What's the Difference between Life of Pi the Book and Life of Pi the Movie?
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Pi is quietly playing when his father comes and takes him and Ravi to the Tiger's cage. Babu the keeper of the cats delivers a goat into an adjacent cage. He unties the goat. The lone tiger, Mahisha is waiting. The gate between the two is opened and the tiger goes and kills the goat. |
Pi takes Ravi to the tiger's cage. He says he wants to see the new tiger, Richard Parker. He grabs some meat and holds it through the bars. Richard comes into view and Ravi runs away. Pi stares into the tiger's eyes. Pi's father arrives and pulls him away. He then gets the keeper to grab a goat. They tie it to the bars and wait while Richard Parker comes and kills the goat and pulls it through the bars and drags it off to eat it. |
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Pi mentions a few friends in Pondicherry, but they are all boys. |
He is shown watching a girl and she gives him a red string to wear around his wrist before he goes to Canada.
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On several occasions the boat is filled with flying fish. |
There is only one scene of flying fish. |
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This doesn't happen. |
Pi's mother asks for a vegetarian meal on the freighter. The french cook gives her liver and sausage and Pi's father grabs him and tries to fight him.
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During a great storm Pi rushes to cover the boat with the tarpaulin so it doesn't sink. |
Pi yells at god and actually starts to remove the tarp. He then relents when he sees that Richard Parker will drown and covers it up again. |