Compare and Contrast Life of Pi book and movie
LOP Compare and Contrast Essay
Introduction: Was Life of Pi a true story of a boy stuck out in sea for 7 months with a Bengal tiger, or all a lie that constantly toyed with our brains? This was a question that always kept readers of the book and viewers of the movie perplexed about which story was the accurate one and is what made it such a success. In the movie, Ang Lee directs the story with his own take on a vast variety of visual details. The book however has many contrasting ideas and themes with the movie. There are many similarities and differences in the book and movie, but some overall themes are Pi and his struggles, the supporting characters, and Pi’s relationship with animals being portrayed in both but sometimes differently.
Similarities: The first similarity between the movie and the book is how Pi was portrayed in the book and movie. In both versions Pi is an intelligent young man who has a great love of God and all that is spiritual. Piscine Molitor Patel is a deeply religious person who intrigued not just by his Hindu teachings and practices, but by Christianity and Islam as well. Also during his shipwreck days he stayed very religious throughout both of the representations and constantly kept his faith in god throughout the ordeal while slowly losing his innocence when desperate times called. Another similarity is that Pi’s mother, Gita Patel, is portrayed as a loving mother and protector of Pi. When Pi relates another version of his story to his rescuers, she takes the place of Orange Juice on the lifeboat which he describes her as, “She came floating on an island of bananas in a halo of light, as lovely as the Virgin Mary” (Martel 111). She symbolizes his protector from the vicious hyena or cook in both of the representations. Gita literally means in Hindi the sacred song of God, which plays along in the overall story of Pi’s love for God and the visions he sees in the movie of his mother which push him to fight for his survival. The
Introduction: Was Life of Pi a true story of a boy stuck out in sea for 7 months with a Bengal tiger, or all a lie that constantly toyed with our brains? This was a question that always kept readers of the book and viewers of the movie perplexed about which story was the accurate one and is what made it such a success. In the movie, Ang Lee directs the story with his own take on a vast variety of visual details. The book however has many contrasting ideas and themes with the movie. There are many similarities and differences in the book and movie, but some overall themes are Pi and his struggles, the supporting characters, and Pi’s relationship with animals being portrayed in both but sometimes differently.
Similarities: The first similarity between the movie and the book is how Pi was portrayed in the book and movie. In both versions Pi is an intelligent young man who has a great love of God and all that is spiritual. Piscine Molitor Patel is a deeply religious person who intrigued not just by his Hindu teachings and practices, but by Christianity and Islam as well. Also during his shipwreck days he stayed very religious throughout both of the representations and constantly kept his faith in god throughout the ordeal while slowly losing his innocence when desperate times called. Another similarity is that Pi’s mother, Gita Patel, is portrayed as a loving mother and protector of Pi. When Pi relates another version of his story to his rescuers, she takes the place of Orange Juice on the lifeboat which he describes her as, “She came floating on an island of bananas in a halo of light, as lovely as the Virgin Mary” (Martel 111). She symbolizes his protector from the vicious hyena or cook in both of the representations. Gita literally means in Hindi the sacred song of God, which plays along in the overall story of Pi’s love for God and the visions he sees in the movie of his mother which push him to fight for his survival. The