For the record ...

[apocalypsos]

... I highly, HIGHLY recommend Man On Wire. This is a wonderful documentary. If you haven't heard of it before, it's about the Frenchman who walked a wire between the two towers of the WTC in 1974.

There's a romance here, between the wirewalker and the Twin Towers, and there's awe and joy and madness. It's a fascinating movie. There's no mention of what happened to the buildings later, just this dreamy daring French guy Phillipe the wirewalker who's this totally enchanting character you can hardly imagine is real, except he IS. I'm sitting here with this huuuuge grin on my face right now feeling amazing about everything and they're not even at the main event yet.

If you have Netflix, you can watch it instantly. God, this is wonderful.

*may be crying ... dudes, shut up ...sniff ...*

Comments

[deirdre-c.livejournal.com]

Someone should write it as a J2... with Jensen as the walker and Jared as a Tower. ;)

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

The other half of the story is the last hour of Ken Burn's New York, which was filmed after the Towers went down - the rest of his movie wasn't - and he interviews Phillipe in it and gets his reaction to 9/11. As I recall, he characterises it as finding out that a lover had died. I know on Netflix it's the last disc of the documentary.

Both are absolutely fantastic movies.

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

I love it when people I know plug stuff my company made! ;) Ratings! Ratings! Ad sales! Ad sales! That means my fiance and I can both not get laid off this year! ;)

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

I saw Man on Wire a couple of months ago, and I want to look Phillipe's address up so I can write him fan mail.

*passes the tissues*

[extraonions.livejournal.com]

There's a children's book that was written a few years back as well-- fairly popular choice in my old, dear library among kids and parents: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordecai Gerstein.