive haven.
The long arduous journey had “Pi” Patel 227 days at sea which tested his whole physique, mental adaptation and faith, and Suraj Sharma makes “Pi” Patel 's spiritual journey as convincing as his nautical one. He confronts thirst and starvation, finds a modus vivendi with the fierce tiger, endures and wonders at a mighty storm, a squadron of flying fish, a humpbacked whale, a school of dolphins, a night illuminated by luminous jellyfish. This brave new world is observed by a young Chilean director of photography, appropriately named Claudio Miranda. The spectacular film does for water and the sea what ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ did for sand and desert, and one thinks of what Alfred Hitchock, who used 3D so imaginatively in his 1954 film of ‘Dial M For Murder,’ might have done on his wartime ‘Lifeboat’ had he been given such technical facilities.
‘LIFE OF PI’ is an exhilarating drama about the mysteries which light up our lives and have no rhyme or reason on their own; the faith that enables us to make a leap into the dark; the teachings of animals; the fierce and tranquil sides of nature; and the powerful instinct we all have for survival. This spiritually alluring film can bring you to a transformed appreciation for the baffling, curious, and inexplicable dimensions of life and the world around you. This poetic ‘LIFE OF PI’ concludes with a fascinating, deliberately prosaic coda that raises questions about the reality of what we've seen and confronts the teleological issues involved.
3D Blu-ray Image Quality – ‘LIFE OF PI’ is completely transformed into a totally awesome experience, and much more immersive experience through the use of 3D Blu-ray disc. The sense of infinite depth in the horizon at sea is particularly superb, and underwater scenes take on a special magnificence with their openness and majesty in 3D especially when seen from underneath as fish and other creatures swim in different planes under the boat. The sense of space on that medium-sized lifeboat gains tremendously with the extra dimension added, and the scenes on Meerkat Island are likewise transformed into almost other-worldly experience stereoscopic images. As for the projections, they are wonderfully thought out from a hummingbird which flies before our eyes early on to sticks and poles which either protrude toward us or in point of view shots that seem to come from our own hands. In the flying fish scene, there’s a magnificent moment as the screen ratio widens when a fish hits something in the frame and then flops out in front of the letterbox frame seemingly at our feet. There is absolutely no crosstalk at all in fashioning this magnificent 3D achievement.
3D Blu-ray Audio Quality – The 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio sound mix is all one could hope for in this kind of special effects extravaganza. It’s tremendously expressive throughout with the wide, wide soundstage playing host to a variety of split surrounds and putting us right in the middle of a couple of hellacious sea storms that will give your audio equipment a major workout. Richard Parker’s growls are wonderfully directional as he moves around the boat, and Mychael Danna’s Oscar-winning score gets the full surround experience. Dialogue is always completely understandable and has been placed in the centre channel.
3D Blu-ray Special Features and Extras: With the 3D Blu-ray, you can only view the extras in either 3D or 2D.
Deleted Scenes: Anandi’s Second Dance [3D/2D] [2012] [1080p] [1.78:1] [1:44]; Time to Grow Up [3D/2D] [2012] [1080p] [1.78:1] [2:08]; Happy Birthday [3D/2D] [2012] [1080p] [1.85:1/1.78:1] [2:48]; Did I Say Something Wrong [3D/2D] [2012] [1080p] [1.78:1] [2:22] and Darkness [3D/2D] [2012] [1080p] [1.78:1] [4:37].
Special Feature: VFX Progression: Tsimtsum Sinking [Shot Indicator] [3D/2D] [2012] [1080p] [1.78:1] [12:40] I personally felt this particular extra went on far too long and was well over the top. Tsimtsum Sinking gets to show elements from two scenes in plate form (raw footage), with animation added, and the final product.
Special Feature: The Wave Tank [3D/2D] [2012] [1080p] [1.78:1] [2:10] Here you get to see how the tank was built, and you get to see all the technical wizardry on how the CGI was produced for the finished film.
Theatrical Trailer [3D/2D] [2012] [1080p] [1.78:1] [2:12] This is the Original Theatrical Trailer for the film ‘LIFE OF PI.’
