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So in the novel the sinking of the ship takes up three words – “the ship sank” – plus a few more descriptive jabs, and that’s it. ‘Words are better at conveying thoughts and emotions. But in the book, there are just a few words on the page that are supposed to set up the scenes that follow.
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'The movie does justice to the storm and the sinking of the ship in a way that the words in the novel don’t. On the one hand, the movie is very faithful to the book, on the other, Lee has added some things. ‘Am I anxious about the adaptation? Yes and no. At the time I wrote it I was having a mini- existential crisis,' said Yann Martel To capture that - well, I never thought of it. The book is about religion, India, a zoo and a shipwreck. There’s something about it that’s refreshing. ‘I can’t imagine a better experience for the reception of a book. ‘Reviewers were slightly puzzled,’ says Martel. While critics were perplexed, readers felt differently. I did most of my practical research for Life Of Pi during my second trip, and I returned a third time to tidy up some details. 'I spent 13 months in India, over three trips. I was thinking, “Where am I going? What am I doing?” I knew if my next book didn’t do well, I’d have to stop dreaming and enter the real world and get a job.
It was the late Nineties, and Martel had written two books, neither of which had been bestsellers. 'At the time I wrote it I was having a mini- existential crisis.’
To capture that – well, I never thought of it. ‘The book is about religion, India, a zoo and a shipwreck. ‘I never thought about it being filmed,’ says Martel. Well, the two main characters are a boy and a tiger and they spend a lot of time on a boat in the Pacific.
What is so hard to get across about the plot? Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain) has grappled Pi to the screen in an ambitious interpretation, casting an unknown Indian boy, Suraj Sharma, as the lead and using 3D to bring a literary masterpiece to life. Life of Pi, which won Canadian writer Yann Martel the Man Booker Prize in 2002, has sold nine million copies worldwide, but the plot is so bizarre that it had been deemed unfilmable. Life of Pi: The two main characters are a boy and a tiger and they spend a lot of time on a boat