To get started,I would like to bring forward a topic that has been on everyone’s lips lately,especially in Hollywood.Some cinema experts totally agree over a opinion about the new way to release remakes over previous blockbuster.In fact,they tend to think,nowadays,there aren’t new ideas,and in doing so,they just invest over versions.In my view,to call Bayona’s film a remake is a mistake,as it is simply another version of the story that was once told in Marshall’s very intense,epic.To my mind,Alive,there is a film I should definitely write before the Society of the Snow.
Alive is an American survival and biographical film.This film was released in 1993 and it was based,firstly over the facts of the Uruguayan rugby team’s crash aboard a flight into the Andes mountains in 1972.This shocking movie was directed by Frank Marshall and written by J.P Shanley.Furthermore,one of the survivors,Nando Parrado helps as an advisor on this film.This year,in 2024,on Netflix and the large screen,we will able to enjoy a new adaptation of Alive,The society of the snow,by the Spanish director J.Bayona.It goes without saying that this last film is an absolutely masterpiece and a perfect version.
After their last match,The Stella Maris College’s Rugby team are invited to an upcoming match in Chile.The team finally decides to fly with some relatives and friends over the Andes in the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.During the flight,there are some turbulences due to the strong storm.The young passengers are really afraid with this emergency because the situations are each more and more dramatic.Finally,the wings and the tail are separated from the fusulage owing to the colliction with a mountain.The plane ends up in the middle of Andes.In a short space of time,some passengers die and some of them are highly ill.The suffering and desperation appears due to the fact they realize that they don’t have enough food and the tracing from the authorities is over.Yet,it is in these moments when the human survival emerges.
Alive is a great film experience. It is based on true events.The film is uplifting and kind of rough to watch at times. Ethan Hawke and Vincent Spano give excellent performances. The screenplay is well written and touching. Frank Marshall did a great job directing this film.I’m not sure over what of these two versions I prefer.And you,what both adaptations do you prefer?
…I’m not dead.I’ve never felt worse in my life,but I’m not dead.
