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|title=Making of Life of Pi - A Film, A Journey

|author=Jean Christophe Castelli

|reviewer=John Lloyd

|publisher=Titan Books

|date=October 2012

|summary=An intelligent look behind the scenes of what is a fabulous film, if only from one slightly dry view.

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Before I'd seen the film of Yann Martel's novel Life of Pi I knew the end result would leave me either wondering 'how did they make that?!' or 'WHY did they make that?!'. The fact I ended up watching it twice before the general public had their chance, and lapped up a repeat viewing within a fortnight, says it all. There's no plot spoiler in the fact that the creators left us with a visually dazzling, splendidly luxurious-looking piece of cinema, one that left me scrabbling for tiny faults to nitpick with and just acknowledging how brilliant the FX and acting were. And, as the resulting question was the right one, I am still interested very much in the answer - luckily for me this book provides it.

A great look at the more general state of modern cinema - from all angles, official and general viewer - can be found with [[The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex by Mark Kermode]]. We loved [[In Glorious Technicolor: A Century of Film and How it has Shaped Us by Francine Stock]] too.

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