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He Is My Master
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He is My Master
Cover of the first manga volume
これが私の御主人様
(Kore ga Watashi no Goshujin-sama)
Genre
Comedy, Harem
Manga
Written by
Mattsu
Illustrated by
Asu Tsubaki
Published by
Square Enix
English publisher
NA
Seven Seas Entertainment
Demographic
Shōnen
Magazine
Monthly Shōnen Gangan
Original run
8 February 2002 – February 2007
Volumes
5
Anime television series
Directed by
Shouji Saeki
Studio
Gainax, Shaft
Licensed by
NA
Sentai Filmworks
Original network
BSi (Satellite station of TBS)
Original run
7 April 2005 – 30 June 2005
Episodes
12
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He Is My Master (これが私の御主人様, Kore ga Watashi no Goshujin-sama) is a gag comedy manga which ran in Monthly Shōnen Gangan, later spun off into a television anime series in the harem genre[1] with a lolicon aspect.[2] The manga is authored by two individuals: Mattsu (まっつー) who does the story and his ex-wife Asu Tsubaki (椿あす) who does the artwork. Because of their acrimonious split, the manga will probably be drawn by someone else soon.[3]
Seven Seas Entertainment announced on November 27, 2006 they now have licensed the right to the English translation of He Is My Master and has begun to release the series July 2007.[4][5]
Sentai Filmworks has licensed the anime and released the complete collection on October 10, 2009; with distribution handled by Section23 Films.[6]
Contents
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1 Plot summary
2 Characters
2.1 Main characters
2.2 Minor characters
3 Anime
3.1 Episodes
3.2 Recurring gags
3.3 Anime soundtrack
4 Reception
5 References
6 Further reading
7 External links
Plot summary[edit]
A 14-year-old millionaire Yoshitaka received an enormous inheritance as a result of his parents' death in an accident. Later after firing the original maids, he needed to be looked after so he decided to hire new live-in maids. While originally expecting an elderly woman to take the job, two runaway girls, Izumi, 14, and Mitsuki, 13, end up accepting the job as means for a home and income. Another girl, Anna, later becomes a maid as well, and all three live in the mansion with Yoshitaka. The boy pulls some clichéd pranks throughout the story.
Characters[edit]
Main characters[edit]
Yoshitaka Nakabayashi (中林義貴, Nakabayashi Yoshitaka)
Voiced by: Junko Minagawa
Yoshitaka is the 14-year-old boy who inherits his parents' fortune. He is described by others (and an episode title) as "the boy in the midst of puberty who inherited his parents' fortune and was living all by himself with no supervision and has surrounded himself with tender young girls in a huge mansion, thus living out his fantasies and creating his own world of desire as he makes them serve him". He installed scores of hidden video cameras throughout his mansion, and can efficiently record or snapshot instances and events he finds pleasing. His media archive is routinely browsed by Mitsuki each night from the comfort of the sisters' bedroom computer. Yoshitaka is never addressed by his family name except by some of his classmates; he is addressed either as "Yoshitaka" (with and without honorifics) or as "master" throughout the story. Yoshitaka is hated by nearly everyone in the story, as a boy who flaunts his money. Izumi hates him and often refers to him as an "inhumane pervert with a lolicon fetish" but, deep down they both seem to have feelings for each other shown in episodes 10-12 where it is clearly stated he loves her. He even has a closet full of extra (suggestive) clothes for the girls (i.e.: sailor suits and bunny costumes), Yoshitaka made them all by himself, as he is said to be a natural genius, when it comes to sewing outfits, such as a making a wedding dress for Izumi, however Izumi states he would waste his unique talent on his fetishes. He would never waste a single millimeter, making an outfit's skirt longer than it needs to cover the most important parts.
Izumi Sawatari (沢渡いずみ, Sawatari Izumi)
An early panel in the English version of the He Is My Master manga. Mattsu's art style is markedly different from that used in the anime adaptation.[citation needed]
Voiced by: Masumi Asano
Izumi is one of the three girls who get hired by Yoshitaka. While reluctant about working there she has to work for Yoshitaka as she has a huge debt to pay off. Because Yoshitaka is the way he is, Izumi repeatedly stamps on him and hands out pay to him. She is impossibly strong (shown in various episodes) and has rather large breasts for a 14 year old.
Izumi never uses an honorific suffix (-san, -sama, -kun etc.) after Yoshitaka's name. While this usually means the speaker is very close to the person, this could also mean a grave insult. Izumi uses it to show her contempt and complete lack of respect for him. As a result, Yoshitaka often places the more difficult (and often pointless) tasks on Izumi. Izumi was originally going to be the "normal" character of the series but she turned out to show violent tendencies towards Yoshitaka and became the "doll" of the household: Everyone, including Mitsuki, messes with her in some sort of sexual tendency much to Izumi's dread. Be it flipping her skirt or attempting to remove her bra, Izumi is constantly being harassed.
Out of all characters, Izumi, is the one who drives the plot the most, being the subject of nearly every episode. She was even addressed by the sixth episode's title, saying that 'He is my master' is "The story about Izumi Sawatari".
In episode 9, during Izumi's tropical photoshoot, Yoshitaka appears and mentions that "the ones who want [her] photobook are the extreme maniacs anyway." Izumi is 14 years old, the same age as Yoshitaka. While frowned upon in the West, in Japan, girls under 15 years of age (sometimes as young as 11 or 12) who pose for photobooks are quite popular. Referred to as a gravure idol, or a Japanese idol and model who poses for photographs and videos, more well-known idols include Mao Kobayashi (born in 1992) and Saaya Irie (born in 1993).
