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Life of Pi: where to start reading
Adapts Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
LiteraryDrama
1 parts
on screen
1 book
to read
Tracks closely
from the books
After Film (2012), in the books you are
at Life of Pi.
through the end of the novel.
The film adapts the whole novel. The author called it a faithful adaptation, noting only that the ending is less ambiguous on screen than on the page. A self-contained standalone.
Start reading at Life of Pi (the novel)
Spoiler-safe, only what the movies already showed you.
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Life of Pi
Yann Martel
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What the movies changed here
- CutThe book's episode where Pi goes temporarily blind at sea is left out of the film.
- CutPi's harrowing mid-ocean encounter with another castaway from the novel is dropped.
- MovedThe film holds back the Mexican hospital until the end; the book reveals Pi's survival much earlier.
- ChangedYann Martel noted the film's ending lands a touch less ambiguously than the novel's.
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The 2012 film adapts Yann Martel's single 2001 novel closely, with a somewhat less ambiguous ending than the book's.
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