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Alive

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Alive	comment	Alive is a 1993 drama film, starring Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton, Bruce Ramsay, John Newton, Josh Lucas and John Malkovich. This was the second film directed by Frank Marshall, previously known for Arachnophobia (1990).The film is an adaptation of the non-fiction book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (1974) by Piers Paul Read, whose events were previously adapted (from a different source) as the more sensationalist 1976 film Survive!. It describes the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 and the story of its survivors. In summary, the plane contained 5 crew members and 40 passengers, mostly players for the rugby team "Old Christians Club", their family members and associates. In October 1972, the flight took off from their native Montevideo, Uruguay for a match in Santiago, Chile but crashed on a glacier in the high Andes a few minutes before their goal. 12 people died in the crash, including the pilots. The other 33 were left stranded in an unknown area of perpetual snow and no vegetation, without supplies or survival training.Over the following months several would die from injuries, disease or avalanches. With no help coming, the survivors used the plane's wreck for shelter, scavenged seats and luggage for materials, and ultimately resorted to cannibalism, eating the bodies of their dead comrades. On December, two survivors, Roberto Canessa and Fernando "Nando" Parrado, made a last ditch effort to reach Chile on foot, and the final 16 were rescued and brought to civilization. They had survived for 72 days, long after search parties had given up any hope of finding them alive.The film closely follows the events of the book, though it notably changes the focus. Piers Read paid close attention to the harshness of the living condition and the sociological aspects of organizing a group in the wild, while giving a calm and detached view of the extreme measures they had to take to survive, cannibalism included. Marshall was more interested in the Heroic Spirit of the people trying to survive. Cannibalism is portrayed but its brutal details are largely left out.The 2023 film Society of the Snow is based on the same events. Not to be confused with #Alive (2020), where the dead are the ones eating the living.
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Alive / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Alive / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Antonio, after hearing that the search has been called off. From that point on, he retreats into a shell, hardly saying a word, even as Nando, now fully alert, takes charge and convinces the survivors that they have no choice but to eat the dead if they want to survive. Several days later, he approaches Carlitos' group and tells them that they can go ahead and eat his flesh if he dies, seemingly shedding his reputation as the stern, serious team captain. Not surprisingly, he's among the eight killed in the avalanche early the next morning. Javier. After his wife is killed in the avalanche, he also becomes silent and brooding, refusing to eat, and not caring if he lives or dies. Although Nando tells him to snap out of it and start eating again so he can go home to his two daughters, his dark mood remains until he and the other survivors are rescued.
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Alive / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Alive / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: The rugbiers keep laughing and joking as the plane starts having difficulties, only realizing the seriousness of the situation right before the crash.
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Alive / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Alive / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Javier Methol. Introduced having a laugh with the lads on the plane despite the age difference, he ends becoming the oldest of the survivors to be rescued.
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Alive / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Alive / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: An uncredited one by John Malkovich as the older Carlitos.
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Alive / int_1bf47ada	type	The Medic
Alive / int_1bf47ada	comment	The Medic: Canessa rises to the challenge of being the work's resident doctor right after the crash happens, despite being just a first year medical student.
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Alive / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
Alive / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: Bobby finds a wine bottle after the crash and drinks from it as much as he smokes. Antonio tries to ration the wine with the food, but his efforts are wasted when the others freely take more rations after wrongly believing that they will be rescued soon.
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Alive / int_213dc284	type	Closest Thing We Got
Alive / int_213dc284	comment	Closest Thing We Got: Once the tail is discovered with the battery intact, Roy is chosen to connect the radio to it because he helped his cousins set up a stereo once and is thus the closest thing to an electrician the survivors have. It turns out hooking up a radio to a battery is a lot more complicated than that, and he's unable to do it. Canessa becomes the designated doctor of the group despite being just a first year medicine student.
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Alive / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Alive / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: The survivors have to choose between resorting to cannibalism and dying from starvation. They ultimately go with the first option.
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Alive / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Alive / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Antonio is introduced as arrogant and controlling, but slips into depression after the plane search is called off and finally joins the group as an equal when he sheds his opposition to eat the dead.
