I don’t watch trailers and I haven’t watched this one, all I did was skim through to find a screen capture to include for the top of this post and wow does this one continue to impress me. Loaded with vivid imagery and music provided by Sigur Ros and Coldplay comes a new Vietnamese trailer for Ang Lee‘s Life of Pi, a film I hope is as immensely entertaining as it is visually lush.
Adapted from Yan Martel’s Booker Prize-winning novel, Life of Pi is set in Pondicherry, India and centers on Piscine Molitor Patel (Suraj Sharma) – known as Pi – a well-to-do zookeeper’s son who leads a rich life acquiring a broad knowledge of not only the great religious texts but of all literature, and has a great curiosity about how the world works. However, political changes in India cause the Patel family to choose to move to Canada where Pi ultimately finds himself adrift in a lifeboat with a zebra, an orang-utan, a hyena, and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. The rest of the story chronicles Pi’s 227-day voyage across the Pacific, and the powerful story of faith and survival at the heart of Life of Pi.
Life of Pi hits theaters on November 21 and I really can’t wait to see it. As far as where it falls in my Oscar predictions… you’ll have to wait until next week for that information.
