History Trivia / Alive

* DisownedAdaptation: The movie was criticized by the families of the deceased, who generally suffered more alterations to their stories than the survivors in order to include more conflict or comedic relief into the story. The real Nando, who served as consultant for the film, doesn't consider it a bad film but "[[FairForItsDay outdated]]".

* DisownedAdaptation: Despite having the real Nando as an advisor, the movie was criticized by the families of the deceased, who generally suffered more alterations to their stories than the survivors in order to include more conflict or comedic relief into the story.

* TranslationCorrection: Both Spanish dubs change the drink served in the cockpit from tea to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(drink) mate]], the iconic herbal drink of Uruguay, Paraguay, and Argentina, which was actually served in the cockpit. Indeed, this "tea" is even served on a traditional calabash gourd with ''bombilla'' like mate, so it's safe to assume that it is mate and they say tea as a TranslationConvention or CulturalTranslation in the first place.

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

* {{Blooper}}:
** The dark lit introduction scene with Creator/JohnMalkovich has a light-reflection circle, appearing, going over the face of the character then moving away, which disrupts the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief over Carlitos' speech. The floating smoke, from a cigarette that he never takes a drag on, saves the scene.
** Hugo Diaz is shown to be killed in the avalanche (like his real-life inspiration, Diego Storm) yet he's later shown among the 16 survivors at the end of the film.
* CaliforniaDoubling: Shot in the Rocky Mountains standing in for the Andes.

* FakeNationality: Almost all of the characters are played by actors who are neither Uruguayans nor Latin Americans. The two notable exceptions are the mechanic, who is played by the Honduran-American Creator/JoseZuniga, and the Puerto-Rican descendant Creator/MichaelDeLorenzo.
** Several of the actors, however, are Italian-Americans – Vincent Spano (Antonio), Christian Meoli (Federico), Danny Nucci (Hugo), Michael [=DeLorenzo=] (Rafael), John Cassini (Daniel), and Gian [=DiDonna=] (Eduardo), which resembles the nationalities of the real survivors, who mostly were of European descent.
** The Mexican Spanish dub of the film downplays this: While it was dubbed in Mexico by Mexican voice actors, rather than Uruguayans, they used Southern Cone slang in an attempt to avoid controversy regarding this. This is a stark contrast with ''Film/{{Survive}}'', where all characters were played by Mexicans and ''with'' Mexican accents.

* TranslationCorrection: Both Spanish dubs change the drink served in the cockpit from tea to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(drink) mate]], the iconic herbal drink of Uruguay, Paraguay, and Argentina that was actually served in the cockpit. In fact, this "tea" is even served on a traditional calabash gourd with ''bombilla'' like mate, so it's safe to assume that it is actually mate and they say tea as a TranslationConvention or CulturalTranslation in the first place.

* {{Blooper}}: The dark lit introduction scene with Creator/JohnMalkovich has a light-reflection circle, appearing, going over the face of the character then moving away, which disrupts the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief over Carlitos' speech. The floating smoke, from a cigarette that he never takes a drag on, saves the scene.

** During the avalanche that kills eight of the survivors, minor character Hugo Diaz (whose real-life equivalent, Diego Storm, died in that avalanche) is shown among the casualties. Yet he's among the 16 people who survived until the end of the film.

** The Mexican Spanish dub of the film downplays this: While it was dubbed in Mexico by Mexican voice actors, rather than Uruguayans, they used Southern Cone slang in an attempt to avoid controversy regarding this. This is a stark contrast with ''Film/{{Survive}}'', a Mexican film about the same tragedy, when all the actors were played by Mexicans and ''with'' Mexican accents.

* TranslationCorrection: Both Spanish dubs change the drink served in the cockpit from tea to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(drink) mate]], the iconic herbal drink of Uruguay, Paraguay, and Argentina that was actually served in the cockpit. In fact, this "tea" is even served on a traditional calabash gourd with ''bombilla'' like mate, so it's safe to assume that calling it tea is a TranslationConvention or CulturalTranslation in the first place.

* DisownedAdaptation: Though the movie hired the real Nando as an advisor, the movie has been criticized by the families of the deceased, who generally suffered more alterations to their stories than the survivors, sometimes not kind in order to include more conflict into the story. Their reception of ''Film/SocietyOfTheSnow'' was much warmer.

* TranslationCorrection: Both Spanish dubs change the drink served in the cockpit from tea to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(drink) mate]], a iconic herbal drink of Uruguay, Paraguay, and Argentina. In fact, given that the "tea" is served on a traditional calabash gourd with ''bombilla'', it's probably ''meant'' to be mate. However some viewers from the area claim that the actor doesn't hold the gourd in the way an actual drinker of mate would.

* DisownedAdaptation: Though the movie hired the real Nando as an advisor, the movie has been criticized by the families of the deceased, who generally suffered more alterations to their stories than the survivors, sometimes not very kind. Their reception of ''Film/SocietyOfTheSnow'' was much more warm.

* DisownedAdaptation: Though the movie hired the real Nando as an advisor, the movie has been criticized by the families of the deceased, who generally suffered more alterations to their stories than the survivors, sometimes not very kind.

** Several of the actors, however, are Italian-Americans – Vincent Spano (Antonio), Christian Meoli (Federico), Danny Nucci (Hugo), Michael [=DeLorenzo=] (Rafael), John Cassini (Daniel), and Gian [=DiDonna=] (Eduardo), which resembles the nationalities of the real survivors, who most of them were of European descent.

** Several of the actors, however, are Italian-Americans – Vincent Spano (Antonio), Christian Meoli (Federico), Danny Nucci (Hugo), Michael [=DeLorenzo=] (Rafael), John Cassini (Daniel), and Gian [=DiDonna=] (Eduardo), which resembles the nationalities of the real survivors, who most of them were of European descendance.

** The Mexican Spanish dub of the film downplays this: While it was dubbed in Mexico by Mexican voice actors, rather than Chileans, they used Chilean slang in an attempt to avoid any controversy regarding this. This is a stark contrast with ''Film/{{Survive}}'', a Mexican film about the same tragedy, when all the actors were played by Mexicans and ''with'' Mexican accents.

** Several of the actors, however, are Italian-Americans – Vincent Spano (Antonio), Christian Meoli (Federico), Danny Nucci (Hugo), Michael [=DeLorenzo=] (Rafael), John Cassini (Daniel), and Gian [=DiDonna=] (Eduardo), which resembles the nationalities of the real survivors, who most of them were of European descendant.

** Several of the actors, however, are Italian-Americans – Vincent Spano (Antonio), Christian Meoli (Federico), Danny Nucci (Hugo), Michael [=DeLorenzo=] (Rafael), John Cassini (Daniel), and Gian [=DiDonna=] (Eduardo).

* FakeNationality: Almost all of the characters are played by actors who are neither Uruguayans nor Latin Americans. The one notable exception is the mechanic, who is played by the Honduran-American Creator/JoseZuniga.

* FakeNationality: Almost all of the characters are played by actors who are neither Uruguayans nor Latin Americans. The one notable exception is the mechanic, who is played by the Honduran-American Jose Zuniga.

** The Mexican Spanish dub of the film downplays this: While it was dubbed in Mexico by Mexican voice actors, rather than Chileans, they used Chilean slang in an attempt to avoid any controversy regarding this. This is a stark contrast with ''Film/{{Survive}}'', a Mexican film about the same tragedy, when all the actors were played by Mexicans and ''with'' Mexican accents.

* FakeNationality: ''None'' of the actors playing the characters are either Uruguayans or Latin Americans.

* FakeNationality: ''None'' of the actors playing the characters are either Chileans or Latin Americans.