Man On Wire
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Man on Wire is a 2008 documentary film directed by James Marsh. The film chronicles Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center. It is based on Petit's 2002 book, To Reach the Clouds, released in paperback with the title Man on Wire. The title of the film is taken from the police report that led to the arrest (and later release) of Petit, whose performance lasted for almost an hour. The film is crafted like a heist film, presenting rare footage of the preparations for the event and still photographs of the walk, alongside re-enactments (with Paul McGill as the young Petit) and present-day interviews with the participants, including Barry Greenhouse, an insurance executive who served as the inside man.[4]
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Man on Wire has a 100% approval rating based on reviews from 159 critics, with a weighted average score of 8.40/10; the website's critical consensus states: \"James Marsh's doc about artist Phililppe Petit's artful caper brings you every ounce of suspense that can be wrung from a man on a (suspended) wire\".[11] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 89 out of 100 based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating \"universal acclaim\".[12]
Parents need to know that Man on Wire is a 2008 documentary about a French tightrope walker who performed a high-wire act of epic proportions in 1974: He walked between the World Trade Center towers. There's a scene that is a time-lapse reenactment of a sexual encounter that Philippe Petit had with a female fan after he was freed from jail that includes male and female nudity. Also, one of the men who helped with the planning of the walk between the towers talks of being a marijuana smoker for 35 years and of being high throughout the planning and execution of the walk. There's cigarette smoking throughout. Aside from this, this documentary is a study in the practice, planning, and persistence it required to complete one of the strangest, one of the most daring, and, ultimately one of the most incredible examples of guerilla performance ever attempted.
On August 9, 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit performed an incredible and very illegal act: He walked across the World Trade Center towers on a high wire rigged between the two buildings. From the moment he first learned of the construction of the World Trade Center, Petit, who had performed similar stunts across the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and the Sydney Harbour Bridge, was obsessed with finding a way to pull this off. This documentary details the careful planning, intense practice, teamwork, subterfuge, and complicity in making Petit's daring ambition a reality. The documentary combines archival footage, present-day interviews with those who took part, and reenactments to show the years of preparation, the act itself, and the immediate aftermath of Petit's achievement.
This is an unforgettable documentary about not only a daring stunt but also on the necessity of following one's inner voice that impels us to attempt and follow our own dreams of greatness. One can only hope that future generations, when picturing the World Trade Center, won't immediately have the horrific images of September 11, 2001, and its aftermath but instead will have the image of one man on a high wire, in total and complete concentration, maintaining perfect balance while precariously perched between the WTC towers as onlookers thousands of feet below marvel and worry. For it is this image -- Philippe Petit high above 1974 Manhattan -- that is the most lingering, the most beautiful, and, in light of 9/11, the saddest. And what this documentary reveals is a kind of madness far removed from the madness of the terrorism by which the WTC is currently most remembered, but the madness of daring to put in the time and effort to follow a dream, no matter how ludicrous it seems to most of us.
When asked in 1974 whether he feared falling from the wire between the tops of the World Trade Center towers, Philippe Petit discussed how he would not have a problem with \"[dying] in the exercise of [my] passion.\" Do you feel the same Why, or why not
I am afraid of heights. Now you know. That is one reason I was helplessly engrossed in \"Man on Wire,\" the story of how Philippe Petit crossed eight times on a tight-wire between the two towers of the World Trade Center on Aug. 7, 1974. Another reason is that the documentary, a hybrid of actual and restaged footage, is constructed like a first-rate thriller.
We meet Philippe Petit, a French wire-walker, magician, unicyclist and street performer, who tells us he was sitting in a dentist's office when he saw a drawing of the proposed towers and knew he was destined to conquer them. He drew a pencil line between them. His wire. The film will follow his campaign, as he enlists an unlikely cadre of helpers, draws inspiration from his girlfriend Annie and becomes obsessed with those two magnets acting on his personality.
