What's the Difference between Life of Pi the Book and Life of Pi the Movie?
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In the Movie |
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The meerkats swim into the pools and bring out the fish to eat. |
The fish are only seen as skeletons and the meerkats don't do into the water. |
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Pi very slowly tries to train Richard Parker using his sea sickness and the whistle. He does it over many days. |
He seems to get the results he needs after only one attempt.
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Pi's mother doesn't work. |
Pi says that his mother studied Botany in University. |
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Ravi is a star cricket player and Pi is compared to him. |
Ravi seems like a normal boy and his mother once mentions that he likes cricket.
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This doesn't happen. |
A sailor on the freighter comes to the family and tells them that he is a buhddist and he eats rice next to gravy. Pi later says that this sailor was injured and on the life boat with them. |