2D Blu-ray Special Features and Extras:
Special Feature: Feature Documentaries: A Filmmakers Epic Journey: Part 1: Life of Pi: A Filmmakers Epic Journey [2012] [1080p] [1.78:1] [15:05]; Part 2: Suraj Sharman: Audition Footage [2012] [480i/1080p] [1.37:1/1.78:1] [16:30]; Part 3: A Tigers Tale [2012] [1080p] [1.78:1] [17:43] and Part 4: Illusion of 3D [2012] [1080p] [1.78:1] [14:26] I cannot recommend these 4 brilliant documentaries enough, as they are so brilliantly photographed and gives you so much information on all who was involved in this awesome project of the ‘LIFE OF PIi.’ It details the four year trek to the finished film concentrating on comments from director Ang Lee, film editor Tim Squyres, screenwriter David Magee, and others. The documentary (divided into four sections which can be pulled up separately) covers the preproduction work, the casting of “Pi” Patel and the training regimen for Suraj Sharma, the filming schedules in Taiwan and India, the working with real tigers and the CG work with computer-generated animals, continuity difficulties, solving the difficulties of using the specially constructed wave tank, the use of 3D for the film, and its triumphant premiere at the New York Film Festival.
Special Feature: A Remarkable Journey [2012] [1080p] [1.78:1] [19:37] This is a fascinating look at all aspects of the CGI effects and you learn so much of what was involved. These set pieces elaborate preparations for the special effects work done first in computer pre-visualisation and then adding layer upon layer to get to the finished product. Ang Lee, Tim Squyres, special effects supervisor Jean-Martin Desmarais, among others, provide primary commentary.
Special Feature: Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright [2012] [1080p] [1.78:1] [19:35] Here is another fascinating insight into how they trained the Bengal tigers and their reaction towards “Pi” Patel [Suraj Sharma]. You also get to see the fascinating insight on how they were able to create the CGI tiger from the real Bengal tiger. It also discusses the extraordinary CG work that went into fashioning a photo-realistic tiger to play Richard Parker in the film, especially with lots of side-by-side comparisons between the real tiger used for reference in the lifeboat set with the computer-generated one that appears in the frame with actor Suraj Sharma.
Special Feature: Art Gallery [2012] [1080p] [1.78:1] [7:28] The following section is composed of a series of still images. You can either select AUTO ADVANCE to launch the slide show, where images change every five seconds. But if you select MANUAL ADVANCE, you can step through the images individually. Press TOP MENU on your remote control to go back to the Top Menu. The art you get to view are by Joanna Bush; Haan Lee; Dawn Masi and Alex Rockman. You get to view a total of 90 images and the best of the bunch is by Joanna Bush, which are totally stunning.
Special Feature: Storyboards [2012] [1080p] [1.78:1] [12:23] The following section is composed of a series of still images. You can either select AUTO ADVANCE to launch the slide show, where images change every five seconds. But if you select MANUAL ADVANCE, you can step through the images individually. Press TOP MENU on your remote control to go back to the Top Menu. There are 7 categories, which are as follows: Zoo Hospital; Ashram; Piscine Molitor; Floating festival; Cargo Hold; Underwater Fantasy and Mexican Beach.
Special Feature: BD-Live: The Blu-ray disc includes “BD-Live” ready and contains one exclusive (and surprisingly important) feature not available on the Blu-ray disc: “The Importance of Storytelling” which details in 20 and 30 minutes of the adaptation of Yann Martel’s novel to the screen by screenwriter David Magee
Finally, after scoring four Academy Awards® ‘LIFE OF PI’ attracted lots of attention on home video circuit and it deserved it. While it may not be the life-changing experience that it wants to be, it is at least thought-provoking and sure to generate some post-viewing discussion, particularly if you watch it with others of differing worldviews. Besides that, it's simply gorgeous to behold and probably the best adaptation we could've asked for from a book previously considered as stated earlier that is was deemed “unfilmable.” 20th Century Fox's Blu-ray release does justice to the film's eye-candy visuals, particularly if you go for the stunning awesome 3D version. Ang Lee’s ‘LIFE OF PI’ was deservedly celebrated as one of the 2012’s best film. The reference quality images and the stunning audio experience, plus an amazing excellent array of bonus material, sure makes it a clear choice for you to purchase this 3 Disc Collector’s Edition. Very Highly Recommended!
Andrew C. Miller – Your Ultimate No.1 Film Aficionado
Le Cinema Paradiso
United Kingdom
