History Film / Alive

The 2023 film ''Film/SocietyOfTheSnow'' is based on the same events. Not to be confused with ''Film/Alive2020'', where the dead are the ones eating the living.

* IronicDeath: A twofold for Alonso, who doesn't understand the gravity of the situation during the first signs of major turbulence, as he stands up and impersonates a flight attendant asking everyone to "put on your parachutes, we're jumping into the Andes Mountains." He is among the first killed, fumbling with his seat belts, then flying off the plane while still seated, after the plane's tail comes off.

* CompositeCharacter:
** 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.
** 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.

* RedHerring: 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 [[KarmicDeath 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.

* WorthlessYellowRocks: Up in the mountains, the only use for bills is as fuel to the fire.

* TheCapitalOfBrazilIsBuenosAires: Not the film proper, but parodies tend to refer to the plane as [[LatinLand 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.

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 as the more sensationalist 1976 film ''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.

* WorthlessYellowRock: Up in the mountains, the only use for bills is as fuel to the fire.

* RedHerring: 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 [[KarmicDeath karmic punishment]] for leaving his seat to mock the steward early... but then the whole seat breaks and falls taking down both Alonso and his 'innocent' companion anyway.

* JerkassHasAPoint: 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 someone 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 himself to the group's survival as much as he can.

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 as the more sensationalist 1976 film ''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; indeed many were so young that they had never left Uruguay or seen snow before.

* PluckyComicRelief: The characters that are mostly there for the laughs are Bobby and his CigaretteAnxiety, Carlitos and his pizza obsession, the crazy mechanic, and Roy the designated radio guy who doesn't actually know much about radios.

The 2023 film ''Film/SocietyOfTheSnow'' is based on the same events. Not to confuse with ''Film/Alive2020'', where the dead are the ones eating the living.

The 2023 film ''Film/SocietyOfTheSnow'' is based on the same events. Not to confuse with ''Film/Alive2020'', where the dead are the ones trying to eat the living.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: 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." The next morning, he is filled with remorse and breaks into tears when he finds out she had died.

* 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 from snow with part 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.

The 2023 film ''Film/SocietyOfTheSnow'' is based on the same events. Not to confuse with ''Film/Alive2020'', the film where the dead are the ones trying to eat the living.

The 2023 film ''Film/SocietyOfTheSnow'' is based on the same events. Not to confuse with ''Film/Alive2020''.

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* LaughingMad: The mechanic in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJuMiZOQdCw this]] scene :

* NeverLiveItDown: Roy once helped his cousins with a radio set, so now he's 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.

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* LighterAndSofter: For a movie that is remembered for starting with a horrific plane crash and showing the dwindling survivors resorting to cannibalism, there are a surprising number of funny moments and successive funny guys like 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 barely some blood from the crash inside the plane while in real life it was littered with human remains by the end (the flesh was rationed, but anyone was free to try 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).

** Six people die in the avalanche rather than the eight of reality. The latter included Diego Storm, whose counterpart in the film survives to the end. The other person missing altogether is Juan Carlos Menéndez, who is left out or discussed very little in accounts of the disaster because of his family's wishes.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Shot in the Rocky Mountains standing in for the Andes.

The 2023 film ''Film/SocietyOfTheSnow'' is based on the same events.

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* CompressedAdaptation: 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.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the book, Bobby is described as being slightly overweight, with his friends nicknaming him “Fat François”. Not really the case of his in-film version, played by Jack Noseworthy.
* AdaptationNameChange: [[spoiler: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 SurvivalMantra not a rhythm as in the original (though this would likely have been LostInTranslation anyway due to the choice to film in English).

** 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 a while back 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.

* CompositeCharacter: 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.

* TheLoad: 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.

* ActionizedAdaptation: 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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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Besides other changes, Nando didn't give one of the baby shoes to one of the survivors in particular, but to the whole group by tying it to the fuselage.

* CompressedAdaptation: 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 people at the wreck being rescued.

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** The movie does not include Sergio Catalá, the Chilean ''arriero'' that Nando and Canessa came across on the walk out, leaving ambiguous how they made it to civilization.

* LighterAndSofter: For a movie that is remembered for starting with a horrific plane crash and showing the dwindling survivors resorting to cannibalism, there are a surprising number of FunnyMoments and successive funny guys like Bobby, Carlitos, the mechanic, and Roy. 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 barely some blood from the crash inside the plane while in real life it was littered with human remains by the end (the flesh was rationed, but anyone was free to try 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).