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Landen 2022-11-05 10:17:09
Wire lead to success
Wire lead to success
- Review of the movie "The Man on a Tightrope"
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Hillary 2022-11-10 20:45:11
One without tower, two without rope
This movie was known a long time ago. It is regarded as an inspirational film, so it is put aside. Until recently, there was a clip in Paul Ingram's class at Columbia Business School that really stimulated me, so I looked for it. Paul's part is a re-editing of the film so that only Petite is left...
Jean-Louis Blondeau
Extended Reading
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Sgt Charles Daniels: ...I observed the tight rope dancer... because you couldn't call him a walker... approximately half-way between the two towers. I personally figured I was watching something that somebody else would never see again in the world. Thought it was once in a lifetime.
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Philippe Petit: As a child, I loved to climb everywhere. I'll let the psychiatrists decide why. Maybe I wanted to escape my time. Maybe I wanted to see the world from a different perspective and I was an explorer at heart. Who knows and who cares? But I was a little climber. And nobody, not my parents, not the teachers, nobody could stop me.