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Alive / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Alive / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: The movie does not include Sergio CatalÃ¡n, the Chilean arriero that Nando and Canessa came across on the walk out, leaving ambiguous how they made it to civilization. Seven people were sucked out of the plane after the tail broke, whereas in the film they are just four (two crew and two passengers). This is noticeable in the scene before the crash, despite the number of passengers being accurately reflected in the introductory text and at the end of the movie. The most notable omission is Carlos Valeta, who survived the fall and was seen walking in the snow by the people in the plane before he disappeared (it is presumed he fell in a ditch under the snow). Six people die in the avalanche rather than the eight of reality. The latter included Diego Storm, whose fictional counterpart Hugo Diaz survives to the end. The other person missing altogether is Juan Carlos MenÃ©ndez, who is left out or discussed very little in accounts of the disaster because of his family's wishes.
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Alive / int_3a4522df	type	PietÃ Plagiarism
Alive / int_3a4522df	comment	PietÃ Plagiarism: Nando when returns triumphally to the plane while carrying the exhausted Roy on his arms, after refusing to leave him behind while walking from the tail during a snowstorm.
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Alive / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
Alive / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: Some actions given to Nando and Canessa were actually done by other people. It is hard to justify this, since these characters were still cast and the movie would not run out of heroics that were actually done by Nando and Canessa. Nando says that the search has been called off and calls it Bad News in a Good Way because now itâ€™s up to them to get out of the mountains. In real life, Nando thought about telling the group, but he could not bring himself to do it before Gustavo Nicolich (Victor Bolarich in the film) did it by saying the aforementioned line. He is also the one to propose eating the dead in the movie, while in real life this was discussed by different groups of survivors, one including Nando, before all got together to discuss it. Finally, Nando is the one to dig out of the plane after it is buried by snow, which was actually the work of Numa Turcatti. Canessa is the only "medic" of the group in the film; in reality, Nicolich and Zerbino were also medicine students. He is also the first to cut the meat from the bodies and distribute it, which was actually done by the Strauch cousins.
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Alive / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Alive / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The survivors were rescued at the end, but 29 die throughout the film, only 16 survive.
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Alive / int_417c78f5	type	Robinsonade
Alive / int_417c78f5	comment	Robinsonade: Survivors of tragic accidents trying to survive. Stranded in an uncharted location. Everything here except the story takes place away from the sea.
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Alive / int_468105b5	type	Bring Help Back
Alive / int_468105b5	comment	Bring Help Back: Realizing that rescue searches are over, Nando, Canessa, and Vizintin set out to walk over the Andes mountains into Chile to summon help.
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Alive / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
Alive / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: The mechanic in this scene:
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Alive / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Alive / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The movie is framed as Carlitos retelling the story twenty years later, but his modern day self only appears and is heard at the beginning and the end.
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Alive / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
Alive / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: In the book, Bobby is described as being slightly overweight, with his friends nicknaming him â€œFat FranÃ§oisâ€�. Not really the case of his in-film version, played by Jack Noseworthy.
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Alive / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Alive / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: Besides other changes, Nando didn't give one of the baby shoes to one survivor in particular, but to the whole group by tying it to the fuselage.
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Alive / int_5ac40681	type	Are We There Yet?
Alive / int_5ac40681	comment	Are We There Yet?: Said by Roy on the way to the plane's tail.
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Alive / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Alive / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Canessa claims to have been the one who raided the supplies in the night in order to protect the rest of the group from Antonio's wrath, but they go I Am Spartacus to protect him in turn.
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Alive / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Alive / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: Poor Roy canâ€™t catch a break. When he tries to explain that he doesnâ€™t know anything about radios and that he doesnâ€™t want to go and hook up the tailâ€™s batteries, what happens in the next scene? Heâ€™s going to hook up the tailâ€™s batteries.
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Alive / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Alive / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Antonio is right to ration the food and his reasoning that they can't just assume they will be rescued soon is perfectly sound. He is also right to be furious when he thinks a single person has ruined it for all out of gluttony. It's only his yelling about how this threatens his life rather than the life of everyone that makes him come across as self-centered. Furthermore, he contributes to the group's survival as much as he can.
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Alive / int_6c3252ec	type	Fight to Survive
Alive / int_6c3252ec	comment	Fight to Survive: It's pretty difficult to live on top of the Andes without food.
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Alive / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Alive / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Hugo Diaz stands in for Diego Storm, but unlike Storm he is not killed in the avalanche and becomes one of the 16 people rescued at the end.
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Alive / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Alive / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: As if freezing to death and being forced to eat dead friends is not bad enough, two weeks in an avalanche occurs, killing 8 more survivors.
