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The True Story of 13 Lives: How Ron Howard Recreated Cave Rescue for Thai Soccer Team

Released Friday on Amazon Prime, 13 Livesis the second feature film to tell the truth in less than a year . The story of a football team trapped in a cave in Thailand and rescued. But Ron He can't blame director Howard for taking on this story so soon after the documentary The Rescue.

Thirteen Lives is a dramatization of these real-life events that took place over his two weeks in June and July of 2018. Actors Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton and Tom Bateman play the lead roles as British divers who were part of the International Diver Rescue Team who eventually brought all trapped victims back to life. increase.

It's a thrilling story and you take your seat, especially knowing that all of this really happened... but also... done. Hollywood is known for spreading the truth, so read on to find out what we know about how accurateThirteen Lives is to the true story of the Tham Luang Nang Non cave rescue. Please.

is 13 lives and is based on a true story.

Yes. Thirteen Lives is based on the true story of a rescue operation in 2018, playing youth soccer from age 11 to his 16 years with his 12 members of his team and his 25-year-old coach. was rescued after being trapped. Tham Luang Nang Nong Cave in northern Thailand13 lives is primarily a non-football team, with Richard Stanton (played by Viggo Mortensen), Jon Volandsen (played by Colin Farrell) and Richard Harris (Joel Farrell). Edgerton).

What is the true story of a Thai football team's cave rescue? Geographic Documentary The Rescue, Trapped in the cave for over two weeks after heavy rains flooded the cave exit and pushed them deeper into the cave. They were rescued by a team of international divers led by five Thai SEALs divers, four British divers and two Australian divers. All 12 boys and their soccer coach escaped from the cave alive, but one of his divers suffocated during a rescue attempt. A year after his surgery, another rescuer of his diver died of a blood infection that persisted during the rescue, bringing the surgical death toll to two. The relief effort reached an unprecedented international scale, with more than 10,000 people participating.

How exactly does 13 lives tell the truth?

Netflix now owns the rights to stories based on the football team's experiences, so most of Amazon's films focus on real-life rescue efforts. (The Rescue documentary met a similar ordeal) Thirteen Lives was filmed in Australia rather than Thailand, but director Ron Howard and his Using news footage and PBS segments

in an interview with Vanity FairHoward poured into the actual cave schematic. I explained that Reproduce them as a set. "[The colors] are very vivid, especially for Thailand, offset by the grayness and darkness of the rain and the ever-changing weather patterns," said Howard. "Once Molly started to figure out what the obstacles in the cave were, whether it was because they were so tight, stalactites, or ocean currents, she designed a set with her team and told me my storyboards. I started looking."

However, no exact replica of the cave has been constructed. For example, the film's design created a clear pathway for the news to pass through the "chamber", which was not how the actual cave was laid out. In the same interview with Vanity Fair, production her designer Molly Hughes said: She designed the relationship between the entrance to the cave on the edge and the camp, so from the top of the stairs you can look down on this vast camp. The film team also consulted actual divers involved in the rescue to see if the details suggested in the film plausibly happened.

The film refers to a man named Sanet Natisri (played by Nopand Bounyai in the film) who led an effort to divert water in the mountains near the cave to make it more accessible to divers. also focuses on restaurant owners. Hughes told Vanity Fair how, with the help of the real-life Thanet Natisri, he recreated the scenery in a way that stayed true to the real story, but could also be used in a Hollywood movie. We could talk, he had so many charts and graphs and spent a lot of time with us," Hughes said. “We simplified [the dam] for the camera. Down to the basics, it was his effort that was far more complex than we could have grasped.

In other words, while some details have changed in the name of both Hollywood narrative and practicality, Thirteen Lives is believed to have actually happened. No wonder there are so many movies about it already.