![]() The 2008 documentary Man on Wire, directed by James Marsh, won the Academy Award for his retelling of the day's events. (Check out Vox's review, which says it'll give you "dizzying vertigo.") So how does the Hollywood depiction compare to the real-life events? (Warning: spoilers up ahead.)įirst things first: The Walk isn't the first film about Philippe Petit's "coup," as he called it. In 2015, filmmaker Robert Zemeckis honored the feat in a film called The Walk, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Petit. ![]() The hullabaloo was over a Frenchman named Philippe Petit, who was walking on a high wire more than 1,300 feet in the air, suspended between the tops of the Twin Towers of the old World Trade Center. On Wednesday, August 7, 1974, people in Lower Manhattan stopped in their tracks to watch a strange event in the sky-not a bird, not a plane, and certainly not Superman. This post was originally published in September 2015.
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