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Why?
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That is the question people ask me most.
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Why? For what?
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Why do you walk on the wire?
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Why do you tempt fate?
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Why do you risk death?
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But...
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I don't think of it this way.
I never even say this word.
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Death.
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Yes, okay, I said it once or, or,
maybe three times just now.
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But watch, I will not say it again.
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Instead, I use the opposite word.
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Life.
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For me, to walk on the wire, this is life.
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So,
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picture with me, it's 1974, New York City,
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and I am in love with two buildings,
two towers.
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Or as everyone in the world calls them,
the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
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They call to me,
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these towers,
they stir something inside of me,
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and they inspire in me, a dream.
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My dream
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is to hang a high wire
between those Twin Towers,
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and walk on it.
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Of course, this is impossible,
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not to mention illegal.
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So, why attempt the impossible?
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Why follow your dream?
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But I cannot answer this question, "Why?"
Not with words.
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But I can show you how it happened.
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And so, we must go back in time
and across the ocean,
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because my love affair with these
beautiful towers did not begin in New York.
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In case you couldn't tell, I'm not from here.
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No. My story begins in another one
of the world's most beautiful cities.
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C'est Paris
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So, now, picture Paris.
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Here I am, a self-proclaimed wire walker
that nobody on earth cares about,
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surviving as a troubadour
performing in the streets.
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I've created a character. I have a top hat.
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I wear only black. I teach myself to draw
a perfect circle on the ground,
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and within this circle, I never speak,
not one word.
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The circle is my domain,
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and I don't allow
even half of a toe inside of it.
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And if the spectators continue to
violate my sacred space,
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well, I must employ more drastic measures.
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I perform for anyone who will watch me,
and people love it.
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Man, woman, young, old, everyone.
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Except, of course, the police.
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I don't believe in getting a permit.
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But no matter where I was going
or what I was doing,
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I was always searching,
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looking for the perfect place to hang my wire.
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Suddenly, I freeze.
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The pain in my tooth is gone.
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In the magazine, there's an article
with an illustration about the towers.
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They're not even finished yet,
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but the magazine says that once they are,
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they will be the tallest in the world.
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And with this tiny pencil stroke,
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my fate was sealed.
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This was the beginning of my dream.
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The first time I ever saw a wire walker,
I was eight years old.
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The circus had come to my town,
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and it featured
The Omankowsky Family Troupe,
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one of the greatest wire-walking troupes
in the world.
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The White Devils.
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And I teach myself to walk on that rope.
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And it turns out, I have some talent
for climbing and balancing, even juggling.
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But I want to know more.
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So this is how I meet
Rudy Omankowsky, Sr.,
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the patriarch of The White Devils
wire-walking family,
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who everybody calls "Papa Rudy."
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He would never say
exactly where he was from.
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He was certainly not French.
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Papa Rudy was a supreme wire walker,
acrobat and juggler.
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And in that moment,
I suppose he saw something in me.
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Philippe!!
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- I speak English.
-Okay.
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Today, you're going to learn
how to make entrance.
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You need to learn how to compliment.
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A compliment is a silent message,
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an order to the audience to pay attention.
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And after the performance,
a compliment is also an offering of gratitude.
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A salute.
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Salute.
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Okay, okay, okay, Okay-
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No, Philippe. That was terrible.
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You're doing too much.
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Do nothing. Now, try again.
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No! I said, "Do nothing!"
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You're still doing too much!
You look like a coward.
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The audience must always feel
you are in control.
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Stop trying so hard!
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Do nothing. Do it again.
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Where's your respect?
You didn't do anything.
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But you said to do nothing!
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Do nothing on the outside.
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On the inside, in your heart, you must salute.
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"In my heart?"
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But the performer must have
an honest respect
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and gratitude for the audience.
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But why should I respect the audience?
It is me on the wire.
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You will salute the audience and pay respect!
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Unless you understand that,
you will never perform in circus.
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Good, okay, me,
I don't want to perform in the circus.
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I am not some ridiculous circus clown.
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I am an artist!
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So, just like that,
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Papa Rudy threw my artistic little ass
out into the street.
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And, a short time later...
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Philippe!!
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The carrots were cooked.
There was nothing left to do.
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So, I set off on my way.
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I didn't even know what I was looking for,
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but I figured I might find it in Paris.
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I'd be much obliged
if y'all could just mosey along.
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This here is a private conversation.
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Well, shut my mouth.
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- We thought you were putting on a show.
-No, it ain't.
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This here's for y'all.
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Well, thank you kindly.
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Bye, now.
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Wow, I love your English.
It sounds so American.
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I think I like better the English.
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Yes, I certainly prefer the English.
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Then listen, juggler.
You stole my best audience in weeks.
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And for what? Some cheap stunt?
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Well, I'm sorry, but people love my high wire.
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You call that a high wire?
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That was the lowest high wire I've ever seen.
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Your right, mademoiselle.
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But that is because
the two tallest trees in this square
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were in your performance space.
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And me, I would never invade
the space of another artist.
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It's going to rain.
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Angry street musician.
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I would like to make you an arrangement.
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I will only play in that square
when you are not playing.
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That's every weekend
and every second Tuesday.
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Okay, deal.
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My name is Philippe.
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- Annie.
-Annie, it's a nice name.
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Why all the English?
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Because I must practice.
I'm going to New York.
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New York. That's very exciting.
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- Yes? Maybe you'll come with me.
-Yeah, maybe.
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I like the way you sing. It's very good.
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You were not listening to me sing.
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You were playing with fire on a rope.
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No, before that, I was here earlier.
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Maybe you did not see me, but I saw you,
and I heard you sing.
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It was beautiful.
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Well, thank you.
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Annie, may I buy you a glass of wine?
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No, I don't think that's a good idea.
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Yes, then I will make you an arrangement.
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If you let me buy you a glass of wine,
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I will never hang my rope anywhere in the
Latin Quarter ever again.
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You don't give up. Do you?
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No. No, I'm very persistent.
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My dream.
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- And this is you.
-Yes.
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It will be the most glorious
high wire walk in history.
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And how high must this wire be
to make so much glory?
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Over 100 stories high.
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Where do trees like this grow?
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These are not trees.
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Two magnificent towers.
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One hundred meters taller
than the Eiffel Tower itself.
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I see.
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What do you think?
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I don't know. It looks so...
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- So. ..
-Beautiful.
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Beautiful, yes.
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And dangerous.
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And completely insane.
And you're a mad man.
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Yes, lam mad, but this...
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This is my dream.
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Then, if it's your dream, you must do it.
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But even if everybody tells me I'm mad?
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Well, you shouldn't care about
what other people think.
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Okay, but I care what you think.
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I love your dream, Philippe.
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- Yes?
-Yes.
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Do you want to know what I think about you?
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- No.
-No?
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- Not even a little bit?
-No, no.
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Okay, but I'm going to tell you anyway.
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You can tell me, but I won't care.
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I know a place where
there are two beautiful trees.
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I didn't realize it at the time
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but Annie had become my first accomplice.
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- Annie.
-Yes?
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I was thinking
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you should come up here with me.
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No, I don't think so.
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Yes. It will be your baptism of the wire.
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No.
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Come on, Annie. You must trust me.
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Okay.
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And breathe
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and step.
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Indeed, there were two beautiful trees
growing in the park of Annie's art school.
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So, she arranged for me to
be able to hang my wire there.
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It was perfect,
'cause I could practice every day
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and I could see Annie as well.
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Then, one day, while I was on my wire
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I was approached by a very
serious-looking young man.
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Jean-Louis.
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Jean-Louis, do you speak English,
Jean-Louis?
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Yes. Why?
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Because I must practice.
I'm going to America.
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To perform?
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Exactly.
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But my performance will not just be a show.
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It will be a coup.
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Yes.
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I intend to rig my wire in secret
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on the most spectacular stage in the world.
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And then, without warning,
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I will appear.
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And I will perform a surprise
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and illegal wire walk.
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If it works,
it will be the artistic coup of the century.
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Wow.
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Well, you, my friend,
can see my photographs any time.
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They're very rebellious.
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So, you are not just a photographer,
you are an anarchist as well?
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All artists are anarchists to some degree.
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- Don't you agree?
-Yes.
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And you, my artist, anarchist friend,
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can be my
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official photographer.
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And so this is how
I make friends with Jean-Louis,
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my second accomplice.
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If that were to happen during your coup,
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it would be the artistic disaster
of the century.
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I need to know more.
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I need you to teach me how to rig a high wire.
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High wire for what? You're a street juggler.
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But I need to know
how to tie the correct knots.
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I need to know what kind of cable to use,
the weight, the thickness, the load strength.
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So, you want me
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to just give you my secrets.
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Secrets I've spent a lifetime learning.
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Secrets I've only given to my sons.
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You want me to just hand them over to you.
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I can pay you. I have money.
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I don't care what it costs.
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Meet me at le cirque
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at sunrise.
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Bring your juggling money.
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Place wood blocks between
the cable and mast.
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Okay.
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The wood blocks act as buffer,
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so when masts flex, the wire won't snap.
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And always, always
check the rigging yourself.
258
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Never step on a wire
259
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if you've not checked
all of the rigging yourself.
260
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- Capisce?
- Okay.
261
00:25:03,086 --> 00:25:07,757
There was this great Polish guy,
wire walker, Roman.
262
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He said he could tell
when cable was at correct tension
263
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through his ass and through his ear.
264
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Underneath,
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through the ring,
266
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lock it off.
267
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Tighten.
268
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And pay-
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Philippe, you give me broken money.
270
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- No, it works.
-it's broke.
271
00:25:32,157 --> 00:25:34,618
So, Papa Rudy let me travel with his troupe.
272
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Of course, I never did any performance.
273
00:25:37,704 --> 00:25:39,998
But any time the big top was empty,
274
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I would practice on the wire.
275
00:26:40,934 --> 00:26:45,146
Most wire walkers, they die when they arrive.
276
00:26:46,231 --> 00:26:49,442
They think they have arrived,
but they're still on the wire.
277
00:26:51,361 --> 00:26:53,029
If you have three steps to do,
278
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and you take those steps arrogantly,
279
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if you think you are invincible,
280
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you're going to die.
281
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This one, I give to you for free.
282
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A few weeks later,
I did my first official public walk
283
00:27:16,303 --> 00:27:17,721
in this tiny little village.
284
00:27:17,846 --> 00:27:19,472
It's so small, it's not even on a map.
285
00:27:19,556 --> 00:27:22,225
But the mayor of this village,
every spring he puts on a festival.
286
00:27:22,309 --> 00:27:26,688
And Papa Rudy convinced him to hire me
to do a walk over this little lake,
287
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which was more like a swamp.
288
00:27:29,733 --> 00:27:32,277
No. Through your ass and your feet,
you tell me.
289
00:27:36,323 --> 00:27:38,908
Annie came, she set up a turntable for music.
290
00:27:41,995 --> 00:27:44,247
And Jean-Louis came to take pictures.
291
00:27:45,874 --> 00:27:49,669
So, I begin my performance,
and everything's going very well.
292
00:27:59,721 --> 00:28:04,517
But then I start to hear this murmur of
some laughing and giggling,
293
00:28:04,601 --> 00:28:08,521
and it turns out,
there is also a fishing contest that afternoon
294
00:28:08,605 --> 00:28:10,398
on this lake, more like a swamp.
295
00:28:10,482 --> 00:28:12,359
And the fishermen, they're drinking wine.
296
00:28:12,442 --> 00:28:14,235
They're yelling insults at me.
297
00:28:14,319 --> 00:28:16,446
They're laughing at me
while I'm trying to work.
298
00:28:26,289 --> 00:28:29,667
Now, walking on the wire
is as much mental as it is physical.
299
00:28:29,751 --> 00:28:32,170
If you lose your concentration,
you lose your balance.
300
00:28:32,629 --> 00:28:33,838
Philippe!!
301
00:28:47,102 --> 00:28:49,521
So here I am, in the mud to my knees
302
00:28:49,604 --> 00:28:51,523
doing the Papa Rudy compliment.
303
00:28:54,776 --> 00:28:56,486
This was my first performance.
304
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A failure.
305
00:28:58,446 --> 00:29:01,408
And after this, I didn't feel so good.
306
00:29:09,290 --> 00:29:10,333
Then one day,
307
00:29:10,417 --> 00:29:13,503
I was walking along the Seine,
feeling sorry for myself.
308
00:29:14,421 --> 00:29:15,422
When I look up,
309
00:29:15,797 --> 00:29:18,925
and I saw the towers of Notre-Dame.
310
00:29:19,008 --> 00:29:23,430
And I said,
"This is where I must put my wire."
311
00:29:24,097 --> 00:29:27,058
"This is how I will redeem myself."
312
00:29:28,685 --> 00:29:32,105
And so, under the cover of darkness,
and with a false key,
313
00:29:32,188 --> 00:29:34,274
Jean-Louis and I sneak into the cathedral.
