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Why?

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That is the question
people ask me most.

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<i>Pourquoi?</i>
Why? For what?

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Why do you walk on the wire?

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Why do you tempt fate?

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Why do you risk death?

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But...

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I don't think of it this way.
I never even say this word.

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Death. <i>La mort.</i>

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Yes, okay, I said it once or,
or, maybe three times just now.

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But watch, I will
not say it again.

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Instead, I use
the opposite word.

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Life.

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For me, to walk on
the wire, this is life.

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<i>C'est la vie.</i>

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So,

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picture with me, it's
1974, New York City,

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and I am in love with
two buildings, two towers.

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Or as everyone in the world calls them,
the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.

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They call to me,

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these towers, they stir
something inside of me,

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and they inspire in me, a dream.

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My dream...

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is to hang a high-wire
between those Twin Towers,

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and walk on it.

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Of course,
uh, this is impossible,

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not to mention illegal.

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So, why attempt the impossible?

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Why follow your dream?

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But I cannot answer this
question, "Why?" Not with words.

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But I can show you
how it happened.

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And so, we must go back in
time and across the ocean,

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because my love affair with these
beautiful towers did not begin in New York.

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In case you couldn't tell,
I'm not from here.

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No. My story begins in another one
of the world's most beautiful cities.

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<i>C'est Paris.</i>

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<i>♪ Ah, douce ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Ma candy, candy ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Sous le ciel de midi ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Tu es vraiment trop jolie ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Candy... ♪</i>

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<i>So, now, picture Paris.</i>

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<i>Here I am, a self-proclaimed wire
walker that nobody on Earth cares about,</i>

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<i>surviving as a troubadour
performing in the streets.</i>

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<i>I've created a character.
I have a top hat.</i>

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<i>I wear only black. I teach myself
to draw a perfect circle on the ground,</i>

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<i>and within this circle, I
never speak, not one word.</i>

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<i>The circle is my domain,</i>

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<i>and I don't allow even
half of a toe inside of it.</i>

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<i>And if the spectators continue
to violate my sacred space,</i>

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<i>well, I must employ
more drastic measures.</i>

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<i>♪ Oui gris c'est gris ♪</i>

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<i>I perform for anyone who will
watch me, and people love it.</i>

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<i>Man, woman, young, old, everyone.</i>

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<i>Except, of course, the police.</i>

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Police! Stop!

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<i>♪ Et je perds tout ♪</i>

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<i>I don't believe
in getting a permit.</i>

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<i>But no matter where I was
going or what I was doing,</i>

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<i>I was always searching,</i>

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<i>looking for the perfect
place to hang my wire.</i>

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<i>♪ Mais un jour viendra
où tu vas t'brûler ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Huh! ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Un autre a pris ta
place et moi je l'aime, yeah ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Et ce qu'il est,
tu n'le seras jamais ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Ces bottes sont
faites pour marcher ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Et tu vas l'regretter ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Car je mettrai ces bottes ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Un jour ou l'autre
pour te quitter ♪</i>

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<i>Bonjour, Madame.</i>

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I have a horrible toothache.
I need to see a dentist right away!

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Did you call for an appointment?

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No, I don't have a telephone.

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You'll have to wait.

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Wait? But madame... please?

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It shouldn't be
more than two hours.

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You expect me to suffer
like this for hours?

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Very well, I will wait.

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I hope I don't
collapse from the pain.

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Good morning sir.
Are you well?

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Nice to meet you, really.

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Suddenly, I freeze.

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<i>The pain in my tooth is gone.</i>

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<i>In the magazine, there's an article
with an illustration about the towers.</i>

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<i>They're not even finished yet,</i>

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<i>but the magazine says
that once they are,</i>

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<i>they will be the
tallest in the world.</i>

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<i>And with this
tiny pencil stroke,</i>

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<i>my fate was sealed.</i>

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<i>This was the
beginning of my dream.</i>

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<i>The first time I ever saw a wire
walker, I was eight years old.</i>

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<i>The circus had come to my town,</i>

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<i>and it featured The
Omankowsky Family Troupe,</i>

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<i>one of the greatest
wire-walking troupes in the world.</i>

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<i>The White Devils.</i>

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My son, the circus clown.

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<i>And I teach
myself to walk on that rope.</i>

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And it turns out, I have some talent
for climbing and balancing, even juggling.

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But I want to know more.

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Hey!

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Get down from there!

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What are you doing?

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- Okay, okay.

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Get out of there!

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- Okay, okay, I'm going down!
- Are you suicidal or what? Idiot!

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- Faster! Faster!
- Okay, I'm coming!

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<i>So this is how
I meet Rudy Omankowsky, Sr.,</i>

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<i>the patriarch of The White
Devils wire-walking family,</i>

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<i>who everybody calls "Papa Rudy."</i>

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<i>He would never say
exactly where he was from.</i>

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<i>He was certainly not French.</i>

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Hurry up! Hey!

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Hey!

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<i>Papa Rudy was a supreme
wire walker, acrobat and juggler.</i>

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<i>And in that moment, I
suppose he saw something in me.</i>

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Philippe!

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Are you listening to me?

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I don't speak Czech.

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Oh.

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- Uh...
- I speak...

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- I speak English.
- Okay.

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Today, you're going to learn
how to make entrance.

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You need to learn
how to compliment.

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Compliment? What's that?

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A compliment
is a... silent message,

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an order to the audience
to pay attention.

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And after the performance, a compliment
is also, uh... an offering of gratitude.

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A... salute.

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Ah!

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Salute.

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Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

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Come on, try!

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No, Philippe.
That was terrible.

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You're doing too much. Eh?

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Do nothing. Now, try again.

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No! I said, "Do nothing!"

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You're still doing too much!
You look like a coward.

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The audience must always
feel you are in control.

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Stop trying so hard! Huh?

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Do nothing. Do it again.

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Ah! Where's your respect? You
didn't do anything.

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But you said to do nothing!

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Do nothing on the outside. Huh.

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On the inside, in your
heart, you must salute.

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"In my heart?"

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What the
hell are you talking about?

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But the performer
must have an honest respect

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and, and gratitude
for the audience.

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But why should I respect the
audience? It is me on the wire.

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You will salute the
audience and pay respect!

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There is no
show without an audience!

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Unless you understand
that, you will never perform in circus.

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Good, okay, me, I don't
want to perform in the circus.

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I am not some
ridiculous circus clown.

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I am an artist!

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- Thank you!
<i>- So, just like that,</i>

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Papa Rudy threw my artistic
little ass out into the street.

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And, a short time later...

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You waste your life
with your stupid circus tricks!

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Wire-walking won't put
bread on your table!

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Could we give him
one last chance?

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No.
The carrots are cooked.

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That's right! The
carrots are cooked!

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Philippe!

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The carrots were
cooked. There was nothing left to do.

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So, I set off on my way.

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I didn't even know
what I was looking for

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but, I figured I
might find it in Paris.

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<i>♪ ...voudrais lui dire ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Tu n'as pas d'amour pour elle ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Elle t'appelle dans ses ondes ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Et laisse la mer répondre ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Que depuis toujours tu l'aimes ♪</i>

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<i>♪ And you want to travel with her ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Maintenant, tu n'as plus peur ♪</i>

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<i>♪ De voyager les yeux fermés... ♪</i>

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<i>♪ For she's touched your
perfect body with her mind ♪</i>

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I had a great thing
going, until you showed up.

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Can you hear me now?

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A mime who speaks?

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Uh no. I'm not a mime. I don't
hide behind imaginary walls.

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Please don't insult my circle.

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It's my sacred space.

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Ah. <i>Merci</i>.

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I'd be much
obliged if y'all could just mosey along.

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This here is a
private conversation.

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Well, shut my mouth.

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- We thought you were putting on a show.
- No, it ain't.

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This here's for y'all.

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Well, thank you kindly.

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Bye, now.

193
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Wow, I love your English.
It sounds so American.

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Dirty thief.

195
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I think I
like better the English.

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Who do you
think you are? Bastard.

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Ah, yes, I
certainly prefer the English.

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Then listen, juggler. You
stole my best audience in weeks.

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And for what? Some cheap stunt?

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Well, I'm sorry, but
people love my high-wire.

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Oh, you call that a high-wire?

202
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That was the lowest
high-wire I've ever seen.

203
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Ah, you're right, <i>mademoiselle.</i>

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But that is because the two
tallest trees in this square

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were in your performance space.

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And me, I would never invade
the space of another artist.

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It's going to rain.

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Angry street musician.

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I would like to make
you an arrangement.

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I will only play in that square
when you are not playing.

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Oh, that's every weekend
and every second Tuesday.

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Okay, deal.

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My name is Philippe.

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- Annie.
- Annie, it's a nice name.

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Why all the English?

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Ah, because I must practice.
I'm going to New York.

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Ah, New York.
That's very exciting.

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- Yes? Maybe you'll come with me.
- Yeah, maybe.

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I like the way you
sing. It's very good.

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You were not
listening to me sing.

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You were playing
with fire on a rope.

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Oh, no, before that,
I was here earlier.

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Maybe you did not see me, but
I saw you, and I heard you sing.

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It was beautiful.

225
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Well, thank you.

226
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Annie, may I buy
you a glass of wine?

227
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No, I don't think
that's a good idea.

228
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Yes, then I will make
you an arrangement.

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If you let me buy
you a glass of wine,

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I will never hang my rope anywhere
in the Latin Quarter ever again.

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You don't give up. Do you?

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No. No, I'm very,
uh, persistent.

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And...

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There you go.

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My dream.

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- And this is you.
- Yes.

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It will be the most glorious
high-wire walk in history.

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And how high must this wire be
to make so much glory?

239
00:19:26,862 --> 00:19:28,864
Over 100 stories high.

240
00:19:31,182 --> 00:19:32,866
Where do trees like this grow?

241
00:19:34,702 --> 00:19:35,703
These are not trees.

242
00:19:37,422 --> 00:19:39,504
Two magnificent towers.

243
00:19:40,222 --> 00:19:43,066
One hundred meters taller
than the Eiffel Tower itself.

244
00:19:43,422 --> 00:19:44,423
I see.

245
00:19:45,662 --> 00:19:46,943
What do you think?

246
00:19:47,703 --> 00:19:50,070
I don't know. It looks so...

247
00:19:52,343 --> 00:19:53,629
- So...
- Beautiful.

248
00:19:55,183 --> 00:19:56,548
Beautiful, yes.

249
00:19:56,983 --> 00:19:58,508
And dangerous.

250
00:19:58,583 --> 00:20:01,792
And completely
insane. And you're a madman.

251
00:20:01,863 --> 00:20:03,706
Yes, I am mad, but this...

252
00:20:04,423 --> 00:20:05,754
This is my dream.

253
00:20:07,743 --> 00:20:09,428
Then, if it's your
dream, you must do it.

254
00:20:09,664 --> 00:20:11,746
But even if everybody
tells me I'm mad?

255
00:20:11,824 --> 00:20:13,880
Well, you shouldn't care about
what other people think.

256
00:20:13,904 --> 00:20:15,269
Okay, but I care what you think.

257
00:20:17,424 --> 00:20:19,074
I love your dream, Philippe.

258
00:20:19,144 --> 00:20:20,145
- Yes?
- Yes.

259
00:20:20,224 --> 00:20:21,640
Do you want to know
what I think about you?

260
00:20:21,664 --> 00:20:22,665
- No.
- No?

261
00:20:22,744 --> 00:20:24,314
- Not even a little bit?
- No, no.

262
00:20:24,424 --> 00:20:26,426
Okay, but I'm going
to tell you anyway.

263
00:20:26,824 --> 00:20:28,394
You can tell me,
but I won't care.

264
00:20:44,585 --> 00:20:47,236
I know a place where
there are two beautiful trees.

265
00:20:50,185 --> 00:20:51,869
<i>I didn't realize it at the time</i>

266
00:20:51,945 --> 00:20:55,155
<i>but Annie had become
my first accomplice.</i>

267
00:20:59,426 --> 00:21:01,235
- Annie.
- Yes?

268
00:21:01,746 --> 00:21:03,271
I was thinking...

269
00:21:03,626 --> 00:21:05,151
you should come up here with me.

270
00:21:05,346 --> 00:21:06,677
No, I don't think so.

271
00:21:06,746 --> 00:21:09,875
Yes! It will be your
baptism of the wire.

272
00:21:10,466 --> 00:21:11,467
No.

273
00:21:11,626 --> 00:21:13,594
Come on, Annie.
You must trust me.

274
00:21:17,907 --> 00:21:18,908
Okay.

275
00:21:20,317 --> 00:21:22,638
And, breathe,

276
00:21:22,787 --> 00:21:24,277
and, step.

277
00:21:24,787 --> 00:21:29,634
<i>Indeed, there were two beautiful trees
growing in the park of Annie's art school.</i>

278
00:21:29,907 --> 00:21:32,558
<i>So, she arranged for me to
be able to hang my wire there and...</i>

279
00:21:33,067 --> 00:21:36,067
<i>It was perfect, 'cause I
could practice every day and...</i>

280
00:21:36,347 --> 00:21:37,712
<i>I could see Annie as well.</i>

281
00:21:43,148 --> 00:21:45,515
<i>Then, one day, while
I was on my wire</i>

282
00:21:45,588 --> 00:21:48,512
<i>I was approached by a very
serious-looking young man.</i>

283
00:21:50,108 --> 00:21:52,178
Do you
mind if I take your photo?

284
00:21:52,828 --> 00:21:53,829
Perhaps.

285
00:21:54,548 --> 00:21:55,549
I am Philippe.

286
00:21:56,548 --> 00:21:57,268
<i>Salut!</i>

287
00:21:57,548 --> 00:21:58,595
Jean-Louis.

288
00:21:58,668 --> 00:22:00,636
Jean-Louis, do
you speak English, Jean-Louis?

289
00:22:00,708 --> 00:22:01,710
Yes. Why?

290
00:22:02,189 --> 00:22:04,317
Because I must practice.
I'm going to America.

291
00:22:04,829 --> 00:22:05,876
To perform?

292
00:22:05,989 --> 00:22:06,990
Exactly.

293
00:22:08,029 --> 00:22:10,839
But my performance
will not just be a show.

294
00:22:11,669 --> 00:22:13,671
It will be a coup.

295
00:22:14,271 --> 00:22:15,468
A coup?

296
00:22:15,469 --> 00:22:16,470
Yes.

297
00:22:16,829 --> 00:22:20,038
I intend to rig
my wire in secret

298
00:22:20,429 --> 00:22:23,273
on the most spectacular
stage in the world.

299
00:22:24,790 --> 00:22:26,360
And then, without warning,

300
00:22:27,670 --> 00:22:28,671
I will appear.