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Alive / int_7969f21e	type	No One Gets Left Behind
Alive / int_7969f21e	comment	No One Gets Left Behind: Nando refuses to leave Roy behind when he can't keep the march from the tail and ends carrying him on his arms.
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Alive / int_83856158	type	Worthless Yellow Rocks
Alive / int_83856158	comment	Worthless Yellow Rocks: Up in the mountains, the only use for bills is as fuel for the fire.
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Alive / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Alive / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Asked surprisingly often about Vizintin, who is sent back by Nando and Roberto early into their journey, even though he is clearly seen among the survivors who are rescued at the end.
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Alive / int_87d8ecf5	type	Literal Cliffhanger
Alive / int_87d8ecf5	comment	Literal Cliffhanger: One of the expeditionaries almost falls off a cliff during the final climb, but is rescued by his companions.
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Alive / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Alive / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: A couple of days after hearing the news that they cancelled the search, a group of expeditionaries sets off to find the tail of the plane, without the necessary equipment, the result? They survive the night, but almost freeze to death, barely being able to speak without stammering.
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Alive / int_9da6c3a0	type	Never Live It Down
Alive / int_9da6c3a0	comment	Never Live It Down: In-universe, Roy is treated as the resident radio expert because nobody else has touched a radio in their lives, and they force him to hike to the plane's tail in an attempt to connect the plane's radio to the batteries there. The reason? Roy just helped his cousins with a radio stereo once.
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Alive / int_9dd2cbc2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Alive / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	Cloud Cuckoo Lander: The plane mechanic and only crew survivor goes mad after the crash, Laughing Mad and becoming a Talkative Loon.
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Alive / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Alive / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: During the first night on the mountains, Carlitos screams at Mrs. Alfonsini — who is in tremendous pain as her legs are trapped between the seats — to shut up, calling her a "stupid cow" and threatening to bash her face in. The next morning, he is filled with remorse and breaks into tears when he finds out she had died.
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Alive / int_a5f0752f	type	Rule of Drama
Alive / int_a5f0752f	comment	Rule of Drama: The survivors are surprised by their rescue helicopter. In real life, they found Parrado and Canessa had made it through the radio, and they even changed their clothes and combed their hair.
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Alive / int_a90fff3	type	Based on a True Story
Alive / int_a90fff3	comment	Based on a True Story: Said so at the top of the poster, and under the title in the opening credits.
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Alive / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Alive / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Antonio's Establishing Character Moment shows him criticizing a player who overslept and missed the plane. That anonymous guy turns out to be Unluckily Lucky when the plane crashes in the mountains.
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Alive / int_accd97de	type	Actionized Adaptation
Alive / int_accd97de	comment	Actionized Adaptation: Two action scenes are added: the first expedition out of the plane that almost falls into a crevice hidden by snow (though likely inspired by Carlos Valeta's fate under different circumstances), and the final expedition almost falling off a cliff.
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Alive / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Alive / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Carlitos.
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Alive / int_afe98316	type	Talkative Loon
Alive / int_afe98316	comment	Talkative Loon: The mechanic whenever the plane's batteries are mentioned.
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Alive / int_b333f02e	type	Achilles in His Tent
Alive / int_b333f02e	comment	Achilles in His Tent: On the final walkout, Canessa briefly leaves the expedition (at that point made of three people) over a disagreement with Nando about which way to go, but is convinced by Vizintin to come back.
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Alive / int_b6538f4f	type	The Capital of Brazil Is Buenos Aires
Alive / int_b6538f4f	comment	The Capital of Brazil Is Buenos Aires: Parodies tend to refer to the plane as broadly South American or Brazilian rather than Uruguayan. The film itself just says that the plane is South American, despite the big "Uruguayan Air Force" banner on the side of the plane.
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Alive / int_b731fa6e	type	I Cannot Self-Terminate
Alive / int_b731fa6e	comment	I Cannot Self-Terminate: One of the pilots survives the crash but is trapped in the cabin and exposed to the chilling wind. He asks the passengers to give him his gun so he can commit suicide, but they refuse.