314
00:29:34,357 --> 00:29:36,734
I attach some fishing line to
one of my juggling balls,
315
00:29:36,818 --> 00:29:39,696
and I throw it across to the other side
where Jean-Louis is waiting.
316
00:29:41,781 --> 00:29:43,825
Then, we attach this fishing line
to a small rope,
317
00:29:43,908 --> 00:29:45,618
and we pass that between the towers.
318
00:29:45,702 --> 00:29:47,036
Then we pass a larger rope.
319
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:50,039
Then, we attach this larger rope
to the steel walk cable.
320
00:29:50,165 --> 00:29:51,958
So, Jean-Louis and I stay up all night
321
00:29:52,041 --> 00:29:54,627
installing a wire between
these two ancient towers.
322
00:29:57,088 --> 00:30:00,049
And when the first tourists
start to arrive in the morning,
323
00:30:00,216 --> 00:30:01,384
I begin.
324
00:30:25,408 --> 00:30:27,035
And I succeed.
325
00:30:27,118 --> 00:30:31,664
I perform my first surprise,
illegal high wire walk.
326
00:30:31,748 --> 00:30:35,376
This is also the first time
I get the taste of this sensation.
327
00:30:35,460 --> 00:30:38,213
This feeling that I'm crossing into a...
328
00:30:38,296 --> 00:30:40,131
A truly different world.
329
00:30:40,256 --> 00:30:42,509
And I was redeemed.
330
00:30:43,718 --> 00:30:44,719
Or so I thought.
331
00:30:52,018 --> 00:30:54,062
These Parisians,
they know nothing but contempt.
332
00:30:54,145 --> 00:30:55,855
They refuse to appreciate beauty.
333
00:30:55,939 --> 00:30:58,775
Every other country, Germany, Spain,
334
00:30:58,858 --> 00:31:00,527
England, even Russia, they salute me.
335
00:31:00,610 --> 00:31:03,363
They call me a maestro.
They call me a valiant young poet.
336
00:31:03,446 --> 00:31:05,198
But no, not the French.
337
00:31:06,282 --> 00:31:08,409
They call me "delinquent."
They call me "vandal."
338
00:31:08,493 --> 00:31:09,536
- Philippe.
-Vandal!
339
00:31:09,619 --> 00:31:10,620
Look.
340
00:31:17,961 --> 00:31:19,420
This is a sign.
341
00:31:20,713 --> 00:31:22,757
In the same newspaper
as my Notre-Dame story?
342
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:24,592
This is providence.
343
00:31:24,676 --> 00:31:26,052
It says they're almost finished.
344
00:31:26,135 --> 00:31:27,554
The lower floors are already occupied.
345
00:31:27,637 --> 00:31:28,972
Annie! We need to pack.
346
00:31:36,646 --> 00:31:38,022
They're enormous.
347
00:31:38,815 --> 00:31:39,857
Yes.
348
00:31:41,276 --> 00:31:42,360
They're monstrous.
349
00:32:12,348 --> 00:32:14,058
They're a lot taller than I imagined.
350
00:32:14,851 --> 00:32:15,977
Yes.
351
00:32:30,325 --> 00:32:31,326
It's absurd.
352
00:32:32,076 --> 00:32:33,494
Completely absurd.
353
00:32:55,975 --> 00:32:57,226
It's not real.
354
00:32:58,728 --> 00:33:00,605
These towers, they have no scale!
355
00:33:01,064 --> 00:33:03,941
They just rise and never stop. It's not human!
356
00:33:04,025 --> 00:33:06,027
It's over. It's over. It's finished.
357
00:33:06,361 --> 00:33:09,364
- What's finished?
-The coup! My dream! It's destroyed!
358
00:33:09,447 --> 00:33:11,324
Do you see these monsters?
359
00:33:12,075 --> 00:33:14,494
- These beasts! Beasts!
-Calm down!
360
00:33:14,577 --> 00:33:16,663
They just tell me it's not possible
and nothing else!
361
00:33:16,746 --> 00:33:18,414
There's no sign of possibility.
362
00:33:18,498 --> 00:33:20,249
There's nothing telling me
that it can be done.
363
00:33:25,129 --> 00:33:26,339
Yo.
364
00:33:26,422 --> 00:33:27,674
How you doing?
365
00:33:40,770 --> 00:33:42,105
There's stairs going up.
366
00:33:42,605 --> 00:33:43,898
Go back to the hotel.
367
00:33:43,981 --> 00:33:46,484
If I'm not back in five hours,
look for me at the police station.
368
00:34:07,463 --> 00:34:09,048
I make my way to the top.
369
00:34:09,132 --> 00:34:10,675
Nobody stops me.
370
00:34:14,387 --> 00:34:17,932
And I find myself standing
on an island floating in mid-air,
371
00:34:18,015 --> 00:34:20,017
on the edge of the void.
372
00:34:51,507 --> 00:34:54,594
Of course, I automatically
look across to the opposite tower.
373
00:34:54,677 --> 00:34:58,806
But then I have to dare to look down.
374
00:35:11,444 --> 00:35:14,280
Now, I think I know the void.
375
00:35:14,363 --> 00:35:16,616
I'm a wire walker.
The void is my domain, yes?
376
00:35:16,699 --> 00:35:19,035
Well, not this void.
377
00:35:19,786 --> 00:35:22,705
But, still I gather the courage to whisper.
378
00:35:23,414 --> 00:35:25,917
I whisper so the demons won't hear me.
379
00:35:27,418 --> 00:35:28,544
It's impossible.
380
00:35:30,254 --> 00:35:31,339
But I'll do it.
381
00:35:48,815 --> 00:35:50,316
English. Only English.
382
00:35:50,399 --> 00:35:51,859
We must learn to sound like New Yorkers.
383
00:35:51,943 --> 00:35:54,779
Your so-called coup is a ridiculous joke.
384
00:35:54,862 --> 00:35:58,032
- There. Have it in English.
-That's why I have it all planned out.
385
00:35:58,115 --> 00:35:59,909
Planned out? Who are you kidding?
386
00:36:00,326 --> 00:36:03,120
You have no idea
what's on the opposite roof.
387
00:36:03,204 --> 00:36:05,581
You don't know what time
the construction crews arrive
388
00:36:05,665 --> 00:36:06,874
or what time they quit.
389
00:36:06,958 --> 00:36:08,167
You have no idea
390
00:36:08,251 --> 00:36:11,003
what the actual distance is
between the towers.
391
00:36:11,087 --> 00:36:13,172
Or how you're going to anchor the cavalettis.
392
00:36:13,256 --> 00:36:15,466
How? There is absolutely no place
393
00:36:15,550 --> 00:36:16,843
to attach them to the facade.
394
00:36:17,385 --> 00:36:18,678
And, by the way, how many days
395
00:36:18,761 --> 00:36:20,638
did it take you to build this maquette?
396
00:36:20,721 --> 00:36:22,348
Come on. This is beautiful!
397
00:36:22,807 --> 00:36:24,016
What are the cavalettis?
398
00:36:24,100 --> 00:36:25,768
These guy wires.
399
00:36:25,852 --> 00:36:27,478
Papa Rudy calls them "cavalettis."
400
00:36:27,562 --> 00:36:28,771
They stabilize the walk cable.
401
00:36:29,856 --> 00:36:30,940
The walk cable.
402
00:36:31,274 --> 00:36:32,275
So,
403
00:36:32,358 --> 00:36:34,402
how do you intend to pass the cable
across the void?
404
00:36:34,485 --> 00:36:35,903
Well, just like we did at Notre-Dame.
405
00:36:35,987 --> 00:36:37,697
We start with a fishing line
attached to a rope
406
00:36:37,780 --> 00:36:39,198
attached to the cable.
407
00:36:39,282 --> 00:36:41,701
And how do we pass the fishing
line between the towers?
408
00:36:41,784 --> 00:36:44,328
Yes, it is too far to throw the juggling ball.
409
00:36:44,412 --> 00:36:47,748
But I was thinking we could get
a radio-controlled airplane
410
00:36:47,832 --> 00:36:50,167
and fly the line across.
This would be fantastic.
411
00:36:50,251 --> 00:36:51,377
Philippe-
412
00:36:51,460 --> 00:36:53,796
It takes years to learn
how to fly an RC airplane.
413
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:54,881
- Do you understand that?
-No.
414
00:36:54,964 --> 00:36:56,549
We must accomplish the coup this summer.
415
00:36:56,632 --> 00:36:59,051
The towers are almost built.
We are running out of time.
416
00:36:59,135 --> 00:37:01,929
I need you to help me pull this off.
Think if we succeed.
417
00:37:02,013 --> 00:37:03,973
This could be the most audacious
418
00:37:04,056 --> 00:37:06,684
-work of art that has ever been done!
-Audacious? Audacious?
419
00:37:06,767 --> 00:37:08,394
- It's madness!
-Yes, it's madness!
420
00:37:08,477 --> 00:37:10,730
No one in his right mind
would attempt this thing.
421
00:37:10,813 --> 00:37:13,566
But that is why I must do it,
because it has never been done!
422
00:37:13,649 --> 00:37:15,401
And so, yes, I admit, I am mad.
423
00:37:15,484 --> 00:37:17,737
- Yes! Wow, you are mad.
-Yes! I am mad.
424
00:37:20,823 --> 00:37:23,034
Yes, you love me because I am mad!
425
00:37:23,117 --> 00:37:25,411
I am insane! I am totally crazy!
426
00:37:26,162 --> 00:37:27,413
I gotta go.
427
00:37:28,122 --> 00:37:30,082
I'll figure out how to get the wire across.
428
00:37:30,166 --> 00:37:32,418
- Yes!
-You figure out how to anchor the cavalettis.
429
00:37:32,501 --> 00:37:34,629
- Okay. Deal.
-Do we have a deal?
430
00:37:36,172 --> 00:37:39,425
The cavalettis cannot be vertical.
431
00:37:39,508 --> 00:37:43,596
They must be horizontal,
parallel to the walk cable.
432
00:37:43,679 --> 00:37:45,431
- Parallel?
-it won't be pretty
433
00:37:45,514 --> 00:37:47,725
but it will keep the cable from swaying.
434
00:37:48,184 --> 00:37:51,062
And you must use three bolts
on the cavaletti clamps.
435
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:52,939
Not two. A span this wide
436
00:37:53,022 --> 00:37:55,650
will put tremendous pressure
on the brass plates.
437
00:37:55,733 --> 00:37:58,402
And as you walk,
your weight could crack a bolt.
438
00:38:00,529 --> 00:38:01,697
And wood!
439
00:38:01,781 --> 00:38:03,115
You must remember
440
00:38:03,199 --> 00:38:04,617
to put wood blocks
441
00:38:04,700 --> 00:38:06,702
between the wire and the building's struts.
442
00:38:07,620 --> 00:38:09,372
That way, when the building breathe,
443
00:38:09,705 --> 00:38:11,499
the wood will break but the wire won't
444
00:38:11,582 --> 00:38:13,459
explode and tear you in half.
445
00:38:14,377 --> 00:38:15,378
Okay.
446
00:38:16,170 --> 00:38:17,171
Wood.
447
00:38:17,838 --> 00:38:18,839
Also...
448
00:38:20,549 --> 00:38:22,343
Here's what you're going to do, Philippe.
449
00:38:23,260 --> 00:38:24,553
You're going to wear
450
00:38:24,971 --> 00:38:26,847
a safety belt underneath your costume,
451
00:38:26,931 --> 00:38:29,892
attached to a safety line,
connected to a carabiner.
452
00:38:29,976 --> 00:38:30,977
A safety line?
453
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:32,561
A carabiner?
454
00:38:32,645 --> 00:38:34,480
I'm not going to do this walk
with a safety line
455
00:38:34,563 --> 00:38:36,065
-hanging off of me!
-From that height,
456
00:38:36,148 --> 00:38:38,818
it will be invisible! No one will have any idea!
457
00:38:38,901 --> 00:38:41,195
And what do I do
when I get to the first cavaletti?
458
00:38:41,278 --> 00:38:42,321
You're a performer.
459
00:38:42,405 --> 00:38:43,489
You kneel down on the wire.
460
00:38:43,572 --> 00:38:45,408
You unhook from side, clip it on the other.
461
00:38:45,491 --> 00:38:47,410
- The audience will think you are saluting.
-This I will not do!
462
00:38:47,493 --> 00:38:49,704
- This I will never do!
-So Why'd you come here?
463
00:38:51,038 --> 00:38:52,331
Because you know so much?
464
00:38:52,415 --> 00:38:53,541
You tell me I'm wrong?
465
00:38:53,624 --> 00:38:57,169
No. Because I need you to tell me
how to rig this wire!
466
00:38:57,253 --> 00:38:59,922
Not do a phony walk like a coward!
467
00:39:04,385 --> 00:39:06,804
He does not comprehend
one thing I am trying to do.
468
00:39:06,887 --> 00:39:09,598
His high wire and my high wire,
they have nothing in common!
469
00:39:09,682 --> 00:39:10,975
Go talk to him.
