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Society of the Snow (2023)
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dir. J.A. Bayona
cin. Pedro Leque
cs. Spain, USA
#society of the snow#la sociedad de la nieve#j.a. bayona#2023 movies#enzo vogrincic#numa turcatti#matías recalt#agustín pardella#Tomas Wolf#roberto canessa#Nando Parrado#Gustavo Zerbino#1972 Andes flight disaster#spanish cinema#pedro leque#andes#netflix
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In a special place in my home I keep only memories, keepsakes from the cordillera: photos of many of those who died, objects from the plane, things I collected from everyone who died and who we did not expect to stay alive. So I save them in this altar, which is my most sacred and beloved piece of furniture. I carried back a lot of objects in a bag, but there were some things that we didn’t know which dead boy they belonged to, nor did any survivor recognise it as his own. [...] I have dozens of things from ’72.
But the thing I value most, because I feel that it symbolises everything we lived through, is a silver cross that is missing its left arm. It is a cross that somebody had hanging over his heart, although I found it lying in the snow. It is about 4cm long, and the whole arm that’s left measures less than 2cm. It suffered some sort of violent impact in the centre – whoever had it received a severe blow to the middle of his chest. But what moves me most about it is that despite being dented, despite the fact that it’s missing an arm, with the metal all jagged and torn, all the same it keeps being, unmistakably, a cross. That was what happened to us. We were dented and bruised, beaten down and terribly abused, but we kept on being whole men.
#today in details i'm so glad they included in this movie#that cross means so much to him#society of the snow#gustavo zerbino#uruguayan flight 571#andes plane crash#pablo vierci
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Lupe Zerbino (Daughter of Gustavo Zerbino) and Enzo Vogrincic
Gustavo posted these on his Instagram story, captioning the image on the right - "woMEN in black"
(Oscars Luncheon 2024)
#Lupe is so cute i love her so much#her twitter is genuinely so entertaining. anyway#Oscars 2024#lsdln cast#enzo vogrincic#Gustavo Zerbino#also. peep Canessa in the first image lmao#la sociedad de la nieve
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The doctors
Roberto Canessa was in his second year of medical school. Gustavo Zerbino was in his first. They were both only 19 years-old.
They administered first aid when the plane crashed and monitored the wounded until the last day.
Gustavo didn’t continue his studies because, according to him, he had seen too much death already.
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“When I went on the expedition with Numa Turcatti and Daniel Maspons, climbing up the mountain, I took the necklaces and chains of each dead person we found. I took every watch, every ID card, all the papers they may have had in their bags: letters, notes, messages, lists, directions, desires, names, loves. I did the same for all of them. I found Carlos Valeta’s chain, which I gave to his parents. I found the letter Gustavo Nicolich wrote to his girlfriend Rosina, the letter from Arturo Nogueira to his parents, his brothers, and his girlfriend. All that history, all those lives which were cut short on the mountain, I carried in a bag. With time that little bag was getting bulky. I had to organise it – here are all the watches and medals, there the letters and documents, the more intimate and personal papers. When that little bag was too full I transferred it to a larger bag, containing the belongings of twenty-nine amputated lives … After [we left], nobody remained up on that icy mountain, nobody at all, because I carried them all away with me.”
– “The Dented Cross with the Broken Arm: Gustavo Zerbino” from Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story by Pablo Vierci
LA SOCIEDAD DE LA NIEVE | SOCIETY OF THE SNOW (2023) dir. J. A. Bayona
#society of the snow#la sociedad de la nieve#moviegifs#filmgifs#doyouevenfilm#fyeahmovies#userconstance#userrobin#usermarina#userbbelcher#chewieblog#dasakuryo#henricavyll#tuserjyn#dailyflicks#dailyworldcinema#perioddramaedit#userfilm#userstream#myedit#yep. another one#this is one aspect that is obviously shown here and there in the film (gustavo collecting the mementos)#but the book is where it explains the Why#that big block of text (which was all one paragraph in the book so i wasn't gonna break it apart) really stuck with me#even in the midst of Everything (on top of also having to do medical work- despite having only done mostly like#courses in psychology iirc??)#he still made it a point to do something like this. i don't think words like 'thoughtful' or 'admirable' do it justice tbh. it's beyond tha#coloring's inconsistent but hey! we move! (i say like it doesn't bother me a little lol)
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'Numa se inmola para provocar la salida de los expedicionarios, como si dijera: "si me muero ahora, primero dejo de sufrir y además los impulso para que se vayan"', asegura Gustavo Zerbino, que fue quien encontró la nota que Numa escribió en su mano cerrada. 'Con ese mensaje les hablaba a los expedicionarios; "les toca a ustedes". Lo miré a Roberto y Roberto me responde: "ya está, salimos mañana"'.
