-Driving Around Downtown Manhattan
-Best Possible Situation they were all going to be arested
-Shows the construction of WTC in 70's
-Philippe Petit steals picture of WTC from dentist office
-Petit is a tight ropewalker
-Philippe walked on tight rope from the Notre Dame In Paris in 1971
-1973 Syndeny, Petit walks on a tight rope over a bridge
-Petit thinks about WTC all the time
-Get into WTC hall the equipment in a freight elevator to top floor
-People dropping out of his project at WTC
-Hid from a guard at the top of the WTC
-Practice on a tight rope in a field in france
-May 13,1974 Petit travels to NY
-Tell WTC people French journalist to go to the top of the buildings
-1st attempt failed
-Philippe arested after stunt
Man On Wire Notes
ReplyDelete-Philippe Petit; a tight rope walker
-explains his love for tight rope walking and what it means to him
-got his idea form a dentisit office and skipped his appointment because of it
-planned this for 6 years before actually doing the event
-It took him 8 months in new york to carefully plan this out
-He thought that crossing from one tower to the next is what he was born to do
-this was his dream and no one could stop it
-annie;his girlfriend who helped him along the whole time until he didnt want her any more basically after he completed his dream
-wasnt his first major(1973 Sydney, Australia over two bridge towers)
-also notre dame in paris while they were having service
-he hid his equipment in the tower before the amazing stunt