470
00:39:11,058 --> 00:39:13,185
- You want me to talk to him?
-Yes! You go talk to him!
471
00:39:13,269 --> 00:39:15,021
- You apologize and...
-I will not apologize!
472
00:39:15,104 --> 00:39:17,648
Yes, you do. You have no choice.
You know that.
473
00:39:36,709 --> 00:39:38,586
Look, Papa Rudy, I'm sorry. But...
474
00:39:39,295 --> 00:39:40,755
If I do the walk with the safety line,
475
00:39:40,838 --> 00:39:42,840
it becomes meaningless.
476
00:39:43,424 --> 00:39:44,467
Philippe...
477
00:39:45,676 --> 00:39:49,513
My sons are consummate wire walkers.
478
00:39:50,306 --> 00:39:52,475
And I would never allow them to attempt
479
00:39:52,558 --> 00:39:54,643
such a walk without safety line.
480
00:39:55,519 --> 00:39:56,729
Yes, but would you?
481
00:39:57,354 --> 00:39:59,315
Would you walk with a safety line?
482
00:40:11,577 --> 00:40:14,997
Years ago, when you first started
to teach me in this house,
483
00:40:15,581 --> 00:40:18,793
I was a stupid little kid
and I never listened to you.
484
00:40:18,876 --> 00:40:21,837
But you told me something
I always remember.
485
00:40:23,547 --> 00:40:26,258
You said, "You cannot lie on stage.
486
00:40:27,259 --> 00:40:30,221
"The audience will always know
what is inside your heart."
487
00:40:32,765 --> 00:40:34,308
I think I understand now.
488
00:40:37,269 --> 00:40:39,021
You know, Philippe,
489
00:40:40,856 --> 00:40:44,151
what you're doing, I may not understand it.
490
00:40:46,779 --> 00:40:47,863
But it's...
491
00:40:49,865 --> 00:40:50,866
It's...
492
00:40:52,451 --> 00:40:53,619
...something.
493
00:40:57,164 --> 00:40:58,666
Something beautiful.
494
00:41:14,098 --> 00:41:15,558
It was my grandfather's.
495
00:41:17,434 --> 00:41:18,686
You'll need this.
496
00:41:20,896 --> 00:41:22,731
And you'll need this.
497
00:41:33,784 --> 00:41:36,537
Now my secrets are our secrets.
498
00:41:39,665 --> 00:41:41,208
Thank you.
499
00:41:47,464 --> 00:41:48,632
Faster!
500
00:41:48,924 --> 00:41:49,925
Stronger!
501
00:41:50,009 --> 00:41:52,511
More! Annie, more!
502
00:41:53,512 --> 00:41:54,680
Faster.
503
00:41:55,723 --> 00:41:56,891
Stronger.
504
00:41:57,766 --> 00:41:59,685
- I'm trying.
-You're a tempest.
505
00:41:59,768 --> 00:42:02,521
You are the terrible, hurricane winds
506
00:42:02,605 --> 00:42:04,982
that howl between the towers!
507
00:42:07,193 --> 00:42:08,194
Jean-Louis.
508
00:42:11,447 --> 00:42:12,489
Hello.
509
00:42:12,573 --> 00:42:14,450
- How are you?
-Hello, hello!
510
00:42:14,950 --> 00:42:16,911
It's good to see you.
511
00:42:16,994 --> 00:42:19,371
So this is my good friend, Jean-Francois.
512
00:42:19,455 --> 00:42:21,040
He wants to be an accomplice in the coup.
513
00:42:21,540 --> 00:42:22,958
He's always in search of adventure.
514
00:42:30,633 --> 00:42:32,676
An English name. Okay, I like this.
515
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,137
So welcome, Jeff. Welcome to the coup.
516
00:42:35,221 --> 00:42:37,097
- Now, tell me, have you ever done...
-Unfortunately,
517
00:42:37,181 --> 00:42:38,474
Jeff doesn't speak any English.
518
00:42:42,311 --> 00:42:44,146
Six times six equal 36, for example.
519
00:42:44,230 --> 00:42:45,981
Yes! So his English is not bad.
520
00:42:46,065 --> 00:42:47,441
Yes, but only numbers.
521
00:42:47,524 --> 00:42:49,318
He teaches high school mathematics.
522
00:42:50,611 --> 00:42:51,820
He's also...
523
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:54,823
He's also terrified of heights.
524
00:42:56,575 --> 00:42:57,576
Perfect.
525
00:42:58,160 --> 00:42:59,620
I'm terrified of algebra.
526
00:43:04,500 --> 00:43:08,921
Now tell me, what is 81 divided by 27?
527
00:43:09,838 --> 00:43:11,090
- Three.
-Exactly.
528
00:43:12,967 --> 00:43:15,094
Now, what is 11 times 10?
529
00:43:15,177 --> 00:43:16,178
One hundred and ten.
530
00:43:19,473 --> 00:43:22,643
Hey, guys? I believe I've kept
my part of the bargain.
531
00:43:22,726 --> 00:43:24,061
What is this, a bow and arrow?
532
00:43:24,395 --> 00:43:28,274
Okay, this is not as sensational
as a radio-control airplane,
533
00:43:28,357 --> 00:43:29,817
but it's a lot quieter.
534
00:43:54,258 --> 00:43:56,302
It works! It works!
535
00:43:56,385 --> 00:43:58,929
So now, I have enough money,
I have my accomplices,
536
00:43:59,013 --> 00:44:00,973
I have somewhat of a plan.
537
00:44:01,056 --> 00:44:02,933
The only thing left was selecting a date.
538
00:44:03,058 --> 00:44:07,146
It had to be before the weather turned cold
and before the towers were completed.
539
00:44:07,646 --> 00:44:09,773
So I chose August 6th.
540
00:44:09,857 --> 00:44:12,026
I choose August 6th!
541
00:44:12,568 --> 00:44:14,361
That is three months from today.
542
00:44:14,445 --> 00:44:17,197
Jeff and Jean-Louis fly to New York
at the end of July.
543
00:44:17,281 --> 00:44:19,575
In the meantime, we start looking
for American accomplices.
544
00:44:19,992 --> 00:44:22,411
So. August 6th.
545
00:44:23,579 --> 00:44:27,958
Polypropylene ropes, hemp ropes,
small block-and-tackle with three sheaves,
546
00:44:28,042 --> 00:44:30,210
large block-and-tackle with single sheaf,
547
00:44:30,294 --> 00:44:34,006
slings, steel wire, quarter-inch cable,
548
00:44:34,089 --> 00:44:35,924
pulley blocks, construction gloves,
549
00:44:36,008 --> 00:44:38,385
monkey wrenches, tape measure.
550
00:44:38,469 --> 00:44:41,347
And a balancing pole in four sections.
551
00:44:41,430 --> 00:44:43,682
And, what's all this for?
552
00:44:43,766 --> 00:44:45,184
I'm going to hang a high wire
553
00:44:45,267 --> 00:44:47,353
between the two towers
of the World Trade Center
554
00:44:47,436 --> 00:44:48,562
and walk on it.
555
00:44:51,607 --> 00:44:52,608
Good luck!
556
00:44:53,150 --> 00:44:54,276
Next!
557
00:44:59,782 --> 00:45:02,409
As soon as we got back to New York,
I started my spy work.
558
00:45:02,493 --> 00:45:04,703
I went to the towers every day.
Sometimes 6:00 in the morning.
559
00:45:04,787 --> 00:45:07,081
And every day,
I would wear a different disguise.
560
00:45:12,795 --> 00:45:14,421
I took photos of everything.
561
00:45:14,505 --> 00:45:17,341
I made detailed notes
of every inch of the towers.
562
00:45:24,139 --> 00:45:26,475
As you know, the North Tower
has been completely finished
563
00:45:26,558 --> 00:45:27,810
for the last two years,
564
00:45:27,893 --> 00:45:30,729
and the South Tower
is completed up to the 80th floor.
565
00:45:30,813 --> 00:45:33,232
- Both towers are open for business.
-Mr. Tozzoli, excuse me.
566
00:45:33,315 --> 00:45:35,401
Toulouse Cezanne
from the magazine L'Architecte.
567
00:45:35,484 --> 00:45:36,985
Could you please tell me
the exact distance between
568
00:45:37,069 --> 00:45:40,406
the north corner of the South Tower
and the south corner of the North Tower?
569
00:45:40,489 --> 00:45:41,573
The what?
570
00:45:41,657 --> 00:45:44,326
The exact distance between the towers?
571
00:45:45,411 --> 00:45:46,578
Lou?
572
00:45:46,662 --> 00:45:47,996
A hundred and forty feet.
573
00:45:48,497 --> 00:45:49,498
A hundred and forty feet.
574
00:45:57,005 --> 00:45:59,883
I rode all the elevators.
The local, the express,
575
00:45:59,967 --> 00:46:03,011
the express to the upper sky lobby,
the express to the lower sky lobby.
576
00:46:03,095 --> 00:46:04,430
I took hundreds of rides.
577
00:46:04,513 --> 00:46:06,432
I spied on the maintenance men,
the loading docks.
578
00:46:06,515 --> 00:46:08,767
I watched the freight trucks
as they made their deliveries.
579
00:46:08,851 --> 00:46:10,936
What time do they arrive?
How long do they stay?
580
00:46:11,019 --> 00:46:12,855
How much paperwork is exchanged?
581
00:46:16,233 --> 00:46:18,777
My greatest disguise was that of an architect.
582
00:46:18,861 --> 00:46:21,655
I wore a tie and carried a blueprint,
and I tried to look important.
583
00:46:21,738 --> 00:46:24,283
And this gave me access to
everything under construction.
584
00:46:35,169 --> 00:46:36,795
Philippe, that looks really bad.
585
00:46:36,879 --> 00:46:38,964
Maybe you should go to the hospital
and get it stitched.
586
00:46:39,047 --> 00:46:41,133
No, it will be fine. But look at the date!
587
00:46:41,216 --> 00:46:42,718
The coup is three weeks from today.
588
00:46:42,801 --> 00:46:44,970
Jean-Louis and Jeff arrive next week
589
00:46:45,053 --> 00:46:47,556
and I still have no access to
the North Tower roof.
590
00:46:48,056 --> 00:46:50,476
Are you going to be able to
walk on the wire with that foot?
591
00:46:50,559 --> 00:46:53,145
Yes, it will heal by then,
but what am I going to do tomorrow?
592
00:46:53,228 --> 00:46:56,732
How am I going to continue my spy work
with this ruined foot?
593
00:46:56,815 --> 00:46:59,318
- Do you need crutches?
-No, I don't need crutches.
594
00:46:59,401 --> 00:47:02,237
Yes! Crutches!
595
00:47:05,449 --> 00:47:08,202
- Let me get that door for you.
-Thank you.
596
00:47:10,245 --> 00:47:12,456
Hey, there, let me help you
with them crutches.
597
00:47:12,539 --> 00:47:13,540
Thank you.
598
00:47:13,624 --> 00:47:15,501
Here you go, sir.
599
00:47:15,584 --> 00:47:17,377
- Express elevator.
-Thank you.
600
00:47:17,461 --> 00:47:18,795
I hope you heal up soon.
601
00:47:18,879 --> 00:47:21,256
Yes, I think I'll feel much better
in a few weeks.
602
00:47:24,384 --> 00:47:27,179
- Floor?
-Yes, 85, please.
603
00:47:30,599 --> 00:47:32,142
Pardon me, but...
604
00:47:33,227 --> 00:47:34,269
May I ask...
605
00:47:35,062 --> 00:47:36,438
What are you doing here?
606
00:47:38,690 --> 00:47:40,275
You don't belong here.
607
00:47:42,110 --> 00:47:43,820
Yes, in fact, I'm quite right.
608
00:47:44,696 --> 00:47:45,739
You...
609
00:47:46,240 --> 00:47:48,075
You don't belong here at all.
610
00:47:49,243 --> 00:47:50,285
Do you...
611
00:47:51,411 --> 00:47:52,412
Philippe?
612
00:47:53,288 --> 00:47:55,207
I knew it! Philippe Petit.
613
00:47:55,290 --> 00:47:57,042
Daredevil wire walker.
614
00:47:57,459 --> 00:48:00,963
I saw you in Paris on top of
the Notre-Dame Cathedral.
615
00:48:01,046 --> 00:48:02,965
- Yes!
-Yes, wow.
616
00:48:03,423 --> 00:48:05,634
You know, the cops had absolutely no idea
what to do with you.
617
00:48:05,717 --> 00:48:06,927
They never do.
618
00:48:07,636 --> 00:48:10,597
- Barry. Barry Greenhouse is my name.
-Hello.
619
00:48:10,681 --> 00:48:11,723
Yeah.
620
00:48:11,807 --> 00:48:14,142
So, you gonna be performing
here in New York?
621
00:48:14,226 --> 00:48:17,312
Yes, yes. And you, do you work here?
622
00:48:17,646 --> 00:48:18,689
Yeah.
623
00:48:19,106 --> 00:48:20,107
Life insurance.
