Pi (1998) on Netflix
Maximillian Cohen, a mathematician in Manhattan, believes numbers explain everything in nature. His hunt for stock market patterns draws a Wall Street firm and a Hasidic scholar.
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Plot summary
Maximillian Cohen is a mathematician who holds that numbers can explain everything in nature, and he programs his computer, Euclid, to predict the stock market. Euclid prints a 216-digit number and crashes, and Sol Robeson, the professor who once taught him, tells him to take a break from the work. Max also meets Lenny Meyer, a Hasidic Jew who studies the Torah through mathematics, and Marcy Dawson, from a Wall Street firm, offers him a classified computer chip for his results.
Cast
- Kristyn Mae-Anne Laoas Jenna
- Espher Lao Nievesas Jenna's Mom
- Joanne Gordonas Mrs. Ovadia
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pi (1998)
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- To finance the complex visual sets and shots, producer Eric Watson and director Darren Aronofsky asked every friend, relative or acquaintance for donations of $100 each, eventually accumulating about $60,000 for their production budget.
- The crew were paid $200 a day and the actors $75 a day, costumes came from the actors' own clothes and thrift stores, and all of the subway and outdoor city scenes were shot illegally to get around paying for expensive permits.
- The film was developed at Bono Labs in Arlington, Virginia, the only lab capable of developing black and white reversal stock, so the crew received dailies only a week after sending the footage in; raw stock cost $5,414 and developing it cost $18,000.
- Pi was the first film ever to be sold as a download on the Internet, made available for streaming in a pay-per-view window through the website Sightsound.com.
- For the main set, Max Cohen's apartment, Scott Vogel secured a section of his father's warehouse in Bushwick, Brooklyn, where a back room was cleared out and used as a sound stage and the majority of the film was shot.
- Clint Mansell created the score on his own equipment, and for that work he was paid only a deferred fee.
