Life of Pi (2012)

Gautam Belur: Pi Patel (5 Years)

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Quotes 

• Pi Patel : Hunger can change everything you thought you knew about yourself.

• Santosh Patel : You think tiger is your friend, he is an animal, not a playmate.

  Pi Patel : Animals have souls... I have seen it in their eyes.

• Pi Patel : For castaways who must share their lifeboats with large, dangerous carnivores, it is advisable to establish a territory as your own. The following course of action is recommended. Step one: Choose a day when waves are moderate, but regular. Step two: with the lifeboat facing into the waves, making the ride as comfortable as possible, blow your whistle soothingly. Step three: turn the boat sideways to the waves, accompanied by harsh, aggressive use of the whistle. With sufficient repetition, the animal will associate the sound of the whistle with the discomfort of seasickness. Similar methods have long been used by circus trainers, though they generally lack access to rough seas.

  [Pi climbs onto the boat and urinates at the end of the tarp] 

  Pi Patel : MINE! You understand? Yours, mine! You understand?

  [Richard Parker sniffs, then turns and urinates in Pi's face] 

  Pi Patel : [v.o]  Step four: disregard steps one through three.

• Pi Patel : [to starving, semi-conscious tiger in lifeboat]  We're dying, Richard Parker. I'm sorry.

• Pi Patel : Then the ship sank. What else do you want from me?

  Younger Insurance Investigator : A story that won't make us look like fools.

  Older Insurance Investigator : We need a simpler story for our report. One our company can understand. A story we can all believe.

  Pi Patel : [pause]  So, a story without things you've never seen before.

  Older Insurance Investigator : That's right.

  Pi Patel : Without surprises, without animals, or islands?

  Older Insurance Investigator : Yes, the truth.

  Writer : [back to present, to Adult Pi Patel]  So, what did you do?

  Adult Pi Patel : I told them another story.

• Pi Patel : God? I give myself to you. I am your vessel. Whatever comes, I want to know. Show me.

• Pi Patel : It's a thunderstorm. Let's go watch.

  Ravi Patel : Are you crazy? We will get hit by lightning.

  Pi Patel : No, we won't. It will hit the bridge first.

  Ravi Patel : Don't tempt a storm, Pi.

• Pi Patel : What does this mean?

  [makes bowl shape with hands] 

  Pi Patel : In the dance, you went from pataka which means the forest. And then you did, and you did... samputa, which means something that is hidden. And after that you did this... And then you did chatura. But at the very end, you did this.

  [makes bowl shape with hands again] 

  Pi Patel : None of the other dancers did that. What did you mean? The god of love is hiding in the forest?

  Anandi : No, that also means the lotus flower.

  Pi Patel : Lotus flower is hiding in the forest? Why would a lotus flower hide in the forest?