624
00:48:21,233 --> 00:48:23,735
This man works on the 82nd floor.
625
00:48:24,361 --> 00:48:26,488
But this could be very important
if I can somehow
626
00:48:26,572 --> 00:48:28,365
seduce him into becoming an accomplice.
627
00:48:28,448 --> 00:48:29,908
He works in the North Tower.
628
00:48:29,992 --> 00:48:31,994
He has access to the stairwell and
629
00:48:32,077 --> 00:48:33,787
the North Tower roof.
630
00:48:35,581 --> 00:48:37,583
Wait! Barry! One moment!
631
00:48:37,666 --> 00:48:40,419
So Annie and I invite him to dinner.
632
00:48:40,502 --> 00:48:43,088
...Notre-Dame, the coup at
World Trade Center will be very similar.
633
00:48:43,171 --> 00:48:45,966
I bring my book of spy work
and my clippings from Notre-Dame
634
00:48:46,049 --> 00:48:47,676
which he had already witnessed,
635
00:48:47,759 --> 00:48:49,386
so he knew I was serious.
636
00:48:49,469 --> 00:48:52,347
And little by little, I paint for him, a picture.
637
00:48:52,431 --> 00:48:55,517
And when the sun comes up...
638
00:48:58,478 --> 00:48:59,479
I walk.
639
00:49:01,732 --> 00:49:04,526
Well, it's certainly illegal, that's for sure.
640
00:49:05,110 --> 00:49:08,614
And extremely subversive,
not to mention dangerous.
641
00:49:09,364 --> 00:49:12,951
This is something only a twisted,
antisocial, anarchistic,
642
00:49:13,035 --> 00:49:16,538
pissed-off malcontent
would have anything to do with!
643
00:49:17,873 --> 00:49:19,875
You have your inside man!
644
00:49:25,464 --> 00:49:26,465
Philippe!!
645
00:49:28,300 --> 00:49:30,719
Welcome. Welcome, Jeff.
646
00:49:31,887 --> 00:49:33,472
Very good. How are you?
647
00:49:33,555 --> 00:49:34,806
- Super.
-Good.
648
00:49:34,890 --> 00:49:36,308
- My friend.
-Hey.
649
00:49:38,060 --> 00:49:39,061
Very good.
650
00:49:39,853 --> 00:49:41,980
So, there they are.
651
00:49:46,693 --> 00:49:48,487
Philippe, the coup is a disaster.
652
00:49:48,570 --> 00:49:50,489
Why are we waiting for night
to climb to the roof?
653
00:49:50,572 --> 00:49:53,033
Because during the clay,
we are more likely to run into people.
654
00:49:53,116 --> 00:49:55,702
But at night, when someone sees us,
we have no excuse to be there.
655
00:49:55,786 --> 00:49:57,663
No, but during the clay,
we will certainly run into some people
656
00:49:57,746 --> 00:49:59,039
and they will ask us where we are going.
657
00:49:59,122 --> 00:50:01,291
During the day, you say,
"I'm going to such and such office
658
00:50:01,375 --> 00:50:04,002
"to see so and so!"
But at night, you have no excuse.
659
00:50:14,596 --> 00:50:15,722
And what about the guards?
660
00:50:15,806 --> 00:50:17,182
There is one guard at night.
661
00:50:17,265 --> 00:50:19,559
He stays only on
the floors under construction.
662
00:50:19,643 --> 00:50:21,353
We'll have no problem avoiding him.
663
00:50:21,436 --> 00:50:23,855
- And he never goes to the roof.
-Philippe.
664
00:50:23,939 --> 00:50:26,274
- Philippe, where are you going?
-We need to get an interphone.
665
00:50:27,442 --> 00:50:28,735
This is what you want.
666
00:50:29,695 --> 00:50:31,029
You want a walkie-talkie.
667
00:50:31,113 --> 00:50:33,824
No, I want an interphone
like this one with the wire.
668
00:50:33,907 --> 00:50:34,908
- Like this one?
-Yes.
669
00:50:34,991 --> 00:50:36,993
- This thing here? You don't want that.
-Yes, please.
670
00:50:37,869 --> 00:50:39,621
This thing here with the wire?
That's old-fashioned.
671
00:50:39,705 --> 00:50:41,081
What you want... Look at this.
672
00:50:41,164 --> 00:50:43,583
- Wireless.
-No. Please, I just want this interphone.
673
00:50:43,667 --> 00:50:44,710
- Like this, okay?
-Okay, buddy.
674
00:50:44,793 --> 00:50:47,045
You're not listening to me
'cause I'm trying to do you a favor here.
675
00:50:47,129 --> 00:50:49,297
This thing is discontinued,
which means I can't get you a warranty.
676
00:50:49,381 --> 00:50:53,176
I don't care. I want this one.
With the wire. Please.
677
00:50:54,636 --> 00:50:56,471
Yes. Whatever you want.
678
00:50:56,555 --> 00:50:58,140
- Thank you. Okay.
-You're the boss.
679
00:51:16,950 --> 00:51:19,995
You guys thought you were the only ones
who spoke French in New York City.
680
00:51:20,662 --> 00:51:21,955
I got it.
681
00:51:22,831 --> 00:51:24,082
It's okay. By the way,
682
00:51:30,922 --> 00:51:32,507
I say we invite him to dinner.
683
00:51:34,176 --> 00:51:35,177
I'm Philippe.
684
00:51:35,510 --> 00:51:36,511
I'm Jean-Pierre.
685
00:51:37,095 --> 00:51:38,263
It's J.P. in America.
686
00:51:39,014 --> 00:51:40,182
J.P.,
687
00:51:40,932 --> 00:51:43,268
welcome to the
Fisher Industrial Fence Company
688
00:51:43,351 --> 00:51:44,770
of Fort Lee, New Jersey.
689
00:51:45,270 --> 00:51:46,605
Looks like the real thing.
690
00:51:46,688 --> 00:51:48,565
- Who made this?
-it's a long story.
691
00:51:48,648 --> 00:51:50,442
I'll bet. So, do I get a job title?
692
00:51:50,525 --> 00:51:52,110
Yes, because you've
lived in New York the longest,
693
00:51:52,194 --> 00:51:54,070
I'll make you Personnel Director.
694
00:51:54,154 --> 00:51:56,323
That's cool, man. I like that.
What do I gotta do?
695
00:51:56,406 --> 00:51:57,824
Find more accomplices.
696
00:52:00,577 --> 00:52:01,620
I got just the guys.
697
00:52:01,912 --> 00:52:03,371
I can help you rig a wire.
698
00:52:03,497 --> 00:52:05,749
I'm unbelievable at tying knots.
699
00:52:05,832 --> 00:52:07,167
Used to work on a shrimp boat.
700
00:52:07,584 --> 00:52:10,045
Yeah, man, yeah. I mean, count me in, too.
701
00:52:10,670 --> 00:52:12,631
Especially if that wire is really...
702
00:52:13,173 --> 00:52:14,508
Really high.
703
00:52:15,050 --> 00:52:16,009
You get it?
704
00:52:16,092 --> 00:52:17,761
You get it, man, really high!
705
00:52:17,844 --> 00:52:20,305
Why the World Trade Towers?
706
00:52:20,388 --> 00:52:21,932
Everybody I know hates those ugly boxes.
707
00:52:22,015 --> 00:52:25,227
They look like two big filing cabinets.
708
00:52:25,519 --> 00:52:26,645
Hey, right on.
709
00:52:26,728 --> 00:52:29,773
You know what? Why don't we climb
the Chrysler building, man?
710
00:52:29,898 --> 00:52:31,066
That'd be a trip, right?
711
00:52:36,029 --> 00:52:37,113
J.P.
712
00:52:50,168 --> 00:52:54,256
Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
The coup is on for tomorrow!
713
00:52:54,506 --> 00:52:56,007
Tomorrow is the big day!
714
00:52:56,091 --> 00:52:59,010
You all know the plan.
The workers start to arrive at 7:00 a.m.,
715
00:52:59,094 --> 00:53:01,596
so I must be on the wire at 6:00 a.m.
You're not listening.
716
00:53:02,055 --> 00:53:05,225
Why is nobody listening to me when I talk?
Are you paying attention?
717
00:53:09,354 --> 00:53:11,731
We've gone over the plan 20 times already.
718
00:53:13,942 --> 00:53:15,443
Well, here comes number 21.
719
00:53:16,278 --> 00:53:20,031
At 2:00 p.m., we load the van. J.P. drives.
720
00:53:20,115 --> 00:53:23,243
We drop Jean-Louis, Annie
and Albert at the North Tower.
721
00:53:23,326 --> 00:53:24,578
You rendezvous with Barry.
722
00:53:24,661 --> 00:53:26,663
He hides you on his floor
until he can sneak you up
723
00:53:26,746 --> 00:53:28,373
in the stairwell to the roof.
724
00:53:28,456 --> 00:53:31,543
The rest of us, that's you, J.P.,
you, Jeff, you, David,
725
00:53:31,626 --> 00:53:33,044
in our workers disguises,
726
00:53:33,128 --> 00:53:35,297
we bring the walk cable
and the rigging equipment
727
00:53:35,380 --> 00:53:37,382
up in the construction elevator.
728
00:53:37,465 --> 00:53:39,009
According to my spy work,
we should be able to
729
00:53:39,092 --> 00:53:41,136
get up to the 82nd floor.
730
00:53:41,219 --> 00:53:43,179
Then when the coast is clear,
and as fast as we can,
731
00:53:43,263 --> 00:53:45,891
we bring everything up to the roof
and we start rigging.
732
00:53:45,974 --> 00:53:47,684
By midnight, we are finished!
733
00:53:47,767 --> 00:53:49,394
Do you hear me? At midnight!
734
00:53:49,477 --> 00:53:52,939
This gives me the time to sneak over
to the North Tower and check the rigging.
735
00:53:53,023 --> 00:53:57,068
Because I must have time
to check the rigging on both towers.
736
00:53:57,152 --> 00:53:59,946
Then at dawn, 6:00 a.m.,
737
00:54:00,322 --> 00:54:01,823
I take my first step.
738
00:54:06,703 --> 00:54:08,121
- Philippe.
-Yes.
739
00:54:08,663 --> 00:54:10,248
- I think we should wait.
-No!
740
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:27,891
The carrots are cooked.
741
00:54:39,444 --> 00:54:40,528
Cooked carrots?
742
00:54:41,154 --> 00:54:43,073
- What the hell is that about?
-The French.
743
00:54:43,156 --> 00:54:44,407
They love their culinary metaphors.
744
00:54:44,532 --> 00:54:46,660
This is a country with
365 different types of cheese,
745
00:54:46,743 --> 00:54:48,203
one for every day of the year,
for Christ's sake.
746
00:54:48,286 --> 00:54:49,955
So, of course they use
the vegetable metaphor.
747
00:54:52,332 --> 00:54:53,541
Carrots are cooked.
748
00:54:54,501 --> 00:54:56,211
Die is cast. There's no going back now.
749
00:54:56,294 --> 00:54:57,629
Guys, what are we doing here?
750
00:54:57,712 --> 00:55:01,716
Listen, I think what we're doing is cool
but I do not want to go to jail.
751
00:55:02,092 --> 00:55:05,428
Especially not because of some French guy
who's obsessed with vegetables.
752
00:55:05,971 --> 00:55:08,974
Jail. Man, that's a buzzkill, man.
753
00:55:09,057 --> 00:55:11,643
The man is obviously crazy. So, what?
754
00:55:12,227 --> 00:55:14,062
Are we just here to watch him die?
755
00:55:14,562 --> 00:55:16,356
Does he even know how to walk a tightrope?
756
00:55:16,439 --> 00:55:18,650
He knows how to walk on a wire.
That's not the problem.
757
00:55:18,733 --> 00:55:21,027
The problem is he's losing his mind.
758
00:55:21,111 --> 00:55:22,821
He's maybe losing his mind,
but he won't give up.
759
00:55:22,904 --> 00:55:24,072
He never gives up.
760
00:55:24,155 --> 00:55:25,365
He just needs our help.
761
00:55:25,448 --> 00:55:26,783
I think he can do this.
762
00:55:28,451 --> 00:55:30,412
It will be very... Beau?
763
00:55:31,371 --> 00:55:33,623
- Beautiful.
-Yeah.
764
00:55:35,166 --> 00:55:38,044
It will be very, beautiful.
765
00:55:52,684 --> 00:55:55,770
It was the night before the coup
and, of course, I couldn't sleep.
766
00:56:08,825 --> 00:56:11,202
I had forgotten something very important.
767
00:56:11,286 --> 00:56:14,164
I'd forgotten to nail shut the coffin.
768
00:56:19,127 --> 00:56:20,336
Actually, there was no coffin.
769
00:56:20,420 --> 00:56:22,213
It was the crate holding the walk cable.
770
00:56:22,297 --> 00:56:25,675
But, in my mind,
I had changed this crate into a coffin.
771
00:56:27,469 --> 00:56:28,511
Philippe!!
