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FILM REVIEWSurvive’ is Raw DramatU JEW Mcf.ARHYKnight News WireBeige-colored end biggerthan steak it looks like beef jerkv but it isn't It s meat Offr *the back nf a human being and it's practically the star ot a new movie railed Survive''*The cannibalism sequences in Survive are said to lookvery realistic And why shouldn't thevn The humanback you see being sliced with a razor is that of an unclaimed cadaver The meat that gets hung out to dry on the side ot the atrpiane is also humanReal human flesh is only one unsparing touch of realism in a movie based on a real incident, the 72-dav ordeal endured by aTruquayan Rugby Team in1972 when their plane crashed Into the Andes and left 17 survivors stranded on the desolate, snowy mountain top,cold and starving The experience was detailed in the bestselling book • Alive!. This movie is not basest on that book but ratheron a less successful one bvvClav Blair Jr called Sur-• **viveBoth books provided fascinating. if revolting, reading on the means by which the athletes survived After their food supplies ran out; they resorted to cannibalizing their deadSurvive’” producer Allan Carr thinks about what happened he says, everytime a plane takes him over mountains He thinks the same thing will happen to people who go tosee SurviveA little over two years after the plane crash, a Mexican film company began shootingSurvive” in the ColoradoRocktes. And nohodv knewthev were doing it Carr said disbelievinglv, Carr. 34, sawthe film in Mexico this spring and decided to buv it. afteragonizing for a weekend about Whether audiences would cometo see the film for the right motives, he saidZ He brought the film to Hoi lywood, had it dubbed and thecolor doctored to make it acceptable to American ami* European audiencev Carr.who helped Hugh Hefner launch the televised Playboyparties was eager to get his film done and on the marketbecause Cmted Artists hadhired director John Schlesmg er and screen writer William (Joldman to make a film ofAlive’i *Carr got there first by a mile Alive’ is not even in production vet I don t think it'll be made now. the small, bouncy producer said happily.Unfortunately, according toa New York Times reviewer Survive is an irksomely dubbed film . with a tinnymusical accompaniment.which attempts by aural flogging to accomplish what the script cannot♦ fHe also raps the “unnecessary scene of protruding viscera and the lancing of an in fected leg ”Carr defended his film asbeing graphic but sparing We don t linger on all that. hesaid.Although the cannibalism sequences are at the heart of the film. Carr insisted that the movie would arouse a lot of curiosity even without them ‘ It's the ultimate disaster film he said It has all the elements of Jaws and Earthquakeand yet you keep telling yourself, This is different. This really happened ' *Nobody could create a screenplay as interesting and as tragic as this one First ofall. the plane crashes. Then, of the ones who survive that, half are buried alive in anavalance Then they hear on the portable radio in the plane chall that people have given up the searchf tMuch of the movie, he said, deals with how the survivors coped with the apparent hopel essness of it all; how they husbanded physical and psychic strength. It is about heroism and cowardice, he claimed
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