Life of Pi ship sinks in the middle of the Pacific Ocean during a voyage to North America. Richard Parker is a royal Bengal tiger who is stranded on the lifeboat with Pi when the ship sinks. Richard Parker lives on the lifeboat with Pi and is kept alive with the food and water Pi delivers. Richard Parker develops a relationship with Pi that allows them to coexist in their struggle. In the novel, a hunter named Richard Parker is hired to kill a panther thought to have killed seven people within two months. Instead, he accidentally immobilizes a female Bengal tiger with
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