772
00:56:29,429 --> 00:56:31,306
What are you doing? You're waking up
the whole neighborhood.
773
00:56:31,389 --> 00:56:32,807
Well, I forgot to nail shut the coffin.
774
00:56:33,308 --> 00:56:34,976
Stop calling it that!
775
00:56:35,060 --> 00:56:36,686
A coffin is what this may be.
776
00:56:36,770 --> 00:56:39,105
That's not funny. What's wrong with you?
777
00:56:39,189 --> 00:56:40,356
Do you have a death wish or something?
778
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:42,942
Don't say this word! I never say this word.
779
00:56:43,485 --> 00:56:45,445
Come on! Death, coffin, die.
780
00:56:45,528 --> 00:56:47,072
- It's all the same thing.
-Why are you doing this?
781
00:56:47,155 --> 00:56:48,740
Why are you suddenly against me?
782
00:56:48,823 --> 00:56:50,033
Against you?
783
00:56:50,116 --> 00:56:51,451
No one is more supportive.
784
00:56:51,534 --> 00:56:52,911
Then why do you say this word?
785
00:56:52,994 --> 00:56:54,287
Why do you put this thought in my head
786
00:56:54,370 --> 00:56:56,081
on the night before
my most dangerous walk?
787
00:56:56,164 --> 00:56:59,000
- Why are you so uncaring?
-Uncaring?
788
00:56:59,292 --> 00:57:03,671
- You're the most selfish, arrogant...
-Yes, I'm arrogant! I have to be.
789
00:57:03,755 --> 00:57:05,757
To walk on the wire, to command the wire!
790
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:08,426
And what about your partners?
Your accomplices?
791
00:57:08,510 --> 00:57:11,471
You don't offer them a simple thank you
to let them know they're appreciated!
792
00:57:11,554 --> 00:57:14,140
- They know I appreciate them!
-Do they?
793
00:57:14,224 --> 00:57:16,017
Yes! What do you want me to do?
Go in there right now
794
00:57:16,101 --> 00:57:17,102
and tell them thank you?
795
00:57:17,185 --> 00:57:19,896
I can wake them up and say
"Thank you, everybody! Merci!"
796
00:57:23,024 --> 00:57:25,610
- Just come to bed. You're exhausted.
-Annie.
797
00:57:25,693 --> 00:57:28,696
My head is full of doubts. I don't know if...
798
00:57:29,864 --> 00:57:32,450
When I confront the void,
when it's time to step on the wire,
799
00:57:32,534 --> 00:57:34,494
I don't know if I'll be able to
take my first step.
800
00:57:37,372 --> 00:57:39,207
Your heart will tell you what to do.
801
00:57:40,208 --> 00:57:41,209
Annie.
802
00:57:42,377 --> 00:57:44,087
You're the only one that truly knows me.
803
00:57:44,170 --> 00:57:46,840
It's because of you that I can do this walk.
804
00:57:46,923 --> 00:57:48,716
You give me the strength and the ability.
805
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:50,343
Without you, I couldn't do it.
806
00:57:53,388 --> 00:57:54,389
You'll be fine.
807
00:58:17,453 --> 00:58:18,621
Everybody, wake up!
808
00:58:18,705 --> 00:58:20,540
Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!
809
00:58:20,623 --> 00:58:23,293
There's something I have to tell you
that I have not said before.
810
00:58:23,376 --> 00:58:24,669
It's important.
811
00:58:24,752 --> 00:58:26,838
Thank you. Merci.
812
00:58:28,464 --> 00:58:30,758
Now get some rest.
We have a big day tomorrow.
813
00:58:34,262 --> 00:58:35,430
You see?
814
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:36,931
He's lost his mind.
815
00:58:38,057 --> 00:58:39,100
What?
816
00:58:57,076 --> 00:58:59,245
Now as soon as we are all
loaded into the van,
817
00:58:59,329 --> 00:59:02,290
I think to myself, "Okay, now it starts."
818
00:59:04,959 --> 00:59:06,920
The coup has begun.
819
00:59:08,963 --> 00:59:11,841
My life is no longer in my command.
820
00:59:22,810 --> 00:59:24,437
North Tower Plaza!
821
00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:26,231
Come on, make it snappy. I'm in a red zone.
822
00:59:26,314 --> 00:59:28,524
With the help of Barry, our inside man,
823
00:59:28,608 --> 00:59:31,444
we unload Albert and Jean-Louis
at the North Tower.
824
00:59:31,527 --> 00:59:34,989
The plan was for Barry to hide them
in his office until nightfall.
825
00:59:35,073 --> 00:59:36,115
Red zone.
826
00:59:39,035 --> 00:59:40,036
Red zone.
827
00:59:44,999 --> 00:59:46,334
I love you, too.
828
00:59:56,719 --> 01:00:00,139
Albert and Jean-Louis
both dress like impeccable architects.
829
01:00:00,223 --> 01:00:03,935
They carry attache' cases that are heavy
because they're carrying equipment.
830
01:00:04,018 --> 01:00:07,480
And they carry a blueprint tube
that contains the bow and arrow.
831
01:00:08,189 --> 01:00:11,609
I feel the incline of the ramp
as we drive down
832
01:00:11,693 --> 01:00:13,444
into the loading dock of the South Tower
833
01:00:13,528 --> 01:00:17,031
and I knew,
I knew we would be caught right there!
834
01:00:17,699 --> 01:00:19,409
Hold it right there, cowboy.
835
01:00:22,370 --> 01:00:24,038
You guys keep quiet back there.
836
01:00:24,497 --> 01:00:25,456
What's your business?
837
01:00:25,540 --> 01:00:27,208
Just another delivery.
Fisher Fence Company.
838
01:00:27,375 --> 01:00:29,627
Fisher Fence Company?
What the hell's the Fisher Fence Company?
839
01:00:29,711 --> 01:00:31,337
We put in the perimeter fence months ago.
840
01:00:31,421 --> 01:00:34,465
Now they want us to come back in,
tear it down and redo it.
841
01:00:36,884 --> 01:00:39,512
All right. Down the ramp.
Medium freight loading area.
842
01:00:41,889 --> 01:00:44,058
That cop seemed really suspicious.
843
01:00:44,142 --> 01:00:45,310
I almost crapped my pants.
844
01:00:50,064 --> 01:00:52,066
You can get more in there.
845
01:00:52,775 --> 01:00:56,863
- Hey! Hey! No way! No way!
-No. No. No.
846
01:00:56,946 --> 01:00:58,323
We got a delivery to the 82nd floor,
847
01:00:58,406 --> 01:00:59,615
Fisher Fence Company. It's all right here...
848
01:00:59,699 --> 01:01:02,035
No, No. Only Met deliveries are going up.
849
01:01:02,118 --> 01:01:05,204
They've got all the elevators leased today.
Come back next week.
850
01:01:05,288 --> 01:01:07,332
- Next week?
-Yeah. Next week.
851
01:01:07,749 --> 01:01:09,500
All right, come on. Go home.
852
01:01:15,757 --> 01:01:17,508
We take a pause. Worker's pause.
853
01:01:20,094 --> 01:01:22,472
Hey, excuse me, sir. Before I get
outta your hair, can I get your name?
854
01:01:22,555 --> 01:01:23,681
Frank Cielani.
855
01:01:23,765 --> 01:01:25,350
- Is that Sicilian?
-it's Calabrese.
856
01:01:25,433 --> 01:01:28,436
Good. Cause I got these Sicilian neighbors.
They live two floors below me.
857
01:01:28,519 --> 01:01:31,189
They're always cooking calamari.
It stinks my place up to high hell.
858
01:01:31,272 --> 01:01:32,774
It'll do that.
859
01:01:34,275 --> 01:01:35,985
Can you believe this S.O.B. Nixon?
860
01:01:36,069 --> 01:01:38,863
If it was up to me, that son of a bitch
would be in jail rest of his life.
861
01:01:38,946 --> 01:01:40,156
You sound just like my old man.
862
01:01:40,239 --> 01:01:43,326
He said this country went to hell
in a handbasket the day Kennedy got shot.
863
01:01:43,409 --> 01:01:44,744
That's for goddamn sure.
864
01:01:44,827 --> 01:01:47,872
- What'd you say your name was?
-J.P. I was named after J.P. Morgan.
865
01:01:56,130 --> 01:01:58,800
So I sit there helpless,
watching these workers.
866
01:02:04,597 --> 01:02:05,890
And in my agitated mind,
867
01:02:05,973 --> 01:02:08,976
it looks like these workers
are moving like snails.
868
01:02:17,110 --> 01:02:18,277
Good night, boys.
869
01:02:19,153 --> 01:02:20,988
Big day. Have a good one.
870
01:02:23,157 --> 01:02:24,659
You wallflowers still here?
871
01:02:26,035 --> 01:02:27,745
Look, Mr. Cielani, I'm gonna level with you.
872
01:02:27,829 --> 01:02:29,372
If we don't make this delivery,
we're gonna get fired,
873
01:02:29,455 --> 01:02:31,916
and Phil here, he's a dead duck for sure.
874
01:02:33,209 --> 01:02:35,586
- What do you got? Where're you going?
-82nd floor.
875
01:02:37,213 --> 01:02:40,508
Hey, Jimmy!
Take these frogs up to the 82nd floor.
876
01:02:40,883 --> 01:02:43,803
- You're kidding me, right?
-Come on. It's your last ride, okay?
877
01:02:43,970 --> 01:02:45,304
- Okay.
-Thank you, sir. Appreciate it...
878
01:02:45,388 --> 01:02:47,098
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Come on. Quitting time!
879
01:02:58,359 --> 01:03:00,445
- Which floor?
-We're going to the...
880
01:03:00,528 --> 01:03:01,863
The 110th floor.
881
01:03:03,239 --> 01:03:05,783
110? There's nothing up there.
That's just the mechanical floor.
882
01:03:05,867 --> 01:03:08,453
Yes, but it is perfect for us.
We need to be close to the roof.
883
01:03:08,536 --> 01:03:10,371
The roof? Why the roof?
884
01:03:11,205 --> 01:03:13,291
Because we have
all the pieces for the antenna.
885
01:03:13,374 --> 01:03:14,459
- The antenna.
-And the antenna mast.
886
01:03:14,542 --> 01:03:16,461
- The antenna mast.
-And the electrified security fence.
887
01:03:16,544 --> 01:03:18,463
We have all the components
for the insulators.
888
01:03:18,546 --> 01:03:19,797
Insulators. We have to measure...
889
01:03:19,881 --> 01:03:22,341
Yes, until we measure,
we cannot install any of the wiring.
890
01:03:22,425 --> 01:03:23,843
The aerial system. We're four months behind.
891
01:03:23,926 --> 01:03:24,927
It's a big problem.
892
01:03:25,011 --> 01:03:26,762
Whatever. Just watch your fingers.
893
01:03:35,730 --> 01:03:36,898
Okay, J.P.
894
01:03:50,411 --> 01:03:51,579
We've had a lucky break.
895
01:03:51,662 --> 01:03:54,332
This elevator is taking us to the 110th floor.
896
01:03:54,415 --> 01:03:58,961
But this means that J.P.
has to get this elevator operator back down.
897
01:03:59,045 --> 01:04:01,339
If he stays with us, the coup is finished.
898
01:04:04,717 --> 01:04:05,843
110th.
899
01:04:15,186 --> 01:04:17,772
Jimmy. Really appreciate this, man.
900
01:04:18,105 --> 01:04:19,106
Hey, let me buy you a beer.
901
01:04:19,190 --> 01:04:21,609
These guys, they gotta offload.
They got tons of inventory to do.
902
01:04:21,692 --> 01:04:24,028
It's gonna take them forever.
They'll find their way home.
903
01:04:24,779 --> 01:04:27,782
- Whatever. Watch your fingers.
-All right.
904
01:04:28,616 --> 01:04:30,451
Kommedas. What is that, Greek?
905
01:04:30,535 --> 01:04:33,871
I got a Greek guy living two floors below me,
always eating lamb.
906
01:04:34,872 --> 01:04:36,374
Nothing but lamb.
907
01:04:45,633 --> 01:04:47,885
Oh, man.
This is becoming a real bummer, man.
908
01:04:50,054 --> 01:04:51,138
We unload here.
909
01:04:53,766 --> 01:04:54,809
Okay.
910
01:05:04,694 --> 01:05:06,445
- Okay.
-Oh, man.
911
01:05:06,862 --> 01:05:10,741
We take the cable first. If anyone stops us,
we tell them it's the antenna guylines.
912
01:05:11,659 --> 01:05:13,661
- This shit is really heavy, man.
-Quiet.
913
01:05:14,662 --> 01:05:16,247
I mean, like, really heavy.
914
01:05:16,539 --> 01:05:19,166
Like heavy heavy, not bullshit heavy.
915
01:05:20,376 --> 01:05:23,629
Oh, man. This scene is giving me
really bad vibes, man.
916
01:05:24,547 --> 01:05:25,756
Oh, shit.
