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Pi, also titled π, is a 1998 American surrealist psychological thriller film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky in his directorial debut. The film earned Aronofsky the Directing Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay and the Gotham Open Palm Award. The title refers to the mathematical constant pi. The film is notable for its covering of an array of themes including religion, mysticism and the relationship of the universe to mathematics. The story about a mathematician and the obsession with mathematical regularity contrasts two seemingly irreconcilable entities: the imperfect, irrational humanity and the rigor and regularity of mathematics, specifically number theory.
Max Cohen is the story's protagonist and unreliable narrator. Unemployed, and living in a dreary Chinatown apartment in New York City, Max is a number theorist who believes that everything in nature can be understood through numbers. He is capable of doing simple arithmetic calculations involving large numbers in his head, a skill that impresses Jenna, a small Chinese-American girl with a calculator who lives in his apartment building. Max also suffers from cluster headaches, as well as extreme paranoia, hallucinations, and social anxiety disorder. Other than Devi, a young woman living next door who sometimes speaks to him, Max's only social interaction is with Sol Robeson, his old mathematics mentor who is now an invalid.
The number π is a mathematical constant, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, commonly approximated as 3.14159. It has been represented by the Greek letter "π" since the mid-18th century, though it is also sometimes spelled out as "pi" (/paɪ/).
Being an irrational number, π cannot be expressed exactly as a fraction (equivalently, its decimal representation never ends and never settles into a permanent repeating pattern). Still, fractions such as 22/7 and other rational numbers are commonly used to approximate π. The digits appear to be randomly distributed; however, to date, no proof of this has been discovered. Also, π is a transcendental number – a number that is not the root of any non-zero polynomial having rational coefficients. This transcendence of π implies that it is impossible to solve the ancient challenge of squaring the circle with a compass and straightedge.
Ancient civilizations needed the value of π to be computed accurately for practical reasons. It was calculated to seven digits, using geometrical techniques, in Chinese mathematics and to about five in Indian mathematics in the 5th century CE. The historically first exact formula for π, based on infinite series, was not available until a millennium later, when in the 14th century the Madhava–Leibniz series was discovered in Indian mathematics. In the 20th and 21st centuries, mathematicians and computer scientists discovered new approaches that, when combined with increasing computational power, extended the decimal representation of π to, as of 2015, over 13.3 trillion (1013) digits. Practically all scientific applications require no more than a few hundred digits of π, and many substantially fewer, so the primary motivation for these computations is the human desire to break records. However, the extensive calculations involved have been used to test supercomputers and high-precision multiplication algorithms.
Actors: Kvon Chen (editor), Kvon Chen (producer), Kvon Chen (writer), Kvon Chen (writer), Kvon Chen (director), Antonio Liang (actor), Scott Chou (actor), Scott Chou (producer), Patrick Ip (actor), Salvadore Brown (actor), Mate Zseller (actor), Melissa Th'ng (actress), Eric Chen (producer), Ivy Chen (producer), Eleanore Su (writer),
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Short,Actors: Andy Leverett (producer), Andy Leverett (actor), Andy Leverett (editor), Andy Leverett (director), Andy Leverett (writer), Henna Bakshi (writer), Henna Bakshi (actress), Henna Bakshi (producer), Aakash Bakshi (actor), Austin Steele III (actor), Carlton Maddox (actor), Betty Ann Graham (actress), Stewart Worthen (actor), Mark McCombs (actor),
Genres: Action, Short,Actors: Drake Bell (actor), Mariah Breitel Hembree (miscellaneous crew), Rob Schneider (actor), Ash R. Shah (producer), Fran Drescher (actress), Andy Dick (actor), Jamie Kennedy (actor), Donal Logue (actor), Stephen Stanton (actor), Mark A.Z. Dippé (director), Mark A.Z. Dippé (producer), Busy Philipps (actress), Todd Haberman (composer), Matthew Willig (actor), Michael Rafferty (editor),
Plot: Trained in the skills of sea power, Pi the fish can fight a shark, sink a squid or batter any random predator that ever threatens his friends and neighbors on the reef. Unfortunately, being the only hero in town can take its toll, especially when a group of sharks declares that the end of the reef is soon at hand.