'Numa sacrificed himself to push the expeditionaries to leave, as if saying: “If I die now, most importantly I won’t suffer anymore. Besides that, I’ll motivate them to leave,”’ says Gustavo Zerbino, who was the one to find the note Numa had written, clutched in his closed hand. ‘With this message he was telling the expeditionaries: “Now it’s your turn.” I looked at Roberto and he said, “Alright, we’ll leave tomorrow.”’
— La Sociedad de la Nieve (2008), Pablo Vierci
#la sociedad de la nieve#society of the snow#filmedit#moviegifs#dailyworldcinema#numa turcatti#roberto canessa#enzo vogrincic#matías recalt#mgifs*
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Gustavo Zerbino (one of the survivors of the Andes plane crash) went to the Oscar Nominees luncheon and took pictures with some of the nominees
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In my ongoing attempt to convince people to watch this movie (because it is so fucking good you have no idea), I put together this list of reasons why you need to watch this film. Sorry, but I can't be normal about this:
None of the backgrounds or environments are CGI! Those mountains? Those are the Andes! That's the real Valley of Tears! While filming with the actors was done in a different location (I believed they filmed in the Sierra Nevadas?), location photography and filming was done in the Andes and then spliced accordingly into the film.
It's an ensemble piece! Until now, most movies/docs/books have (understandably) focused almost exclusively on Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa because of their 10 day trek through the mountains. But the group was more than just the two of them and this film shows that by emphasizing everyone's importance and roles in their survival.
Having said that, NANDO PARRADO IS THE FUCKING GOAT. This guy fractured his skull during the crash which caused his brain to swell. Everyone thought he was dead at first and only brought him back inside the plane when someone noticed he was still breathing. Even then, he wasn't expected to survive for very long so the others placed him where it was coldest which ended up saving his life as the cold temperature along with dehydration helped bring the swelling in his brain down. He was in a coma for three days, woke up to learn his mother was dead and his sister was dying, and decided, "Fuck this, I am getting off this mountain and you're all doing it with me." AND THEN HE DID, part of which involved hiking for 10 days across the Andes with NO GEAR.
The decision to make Numa Turcatti the narrator was brilliant. I cannot say more due to spoilers but iykyk.
Speaking of other films (looking at you, 1993's "Alive"), this movie cast exclusively Uruguayan (and some Argentinian) actors in order to give it proper authenticity.
This movie does not fuck around, with the crash happening within the first 15 minutes of the movie. And it is horrible in that it is probably one of the most accurate portrayals of a plane crash? I don't like flying, and I was incredibly anxious watching it to the point where I thought initially I might have to turn it off. But despite this, it never feels exploitive or anything. Just... real.
The entire movie was shot chronologically in order to give the make-up team an easier time with getting the actors to look increasingly gaunt and disheveled as well as adding a tighter consistency between shots and scenes. Many of the actors lost upwards of 50 lbs by the time filming was concluded.
For the avalanche scene, the actors were buried under nearly 8 inches of real snow. Because of this, the redness of their skin isn't the work of make-up or special effects but is very real.
Michael Giacchino's score. But even more importantly, his use of silence.
