Nowadays middle aged Pi tells the story of his life to a visiting writer apparently a book author Yan Martels alter ego who is seeking for the literal inspiration. In order to avoid it once in high school he finally shortens his name to Pi Patel. Starting from his Taiwanese beginnings and his highly enjoyable family harmonizing Father Knows Best trilogy 1992 1994 through his Academy Award winning works on gracefully choreographed highly spiritualized Far East martial arts tour de force Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 2000 best foreign language film and on an uncommon yet nostalgic portrayal of the Old West in Brokeback Mountain 2005 best director to his other titles like Sense and Sensibility 1995 The Ice Storm 1997 and Lust Caution 2007 quality and Kubrick like versatility shown in his movies offer continuous attraction for wide audience of his admirers.Lees latest and so far easily greatest movie Life of Pi is based on a screenplay adapted from the acclaimed fictional adventure novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel.Throughout his childhood due to matching pronunciation of French word piscine pool swimming pool and English word pissing Piscine Molitor Patel named that way after later abandoned Parisian swimming pool so predictably suffers from being nicknamed Pissing Patel. With his latest movie Life of Pi Ang Lee further establishes himself as one of the greatest contemporary movie directors.
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