301
00:22:29,350 --> 00:22:32,479
And, I will perform a surprise

302
00:22:32,550 --> 00:22:35,235
and illegal wire walk.

303
00:22:35,950 --> 00:22:39,636
If it works, it will be the
artistic coup of the century.

304
00:22:40,910 --> 00:22:41,911
Wow.

305
00:22:42,430 --> 00:22:46,037
Well, you, my friend, can
see my photographs any time.

306
00:22:46,150 --> 00:22:47,482
They're very rebellious.

307
00:22:47,551 --> 00:22:51,078
So, you are not just a photographer,
you are an anarchist as well?

308
00:22:51,431 --> 00:22:54,002
All artists are
anarchists to some degree.

309
00:22:54,351 --> 00:22:56,240
- Don't you agree?
- Yes.

310
00:22:57,551 --> 00:23:01,522
And you, my artist,
anarchist friend,

311
00:23:02,111 --> 00:23:04,193
can be my...

312
00:23:04,591 --> 00:23:07,197
official photographer.

313
00:23:18,512 --> 00:23:21,322
<i>And so this is how I
make friends with Jean-Louis,</i>

314
00:23:21,512 --> 00:23:23,276
<i>my second accomplice.</i>

315
00:23:24,752 --> 00:23:26,720
If that were to
happen during your coup,

316
00:23:26,912 --> 00:23:29,438
it would be the artistic
disaster of the century.

317
00:23:39,873 --> 00:23:40,874
I need to know more.

318
00:23:41,673 --> 00:23:43,563
Don't you know
how to knock on a door?

319
00:23:48,313 --> 00:23:50,714
I need you to
teach me how to rig a high-wire.

320
00:23:50,793 --> 00:23:53,637
High-wire for what?
You're a street juggler.

321
00:23:54,714 --> 00:23:57,115
But I need to know how
to tie the correct knots.

322
00:23:57,634 --> 00:23:59,374
I need to know what
kind of cable to use,

323
00:23:59,474 --> 00:24:02,234
the weight, the
thickness, the load strength.

324
00:24:02,594 --> 00:24:04,961
So, you want me

325
00:24:05,034 --> 00:24:08,322
to just give you my secrets?

326
00:24:09,434 --> 00:24:12,119
Secrets I've
spent a lifetime learning.

327
00:24:12,234 --> 00:24:14,760
Secrets I've only
given to my sons.

328
00:24:15,794 --> 00:24:18,116
You want me to just
hand them over to you.

329
00:24:22,835 --> 00:24:25,202
I can pay you.
I have money.

330
00:24:25,795 --> 00:24:27,126
I don't care what it costs.

331
00:24:30,195 --> 00:24:31,879
Meet me at <i>Le Cirque</i>...

332
00:24:33,155 --> 00:24:34,156
at sunrise.

333
00:24:35,675 --> 00:24:38,485
Bring your juggling money.

334
00:24:39,156 --> 00:24:41,557
Place wood blocks between
the cable and mast.

335
00:24:42,276 --> 00:24:43,277
Okay.

336
00:24:44,956 --> 00:24:47,197
The wood blocks act as buffer,

337
00:24:47,596 --> 00:24:50,998
so when masts flex,
the wire won't snap.

338
00:24:51,636 --> 00:24:55,357
And always, always
check the rigging yourself.

339
00:24:55,836 --> 00:24:57,486
Never step on a wire

340
00:24:58,156 --> 00:25:01,320
if you've not checked all
of the rigging yourself.

341
00:25:01,397 --> 00:25:02,637
<i>- Capisce?</i>
- Okay.

342
00:25:03,357 --> 00:25:08,045
There was this great
Polish guy, wire walker, Roman.

343
00:25:08,117 --> 00:25:12,247
He said he could tell when
cable was at correct tension

344
00:25:12,317 --> 00:25:14,877
through his ass
and through his ear.

345
00:25:14,977 --> 00:25:15,977
Ah!

346
00:25:16,077 --> 00:25:16,918
Underneath,

347
00:25:16,997 --> 00:25:18,027
through the ring,

348
00:25:18,557 --> 00:25:19,557
lock it off.

349
00:25:20,677 --> 00:25:21,677
Tighten.

350
00:25:21,977 --> 00:25:22,977
And...

351
00:25:23,377 --> 00:25:24,378
Pay.

352
00:25:25,918 --> 00:25:27,978
Philippe, you give
me broken money.

353
00:25:28,078 --> 00:25:29,483
- No, it works.
- It's broken.

354
00:25:29,484 --> 00:25:30,484
It works.

355
00:25:31,058 --> 00:25:32,058
<i>Ça marche.</i>

356
00:25:32,438 --> 00:25:35,078
<i>So, Papa
Rudy let me travel with his troupe.</i>

357
00:25:35,238 --> 00:25:37,161
<i>Of course, I never
did any performance.</i>

358
00:25:37,998 --> 00:25:40,285
<i>But any time the
big top was empty,</i>

359
00:25:40,958 --> 00:25:42,448
<i>I would practice on the wire.</i>

360
00:26:41,201 --> 00:26:45,445
Most wire walkers,
they die when they arrive.

361
00:26:46,521 --> 00:26:49,730
They think they have arrived,
but they're still on the wire.

362
00:26:51,641 --> 00:26:53,325
If you have three steps to do,

363
00:26:54,282 --> 00:26:56,489
and you take those
steps arrogantly,

364
00:26:57,162 --> 00:26:58,891
if you think you are invincible,

365
00:26:59,762 --> 00:27:01,002
you're going to die.

366
00:27:06,682 --> 00:27:08,684
This one, I give to you for free.

367
00:27:11,842 --> 00:27:13,003
<i>Merci.</i>

368
00:27:13,082 --> 00:27:16,485
A few weeks later, I did
my first official public walk

369
00:27:16,603 --> 00:27:18,014
<i>in this tiny little village.</i>

370
00:27:18,123 --> 00:27:19,773
<i>It's so small, it's
not even on a map.</i>

371
00:27:19,843 --> 00:27:22,528
<i>But the mayor of this village,
every spring he puts on a festival.</i>

372
00:27:22,603 --> 00:27:27,108
<i>And Papa Rudy convinced him to hire
me to do a walk over this little lake,</i>

373
00:27:27,178 --> 00:27:28,833
<i>which was more like a swamp.</i>

374
00:27:29,233 --> 00:27:30,233
Is it okay?

375
00:27:30,333 --> 00:27:32,574
No. Through your
ass and your feet, you tell me.

376
00:27:36,603 --> 00:27:39,210
<i>Annie came, she
set up a turntable for music.</i>

377
00:27:42,284 --> 00:27:44,525
<i>And Jean-Louis
came to take pictures.</i>

378
00:27:46,164 --> 00:27:50,064
<i>So, I begin my performance,
and everything's going very well.</i>

379
00:28:00,004 --> 00:28:04,806
<i>But then I start to hear this murmur
of some laughing and giggling,</i>

380
00:28:04,885 --> 00:28:08,810
<i>and it turns out, there is also
a fishing contest that afternoon</i>

381
00:28:08,885 --> 00:28:10,694
<i>on this lake, more like a swamp.</i>

382
00:28:10,765 --> 00:28:12,654
<i>And the fishermen,
they're drinking wine.</i>

383
00:28:12,725 --> 00:28:14,534
<i>They're yelling insults at me.</i>

384
00:28:14,605 --> 00:28:16,733
<i>They're laughing at me
while I'm trying to work.</i>

385
00:28:26,566 --> 00:28:29,968
<i>Now, walking on the wire is as
much mental as it is physical.</i>

386
00:28:30,046 --> 00:28:32,447
If you lose your concentration,
you lose your balance.

387
00:28:32,926 --> 00:28:34,132
Philippe!

388
00:28:47,407 --> 00:28:49,808
<i>So here I am,
in the mud to my knees</i>

389
00:28:49,887 --> 00:28:51,810
<i>doing the Papa Rudy compliment!</i>

390
00:28:55,047 --> 00:28:56,776
This was my first performance.

391
00:28:57,047 --> 00:28:58,048
A failure.

392
00:28:58,727 --> 00:29:01,697
And after this, I
didn't feel so good.

393
00:29:09,568 --> 00:29:10,615
<i>Then one day,</i>

394
00:29:10,688 --> 00:29:13,817
I was walking along the Seine,
feeling sorry for myself.

395
00:29:14,728 --> 00:29:15,729
When I look up,

396
00:29:16,088 --> 00:29:19,217
and I saw the
towers of Notre-Dame.

397
00:29:19,288 --> 00:29:23,737
And I said, "This is
where I must put my wire."

398
00:29:24,368 --> 00:29:27,338
"This is how I
will redeem myself."

399
00:29:28,968 --> 00:29:32,416
<i>And so, under the cover of
darkness, and with a false key,</i>

400
00:29:32,489 --> 00:29:34,571
<i>Jean-Louis and I
sneak into the cathedral.</i>

401
00:29:34,649 --> 00:29:37,016
<i>I attach some fishing line to
one of my juggling balls,</i>

402
00:29:37,089 --> 00:29:39,979
<i>and I throw it across to the other
side where Jean-Louis is waiting.</i>

403
00:29:42,089 --> 00:29:44,137
<i>Then, we attach this fishing
line to a small rope,</i>

404
00:29:44,209 --> 00:29:45,893
<i>and we pass that
between the towers.</i>

405
00:29:46,009 --> 00:29:47,340
<i>Then we pass a larger rope.</i>

406
00:29:47,409 --> 00:29:50,333
<i>Then, we attach this larger rope
to the steel walk cable.</i>

407
00:29:50,449 --> 00:29:52,258
<i>So, Jean-Louis and
I stay up all night</i>

408
00:29:52,329 --> 00:29:54,936
<i>installing a wire between
these two ancient towers.</i>

409
00:29:57,370 --> 00:30:00,490
<i>And when the first tourists
start to arrive in the morning,</i>

410
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:01,770
<i>I begin.</i>

411
00:30:25,691 --> 00:30:27,341
<i>And I succeed.</i>

412
00:30:27,411 --> 00:30:31,973
I perform my first surprise,
illegal high-wire walk.

413
00:30:32,051 --> 00:30:35,658
This is also the first time
I get the taste of this sensation.

414
00:30:35,731 --> 00:30:38,496
This feeling that
I'm crossing into a...

415
00:30:38,571 --> 00:30:40,415
A truly different world.

416
00:30:40,532 --> 00:30:42,819
And I was redeemed.

417
00:30:44,012 --> 00:30:45,013
Or so I thought.

418
00:30:52,292 --> 00:30:54,374
These Parisians, they
know nothing but contempt.

419
00:30:54,452 --> 00:30:56,136
They refuse to appreciate beauty.

420
00:30:56,212 --> 00:30:59,056
Every other country, Germany, Spain,

421
00:30:59,132 --> 00:31:00,816
England, even Russia, they salute me.

422
00:31:00,892 --> 00:31:03,658
They call me a maestro.
They call me a valiant young poet.

423
00:31:03,733 --> 00:31:05,497
But no, not the French.

424
00:31:06,573 --> 00:31:08,701
They call me "delinquent."
They call me "vandal."

425
00:31:08,773 --> 00:31:09,853
- Philippe.
- Vandal!

426
00:31:09,893 --> 00:31:10,894
Look.

427
00:31:18,253 --> 00:31:19,698
This is a sign.

428
00:31:21,013 --> 00:31:23,061
In the same newspaper
as my Notre-Dame story?

429
00:31:23,133 --> 00:31:24,898
- This is providence.
- Mmm-hmm.

430
00:31:24,974 --> 00:31:26,339
It says they're almost finished.

431
00:31:26,414 --> 00:31:27,894
The lower floors
are already occupied.

432
00:31:27,934 --> 00:31:29,265
Annie! We need to pack.

433
00:31:36,934 --> 00:31:38,345
They're enormous.

434
00:31:38,379 --> 00:31:40,844
<i>♪ Beat is gettin' stronger ♪</i>
- Yes.

435
00:31:41,574 --> 00:31:42,655
They're monstrous.

436
00:31:42,814 --> 00:31:46,945
<i>♪ Music gettin' longer, too ♪</i>

437
00:31:47,295 --> 00:31:50,458
<i>♪ Music is a-flashin' me ♪</i>

438
00:31:50,575 --> 00:31:55,786
<i>♪ I want to, I want to,
I want to take you higher ♪</i>

439
00:31:58,095 --> 00:32:00,575
<i>♪ I wanna take you higher ♪</i>

440
00:32:01,295 --> 00:32:04,378
<i>♪ Baby, baby, baby,
light my fire ♪</i>

441
00:32:04,455 --> 00:32:05,581
Whoa!

442
00:32:07,455 --> 00:32:09,902
<i>♪ I wanna take you higher ♪</i>

443
00:32:12,656 --> 00:32:14,340
They're a lot
taller than I imagined.

444
00:32:15,136 --> 00:32:16,136
Yes.

445
00:32:22,446 --> 00:32:24,096
<i>♪ ...hey, hey, hey ♪</i>

446
00:32:24,296 --> 00:32:27,386
<i>♪ Beat is nitty-gritty ♪</i>

447
00:32:30,616 --> 00:32:31,618
It's absurd.

448
00:32:32,377 --> 00:32:33,788
Completely absurd.

449
00:32:56,258 --> 00:32:57,544
It's not real.

450
00:32:59,018 --> 00:33:00,907
These towers, they
have no scale!

451
00:33:01,378 --> 00:33:04,268
They just rise and never
stop. It's not human!

452
00:33:04,338 --> 00:33:06,340
It's over. It's
over. It's finished.

453
00:33:06,658 --> 00:33:09,662
- What, what's finished?
- The coup! My dream! It's destroyed!

454
00:33:09,738 --> 00:33:11,627
Do you see these monsters?

455
00:33:12,378 --> 00:33:14,779
- These beasts! Beasts!
- Calm down!

456
00:33:14,858 --> 00:33:16,987
They just tell me it's not
possible and nothing else!

457
00:33:17,059 --> 00:33:18,709
There's no sign of possibility.

458
00:33:18,779 --> 00:33:20,619
There's nothing telling me
that it can be done.

459
00:33:25,419 --> 00:33:26,625
Yo.

460
00:33:26,739 --> 00:33:27,979
How you doing?

461
00:33:41,060 --> 00:33:42,425
There's stairs going up.

462
00:33:42,900 --> 00:33:44,186
Go back to the hotel.

463
00:33:44,300 --> 00:33:46,860
If I'm not back in five hours,
look for me at the police station.