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Alive / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Alive / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: In real life, the ones tasked with cutting up the bodies and distributing the meat, and who took leadership after the avalanche killed Marcelo PÃ©rez, "Antonio" in the film werenâ€™t Nando or Roberto, but the Strauch cousins (Fito, Eduardo, and Daniel). The movie still keeps some of their leadership and teamwork accurate, such as Fito inventing the â€œwater-making machineâ€� as they called it. Numa Turcatti, identified by the survivors as one of the most valuable members of the group, is replaced by the minor character Rafael Cano.
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Alive / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Alive / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Coche drops the film's only F-bomb, responding with a nonchalant "fuck you" after Hugo tells him to play "Flight of the Bumblebee" on his one-stringed guitar.
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Alive / int_bcbf7aef	type	Plucky Comic Relief
Alive / int_bcbf7aef	comment	Plucky Comic Relief: The characters that are mostly there for the laughs are Bobby and his Cigarette of Anxiety, Carlitos and his pizza obsession, the crazy mechanic, and Roy the designated radio guy who doesn't actually know much about radios.
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Alive / int_bdc94cd9	type	Compressed Adaptation
Alive / int_bdc94cd9	comment	Compressed Adaptation: There were several tests before deciding who would go out to ask for help, that the movie omits, implying this was only discussed by Nando and Canessa. The final expedition, likewise, is shortened and cuts straight from the pair reaching the vegetation line to the rescue helicopters reaching the plane wreck.
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Alive / int_bdcf86f3	type	Disaster Scavengers
Alive / int_bdcf86f3	comment	Disaster Scavengers: Among other things, the survivors use the plane's seat covers to make blankets, a guitar and bills as fuel for the fire, fuselage plates as sleds and funnels for water, hook the plane's antenna to a small radio to get radio signals from afar, and make their own sunglasses to prevent snow blindness. Not to mention all the clothes and meat they take from the bodies.
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Alive / int_be30e493	type	Undignified Death
Alive / int_be30e493	comment	Undignified Death: Mrs Alfonsini dies on the first night, trapped to her seat and in terrible pain, after Carlitos insults and yells her to shut up. As a macabre payback for his efforts to cheer up his comrades and raise their hopes, Federico dies alone on his hammock with nobody noticing until Nando returns from the outside and points it to them.
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Alive / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Alive / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Several. The survivors spot a plane flying over them which makes them believe they are going to be rescued soon, but the occupiers don't see them. Later they find the plane's batteries at the tail are still intact, but their designated radio expert can't connect the plane's radio to them and make them work. Later on, Canessa, Nando, and Vizintin keep climbing what they think it's the glacier's peak only to find the mountain is even taller, and once they make it to the top they only see more mountains as far as the eye can see. Only Nando's realization that two peaks in the distance don't have snow cover and must thus be lower in altitude turns out to lead to their rescue.
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Alive / int_c6074d96	type	I Am Spartacus
Alive / int_c6074d96	comment	I Am Spartacus: Canessa falsely confesses to have eaten the rations in order to spare the group from Antonio's wrath, but they repair him by claiming they all stole rations, not just Canessa (which was true).
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Alive / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Alive / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Besides the characters that die early or never get a scene for themselves, the airplane mechanic is never named as he's depicted as a stranger unwilling to engage in conversation. In real life he was named Carlos Roque.
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Alive / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Alive / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: For a movie that is remembered for starting with a horrific plane crash and showing the dwindling survivors resorting to cannibalism, there is a surprising number of funny moments and funny guys including Bobby, Carlitos, the mechanic, and Roy the designated radio guy. The survivors also seem mostly fine after they resort to cannibalism, while in real life they suffered from massive weight loss and starvation-related diseases like scurvy. And there is just some blood from the crash inside the plane while in real life it was littered with human remains by the end (as the flesh was rationed, but anyone was free to bite on the bones) and other human waste (as the survivors couldn't move far from the wreck to relieve themselves when there were snowstorms or were buried under an avalanche).
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Alive / int_d32b5dde	type	Hope Bringer
Alive / int_d32b5dde	comment	Hope Bringer: Antonio (until his spirit is broken when the search is called off), Federico (who tries to keep spirits up and believe in their salvation despite having his legs broken in the crash), and Nando (who convinces the group to try several strategies to save themselves and never gives up until he achieves it).
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Alive / int_d72164e9	type	Must Have Nicotine
Alive / int_d72164e9	comment	Must Have Nicotine: Most stranded players, but most notably Bobby, who has to be told by the steward to put his cigarette out as the plane experiences turbulence (and lights another as soon as the steward isn't looking).
