Life Pi By Yann Martel And The Movie Life Of Pi Directed...

Many famous novels have been rearranged in order to make movies. However, the quality of the movie, a lot of the times, depends on the changes made when adapting the novel to film. The director of the movie needs to make sure that the film does not cut off significant parts, and at the same time, abstain from the unnecessary parts the writer made without changing the whole theme. Moreover, they need to add in more characters and scenes to make the film more creative and understandable. In this essay, the comparison of differences in the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel and the movie Life of Pi directed by Lee Ann will be discussed. The setting has not changed when it is transferred to the movie. The settings are: Pondicherry, India; the†¦show more content†¦So Pi’s mother forces Pi to work for a dance class to calm down, but one of the dancers soon adapt a deep relationship with Pi. This situation actually makes Pi’s move to Canada more difficult. Thus, it led to another conjecture of Pi was trying to hide his girlfriend onto the lifeboat and bring her also to Canada, because in the movie, Pi mentioned, â€Å"†¦ but I don’t remember saying goodbye.† What books cannot achieve is the sceneries and effects that film can include. Compare to the book, Lee created more stunning scenes using special effects. When the readers reach to the point of Pi describing the ocean, they can try their best to imagine the whole landscape and situation, but the feeling of helplessly floating on the ocean cannot be illustrated using only personal experiences. The ocean in the movie can remind the audiences about how small people are compared to the world—the irresistible sense of unknown and tininess, would provoke people to think about their origins. The sunken scene of the ship â€Å"Tsimtsum† is tiny compared to â€Å"Titanic†, but at the moment of the ship sank, when Pi is floating on the dark ocean in the night, the drowning feeling that audiences can experience certainly is not worse than â€Å"Titanic†. Lee used lots of scenes and background music to bring immersive feeling to the audiences. When it reached to the storm scene, the camera