464
00:34:07,781 --> 00:34:09,351
<i>I make my way to the top.</i>

465
00:34:09,421 --> 00:34:10,991
<i>Nobody stops me.</i>

466
00:34:14,701 --> 00:34:18,228
<i>And I find myself standing
on an island floating in mid-air,</i>

467
00:34:18,301 --> 00:34:20,303
<i>on the edge of the void.</i>

468
00:34:51,823 --> 00:34:54,906
<i>Of course, I automatically
look across to the opposite tower.</i>

469
00:34:54,983 --> 00:34:59,113
<i>But then I have
to dare to look down.</i>

470
00:35:11,744 --> 00:35:14,588
<i>Now, I think I know the void.</i>

471
00:35:14,664 --> 00:35:16,905
<i>I'm a wire walker.
The void is my domain, yes?</i>

472
00:35:16,984 --> 00:35:19,351
<i>Well, not this void.</i>

473
00:35:20,104 --> 00:35:23,028
<i>But, still I gather
the courage to whisper.</i>

474
00:35:23,704 --> 00:35:26,230
<i>I whisper so the
demons won't hear me.</i>

475
00:35:27,704 --> 00:35:28,865
It's impossible.

476
00:35:30,544 --> 00:35:31,626
But I'll do it.

477
00:35:31,985 --> 00:35:33,111
<i>♪ Boom laka-lak-goon-ka ♪</i>

478
00:35:33,185 --> 00:35:35,836
<i>♪ Boom laka-laka-laka,
boom laka-lak-goon-ka boom ♪</i>

479
00:35:42,036 --> 00:35:44,193
<i>♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪</i>

480
00:35:48,105 --> 00:35:49,055
Your coup is a ridiculous joke.

481
00:35:49,105 --> 00:35:50,630
English. Only English.

482
00:35:50,705 --> 00:35:52,241
We must learn to
sound like New Yorkers.

483
00:35:52,265 --> 00:35:55,076
Your so-called coup
is a ridiculous joke.

484
00:35:55,186 --> 00:35:58,349
- There. Have it in English.
- That's why I have it all planned out.

485
00:35:58,426 --> 00:36:00,235
Planned out?
Who are you kidding?

486
00:36:00,626 --> 00:36:03,436
You have no idea what's
on the opposite roof.

487
00:36:03,506 --> 00:36:05,907
You, you don't know what time
the construction crews arrive

488
00:36:05,986 --> 00:36:07,192
or what time they quit.

489
00:36:07,266 --> 00:36:08,472
You have no idea

490
00:36:08,546 --> 00:36:11,311
what the actual distance
is between the towers.

491
00:36:11,386 --> 00:36:13,468
Or, or how you're going
to anchor the cavalettis.

492
00:36:13,546 --> 00:36:15,787
How? There is
absolutely no place

493
00:36:15,866 --> 00:36:17,153
to attach them to the facade.

494
00:36:17,707 --> 00:36:18,993
And, by the way, how many days

495
00:36:19,067 --> 00:36:20,956
did it take you to
build this maquette?

496
00:36:21,027 --> 00:36:22,787
Oh, come on.
This is beautiful, huh?

497
00:36:23,107 --> 00:36:24,313
What are the cavalettis?

498
00:36:24,387 --> 00:36:26,071
These guy-wires.

499
00:36:26,147 --> 00:36:27,797
Papa Rudy calls
them "cavalettis."

500
00:36:27,867 --> 00:36:29,073
They stabilize the walk cable.

501
00:36:29,147 --> 00:36:31,229
Ah. The walk cable.

502
00:36:31,587 --> 00:36:32,588
So,

503
00:36:32,667 --> 00:36:34,715
how do you intend to pass
the cable across the void?

504
00:36:34,787 --> 00:36:36,267
Well, just like we
did at Notre-Dame.

505
00:36:36,307 --> 00:36:38,043
We start with a fishing
line attached to a rope

506
00:36:38,067 --> 00:36:39,513
attached to the cable.

507
00:36:39,588 --> 00:36:42,034
And how do we pass the fishing
line between the towers?

508
00:36:42,108 --> 00:36:44,634
Yes, it is too far to
throw the juggling ball.

509
00:36:44,708 --> 00:36:48,076
But I was thinking we could
get a radio-controlled airplane

510
00:36:48,148 --> 00:36:50,469
and fly the line across.
This would be fantastic.

511
00:36:50,548 --> 00:36:51,674
Philippe.

512
00:36:51,748 --> 00:36:54,115
It takes years to learn
how to fly an RC airplane.

513
00:36:54,188 --> 00:36:55,244
- Do you understand that?
- No.

514
00:36:55,268 --> 00:36:56,872
We must accomplish
the coup this summer.

515
00:36:56,948 --> 00:36:59,349
The towers are almost built.
We are running out of time.

516
00:36:59,428 --> 00:37:02,239
I need you to help me pull
this off. Think if we succeed.

517
00:37:02,309 --> 00:37:04,277
This could be the most audacious

518
00:37:04,349 --> 00:37:07,000
- work of art that has ever been done!
- Audacious? Audacious?

519
00:37:07,069 --> 00:37:08,719
- It's madness!
- Yes, it's madness!

520
00:37:08,789 --> 00:37:11,030
No one in his right mind
would attempt this thing.

521
00:37:11,109 --> 00:37:13,874
But that is why I must do it,
because it has never been done!

522
00:37:13,949 --> 00:37:15,438
And so, yes, I admit, I am mad.

523
00:37:15,439 --> 00:37:16,749
- Ah, yes!
- Yes!

524
00:37:16,804 --> 00:37:17,825
- Wow, you are mad.
- I am mad.

525
00:37:17,849 --> 00:37:20,031
- Are you completely insane?
- Yeah, I'm crazy!

526
00:37:20,109 --> 00:37:23,356
- That's why I love you!
- Yes, you love me because I am mad!

527
00:37:23,429 --> 00:37:25,717
I am insane! I am totally crazy!

528
00:37:26,470 --> 00:37:27,710
I gotta go.

529
00:37:28,430 --> 00:37:30,398
I'll figure out how
to get the wire across.

530
00:37:30,470 --> 00:37:31,018
Yes!

531
00:37:31,030 --> 00:37:32,711
You figure out how
to anchor the cavalettis.

532
00:37:32,830 --> 00:37:33,634
Okay.

533
00:37:33,734 --> 00:37:35,090
- Do we have a deal?
- Deal.

534
00:37:36,470 --> 00:37:39,758
The cavalettis
cannot be vertical.

535
00:37:39,830 --> 00:37:43,915
They must be horizontal,
parallel to the walk cable.

536
00:37:43,990 --> 00:37:45,754
- Parallel?
- It won't be pretty

537
00:37:45,830 --> 00:37:48,038
but it will keep the
cable from swaying.

538
00:37:48,511 --> 00:37:51,401
And you must use three bolts
on the cavaletti clamps.

539
00:37:51,831 --> 00:37:53,242
Not two. A span this wide

540
00:37:53,351 --> 00:37:55,957
will put tremendous
pressure on the brace plates.

541
00:37:56,031 --> 00:37:58,716
And as you walk, your
weight could crack a bolt.

542
00:38:00,831 --> 00:38:01,992
And wood!

543
00:38:02,111 --> 00:38:03,442
You must remember

544
00:38:03,511 --> 00:38:04,922
to put wood blocks

545
00:38:04,991 --> 00:38:07,039
between the wire and
the building's struts.

546
00:38:07,911 --> 00:38:09,676
That way, when the
building breathe,

547
00:38:10,032 --> 00:38:11,796
the wood will break
but the wire won't

548
00:38:11,912 --> 00:38:13,755
explode and tear you in half.

549
00:38:14,672 --> 00:38:15,673
Okay.

550
00:38:16,472 --> 00:38:17,473
Wood.

551
00:38:18,152 --> 00:38:19,153
Also...

552
00:38:20,872 --> 00:38:22,681
Here's what you're
going to do, Philippe.

553
00:38:23,552 --> 00:38:24,883
You're going to wear

554
00:38:25,272 --> 00:38:27,161
a safety belt
underneath your costume,

555
00:38:27,232 --> 00:38:30,202
attached to a safety line,
connected to a carabiner.

556
00:38:30,272 --> 00:38:31,274
A safety line?

557
00:38:31,873 --> 00:38:32,874
A carabiner?

558
00:38:32,953 --> 00:38:34,833
I'm not going to do this
walk with a safety line

559
00:38:34,873 --> 00:38:36,433
- hanging off of me!
- From that height,

560
00:38:36,473 --> 00:38:39,124
it will be invisible!
No one will have any idea!

561
00:38:39,233 --> 00:38:41,520
And what do I do when I get
to the first cavaletti? Huh?

562
00:38:41,593 --> 00:38:42,640
You're a performer.

563
00:38:42,713 --> 00:38:43,794
You kneel down on the wire.

564
00:38:43,873 --> 00:38:45,716
You unhook from one side,
clip it on the other.

565
00:38:45,793 --> 00:38:47,769
- The audience will think you are saluting.
- This I will not do!

566
00:38:47,793 --> 00:38:50,034
- This I will never do!
- So why'd you come here?

567
00:38:51,353 --> 00:38:52,639
Because you know so much?

568
00:38:52,713 --> 00:38:53,875
You tell me I'm wrong?

569
00:38:53,954 --> 00:38:57,481
No. Because I need you to
tell me how to rig this wire!

570
00:38:57,554 --> 00:39:00,239
Not do a phony
walk like a coward!

571
00:39:01,794 --> 00:39:04,638
Philippe, you
two are acting like children.

572
00:39:04,714 --> 00:39:07,115
He does not comprehend
one thing I am trying to do.

573
00:39:07,194 --> 00:39:09,925
His high-wire and my high-wire,
they have nothing in common!

574
00:39:09,994 --> 00:39:11,280
Go talk to him.

575
00:39:11,354 --> 00:39:13,554
- You want me to talk to him?
- Yes! You go talk to him!

576
00:39:13,594 --> 00:39:15,394
- You apologize and...
- I will not apologize!

577
00:39:15,434 --> 00:39:17,961
Yes, you do. You have no
choice. You know that.

578
00:39:21,275 --> 00:39:22,436
Hmm?

579
00:39:37,035 --> 00:39:38,925
Look, Papa Rudy,
I'm sorry. But...

580
00:39:39,596 --> 00:39:41,116
If I do the walk
with the safety line,

581
00:39:41,156 --> 00:39:43,158
it becomes meaningless.

582
00:39:43,756 --> 00:39:44,803
Philippe...

583
00:39:45,996 --> 00:39:49,842
My sons are consummate wire walkers.

584
00:39:50,636 --> 00:39:52,798
And I would never
allow them to attempt

585
00:39:52,876 --> 00:39:54,958
such a walk without safety line.

586
00:39:55,836 --> 00:39:57,042
Yes, but would you?

587
00:39:57,676 --> 00:39:59,644
Would you walk
with a safety line?

588
00:40:11,877 --> 00:40:15,324
Years ago, when you first started
to teach me in this house,

589
00:40:15,917 --> 00:40:19,126
I was a stupid little kid
and I never listened to you.

590
00:40:19,197 --> 00:40:22,167
But you told me something
I always remember.

591
00:40:23,878 --> 00:40:26,563
You said, "You cannot lie on stage.

592
00:40:27,558 --> 00:40:30,562
"The audience will always know
what is inside your heart."

593
00:40:33,078 --> 00:40:34,648
I think I understand now.

594
00:40:37,598 --> 00:40:39,362
You know, Philippe,

595
00:40:41,158 --> 00:40:44,480
what you're doing, I
may not understand it.

596
00:40:47,079 --> 00:40:48,205
But it's...

597
00:40:50,199 --> 00:40:51,200
It's...

598
00:40:52,759 --> 00:40:53,920
something.

599
00:40:57,479 --> 00:40:59,004
Something beautiful.

600
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:15,890
It was my grandfather's.

601
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:19,000
You'll need this.

602
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,043
And you'll need this.

603
00:41:34,121 --> 00:41:36,806
Now my secrets are our secrets.

604
00:41:40,001 --> 00:41:41,526
Thank you.

605
00:41:47,801 --> 00:41:48,962
<i>Faster!</i>

606
00:41:49,241 --> 00:41:50,242
Stronger!

607
00:41:50,321 --> 00:41:52,847
More! Annie, more!

608
00:41:53,842 --> 00:41:55,003
Faster!

609
00:41:56,042 --> 00:41:57,203
Stronger!

610
00:41:58,082 --> 00:42:00,005
- I'm trying.
- You're a tempest.

611
00:42:00,082 --> 00:42:02,847
You are the terrible,
hurricane winds

612
00:42:02,922 --> 00:42:04,726
that howl between the towers!

613
00:42:06,722 --> 00:42:08,531
Ah. Jean-Louis.

614
00:42:11,022 --> 00:42:12,802
- Hi!
- Hello!

615
00:42:12,882 --> 00:42:14,771
- How are you?
- Hello, hello!

616
00:42:15,282 --> 00:42:17,251
It's good to see you.

617
00:42:17,323 --> 00:42:19,086
So, this is my good
friend, Jean-François.

618
00:42:19,098 --> 00:42:19,690
Ah.

619
00:42:19,763 --> 00:42:21,765
- He wants to be an accomplice in the coup.
- Ah!

620
00:42:21,843 --> 00:42:23,288
He's always in
search of adventure.

621
00:42:24,103 --> 00:42:26,053
- Look, Annie.
- This is Jean-François.

622
00:42:26,098 --> 00:42:26,298
<i>Bonjour.</i>

623
00:42:26,303 --> 00:42:28,183
- <i>Bonjour.</i>
- Jean-François, this is Philippe.

624
00:42:28,188 --> 00:42:29,468
Nice to meet you, Jean-François.

625
00:42:29,803 --> 00:42:30,884
Please call me Jeff.

626
00:42:30,963 --> 00:42:33,011
Ah, an English
name. Okay, I like this.

627
00:42:33,083 --> 00:42:35,450
So welcome, Jeff.
Welcome to the coup.

628
00:42:35,563 --> 00:42:37,499
- Now, tell me, have you ever done...
- Unfortunately,

629
00:42:37,523 --> 00:42:38,809
Jeff doesn't speak any English.

630
00:42:38,810 --> 00:42:39,963
- Ah, no?
- No.

631
00:42:39,964 --> 00:42:42,324
I speak a little English.

632
00:42:42,644 --> 00:42:44,487
Six times
six equal 36, for example.

633
00:42:44,564 --> 00:42:46,328
Ah, yes! So his English is not bad.

634
00:42:46,404 --> 00:42:47,769
Yes, but only numbers.

635
00:42:47,844 --> 00:42:50,024
- He teaches high school mathematics.
- Ah.

636
00:42:50,924 --> 00:42:52,130
He's also, uh...

637
00:42:53,604 --> 00:42:55,652
- He's also terrified of heights.
- Ah.

