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* UnfortunateImplications: The two stories paradox basically suggests that the religious side is delusional and clinging on to a pleasant reality while the atheist side is fundamentally nihilistic.
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** In the book, Pi described the hyena as this, as an abomination. In the movie, the hyena behaves like any animal, and is quite cute.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Pi was mocked as a child for having a name that could be mispronounced as "Pissing." When he's lost at sea and quarreling with Richard Parker, he actually does piss to mark his territory and show him who's in charge. That does not end well for him.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vbxdqCi_AQ "Pi's Lullaby"]]. SweetDreamsFuel incarnate.
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* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The film adaptation features some truly incredible special effects sequences.
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* FridgeHorror: [[spoiler: Pi's second story accounts for all the characters and events that happened in the first story, except for one: the island. Except, it does. If you choose to believe the second story, then what happened is that Pi found one of the other survivors' teeth in the boat, probably the cook's.]]
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* YouFailReligiousStudiesForever: [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Agnosticism Agnosticism]] is not about being unable to choose which "side" to be on. It's a lot more complicated than that.
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* YouFailReligiousStudiesForever: [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Agnosticism Agnosticism]] {{UsefulNotes/Agnosticism}} is not about being unable to choose which "side" to be on. It's a lot more complicated than that.
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** Whaddaya know? Banannas ''do'' float!
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** Whaddaya know? Banannas Bananas ''do'' float!
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* AcceptableReligiousTargets: Pi respects and admires his strictly atheistic teacher, and devoutly practices Hinduism, Islam, ''and'' Christianity. However, he heaps all of his scorn on agnostics -- viewing them as doubters who lack the resolve to pick a side.
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* AcceptableReligiousTargets: Pi respects and admires his strictly atheistic teacher, and devoutly practices Hinduism, Islam, ''and'' Christianity. However, he heaps all of his scorn on agnostics -- agnostics, viewing them as doubters who lack the resolve to pick a side.
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* AcceptableReligiousTargets: Pi respects and admires his strictly atheistic teacher, and devoutly practices Hinduism, Islam, ''and'' Christianity. However, he heaps all of his scorn on agnostics -- something about a viewing them as doubters who lack of faith and decision.the resolve to pick a side.
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* NightmareFuel:
** The way the hyena [[spoiler:disposes of the zebra. Same with the orangutan's fate]]. Pi's tone of despair is also notable, as he witnesses this feeling powerless, in great, nightmare-inducing detail.
** Not to mention how Richard Parker [[spoiler:kills the blind man]].
** But the [[spoiler:man-eating trees]] take the cake.
** Being stuck on a lifeboat for the better part of a year with a Bengal tiger.
** How about the story at the end that [[spoiler:replaces all the animals with humans? Reading about how the humans killed each other was far more terrifying than the predatory behavior in a hyena and a tiger.]]
** The way the hyena [[spoiler:disposes of the zebra. Same with the orangutan's fate]]. Pi's tone of despair is also notable, as he witnesses this feeling powerless, in great, nightmare-inducing detail.
** Not to mention how Richard Parker [[spoiler:kills the blind man]].
** But the [[spoiler:man-eating trees]] take the cake.
** Being stuck on a lifeboat for the better part of a year with a Bengal tiger.
** How about the story at the end that [[spoiler:replaces all the animals with humans? Reading about how the humans killed each other was far more terrifying than the predatory behavior in a hyena and a tiger.]]
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* YourMileageMayVary: Fans of the book are divided between those who like the first part where Pi is discovering his faith and balancing the craziness of living in a zoo with a rabbi, priest, and imam who don't get along, and those who prefer the second part where Pi is matching his philosophy with struggling to survive floating across the Pacific ocean with Richard Parker. Even if you like the whole book, there's a section you like better.
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The way the hyena [[spoiler:disposes of the zebra. Same with the orangutan's fate]]. Pi's tone of despair is also notable, as he witnesses this feeling powerless, in great, nightmare-inducing detail.
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: NightmareFuel:
** The way the hyena [[spoiler:disposes of the zebra. Same with the orangutan's fate]]. Pi's tone of despair is also notable, as he witnesses this feeling powerless, in great, nightmare-inducing detail.
** The way the hyena [[spoiler:disposes of the zebra. Same with the orangutan's fate]]. Pi's tone of despair is also notable, as he witnesses this feeling powerless, in great, nightmare-inducing detail.
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* YourMileageMayVary: Fans of the book are divided between those who like the first part where Pi is discovering his faith and balancing the craziness of living in a zoo with a rabbi, priest, and imam who don't get along, and those who prefer the second part where Pi is matching his philosophy with struggling to survive floating across the Pacific ocean with Richard Parker. Even if you like the whole book, there's a section you like better.
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* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:The chef in the alternate story. Even by the circumstances of the situation, he comes off as especially barbaric in comparison to his fellow survivors]].
