- Philippe did walk back and forth eight times across the 43-meter (140 ft) cable, spending a total of about 45 minutes on the wire.- He did kneel/salute on one knee to the crowd and police below.- He did lie down on the wire at least once.- He performed a brief salto (somersault-like movement) while sitting on the wire.- He walked with a 26-foot (8-meter), 55-pound (25 kg) aluminum balancing pole (the film gets the length and weight right).- The cable sagged and swayed significantly in the wind; the towers moved up to 3 feet in high winds that morning.- He carried almost no safety equipment (no harness, no net).- Police were waiting on both towers and threatened arrest when he came off.- He really did taunt the officers and make them wait longer before finally coming in.- A seagull did fly very close to him at one point (Philippe has mentioned this in interviews).- The walk happened at around 7:15 a.m. on August 7, 1974.- The famous photograph of him lying down on the wire with a gull overhead is real and was recreated accurately.
Meh. Do it without the pole toughguy
>>18176728Man on Wire (the documentary, not the dramatization with Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is legit kino. Go watch it. Now.
>>18176749https://youtube.com/shorts/yYzPSWf0CAUthe dramatization is also kino
>performed a brief salto (somersault-like movement) while sitting on the wireSome people simply do what they want.
>>18176728>A seagull did fly very close to him at one point (Philippe has mentioned this in interviews)A seagull? Pfft, fucking nothing. Get back to me when an airliner flies around there (dunno why an airliner would be flying there, I'm just using it for hypotheticals) and see if you don't get knocked to the pavement and go splat.
>>18176869if God wills, you'll not fall
>>18176728who pwned the towers harder, him or Osama bin Laden? And what was so unsettling about their design that people felt this freudian urge?
>>18176869>A seagull? Pfft, fucking nothing. Get back to me when an airliner flies around there (dunno why an airliner would be flying there, I'm just using it for hypotheticals) and see if you don't get knocked to the pavement and go splat.Not funny, dude.