Mitsuki Sawatari (沢渡みつき, Sawatari Mitsuki)
Voiced by: Ai Shimizu
Mitsuki is Izumi's younger sister, by one year, and is hired by Yoshitaka along with Izumi. By using photographs from Yoshitaka's media archive, she signs Izumi up for a "Net Idol" website, which later, with revenue from Izumi's performances, helps Izumi pay off her debt. Mitsuki herself actually becomes very rich because of Izumi's popularity. Mitsuki always (when under Yoshitaka's contract) refers to Yoshitaka as Goshujin-sama or "Master". She even has her own fan club from her own school and other schools as well. She frequently comes up with (weird) competitions whenever two characters have divided opinions, most of the competitions ends up with Pochi playing some kind of key role that results in a bizarre conclusion, she seems to favor Yoshitaka during these competitions and usually requires Izumi (albeit unwillingly) to compete. She loves the maid uniforms while as Izumi thinks they are way too revealing. Mitsuki even sang a song at a festival entitled "I'm a cute maid at a pervert's house!" Although usually portrayed as a cute character, she has interests one would not normally suspect of a cute character, such as heavy metal music.[7] At one point in the manga, it is even suggested that Mitsuki has torture equipment.[8] Mitsuki is a smart character, planning everything to the smallest detail. Her biggest plan in the anime adaptation, even went one month into the future, and finally made sure that Izumi, beside having paid off the debt ends up accepting to live in Yoshitaka's mansion and being happy.
Anna Kurauchi (倉内安奈, Kurauchi Anna)
Voiced by: Kana Ueda
Anna is the third girl hired by Yoshitaka.She's bisexual and constantly tries to do perverted acts with Izumi, who is mostly disgusted by her lesbianism. She was originally attracted to Yoshitaka, but because of Izumi's relentless effort convincing her to stay away from Yoshitaka, she mistook it as sign of interest, thus she fell in love with Izumi and became Yoshitaka's maid in order to follow Izumi. She even dreams of traveling to the Netherlands to arrange a same-sex marriage, going far as to study the language. She is discouraged later in the episode, finding out that being under 16, they cannot be married (yet). Her inability to cook is the subject of many jokes in the story. She was originally going to be the "innocent" member of the group, but her personality reverted to that of Yoshitaka's. The authors describe her as the "yuri supplier of the group".[this quote needs a citation]
Pochi (ポチ)
Voiced by: Kyousei Tsukui
Pochi is an alligator which belongs to Mitsuki and the reason Izumi and Mitsuki ran away from home. Originally, Pochi's parents lived at Mitsuki and Izumi's home. However, one of the alligators attacked Mitsuki, causing Mitsuki's father to have the alligators taken away and put down. Mitsuki finds an egg belonging to Pochi's parents, and discovers that she was partly responsible for what happened to Pochi's parents. Pochi is one of the reasons why Izumi and Mitsuki stay at Yoshitaka's mansion because Mitsuki will not go anywhere without a spot for Pochi. Pochi likes cute girls and often tries to rape Izumi in the anime (In the manga, he is actually more respectful of her, though still perverted.) He strongly dislikes males.
Note: Pochi is often used to name reptiles as if they were domesticated pets such as pet dogs, similar to the name Spot in western society. Similarly, Pochi is the name of the pet dragon in Keio Flying Squadron.
Minor characters[edit]
Sawatari, Father (沢渡父, Sawatari Chichi)
Mr. Sawatari is Izumi, Mitsuki, and Karin's father. His given name is unknown. Upon hearing the rumors of Yoshitaka, he immediately approached the mansion to demand the return of Izumi and Mitsuki. All his attempts at retrieving Izumi and Mitsuki fail, usually when his wife, Mizuho, abruptly stops him. Like Yoshitaka, Mr. Sawatari is a lolicon pervert, although he wishes to "not be put in the same category." Mr. Sawatari is highly attracted to his two daughters in a perverted way (seemingly stronger when the girls dress up). Izumi has even once said "I've seen how you look at us!" referring to herself and Mitsuki. This is played up more in the anime, where it is revealed that the reason the girls ran away from home in the first place was because they grew tired of resisting his constant sexual advances towards them, with him always declaring "I love both you just as much as your mother! Just as much!" as he regularly tried to seduce them.
Mizuho Sawatari (沢渡瑞穂, Sawatari Mizuho)
Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara
Mizuho is the mother of Izumi, Mitsuki, and Karin. Compared to her husband, Mizuho is very young, having Izumi at the age of 16 and being age 30 during the story. Also in contrast to her husband, she is not concerned at all with two of her daughters in the hands of a perverted teenager, and will allow a love relationship between Izumi and either Anna (stating that "love has nothing to do with gender") or Yoshitaka (stating that he should "feel free to go crazy"). She and Mitsuki are very similar, as Mitsuki has learned almost everything from her mother.
Karin Sawatari (沢渡かりん, Sawatari Karin)
Voiced by: Rumi Shishido
Karin is the younger sister of Izumi and Mitsuki. Unlike her two sisters, she stayed behind rather than run away. After learning of her sisters' whereabouts, she visits them occasionally, although Izumi discourages her in order to keep her away from Yoshitaka's grasp after Yoshitaka becomes attracted to her when Karin is in the child's maid costume. Karin is a typical 5 year old; sweet and innocent. She is oblivious to Yoshitaka's perverted nature as well as the harassment that Izumi receives on a daily basis. Like Mitsuki, she loves alligators, especially Pochi. She believes that "anyone who likes alligators can't be bad." Yoshitaka tricks her into thinking he likes Pochi (when in fact they are often rivals) to make Karin like him.
Shinji Kume (久米伸治, Kume Shinji)
Kume Shinji, along with other upperclassmen, formed a bodyguard squad after being impressed with Mitsuki's appearance, and aid Mitsuki with difficult tasks on various episodes. He is addressed by his friends as "Kume Shin".
Alicia (アリシア)
Voiced by: Natsuko Kuwatani
Alicia appears in one episode, and is a sadistic French blonde. She whips Yoshitaka effortlessly with her beautiful, crimson whip.
Seiichirou Nakabayashi (中林誠一郎, Nakabayashi Seiichirō)
Voiced by: Romi Park
Seichirou is Yoshitaka's cousin. Seichirou was raised in a similar lifestyle as Yoshitaka, but was plummeted into poverty upon the death of Yoshitaka's parents. Upon finding Mitsuki's website, Seichirou made a financial comeback by forming a production company. Through a series of contests, he was able to take possession of Izumi momentarily. In terms of personality, Seiichirou is also a lolicon uniform fetishist who loves peeping pictures and playing girl simulation games like Yoshitaka, but also is a crossdresser.