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* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:The chef in the alternate version of the story. Even by the circumstances of the situation, he comes off as especially barbaric in comparison to his fellow survivors]].
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** The "moral" doesn't work if you take the situation in the book as a "LadyOrTheTiger" situation, where the "right" answer depends entirely on what you decide to go with and there is no real "right" or "wrong" answer. Or your answer could be that despite the story "forcing the reader to realize how awful doubt is" and wanting them to pick a side, there really is no way to know which answer is the right one - which is like agnosticism. It's not about doubt or indecisiveness for some, it's [[TakeAThirdOption deciding that there is no way for you to know]] which choice is true, and accepting that.
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** The "moral" doesn't work if you take the situation in the book as a "LadyOrTheTiger" "The Lady Or The Tiger" situation, where the "right" answer depends entirely on what you decide to go with and there is no real "right" or "wrong" answer. Or your answer could be that despite the story "forcing the reader to realize how awful doubt is" and wanting them to pick a side, there really is no way to know which answer is the right one - which is like agnosticism. It's not about doubt or indecisiveness for some, it's [[TakeAThirdOption deciding that there is no way for you to know]] which choice is true, and accepting that.
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** The "moral" doesn't work if you take the situation in the book as a "LadyAndTheTiger" situation, where the "right" answer depends entirely on what you decide to go with and there is no real "right" or "wrong" answer. Or your answer could be that despite the story "forcing the reader to realize how awful doubt is" and wanting them to pick a side, there really is no way to know which answer is the right one - which is like agnosticism. It's not about doubt or indecisiveness for some, it's [[TakeAThirdOption deciding that there is no way for you to know]] which choice is true, and accepting that.
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** The "moral" doesn't work if you take the situation in the book as a "LadyAndTheTiger" "LadyOrTheTiger" situation, where the "right" answer depends entirely on what you decide to go with and there is no real "right" or "wrong" answer. Or your answer could be that despite the story "forcing the reader to realize how awful doubt is" and wanting them to pick a side, there really is no way to know which answer is the right one - which is like agnosticism. It's not about doubt or indecisiveness for some, it's [[TakeAThirdOption deciding that there is no way for you to know]] which choice is true, and accepting that.
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* The "moral" doesn't work if you take the situation in the book as a "TheLadyAndTheTiger" situation, where the "right" answer depends entirely on what you decide to go with and there is no real "right" or "wrong" answer. Or your answer could be that despite the story "forcing the reader to realize how awful doubt is" and wanting them to pick a side, there really is no way to know which answer is the right one - which is like agnosticism. It's not about doubt or indecisiveness for some, it's [[TakeAThirdOption deciding that there is no way for you to know]] which choice is true, and accepting that.
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* YouFailReligiousStudiesForever: [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Agnosticism Agnosticism]] is not about being unable to choose which "side" to be on.
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* YouFailReligiousStudiesForever: [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Agnosticism Agnosticism]] is not about being unable to choose which "side" to be on. It's a lot more complicated than that.
* The "moral" doesn't work if you take the situation in the book as a "TheLadyAndTheTiger" situation, where the "right" answer depends entirely on what you decide to go with and there is no real "right" or "wrong" answer. Or your answer could be that despite the story "forcing the reader to realize how awful doubt is" and wanting them to pick a side, there really is no way to know which answer is the right one - which is like agnosticism. It's not about doubt or indecisiveness for some, it's [[TakeAThirdOption deciding that there is no way for you to know]] which choice is true, and accepting that.
* The "moral" doesn't work if you take the situation in the book as a "TheLadyAndTheTiger" situation, where the "right" answer depends entirely on what you decide to go with and there is no real "right" or "wrong" answer. Or your answer could be that despite the story "forcing the reader to realize how awful doubt is" and wanting them to pick a side, there really is no way to know which answer is the right one - which is like agnosticism. It's not about doubt or indecisiveness for some, it's [[TakeAThirdOption deciding that there is no way for you to know]] which choice is true, and accepting that.
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** The Great Lunch Exchange during the interview
---> '''Pi:''' Would you like a cookie for the road?
** Whaddaya know? Banannas ''do'' float!
---> '''Pi:''' Would you like a cookie for the road?
** Whaddaya know? Banannas ''do'' float!
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* YouFailBiologyForever: The Japanese officers call the meerkats "rodents" at one point.
** One would expect someone as familiar with zoology as Pi to know that hyenas are not dogs.
** One would expect someone as familiar with zoology as Pi to know that hyenas are not dogs.
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* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:The chef in the alternate story. Even by the circumstances of the situation, he comes off as especially barbaric in comparison to his fellow survivors]].
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** One would expect someone as familiar with zoology as Pi to know that hyenas are not dogs.
