MAN ON WIRE

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:38 am

fucking gangster...

the acid never lies · Post by **the acid never lies** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:43 am

deamonds wrote: fucking firecrotch...

Dead Rats · Post by **Dead Rats** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:45 am

That's me in about 30 years, mate, so don't be chattin' shit

the acid never lies · Post by **the acid never lies** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:47 am

^ yeah deamonds, that's no way to conduct yourself

kins83 · Post by **kins83** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:49 am

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."

drift · Post by **drift** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:58 am

loony loony loony

fair play though, fuckin kahonas on the man

lowpass · Post by **lowpass** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 9:18 am

me and the misses went to see this at a cinema thinking it would be a crazy action film......

oh how we were wrong

boomstix · Post by **boomstix** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 9:31 am

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?

dubluke · Post by **dubluke** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:04 am

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!!

distraction · Post by **distraction** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:16 am

shit was dry.

1.5 hours and there wasn't even a video at the end just a couple of photos.

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:26 am

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...

magma · Post by **magma** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:33 am

Been meaning to buy this on DVD for ages and then caught the last half on TV last night by accident. Amazing. Fucking amazing.

Pistonsbeneath · Post by **Pistonsbeneath** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 11:36 am

got the dvd of this...it' £5 in fopp in covent garden if you're near

wormcode · Post by **wormcode** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 11:45 am

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.

incnic · Post by **incnic** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 12:51 pm

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

isiahfire · Post by **isiahfire** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:36 am

Sick film, and the actual walk at the end is one of sickest things i've ever seen.
But the guy is clearly insane.

boomstix · Post by **boomstix** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:46 am

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.

lowpass · Post by **lowpass** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:30 am

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

Hibbie · Post by **Hibbie** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:00 pm

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.

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 8:01 am

I cant quite see why everyone keeps saying there was no footage of him walking between the towers?? there was loads??

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