Takami Sugita (杉田多可美, Sugita Takami)
Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi
Takami is the only daughter of the Sugita family, a family that has rivaled the Nakabayashi family for generations. As Yoshitaka hit bankruptcy, Takami seized the opportunity to claim the Nakabayashi estate. Her disposition is nothing short of arrogant and haughty. She also has an interest in Mitsuki's production ability, since Takami was runner-up in the Net Idol competition.
Mattsū (まっつー) and Asu Tsubaki (椿あす, Tsubaki Asu)
Mattsū and Asu Tsubaki are the authors of the He Is My Master manga. Within the story, Mattsū and Asu are represented as an alligator and hamster, respectively. An image of them on a cloud in heaven appears each time Izumi (and once Yoshitaka) mentions kami-sama (神様); "the gods watching over me". This happens once per episode.
Anime[edit]
Episodes[edit]
#
Title
Original air date
01
"He Is My Master!?"
"kore ga watashi no go shujin sama!?" (これが私のご主人様!?) April 7, 2005
Izumi and Mitsuki have run away from the cafe and are looking for work. They notice a sign indicating jobs as maids, but Izumi takes an understandable disliking to Yoshitaka and the girls leave - but they don't get far.
02
"That Vase, it's 5,000,000..."
"ano tsubo, 500 man..." (あの壷、500万...) April 14, 2005
Yoshitaka convinces the girls to come back inside, then hands them the bill for all the things Pochi and Izumi broke the previous day. Between needing to pay off their debt and needing a place to stay, the girls end up employed by Yoshitaka.
03
"The Lolicon Uniform Fetishist Who Loves Peeping Pictures and Plays Girl Simulation Games"
"rorikon de seifuku mania de kakushi tori mania no gyaru ge mania" (ロリコンで制服マニアで隠し撮りマニアのギャルげーマニア) April 21, 2005
Izumi and Mitsuki enter Yoshitaka's school, where they meet Anna.
04
"Couples Formed Under Extraordinary Circumstances Don't Last Long, You Know"
"ijou na joukyou ka de musuba re ta danjo ha naga rou zoku kisen ja" (異常な状況下で結ばれた男女は長ろう続きせんじゃ) May 5, 2005
Mitsuki's fan club kidnaps her, taking over the mansion. Izumi and Yoshitaka (as well as Anna and Pochi) must work together to save her.
05
"There's a rumor that this boy in the midst of puberty who inherited his parents' fortune and is living all by himself with no supervision has surrounded himself with tender young girls in a huge mansion, thus living out his fantasies and creating his own world of desire as he makes them serve him"
"oya no isan o uketsui de hitorigurashi o shi te iru shishun ki mattada chuu no shōnen ga sekai no me ga todoka nai no o ii koto ni koudai na yashiki ni itaike na shōjo o kakotte yokubou no omomuku mama ni jibun no shumi no sekai o tsukutte houshi sa se te iru toiu uwasa" (親の遺産を受け継いで一人暮らしをしている思春期真っ只中の少年が世界の目が届かないのをいいことに広大な屋敷にいたいけな少女を囲って欲望の赴くままに自分の趣味の世界を作って奉仕させているという噂) May 12, 2005
Izumi and Mitsuki's parents pay a visit, to get the girls back. A contest is made to see who gets Izumi!
06
"The Sawatari Izumi Contest Series!! A Daring Test of Courage!! An Express Train to a Secret Hotsprings in the Northeast, a Mother-in-law Murdered in the Mist, a Madonna Teacher from an Elite Family Burning with Desire as They Watch a Housewife Battle for Control of Her Troubled Mansion!!"
"sawawatari izumi soudatsu sen shiriizu!! zekkyou kimo da meshi!! hi yu tokkyuu touhoku yukemuri shuuto satsujin yokubou ni moeru eriito katei madonna kyoushi no midare ta manshon keiei no atome arasoi kasei fu ha mi ta!!" (沢渡いずみ争奪戦シリーズ!! 絶叫肝だめし!! 秘湯特急東北湯煙姑殺人欲望に燃えるエリート家庭マドンナ教師の乱れたマンション経営の跡目争い家政婦は見た!!) May 20, 2005
Yoshitaka takes the maids to the Summer Festival, but Mitsuki disappears, and it seems the ghost of Yoshitaka's father is involved they asked if they did something together did they do it?.
07
"He Is Izumi's"
"!? kore ga izumi no !?" (♡?♡!? これがいずみの♡♡♡!?) May 26, 2005
After a series of weird events, Izumi gets the chance of a lifetime to become an idol, will she take the opportunity?
08
"An Unbelievably Short Strike Zone"
"hateshinaku hikui sutoraiku zoon" (果てしなく低いストライクゾーン) June 3, 2005
Karin visits Izumi and convinces her to become an idol.
09
"Although Izumi is Izumi, Izumi Won't Yield to Anyone"
"izumi ha izumi de mo mou nanimono ni mo kusshi nai izumi" (いずみはいずみでももう何者にも屈しないいずみ) June 9, 2005
The gang go to the beach for Izumi's photoshoot where they meet Alicia and Ellen
10
"He is My Prince!?"
"kore ga watashi no ouji sama!?" (これが私の王子様!?) June 16, 2005
Seichirou and Yoshitaka compete to have Izumi and Mitsuki as their maids but there seems to be something suspicious about Seichirou.
11
"The Far-Away Boy Yoshitaka"
"haruka naru kare no yoshitaka" (遥かなる彼の義貴) June 23, 2005
Takami challenges Izumi to a contest.
12
"He is My Master!!"
"kore ga watashi no go shujin sama!!" (これが私の御主人様!!) June 30, 2005
The final showdown between Takami and Izumi!
