- Joseph Gordon-Levitt learns to walk a tightrope in order to play a good film. After eight days of studying, he has been able to walk a tightrope alone.
- Although Gordon Levitt has a stand-in in the film, he personally took the tightrope walk in the climax.
- At the premiere of the film in New York, the audience vomited out of fear of heights. The director responded that the film wanted this effect.
- The film was originally called, using the title of the memoir written by the protagonist prototype Philippe Petit, which was later changed toand then simply.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt wore blue color contact lenses to play Philippe Petit.
- The 2008 documentaryis also based on the same original work.
- In addition to learning to walk a tightrope, Gordon-Levitt also trained a fluent French with a Parisian accent, and was helped by the French actor Charlotte Leben and others in the same film.
The Walk behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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Junior 2021-12-01 08:01:27
Seeing Phillipe kneeling down on the steel cable was instantly knocked down by a sudden sense of sacredness, tears fell down, and the close-up of the twin towers at the end brought sadness even more unspeakable. Must see IMAX 3D
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Ludwig 2022-04-03 09:01:03
Life is hanging by a thread, every step is scary, and the film is exclusively for patients with acrophobia. It also has miraculous effects on heart disease and high blood pressure.
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Petit's Father: [sigh] My son, the circus clown.
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Papa Rudy: Most wire walkers, they die when they arrive. They think they have arrived... But they are still on the wire. If you have three steps to do, and if you do those steps arrogantly... if you think you are invincible... You are going to die!