Honestly, this movie feels genuinely cold in a way that most movies and tv shows never quite capture. The sound of frozen clothing crunching, the frost that covers them, the clear impact of cold and frost on hair and skin, the shaking and shivering. It's really hard to describe, but like... it didn't feel like these were just actors on a set walking around. It felt genuinely cold.
The payada (rhyming/rap battle) was entirely improvised by the actors.
Enzo Vogrincic (Numa) looks like a young Adam Driver. You know you want to watch him stare soulfully into the camera for two hours. (But really, the acting in this movie is phenomenal.)
For Cold Boy fanciers, Gustavo Zerbino is basically the group's Goodsir - a cinnamon roll doing his best.
Fito Strauch's homemade sunglasses!
I could write an essay about the way the film confronts and portrays the cannibalism. Since I've rambled on long enough, let me just say here that it feels authentic in the way it's handled and not like you typically expect to see in stories like the Franklin Expedition, the Essex, or the Donner Party. (My only criticism is that it looks like they used raw chicken as the meat? And I unfortunately happen to know that human meat very much does not look like chicken.)
MOST IMPORTANTLY, this movie gives voices to those who didn't survive the mountains. And yes, it is a story about survival (and is a wonderful portrayal of positive masculinity) but it is really a story about love. Love for one's friends. Love for each other. And how love is the only way we survive.
#i am not normal about this film okay#sorry not sorry#but it's so crunchy and leaves you with so much to think about#i'm really sad it never got any theatrical showings near me#Youtube
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(Mil disculpas por el español, no hablo nada de portugués 😭, pero no quería dejar pasar la oportunidad de escribirte)
Hola xexy, espero que estés muy bien y mejorando! Te extrañamos un montón 🩷. Leí tu último post y estoy un poco perdida, soy bastante nueva en la comunidad y no suelo andar por Twitter... Si pudieras explicarme te lo agradecería un montón (o publicarlo a ver si alguien más se apiada de mí y me cuenta qué pasó).
Juro que no todas las argentinas somos una porquería. Disfruto mil del fandom brasilero, aunque lo haga mediante Google translate (estoy a punto de estudiar portugués sólo para poder leerlas).
Bueno, eso, mil gracias por todo lo que aportas al fandom, me alegra un montón leerte después de que la universidad me consume la cabeza 🩷
Y mil disculpas por el español otra vez, no me confío en el traductor
oiii meu amor! <3
muito obrigada pelo carinho, de verdade! e fico feliz de ajudar nem que seja um pouquinho. e fiquei muito feliz com sua mensagem!!!! fique a vontade pra mandar mensagens sempre, a gente vai se ajudando no tradutor, viu?
vou escrever em português também pra não correr risco de traduzir errado (meu espanhol é péeeeeeessimo) e também pra ajudar quem está perdido :)
ontem, dia 25/03, rolou uma grande confusão no twitter (que ainda bem que você não usa) envolvendo um grupo específico de fãs que se intitula "las cachorras". elas começaram a atacar algumas brasileiras do fandom, usando emojis de macaco e de banana pra ofender. são ofenças super racistas.
algumas meninas brasileiras foram atrás do agus laín (que fez o carlos valeta no filme - ele não aparece muito, mas tem um fandom bem consistente, faz live na twitch e etc). como ele já tinha falado do brasil (chegando até a dizer que era brasileiro e fazer alguns posts em português), o pessoal achou que ele defenderia as meninas dos ataques racistas.
infelizmente ele fez o contrário - tomou o lado das racistas. não aguentou que foi cancelado e excluiu a conta.
a lupe zerbino (que é neta ou filha do gustavo zerbino, sobrevivente - desculpa não ter essa informação direitinho, não acompanho ela) se meteu na briga também, porque é amiga de uma menina que faz parte das cachorras. ela não atacou diretamente o grupo, disse que racismo é errado mas fez de forma condescente tipo "ah eu já defendi vocês agora me deixem em paz", como se fosse um aborrecimento ter tomado o lado certo, sabe?
também não aguentou o cancelamento e acabou excluindo a conta.
mesmo com a confusão e com várias pessoas desativando, as meninas do grupo das cachorras não pararam. continuam no twitter falando mal das brasileiras, mandando emojis de macaco e debochando da situação como se racismo fosse uma bobagem e não um crime.
algumas meninas vieram se defender dizendo que não sabiam que o macaco e as bananas eram racistas, mas mesmo sendo explicadas, continuaram insistindo no erro.