638
00:42:55,804 --> 00:42:56,805
Ah.

639
00:42:56,884 --> 00:42:57,885
Perfect.

640
00:42:58,484 --> 00:43:00,195
I'm terrified of algebra.

641
00:43:01,105 --> 00:43:03,275
So, Jeff.
Welcome to the coup.

642
00:43:03,325 --> 00:43:04,325
Yeah, welcome.

643
00:43:04,805 --> 00:43:09,254
Now tell me, what
is uh... uh, 81 divided by 27?

644
00:43:10,165 --> 00:43:11,212
- Three.
- Exactly.

645
00:43:11,475 --> 00:43:13,326
And you are
accomplice number three.

646
00:43:13,405 --> 00:43:15,407
Now, what is 11 times 10?

647
00:43:15,485 --> 00:43:16,485
One hundred and ten.

648
00:43:16,486 --> 00:43:17,225
Correct.

649
00:43:17,226 --> 00:43:19,733
110 stories. That's
how tall the towers are.

650
00:43:19,805 --> 00:43:22,968
Hey, guys? I believe
I've kept my part of the bargain.

651
00:43:23,045 --> 00:43:24,411
What is this, a bow and arrow?

652
00:43:24,646 --> 00:43:28,617
Okay, this is not as
sensational as a radio-controlled airplane,

653
00:43:28,686 --> 00:43:30,131
but it's a lot quieter.

654
00:43:53,067 --> 00:43:54,467
Hahahaha!

655
00:43:54,567 --> 00:43:56,649
It works! It works!

656
00:43:56,727 --> 00:43:59,253
So now, I have enough money,
I have my accomplices,

657
00:43:59,327 --> 00:44:01,314
I have somewhat of a plan.

658
00:44:01,367 --> 00:44:03,256
<i>The only thing left
was selecting a date.</i>

659
00:44:03,367 --> 00:44:07,452
<i>It had to be before the weather turned cold
and before the towers were completed.</i>

660
00:44:07,967 --> 00:44:10,096
<i>So I chose August 6th.</i>

661
00:44:10,168 --> 00:44:12,375
I choose August 6th!

662
00:44:12,888 --> 00:44:14,697
That is three months from today.

663
00:44:14,768 --> 00:44:17,533
Jeff and Jean-Louis fly to
New York at the end of July.

664
00:44:17,608 --> 00:44:19,928
In the meantime, we start looking
for American accomplices.

665
00:44:20,328 --> 00:44:22,695
So. August 6th.

666
00:44:23,893 --> 00:44:28,291
Polypropylene ropes, hemp ropes,
small block-and-tackle with three sheaves,

667
00:44:28,368 --> 00:44:30,530
large block-and-tackle
with single sheaf,

668
00:44:30,608 --> 00:44:34,330
uh, slings, steel wire,
quarter-inch cable,

669
00:44:34,409 --> 00:44:36,252
pulley blocks, construction gloves,

670
00:44:36,329 --> 00:44:38,730
monkey wrenches,
uh, tape measure.

671
00:44:38,809 --> 00:44:41,699
And a balancing pole
in four sections.

672
00:44:41,769 --> 00:44:44,010
And, uh, what's all this for?

673
00:44:44,089 --> 00:44:45,534
I'm going to hang a high-wire

674
00:44:45,609 --> 00:44:47,691
between the two towers
of the World Trade Center

675
00:44:47,769 --> 00:44:48,895
and walk on it.

676
00:44:51,129 --> 00:44:52,938
Good luck!

677
00:44:53,490 --> 00:44:54,490
Next!

678
00:45:00,130 --> 00:45:02,736
<i>As soon as we got back
to New York, I started my spy work.</i>

679
00:45:02,810 --> 00:45:05,106
<i>I went to the towers every day.
Sometimes 6:00 in the morning.</i>

680
00:45:05,130 --> 00:45:07,417
<i>And every day, I would
wear a different disguise.</i>

681
00:45:13,130 --> 00:45:14,780
<i>I took photos of everything.</i>

682
00:45:14,850 --> 00:45:17,695
<i>I made detailed notes of
every inch of the towers.</i>

683
00:45:24,451 --> 00:45:26,818
As you know, the North Tower
has been completely finished

684
00:45:26,891 --> 00:45:28,131
for the last two years,

685
00:45:28,211 --> 00:45:31,055
and the South Tower is
completed up to the 80th floor.

686
00:45:31,131 --> 00:45:33,577
- Both towers are open for business.
- Mr. Tozzoli, excuse me.

687
00:45:33,651 --> 00:45:35,733
Toulouse Cezanne from the
magazine <i>L'Architecte.</i>

688
00:45:35,811 --> 00:45:37,387
Could you please tell me
the exact distance between

689
00:45:37,411 --> 00:45:40,734
the north corner of the South Tower
and the south corner of the North Tower?

690
00:45:40,812 --> 00:45:41,893
The what?

691
00:45:41,972 --> 00:45:44,657
Uh, the exact distance
between the towers?

692
00:45:45,732 --> 00:45:46,893
Lou?

693
00:45:47,012 --> 00:45:48,343
A hundred and forty feet.

694
00:45:48,812 --> 00:45:49,813
A hundred and forty feet.

695
00:45:57,432 --> 00:45:58,782
<i>I rode all the elevators.</i>

696
00:45:58,922 --> 00:46:00,192
<i>The local, the express,</i>

697
00:46:00,292 --> 00:46:03,342
<i>the express to the upper sky lobby,
the express to the lower sky lobby.</i>

698
00:46:03,413 --> 00:46:04,778
<i>I took hundreds of rides.</i>

699
00:46:04,853 --> 00:46:06,813
<i>I spied on the maintenance
men, the loading docks.</i>

700
00:46:06,853 --> 00:46:09,149
<i>I watched the freight trucks
as they made their deliveries.</i>

701
00:46:09,173 --> 00:46:11,255
<i>What time do they arrive?
How long do they stay?</i>

702
00:46:11,333 --> 00:46:13,176
<i>How much paperwork is exchanged?</i>

703
00:46:16,573 --> 00:46:19,099
<i>My greatest disguise was
that of an architect.</i>

704
00:46:19,213 --> 00:46:21,978
<i>I wore a tie and carried a blueprint,
and I tried to look important.</i>

705
00:46:22,053 --> 00:46:24,625
<i>And this gave me access to
everything under construction.</i>

706
00:46:35,494 --> 00:46:37,144
Philippe, that looks really bad.

707
00:46:37,214 --> 00:46:39,350
Maybe you should go to the
hospital and get it stitched.

708
00:46:39,374 --> 00:46:41,456
Nah, no, it will be
fine. But look at the date!

709
00:46:41,534 --> 00:46:43,059
The coup is three
weeks from today.

710
00:46:43,134 --> 00:46:45,296
Jean-Louis and Jeff
arrive next week

711
00:46:45,374 --> 00:46:47,901
and I still have no access
to the North Tower roof.

712
00:46:48,375 --> 00:46:50,821
Are you going to be able to
walk on the wire with that foot?

713
00:46:50,895 --> 00:46:53,501
Yes, it will heal by then, but
what am I going to do tomorrow?

714
00:46:53,575 --> 00:46:57,057
How am I going to continue my
spy work with this ruined foot?

715
00:46:57,135 --> 00:46:59,735
- Do you need crutches?
- No, I don't need crutches. Why...

716
00:46:59,755 --> 00:47:02,579
Yes! Crutches!

717
00:47:05,775 --> 00:47:08,541
- Let me get that door for you.
- Oh, thank you.

718
00:47:10,576 --> 00:47:12,783
Hey, there, let me help you
with them crutches.

719
00:47:12,856 --> 00:47:13,857
Oh, thank you.

720
00:47:13,976 --> 00:47:15,786
Here you go, sir.

721
00:47:15,936 --> 00:47:17,700
- Express elevator.
- Thank you.

722
00:47:17,816 --> 00:47:19,147
I hope you heal up soon.

723
00:47:19,216 --> 00:47:21,583
Ah yes, I think I'll feel
much better in a few weeks.

724
00:47:24,736 --> 00:47:27,501
- Floor?
- Ah, yes sir, 85, please.

725
00:47:30,937 --> 00:47:32,507
Pardon me, but, uh...

726
00:47:33,577 --> 00:47:34,624
May I ask...

727
00:47:35,417 --> 00:47:36,782
What are you doing here?

728
00:47:39,017 --> 00:47:40,621
You don't belong here.

729
00:47:42,457 --> 00:47:44,141
Yes, in fact, I'm quite right.

730
00:47:45,017 --> 00:47:46,064
You...

731
00:47:46,577 --> 00:47:48,420
You don't belong here at all.

732
00:47:49,577 --> 00:47:50,624
Do you...

733
00:47:51,737 --> 00:47:52,738
Philippe?

734
00:47:53,618 --> 00:47:55,541
I knew it! Philippe Petit.

735
00:47:55,618 --> 00:47:57,382
Daredevil wire walker.

736
00:47:57,778 --> 00:48:01,305
I saw you in Paris on top of
the Notre-Dame Cathedral.

737
00:48:01,378 --> 00:48:03,301
<i>- Ah, yes!
- Yes, wow.</i>

738
00:48:03,778 --> 00:48:06,034
You know, the cops had absolutely
no idea what to do with you.

739
00:48:06,058 --> 00:48:07,264
They never do.

740
00:48:07,978 --> 00:48:10,194
Barry. Barry Greenhouse
is, uh, is my name.

741
00:48:10,206 --> 00:48:10,948
Hello.

742
00:48:11,018 --> 00:48:12,065
Yeah.

743
00:48:12,138 --> 00:48:14,505
So, you gonna be performing
here in New York?

744
00:48:14,578 --> 00:48:17,662
Yes, ah, yes sir. And,
and you, do you work here?

745
00:48:17,979 --> 00:48:19,026
Yeah.

746
00:48:19,459 --> 00:48:20,459
Life insurance.

747
00:48:21,619 --> 00:48:24,065
This man works
on the 82nd floor.

748
00:48:24,699 --> 00:48:26,827
<i>But this could be very
important if I can somehow</i>

749
00:48:26,899 --> 00:48:28,708
<i>seduce him into
becoming an accomplice.</i>

750
00:48:28,779 --> 00:48:30,269
<i>He works in the North Tower.</i>

751
00:48:30,339 --> 00:48:32,341
<i>He has access to
the stairwell and</i>

752
00:48:32,419 --> 00:48:34,148
<i>the North Tower roof.</i>

753
00:48:35,939 --> 00:48:37,941
Wait! Uh, Barry! One moment!

754
00:48:38,019 --> 00:48:40,751
<i>So, Annie and I
invite him to dinner.</i>

755
00:48:40,860 --> 00:48:43,476
Notre-Dame, the coup at World
Trade Center will be very similar.

756
00:48:43,500 --> 00:48:46,310
<i>I bring my book of spy work
and my clippings from Notre-Dame</i>

757
00:48:46,380 --> 00:48:48,030
<i>which he had already witnessed,</i>

758
00:48:48,100 --> 00:48:49,750
<i>so he knew I was serious.</i>

759
00:48:49,820 --> 00:48:52,710
<i>And little by little,
I paint for him a picture.</i>

760
00:48:52,780 --> 00:48:55,863
And, when the sun comes up...

761
00:48:58,820 --> 00:48:59,821
I walk.

762
00:49:02,061 --> 00:49:04,871
Well, it's certainly illegal,
that's for sure.

763
00:49:05,461 --> 00:49:08,943
And extremely subversive,
not to mention dangerous.

764
00:49:09,701 --> 00:49:13,308
This is something only a twisted,
antisocial, anarchistic,

765
00:49:13,381 --> 00:49:16,863
pissed-off malcontent would
have anything to do with!

766
00:49:18,221 --> 00:49:20,701
You have your inside man!

767
00:49:25,822 --> 00:49:26,823
Oh, Philippe!

768
00:49:27,723 --> 00:49:28,522
Ah!

769
00:49:28,622 --> 00:49:31,022
Welcome! Welcome, Jeff.

770
00:49:31,023 --> 00:49:32,023
How are you?

771
00:49:32,222 --> 00:49:33,826
Very
good. How are you?

772
00:49:33,902 --> 00:49:35,142
- Great.
- Good.

773
00:49:35,222 --> 00:49:36,667
- My friend.
- Hey.

774
00:49:38,382 --> 00:49:39,429
Very good.

775
00:49:40,182 --> 00:49:42,310
So, there they are.

776
00:49:42,422 --> 00:49:43,548
Wow.

777
00:49:47,023 --> 00:49:48,832
Philippe, the coup is a disaster.

778
00:49:48,903 --> 00:49:50,863
Why are we waiting for
night to climb to the roof?

779
00:49:50,903 --> 00:49:53,383
Because during the day, we are
more likely to run into people.

780
00:49:53,463 --> 00:49:56,069
But at night, when someone sees
us, we have no excuse to be there.

781
00:49:56,143 --> 00:49:58,079
No, but during the day, we will
certainly run into some people

782
00:49:58,103 --> 00:49:59,439
and they will ask us
where we are going.

783
00:49:59,463 --> 00:50:01,679
During the day, you say,
"I'm going to such and such office

784
00:50:01,703 --> 00:50:04,193
to see so and so!" But at
night, you have no excuse.

785
00:50:04,293 --> 00:50:05,293
Damn, Philippe!

786
00:50:05,330 --> 00:50:07,187
Are you okay? You're shaking.

787
00:50:08,424 --> 00:50:10,074
I told you I'm afraid of heights.

788
00:50:10,144 --> 00:50:11,794
Afraid at this height?

789
00:50:11,864 --> 00:50:14,071
I panic on a step stool.

790
00:50:14,944 --> 00:50:16,120
And what about the guards, huh?

791
00:50:16,144 --> 00:50:17,555
There is one guard at night.

792
00:50:17,624 --> 00:50:19,911
He stays only on the
floors under construction.

793
00:50:19,984 --> 00:50:21,713
We'll have no
problem avoiding him.

794
00:50:21,784 --> 00:50:24,185
- And he never goes to the roof.
- Philippe.

795
00:50:24,264 --> 00:50:26,784
- Philippe, where are you going?
- We need to get an interphone.

796
00:50:27,784 --> 00:50:29,070
This is what you want.

797
00:50:30,024 --> 00:50:31,390
You want a walkie-talkie.

798
00:50:31,465 --> 00:50:34,196
Uh, no, I want an interphone
like this one with the wire.

799
00:50:34,265 --> 00:50:35,266
- Like this one?
- Yes.

800
00:50:35,366 --> 00:50:35,860
- This thing here?

801
00:50:35,865 --> 00:50:37,325
- Yes, please.
- You don't want that.

