Man On Wire

[ColinJ]

I watched the DVD of Man On Wire last night. It's a documentary film about a mad Frenchman's wirewalk between the two towers of the World Trade Center in 1974. Even the photographs were getting my acrophobia going - yikes!

It was a stunning feat. I'm just glad that I never had the urge to do crazy things like that...

The film is 90 minutes long and I thought it was well worth watching.

 

[snakehips]

I saw it at the cinema last year , agree on all counts.

 

[merlinmagic]

Wasn't that the guy who didn't get permission and just did it on a sort of whim.

110 floors up and no safety net. Just the wire and him.

Been meaning to see that film.

 

[ColinJ]

Wasn't that the guy who didn't get permission and just did it on a sort of whim.

110 floors up and no safety net. Just the wire and him.

Been meaning to see that film.

That's the one...

They didn't have permission. I say 'they' because obviously rigging a wire between two adjacent buildings when you aren't supposed to be doing it takes a lot of planning and several pairs of hands.

 

[merlinmagic]

Yeah I heard about it (the film).

It got good reviews from what I understand. Will keep an eye out for it in our local Zavvi. Where they are having a sale somewhat.

Can't think why.

 

[Keith Oates]

I haven't seen the movie but agree about the agrophobia, I get the same feeling when looking at documentary programmes about building some of the new and very high sky scrapers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[yorkshiregoth]

Don't you mean vertigo? (Fear of heights rather than open spaces)

 

[ColinJ]

I had to look up the word acrophobia (I remembered that it wasn't vertigo). I do actually suffer from vertigo in high places but it is caused by the acrophobia. What really worries me about being in exposed high places is that I am prone to fainting when very stressed...

Official Man On Wire website - you can see the trailer for the film there.

 

[yorkshiregoth]

I stand partially corrected

 

[sheddy]

Acrowphobia is a fear of the roof falling

 

[Keith Oates]

I stand partially corrected

I wrote agrophobia to test if anyone was really reading the post................by the way I do tell inexactitudes at times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ColinJ]

I wrote agrophobia to test if anyone was really reading the post................by the way I do tell inexactitudes at times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I spotted the 'deliberate mistake' Keith, but we were already using the correct word and it would have seemed churlish to point out the mistake!