Ang Lee "Taking Woodstock" was "Life of Pi", which was adapted from the novel of the same name written by Yann Martel. The story was a retrospective first-person narrative from Pi, a then 16-year-old boy from India, who is the only human to survive the sinking of a freighter on the way from India to Canada. He finds himself on a lifeboat with an orangutan, a hyena, a wounded zebra and a Bengal tiger. During this unlikely journey, young Pi questions his belief in God and the meaning of life. The novel was once considered impossible to make into a movie, but
Richard Bordeaux Parker Richard Bordeaux Parker Richard Bordeaux Parker (July 3, 1923, in the Fort Stotsenburg, Philippines – January 7, 2011, in Washington, D.C.) was a United States Foreign Service Officer and an expert on the Middle East. Parker served as Ambassador to Algeria, Lebanon and Morocco. He was the brother of David Stuart Parker. Parker was the son of Col. Roscoe Parker, a U.S. Army officer (Cavalry), and grew up in U.S. Army posts across the southwest with a stint in Vermont and another in Kansas. He attended Kansas State University, graduating in 1943. After college, Parker served as an infantry officer