802
00:50:38,225 --> 00:50:40,041
This thing here with the wire?
That's old-fashioned.

803
00:50:40,065 --> 00:50:41,430
What you want... Look at this.

804
00:50:41,505 --> 00:50:43,951
- Wireless.
- No. Please, I just want this interphone.

805
00:50:44,025 --> 00:50:45,121
- Like this, okay?
- Okay, buddy.

806
00:50:45,145 --> 00:50:47,441
You're not listening to me 'cause
I'm trying to do you a favor here.

807
00:50:47,465 --> 00:50:49,721
This thing is discontinued, which
means I can't get you a warranty.

808
00:50:49,745 --> 00:50:53,512
I don't care. I want this
one. With the wire. Please.

809
00:50:54,746 --> 00:50:56,829
Yes. Whatever you want.

810
00:50:56,906 --> 00:50:57,922
- Thank you.
- You're the boss.

811
00:50:57,946 --> 00:50:58,946
Okay.

812
00:50:59,906 --> 00:51:02,696
- Does he think we're a bunch of suckers?
- He's trying to con us.

813
00:51:03,506 --> 00:51:04,951
What's wrong with a walkie-talkie?

814
00:51:05,026 --> 00:51:07,632
We need a wire so the
cops can't listen in.

815
00:51:09,546 --> 00:51:10,752
Hey guys.

816
00:51:10,826 --> 00:51:12,042
If you're planning a drug deal...

817
00:51:12,066 --> 00:51:13,556
or robbing a bank...

818
00:51:13,626 --> 00:51:14,873
be careful. Eh?

819
00:51:17,307 --> 00:51:18,987
Oh! You guys
thought you were the only ones

820
00:51:19,067 --> 00:51:20,387
who spoke French
in New York City.

821
00:51:20,427 --> 00:51:22,316
Mmm. I got it.

822
00:51:23,187 --> 00:51:24,188
It's okay. By the way,

823
00:51:24,687 --> 00:51:26,877
I have nothing
against bank robbers.

824
00:51:31,267 --> 00:51:32,987
I say we invite him to dinner.

825
00:51:34,507 --> 00:51:35,508
I'm Philippe.

826
00:51:35,867 --> 00:51:36,868
I'm Jean-Pierre.

827
00:51:37,427 --> 00:51:38,634
It's JP in America.

828
00:51:38,708 --> 00:51:40,551
JP,

829
00:51:41,268 --> 00:51:43,635
welcome to the Fisher
Industrial Fence Company

830
00:51:43,708 --> 00:51:45,119
of Fort Lee, New Jersey.

831
00:51:45,628 --> 00:51:46,959
Looks like the real thing.

832
00:51:47,028 --> 00:51:48,917
- Who made this?
- It's a long story.

833
00:51:48,988 --> 00:51:50,797
I'll bet. So, do
I get a job title?

834
00:51:50,868 --> 00:51:52,524
Yes, because you've lived
in New York the longest,

835
00:51:52,548 --> 00:51:54,437
I'll make you
Personnel Director.

836
00:51:54,508 --> 00:51:56,708
That's cool, man. I like
that. What do I gotta do?

837
00:51:56,748 --> 00:51:58,193
Find more accomplices.

838
00:52:00,909 --> 00:52:01,956
I got just the guys.

839
00:52:02,269 --> 00:52:03,714
I can help you rig a wire.

840
00:52:03,829 --> 00:52:06,116
I'm unbelievable at tying knots.

841
00:52:06,189 --> 00:52:07,520
Used to work on a shrimp boat.

842
00:52:07,949 --> 00:52:10,395
Yeah, man, yeah. I mean,
count me in, too.

843
00:52:11,029 --> 00:52:12,997
Especially if that wire is really...

844
00:52:13,509 --> 00:52:14,874
Really high.

845
00:52:15,389 --> 00:52:16,389
You get it?

846
00:52:16,429 --> 00:52:18,113
You get it, man, really high!

847
00:52:18,189 --> 00:52:20,669
Why, why, why the
World Trade Towers?

848
00:52:20,749 --> 00:52:22,309
Everybody I know
hates those ugly boxes.

849
00:52:22,349 --> 00:52:25,693
They look like two big, uh...
two big filing cabinets.

850
00:52:25,870 --> 00:52:26,950
Hey, right on.

851
00:52:26,996 --> 00:52:29,835
You know what? Why don't we climb
the Chrysler building, man, huh?

852
00:52:30,230 --> 00:52:31,349
That'd be a trip, right?

853
00:52:31,500 --> 00:52:32,570
This is bad.

854
00:52:32,710 --> 00:52:34,157
I don't trust these two.

855
00:52:34,900 --> 00:52:36,300
Especially the big
one who's joking.

856
00:52:36,390 --> 00:52:37,471
JP.

857
00:52:39,470 --> 00:52:41,393
Can we count on these guys?

858
00:52:41,470 --> 00:52:42,835
I had short notice.

859
00:52:42,910 --> 00:52:43,910
It's them...

860
00:52:43,950 --> 00:52:45,031
or two bums off the street.

861
00:52:50,511 --> 00:52:54,596
Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
The coup is on for tomorrow!

862
00:52:54,871 --> 00:52:56,361
Tomorrow is the big day!

863
00:52:56,431 --> 00:52:59,355
You all know the plan. The
workers start to arrive at 7:00 a.m.,

864
00:52:59,431 --> 00:53:01,957
so I must be on the wire at
6:00 a.m. You're not listening.

865
00:53:02,351 --> 00:53:05,551
Why is nobody listening to me when
I talk? Are you paying attention?

866
00:53:05,671 --> 00:53:06,718
Philippe, you should eat.

867
00:53:06,791 --> 00:53:08,203
Eat? How can I eat?

868
00:53:08,272 --> 00:53:09,637
We have to go over the plan!

869
00:53:09,712 --> 00:53:11,802
We've gone over
the plan 20 times already.

870
00:53:11,902 --> 00:53:12,902
Ah.

871
00:53:14,312 --> 00:53:15,802
Well, here comes number 21.

872
00:53:16,632 --> 00:53:20,398
At 2:00 p.m., we load
the van. JP drives.

873
00:53:20,472 --> 00:53:23,601
We drop Jean-Louis, Annie
and Albert at the North Tower.

874
00:53:23,672 --> 00:53:24,912
You rendezvous with Barry.

875
00:53:25,032 --> 00:53:27,034
He hides you on his floor
until he can sneak you up

876
00:53:27,112 --> 00:53:28,716
in the stairwell to the roof.

877
00:53:28,792 --> 00:53:31,922
The rest of us, that's you,
JP, you, Jeff, you, David,

878
00:53:31,993 --> 00:53:33,404
in our workers disguises,

879
00:53:33,473 --> 00:53:35,635
we bring the walk cable
and the rigging equipment

880
00:53:35,713 --> 00:53:37,761
up in the construction elevator.

881
00:53:37,833 --> 00:53:39,409
According to my spy work,
we should be able to

882
00:53:39,433 --> 00:53:41,481
get up to the 82nd floor.

883
00:53:41,553 --> 00:53:43,593
Then when the coast is clear,
and as fast as we can,

884
00:53:43,633 --> 00:53:46,239
we bring everything up to the roof
and we start rigging.

885
00:53:46,313 --> 00:53:48,042
By midnight, we are finished!

886
00:53:48,113 --> 00:53:49,763
Do you hear me? At midnight!

887
00:53:49,833 --> 00:53:53,281
This gives me the time to sneak over
to the North Tower and check the rigging.

888
00:53:53,394 --> 00:53:57,444
Because I must have time
to check the rigging on both towers.

889
00:53:57,514 --> 00:54:00,324
Then at dawn, 6:00 a.m.,

890
00:54:00,674 --> 00:54:02,199
I take my first step.

891
00:54:03,994 --> 00:54:05,349
My first step.

892
00:54:07,074 --> 00:54:08,485
- Philippe.
- Yes.

893
00:54:09,034 --> 00:54:10,699
- I think we should wait.
- No!

894
00:54:10,954 --> 00:54:13,154
To find more
competent associates.

895
00:54:13,334 --> 00:54:14,754
No! The carrots are cooked!

896
00:54:17,235 --> 00:54:18,255
It is now or never.

897
00:54:18,755 --> 00:54:19,755
Hmm?

898
00:54:22,355 --> 00:54:23,450
The carrots are cooked.

899
00:54:26,995 --> 00:54:28,435
The carrots are cooked.

900
00:54:39,796 --> 00:54:40,877
Cooked carrots?

901
00:54:41,516 --> 00:54:43,476
- What the hell is that about?
- The French.

902
00:54:43,516 --> 00:54:44,852
They love their
culinary metaphors.

903
00:54:44,876 --> 00:54:47,004
This is a country with
365 different types of cheese,

904
00:54:47,116 --> 00:54:48,612
one for every day of the
year, for Christ's sake.

905
00:54:48,636 --> 00:54:50,436
So, of course they use
the vegetable metaphor.

906
00:54:50,936 --> 00:54:52,156
<i>Les carottes sont cuites.</i>

907
00:54:52,676 --> 00:54:53,956
Carrots are cooked.

908
00:54:54,876 --> 00:54:56,560
Die is cast. There's
no going back now.

909
00:54:56,636 --> 00:54:58,001
Guys, what are we doing here?

910
00:54:58,076 --> 00:55:02,082
Listen, I think what we're doing is
cool but I do not want to go to jail.

911
00:55:02,437 --> 00:55:05,805
Especially not because of some French
guy who's obsessed with vegetables.

912
00:55:06,317 --> 00:55:09,321
Jail. Man, that's a...
that's a buzzkill, man.

913
00:55:09,397 --> 00:55:12,003
The man... The man is
obviously crazy. So, what?

914
00:55:12,597 --> 00:55:14,440
Are we just here to
watch him die, huh?

915
00:55:14,917 --> 00:55:16,726
Does he even know how
to walk a tightrope?

916
00:55:16,797 --> 00:55:19,004
He knows how to walk on a
wire. That's not the problem.

917
00:55:19,077 --> 00:55:21,398
The problem is
he's losing his mind.

918
00:55:21,477 --> 00:55:23,254
He's maybe losing his
mind, but he won't give up.

919
00:55:23,278 --> 00:55:24,439
He never gives up.

920
00:55:24,518 --> 00:55:25,724
He just needs our help.

921
00:55:25,798 --> 00:55:27,163
I think he can do this.

922
00:55:28,798 --> 00:55:30,766
It will be very... <i>beau?</i>

923
00:55:31,718 --> 00:55:34,005
- Beautiful.
- Oh yeah.

924
00:55:35,518 --> 00:55:38,538
It will be very... beautiful.

925
00:55:53,039 --> 00:55:54,659
<i>It was the night before the coup</i>

926
00:55:54,759 --> 00:55:56,409
<i>and, of course,
I couldn't sleep.</i>

927
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:11,567
<i>I had forgotten
something very important.</i>

928
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:14,530
<i>I'd forgotten to
nail shut the coffin.</i>

929
00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:20,686
<i>Actually, there was no coffin.</i>

930
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:22,569
<i>It was the crate
holding the walk cable.</i>

931
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:26,042
<i>But, in my mind, I had changed
this crate into a coffin.</i>

932
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:28,887
Philippe!

933
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:31,737
What are you doing? You're waking
up the whole neighborhood.

934
00:56:31,761 --> 00:56:33,321
Well, I forgot to
nail shut the coffin.

935
00:56:33,681 --> 00:56:35,331
Stop calling it that!

936
00:56:35,401 --> 00:56:37,051
A coffin is what this may be.

937
00:56:37,121 --> 00:56:39,488
That's not funny.
What's wrong with you?

938
00:56:39,561 --> 00:56:40,777
Do you have a death
wish or something?

939
00:56:40,801 --> 00:56:43,327
Don't say this word!
I never say this word.

940
00:56:43,841 --> 00:56:45,809
Come on! Death, coffin, die.

941
00:56:45,881 --> 00:56:47,497
- It's all the same thing.
- Why are you doing this?

942
00:56:47,521 --> 00:56:49,091
Why are you suddenly against me?

943
00:56:49,201 --> 00:56:50,407
Against you?

944
00:56:50,481 --> 00:56:51,812
No one is more supportive.

945
00:56:51,881 --> 00:56:53,293
Then why do you say this word?

946
00:56:53,362 --> 00:56:54,698
Why do you put this
thought in my head

947
00:56:54,722 --> 00:56:56,451
on the night before
my most dangerous walk?

948
00:56:56,522 --> 00:56:59,366
- Why are you so uncaring?
- Uncaring?

949
00:56:59,642 --> 00:57:04,045
- You're the most selfish, arrogant...
- Yes, I'm arrogant! I have to be.

950
00:57:04,122 --> 00:57:06,124
To walk on the wire,
to command the wire!

951
00:57:06,202 --> 00:57:08,808
And what about your partners?
Your accomplices?

952
00:57:08,882 --> 00:57:11,898
You don't offer them a simple thank you
to let them know they're appreciated!

953
00:57:11,922 --> 00:57:14,493
- They know I appreciate them!
- Do they?

954
00:57:14,602 --> 00:57:16,459
Yes! What do you want me to
do? Go in there right now

955
00:57:16,483 --> 00:57:17,484
and tell them thank you?

956
00:57:17,563 --> 00:57:20,248
I can wake them up and say
"Thank you, everybody! <i>Merci!"</i>

957
00:57:23,403 --> 00:57:25,313
Just come to bed.
You're exhausted.

958
00:57:25,413 --> 00:57:29,013
Annie. My head is full of
doubts. I don't know if...

959
00:57:30,243 --> 00:57:32,814
When I confront the void, when
it's time to step on the wire,

960
00:57:32,883 --> 00:57:34,883
I don't know if I'll be
able to take my first step.

961
00:57:37,723 --> 00:57:39,567
Your heart will
tell you what to do.

962
00:57:40,564 --> 00:57:41,565
Annie.

963
00:57:42,724 --> 00:57:44,453
You're the only one
that truly knows me.

964
00:57:44,524 --> 00:57:47,209
It's because of you
that I can do this walk.

965
00:57:47,284 --> 00:57:49,093
You give me the
strength and the ability.

966
00:57:49,164 --> 00:57:50,734
Without you, I couldn't do it.

967
00:57:53,764 --> 00:57:54,765
You'll be fine.

968
00:58:17,805 --> 00:58:19,011
Everybody, wake up!

969
00:58:19,085 --> 00:58:20,894
Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!

970
00:58:21,005 --> 00:58:23,657
There's something I have to tell
you that I have not said before.

971
00:58:23,726 --> 00:58:25,057
It's important.