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Alive / int_d99d9918	type	The Captain
Alive / int_d99d9918	comment	The Captain: Antonio is the already stern captain of the rugby team and slips naturally into leading the group after the plane crash.
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Alive / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
Alive / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Fito refuses to pray the rosary on repeated occasions, each time explaining that he's agnostic. But after several people are killed in an avalanche on the 16th day, Fito's agnosticism is almost played for laughs when, upon hearing the sounds of another potential avalanche, he hurriedly starts praying the Hail Mary with the rest of the survivors. In real life, rather than automatically praying when he heard the second avalanche, the group demanded that he join them in prayer when they heard the second avalanche approaching. However, it is true that Fito - who had refused to join them in prayer during the first couple of weeks after the crash - converted to Christianity while in the mountains.
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Alive / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Alive / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: After the tail breaks, Alonso is seen fumbling with his seat belt in panic. All is set up for Alonso to fall out of the plane as a karmic punishment for leaving his seat to mock the steward earlier... but then the whole seat breaks and falls taking down both Alonso and his 'innocent' companion anyway.
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Alive / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
Alive / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: Most people who died have a different name in the film, to the point that you may consider it a spoiler if you look up the disaster before watching. One particular instance is the change of Rafael Echavarren to "Federico Aranda", which makes his Survival Mantra not a rhythm as in the original (though this would likely have been Lost in Translation anyway due to the choice to film in English).
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Alive / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Alive / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Many survivors seem close to it but are just momentarily freaked out. Only the mechanic has really crossed it. See Laughing Mad.
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Alive / int_ddc4f035	type	Heroic Second Wind
Alive / int_ddc4f035	comment	Heroic Second Wind: Nando steps up to carry the group on his shoulders (metaphorically and literally, in the case of Roy after he couldn't continue walking back from the tail) after falling into a coma and being left for dead in the original crash.
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Alive / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Alive / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: The movie opens with an older Carlitos recounting his experience twenty years later, but the story is followed largely though Canessa and later Nando's eyes.
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Alive / int_e00b1dc1	type	Unluckily Lucky
Alive / int_e00b1dc1	comment	Unluckily Lucky: None more than the player who missed the plane and as a result the whole ordeal, but it is worth mentioning that all would have died in the beginning if a different part of the plane had hit the mountain, or if there wasn't enough snow to allow it to gracefully slide down. Small wonder the search parties assumed there wouldn't be survivors.
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Alive / int_e0904aa4	type	No Party Like a Donner Party
Alive / int_e0904aa4	comment	No Party Like a Donner Party: In the bitter cold altitude, with no vegetation or animals, the survivors eventually resort to eating the remains of the deceased. One of the most infamous elements of the movie and the true story itself.
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Alive / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
Alive / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: All dialogue is in English despite portraying an Uruguayan plane crash in the Argentina-Chile border.
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Alive / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
Alive / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Antonio is portrayed as a budding tyrant whose claim to leadership on the basis of being the team's captain before the crash is consented by the other survivors, but resented behind his back. He goes on a screaming fit when he learns that the survivors disobeyed his rationing and almost comes to blows with Canessa for believing him responsible. To make matters worse, he berates Canessa for daring to threaten his life by depleting the supplies, implying that his concern is egotistical rather than for the whole group's sake, despite claiming otherwise. The real team captain, Marcelo PÃ©rez, was beloved and his leadership and organizing skills were welcomed by all in the early days after the crash. The plane's mechanic goes Laughing Mad after the crash and tells the survivors all hope is lost; afterward he remains useless, even laying on the snow outside of the plane at one point. The real mechanic, Carlos Roque, likely suffered a concussion on the crash and was incoherent early on, yelling passengers to give him their passports. But he was helpful afterwards and overcame his early isolation from the group to tell them about his wife and newborn child back home, which would have redeemed the character in the film.
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Alive / int_e3847ee8	type	Cigarette of Anxiety
Alive / int_e3847ee8	comment	Cigarette of Anxiety: Immediately after the plane crash, Bobby sits in a suitcase, contemplating the mountains, all while smoking a cigarette and even offering Carlitos one, to which he agrees.
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Alive / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Alive / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Javier and Lilliana are said to have two daughters, and a photo of two young girls is later found in a suitcase. In real life they had four children already.