917
01:05:25,840 --> 01:05:27,758
Oh, shit, it's the pigs!
918
01:05:27,842 --> 01:05:29,635
- Oh, man, the pigs are here, man!
-Hide, hide, hide.
919
01:05:29,719 --> 01:05:32,346
Oh, man. Oh, man. The jig is up, man.
920
01:05:32,847 --> 01:05:36,100
Oh, man. Oh, man.
This is freaking me out, man.
921
01:05:36,183 --> 01:05:37,393
It's just down there.
922
01:05:37,727 --> 01:05:39,645
- It's okay.
-I can't do this, man.
923
01:05:40,271 --> 01:05:42,398
I am wigging out, man.
924
01:05:42,481 --> 01:05:45,318
Okay, just listen. We don't need you.
You go. Okay?
925
01:05:45,401 --> 01:05:46,861
- I'll go.
-Go.
926
01:05:47,361 --> 01:05:48,613
No, that stairwell.
927
01:05:48,696 --> 01:05:51,365
No, that stairway to the 82nd floor.
928
01:05:51,449 --> 01:05:53,492
To the 82nd floor, there's an elevator.
929
01:05:53,576 --> 01:05:56,621
Listen, man. Look, I really want to help you
guys do something radical.
930
01:05:56,704 --> 01:05:59,290
Okay, man? But, you know...
Oh, man!
931
01:05:59,373 --> 01:06:02,251
Oh, man. I'm shagging ass, man.
932
01:06:53,969 --> 01:06:56,681
Our only hope is maybe
this guard will move to another floor
933
01:06:56,764 --> 01:06:59,058
or maybe once it gets dark
we'll sneak past him.
934
01:06:59,141 --> 01:07:01,769
But I must admit, by this time,
935
01:07:02,144 --> 01:07:04,730
I was very worried
the coup was over already.
936
01:07:07,650 --> 01:07:09,151
Hey, Annie!
937
01:07:09,276 --> 01:07:12,029
- Hey, I've been looking all over for you.
-ls everything okay?
938
01:07:12,196 --> 01:07:14,365
We hit a little snag,
but I think everything's all right.
939
01:07:14,448 --> 01:07:15,533
Okay.
940
01:07:31,882 --> 01:07:33,426
Jesus Christ.
941
01:07:34,260 --> 01:07:36,554
I can't believe they don't gate this shaft.
942
01:07:38,013 --> 01:07:39,557
Somebody's gonna get killed.
943
01:07:46,188 --> 01:07:49,984
So there we sit, balancing
on this steel I-beam for an eternity.
944
01:07:50,067 --> 01:07:52,278
And the worst part, the most painful part
945
01:07:52,361 --> 01:07:55,489
was our heavy construction shoes
killing our feet.
946
01:09:24,411 --> 01:09:27,540
I see the walkie-talkie,
but I don't see the guard.
947
01:09:28,082 --> 01:09:30,209
So what does this mean? ls the guard gone?
948
01:09:30,668 --> 01:09:33,295
Is he still there,
just standing outside of my view?
949
01:09:33,379 --> 01:09:36,423
He wouldn't leave his
walkie-talkie unattended, would he?
950
01:09:36,799 --> 01:09:37,800
I turn to Jeff
951
01:09:38,968 --> 01:09:40,928
and I see the terror on Jeff's face.
952
01:09:41,011 --> 01:09:44,056
And his terror begins to seep into my mind.
953
01:09:44,139 --> 01:09:47,601
And I start to conjure
these hideous thoughts myself.
954
01:10:01,073 --> 01:10:03,742
Time passes. I keep looking and looking
955
01:10:03,826 --> 01:10:06,912
and this walkie-talkie just sits there
and I'm wondering,
956
01:10:06,996 --> 01:10:10,332
"What is going on with this security guard
and his walkie-talkie?
957
01:10:10,791 --> 01:10:12,376
"Is he just playing with me?
958
01:10:12,585 --> 01:10:15,170
"Is he waiting for me to come out
so he can laugh at me?
959
01:10:15,254 --> 01:10:16,255
"Is he asleep?"
960
01:10:16,672 --> 01:10:20,676
Then about an hour after nightfall...
961
01:10:32,313 --> 01:10:33,314
He's gone.
962
01:11:49,556 --> 01:11:50,557
I don't know.
963
01:12:17,209 --> 01:12:18,669
Look! He made it.
964
01:12:28,303 --> 01:12:30,681
Jean-Louis and I had worked out
some hand signals.
965
01:12:30,764 --> 01:12:33,475
So now he was telling me he's ready
to shoot the arrow.
966
01:12:33,559 --> 01:12:36,812
He's supposed to signal,
and then five seconds later, he shoots.
967
01:12:43,819 --> 01:12:46,363
But after five seconds, nothing happens.
968
01:12:48,699 --> 01:12:52,286
I listen for the sound of the arrow hitting,
but I hear nothing.
969
01:12:52,369 --> 01:12:54,079
I look around. I see nothing.
970
01:12:54,163 --> 01:12:56,415
I think maybe the arrow has flown too far.
971
01:12:56,749 --> 01:13:01,253
So I wave my arms around hoping
I'll feel this invisible fishing line,
972
01:13:01,336 --> 01:13:03,297
but I feel nothing.
973
01:13:20,189 --> 01:13:21,440
Looking for the fishing line!
974
01:13:21,648 --> 01:13:25,360
So I take off my clothes, thinking that with
more surface of bare skin
975
01:13:25,486 --> 01:13:28,280
I'll have a greater chance of feeling
this fishing line.
976
01:13:37,081 --> 01:13:38,082
No,no,no.
977
01:13:58,644 --> 01:13:59,645
Philippe!!
978
01:14:05,818 --> 01:14:07,111
So, I throw my clothes back on
979
01:14:07,194 --> 01:14:10,197
and we run our gear up to the roof
as fast as we can.
980
01:14:32,636 --> 01:14:35,514
Listen, I think we should get some rest
and come back before sunrise.
981
01:14:35,806 --> 01:14:36,807
You go. I'm staying.
982
01:14:36,890 --> 01:14:38,559
- All night?
-Yeah.
983
01:14:39,643 --> 01:14:40,894
Annie, there's nothing
you can do from down here.
984
01:14:40,978 --> 01:14:43,355
Either Philippe is gonna pull this off
or he's not.
985
01:14:43,438 --> 01:14:44,690
Besides, you look really suspicious
986
01:14:44,773 --> 01:14:47,109
standing out here with some binoculars
hanging around your neck.
987
01:14:47,860 --> 01:14:48,902
Well, I'll keep moving.
988
01:14:49,403 --> 01:14:52,239
- It's New York City. It's dangerous.
- I'll be fine.
989
01:14:56,451 --> 01:14:58,579
Wonder if Philippe knows
you're still out here.
990
01:15:04,001 --> 01:15:05,419
I'll bring you a donut in the morning.
991
01:15:06,086 --> 01:15:07,087
Thank you.
992
01:15:38,827 --> 01:15:40,871
Okay, good. He marked it.
993
01:16:02,809 --> 01:16:04,811
Hello, hello, Jean-Louis.
How do you hear me?
994
01:16:04,895 --> 01:16:06,104
Loud and clear.
995
01:16:06,480 --> 01:16:08,899
Okay, good. We have communication.
I'm going to measure the rope
996
01:16:08,982 --> 01:16:11,026
to find out where to put the cavalettis.
997
01:16:16,365 --> 01:16:17,783
I'll guard it with my life.
998
01:17:16,383 --> 01:17:18,176
Garbowski, you awake?
999
01:17:20,220 --> 01:17:21,346
That's very funny.
1000
01:17:21,596 --> 01:17:24,224
I need you to check something down on 37th.
1001
01:17:24,558 --> 01:17:25,934
Yeah? What do you got?
1002
01:17:26,059 --> 01:17:29,354
How's about a pepperoni and sausage
with extra cheese?
1003
01:17:30,564 --> 01:17:31,732
Now you're talking.
1004
01:17:56,423 --> 01:17:57,549
We need an alarm signal.
1005
01:18:14,107 --> 01:18:15,692
Fine Okay. I bolted the cavalettis in place.
1006
01:18:15,776 --> 01:18:17,652
We're ready to pass across the wire.
Are you ready?
1007
01:18:17,736 --> 01:18:18,820
Yes.
1008
01:18:18,904 --> 01:18:21,615
Okay, first I pass the heavy rope,
then the walk cable.
1009
01:18:29,539 --> 01:18:30,791
We got the rope.
1010
01:18:30,874 --> 01:18:32,542
Okay, we're sending the cable.
1011
01:19:13,542 --> 01:19:14,876
Okay, okay.
1012
01:19:24,845 --> 01:19:26,638
Hold it. Hold it! Hold it! Hold it!
1013
01:20:25,322 --> 01:20:26,948
We have a problem.
1014
01:20:27,616 --> 01:20:30,076
We will do everything we can
to pull up the cable.
1015
01:20:31,536 --> 01:20:33,747
It's only a few hours before daylight.
1016
01:20:36,082 --> 01:20:37,667
We will do everything we can.
1017
01:20:51,598 --> 01:20:54,601
Philippe, this is crazy.
We're never going to finish at this rate.
1018
01:20:54,768 --> 01:20:56,353
Yes, we will. We will finish.
1019
01:20:56,728 --> 01:20:58,480
No, we're not! We're not!
1020
01:20:58,647 --> 01:21:00,106
We're all gonna get caught and go to jail.
1021
01:21:00,190 --> 01:21:01,358
And I don't want to go to jail.
1022
01:21:01,441 --> 01:21:03,026
And the rigging isn't safe.
1023
01:21:03,109 --> 01:21:05,946
I'm not gonna watch you fall.
I'm leaving, okay. I quit.
1024
01:21:06,112 --> 01:21:08,990
Okay, Albert, listen to me.
Yes, I agree with you, okay?
1025
01:21:09,074 --> 01:21:11,284
And if the rigging is not done by daylight
1026
01:21:11,368 --> 01:21:15,121
and if the rigging is not safe,
then I'll give up.
1027
01:21:28,260 --> 01:21:30,303
Hey, look who made it through the night.
1028
01:21:30,804 --> 01:21:33,265
- I got you a donut.
-Thank you.
1029
01:21:34,140 --> 01:21:35,475
Hey, the Wire's up!
1030
01:21:35,934 --> 01:21:37,477
Yeah, but it's not tight yet.
1031
01:21:38,520 --> 01:21:39,771
Something's wrong.
1032
01:21:44,484 --> 01:21:45,735
Philippe, are you there?
1033
01:21:45,819 --> 01:21:47,320
Yes, yes, I'm here.
1034
01:21:47,529 --> 01:21:50,657
The good news is the cable is tied off
and secured on this end.
1035
01:21:50,824 --> 01:21:53,076
The bad news is Albert has quit.
1036
01:21:53,159 --> 01:21:55,954
Albert has quit. He said the sun is rising
and the coup is off.
1037
01:21:56,037 --> 01:21:58,582
Wait, did you put wood between
the anchor points and the cable?
1038
01:21:58,665 --> 01:22:01,001
Philippe, did you hear me?
Albert is on strike.
1039
01:22:01,167 --> 01:22:03,086
He will no longer lift a finger to help me.
1040
01:22:03,169 --> 01:22:05,213
Not only that, he smuggled a camera up here
1041
01:22:05,297 --> 01:22:07,048
and he's going to take pictures
and sell them.
1042
01:22:07,674 --> 01:22:10,343
I knew it.
I told you I knew we couldn't trust him.
1043
01:22:17,017 --> 01:22:20,770
And one more thing,
you will always be my Photograph Official.
1044
01:22:36,578 --> 01:22:38,413
The cable's moving!
1045
01:22:42,250 --> 01:22:43,543
He's going for it.
1046
01:22:44,252 --> 01:22:46,046
Look. It's moving up.
1047
01:23:28,672 --> 01:23:30,590
I can't do that.
1048
01:23:35,929 --> 01:23:38,056
- Seven times seven?
-Forty nine.
1049
01:23:38,765 --> 01:23:40,350
Nine times eight?
1050
01:23:40,600 --> 01:23:42,435
- Seventy two.
-Okay.
1051
01:23:49,693 --> 01:23:50,777
Okay.
1052
01:24:04,124 --> 01:24:06,459
- Seven times eight!
-Fifty-six.
1053
01:24:07,711 --> 01:24:11,047
- Ninety six divided by eight!
-Twelve!
1054
01:24:23,852 --> 01:24:25,311
The wheel.
1055
01:26:28,142 --> 01:26:32,272
And that was the moment in my adventure
I call, "The Mysterious Visitor."
1056
01:26:32,981 --> 01:26:35,859
I have no idea who he is.
I've never seen him again.
1057
01:26:36,609 --> 01:26:38,820
And I can only imagine
what he must have thought.
1058
01:26:46,995 --> 01:26:49,414
Now it's time for me to put on my costume.