972
00:58:25,126 --> 00:58:27,208
Thank you. <i>Merci.</i>

973
00:58:28,846 --> 00:58:31,133
Now get some rest. We
have a big day tomorrow.

974
00:58:34,646 --> 00:58:35,807
You see?

975
00:58:36,046 --> 00:58:37,286
He's lost his mind.

976
00:58:38,366 --> 00:58:39,616
What?

977
00:58:57,447 --> 00:58:59,647
<i>Now as soon as
we are all loaded into the van,</i>

978
00:58:59,687 --> 00:59:02,657
<i>I think to myself,
"Okay, now it starts."</i>

979
00:59:05,327 --> 00:59:07,295
<i>The coup has begun.</i>

980
00:59:09,328 --> 00:59:12,218
<i>My life is no
longer in my command.</i>

981
00:59:23,168 --> 00:59:24,818
North Tower Plaza!

982
00:59:24,888 --> 00:59:26,617
Come on, make it snappy.
I'm in a red zone.

983
00:59:26,688 --> 00:59:28,895
<i>With the help
of Barry, our inside man,</i>

984
00:59:28,968 --> 00:59:31,813
<i>we unload Albert and
Jean-Louis at the North Tower.</i>

985
00:59:31,889 --> 00:59:35,371
<i>The plan was for Barry to hide
them in his office until nightfall.</i>

986
00:59:35,449 --> 00:59:36,496
Red zone.

987
00:59:38,369 --> 00:59:39,369
Goodbye.

988
00:59:39,409 --> 00:59:40,410
Red zone.

989
00:59:40,529 --> 00:59:42,133
See you soon.

990
00:59:43,089 --> 00:59:44,215
I love you.

991
00:59:45,369 --> 00:59:46,700
I love you, too.

992
00:59:57,090 --> 01:00:00,492
<i>Albert and Jean-Louis both
dress like impeccable architects.</i>

993
01:00:00,650 --> 01:00:04,296
<i>They carry attaché cases that are heavy
because they're carrying equipment.</i>

994
01:00:04,370 --> 01:00:07,852
<i>And they carry a blueprint tube
that contains the bow and arrow.</i>

995
01:00:08,570 --> 01:00:11,972
I feel the incline of
the ramp as we drive down

996
01:00:12,050 --> 01:00:13,814
<i>into the loading dock
of the South Tower</i>

997
01:00:13,890 --> 01:00:17,418
<i>and I knew, I knew we
would be caught right there!</i>

998
01:00:17,531 --> 01:00:19,772
Hold it right there, cowboy.

999
01:00:22,731 --> 01:00:24,415
You guys keep quiet back there.

1000
01:00:24,851 --> 01:00:25,851
What's your business?

1001
01:00:25,891 --> 01:00:27,611
Just another delivery.
Fisher Fence Company.

1002
01:00:27,731 --> 01:00:28,812
Fisher Fence Company?

1003
01:00:28,931 --> 01:00:30,067
What the hell's the
Fisher Fence Company?

1004
01:00:30,091 --> 01:00:31,787
Uh, we put in the
perimeter fence months ago.

1005
01:00:31,811 --> 01:00:34,860
Now they want us to come
back in, tear it down and redo it.

1006
01:00:37,251 --> 01:00:39,972
All right. Down the
ramp. Medium freight loading area.

1007
01:00:42,252 --> 01:00:44,414
That cop seemed
really suspicious.

1008
01:00:44,532 --> 01:00:45,693
I almost crapped my pants.

1009
01:00:50,452 --> 01:00:51,927
You can get more in there.

1010
01:00:53,372 --> 01:00:56,272
Hey! Hey, hey!
No way! No way!

1011
01:00:56,372 --> 01:00:58,972
Woah! No, no, no, no. We got
a delivery to the 82nd floor,

1012
01:00:59,022 --> 01:01:00,028
Fisher Fence Company.
It's all right here...

1013
01:01:00,052 --> 01:01:02,420
No, no, no, no, no. Only
Met deliveries are going up.

1014
01:01:02,493 --> 01:01:05,576
They've got all the elevators
leased today. Come back next week.

1015
01:01:05,653 --> 01:01:07,701
- Whoa, next week?
- Yeah. Next week.

1016
01:01:08,133 --> 01:01:09,259
All right, come on. Go home.

1017
01:01:10,453 --> 01:01:11,340
Did you hear?

1018
01:01:11,413 --> 01:01:13,541
The elevators are rented.
It's impossible today.

1019
01:01:13,613 --> 01:01:15,773
We're not moving.
Change his mind.

1020
01:01:15,873 --> 01:01:17,897
Okay? We take
a pause. Worker's pause.

1021
01:01:19,473 --> 01:01:21,123
Hey, excuse me, sir.

1022
01:01:21,173 --> 01:01:22,910
Before I get outta your
hair, can I get your name?

1023
01:01:22,934 --> 01:01:24,060
Frank Cielani.

1024
01:01:24,134 --> 01:01:25,738
- Is that Sicilian?
- It's Calabrese.

1025
01:01:25,834 --> 01:01:27,710
Ah! Good. 'Cause I got
these Sicilian neighbors.

1026
01:01:27,734 --> 01:01:28,870
They live two floors below me.

1027
01:01:28,894 --> 01:01:31,579
They're always cooking calamari.
It stinks my place up to high hell.

1028
01:01:31,654 --> 01:01:32,654
It'll do that.

1029
01:01:34,654 --> 01:01:36,383
Can you believe
this S.O.B. Nixon?

1030
01:01:36,454 --> 01:01:39,350
If it was up to me, that son of a
bitch would be in jail rest of his life.

1031
01:01:39,374 --> 01:01:40,590
You sound just like my old man.

1032
01:01:40,614 --> 01:01:43,697
He said this country went to hell in
a handbasket the day Kennedy got shot.

1033
01:01:43,774 --> 01:01:45,139
That's for goddamn sure.

1034
01:01:45,214 --> 01:01:48,264
- Hey, what'd you say your name was?
- JP. I was named after J.P. Morgan.

1035
01:01:56,495 --> 01:01:59,180
<i>So I sit there helpless,
watching these workers.</i>

1036
01:02:04,975 --> 01:02:06,261
<i>And in my agitated mind,</i>

1037
01:02:06,335 --> 01:02:09,340
<i>it looks like these workers
are moving like snails.</i>

1038
01:02:17,496 --> 01:02:18,657
Good night, boys.

1039
01:02:19,536 --> 01:02:21,379
Big day.
Have a good one.

1040
01:02:22,926 --> 01:02:25,056
You wallflowers still here?

1041
01:02:26,416 --> 01:02:28,145
Look, Mr. Cielani,
I'm gonna level with you.

1042
01:02:28,216 --> 01:02:29,792
If we don't make this delivery,
we're gonna get fired,

1043
01:02:29,816 --> 01:02:32,297
and Phil here, oh,
he's a dead duck for sure.

1044
01:02:33,577 --> 01:02:35,067
What do you got?
Where're you going?

1045
01:02:35,117 --> 01:02:36,377
82nd floor.

1046
01:02:37,577 --> 01:02:40,899
Hey, Jimmy! Take these
frogs up to the 82nd floor.

1047
01:02:41,257 --> 01:02:41,877
You're kidding me, right?

1048
01:02:41,977 --> 01:02:44,336
Come on. It's
your last ride, okay?

1049
01:02:44,337 --> 01:02:45,793
- Okay.
- Thank you, sir! Appreciate it...

1050
01:02:45,817 --> 01:02:47,657
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Come on. Quitting time!

1051
01:02:58,738 --> 01:03:00,820
- Which floor?
- Uh, we're going to the...

1052
01:03:00,898 --> 01:03:02,707
Uh, the 110th floor.

1053
01:03:03,618 --> 01:03:06,189
110? There's nothing up there.
That's just the mechanical floor.

1054
01:03:06,258 --> 01:03:08,829
Yes, but it is perfect for us.
We need to be close to the roof.

1055
01:03:08,898 --> 01:03:10,741
The roof? Why the roof?

1056
01:03:11,578 --> 01:03:13,660
Because we have all the
pieces for the antenna.

1057
01:03:13,738 --> 01:03:14,914
- The antenna.
- And the antenna mast.

1058
01:03:14,938 --> 01:03:16,915
- Antenna mast.
- And the electrified security fence.

1059
01:03:16,939 --> 01:03:18,862
We have all the components
for the insulators.

1060
01:03:18,939 --> 01:03:20,219
Insulators. We
have to measure...

1061
01:03:20,259 --> 01:03:22,739
Yes, we, until we measure, we
cannot install any of the wiring.

1062
01:03:22,819 --> 01:03:24,275
For the aerial system.
We're four months behind.

1063
01:03:24,299 --> 01:03:25,300
It's a big problem.

1064
01:03:25,379 --> 01:03:27,143
Whatever. Just
watch your fingers.

1065
01:03:36,099 --> 01:03:37,260
Okay, JP.

1066
01:03:37,459 --> 01:03:41,066
When we get to the 110th
floor, we'll throw the equipment out.

1067
01:03:41,180 --> 01:03:42,864
You get this guy down.

1068
01:03:43,264 --> 01:03:45,259
- But you need help.
- Get this guy down!

1069
01:03:45,260 --> 01:03:48,530
If he stays with us,
we'll be in trouble.

1070
01:03:48,860 --> 01:03:49,860
<i>Oui, oui, oui.</i>

1071
01:03:50,780 --> 01:03:51,941
<i>We've had a lucky break.</i>

1072
01:03:52,060 --> 01:03:54,711
This elevator is taking
us to the 110th floor.

1073
01:03:54,780 --> 01:03:59,342
But this means that JP has to get
this elevator operator back down.

1074
01:03:59,420 --> 01:04:01,708
If he stays with us,
the coup is finished.

1075
01:04:05,101 --> 01:04:06,227
110th.

1076
01:04:10,927 --> 01:04:12,131
Let's go.
Let's go, let's go.

1077
01:04:15,681 --> 01:04:16,381
Jimmy.

1078
01:04:16,581 --> 01:04:17,961
Really appreciate this, man.

1079
01:04:17,986 --> 01:04:19,502
Hey, let me buy you a beer.

1080
01:04:19,581 --> 01:04:22,037
These guys, they gotta offload.
They got tons of inventory to do.

1081
01:04:22,061 --> 01:04:24,582
It's gonna take them forever.
They'll find their way home, hmm?

1082
01:04:25,142 --> 01:04:26,632
Whatever.
Watch your fingers.

1083
01:04:27,082 --> 01:04:28,082
All right.

1084
01:04:28,982 --> 01:04:30,825
Kommedas. What
is that, Greek?

1085
01:04:30,902 --> 01:04:34,270
I got a Greek guy living two
floors below me, always eating lamb.

1086
01:04:35,262 --> 01:04:36,752
Nothing but lamb.

1087
01:04:46,023 --> 01:04:48,264
Oh, man. This is becoming
a real bummer, man.

1088
01:04:50,423 --> 01:04:51,504
We unload here.

1089
01:04:54,143 --> 01:04:55,190
Okay.

1090
01:05:05,063 --> 01:05:06,827
- Okay.
- Oh, man.

1091
01:05:07,263 --> 01:05:11,155
We take the cable first. If anyone stops
us, we tell them it's the antenna guylines.

1092
01:05:12,024 --> 01:05:14,072
- This shit is really heavy, man.
- Quiet.

1093
01:05:15,064 --> 01:05:16,634
I mean, like, really heavy.

1094
01:05:16,904 --> 01:05:19,555
- Like heavy heavy, not bullshit heavy.
- Shh.

1095
01:05:20,744 --> 01:05:24,032
Oh, man. This scene is giving
me really bad vibes, man.

1096
01:05:24,104 --> 01:05:26,184
Oh, shit.

1097
01:05:26,224 --> 01:05:28,147
Oh, shit, it's the pigs!

1098
01:05:28,224 --> 01:05:30,080
- Oh, man, the pigs are here, man!
- Hide, hide, hide.

1099
01:05:30,104 --> 01:05:32,756
- Oh, man. Oh, man. The jig is up, man.
- Shh!

1100
01:05:33,225 --> 01:05:36,385
Oh, man. Oh, man.
This is freaking me out, man.

1101
01:05:36,585 --> 01:05:37,685
It's just down there.

1102
01:05:38,105 --> 01:05:40,028
- It's okay.
- I can't do this, man.

1103
01:05:40,665 --> 01:05:42,793
I am wigging out, man.

1104
01:05:42,865 --> 01:05:45,709
Okay, just listen. We don't
need you. You go. Okay?

1105
01:05:45,785 --> 01:05:47,275
- I'll go.
- Go.

1106
01:05:47,745 --> 01:05:48,985
No, that stairwell.

1107
01:05:49,065 --> 01:05:51,750
No, that, that, that
stairway to the 82nd floor.

1108
01:05:51,825 --> 01:05:53,874
To the 82nd floor,
there's an elevator.

1109
01:05:53,946 --> 01:05:57,029
Listen, man. Look, I really want to
help you guys do something radical.

1110
01:05:57,106 --> 01:05:58,386
Okay, man? But, you know...

1111
01:05:58,486 --> 01:05:59,641
Oh, man!

1112
01:05:59,786 --> 01:06:02,636
Oh, man. Oh, I'm
shagging ass, man.

1113
01:06:54,388 --> 01:06:57,073
Our only hope is maybe this
guard will move to another floor

1114
01:06:57,148 --> 01:06:59,435
or maybe once it gets
dark we'll sneak past him.

1115
01:06:59,548 --> 01:07:02,155
But I must admit, by this time,

1116
01:07:02,549 --> 01:07:05,120
I was very worried
the coup was over already.

1117
01:07:08,029 --> 01:07:09,554
Hey, Annie!

1118
01:07:09,669 --> 01:07:12,434
- Hey, I've been looking all over for you.
- Is everything okay?

1119
01:07:12,589 --> 01:07:14,805
We hit a little snag, but I
think everything's all right.

1120
01:07:14,829 --> 01:07:15,910
Okay.

1121
01:07:32,270 --> 01:07:33,840
Jesus Christ.

1122
01:07:34,840 --> 01:07:36,951
I can't believe they
don't gate this shaft.

1123
01:07:38,390 --> 01:07:39,960
Somebody's gonna get killed.

1124
01:07:46,591 --> 01:07:50,391
<i>So there we sit, balancing
on this steel I-beam for an eternity.</i>

1125
01:07:50,471 --> 01:07:52,678
<i>And the worst part,
the most painful part</i>

1126
01:07:52,751 --> 01:07:55,880
<i>was our heavy construction
shoes killing our feet.</i>

1127
01:09:24,795 --> 01:09:28,124
<i>I see the walkie-talkie,
but I don't see the guard.</i>

1128
01:09:28,475 --> 01:09:30,603
So what does this mean?
Is the guard gone?