Recurring gags[edit]
In every episode God is mentioned and it shows avatars of the show's creators doing actions. Occasionally the avatars do something relevant to the plot (such as draw a picture of clothing and stick a fountain pen in Yoshitakas head to make him think he drew it).
At the end of each episode, with the exception of episode 9 and 10, 4 recurring gags are shown; the first gag shows an exhausted Izumi either in bed or bathing. The second gag shows Mitsuki working on her photobook of Izumi's revealing pictures taken from hidden cameras earlier on in the episode. The third gag shows a frustrated Yoshitaka in a small, messy room working on draft designs for new outfits for his maids. The fourth gag shows an aerial shot of the mansion with Yoshitaka ranting or manically laughing, and two numbers show up. The first number is the amount of damages Izumi must pay off for that particular day, and the second number is the amount of money she has left to pay, listed in yen. And, in some of the episodes it shows Mitsuki's earnings for that day.
Anime soundtrack[edit]
Opening theme song
Masami Okui - TRUST
Ending theme song
Izumi, Mitsuki, and Anna - 愛情のカタマリ (Aijō no Katamari)
Reception[edit]
The anime series received mixed to negative reviews.[9][10][11][12]
On Anime News Network (ANN), the DVD Complete Collection of He Is My Master was reviewed, and was given an overall cautiously positive rating, saying "This is not a masterpiece but is definitely better than it could have been". High points of the series mentioned are Yoshitaka's (the male lead) very evil personality, which is very refreshing to see after hundreds of indecisive and weak male leads in harem-fanservice series similar to this. Other good points are the comedy and plentiful fanservice. One of the biggest negative points in this series are the stereotypical elements that freely abound the series. Cliches are left and right, and sometimes detract from the comedy. ANN rated this anime in 5 categories, the average of which was a B-.[12]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Lunning, Frenchy, ed. (2006). Mechademia 1: emerging worlds of anime and manga. U of Minnesota Press. p. 187. ISBN 0-8166-4945-6.
Jump up ^ Lunning, Frenchy, ed. (2008). Mechademia 3: Limits of the Human. U of Minnesota Press. p. 49. ISBN 0-8166-5482-4.
Jump up ^ He is My Master's Husband/Wife Creative Team Splits Up
Jump up ^ Seven Seas Entertainment official press release
Jump up ^ Seven Seas Entertainment page for He Is My Master
Jump up ^ "Sentai Filmworks Adds Clannad After Story, Ghost Hound and He Is My Master". Anime News Network. 2009-07-28.
Jump up ^ Mitsuki's character introduction (volume 1, page 2)
Jump up ^ Volume 3, chapter 10, page 58. Yoshitaka: "This torture equipment isn't going to be enough! Mitsuki-chan! Lend me some of yours!"
Jump up ^ "THEM Anime Reviews 4.0 - He Is My Master". Themanime.org. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
Jump up ^ "Anime Review, Rating, Rossmaning: He Is My Master". Therossman.com. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
Jump up ^ "Anime Reviews - He Is My Master Review". Auphanonline.com. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
^ Jump up to: a b "He is my Master DVD - Review". Anime News Network. 2009-10-04. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
Further reading[edit]
Alexander, Matthew (September 13, 2007). "He is My Master Vol. #01". Mania. Demand Media. Archived from the original on October 10, 2012.
Smith, David F. (July 2007). "He Is My Master Vol 1". Newtype USA. 6 (7). p. 106. ISSN 1541-4817.
External links[edit]
(in Japanese) Official authors' website[permanent dead link]
(in Japanese) Official He is My Master website
He Is My Master (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
Seven Seas Entertainment page for He Is My Master
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Life of Pi (film)
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Life of Pi
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Ang Lee
Produced by
Gil Netter
Ang Lee
David Womark
Screenplay by
David Magee
Based on
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
Starring
Suraj Sharma
Irrfan Khan
Tabu
Adil Hussain
Rafe Spall
Gérard Depardieu
Music by
Mychael Danna
Cinematography
Claudio Miranda
Edited by
Tim Squyres
Production
company
Fox 2000 Pictures
Dune Entertainment
Ingenious Media
Haishang Films[1]
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Release date
September 28, 2012 (2012-09-28) (NYFF)
November 21, 2012 (2012-11-21) (United States)
Running time
127 minutes[2]
Country
United States[3][4][5][6][7]
Language
English
Tamil
French
Budget
$120 million[8]
Box office
$609 million[8]
Life of Pi is a 2012 American survival drama film based on Yann Martel's 2001 novel of the same name. Directed by Ang Lee, the film's adapted screenplay was written by David Magee, and it stars Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, Tabu, Adil Hussain, and Gérard Depardieu. The storyline revolves around an Indian man named "Pi" Patel, telling a novelist about his life story, and how at 16 he survives a shipwreck in which his family dies, and is adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. The film had its worldwide premiere as the opening film of the 51st New York Film Festival at both the Walter Reade Theater and Alice Tully Hall in New York City on September 28, 2012.[9]
Life of Pi emerged as a critical and commercial success, earning over US$609 million worldwide. It was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards which included the Best Picture – Drama and the Best Director and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. At the 85th Academy Awards it had eleven nominations, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, and won four (the most for the event) including Best Director for Ang Lee.[10]
Contents
[hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
3.1 Development
3.2 Pre-production and casting
3.3 Filming
3.4 Post-production
4 Music
5 Distribution
5.1 Marketing
5.2 Theatrical release
5.3 Home media
6 Reception
6.1 Box office
6.2 Critical response
6.3 Top ten lists
6.4 Rhythm & Hues Studios controversy
6.5 Animal abuse allegations
6.6 Accolades
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
Plot[edit]
In Canada, novelist Yann Martel meets Pi Patel; Martel has been told that Pi's life story would be a good subject for a book. Pi tells his story to Yann:
Pi's father names him Piscine Molitor after the swimming pool in France. In secondary school in Pondicherry, he adopts the name "Pi" (the Greek letter, π) to avoid the sound-alike nickname "Pissing Patel". He is raised in a Hindu family, but at 12 years old, is introduced to Christianity and then Islam, and decides to follow all three religions as he "just wants to love God". His mother supports his desire to grow, but his rationalist father tries to secularize him. Pi's family owns a zoo, and Pi takes interest in the animals, especially a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. After Pi gets dangerously close to Richard Parker, his father forces him to witness the tiger killing a goat.