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The full passenger manifest of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which set off from Montevido, Uruguay to Santiago, Chile, on October 12th, 1972.
1. Francisco Abal
2. Carlos Paez Rodriguez
3. Roberto Francois Alvarez
4. Daniel Maspons Hossa
5. Gilberto Regules Zorrilla
6. Marcelo Pérez del Castillo
7. Roy Harley Sanchez
8. Jorge Hounie Sere
9. Julio Martinez Lamas
10. Gaston Costemalle Jardi
11. Arturo Nogueira Paullier
12. Felipe Maquirriain
13. Diego Storm Gornah
14. Alfredo Delgado
15. Alvaro Mangino
16. Jose P. Algorta Duran
17. Francisco Nicola Brusa
18. Esther Horta de Nicola
19. Antonio Vizintin Brandi
20. Susanna E. Parrado Dolgay
21. Eugenia Dolgay de Parrado
22. Fernando Parrado Dolgay
23. Eduardo Strauch Urioste
24. Adolfo Strauch Urioste
25. Daniel Shaw Urioste
26. Gustavo Zerbino Stajano
27. Roberto Canessa Urta
28. Gustavo Nicholich Arocena
29. Fernando Vasquez Nerel
30. Jose Luis Inciarte Vasquez
31. Daniel Fernandez Strauch
32. Rafael Echavarren Vasque
33. Numa Turcatti Pesquera
34. Alfredo Cibils
35. Carlos Valeta Vallendor
36. Enrique Platero Riet
37. Javier Methol Abal
38. Liliana Navarro de Methol
39. Ramon Sabella
40. Juan Carlos Menendez Vilascca
41. Graciela Obdulia Augusto Gumila de Mariani
42. Guido Jose Magri
#flight 571#Uruguayan flight 571#miracle in the andes#el milagro de los andes#history#history posts#passenger manifest#survival stories#disaster stories
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gente, a lupe é FILHA do gustavo, e ela só tem 16/17 anos... ou seja... totalmente imatura. o Zerbino deu uma entrevista pra um jornal contando toda a trajetória dele quando a mãe dela morreu de câncer há um tempinho atrás. disse que foi muito difícil pra ela. mas poxa, ao ao passo que tenho compaixão por ela, que eu entenda que pela idade não podemos esperar muita coisa, ainda sim acho tudo isso um grande desserviço. quase todos do cast também são novos, 80% não tem mais que 25. então a idade média desse 'fandom' é essa. não dá pra levar a sério. o melhor que a gente faz é admirar de longe, interagir entre nós e fingir que esse lado não existe. por que no final é isso mesmo: é como se não existissem de tão insignificantes.
sempre confundo/esqueço que ela é filha dele, é que ela é tão novinha e ele já é mei veio né.....osbanaksna
enfim, amiga...eu só vou discordar de ti um tiquinho, porque a gente tem que lembrar que a lupe é uma menina que vive em uma realidade relativamente privilegiada, ela tem condições, tem acesso à internet e educação. ou seja, ela tem todas as ferramentas pra ser uma pessoa mais consciente. entenda que aqui não tô cobrando uma postura de adulta, mas, assim...nessa idade eu já tinha maturidade o suficiente pra saber que não ser racista é o mínimo
ok que criação e cultura obviamente impactaram nisso, eu sou uma mulher branca, assim como ela, e tenho os meus privilégio por isso, tal qual ela, mas o meu pai é um homem preto, então, eu fui muitíssimo bem educada e aprendi desde cedo o que era o racismo. ela, com toda certeza, não teve isso. só que não dá pra passar a mão na cabeça também (não que você esteja fazendo isso, tá? tô falando no geralzão mesmo), porque a internet tá aí pra isso, sabe? ela tá aí pro mal, mas tá aí pra passar a informação também
talvez eu esteja sendo muito dura e extremista sobre o assunto, mas pra mim é muito difícil colocar a lupe, ou qualquer pessoa com mais de 15/16 anos nesse lugar de inocência, sabe? penso que as pessoas escolhem ser racistas a partir de um ponto da vida, por mais que seja um problema estrutural, as pessoas escolhem continuar perpetuando certos tipos de discursos, mesmo quando são colocadas diante da informação de que é errado
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Gustavo Zerbino, guardian of memories
Gustavo's chapter is one of my favourite things about Vierci's Society of the Snow, and every time I read this part it rips my heart out.