1129
01:09:31,075 --> 01:09:33,681
Is he still there, just
standing outside of my view?

1130
01:09:33,755 --> 01:09:36,838
He wouldn't leave his
walkie-talkie unattended, would he?

1131
01:09:37,195 --> 01:09:38,197
<i>I turn to Jeff</i>

1132
01:09:39,356 --> 01:09:41,324
<i>and I see the terror
on Jeff's face.</i>

1133
01:09:41,396 --> 01:09:44,445
<i>And his terror begins
to seep into my mind.</i>

1134
01:09:44,516 --> 01:09:47,998
And I start to conjure
these hideous thoughts myself.

1135
01:10:01,477 --> 01:10:04,162
Time passes. I keep
looking and looking

1136
01:10:04,237 --> 01:10:07,320
and this walkie-talkie just
sits there and I'm wondering,

1137
01:10:07,397 --> 01:10:10,719
"What is going on with this security
guard and his walkie-talkie?

1138
01:10:11,197 --> 01:10:12,767
"Is he just playing with me?

1139
01:10:12,997 --> 01:10:15,568
"Is he waiting for me to come
out so he can laugh at me?

1140
01:10:15,637 --> 01:10:16,638
"Is he asleep?"

1141
01:10:17,077 --> 01:10:21,082
<i>Then about an hour
after nightfall...</i>

1142
01:10:32,718 --> 01:10:33,719
He's gone.

1143
01:11:09,560 --> 01:11:10,766
Is the guard gone?

1144
01:11:11,200 --> 01:11:12,486
I don't see him.

1145
01:11:15,280 --> 01:11:16,810
Three hours behind schedule.

1146
01:11:48,721 --> 01:11:49,882
What's wrong with him?

1147
01:11:49,961 --> 01:11:50,962
I don't know.

1148
01:11:51,151 --> 01:11:52,222
He could be on drugs.

1149
01:11:53,962 --> 01:11:54,402
Or he's dead.

1150
01:11:54,502 --> 01:11:55,502
No, no.

1151
01:12:17,603 --> 01:12:19,093
Ah, look! He made it.

1152
01:12:21,923 --> 01:12:22,924
He's ready to shoot!

1153
01:12:23,323 --> 01:12:24,623
- Watch the guard.
- Okay.

1154
01:12:24,723 --> 01:12:25,923
Come on, come on, come on!

1155
01:12:28,723 --> 01:12:31,090
<i>Jean-Louis
and I had worked out some hand signals.</i>

1156
01:12:31,163 --> 01:12:33,894
<i>So now he was telling me
he's ready to shoot the arrow.</i>

1157
01:12:33,963 --> 01:12:37,206
<i>He's supposed to signal, and
then five seconds later, he shoots.</i>

1158
01:12:44,204 --> 01:12:46,775
<i>But after five seconds,
nothing happens.</i>

1159
01:12:49,084 --> 01:12:52,691
<i>I listen for the sound of the
arrow hitting, but I hear nothing.</i>

1160
01:12:52,764 --> 01:12:54,493
<i>I look around. I see nothing.</i>

1161
01:12:54,564 --> 01:12:56,805
<i>I think maybe the
arrow has flown too far.</i>

1162
01:12:57,164 --> 01:13:01,648
<i>So I wave my arms around hoping
I'll feel this invisible fishing line,</i>

1163
01:13:01,725 --> 01:13:03,705
<i>but, I feel nothing.</i>

1164
01:13:19,085 --> 01:13:20,565
Philippe! What
the hell are you doing?

1165
01:13:20,605 --> 01:13:21,845
Looking for the fishing line!

1166
01:13:22,045 --> 01:13:25,767
<i>So I take off my clothes, thinking
that with more surface of bare skin</i>

1167
01:13:25,886 --> 01:13:28,086
<i>I'll have a greater chance of
feeling this fishing line.</i>

1168
01:13:28,766 --> 01:13:29,813
Can I help?

1169
01:13:30,566 --> 01:13:31,931
No!
Watch the guard!

1170
01:13:36,566 --> 01:13:38,489
No, no, no!

1171
01:13:59,047 --> 01:14:00,048
Philippe!

1172
01:14:00,647 --> 01:14:01,647
Where are you?

1173
01:14:02,447 --> 01:14:05,178
Okay... the guard
is gone! Ah?

1174
01:14:06,087 --> 01:14:07,533
<i>So, I throw my clothes back on</i>

1175
01:14:07,608 --> 01:14:10,612
<i>and we run our gear up to
the roof as fast as we can.</i>

1176
01:14:33,049 --> 01:14:35,939
Listen, I think we should get some
rest and come back before sunrise.

1177
01:14:36,209 --> 01:14:37,210
Oh, you go. I'm staying.

1178
01:14:37,289 --> 01:14:39,173
- All night?
- Yeah.

1179
01:14:40,049 --> 01:14:41,345
Annie, there's nothing
you can do from down here.

1180
01:14:41,369 --> 01:14:43,770
Either Philippe is gonna
pull this off or he's not.

1181
01:14:43,849 --> 01:14:45,145
Besides, you look
really suspicious

1182
01:14:45,169 --> 01:14:47,689
standing out here with some
binoculars hanging around your neck.

1183
01:14:48,249 --> 01:14:49,330
Well, I'll keep moving.

1184
01:14:49,809 --> 01:14:52,654
- It's New York City. It's dangerous.
- I'll... I'll be fine.

1185
01:14:56,850 --> 01:14:58,978
Wonder if Philippe knows
you're still out here.

1186
01:15:04,410 --> 01:15:06,460
I'll bring you a donut in the morning.

1187
01:15:06,510 --> 01:15:07,510
Thank you.

1188
01:15:39,252 --> 01:15:41,070
Okay, good. He marked it.

1189
01:15:41,300 --> 01:15:42,300
Pull.

1190
01:15:54,332 --> 01:15:55,333
Jean-Louie's mark!

1191
01:16:03,213 --> 01:16:05,215
Hello, hello,
Jean-Louis. How do you hear me?

1192
01:16:05,293 --> 01:16:06,853
<i>Loud and clear.</i>

1193
01:16:06,893 --> 01:16:09,389
Okay, good. We have communication.
I'm going to measure the rope

1194
01:16:09,413 --> 01:16:11,013
to find out where to put the cavalettis.

1195
01:16:11,573 --> 01:16:12,574
Here.

1196
01:16:12,653 --> 01:16:14,894
But, whatever you do...

1197
01:16:16,773 --> 01:16:18,373
I'll guard it with my life.

1198
01:17:16,816 --> 01:17:18,580
<i>Garbowski, you awake?</i>

1199
01:17:20,616 --> 01:17:21,777
That's very funny.

1200
01:17:22,016 --> 01:17:24,667
<i>I need you to check
something down on 37th.</i>

1201
01:17:24,976 --> 01:17:26,341
Yeah? What do you got?

1202
01:17:26,456 --> 01:17:29,778
<i>How's about a pepperoni and
sausage with extra cheese?</i>

1203
01:17:30,977 --> 01:17:32,138
Now you're talking.

1204
01:17:54,218 --> 01:17:55,708
That was close.

1205
01:17:57,018 --> 01:17:58,498
We need an alarm signal.

1206
01:18:14,538 --> 01:18:16,155
Fine. Okay. I bolted
the cavalettis in place.

1207
01:18:16,179 --> 01:18:18,179
We're ready to pass across
the wire. Are you ready?

1208
01:18:18,269 --> 01:18:19,269
<i>Yes.</i>

1209
01:18:19,339 --> 01:18:21,819
Okay, first I pass the heavy
rope, then the walk cable.

1210
01:18:29,939 --> 01:18:31,019
<i>We got the rope.</i>

1211
01:18:31,719 --> 01:18:33,219
Okay, we're sending the cable.

1212
01:18:46,410 --> 01:18:47,410
Be careful.

1213
01:19:13,981 --> 01:19:15,312
Okay, okay.

1214
01:19:25,262 --> 01:19:27,061
Hold it.
Hold it! Hold it!

1215
01:19:27,062 --> 01:19:28,462
Hold it! Hold it!

1216
01:20:25,744 --> 01:20:27,394
We have a problem.

1217
01:20:28,024 --> 01:20:30,232
<i>We will do everything
we can to pull up the cable.</i>

1218
01:20:31,945 --> 01:20:34,186
It's only a few
hours before daylight.

1219
01:20:36,505 --> 01:20:38,145
<i>We will do everything we can.</i>

1220
01:20:52,025 --> 01:20:53,107
<i>Philippe, this is crazy.</i>

1221
01:20:53,186 --> 01:20:55,029
<i>We're never going to
finish at this rate.</i>

1222
01:20:55,186 --> 01:20:56,790
Yes, we will.
We will finish.

1223
01:20:57,146 --> 01:20:58,910
<i>No, we're
not! We're not!</i>

1224
01:20:59,066 --> 01:21:00,602
<i>We're all gonna get
caught and go to jail.</i>

1225
01:21:00,626 --> 01:21:01,842
<i>And I don't want to go to jail.</i>

1226
01:21:01,866 --> 01:21:03,506
<i>And the rigging...
the rigging isn't safe.</i>

1227
01:21:03,546 --> 01:21:06,390
<i>I'm not gonna watch you fall.
I'm leaving, okay. I quit.</i>

1228
01:21:06,546 --> 01:21:09,436
Okay, Albert, listen to me.
Yes, I agree with you, okay?

1229
01:21:09,506 --> 01:21:11,713
And if the rigging
is not done by daylight

1230
01:21:11,786 --> 01:21:15,553
and if the rigging is
not safe, then I'll give up.

1231
01:21:28,667 --> 01:21:30,749
Hey, look who made
it through the night.

1232
01:21:31,227 --> 01:21:33,707
- I got you a donut.
- Thank you.

1233
01:21:34,547 --> 01:21:35,912
Hey, the wire's up!

1234
01:21:36,347 --> 01:21:37,918
Yeah, but it's not tight yet.

1235
01:21:38,948 --> 01:21:40,188
Something's wrong.

1236
01:21:44,908 --> 01:21:46,148
<i>Philippe, are you there?</i>

1237
01:21:46,428 --> 01:21:47,753
Yes, yes, I'm here.

1238
01:21:47,948 --> 01:21:49,757
<i>The good
news is the cable is tied off</i>

1239
01:21:49,828 --> 01:21:51,068
<i>and secured on this end.</i>

1240
01:21:51,268 --> 01:21:53,509
<i>The bad news is Albert has quit.</i>

1241
01:21:53,588 --> 01:21:56,398
<i>Albert has quit. He said the sun
is rising and the coup is off.</i>

1242
01:21:56,468 --> 01:21:59,039
Wait, did you put wood between
the anchor points and the cable?

1243
01:21:59,108 --> 01:22:01,430
<i>Philippe, did you
hear me? Albert is on strike.</i>

1244
01:22:01,589 --> 01:22:03,512
<i>He will no longer lift
a finger to help me.</i>

1245
01:22:03,589 --> 01:22:05,637
<i>Not only that, he
smuggled a camera up here</i>

1246
01:22:05,709 --> 01:22:07,509
<i>and he's going to take
pictures and sell them.</i>

1247
01:22:08,109 --> 01:22:10,589
<i>I knew it. I told you, I
knew we couldn't trust him.</i>

1248
01:22:11,789 --> 01:22:14,872
Well, my
friend... it's just you and me.

1249
01:22:17,429 --> 01:22:18,429
And one more thing,

1250
01:22:19,029 --> 01:22:21,189
you will always be my
Photograph Official.

1251
01:22:29,630 --> 01:22:30,631
It's working!

1252
01:22:36,990 --> 01:22:38,833
The cable's moving!

1253
01:22:42,670 --> 01:22:44,001
He's going for it.

1254
01:22:44,671 --> 01:22:46,381
Look. It's moving up.

1255
01:23:06,431 --> 01:23:07,432
The wheel.

1256
01:23:08,232 --> 01:23:09,916
The wheel! The wheel!

1257
01:23:12,792 --> 01:23:14,432
Come on!
I need your help!

1258
01:23:14,999 --> 01:23:16,382
The elevator is on its way up!

1259
01:23:17,232 --> 01:23:19,532
The workers will
be here any moment!

1260
01:23:19,582 --> 01:23:22,476
Follow me! We have to
tighten the cavalettis!

1261
01:23:22,552 --> 01:23:24,873
Philippe, I can't do that!

1262
01:23:24,992 --> 01:23:26,278
Jeff, I'm begging you!

1263
01:23:26,352 --> 01:23:28,673
If you don't help now,
the coup is over.

1264
01:23:29,112 --> 01:23:30,994
- I can't do that.
- Yes, you can.

1265
01:23:31,353 --> 01:23:32,353
Don't look down.

1266
01:23:32,443 --> 01:23:33,532
Don't think about it.

1267
01:23:33,593 --> 01:23:34,593
Come on.

1268
01:23:35,233 --> 01:23:36,300
Help me review.

1269
01:23:36,353 --> 01:23:38,481
- Seven times seven?
- Forty-nine.

1270
01:23:39,193 --> 01:23:40,797
Nine times eight?

1271
01:23:41,033 --> 01:23:42,876
- Seventy-two.
- Okay.

1272
01:23:44,553 --> 01:23:45,553
Watch.

1273
01:23:47,253 --> 01:23:48,381
- Grab here.
- Okay.

1274
01:23:48,753 --> 01:23:49,753
Turn this way.

1275
01:23:50,113 --> 01:23:51,305
- Okay?
- Okay, okay.

1276
01:23:51,405 --> 01:23:52,694
Hold it, hold it.

1277
01:23:55,554 --> 01:23:57,334
Stay here. I'll
tighten the next one.

1278
01:23:57,384 --> 01:23:59,408
Ah. Ahh, Philippe!
Don't leave me!

1279
01:23:59,413 --> 01:24:00,722
You'll be fine!

1280
01:24:02,192 --> 01:24:03,192
Okay.

1281
01:24:04,554 --> 01:24:06,875
- Seven times eight!
- Fifty-six.

1282
01:24:08,154 --> 01:24:11,476
- Ninety-six divided by eight!
- Twelve!

1283
01:24:15,755 --> 01:24:17,535
Let's go!

1284
01:24:21,715 --> 01:24:23,535
You did great.
Thank you.

1285
01:24:24,615 --> 01:24:25,615
The wheel.

1286
01:26:21,200 --> 01:26:22,725
What were
you going to do with that?

1287
01:26:22,800 --> 01:26:23,801
With what?

1288
01:26:28,600 --> 01:26:30,569
<i>And that
was the moment in my adventure</i>

1289
01:26:30,641 --> 01:26:32,723
<i>I call, "The Mysterious Visitor."</i>

1290
01:26:33,441 --> 01:26:36,285
I have no idea who he is.
I've never seen him again.