When Pi is 16, his father announces that they must move to Canada, where he intends to settle and sell the animals. The family books passage with the animals on a Japanese freighter. During a storm, the ship founders while Pi is on deck. He tries to find his family, but a crewman throws him into a lifeboat. A freed zebra jumps onto the boat with him, breaking its leg. The ship sinks into the Mariana Trench. Pi briefly sees what appears to be a survivor, but it turns out to be Richard Parker.
After the storm, Pi awakens in the lifeboat with the zebra, and is joined by a resourceful orangutan. A spotted hyena emerges from under a tarpaulin covering half of the lifeboat and snaps at Pi, forcing him to retreat to the end of the boat. The hyena kills the zebra and later the orangutan. Richard Parker emerges from under the tarpaulin, killing the hyena before retreating back to cover for several days.
Pi fashions a small tethered raft from flotation vests which he retreats to for safety from Richard Parker. Despite his moral code against killing, he begins fishing, enabling him to sustain the tiger as well. When the tiger jumps into the sea to hunt for fish and then comes threateningly towards Pi, Pi considers letting him drown, but ultimately helps him back into the boat. One night, a humpback whale breaches near the boat, destroying the raft and its supplies. Pi trains Richard Parker to accept him in the boat, and realizes that caring for the tiger is also helping keep himself alive.
Weeks later they encounter a floating island of interconnected trees. It is a lush jungle of edible plants, fresh water pools and a large population of meerkats, enabling Pi and Richard Parker to eat and drink freely and regain strength. At night, the island transforms into a hostile environment. Richard Parker retreats to the lifeboat while Pi and the meerkats sleep in the trees; the water pools turn acidic, digesting the fish in them. Pi deduces that the island is carnivorous after finding a human tooth embedded in a flower.
Pi and Richard Parker leave the island, eventually reaching the coast of Mexico. Pi is saddened that Richard Parker does not acknowledge him before disappearing into the jungle. He is rescued and brought to a hospital. Insurance agents for the Japanese freighter company interview him, but do not believe his story and ask what really happened. He tells a different story, in which the animals are replaced by human survivors: his mother for the orangutan, an amiable sailor for the zebra, and the ship's brutish cook for the hyena. In this story, the cook kills the sailor and feeds on his flesh. He also kills Pi's mother after which Pi kills him with a knife and uses his remains as food and fish bait. The insurance agents are dissatisfied with this story, but they leave without questioning Pi further.
Yann recognizes the parallels between the two stories, noting that in the second one, Pi fills the role of the tiger. Pi asks which story the writer prefers, and Yann chooses the first, to which Pi replies, "and so it goes with God". Glancing at a copy of the insurance report, Yann sees that the agents also chose the first story.
Cast[edit]
Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel
Gautam Belur as Pi, age 5
Ayush Tandon as Pi, age 11/12
Suraj Sharma as Pi, age 16
Irrfan Khan as Pi, adult
Rafe Spall as Yann Martel, the real-life Canadian novelist who wrote the novel Life of Pi
Tabu as Gita Patel, Pi's mother
Adil Hussain as Santosh Patel, Pi's father
Ravi Patel, Pi's older brother:
Ayan Khan as Ravi, age 7
Mohamed Abbas Khaleeli as Ravi, age 13/14
Vibish Sivakumar as Ravi, age 18/19
Gérard Depardieu as the Cook
Wang Po-chieh as Sailor
Jag Huang as Sailor
Shravanthi Sainath as Anandi, Pi's teenage girlfriend
Andrea Di Stefano as the Priest
Elie Alouf as Francis[a]
Jump up ^ Pi refers to Francis in the film as "Mamaji", a Hindi word for "Maternal Uncle"
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
"I wanted to use water because the film is talking about faith, and it contains fish, life and every emotion for Pi. And air is God, heaven and something spiritual and death. That's how I see it. I believe the thing we call faith or God is our emotional attachment to the unknown. I'm Chinese; I believe in the Taoist Buddha. We don't talk about a deity, which is very much like this book; we're not talking about religion but God in the abstract sense, something to overpower you."
—Ang Lee, on the use of water and the spiritual element of Life of Pi, November 17, 2012.[11]
The project had numerous directors and writers attached, and the Los Angeles Times credited Fox 2000 Pictures executive Elizabeth Gabler with keeping the project active.[12] In February 2003 Gabler acquired the project to adapt Life of Pi into a film. She hired screenwriter Dean Georgaris to write an adapted screenplay.
The following October, Fox 2000 announced a partnership with M. Night Shyamalan to direct the film. Shyamalan was attracted to the novel particularly because its main character also comes from Pondicherry in India. The partners anticipated for Shyamalan to direct the film adaptation after completing The Village. He also replaced Georgaris as the screenwriter, writing a new screenplay for the film.[13] Ultimately, Shyamalan chose to film Lady in the Water after The Village; he said later, "I was hesitant [to direct] because the book has kind of a twist ending. And I was concerned that as soon as you put my name on it, everybody would have a different experience."[14]
In March 2005, Fox 2000 entered talks with Alfonso Cuarón to direct.[15] Cuarón decided to direct Children of Men instead, and in October 2005, Fox 2000 hired Jean-Pierre Jeunet to direct the film. Jeunet began writing the adapted screenplay with Guillaume Laurant, and filming was scheduled to begin in mid-2006, partially in India.[16] Jeunet eventually left the project.
