Alive
The real Nando Parrado (Ethan Hawke's character) was technical advisor to the film.,Roberto Canessa is shown sitting beside Nando Parrado in the rescue helicopter. Canessa never made that trip; he was by that point so debilitated by the dysentery he had battled for much of the trek over the mountains that he could no longer walk.,Nando: Between these mountains somewhere there's a green valley. See these mountains over here? There's no snow on them.
Roberto Canessa: Those mountains must be fifty miles away. You think you can walk fifty miles?
Nando: If we have to, we will.
Roberto Canessa: I can't.,In the North American prints, the Touchstone Pictures logo appears at the beginning and at the end, along with the Buena Vista Pictures Distribution disclaimer appears after the credits, meanwhile the international prints had the 1989 version of the 1987 Paramount Pictures logo with the animation at the beginning and the still one at the end.,Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Matinee/Alive/Body of Evidence/Sniper (1993),The Look Of Love
Written by Burt Bacharach & Hal David,Frank Marshall's "Alive" is one of the most beautiful films I have ever seen, a tale of great courage and human ingenuity.

Although the story was filmed previously (and cheaply) by Rene Cardona as "Survive", this retelling is superior in every department and resonates with me years after I first saw it at the cinema.

James Newton Howard's score is truly beautiful and incredibly powerful for its ability to convey both the hopelessness of the situation (trying to survive in the Andes) and the awesome wonder of such a savage land. In fact, the score takes the film from very good to great.

The rendering of Schubert's "Ave Maria" over the rousing climax, with its superbly lensed images by Peter Levy, is one of cinema's most emotional, transporting moments.

Stunning!,