The Oscar winning documentary Man on Wire is a well done movie that has Philippe Petit as himself and a few of his friends/accomplices, tell in details what happened on that day that he walk on a wire in between the twin towers and how all came to be.
It starts with Philippe talking about a metaphor of “nailing the coffin” and how it could relate to him, of death is now seeing through his dream “looking through the golden frame and making it way to his reality making him think it might be foreshadowing his death. The movie then proceed to show the setup of the twin towers wire walk with his friends pretty much going through the process of how they started.
Then they started to go into why Philippe wanted to walk across the twin towers and it was because he saw a newspaper about the towers and he then proceed to say that “they were made for him to walk across.” So he started to work on his wire walking skills by doing street acts and walking across street poles, which he then up it by walking across the top of Notre Dame. The onlookers who saw was impress and this act in itself gave Philippe more courage to try even higher heights.
His group laters go to San Francisco, California to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge. After hours of setting up Philippe start walking across the wire, he does a couple of tricks, walks back and forth, and then after hours of doing his acts cops make it up to the top and arrest Philippe. He later release and set out for his main goal of walking across the Twin Towers.
He gather some help from some americans guys and they start scoping out the towers. It took them years to get everything prepared. When they were all about to set out; some bailed because they didn’t want to be apart of the reason if anything were to failed and Philippe falls in anyway. Even though they had less people now they went on. There was two teams one goes through construction and the other goes through the office. They got pass most guards even made it up to the floor before the roof. Then a guard shown up and they had to had both teams had a guard on their floor.
They hid for hours until they thought it was safe but both team made it to their roofs and started to prepared the wire so that Philippe can do his amazing act on it. They manage to get the wire up and Philippe was finally able to achieve his dream of doing his walk, which he did and enjoy as he does it for about 4 hours until cops shows up and force him off the wire with threats to pick him up on a helicopter. After that he became famous from it and he enjoy his newfound fame even though all/most of his friends were deported back to France and they even lost touch after a while.
So even though Philippe lost a good amount of his friends he doesn't regret it because he was still able to achieve his dream and the reason was a such a good movie was because they tell it in such details that even without the pictures they shown, you can just visual it.
It starts with Philippe talking about a metaphor of “nailing the coffin” and how it could relate to him, of death is now seeing through his dream “looking through the golden frame and making it way to his reality making him think it might be foreshadowing his death. The movie then proceed to show the setup of the twin towers wire walk with his friends pretty much going through the process of how they started.
Then they started to go into why Philippe wanted to walk across the twin towers and it was because he saw a newspaper about the towers and he then proceed to say that “they were made for him to walk across.” So he started to work on his wire walking skills by doing street acts and walking across street poles, which he then up it by walking across the top of Notre Dame. The onlookers who saw was impress and this act in itself gave Philippe more courage to try even higher heights.
His group laters go to San Francisco, California to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge. After hours of setting up Philippe start walking across the wire, he does a couple of tricks, walks back and forth, and then after hours of doing his acts cops make it up to the top and arrest Philippe. He later release and set out for his main goal of walking across the Twin Towers.
He gather some help from some americans guys and they start scoping out the towers. It took them years to get everything prepared. When they were all about to set out; some bailed because they didn’t want to be apart of the reason if anything were to failed and Philippe falls in anyway. Even though they had less people now they went on. There was two teams one goes through construction and the other goes through the office. They got pass most guards even made it up to the floor before the roof. Then a guard shown up and they had to had both teams had a guard on their floor.
They hid for hours until they thought it was safe but both team made it to their roofs and started to prepared the wire so that Philippe can do his amazing act on it. They manage to get the wire up and Philippe was finally able to achieve his dream of doing his walk, which he did and enjoy as he does it for about 4 hours until cops shows up and force him off the wire with threats to pick him up on a helicopter. After that he became famous from it and he enjoy his newfound fame even though all/most of his friends were deported back to France and they even lost touch after a while.
So even though Philippe lost a good amount of his friends he doesn't regret it because he was still able to achieve his dream and the reason was a such a good movie was because they tell it in such details that even without the pictures they shown, you can just visual it.
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