In February 2009, Fox 2000 Pictures hired Ang Lee to direct the film.[17] In May 2010, Lee and the producer Gil Netter proposed a reported budget of US$120 million, at which the studio balked, placing the project's development on hold for a short time.[12] David Magee was hired to write the screenplay, as Lee began to spend several months looking for someone to cast as Pi. Lee stated that water was a major inspiration behind making the film in 3-D: "I thought this was a pretty impossible movie to make technically. It's so expensive for what it is. You sort of have to disguise a philosophical book as an adventure story. I thought of 3-D half a year before 'Avatar' was on the screen. I thought water, with its transparency and reflection, the way it comes out to you in 3-D, would create a new theatrical experience and maybe the audience or the studio would open up their minds a little bit to accept something different."[11] Following the premiere of the film, Lee stated that his desire to take risks and chances helped with his direction, saying "In a strange way it did feel like we're the vessels, we have to surrender to movie god. We have to let things happen. I just had this feeling, I'll follow this kid to wherever this movie takes me. I saw the movie start to unravel in front of me."[18]
Pre-production and casting[edit]
Suraj Sharma plays Pi at age 16.
After 3,000 young men auditioned for the film's lead, in October 2010 Lee cast Suraj Sharma, a 17-year-old student and an acting newcomer.[19] Upon receiving the role, Sharma underwent extensive training in ocean survival, as well as in yoga and meditation practices to prepare for the part.[20] Two months after Sharma was cast, it was announced that Gérard Depardieu would play the role of the Cook, Irrfan Khan would play the adult Pi, Adil Hussain would play Pi's father, while Tabu was in talks to play the role of Pi's mother.[21]
Canadian child actor Rajiv Surendra, best known at the time for a small part in Mean Girls, was one of the auditioners for the role of Pi. In 2016, he published The Elephants in My Backyard, a memoir of his failed campaign to win the part.[22] In an interview with Deccan Chronicle in 2017, American actor Naren Weiss revealed that he too unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of Pi.[23]
In April 2011, it was announced that Tobey Maguire would be joining the film in the role originally referred to as "a reporter."[24] However, in September 2012, it was announced that Lee had cut Maguire from the film. He justified the cut by stating that he did it "to be consistent with the other casting choices made for the film, I decided to go with an entirely international cast."[25] Like Shahrukh Khan, Lee described Maguire's presence also as "too jarringly recognizable." He reshot the scenes with Rafe Spall in the role of the book's actual author.[25]
Filming[edit]
Principal photography for the film began on January 18, 2011 in Puducherry at the Holy Rosary Church in Muthialpet. Filming continued in Puducherry until January 31 and moved to other parts of India, including the popular hill station of Munnar in Kerala, as well as Taiwan. The crew filmed in Taiwan for five and a half months in Taipei Zoo, an airport in Taichung, and Kenting National Park, located in Pingtung County where Lee was born.[26][27] The ocean scenes of the film were shot at a giant wave tank built by the crew in an abandoned airport.[28] The tank is known as the world's largest self-generating wave tank, with a capacity of 1.7 million gallons.[29] With production scheduled to last two and a half months at the tank, cinematographer Claudio Miranda assisted in the tank's design in order to get the most out of it for lighting, explaining, "We knew we were going to be inside there shooting for 2.5 months, so it was worth it to be able to do anything we want. On all these kind of scenes, we had an idea of what the weather would be like. In that tank, I can create storm clouds, nightfall. We had curtains that I can block out [light], doors to open and let in real sunlight," Miranda says. "So lighting-wise, [the movie] had a big ebb and flow."[30] After photography was completed in Taiwan, production moved back to India and concluded in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[19]
Post-production[edit]
The lead visual effects company for Life of Pi was Rhythm & Hues Studios (R&H). 3D effects for the film were created by a team of R&H artists in Los Angeles, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kuala Lumpur, Vancouver and Kaohsiung.[31][32][33][34][35][36]
The R&H VFX (Visual Effects) Supervisor Bill Westenhofer said that discussions of the project began with Ang Lee in August 2009.[37][38] Westenhofer noted that Lee "knew we had done the lion in the first Narnia movie. He asked, 'Does a digital character look more or less real in 3D?' We looked at each other and thought that was a pretty good question."[39] He also stated that during these meetings, Lee said, "'I look forward to making art with you.' This was really for me one of the most rewarding things I've worked on and the first chance to really combine art with VFX. Every shot was artistic exploration, to make the ocean a character and make it interesting we had to strive to make it as visually stunning as possible."[40] Rhythm & Hues spent a year on research and development, " building upon its already vast knowledge of CG animation" to develop the tiger.[41] The British Film Institute's Sight & Sound magazine suggested that, "Life of Pi can be seen as the film Rhythm & Hues has been building up to all these years, by taking things they learned from each production from Cats & Dogs to Yogi Bear, integrating their animals in different situations and environments, pushing them to do more, and understanding how all of this can succeed both visually and dramatically."[42]
Artist Abdul Rahman in the Malaysian branch underscored the global nature of the effects process, saying that "the special thing about Life of Pi is that it was the first time we did something called remote rendering, where we engaged our cloud infrastructure in Taiwan called CAVE (Cloud Animation and Visual Effects)."[43]
Additional visual effects studios that worked on the film include MPC, yU+co, Buf, Crazy Horse Effects, Look Effects, Christov Effects, Lola VFX, Reliance Mediaworks, and Stereo D.[40]
Music[edit]
Life of Pi: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by Mychael Danna
Released
16 November 2012
Recorded
2012
Genre
Soundtrack
Indian Classical Music
Length
65:11
Label
Sony Classical Records
Producer
Mychael Danna
Mychael Danna soundtracks chronology
Moneyball
(2011)Moneyball2011 Life of Pi
(2012) Devil's Knot
(2013)Devil's Knot2013
Singles from Life of Pi: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
"Pi's Lullaby"
Released: November 19, 2012
The film's musical score was composed by Mychael Danna, who previously wrote the music to Lee's films The Ice Storm and Ride with the Devil. A soundtrack album of the music was released by Sony Classical Records on 16 November 2012.[44] The album features the track "Pi's Lullaby", which was co-written by Danna and Bombay Jayashri, who performs the song in Tamil.[45]