Genres: Animation, Family, Musical,Actors: I. Elijah Baughman (actor), Kvon Chen (director), Kvon Chen (editor), Kvon Chen (producer), Kvon Chen (writer), Kvon Chen (writer), Hidekun Hah (actor), Anna Ross (actress), Michael Umansky (actor), Ben Gelera (producer), Stephen Todt (actor), Noah James (actor), Chad Kim (actor), Rich Y. Lee (actor), Jennifer Taing (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Short,Actors: Brad J. McBride (producer), Brad J. McBride (director), Brad J. McBride (producer), Brad J. McBride (editor), Brad J. McBride (actor), Brad J. McBride (writer), Samuel F. Lee (actor), Samuel F. Lee (producer), Damian Rieck (actor), Andy Steuart (producer), Andy Steuart (actor), Kerstin von Shearing (actress), Gary Hartley (actor), Mathew Zilm (producer), Jon Ashcroft (editor),
Plot: A dark edged thriller that takes one man on a quest to save humanity from the most deadly virus ever known...and worst still, his wife...time is the essence as the virus kills its victims quickly and painfully and as a famous doctor struggles to find a cure to combat the deadly infection; he must face the many haunting truths about his own mortality and that of those he deeply loves....Sometimes to save a life, you must commit murder...!
Genres: Action, Thriller,Actors: Robert Vince (director), Laura Collini (miscellaneous crew), Robert Vince (producer), Robert Vince (writer), Amy Sedaris (actress), Evan Chan (miscellaneous crew), Ellie Harvie (actress), Bill Fagerbakke (actor), Diedrich Bader (actor), Mike Dopud (actor), Lochlyn Munro (actor), Ellen Kennedy (actress), C. Ernst Harth (actor), Danny Ho (miscellaneous crew), Jim Filippone (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi,Actors: Lech Mackiewicz (actor), Mila Gisbert (actress), Mila Gisbert (miscellaneous crew), Claudia Black (actress), Simon Weaving (actor), Phillip Johnston (composer), Jackie Turnure (director), Jackie Turnure (miscellaneous crew), Jackie Turnure (miscellaneous crew), Jackie Turnure (producer), Rachel King (actress), Peter Rasmussen (producer), Peter Rasmussen (writer), Marty Murphy (actor), Marty Murphy (actor),
Genres: Animation, Mystery, Sci-Fi,Actors: Rob Schneider (actor), John Rhys-Davies (actor), Freddie Prinze Jr. (actor), Joel Michaely (actor), Michael Cornacchia (actor), Joel Michaely (actor), Andy Dick (actor), Richard Epcar (actor), R. Lee Ermey (actor), David Fickas (actor), David Fickas (actor), David Fickas (actor), Andy Dick (actor), Donal Logue (actor), Rob Schneider (actor),
Plot: After losing everything, a young fish, Pi, goes to live with his family on the Reef. There he meets the love of his life but finds that she already has the unwanted affections of a bully shark. He must follow his destiny to save her and rid the Reef of this menace for good.
Keywords: actor-playing-multiple-roles, computer-animation, fish, scene-during-end-credits, shark, title-spoken-by-character, turtle, underwaterActors: Laura Soveral (actress), Cândido Ferreira (actor), Teresa Madruga (actress), Paulo Branco (producer), Nuno Lopes (actor), Paula Guedes (actress), Fernando Heitor (actor), Beatriz Batarda (actress), David Almeida (actor), Rita Loureiro (actress), Ricardo Aibéo (actor), Rita Durão (actress), Jorge Cramez (miscellaneous crew), Silvia Grabowski (costume designer), Jeanne Waltz (writer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Dean Hagopian (actor), Terrence Scammell (actor), Terrence Scammell (actor), Terrence Scammell (actor), Sonja Ball (actress), A.J. Henderson (actor), Helene Muller (miscellaneous crew), Paul van Gorcum (actor), Tim Reid (miscellaneous crew), Jacques Pettigrew (producer), Pauline Little (actress), Benoît Rousseau (actor), Catherine Burniaux (editor), Carlos Leresche (composer), Patrick Peuvion (actor),
Plot: This animation series is about some animals on a deserted tropical island, where various things are mysteriously found. Most of them want to cohabit happily: the leader Ovide and his cousin named Saphron, the cook and gardener, both platypuses, the red lizard Polo who's the janitor and muscles, the seagull Groaner, the koalas Do, re and Mi and the kangaroo Mathilda, against whom the evil serpent Cy and his intrinsically gentle helper Bobo the toucan conceive horrible plans, which always fail in the end. Bizarly there is also a TV broadcast with a platypus-announcer.