** One would expect someone as familiar with zoology as Pi to know that hyenas are not dogs.
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* NightmareFuel: HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The way the hyena [[spoiler:disposes of the zebra. Same with the orangutan's fate]]. Pi's tone of despair is also notable, as he witnesses this feeling powerless, in great, nightmare-inducing detail.
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** How about the story at the end that [[spoiler: replaces all the animals with humans? Reading about how the humans killed each other was far more terrifying than the predatory behavior in a hyena and a tiger.]]
* YouFailBiologyForever: The Japanese officers call the meerkats "rodents" at one point.
** One would expect someone as familiar with zoology as Pi to know that hyenas are not dogs.
* YouFailBiologyForever: The Japanese officers call the meerkats "rodents" at one point.
** One would expect someone as familiar with zoology as Pi to know that hyenas are not dogs.
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** How about the story at the end that [[spoiler: replaces [[spoiler:replaces all the animals with humans? Reading about how the humans killed each other was far more terrifying than the predatory behavior in a hyena and a tiger.]]
* YouFailBiologyForever: The Japanese officers call the meerkats "rodents" at one point.
** One would expect someone as familiar with zoology as Pi to know that hyenas are not dogs.]]
* YouFailBiologyForever: The Japanese officers call the meerkats "rodents" at one point.
** One would expect someone as familiar with zoology as Pi to know that hyenas are not dogs.
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** How about the story at the end that replaces all the animals with humans? [[spoiler:Reading about how the humans killed each other was far more terrifying than the predatory behavior in a hyena and a tiger.]]
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** How about the story at the end that [[spoiler: replaces all the animals with humans? [[spoiler:Reading Reading about how the humans killed each other was far more terrifying than the predatory behavior in a hyena and a tiger.]]
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* YouFailBiologyForever: The Japanese officers call the meerkats "rodents" at one point.
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** How about the story at the end that replaces all the animals with humans? [[spoiler:Reading about how the humans killed each other was far more terrifying than the predatory behavior in a hyena and a tiger.]]
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: [[spoiler:The Japanese Officers responses to Pi in their ForeignLookingFont (assumed to be Japanese):]]
-->[[spoiler: ''Mr. Okamoto:'' We have no proof they were meerkat bones.]]
--> [[spoiler: ''Mr. Chiba:'' Maybe they were banana bones! [[AnnoyingLaugh Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!]]]]
--> [[spoiler: ''Mr. Okamoto:'' Atsuro, Shut up!]]
--> [[spoiler: ''Mr. Chiba: '' I'm very sorry, Okamoto-san. It's the fatigue.]]
--> [[spoiler: ''Mr. Okamoto:'' You're bringing our service into disrepute!]]
--> [[spoiler: ''Mr. Chiba: '' Very sorry, Okamoto-san.]]
-->[[spoiler: ''Mr. Okamoto:'' We have no proof they were meerkat bones.]]
--> [[spoiler: ''Mr. Chiba:'' Maybe they were banana bones! [[AnnoyingLaugh Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!]]]]
--> [[spoiler: ''Mr. Okamoto:'' Atsuro, Shut up!]]
--> [[spoiler: ''Mr. Chiba: '' I'm very sorry, Okamoto-san. It's the fatigue.]]
--> [[spoiler: ''Mr. Okamoto:'' You're bringing our service into disrepute!]]
--> [[spoiler: ''Mr. Chiba: '' Very sorry, Okamoto-san.]]
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: [[spoiler:The The Japanese Officers Officers' responses to Pi in their ForeignLookingFont (assumed to be Japanese):]]
-->[[spoiler: ''Mr. Okamoto:''Japanese):
-->'''Mr. Okamoto:''' [[spoiler: We have no proof they were meerkat bones.]]
--> [[spoiler: ''Mr. Chiba:'' Maybe -->'''Mr. Chiba:''' [[spoiler:Maybe they were banana bones! [[AnnoyingLaugh Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!]]]]
--> [[spoiler: ''Mr. Okamoto:'' Atsuro, -->'''Mr. Okamoto:''' [[spoiler:Atsuro, Shut up!]]
--> [[spoiler: ''Mr. Chiba: '' I'm -->'''Mr. Chiba:''' [[spoiler:I'm very sorry, Okamoto-san. It's the fatigue.]]
--> [[spoiler: ''Mr. Okamoto:'' You're -->'''Mr. Okamoto:''' [[spoiler:You're bringing our service into disrepute!]]
--> [[spoiler: ''Mr. Chiba: '' Very -->'''Mr. Chiba:''' [[spoiler:Very sorry, Okamoto-san.]]
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-->'''Mr. Okamoto:''' [[spoiler: We have no proof they were meerkat bones.]]
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** [[spoiler: Not to mention how Richard Parker kills the blind man]].
** [[spoiler: [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel But the man-eating trees take the cake.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Not to mention how Richard Parker kills the blind man]].
** [[spoiler: [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel But the man-eating trees take the cake.]]]]
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