Phrases like "right out of a Hollywood movie" and "Hollywood couldn't have scripted it any better" are regularly used when discussing events around the world. Is it any wonder then that Hollywood takes some of those perfectly scripted events and turns them into movies?
With The 33, the story of 33 miners stuck for more than two months underground in Chile, that is exactly what has happened. Author Hector Tobar wrote a book about the 2010 event, and director Patricia Riggen has made a film based upon that book.
It is, seemingly, all there. There are interesting backstories for some of the miners – there's the one who has a drinking problem, there's the one who has a mistress, there's the one who is getting ready to retire, there's the one who likes to impersonate Elvis. There is horror at the mine collapsing on these men and their being stuck in a place where the ladders were never finished, where the first aid station was never fully equipped, where the emergency food locker is mostly empty. There are the tireless people on the surface, the ones who never lose hope and the ones who keep drilling to find the miners. There is also the widely reported happy ending, where all 33 miners make it out alive.
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With The 33, the story of 33 miners stuck for more than two months underground in Chile, that is exactly what has happened. Author Hector Tobar wrote a book about the 2010 event, and director Patricia Riggen has made a film based upon that book.
It is, seemingly, all there. There are interesting backstories for some of the miners – there's the one who has a drinking problem, there's the one who has a mistress, there's the one who is getting ready to retire, there's the one who likes to impersonate Elvis. There is horror at the mine collapsing on these men and their being stuck in a place where the ladders were never finished, where the first aid station was never fully equipped, where the emergency food locker is mostly empty. There are the tireless people on the surface, the ones who never lose hope and the ones who keep drilling to find the miners. There is also the widely reported happy ending, where all 33 miners make it out alive.
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