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MAN ON WIRE
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:38 am
by deamonds
fucking gangster...
Re: MAN ON WIRE
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:43 am
by the acid never lies
deamonds wrote:
fucking firecrotch...
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:45 am
by Dead Rats
That's me in about 30 years, mate, so don't be chattin' shit

Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:47 am
by the acid never lies
^ yeah deamonds, that's no way to conduct yourself
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:49 am
by kins83
I'd never heard of him
What a nutter!
"I observed the tightrope 'dancer'—because you couldn't call him a 'walker'—approximately halfway between the two towers. And upon seeing us he started to smile and laugh and he started going into a dancing routine on the high wire....And when he got to the building we asked him to get off the high wire but instead he turned around and ran back out into the middle....He was bouncing up and down. His feet were actually leaving the wire and then he would resettle back on the wire again....Unbelievable really....[E]verybody was spellbound in the watching of it."
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:58 am
by drift
loony loony loony
fair play though, fuckin kahonas on the man

Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 9:18 am
by lowpass
me and the misses went to see this at a cinema thinking it would be a crazy action film......
oh how we were wrong

Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 9:31 am
by boomstix
so its a film of a man on a wire??
kind of defeats the purpose if he's not going to maybe fall off doesn't it?
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:04 am
by dubluke
really enjoyed this, read his book about it as well loads of times (i recommend anyone who enjoyed the film watches it, its really good and you get much more of a sense of build up as it details the years and years of planning that went into it, as long as all the funny little anecdotes from planning) - he seems like a really cool guy, full of energy and that, what a legend!!
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:16 am
by distraction
shit was dry.
1.5 hours and there wasn't even a video at the end just a couple of photos.
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:26 am
by deamonds
boomstix wrote:kind of defeats the purpose if he's not going to maybe fall off doesn't it?
did you actaully even watch it?
he is very ecentric luke, although i think it suits his character beautifully, full of vibrance, best thing I have watched in a while...
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:33 am
by magma
Been meaning to buy this on DVD for ages and then caught the last half on TV last night by accident. Amazing. Fucking amazing.
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 11:36 am
by Pistonsbeneath
got the dvd of this...it' £5 in fopp in covent garden if you're near
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 11:45 am
by wormcode
Funny seeing this topic, I was just watching it again and reading more about it day before yesterday. It's great, I really enjoyed it. I wish I could witness something like that one day, it clearly affected those people in the interviews, even to this day.
Lowpass wrote:me and the misses went to see this at a cinema thinking it would be a crazy action film......
oh how we were wrong


Thought maybe it was a sequel to "Man on Fire" with Denzel? That one was pretty decent from what I remember.
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 12:51 pm
by incnic
awsome film imo
but he is such a french tnuc for fobbing off his girlfriend straight after he walked. met up with some groupie and forgot the woman taht supported him for years.
the french can do one

Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:36 am
by isiahfire
Sick film, and the actual walk at the end is one of sickest things i've ever seen.
But the guy is clearly insane.
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:46 am
by boomstix
deamonds wrote:boomstix wrote:kind of defeats the purpose if he's not going to maybe fall off doesn't it?
did you actaully even watch it?
no, you got me, i didn't watch it.

Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:30 am
by lowpass
incnic wrote:awsome film imo
but he is such a french tnuc for fobbing off his girlfriend straight after he walked. met up with some groupie and forgot the woman taht supported him for years.
the french can do one

I remember that shit, messed up. He proper went into detail about how it was "right" for him to do at the time and all that crap. pscht
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:00 pm
by Hibbie
Watched this a while ago, really like it but found it really annoying and a bit of a anti climax with there being no footage at the end walking between the two towers, the pictures looked good and went with Gymnopedie no1 really well but some footage would of been nice. Did they prepare all that shit and forget a video camera? Also the guy is a arrogant fuck, fame is no excuse to screw your missus over who has stuck by you for all that time, apparently all his friends from back then have nothing to do with him anymore. Suppose you gotta be that arrogant to do something like that.
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 8:01 am
by deamonds
I cant quite see why everyone keeps saying there was no footage of him walking between the towers?? there was loads??