Life of Pi Orange Juice. A tiger has been hiding under the boat's tarpaulin: it's Richard Parker, who had boarded the lifeboat with ambivalent assistance from Pi himself some time before the hyena attack. Suddenly emerging from his hideaway, Richard Parker kills and eats the hyena. Frightened, Pi constructs a small raft out of rescue flotation devices, tethers it to the bow of the boat and makes it his place of retirement. He begins conditioning Richard Parker to take a submissive role by using food as a positive reinforcer, and seasickness as a punishment mechanism, while using a whistle for signals. Soon, Pi
Life of Pi (film) like'." The "Los Angeles Times" critic Betsy Sharkey referred to the film as a "masterpiece," stating that: There is always a poetic aesthetic that Lee brings to his best work – the brutal martial arts ballet of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" or the homophobic hatred against the backcountry grandeur of "Brokeback Mountain," which would win him an Oscar for directing in 2006. In "Life of Pi," certainly given its technological achievements, the filmmaker has raised the bar. Not since James Cameron's breathtaking blue "Avatar" in 2009 has 3-D had such impact. In an interview with the "Los Angeles Times", Cameron