Rewatchables Reference

• All three picked the plane crash scene.
• Chris also loved the first Malkovich scene – the opening monologue.
• The avalanche, the 'tomorrow we've got to eat' scene, and the rescue helicopter scene also highlighted.

• The plane crash sequence – impressive for 1993, still holds up.
• The score and music.
• Nando slowly breaking down Canessa about continuing to walk.
• The social hierarchy / Lord of the Flies dynamics.
• The decision not to do accents.

• Ethan Hawke refused to grow a beard, maintained his goatee – a movie star flex.
• This was a great big-screen movie that loses something on TV.
• Canessa told Nando he sees a road to the east but they went the other way – a 2005 expedition confirmed it was actually a road.

• Bill: Roy the radio guy.
• Chris: The Mechanic character – also 'the guy in a different movie'.

• Craig: The movie didn't get into the cannibalism enough; they should have shown more of the nastiness.
• Craig: Part of him wants something like this to happen to him, to know what he's capable of.
• Bill: They could have dialed up the eating part more – interested in the science of what they chose to eat.
• Chris: This is secretly a sports movie.

• Brad Pitt auditioned for Roberto/Canessa but did a bad reading, so the role went to Josh Hamilton.
• They wished Brad Pitt had been in the movie in some role.

• Chris: Ben Affleck as Antonio (Vincent Spano's part).
• Bill: Leonardo DiCaprio as one of the younger guys – wished for one more future star in the cast.

• Bill: Ethan Hawke right after he wakes up from the coma.
• Chris: Either Roy or the Mechanic – the Mechanic described as 'out of control' and 'deranged'.

• Michael DeLorenzo – PFC Williams from 'A Few Good Men', New York Undercover.
• Jack Noseworthy.
• Josh Lucas – though Bill says 'he's Josh Lucas though,' suggesting he's too well known.
• Danny Nucci.

• The real Nando was technical advisor to the film.
• Real plane crashed on Friday the 13th; filmed at ski town Panorama in the Canadian Rockies.
• Fleet of five helicopters to transport crew and cast.
• Human error caused the crash – pilots thought they'd passed Curico, turned north too early.
• The plane was a Fairchild FH-227; 23 of 78 Fairchild planes had crashed.
• In 2005, an American hiker stumbled across Eduardo's wallet with film, cash, and identity papers, buried for 33 years.
• Script kicking around since 1981; inappropriate Mexican adaptation 'Survive' in 1976.
• For the cannibalism decision scene, actors all fasted for two days; filmed in sequence so cast looked progressively skinnier.
• Nine days filming the plane crash; actors took motion sickness pills; used real stuntmen on cables.

• Plane crashes – top 3 all time.
• Survival movies – up there, but Castaway wins.
• Cannibalism movies – the only non-horror one basically.
• Uruguayan rugby movies – definitely.

• Why didn't they take clothes off the dead people? They'll eat them but not take their clothes.
• Movie is 2 hours 7 minutes – when Hawke and Hamilton finally set off hiking, 10 seconds later there's green valleys; a scene is missing.
• Why did they call off the search after only 7-8 days?

• What's the morning breath combo of no toothpaste, 1972 cigarettes, and human flesh?
• Why didn't they cook the meat? They had lighters for cigarettes.
• Should Nando have been captain all along?
• Once you eat human flesh, can you go back?
• How many cigarettes did they actually have?
• Where did they go to the bathroom?

• Chris: Fearless (Peter Weir, Jeff Bridges plane crash movie).
• Craig: 127 Hours.
• Bill: Castaway.

• Chris: The aviator glasses they all wore.
• Craig: The red shoe.
• Bill: The red sneakers.

• Bill: Start eating sooner – don't wait, don't need four days of debate, you need strength to get off the mountain.
• Craig: Whatever it takes – while you have the energy, take the trip.

All three agree: Ethan Hawke won the movie.

• Bill's finalists: Hawke and the score.
• Bill chose the score – 'Hawk's good, but he does dial it up in that one scene'.