Distribution[edit]
Marketing[edit]
Due to the film's holiday release, Life of Pi's financial success had been under review. Dorothy Pomerantz of Forbes said, "It looks like chances are very slim that the film will earn back its production and marketing costs let alone turn a profit." Pomerantz attributed this to the fact that film was not led by a big name star and faced other winter blockbusters.[46] John Horn and Ben Fritz of The Los Angeles Times compared the film to Martin Scorsese's Hugo, a large-budget 3D film that opened during the 2011 Thanksgiving week. They said that Life of Pi could have ended up like Hugo by "failing to connect with moviegoers" and become a "financial failure."[47] Similar speculation had been made by other news sources.[48][49]
Whether or not Hurricane Sandy would affect the film's publicity was also a question. Because the film includes a massive storm, it was speculated that the recent storm might result in lower box office revenue due to the unintentional overtones of Sandy's devastation. A Fox spokesperson made note that there were no plans to change the film's marketing approach.[50]
During the marketing campaign for Life of Pi, the film was promoted as "the next Avatar" in trailers and TV spots.[51] James Cameron, the director of Avatar, later became the subject of two featurettes that focus on the film's 3D and computer-generated imagery.[52] In addition, the original novel was re-released in a movie tie-in edition.[53] This was later followed by the release of The Making of Life of Pi: A Film, a Journey, a book by Jean-Christophe Castelli that details how Life of Pi was brought to the big screen.[54]
Theatrical release[edit]
Life of Pi had a wide release in the United States on November 21, 2012 in both traditional and 3D viewing formats. It was originally scheduled to be released on December 14, 2012, but when The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was announced for the same release date, Life of Pi was postponed a week. It was then shifted a month in advance.[55]
Home media[edit]
Life of Pi was released on DVD, Blu-ray, and Blu-ray 3D in North America, on March 12, 2013.[56] The film's 2D Blu-ray release contains many special features, including a one-hour making-of special entitled A Filmmaker's Epic Journey, two featurettes focusing on the film's visual effects, as well as two behind-the-scene looks at storyboarding and pre-production artwork. In addition, the film's 3D Blu-ray release contains five deleted scenes and a featurette entitled VFX Progressions that takes a look at what was shot and how it evolved to be what was rendered on screen.[57] The Film was later was released on 4K UHD on March 8, 2016[58]
Reception[edit]
Box office[edit]
As of May 8, 2013[update], Life of Pi has grossed US$124,772,844 in North America, and US$484,029,542 in other countries, for a worldwide total of US$609,006,177.[8] During its opening on the extended Thanksgiving weekend, the film debuted in 2,902 theaters throughout the United States and Canada and grossed US$30,573,101.[59] On the Chinese mainland, from November 22 to December 24,[60] the film topped the box office for three weeks,[61] and grossed over US$91 million.[62] As of January 24, 2013[update], it had also topped the box office for three weeks in Australia,[63] Chile,[64] and four weeks in Mexico[65] and Peru.[66] The film became the biggest Hollywood hit of the year in India[67][68] and is also estimated to be the third-highest grossing Hollywood release of all time in the country behind Avatar and 2012.[69] Life of Pi has earned HK$45,058,653 (US$5.8 million) at the Hong Kong box office, making it the highest grossing Ang Lee film in Hong Kong.[70]
Critical response[edit]
Life of Pi received highly positive reviews, with praise directed towards the visual effects, Ang Lee's direction, David Magee's screenplay, Mychael Danna's musical score, and the editing. It has an 87% approval rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 232 reviews with an average rating of 7.9/10. Its consensus reads "A 3D adaptation of a supposedly "unfilmable" book, Ang Lee's Life of Pi achieves the near impossible – it's an astonishing technical achievement that's also emotionally rewarding."[71] On Metacritic, the film has an average score of 79 out of 100, based on 44 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews."[72]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave Life of Pi 4 out of 4 stars, referring to it as "a miraculous achievement of storytelling and a landmark of visual mastery" as well as "one of the best films of the year." He particularly praised the film's use of 3D that he described as "deepen[ing] the film's sense of places and events."[73] Comparatively, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone highlighted the use of 3D in the film suggesting that "like Hugo, from Martin Scorsese, Life of Pi puts 3D in the hands of a worldclass film artist. (Ang) Lee uses 3D with the delicacy and lyricism of a poet. You don't just watch this movie, you live it."[74] Parmita Borah of Eastern Fare says, "There is this one scene in particular where the entire ocean is covered with jelly fish which makes you feel like 'this is what heaven must look like'."[75]
The Los Angeles Times critic Betsy Sharkey referred to the film as a "masterpiece," stating that
There is always a poetic aesthetic that Lee brings to his best work – the brutal martial arts ballet of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or the homophobic hatred against the backcountry grandeur of Brokeback Mountain, which would win him an Oscar for directing in 2006. In Life of Pi, certainly given its technological achievements, the filmmaker has raised the bar. Not since James Cameron's breathtaking blue Avatar in 2009 has 3-D had such impact.[76]
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Cameron himself highlighted the film's use of 3D, noting that
Life of Pi breaks the paradigm that 3-D has to be some big, action fantasy spectacle, superhero movie [....] The movie is visually amazing, inventive, and it works on you in ways you're not really aware of. It takes you on a journey, and unless you've read the book – which I hadn't – you have no idea where that journey is going. It does what good 3-D is supposed to do, which is, it allows you to forget you're watching a 3-D movie.[77]
According to French journalist Marjolaine Gout, the movie is "a philosophical tale where Noah's Ark metamorphoses into 'The Raft of the Medusa'". She adds that it is "a visual masterpiece" in which "Ang Lee proves, once again, his talent as a universal storyteller". She also writes about the visual poetry of the movie reminding viewers of the works of classical painters and the symbolic of kolams. The film got 8 out of 10 stars, the readers gave 7 stars.[78]
Yann Martel, the author of the novel on which the film is based, found the film to be a "delightful" adaptation, saying,