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Alive / int_e49686	type	The Hero
Alive / int_e49686	comment	The Hero: Nando is built as the central hero of the story, from falling in a coma to losing his family, taking over from Antonio, leading the expeditions to the tail of the plane and ultimately saving the group by going to look for help.
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Alive / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Alive / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Nando. Once he wakes from his coma, he decides that he will climb his way across the mountains towards civilization, even if he dies trying. Federico Aranda, who even though greatly weakened by his injured legs and spends most time resting in the hammocks, never loses hope, and every time he has the opportunity he declares the optimistic sentence: â€œMy name is Federico Aranda, and I will return.â€� Sadly, he later succumbs to his injuries and dies shortly before the expeditionaries return from the tail.
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Alive / int_e68b72	type	The Load
Alive / int_e68b72	comment	The Load: Because of his tendency to complain about everything, Roy is this to Nando and Canessa when they take him along to find the tail, and especially later when they head back. Vizintin falls behind Nando and Canessa on the final climb up. When they make it to the top and find that the mountain area is much larger than they believed, they decide to send Vizintin back to the plane and split his rations between Nando and Canessa, even though Canessa just threatened to desert the expedition.
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Alive / int_e6defce9	type	Bad News in a Good Way
Alive / int_e6defce9	comment	Nando says that the search has been called off and calls it Bad News in a Good Way because now itâ€™s up to them to get out of the mountains. In real life, Nando thought about telling the group, but he could not bring himself to do it before Gustavo Nicolich (Victor Bolarich in the film) did it by saying the aforementioned line. He is also the one to propose eating the dead in the movie, while in real life this was discussed by different groups of survivors, one including Nando, before all got together to discuss it. Finally, Nando is the one to dig out of the plane after it is buried by snow, which was actually the work of Numa Turcatti.
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Alive / int_ed68bcc9	type	Dwindling Party
Alive / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: Several members of passage die when the plane's tail breaks, then when the plane crashes, an avalanche buries the wreck, and finally due to starvation and lack of medical care while waiting for the thaw.
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Alive / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Alive / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: There are two characters named Antonio, team captain Antonio Balbi, and the silent, hardworking Antonio Vizintin, but he is always called by his nickname "Tintin". Ironically the real-life team captain was named Marcelo PÃ©rez. Roberto Canessa is alternately called by his first and last name, while Roberto FranÃ§ois is consistently referred to as Bobby.
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Alive / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Alive / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Antonio finally breaks his haughty stance and joins the group as an equal when he goes over his reticence to eat human flesh and gives his permision to others to eat his flesh if he dies. In the next scene, he is killed by the avalanche.
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Alive / int_f4a3140c	type	Survival Mantra
Alive / int_f4a3140c	comment	Survival Mantra: "My name is Federico Aranda, and I will return." Sadly, he doesn't, as he succumbs to his injuries late in the film.
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Alive / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Alive / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: The survivors and particularly Nando, who has to come back from a coma and losing his mother and sister in the accident, as almost everything that can go wrong goes wrong for them before they are rescued.
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Alive / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Alive / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Carlitos' never-ending obsession with getting pizza.
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Alive / int_fd5603b	type	MacGyvering
Alive / int_fd5603b	comment	MacGyvering: The survivors hook a small radio to the plane's antenna to get information from the outside, use their suitcases and any extra clothes to build a barrier against the wind, and make water funnels, sleds, digging tools, and light signs with parts of the fuselage. They also use sunglasses to protect themselves from snow blindness, some of them made by themselves using other materials. Finally, they use a sharp glass to cut the meat.
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Alive / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Alive / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: None of the survivors become as emaciated in the film as they were in real life, but Nando in particular doesn't even grow his beard like the others, only Ethan Hawke's characteristic goatee.
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Alive / int_fe667d14	type	Let's Have Another Baby
Alive / int_fe667d14	comment	Let's Have Another Baby: Lilliana tells her husband she wants to have another baby. That night an avalanche crashes in over the fuselage, killing several people including her.
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Alive / int_ffb79066	type	Chromosome Casting
Alive / int_ffb79066	comment	Chromosome Casting: Truth in Television after the death of Lilliana, Javier's wife. Most passengers are players of a male rugby team, with the only other females aboard being the team physician's wife and Mrs. Parrado (killed instantly during the crash), Mrs. Alfonsini (died on the first night), and Nando's sister Susana (died a few days after the crash).
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