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Synopsis: In Canada, a writer visits the Indian storyteller Pi Patel and asks him to tell his life story. Pi tells the story of his childhood in Pondicherry, India, and the origin of his nickname. One day, his father, a zoo owner, explains that the municipality is no longer supporting the zoo and he has hence decided to move to Canada, where the animals the family owns would also be sold. They board on a Japanese cargo ship with the animals and out of the blue, there is a storm, followed by a shipwrecking. Pi survives in a lifeboat with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a male Bengal tiger nicknamed Richard Parker. They are adrift in the Pacific Ocean, with aggressive hyena and Richard Parker getting hungry. Pi needs to find a way to survive.
Director(s): Ang Lee
Production: 20th Century Fox
  Won 4 Oscars. Another 78 wins & 129 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.9
Metacritic:
79
Rotten Tomatoes:
87%
PG
Year:
2012
127 min
$103,500,000
Website
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BULLY #2

No Pissing in the schoolyard!

12 INT. SCIENCE CLASS, 1972 - DAY 12

ADULT PI (V.O.)

Even the teachers started doing it -

not deliberately, of course...

SCIENCE TEACHER:

So then - what might occur if we

release gas too quickly? Pissing?

Pi is aghast. Several students splutter and howl, whispering

the slip to others. Laughter ripples around the room, all

eyes on Pi.

BOY:

He said Pissing!

SCIENCE TEACHER:

That's enough - order!

ADULT PI (V.O.)

When we returned the next year for

our first day of school, I was

prepared.

6.

SC. 13 INT. INDIAN HISTORY CLASS, 1973 - DAY 13

Class is held in a large open room. Roll call.

BOY:

Present sir.

HISTORY TEACHER:

Piscine Patel...

PI - AGE 12, rises, crosses to the front.

PI (AT 12)

Good morning. I am Piscine Molitor

Patel, known to all as...

(He writes "PI" on the

board.)

... "Pi," the sixteenth letter of

the Greek alphabet...

Pi writes , then quickly charts out a general notion of the

concept on the chalkboard.

PI (CONT'D)

... which is also used in

mathematics to represent the ratio

of any circle's circumference to

its diameter - an irrational number

of infinite length, usually rounded

to three digits, as...

(He writes "3.14.")

3.14. PI.

Pi underlines his name, faces the class.

HISTORY TEACHER:

Very impressive, Pi. Now sit down.

WRITER (V.O.)

And from then on you were Pi?

ADULT PI (V.O.)

Well, no. Not quite ...

As Pi returns to his seat, Bully #2 leans forward,

whispering:

BULLY #2

Nice try, Pissing.

ADULT PI (V.O.)

But I still had the whole day ahead

of me. French Class was next...

7.

14 INT. FRENCH CLASS, 1973 - DAY 14

Pi repeats his act in French, 3.14159265 on the board.

PI (12)

Je m'appelle Piscine Molitor Patel -

dit'Pi'...

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David Magee

David Magee (born 1962) is an American screenwriter who was nominated for a 2004 Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Finding Neverland. Along with Simon Beaufoy, he wrote the screenplay for Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day starring Frances McDormand and Amy Adams, which was released in 2008. His 2012 screen adaptation of the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel earned him a Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He is currently writing the screenplay for the Disney musical Mary Poppins Returns, directed by Rob Marshall, with music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. The film will star Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda and is scheduled for release in December 2018.Magee is also the screenwriter for the next Chronicles Of Narnia film, The Silver Chair, which is being produced by the Mark Gordon Company and released by TriStar films. more…

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