As Life of Pi makes its world premiere in the New York film festival Friday, Canadian author Yann Martel says he's pleased with Ang Lee’s 3D interpretation of his novel.
Yann Martel says calls the film 'visually sumptuous.
“It's visually extraordinary. The 3D element isn't cheap - it's done very intelligently to create out the elements. And also the Indian element is a lot more important than I noticed. I'm glad to determine India on the screen, you so rarely see India on screen.”
Martel’s novel follows a boy marooned on the lifeboat with a Bengal tiger and combines a menagerie of animals with several layers of metaphor. The 2002 novel was translated into 38 languages and spent 57 weeks around the New York Times bestseller list. Martel’s newest novel is 2010’s Beatrice and Virgil.
Martel believes Taiwanese director Lee has been doing justice to his story.
“It's very faithful towards the book, not only in what goes on, but in what the book attempts to do - attempt to say that reality is not really a fixed thing, it's available to interpretation. That the movie does perfectly,” he said.
Lifetime of Pi also opens the New York Film Festival, focusing attention around the Booker Prize-winning novel, long regarded as unfilmable.
“I certainly hope that Ang Lee and the team get the reward they deserve simply because they worked so hard about this. I'm certainly enjoying it, I'm kind of riding along around the coattails of the movie and I'll do this for a while,” he added.
Lee has credits for example Lust, Caution, Brokeback Mountain and Sense and Sensibility and it is a darling from the New York festival, having previously opened it in 1997 using the Ice Storm.
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