1059
01:26:49,497 --> 01:26:51,207
But I have to do this privately,
1060
01:26:51,291 --> 01:26:53,710
so my dressing room is the very ledge
of the building.
1061
01:26:53,793 --> 01:26:56,421
Not visible from the streets of Manhattan.
1062
01:26:56,504 --> 01:26:59,632
The dressing room is also something
that Papa Rudy taught me.
1063
01:26:59,799 --> 01:27:02,302
This is where the transformation takes place.
1064
01:27:02,385 --> 01:27:04,470
This is where the disguised impostor,
1065
01:27:04,804 --> 01:27:07,432
the intruder, becomes the performer.
1066
01:27:07,807 --> 01:27:09,309
The artist.
1067
01:27:09,976 --> 01:27:12,312
Oh, my God! He's falling!
1068
01:27:14,480 --> 01:27:17,483
No, it's just his shirt.
1069
01:27:18,151 --> 01:27:19,777
It's just his shirt.
1070
01:27:21,821 --> 01:27:23,990
Hey. Nothing yet, huh?
1071
01:27:25,992 --> 01:27:27,118
Well, he better get cracking.
1072
01:27:34,792 --> 01:27:36,753
I lost my costume!
1073
01:27:36,878 --> 01:27:38,171
This is a tragedy!
1074
01:27:38,254 --> 01:27:40,006
The biggest stage of my life,
and I lose my costume!
1075
01:27:40,089 --> 01:27:41,925
It falls off the edge. I have no costume!
1076
01:27:42,008 --> 01:27:43,009
What?
1077
01:27:47,347 --> 01:27:48,348
What should we do?
1078
01:27:53,519 --> 01:27:54,938
We do it. We do it anyway.
1079
01:27:55,021 --> 01:27:58,024
I walk in this ridiculous undershirt,
but we do it.
1080
01:28:58,626 --> 01:29:01,754
I have one foot on the building
and one foot on the wire.
1081
01:29:03,214 --> 01:29:06,426
And the outside world starts to disappear.
1082
01:29:16,602 --> 01:29:18,479
Jeff no longer existed.
1083
01:29:20,189 --> 01:29:22,400
My tower was deserted.
1084
01:29:35,329 --> 01:29:38,082
I no longer heard the sounds of New York.
1085
01:29:38,666 --> 01:29:40,543
Everything fell silent.
1086
01:29:43,337 --> 01:29:45,465
All I could see was the wire,
1087
01:29:46,049 --> 01:29:49,302
floating out in a straight line to infinity.
1088
01:29:55,933 --> 01:29:58,269
And if I were to shift my weight,
1089
01:29:58,978 --> 01:30:01,189
I would become a wire walker.
1090
01:31:15,763 --> 01:31:18,516
As soon as my entire weight is on the cable,
1091
01:31:18,933 --> 01:31:22,186
I feel immediately a feeling I know by heart.
1092
01:31:22,854 --> 01:31:25,064
I feel the wire supporting me.
1093
01:31:25,356 --> 01:31:27,817
I feel the towers supporting the wire.
1094
01:31:28,151 --> 01:31:30,111
Oh, my God! He's doing it.
1095
01:31:30,278 --> 01:31:33,739
He's doing it! Do you see? Oh, my God!
1096
01:31:33,906 --> 01:31:35,741
He's doing it!
1097
01:31:36,409 --> 01:31:40,997
Everybody! Everybody stop! Look!
There's a wire walker!
1098
01:31:41,080 --> 01:31:42,039
There!
1099
01:31:42,123 --> 01:31:46,085
Yes! Yes! Yes! You did it!
1100
01:32:08,107 --> 01:32:11,903
I approach the first cavaletti,
and it's upside down.
1101
01:32:13,946 --> 01:32:18,409
But I look closer and it seems okay.
1102
01:32:26,709 --> 01:32:29,712
Thank you, Papa Rudy,
for suggesting the three bolts.
1103
01:32:50,191 --> 01:32:52,235
Watch the birdie, Philippe.
1104
01:33:01,661 --> 01:33:02,870
Philippe-
1105
01:33:04,538 --> 01:33:07,792
Come on, Philippe. You're doing it.
You're doing it, Philippe.
1106
01:33:26,060 --> 01:33:28,229
Oh, my God!
1107
01:33:31,023 --> 01:33:32,650
That's brilliant!
1108
01:33:32,733 --> 01:33:34,443
I arrive at the North Tower
1109
01:33:34,527 --> 01:33:37,363
feeling the most intense joy,
1110
01:33:37,446 --> 01:33:41,534
the most profound satisfaction
I've ever felt in my life.
1111
01:33:42,034 --> 01:33:46,038
Philippe! Come on, Philippe.
Philippe, okay. Yeah, working man. Okay.
1112
01:33:46,872 --> 01:33:49,125
All right, now over your right shoulder?
1113
01:33:49,208 --> 01:33:50,751
Philippe, smile.
1114
01:33:55,715 --> 01:33:58,050
My friend, thank you.
1115
01:34:19,447 --> 01:34:23,200
I had finished my crossing,
the coup was over.
1116
01:34:24,577 --> 01:34:27,079
But then I looked over at the South Tower
1117
01:34:28,247 --> 01:34:30,082
and it was still calling to me.
1118
01:34:35,838 --> 01:34:37,631
So I'm thinking,
1119
01:34:39,008 --> 01:34:41,010
maybe I should get back on my wire.
1120
01:34:43,888 --> 01:34:45,139
He's coming back out.
1121
01:35:25,554 --> 01:35:28,057
And then I feel something
1122
01:35:28,140 --> 01:35:31,977
that maybe I've never truly felt before.
1123
01:35:36,148 --> 01:35:37,691
I feel thankful.
1124
01:35:43,614 --> 01:35:46,575
So, I get down on one knee
1125
01:35:46,659 --> 01:35:47,952
and I salute.
1126
01:35:49,036 --> 01:35:51,247
First, I salute the wire,
1127
01:35:52,206 --> 01:35:54,166
then the towers,
1128
01:35:55,209 --> 01:35:58,963
and then I salute the great city of New York.
1129
01:36:25,197 --> 01:36:28,284
Then, as I stand, I see two uniforms.
1130
01:36:28,367 --> 01:36:29,785
The cops.
1131
01:36:30,411 --> 01:36:32,997
Christ Almighty, what the hell is that?
1132
01:36:34,707 --> 01:36:35,708
Cuff him.
1133
01:36:35,791 --> 01:36:37,543
Hey! Get your hands on your head.
1134
01:36:37,626 --> 01:36:38,836
Get down! Get down!
1135
01:36:38,919 --> 01:36:40,713
Get your hands on your head. Down!
1136
01:36:41,172 --> 01:36:42,756
I'm French. I don't speak English.
1137
01:36:42,840 --> 01:36:43,966
What?
1138
01:36:44,049 --> 01:36:46,594
Holy shit. This one's a frog.
1139
01:36:46,677 --> 01:36:48,262
French, I'm French.
1140
01:36:50,473 --> 01:36:53,684
You and twinkle toes are in a lot of trouble,
you know that?
1141
01:36:56,228 --> 01:36:57,646
Look, fella.
1142
01:36:57,730 --> 01:36:59,815
Just come on in
1143
01:37:00,399 --> 01:37:03,402
and we'll talk about it, all right?
1144
01:37:04,945 --> 01:37:06,489
Okay, buddy. Come on.
1145
01:37:06,572 --> 01:37:08,282
Come on in. Yeah.
1146
01:37:08,365 --> 01:37:09,533
Show's over.
1147
01:37:09,617 --> 01:37:11,410
Okay. Come on.
1148
01:37:12,369 --> 01:37:14,205
Parlez-vous American-o?
1149
01:37:17,833 --> 01:37:18,959
Careful!
1150
01:37:23,464 --> 01:37:24,757
Jesus!
1151
01:37:25,633 --> 01:37:27,676
These officers, God bless them,
1152
01:37:27,760 --> 01:37:30,804
they remind me of my days
when I had to run from the police.
1153
01:37:30,888 --> 01:37:33,641
But they can't follow me up here.
1154
01:37:33,724 --> 01:37:35,309
What the hell do we do now?
1155
01:37:57,540 --> 01:38:01,877
By now, I'm becoming aware of the people
on the ground below, watching me.
1156
01:38:02,336 --> 01:38:04,213
My audience.
1157
01:38:04,296 --> 01:38:08,217
And even though this is something
a wire walker should never do,
1158
01:38:08,300 --> 01:38:10,261
I look down.
1159
01:38:37,955 --> 01:38:40,165
And it was...
1160
01:38:43,210 --> 01:38:44,962
It was peaceful.
1161
01:38:45,045 --> 01:38:47,381
It was calm and serene.
1162
01:38:48,215 --> 01:38:49,925
Not dangerous.
1163
01:38:55,222 --> 01:38:56,515
Did you hear that?
1164
01:38:57,099 --> 01:38:58,475
Someone's coming. Go. Go, go now.
1165
01:38:58,559 --> 01:39:00,269
Go, go, go. Go.
1166
01:39:00,352 --> 01:39:01,854
Go, go, go. Go.
1167
01:39:01,937 --> 01:39:03,480
- GO, go!
-Okay.
1168
01:39:13,198 --> 01:39:14,491
- They're over here.
-We're on the roof.
1169
01:39:14,575 --> 01:39:15,784
Hey, buddy!
1170
01:39:16,160 --> 01:39:17,661
What are you doing out there?
1171
01:39:19,496 --> 01:39:21,457
Jesus. Hey, get a load of this!
1172
01:39:21,540 --> 01:39:22,833
This fool has gone and lost his mind.
1173
01:39:22,916 --> 01:39:23,917
Hey- Hey, pallie.
1174
01:39:24,001 --> 01:39:25,836
Why don't you come down
off that thing, all right?
1175
01:39:25,919 --> 01:39:27,171
Why you doing this?
1176
01:39:27,921 --> 01:39:29,214
Come on.
1177
01:39:29,298 --> 01:39:32,009
Okay, hey. Stop wastin' everyone's time!
1178
01:39:32,092 --> 01:39:33,969
Come on. Get down off that wire now!
1179
01:39:34,053 --> 01:39:35,012
Quit foolin' around.
1180
01:39:35,095 --> 01:39:36,722
Okay, hey, hard-on.
1181
01:39:37,139 --> 01:39:39,016
Shit. Shit.
1182
01:39:39,099 --> 01:39:40,351
Hey, hey, hey-
1183
01:39:40,434 --> 01:39:41,852
Don't fall, buddy!
1184
01:39:41,935 --> 01:39:43,562
Hey, hey, don't go fallin'!
1185
01:39:44,146 --> 01:39:46,815
- Goddamn it.
-Freakin' believe this little pissant?
1186
01:39:47,608 --> 01:39:50,653
Now with police on both rooftops,
I have no choice.
1187
01:39:50,736 --> 01:39:52,196
I have to stay on my wire.
1188
01:39:53,947 --> 01:39:55,324
- Buddy.
-No. No.
1189
01:40:24,353 --> 01:40:26,105
Unbelievable.
1190
01:40:47,126 --> 01:40:48,419
All right. You get him.
1191
01:40:48,502 --> 01:40:50,212
- I got your back.
-Yeah, okay. I...
1192
01:40:50,295 --> 01:40:51,380
- You got me?
-I got you.
1193
01:40:51,463 --> 01:40:52,548
- You got me, okay?
-Yes.
1194
01:40:52,631 --> 01:40:54,007
Okay, come on.
1195
01:40:54,425 --> 01:40:55,592
- That's it. Nice and slowly.
-All right.
1196
01:40:55,676 --> 01:40:56,844
- Let's go.
-All right, come on.
1197
01:40:56,927 --> 01:40:58,721
- That's it. Nice and slowly, buddy.
-Got it.
1198
01:40:59,179 --> 01:41:00,222
- Hold.
-That's it.
1199
01:41:00,305 --> 01:41:01,849
Come on, buddy.
1200
01:41:01,932 --> 01:41:03,267
Okay.
1201
01:41:03,642 --> 01:41:05,018
Here we go.
1202
01:41:05,644 --> 01:41:07,896
Here we go. Yeah.
1203
01:41:08,856 --> 01:41:11,191
Okay, man. Yeah.
1204
01:41:11,275 --> 01:41:13,444
Here we... Okay. One more.
1205
01:41:14,528 --> 01:41:16,530
- What... What are you doing?
-Damn.
1206
01:41:16,822 --> 01:41:18,198
What are you doing?
1207
01:41:19,658 --> 01:41:21,034
- You S.O.B.!
-Damn.
1208
01:41:21,118 --> 01:41:22,286
Come on!
1209
01:41:22,369 --> 01:41:23,996
Unbelievable!
1210
01:42:08,832 --> 01:42:10,626
Now I've seen everything.
1211
01:42:10,709 --> 01:42:11,960
Damn straight.
1212
01:42:12,044 --> 01:42:13,629
This dude is righteous.
1213
01:42:13,712 --> 01:42:15,172
He better start wrapping it up.