Genres: Animation, Family,Subscribe to TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/sxaw6h Subscribe to COMING SOON: http://bit.ly/H2vZUn Subscribe to CLASSIC TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u43jDe Like us on FACEBOOK: http://goo.gl/dHs73 Follow us on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/1ghOWmt Pi (1998) Official Trailer #1 - Darren Aronofsky Movie HD A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.
Pi movie clips: http://j.mp/1yzoSkp BUY THE MOVIE: http://j.mp/KS1NkV Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6pr CLIP DESCRIPTION: Max (Sean Gullette) believes that the universe can be predicted in a pattern of numbers. FILM DESCRIPTION: Darren Aronofsky scripted and made his directorial debut with this experimental feature with mathematical plot threads hinting at science-fictional elements. In NYC's Chinatown, recluse math genius Max (Sean Gullette) believes "everything can be understood in terms of numbers," and he looks for a pattern in the system as he suffers headaches, plays Go with former teacher Sol Robeson (Mark Margolis), and fools around with an advanced computer system he's built in his apartment. Both a Wall Street company and a Hasidic sect take an interest...
A nicely produced black and white exploration into mathematics and the meaning of life. Written and Directed by Darren Aronofsky with a great cast of unknowns (at least to me!).
Pi movie clips: http://j.mp/1yzoSkp BUY THE MOVIE: http://j.mp/KS1NkV Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6pr CLIP DESCRIPTION: Lenny (Ben Shenkman) shows Max (Sean Gullette) about how numbers add up in the Torah. FILM DESCRIPTION: Darren Aronofsky scripted and made his directorial debut with this experimental feature with mathematical plot threads hinting at science-fictional elements. In NYC's Chinatown, recluse math genius Max (Sean Gullette) believes "everything can be understood in terms of numbers," and he looks for a pattern in the system as he suffers headaches, plays Go with former teacher Sol Robeson (Mark Margolis), and fools around with an advanced computer system he's built in his apartment. Both a Wall Street company and a Hasidic sect take an interest in...
Film, w mojej subiektywnej ocenie, jest jednym z najgorszych przez jakie przebrnąłem. Za to ten jeden fragment urzekł mnie niesamowicie :D Jest doskonałym podsumowaniem błędów poznawczych na jakie narażamy się odpuszczając rygor naukowy. Tutaj mowa o matematyce, ale idea jest analogiczna do wszelkich nauk, ze szczególnym, moim zdaniem, uwzględnieniem psychologii :)
Pi, also titled π, is a 1998 American surrealist psychological thriller film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky in his directorial debut. Sean Gullette - Maximillian Cohen - Mark Margolis - Sol Robeson - Clint Mansell Photographer
Pi (1998) drama, science-fiction, suspense Director: Darren Aronofsky Max is a genius mathematician who's built a supercomputer at home that provides something that can be understood as a key for understanding all existence. Representatives both from a Hasidic cabalistic sect and high-powered Wall Street firm hear of that secret and attempt to seduce him.
Narito ako sa isang lugar
na hindi 'ko maintindihan
Nakikipagsapalaran sa buhay
na ang hantungan ay kawalan.
De numero ang galaw ng tao,
bawat gawin ay may presyo
Oh, narito ako sa isang lugar
na hindi ko maintindihan.
Daing ng tao'y 'di pinapansin
nililipad ng hangin
Pagkain sa araw-araw hindi malaman
pa'no pagkakasyahin.
Lalong yumayaman kapag mayaman,
lalong naghihirap kapag mahirap
Oh, narito ako sa isang lugar
na hindi ko maintindihan.
Walang ginagawa
ang mga walang awa
Walang nagagawa kahit pa
ngumawa, magmakaawa,
Bumaha ng mga luha--- haaa!
Bumaha ng mga luha--- haaa!
Narito ako sa isang lugar
ng mga taong tumatakas
Naghahanap ng swerte sa iba
dahil dito'y wala ng bukas.
Kakarampot na sasahurin,
sa sobrang mahal ng mga bilihin
Oh, narito ako sa isang lugar