Saturday, March 18, 2017

Genkifying "Life of Pi"

Beautiful movie. should provide beautiful screen grabs of faux fictionalized reality.
  1. YELLOW ::
    1. Made a new name: Pissing -> Pi
    2. Tiger: Appa/dad wanted him to see tiger eat goat. "world lost it's enchantement"
  2. ORANGE ::
    1. "We don't want to clean up after a sea sick oranguatan" thus tranquilizers. Dad hadn't ever actually cared for the animals before.
  3. RED ::
    1. "slow massive confidence of a continent"
    2. "Don't tempt a storm Pi" - wasn't scared at all.
    3. (maybe if they weren't throwing ppl overboard more ppl would have survived)
    4. threw rat to RP
    5. had to look away to yell 'no!' to RP
    6. "My fear of him keeps me alert"
    7. a flare is an expensive expense when it doesn't work
    8. "can't tell day dreaming from night dreaming from reality"
    9. did emoness make storm worse? or help him endure? got in bed with RP...
  4. PURPLE :: 
    1. How to use a whistle and seasickness to train a tiger
  5. BLUE ::
    1. Pi deciphers the dance "lotus flowers hiding in forest"
    2. "Richard Parker is listening"
    3. my blogs are msgs in a bottle
  6. GREEN :: TsimTsum
    1. Starting on the raft "Pi's Ark"
      1. Hyena "Medicine hasn't quite worn off yet, eh?"
      2. Tiger (Richard Parker)
      3. Orangutan (orange juice)
        1. "Where's your boy, Orange Juice?"
      4. Zebra 
  7. WHITE :: 
    1. Hindu
      1. 33 million gods
      2. superheros (showed comic strip) eg Krishna, Ganesh, Vishnu
      3. mom's only link to past was her religion after she married 'beneath' her
    2. Catholic
      1. priest gave him 'holy water' (met bet)
      2. sacrificing the innocent to atone for sins of guilty didn't make sense
      3. "He loves us"
      4. "Thank you Vishnu for introducing me to Christ"
    3. Muslim
      1. Allah
      2. "The sound and feel of the words"
      3. serenity and brotherhood
    4. Science/Reason
      1. "believing in everything means believing in nothing"
      2. "believe in something i disagree w rather than everything blindly"
      3. "We will sail to America like Columbus" "But Columbus was looking for India!"
    5. Dance
      1. Pi deciphers the dance "lotus flowers hiding in forest"
      2. "Richard Paker is listening" (dance)
    6. Rule Book (blown away)
      1. "Above all - don't lose hope"
  8. BLACK
    1. "Why are you scaring him? I lost my family - i lost everything - i surrender - what do you want?"
  9. GREY
    1. vegetarian so annoyed cook (called them 'curry eaters')
    2. "Happy Buddhist"; I eat rice next to gravy. on ship gravy isn't meat. it's spice.
    3. Killed a fish for tiger
    4. eventually ate fish himself
  10. PINK
    1. family
      1. Amma Mom
      2. Appa Dad
      3. Ravi Brother
      4. uncle named him after French swimming p00l
    2. illuminated seaweed magic & whale
    3. eats fish despite believing he shouldn't
    4. Magical Deadly Island 
      1. mere cats didn't know to be scared of RP
      2. tooth
      3. carnivorous island
      4. 'alone and forgotten'
      5. 'had to get back or die trying'
      6. god didn't forget him
  11. CYAN
    1. Don't drink urine nor seawater.
    2. RP didn't look back.
    3. "wept not cuz of being overwhelmed cuz of surviving but cuz RP left me so unceremoneously."
  12. BROWN
    1. story began as another man's failure (the author who went to india for a story in pakistan(?)
    2. Worst thing was not taking the time to say goodbye.
    3. "it's over we survived thank you RP"
    4. Another Story
      1. hyena cook  - ate rat 1st few days; brute; resourceful; created raft to fish; would have died w/o; ate sailor; 'resourceful man'; killed by Pi after getting hit for losing turtle; didn't object to pi killing him; 'he brought the evil out of me and i have to live with that'
      2. zebra sailor - broke leg/infected; mother and i had to hold him down and i did; cook needed bait. 'never understand his sufferring' "happy buddhist"
      3. orangutan mother - angry that sailor killed for bait; slapped cook; didn't get onto raft quick enough; was eat by sharks
      4. tiger - i was alone in the lifeboat drifting across the ocean and i survived.
    5. Two Stories
      1. in both - ship sinks family dies i survive. which do you prefer?






















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