10 years ago, while JA Bayona rolling the improbable the book fell into his hands The Snow Society, of Paolo Vierci. ONE best seller international in which the Uruguayan recomposed his tragedy and miracle Andes, happened in 1972. In October of that year, the Uruguayan airline 571 of Montevideo with destiny Santiago, Chile fell into valley of tears, in the middle of the Andes mountain range. He brought, above all, a young rugby team with their mates and family. 29 of the 45 passengers survived the crash. And trapped between snowy walls, two and a half months later, 72 days and 72 nights, They found 16 of the passengers alive.
The story is more than well known. Because of the impact it caused and because it has been made into a film, being the most well-known, They live! (Frank Marshall, 1993). Bayona knew her, as everyone did, but Vierci’s book affected him in a different way, opened up another way of seeing her, and affected him, in fact, in The Impossible, whose title he took from its pages. A decade later, The Snow Society out in theaters (December 15 and January 4 on Netflix), which must be seen for the impressive reconstruction of the accident, but also, and above all, for those 72 days of solitudeof despair, of human faith in the face of the inexorable natural majesty of the mountains.
Bayona had two main challenges in front of a film of enormous size. On the one hand, the human side. He talked for hours with the survivors, he wanted to show the emotional challenge of what it entailed, from the very different points of view, those who stayed on the mountain, those who returned home. Caring, companionship, giving of yourself to another, trust, guilt… all that made them have to eat their mates to survive. On the other side, the landscape, the place, the location. For this, he decided he didn’t want green screens and digital effects, he wanted mountains, he wanted snow, he wanted realism.
“And achieving that realism on a set, where the snow isn’t real, is very complicated. Here’s why We shoot almost everything in high mountains, in places that are difficult to reach, dealing with snow, wind and cold,” explains Bayona.
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