I handed a piece of paper to Sergio, who was with the medic José Bravo, paper which I had torn out of a notebook where I wrote down the names of each person who had died, indicating the corresponding pile of bones for each name. I acquainted the mountaineers with the remains of all of them, so that if at some future date their relatives came here, each one would be able to find the remains of their son and take him home if they wanted. Sergio stared at me as though I had lost my senses. I was with them for two hours at the nose of the plane with that paper, explaining everything to them. I wanted someone else to know. [...] I knew that Nando’s mother and sister were on this side, along with Liliana Methol. I knew that for two reasons: because they might be food tomorrow and, if we were to get out alive, their families could take them back to Montevideo if they wished. I knew who was here, who was there, who was in between, each scattered in his own place.
Sergio Díaz took my hand and said, ‘Thank you, thank you, Gustavo, but it doesn’t matter, it’s over, and you don’t need to worry any longer.’ He wanted to protect me, but I wanted to protect my friends.
#society of the snow#pablo vierci#gustavo zerbino#miracle in the andes#uruguayan air force flight 571
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Credit to Pablo Vierci on Twitter.
(Left to right) Gustavo Zerbino, Agustín Pardella and Fernando "Nando" Parrado
#la sociedad de la nieve#nando parrado#gustavo zerbino#pablo vierci#agustín pardella#agustin pardella#history in films#id assume this photo was taken around 2022?#Pardella is in the rugby kit seen in the second scene of the film so id assume this was relatively early in filming#aaaa anyway. thank you so much Vierci for the unseen photos (and the book. ofc)
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On this day in 1972, two helicopters arrived in the Valley of Tears, where the severed fuselage and 14 survivors waited for rescue
Drawing by survivor Coche Inciarte
Nando and Roberto were shown maps and asked to point out where the rest of the survivors were. When they did, the rescuers said "That can't be it! That's all the way in Argentina! You couldn't have crossed the Andes on foot!".
But Nando and Roberto insisted they knew what they were talking about.
Nando was in one of the helicopters, otherwise the rescue team would not have been able to locate the wreckage (the white plane could not be seen from above in the snowy scenery). That took amazing bravery, given what he had just gone through. Weather conditions weren't the best, so the helicopters shook and swayed.
Not all 14 could fit in both helicopters, so Pancho Delgado, Antonio Vinzintín, Moncho Sabella, Bobby François, Gustavo Zerbino, Fito Strauch, Roy Harley and Javier Methol stayed behind with three mountaineers and a nurse. Due to the weather, they were only rescued on the 23d.
from left to right: Fito, Gustavo, Bobby, Roy, Pancho and Moncho
Actual footage of the first group being taken care of in Los Maitenes:
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Footage of the first arrivals in Los Maitenes (pay attention to the survivors hugging, specially Nando and Carlitos tumbling to the ground <3):
Footage of the second group arriving at the hospital:
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Gustavo Zerbino Stajano
President of the Rugby union in Uruguay, Businessman, Lecturer, Public Speaker, Uruguay
Volcano. Flight from Montevideo to Santiago de Chile. Live and survive for 73 days and 73 nights, surviving temperatures of minus 30 and minus 40 degrees Celsius without clothes and food.
Global Crisis. We Are People. We Want To Live | International Online Forum on May 7th, 2022
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