Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit

  • Born: 1949-8-13
  • Height: 5' 7" (1.7 m)
  • Extended Reading
    • Georgiana 2022-12-18 01:19:14

      "Dream Life"

      The combination of black and white pictures and color pictures is the characteristic of the documentary. The interview pictures in the first part of the documentary are black and white pictures, including the preparation work before going to the building, the tension of the people on the road and...

    • Haylee 2022-12-18 11:50:17

      real and not dull

      It's a very good documentary, and the narrative technique is also very special. The interludes of paragraphs make the rhythm of the whole documentary well controlled. The music is also very good, and the French romanticism is vividly set off. The historical footage and the newly filmed footage are...

    Man on Wire quotes

    • 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.

    • 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.