1214
01:42:15,255 --> 01:42:16,965
There's a storm front moving in.
1215
01:42:24,014 --> 01:42:28,560
There on my back, the sky fills my vision.
1216
01:42:28,644 --> 01:42:29,895
The clouds,
1217
01:42:32,022 --> 01:42:33,732
they're like music.
1218
01:42:36,485 --> 01:42:38,821
Then, something appears.
1219
01:42:41,281 --> 01:42:42,616
An apparition.
1220
01:42:42,699 --> 01:42:43,909
A bird!
1221
01:42:45,577 --> 01:42:47,704
This bird is looking at me.
1222
01:42:48,539 --> 01:42:51,458
And I feel this silent threat.
1223
01:43:01,426 --> 01:43:02,511
Easy. Easy.
1224
01:43:02,594 --> 01:43:03,762
Easy!
1225
01:43:10,894 --> 01:43:13,188
Suddenly, I'm invaded by doubts.
1226
01:43:13,272 --> 01:43:16,066
I'm thinking maybe
the cable is tired of supporting me.
1227
01:43:16,483 --> 01:43:18,819
What if my towers are talking to each other?
1228
01:43:18,902 --> 01:43:21,238
What if they've had enough?
What if they decide to eject me?
1229
01:43:25,450 --> 01:43:26,702
No, no, no. He's okay.
1230
01:43:26,785 --> 01:43:30,581
I'm thinking maybe it's time
for me to end this trespassing.
1231
01:43:39,298 --> 01:43:42,050
This is the New York Port Authority Police!
1232
01:43:44,219 --> 01:43:47,514
Remove yourself from the wire immediately.
1233
01:43:47,598 --> 01:43:50,642
You're in violation of
about 100 city ordinances.
1234
01:43:57,608 --> 01:44:00,402
I want you off that wire immediately
1235
01:44:00,485 --> 01:44:04,615
or we will be forced to take steps
to remove you from it.
1236
01:44:04,948 --> 01:44:06,491
You tell him to come in!
1237
01:44:15,500 --> 01:44:16,501
Philippe!!
1238
01:44:23,008 --> 01:44:24,676
You tell him to come in!
1239
01:44:25,385 --> 01:44:26,803
Philippe!!
1240
01:44:33,977 --> 01:44:38,273
But I can't end my walk
on a moment of doubt
1241
01:44:38,357 --> 01:44:41,068
with curled shoulders and hanging head.
1242
01:44:42,569 --> 01:44:43,904
I decide.
1243
01:44:44,529 --> 01:44:48,241
I will only leave my wire and my towers
1244
01:44:48,325 --> 01:44:49,534
in victory.
1245
01:45:33,078 --> 01:45:34,538
Nice and close, now.
1246
01:45:36,289 --> 01:45:37,749
I got you.
1247
01:45:39,418 --> 01:45:41,128
Reach. Grab him, grab him.
1248
01:45:43,005 --> 01:45:44,589
Attaboy. There you go.
1249
01:45:50,762 --> 01:45:53,724
Officers of the New York Police Department,
1250
01:45:54,766 --> 01:45:56,059
thank you for your patience.
1251
01:45:56,143 --> 01:45:57,853
I announce my arrival to the police.
1252
01:45:57,936 --> 01:46:01,023
- My walk between these magnificent towers...
- I tell them my work is finished.
1253
01:46:01,106 --> 01:46:02,357
...is now finished.
1254
01:46:02,441 --> 01:46:04,526
But my walk is not finished.
1255
01:46:04,609 --> 01:46:06,737
I still have three more steps to do.
1256
01:46:19,875 --> 01:46:21,209
Are you okay?
1257
01:46:21,293 --> 01:46:22,377
Easy.
1258
01:46:38,977 --> 01:46:40,854
- Okay, come on. Come on.
-All right.
1259
01:46:44,399 --> 01:46:45,817
- I got it. I got it.
-Careful.
1260
01:46:45,901 --> 01:46:48,153
My name is Philippe Petit. I'm a wire walker.
1261
01:46:48,653 --> 01:46:50,822
- Get down, smart-ass.
-Come on.
1262
01:46:50,906 --> 01:46:52,157
Show's over.
1263
01:46:52,240 --> 01:46:53,325
Bobby, hook him up.
1264
01:47:09,341 --> 01:47:11,009
Bring it in!
1265
01:47:13,804 --> 01:47:14,930
What'd you think?
1266
01:47:15,764 --> 01:47:17,140
Told you. Told you.
1267
01:47:17,224 --> 01:47:18,350
Oh, my God.
1268
01:47:18,850 --> 01:47:20,644
Philippe, you've done it.
1269
01:47:21,061 --> 01:47:22,395
My Philippe-
1270
01:47:27,776 --> 01:47:29,569
No, no, no! No, don't cut the wire!
1271
01:47:29,653 --> 01:47:30,612
Don't cut my wire!
1272
01:47:30,695 --> 01:47:31,696
- No!
1273
01:47:31,780 --> 01:47:33,990
- Nobody gives a damn about your wire!
-There's too much tension!
1274
01:47:34,074 --> 01:47:35,909
It will snap! It will hurt somebody!
You have to believe me!
1275
01:47:35,992 --> 01:47:38,286
- Hold on. Hold on, guys.
-You have to loosen it with the grip hoist.
1276
01:47:38,370 --> 01:47:39,913
He's right. Where's the handle?
1277
01:47:39,996 --> 01:47:42,874
It's hidden in a hole in the wall.
1278
01:48:12,904 --> 01:48:14,239
There he is.
1279
01:48:14,948 --> 01:48:16,283
Make a hole, make a hole!
1280
01:48:17,033 --> 01:48:19,202
All right. Out of the way!
1281
01:48:40,891 --> 01:48:42,058
Watch your fingers.
1282
01:48:42,142 --> 01:48:43,476
They're comin' down, Lou.
1283
01:49:02,787 --> 01:49:04,206
I gotta hand it to you damn frogs.
1284
01:49:04,289 --> 01:49:06,291
You sure pulled the wool over my eyes.
1285
01:49:08,668 --> 01:49:10,212
I gotta tell ya.
1286
01:49:10,295 --> 01:49:11,922
What you did was somethin'.
1287
01:49:12,923 --> 01:49:15,967
I know I'll never see anything like that
again in my life.
1288
01:49:17,260 --> 01:49:18,845
You got guts, pal.
1289
01:49:19,804 --> 01:49:21,056
Good job.
1290
01:49:42,911 --> 01:49:44,746
- Why did you do this?
-Channel 6 News.
1291
01:49:44,829 --> 01:49:46,581
The world would like to know
why are you doing this?
1292
01:49:46,665 --> 01:49:47,874
Channel 3. We wanna know why.
1293
01:49:47,958 --> 01:49:50,252
Why are you attempting
something so dangerous?
1294
01:49:50,335 --> 01:49:51,336
There is no why.
1295
01:49:51,419 --> 01:49:53,129
Just because...
1296
01:49:54,172 --> 01:49:57,634
When I see a beautiful place to put my wire,
I cannot resist.
1297
01:49:57,717 --> 01:50:02,555
Later in the day, a judge sentenced Petit
to walk the wire again.
1298
01:50:02,639 --> 01:50:05,183
But this time, in Central Park,
for a crowd of children
1299
01:50:05,267 --> 01:50:08,019
and only a few feet off the ground.
1300
01:50:09,229 --> 01:50:13,024
The story of the coup was in the news
all over the world!
1301
01:50:13,108 --> 01:50:17,946
In France, when Papa Rudy heard about it,
he was the happiest Papa Rudy that there is.
1302
01:50:18,029 --> 01:50:20,949
And when Papa Rudy's angry,
he's deadly angry.
1303
01:50:21,032 --> 01:50:22,951
But when Papa Rudy's happy,
1304
01:50:23,034 --> 01:50:25,287
his dogs get a double ration of food.
1305
01:50:30,959 --> 01:50:33,962
The most fantastic moment for me was
1306
01:50:34,045 --> 01:50:37,173
when I saw you answered
my shooting signal.
1307
01:50:37,257 --> 01:50:39,592
At that moment, I knew
the coup would be a success.
1308
01:50:39,676 --> 01:50:41,469
What you mean? We almost lost the arrow.
1309
01:50:41,553 --> 01:50:42,637
It was on the edge of the building.
1310
01:50:42,721 --> 01:50:45,598
No. it was exactly where I was aiming.
1311
01:50:45,682 --> 01:50:46,891
So you admit it?
1312
01:50:46,975 --> 01:50:48,393
You wanted to see him in his birthday suit.
1313
01:50:48,518 --> 01:50:49,602
Yeah.
1314
01:50:51,146 --> 01:50:52,856
Okay. Okay, okay.
1315
01:50:52,939 --> 01:50:55,150
I would like to make a toast now.
1316
01:50:56,735 --> 01:50:59,237
To all of you, my accomplices.
1317
01:50:59,571 --> 01:51:01,406
I know I can be...
1318
01:51:02,365 --> 01:51:03,825
A bit difficult.
1319
01:51:05,869 --> 01:51:09,497
But, but you never gave up on me.
1320
01:51:10,623 --> 01:51:14,169
And because of this,
I was able to walk on that wire.
1321
01:51:14,252 --> 01:51:17,714
So for allowing me this honor, thank you.
1322
01:51:21,926 --> 01:51:23,845
- You mean "cheers."
-Cheers!
1323
01:51:23,928 --> 01:51:25,513
Cheers, cheers!
1324
01:51:27,182 --> 01:51:28,975
Look at that.
1325
01:51:29,100 --> 01:51:30,727
I mean, we did it, Philippe.
1326
01:51:30,810 --> 01:51:33,521
We showed the world
that anything's possible.
1327
01:51:34,356 --> 01:51:35,690
They're different.
1328
01:51:35,774 --> 01:51:37,567
Hey, Philippe, they're different now.
1329
01:51:38,109 --> 01:51:39,569
Yeah, that's right.
1330
01:51:39,652 --> 01:51:42,238
They're different
because you walked up there.
1331
01:51:43,448 --> 01:51:47,285
You know every New Yorker I talk to now
says they love these towers?
1332
01:51:50,205 --> 01:51:52,290
Perhaps you brought them to life,
1333
01:51:53,291 --> 01:51:54,959
given them a soul.
1334
01:52:13,478 --> 01:52:16,773
Jean-Louis and Jeff,
soon afterward, they returned to France.
1335
01:52:16,856 --> 01:52:18,274
But I stayed.
1336
01:52:18,358 --> 01:52:21,319
I was proud to become a New Yorker.
1337
01:52:21,945 --> 01:52:25,407
Now, in order to stay,
I had to pay my debt to society.
1338
01:52:25,490 --> 01:52:29,619
So a judge mandated
that I perform a free walk in Central Park.
1339
01:52:29,702 --> 01:52:31,830
And, of course, I was happy to do this.
1340
01:52:33,581 --> 01:52:34,749
Annie...
1341
01:52:36,042 --> 01:52:37,585
Sadly, Annie returned to France.
1342
01:52:52,642 --> 01:52:55,854
You accomplished your dream.
It's time for me to find mine.
1343
01:53:16,374 --> 01:53:17,542
Annie.
1344
01:53:19,377 --> 01:53:20,712
Thank you.
1345
01:53:20,795 --> 01:53:22,172
For everything.
1346
01:53:25,550 --> 01:53:27,635
I'm glad the towers called you.
1347
01:53:50,200 --> 01:53:51,284
That was incredible.
1348
01:53:51,367 --> 01:53:53,286
- Just don't do that again.
-No, never.
1349
01:53:54,746 --> 01:53:57,165
And you remember Guy Tozzoli
from the press conference,
1350
01:53:57,248 --> 01:53:59,501
one of the men
behind the creation of the towers.
1351
01:53:59,584 --> 01:54:00,668
He loved the walk,
1352
01:54:00,752 --> 01:54:03,087
and he gave me a pass
to the observation deck
1353
01:54:03,171 --> 01:54:04,797
so I could go anytime I wanted.
1354
01:54:05,507 --> 01:54:07,967
And I went there many times alone.
1355
01:54:23,816 --> 01:54:26,861
I would find myself there, looking at the void
1356
01:54:26,945 --> 01:54:29,239
to see how the thought comes back,
1357
01:54:29,322 --> 01:54:30,907
how the feeling returns.
1358
01:54:50,218 --> 01:54:51,844
Because it was...
1359
01:54:53,555 --> 01:54:55,139
it was a beautiful day.
1360
01:54:56,224 --> 01:54:58,351
And you know this pass I was given.
1361
01:54:58,434 --> 01:55:00,853
Well, these passes, they have a date on them,
1362
01:55:00,937 --> 01:55:01,980
a date when they expire.
1363
01:55:02,063 --> 01:55:05,817
But on my pass,
Mr. Tozzoli, he crossed out the date,
1364
01:55:06,943 --> 01:55:08,528
and he wrote on it,
1365
01:55:09,487 --> 01:55:10,863
"Forever."