Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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The Walk: Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon, James Badge Dale. In 1974, high-wire artist Philippe Petit recruits a team of people to help him realize his dream: to walk the immense void between the World Trade Center towers.
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- Adventure, Biography, Drama
- Robert Zemeckis
- 2015-10-09
The Walk is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis, who co-wrote the screenplay with Christopher Browne. It is based on the story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit 's walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.
- Did Philippe Petit Really Work as A Street Magician?
- Did Petit Really Make A Model of The Twin Towers?
- Did Philippe Petit Worry About Wind Affecting His Twin Towers Walk?
- Did They Really Wear Disguises?
- Did Petit Really Have An Inside Man Who Worked in The Towers?
- Did Philippe Petit Really Step on A Nail 3 Weeks Before The Walk?
- Exactly How High Were The Twin Towers of The World Trade Center?
- How High Were The Actors When Filming The Walk?
- Was Petit's Plan Really A Success on His First attempt?
- Did Philippe Suffer from Anxiety Before "The Coup"?
Yes. Like in The Walkmovie, the high-wire artist also worked as a magician, performing on the streets of Paris. He began learning magic when he was six and fell in love with tightrope walking when he was a teenager, taking his first steps on a wire when he was sixteen.
Yes. Like in the movie, the real Philippe Petit created a scale model of the Twin Towers to help him prepare for the walk and design the necessary rigging.
Yes. Though it's not focused on heavily in the movie, part of Petit's preparation involved taking into account the swaying of the towers because of the wind, an aspect that was incorporated into their design. He also had to worry about the wind's direct effects on both himself and the wire. In The Walkmovie, we see Philippe's girlfriend Annie (Char...
Yes, Using an ID that belonged to an American who worked in the building, Petit made fake IDs for himself and his accomplices. Like in the movie, they posed as contractors hired to install an electric fence on the rooftop. Previously, they had also posed as tourists, construction workers and white collar employees. As in the movie, Petit even prete...
Yes. Barry Greenhouse, who is portrayed by Steven Valentine in the movie, was the Assistant Director of Research at the New York State Insurance Department on the 82nd floor of the World Trade Center's South Tower. Greenhouse indeed recognized Petit from having seen him street juggling in Paris and agreed to help him. "He sorta draws you into his w...
Yes. Philippe Petit stepped on a nail sticking out of a plank during one of his reconnaissance operations inside the Twin Towers. It went through the sole of his shoe and left him laid up in bed for three days. As in the movie, at first he thought his crutches would hinder him, but he quickly realized they were a blessing in disguise. Guards helped...
The Twin Towers, which opened in 1973, were 110 stories and stood approximately 416 meters (1,365 feet). They were the tallest buildings in the world at the time. Philippe Petit's 450-pound, 200-foot galvanized steel wire-rope was strung across the 138-foot gap between the rooftops of the two towers at a height of roughly 411 meters (1,350 feet). B...
Though certain vertigo-inducing parts of the movie might look perilous, the actors were only ever about 12 feet off the ground. "We built a beautiful set of the top two stories," says Joseph Gordon-Levitt, "and then surrounded that with green [screen]." The rest of the Twin Towers was added digitally. -CNN Gordon-Levitt had visited the original obs...
No. Petit's first attempt to execute "the coup" failed. It was then that he called his girlfriend Annie and asked her to come over to New York for support. The real Annie Allix says that trying to figure out what was going on in Petit's head while encouraging him at the same time was an exhausting job. -Man on Wire
Yes, like in The Walk movie, the true story reveals that Petit woke up in the middle of the night before the coup and began to nail shut the crate, imagining that he was nailing shut his coffin. -Man on Wire
Sep 29, 2020 · On August 7, 1974, a young Frenchman caught the attention of jaded New Yorkers by wire-walking between the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
With Philippe Petit, Jean François Heckel, Jean-Louis Blondeau, Annie Allix. A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century".
- (59K)
- Documentary, Biography, Crime
- James Marsh
- 2008-08-29
The documentary film Man on Wire (2008), by UK director James Marsh, tells of Petit, his collaborators, and his 1974 WTC performance. It won both the World Cinema Jury and Audience awards at the Sundance Film Festival 2008. It combines historical footage with re-enactment and has the spirit of a heist film.
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Sep 30, 2015 · The hullabaloo was over a Frenchman named Philippe Petit, who was walking on a high wire more than 1,300 feet in the air, suspended between the tops of the Twin Towers of the old World Trade...
