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Life of Pi
《少年Pi的奇幻漂流》
A peaceful journey to a new land takes a terrible turn when the ship that a young Indian boy, Pi, and his family are on starts to sink. Pi is lucky enough to make it to a lifeboat. However, that luck is mixed because the lifeboat already has a passenger—a huge Bengal tiger. To save his own life, it looks like Pi will also have to risk it. Thus begins the story and new movie Life of Pi.
The film of the award-winning book Life of Pi is directed by Taiwan’s Ang Lee. In fact, parts of the movie were filmed in Taichung and Kenting. Lee decided to film the movie in 3-D, but it wasn’t just for big special effects. By using 3-D, he says he hopes to put the audience in the emotional space of the characters.
More than 3,000 actors auditioned to play Pi, but Lee decided to cast Suraj Sharma, an unknown seventeen-year-old Indian student, for this role. In Sharma, Lee believes he has found an actor with “the innocence to capture our attention and the depth of character to break our hearts.”

一名印度男孩Pi與家人所搭乘的船開始沉沒時，一場航向新大陸的平靜旅程變調了。Pi很幸運地上了一艘救生艇。然而，那樣的運氣好壞參半，因為救生艇上已經有乘客了——是一隻巨大的孟加拉虎。看來Pi為了保命，也將得冒險一搏。《少年Pi的奇幻漂流》的故事和電影於焉展開。

《少年Pi的奇幻漂流》這本得獎著作的電影是由台灣的李安導演執導。事實上，這部電影有些部分是在台中和墾丁拍攝的。李安決定用3-D技術來拍攝這部片，但並不只為了要有大場面特效。他說他希望透過3-D手法讓觀眾投入角色的情感空間中。

超過三千名演員參與Pi這個角色的試鏡甄選，但李安選定沒沒無聞的十七歲印度籍學生蘇瑞吉．沙瑪來演出此角。在沙瑪身上，李安相信他找到一名具備「能吸引我們注意的純真與讓人心痛的性格深度」的演員。