I'm happy it works so well as a film. Even if the ending is not as ambiguous as the book's, the possibility that there might be another version of Pi's story comes at you unexpectedly and raises the same important questions about truth, perception and belief.[79]
A. O. Scott of The New York Times was critical of the film's narrative frame, arguing that "the movie invites you to believe in all kinds of marvelous things, but it also may cause you to doubt what you see with your own eyes – or even to wonder if, in the end, you have seen anything at all." Scott further criticized the film for repressing the darker themes of the tale.[80] Nick Schager of The Village Voice also panned the film stating "A stacked-deck theological inquiry filtered through a Titanic-by-way-of–Slumdog Millionaire narrative, Life of Pi manages occasional spiritual wonder through its 3-D visuals but otherwise sinks like a stone."[81] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film 2 out of 5 stars, and states "despite some lovely images and those eyepopping effects, it is a shallow and self-important shaggy-dog story – or shaggy-tiger story [....] It deserves every technical prize going."[82]
Richard Corliss of Time selected the film as the third-best movie of 2012, as well as calling it the next Avatar.[83]
The film has been described as containing a "subtle, artistic warning" about the dangers of increased anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions and ocean acidification, the acidic island Pi and Richard Parker encounter being compared to Castello Aragonese in the Tyrrhenian Sea near Naples and Richard Parker's final dismissive departure representing the "not too pleasant face of Gaia (see Gaia hypothesis)."[84]
Top ten lists[edit]
Life of Pi was listed on many critics' top ten lists.[85]
1st – Anne Thompson, Indiewire
1st – Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times
2nd – David Germain, Associated Press
2nd – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
3rd – Richard Corliss, Time
3rd – Noel Murray, The A.V. Club
4th – Richard Roeper
4th – Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
4th – Mary Pols, Time
6th – Oliver Lyttelton, Indiewire
6th – Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
6th – David Edelstein, New York
8th – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
9th – Sean Axmaker, MSN Movies
10th – Mike Scott, The Times-Picayune
Top 10 (ranked alphabetically) – Phillip French, The Observer
Top 10 (ranked alphabetically) – Claudia Puig, USA Today
Top 10 (ranked alphabetically) – Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Top 10 (ranked alphabetically) – Stephen Whitty, The Star-Ledger
Rhythm & Hues Studios controversy[edit]
Despite the Oscar for Best Visual Effects at the 2013 Academy Awards, Rhythm & Hues Studios (who provided most of the visual effects for the film) was forced to file for bankruptcy on February 11, 2013, citing unfair competition from subsidized and tax exempt foreign studios.[86] This sparked a demonstration of nearly 500 VFX artists who protested outside the 2013 Academy Awards.[87] Inside, during the Oscars, when R&H visual effects supervisor Bill Westenhofer brought up R&H during his acceptance speech for Life of Pi, the microphone was cut off.[88] This started an uproar among many visual effects industry professionals, changing profile pictures on social media such as Facebook and Twitter to show the green key colour, in order to raise awareness for what is happening to the effects industry.[89] In addition, director Ang Lee was criticized by the protest leader for his failure to thank the effect industry, "Ang thanked the crew, the actors, his agent, his lawyer and the entire population of Taiwan right down to the team that built the wave-pool on the soundstage where Pi was shot, but failed to mention hundreds of artists who made not only the main character of the tiger, but replaced that pool, making it look like a real ocean for 80% of his movie."[90] He was also criticized for earlier complaining about the costs of visual effects.[90][91] In February 2014, Christina Lee Storm and Scott Leberecht released the documentary Life After Pi to YouTube.[92] The documentary details the role Rhythm & Hues played in Life of Pi as well as the consequent bankruptcy. Bill Westenhofer also discusses his experience at the Oscars as he accepted a Visual Effects award for Rhythm & Hues' work on Life of Pi.[93][94][95][96]
A trust named after Carnatic musician Irayimman Thampi has accused Bombay Jayashri's Oscar-nominated song "Pi's Lullaby" of not being an original composition.[97] The trust has alleged that the first eight lines of the song is a word-by-word translation of composer Thampi's renowned lullaby in Malayalam Omanathinkal Kidavo. Jayashri has denied the allegation.[97][97][98][99]
Animal abuse allegations[edit]
A 2013 investigation by the Hollywood Reporter brought to light leaked emails suggesting that animals involved in the filming of Life of Pi had been mistreated during the filming despite the American Humane Association’s "No Animals Were Harmed" certification on the film.[100][101][102] In an April 7, 2011 ACA monitor, Gina Johnson, wrote that “last week we almost killed King” The email goes on to suggest that the incident, in which the tiger apparently nearly drowned while filming a scene, would be "downplayed" in the official report to the ACA. Additionally, the exposé alleges that Johnson was involved in a romantic relationship with one of the film’s producers, possibly representing a conflict of interest. Life of Pi director Ang Lee has described the animal abuse allegations as "an accident" in interviews. Following the publication of the Hollywood Reporter investigation, Gina Johnson resigned from her position with the ACA.[103][104]
New animal welfare concerns were raised in 2015 when PETA released a video that appeared to show Life of Pi animal trainer Michael Hackenberger swearing at and whipping a young tiger 19 times.[105] In April 2016, the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals filed animal cruelty charges against Hackenberger based on the video evidence.[106]
Accolades[edit]
Main article: List of accolades received by Life of Pi
Life of Pi was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won four (more than any other film from 2012): Best Director (Ang Lee), Best Cinematography (Claudio Miranda), Best Visual Effects (Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan de Boer and Donald R. Elliott) and Best Original Score (Mychael Danna).[107][108] It was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and won for Best Original Score. The film also won awards for cinematography, film editing, sound effects and original score at several other awards ceremonies. In addition to the Academy Award, Ang Lee won best director awards from the Kansas City, Las Vegas, and London Film Critics. The film was awarded the Best Picture award by the Las Vegas Film Critics Society and was named one of the top ten films of the year by the New York Film Critics and the Southeastern Film Critics.
See also[edit]
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