Ang Lee's Life of Pi opens 21 November 2012: USA, Canada, and--Taiwan

[Penthesilea]

Ok, I am part of the group now. Last night I saw the movie. Oh my god, what it scared me. At one point I even covered my eyes (3D-glasses) out of fear of being drained in urin. 

 
And we all know how bad cat piss smells.
As kids my friend and I went to the local zoo and took a neighbour's dog with us. The doggie was sprayed with cat piss from a tiger. The trip home in the bus was not pleasant. I'm sure the poor fellow passengers agreed.

[Sophia]

 
And we all know how bad cat piss smells.
As kids my friend and I went to the local zoo and took a neighbour's dog with us. The doggie was sprayed with cat piss from a tiger. The trip home in the bus was not pleasant. I'm sure the poor fellow passengers agreed.

 

pour doggie, I wonder what it smelled like, for him. With his three time strongers sensors then ours.

[SFEnnisSF]

Just back from seeing this.

Don't know why, but I CRIED, and I mean liiterally BAWLED, through the whole movie beginning with the ship wreck. 

Movies and stories that deal with death and survival and spirituality always really emotionally effect me. 

Also, I have been very depressed lately, and perhaps this was the trigger I needed to let my emotions come out?

I almost had to get up and walk out when he surrendered himself to God, and accepted that he (and the tiger will die).  I've NEVER felt that emotional in a movie theatre before, and I had to actually look away and couldn't contain myself.  WTF?

I reckon' this movie touched on certain things for me.....

[Front-Ranger]

Well sometimes we all need a good cry, friend. I hope you feel better now. Yes there is something about Life of Pi that touches a deep nerve within us.

[SFEnnisSF]

I just spent some time on the IMDB message boards.   

Seems what I took away from it was what most other folks took away from it too.

Chrissi, I just need to tell you, that you can stop worring about the Meerkats.  They were an illusion/metaphor.  (As I had suspected...)

[SFEnnisSF]

My only fault with it was I thought it was a little too reserved to get the PG rating. We are dealing with some heavy handed stuff here. Shoulda went all out and got the PG13...

[southendmd]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVfTX1qJdzA[/youtube]
Congratulations to Ang.

[Meryl]

He's such a lovely man.  Hurrah for Ang, the Director Almighty!     

[Meryl]

I could have sworn we had a thread titled Ang, Ang, Ang, but I can't find it.  Am I nuts? 


Anyway, here's a nice article about Ang Lee's patient path to success:

http://jeffjlin.com/2013/02/23/ang-lee-and-the-uncertainty-of-success/

[Front-Ranger]

Here it is, it was quite buried:

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,21937.0/all.html

My goodness, we used to be a talkative bunch!

That's a great article, Meryl, and would be inspiring to young people.