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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
- There are a total of 45 general entries. We are selecting 30 for display.
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
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| What two relatives did Nando lose on the mountain? | Alive
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sister and mother. His mother and sister were going along to watch the game.
| They were members of what type of sports team? | Alive
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Rugby. They were from a Uruguayan rugby team.
| What mountain range did the plane crash in? | Alive
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Andes. Being from Uruguay, they were crossing the Andes to play a game in Chile.
| What country were the team members from? | Alive
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Uruguay. They were crossing the Andes to play a game in Chile.
| What two members breached the mountains to civilization to bring back help? | Alive
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Roberto and Nando. Roberto and Nando were the two in the best health and able to make the journey.
| Who was the last person to die on the mountain? | Alive
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Rafael. Rafael became very sick and weak and was the last one to die before the rescue.
| Who was captain of the team? | Alive
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Antonio. Antonio was also the 'leader' of the crash survivors.
| How long had Roberto been in medical school before the crash? | Alive
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2 years. He had the most medical training and was able to care for the injured with what was available.
| Who was sitting next to Antonio on the plane at the time of the crash and died instantly? | Alive
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Alex. The crash broke Alex's neck.
| What did the food rationings consist of? | Alive
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piece of chocolate and sip of wine. They found bottles of wine in the pilots' cart and other passengers had brought along chocolate.
| How many people died when snow from the avalanche filled the plane? | Alive
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8. Eight people suffocated from being buried under snow.
| Who did they originally put in charge of trying to fix the radio? | Alive
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Roy. They thought Roy could fix it since he had helped two of his cousins put together their stereos.
| What did the badly injured pilot ask Roberto for out of his pack? | Alive
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his gun. He was in so much pain, he wanted to end his life right then.
| What did they first use to cut 'meat' from a body? | Alive
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a piece of broken glass. They used a thick piece of glass from a broken window of the plane.
| Who was the first one to venture out of the wreckage after the crash? | Alive
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Bobby. Bobby was the first out and was sitting on a suitcase smoking a cigarette.
| Who first 'celebrated' their birthday on the mountain? | Alive
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Rafael. Carlitos made the announcement that it was Rafael's birthday.
| What did Bobby use to pop the cork on a bottle of wine? | Alive
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a suitcase handle. He pulled the handle off of a suitcase to use.
| What food did Carlitos jokingly say he'd pay for if someone else went to get it? | Alive
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pizza. Trying to lighten their dilemma, he said 'I'll pay for the pizza if you go and get it.'
| Who sang 'Ave Maria' at the end of the movie during the credits? | Alive
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Aaron Neville. The unmistakable voice of Aaron Neville from the Neville Brothers.
| Why did Vito at first refuse to pray the 'Hail Mary'? | Alive
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He was an Agnostic. He didn't pray, due to his being an Agnostic, until they thought another avalanche was headed for them.
Bring him tea. When the steward goes on his errand, he walks past passengers, so that the viewer gets a chance to get a feel for who is aboard and what they are like. Michael Sicoly plays the pilot. Frank Pellegrino plays the steward.
| Three members of the Parrado family are aboard the flight; siblings Susana and Nando, and their mother Eugenia. Who are sitting together? | What Do You Remember From "Alive"?
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Susana and Eugenia. Susana admires the mountains and points them out to her mother. Eugenia doesn't want to look at them because they look "like big teeth". She gets out a box of chocolates instead. This shows us where some of the food comes from. Later, Eugenia looks to Nando for reassurance about the turbulence. This establishes who Nando is. Ethan Hawke plays Nando, Ele Keats plays Susana, and Jan D'Arcy plays Eugenia.
In the close-up, Liliana reaches across with her left hand to grasp Javier's left hand.. This strange reach allows us to see their wedding rings, establishing that they are married. Sam Behrens plays Javier, and Illeana Douglas plays Liliana.
A rugby ball. This gives us another visual reference to their bond as rugby players. The lightheartedness of this moment contrasts with the grim aftermath of the crash.
The tail and the right wing. Several passengers and the steward are lost out the back of the cabin before the plane hits the ground. Later in the film some of the survivors go on expeditions to find missing pieces of the airplane.
Nando Parrado. Alex, played by Silvio Pollio, is killed in the crash. Roberto (Josh Hamilton) and Roy (Kevin Breznahan) survive uninjured and struggle to care for the others. Nando (Ethan Hawke) is knocked unconscious. Several other survivors tend carefully to Nando, thus saving his life. Nando later repays the favor by being the one who hikes out of the mountains to summon rescuers.
| Two of the team members are medical students, so the others look to them for guidance in caring for the wounded. Which passengers are the medical students? | What Do You Remember From "Alive"?
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Roberto Canessa and Gustavo Zerbino. We find out that Zerbino (David Kriegel) is a medical student immediately after the crash, when he exclaims that he'd only been in medical school for six months. Canessa (Josh Hamilton) identifies himself as a medical student when he confronts the mechanic who stole Susana Parrado's coat.
| Coche Inciarte salvages his guitar from the wreckage and bides his time playing on the one remaining string. What does another survivor ask him to play? | What Do You Remember From "Alive"?
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Flight of the Bumblebee. Coche is played by Gordon Currie. His response can't be repeated on a family-oriented site! This moment serves to show that the survivors manage to keep a sense of humor even in their terrible situation.
Water. Canessa (Josh Hamilton) fills a handkerchief with snow and gives it to the pilot (Michael Sicoly) to suck on. After moistening his mouth, the pilot asks for his bag because he wants his gun. Canessa refuses, because as a Catholic he can't take part in a mercy killing. The fact that the pilot survives is important, because he also tells the survivors what he thinks their location is. He is wrong, which is why the plane crashed, and why it is so much further to Chile than the survivors anticipate.
The mechanic. The mechanic (José Zúñiga), survives until the avalanche, but clearly his mind has come unhinged. The mechanic tells the other survivors that the batteries, that they think they can use to operate the radio, are in the tail. This leads to the expeditions to the tail, and to Nando's decision to make a sleeping bag with insulation from the tail.
Plenty of cigarettes. They find an entire suitcase full of cigarettes. The survivors later use cigarettes as candles in snowball "birthday cakes" to observe their birthdays during the ordeal.
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