For my MYST I watched the movie Life of Pie. This is a film directed by Ang Lee, staring Suraj Sharma and is based of the book Life of Pie. It was made this past year (2012) and is about a boy and his family who are traveling to Canada from India with all of there zoo animals by boat. during a big storm one night the boat sinks leaving Pie, the main character, alone in a life raft with a tiger, chimp hyena and wonder zebra. The movie starts with Pie grown up, living in Canada years after the shipwreck. He talks to a man who wants to write his story and hear of an act of god.
I would give this movie four out of five stars. I thought that they did a great job of making everything seem so real with outstanding visual effects and computer graphics. Almost all of the movie needed and contained these computer animations. I also thought that Ang Lee did a good job telling the story of Pie. Having read the book I noticed a few differences but over all I liked the additions and changes Lee made to the story. In the book there is no back story, but it starts with his family leaving and the ship sinking and ends with his arrival at shore. Lee did a good job of adding and incorporating the story of Pie when he is older and his conversations with the writer.
My favorite scene from the movie was about half way through when Pie is surrounded by the phosphorescent krill in the water and the whale jumps out and over the boat throwing Pie off the small makeshift raft. The scene starts with Pie waking up to find that he is sounded by green and yellow glowing krill. This makes almost like a glassy blanket over the ocean. The camera angle shifts to a birds eye view zooming in to the water to what appears to be a large whale. The whale turns and quickly mauves for the surface and sky rockets out of the water nearly missing Pie and the boats. This scene really shows the amount of skill and work that went into making the visual effects of the movie.
