"Life Of Pi"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL REVIEW. Please check out the full podcast review on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Our 2012 retrospective continues with And Lee's "Life Of Pi," starring Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall & Adil Hussain. The film premiered at the 2012 New York Film Festival and was seen as a breakthrough in 3D and visual effects filmmaking, garnering 11 Oscar nominations and winning 4, including a second win for And Lee in Best Director. How do we feel about the film's visual effects, story, and themes a decade later? Tune in below as we discuss these points and more in our review. Joining me for this review I have Josh Parham & Dan Bayer. You can also check out all of our previous 2012 retrospective reviews for "Zero Dark Thirty," "Skyfall," "Amour," "Beasts Of The Southern Wild," "Django Unchained" & "Silver Linings Playbook" if you have not done so already. Also, voting for the 2012 NBP Film Community Nominations is underway until July 29th. Thank you. We hope you enjoy it! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is our review of Life of Pie.
0:05.9	I was sitting in this coffee house, and this old man at the table next to me struck up a conversation.
0:10.4	He said you had an amazing story.
0:12.5	Let's see then. Where to begin?
0:14.5	I was born and raised in one of the most beautiful places on earth.
0:18.7	It was a time filled with wonder that I'll always remember. But when my family chose to move our zoo halfway around the world, that is when my greatest journey began. again. The Get him! Get him!
0:57.0	Get him! The next part of the story you will find hard to believe.
1:23.5	All right, everybody, we're just listening to the trailer for Life of Pie,
1:26.6	and the story is as follows.
1:28.6	After deciding to sell their zoo in India and move to Canada, Santosh and Gita Patel board a freighter with their sons of a few remaining animals.
1:37.4	Tragedy strikes when a terrible storm sinks to ship, leaving the Patel's teenage son, Pai, as the only human survivor.
1:45.0	However, Pai is not alone.
1:47.0	A fearsome Bengal tiger has also found refuge aboard the lifeboat.
1:51.0	As days turn into weeks and weeks drag into months,
1:54.0	Pai and the tiger must learn to trust each other if both are to survive.
1:59.0	The film is starring Saraj Sharma, Ephraun Khan, Rappes-Pal,
2:05.0	Tabu, Adil Hussain, and Gerard Depadu. It is directed by Ang Lee and written by David Begui,
2:12.8	and here to join me today for this 2012 throwback retrospective podcast review.
2:18.3	I have Dan Baer.
2:20.6	Come back to the five and dime, Richard Parker, Richard Parker.
2:24.1	And Josh Parham.
2:26.2	Hello, hello.
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