\"Man on Wire,\" directed by James Marsh (\"Wisconsin Death Trip\"), has access to all of Petit's film, video and photographs of the assault on the towers. But there is more than that. Ingeniously using actors and restaging events, Marsh fleshes out the story with scenes that could never have been filmed, such as the episode when Petit and a partner crouched motionless under tarps on a beam near the top floor as a security guard nosed around. Petit has gathered a motley crew, including a pot-addled musician and an executive who actually works in an office in one tower. He trains these amateurs on how to rig a high wire. Properly, he hopes.
Even as a child, he liked to climb things. No telling why. He taught himself to walk on a wire, practiced endlessly, dreamed of conquering the clouds. He rehearsed on wire strung up in country fields. His first great feat was to walk on a wire between the two bell towers of Notre Dame. Then he walked between the towers of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia. As the World Trade Center was growing, so were his ambitions.
He never just \"walked\" on a wire. He lay down, knelt, juggled, ran. Every wire presented its own problems, and in rehearsing for the WTC, he built a wire the same distance in France. To simulate the winds, the movements of the buildings and the torsion of the wire, he had friends jiggle his wire, trying to toss him off. His balance was flawless. He explains how a wire can move: Up and down, sideways, laterally, and it also can sometimes twist.
The installation of a wire between the two towers was as complicated as a bank heist. He and his friends scouted the terrain, obtained false ID cards, talked their way into a freight elevator reaching to the top -- above the level of the finished floors. Incredibly, they had to haul nearly a ton of equipment up there. You may have heard how they got the wire across, and how they guy-wired it, but if you don't know, I won't tell you.
They did it, anyway. Their plan worked. And on the morning of that Aug. 7, Petit took the first crucial step that shifted his weight from the building to the wire, and stood above a drop of 1,350 feet. Many people know he crossed successfully. I had no idea he went back and forth eight times, the police waiting on both sides. His friends shed tears as they remember it happening. It was dangerous, foolhardy, glorious. His assistants feared they could be arrested for trespassing, manslaughter or assisting a suicide. Philippe Petit was arrested and eventually found guilty. The charge: Disturbing the peace.
On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour of performing on the wire, 1,350 feet above the sidewalks of Manhattan, he was arrested. This fun and spellbinding documentary chronicles Philippe Petit's \"highest\" achievement.
\"Man on Wire,\" James Marsh's documentary on the stranger than fiction attempt of Philippe Petit to cross the World Trade Center on a high wire, is a compelling, sometimes riveting piece of work. Eschewing a complete focus on talking heads and vintage clips in exchange for a touch of whimsical dramatization, the film revels in dreams, determination, and families built and torn asunder by both.
The Walk is Robert Zemeckis' new big-screen narrative based on the story of Phillippe Petit's rigging and performance of a high-wire walk between the twin towers. Man on Wire is James Marsh's 2008 documentary about Petit's famous high-wire walk.
The documentary about Petit isn't told in a linear fashion: The story opens with Petit talking about how he felt the night before his walk, then cuts to interviews with different friends, before it heads back in time to the planning of \"le coup\" and then forward to the night of the walk and back again. The fictionalized version of the story, instead, is told chronologically in a flashback. Gordon-Levitt clearly explains how he got into wire-walking, how he recruited all of his accomplices and how he planned his performance art. Plus, it has catchy spy music to help you through the story.
Marsh's movie includes actual footage of Petit walking 1,300 feet above New York City, but Zemeckis creates a pulse-racing, interactive 3-D experience of the wire walk. In IMAX, objects falling from the sky look like they're going to hit you. Cameras and CGI take viewers up buildings, across wires and show both close-ups and aerials of a wire-walking Gordon-Levitt. When the actor looks down, we're on the edge of our seats.
In August 1974, Philippe Petit, a Frenchman with a passion for walking on wires, captivated New York City as he stealthy made his way to the top of the World Trade Center. Once there, he walked across a cable strung between the Twin Towers, a historic feat that's vividly depicted in a new documentary, Man On Wire (which will be screening tonight). The famous walk tu