1291
01:26:37,041 --> 01:26:39,248
And I can only imagine
what he must have thought.

1292
01:26:47,441 --> 01:26:49,842
<i>Now it's time for me
to put on my costume.</i>

1293
01:26:49,921 --> 01:26:51,650
<i>But I have to do this privately,</i>

1294
01:26:51,721 --> 01:26:54,168
<i>so my dressing room is
the very ledge of the building.</i>

1295
01:26:54,242 --> 01:26:56,893
<i>Not visible from the
streets of Manhattan.</i>

1296
01:26:56,962 --> 01:27:00,091
<i>The dressing room is also something
that Papa Rudy taught me.</i>

1297
01:27:00,242 --> 01:27:02,768
<i>This is where the
transformation takes place.</i>

1298
01:27:02,842 --> 01:27:04,924
<i>This is where the
disguised impostor,</i>

1299
01:27:05,242 --> 01:27:07,893
<i>the intruder,
becomes the performer.</i>

1300
01:27:08,242 --> 01:27:09,767
<i>The artist.</i>

1301
01:27:10,942 --> 01:27:12,768
Oh, my God! He's falling!

1302
01:27:14,923 --> 01:27:15,923
Oh, no.

1303
01:27:16,193 --> 01:27:17,593
Oh, no, it's just his shirt.

1304
01:27:18,603 --> 01:27:20,207
It's just his shirt.

1305
01:27:22,283 --> 01:27:24,445
Hey. Nothing yet, huh?

1306
01:27:26,443 --> 01:27:27,603
Well, he better get cracking.

1307
01:27:35,243 --> 01:27:37,212
I lost my costume!

1308
01:27:37,324 --> 01:27:38,610
This is a tragedy!

1309
01:27:38,684 --> 01:27:40,550
The biggest stage of my life,
and I lose my costume!

1310
01:27:40,574 --> 01:27:42,447
It falls off the edge.
I have no costume!

1311
01:27:42,524 --> 01:27:43,524
What?

1312
01:27:43,594 --> 01:27:44,765
I lost my turtleneck!

1313
01:27:44,844 --> 01:27:46,289
This is not my costume!

1314
01:27:47,804 --> 01:27:49,044
What should we do?

1315
01:27:53,964 --> 01:27:55,375
We do it.
We do it anyway.

1316
01:27:55,484 --> 01:27:58,488
I walk in this ridiculous
undershirt, but we do it.

1317
01:28:59,087 --> 01:29:02,216
<i>I have one foot on the building,
one foot on the wire,</i>

1318
01:29:03,647 --> 01:29:06,890
<i>And the outside world
starts to disappear.</i>

1319
01:29:17,048 --> 01:29:18,937
<i>Jeff no longer existed.</i>

1320
01:29:20,648 --> 01:29:22,855
<i>My tower was deserted.</i>

1321
01:29:35,769 --> 01:29:38,534
<i>I no longer heard the
sounds of New York.</i>

1322
01:29:39,129 --> 01:29:41,018
<i>Everything fell silent.</i>

1323
01:29:43,769 --> 01:29:45,931
<i>All I could see was the wire,</i>

1324
01:29:46,489 --> 01:29:49,777
<i>floating out in a
straight line to infinity.</i>

1325
01:29:56,370 --> 01:29:58,737
<i>And if I were
to shift my weight,</i>

1326
01:29:59,410 --> 01:30:01,651
<i>I would become a wire walker.</i>

1327
01:31:16,213 --> 01:31:18,978
<i>As soon as my entire
weight is on the cable,</i>

1328
01:31:19,373 --> 01:31:22,662
<i>I feel immediately a
feeling I know by heart.</i>

1329
01:31:23,294 --> 01:31:25,535
<i>I feel the wire supporting me.</i>

1330
01:31:25,814 --> 01:31:28,260
<i>I feel the towers
supporting the wire.</i>

1331
01:31:28,614 --> 01:31:30,582
Oh, my God!
He's doing it.

1332
01:31:30,734 --> 01:31:34,181
He's doing it!
Do you see? Oh, my God!

1333
01:31:34,774 --> 01:31:36,217
He's doing it!

1334
01:31:36,854 --> 01:31:38,936
Everybody! Everybody stop!
Look!

1335
01:31:39,014 --> 01:31:39,760
There's a wire...!

1336
01:31:39,960 --> 01:31:41,444
Look! There's a wire walker!

1337
01:31:41,874 --> 01:31:42,534
There!

1338
01:31:42,574 --> 01:31:44,546
Yes! Yes!

1339
01:31:46,546 --> 01:31:48,545
Yes! You did it!

1340
01:32:08,576 --> 01:32:12,376
<i>I approach the first
cavaletti, and it's upside down.</i>

1341
01:32:14,416 --> 01:32:18,865
<i>But I look closer
and it seems okay.</i>

1342
01:32:27,176 --> 01:32:30,181
<i>Thank you, Papa Rudy,
for suggesting the three bolts.</i>

1343
01:32:50,657 --> 01:32:52,706
Watch the birdie, Philippe.

1344
01:33:02,138 --> 01:33:03,344
Philippe.

1345
01:33:04,978 --> 01:33:06,378
Come on, Philippe. You're doing it.

1346
01:33:06,708 --> 01:33:07,958
You're doing it, Philippe.

1347
01:33:26,499 --> 01:33:28,706
Oh, my God!

1348
01:33:31,909 --> 01:33:33,079
That's brilliant!

1349
01:33:33,179 --> 01:33:35,059
<i>I arrive at the North Tower</i>

1350
01:33:35,209 --> 01:33:37,824
feeling the most intense joy,

1351
01:33:37,900 --> 01:33:41,985
the most profound satisfaction
I've ever felt in my life.

1352
01:33:42,500 --> 01:33:46,505
Philippe! Come on, Philippe.
Philippe, okay. Yeah, working man. Okay.

1353
01:33:47,340 --> 01:33:48,836
All right, now over your
right shoulder, huh?

1354
01:33:48,860 --> 01:33:49,610
Ahhh...

1355
01:33:49,660 --> 01:33:51,230
Philippe, smile.

1356
01:33:56,180 --> 01:33:59,024
My friend, thank you.

1357
01:34:19,901 --> 01:34:23,668
<i>I had finished my
crossing, the coup was over.</i>

1358
01:34:25,022 --> 01:34:27,548
<i>But then I looked over
at the South Tower</i>

1359
01:34:28,702 --> 01:34:30,545
<i>and it was still calling to me.</i>

1360
01:34:36,302 --> 01:34:38,111
<i>So I'm thinking,</i>

1361
01:34:39,462 --> 01:34:41,464
<i>maybe I should get
back on my wire.</i>

1362
01:34:43,742 --> 01:34:45,586
He's coming back out.

1363
01:35:26,024 --> 01:35:28,504
<i>And then, I feel something</i>

1364
01:35:28,584 --> 01:35:32,431
<i>that maybe I've never
truly felt before.</i>

1365
01:35:36,625 --> 01:35:38,150
<i>I feel thankful.</i>

1366
01:35:44,065 --> 01:35:47,035
<i>So, I get down on one knee</i>

1367
01:35:47,105 --> 01:35:48,436
<i>and I salute.</i>

1368
01:35:49,505 --> 01:35:51,712
<i>First, I salute the wire,</i>

1369
01:35:52,666 --> 01:35:54,634
<i>then the towers,</i>

1370
01:35:55,666 --> 01:35:59,432
<i>and then I salute the
great city of New York.</i>

1371
01:36:10,886 --> 01:36:11,886
Wooh!

1372
01:36:25,667 --> 01:36:28,750
<i>Then, as I stand,
I see two uniforms.</i>

1373
01:36:28,827 --> 01:36:30,272
<i>The cops.</i>

1374
01:36:30,867 --> 01:36:33,473
Christ Almighty,
what the hell is that?

1375
01:36:35,187 --> 01:36:36,188
Cuff him.

1376
01:36:36,267 --> 01:36:38,032
Hey! Get your
hands on your head.

1377
01:36:38,108 --> 01:36:39,314
Get down! Get down!

1378
01:36:39,388 --> 01:36:41,197
Get your hands
on your head. Down!

1379
01:36:41,628 --> 01:36:43,232
I'm
French. I don't speak English.

1380
01:36:43,308 --> 01:36:44,434
What?

1381
01:36:44,508 --> 01:36:47,079
Holy shit. This
one's a frog.

1382
01:36:47,148 --> 01:36:48,752
French, I'm French.

1383
01:36:50,948 --> 01:36:54,157
You and twinkle toes are in a
lot of trouble, you know that?

1384
01:36:55,318 --> 01:36:56,468
Uh...

1385
01:36:56,708 --> 01:36:58,119
Uh, look, fella.

1386
01:36:58,188 --> 01:37:00,271
Just, uh, come on in

1387
01:37:00,869 --> 01:37:03,873
and, um, we'll talk
about it, all right?

1388
01:37:05,429 --> 01:37:06,954
Okay, buddy. Come on.

1389
01:37:07,029 --> 01:37:08,758
Come on in. Yeah.

1390
01:37:08,829 --> 01:37:09,990
Show's over.

1391
01:37:10,069 --> 01:37:11,878
Okay. Come on.

1392
01:37:12,829 --> 01:37:14,672
<i>Parlez-vous American-o?</i>

1393
01:37:18,309 --> 01:37:19,435
Careful!
Whoa!

1394
01:37:23,030 --> 01:37:24,030
- Oh!

1395
01:37:24,137 --> 01:37:25,270
- Jesus!
- Ahh!

1396
01:37:26,110 --> 01:37:28,158
<i>These officers, God bless them,</i>

1397
01:37:28,230 --> 01:37:31,279
<i>they remind me of my days when
I had to run from the police.</i>

1398
01:37:31,350 --> 01:37:34,115
<i>But, they can't
follow me up here.</i>

1399
01:37:34,190 --> 01:37:35,770
What the hell do we do now?

1400
01:37:57,991 --> 01:37:59,675
<i>By now, I'm becoming aware</i>

1401
01:37:59,751 --> 01:38:02,357
<i>of the people on the
ground below, watching me.</i>

1402
01:38:02,791 --> 01:38:04,571
<i>My audience.</i>

1403
01:38:04,751 --> 01:38:08,677
<i>And even though this is something
a wire walker should never do,</i>

1404
01:38:08,752 --> 01:38:10,754
<i>I look down.</i>

1405
01:38:38,433 --> 01:38:40,640
And it was...

1406
01:38:43,673 --> 01:38:45,437
It was peaceful.

1407
01:38:45,513 --> 01:38:47,880
It was calm and serene.

1408
01:38:48,673 --> 01:38:50,402
Not dangerous.

1409
01:38:55,714 --> 01:38:57,000
Did you hear that?

1410
01:38:57,554 --> 01:38:58,994
Someone's coming.
Go. Go, go, go now.

1411
01:38:59,034 --> 01:39:02,322
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go,
go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Go.

1412
01:39:02,394 --> 01:39:03,964
- Shh!
- Go, go, go.

1413
01:39:13,674 --> 01:39:15,011
- They're over here.
- We're on the roof.

1414
01:39:15,035 --> 01:39:16,035
Hey, buddy!

1415
01:39:16,635 --> 01:39:18,160
What are you doing out there?

1416
01:39:19,955 --> 01:39:21,923
Jesus. Hey, get a load of this!

1417
01:39:21,995 --> 01:39:23,371
This fool has gone
and lost his mind.

1418
01:39:23,395 --> 01:39:24,275
Hey, hey, hey, pallie.

1419
01:39:24,375 --> 01:39:26,335
Why don't you come down
off that thing, all right?

1420
01:39:26,395 --> 01:39:27,635
Why you doing this?

1421
01:39:27,755 --> 01:39:29,678
- Whoa, whoa.
- Come on.

1422
01:39:29,755 --> 01:39:32,486
Okay, hey. Stop
wastin' everyone's time!

1423
01:39:32,555 --> 01:39:34,444
Come on. Get down
off that wire now!

1424
01:39:34,515 --> 01:39:35,515
Quit foolin' around.

1425
01:39:35,555 --> 01:39:37,206
Okay, hey, hard-on.

1426
01:39:37,596 --> 01:39:39,485
Shit. Oh, shit.

1427
01:39:39,556 --> 01:39:40,842
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

1428
01:39:40,916 --> 01:39:42,327
Whoa, whoa. Don't fall, buddy!

1429
01:39:42,396 --> 01:39:44,046
Hey, hey, don't go fallin'!

1430
01:39:44,636 --> 01:39:47,287
- Goddamn it.
- Freakin' believe this little pissant?

1431
01:39:48,076 --> 01:39:51,125
<i>Now with police on
both rooftops, I have no choice.</i>

1432
01:39:51,196 --> 01:39:52,641
<i>I have to stay on my wire.</i>

1433
01:39:52,716 --> 01:39:54,366
- Whoa!
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

1434
01:39:54,436 --> 01:39:55,801
- Buddy.
- No. No.

1435
01:39:58,636 --> 01:40:00,401
Oh. Oh.

1436
01:40:01,917 --> 01:40:03,457
Wow.

1437
01:40:24,838 --> 01:40:26,602
Unbelievable.

1438
01:40:47,599 --> 01:40:48,885
All right. You get him.

1439
01:40:48,999 --> 01:40:50,683
- I got your back.
- Yeah, okay. I...

1440
01:40:50,759 --> 01:40:51,840
- You got me?
- I got you.

1441
01:40:51,959 --> 01:40:53,040
- You got me, okay?
- Yes.

1442
01:40:53,119 --> 01:40:54,484
Okay, come on.

1443
01:40:54,919 --> 01:40:56,135
- That's it. Nice and slowly.
- All right.

1444
01:40:56,159 --> 01:40:57,375
- Let's go.
- All right, come on.

1445
01:40:57,399 --> 01:40:59,459
- That's it. Nice and slowly, buddy.
- Got it.

1446
01:40:59,639 --> 01:41:00,759
- Hold.
- That's it.

1447
01:41:00,799 --> 01:41:02,324
Come on, buddy.

1448
01:41:02,399 --> 01:41:03,764
Okay.

1449
01:41:04,119 --> 01:41:05,484
Here we go.

1450
01:41:06,119 --> 01:41:08,361
Here we go. Yeah.

1451
01:41:09,320 --> 01:41:11,687
Okay, man. Yeah.

1452
01:41:11,760 --> 01:41:13,922
Here we...
Okay. One more.

1453
01:41:15,000 --> 01:41:17,002
- What... What are you doing?
- Damn.

1454
01:41:17,320 --> 01:41:18,685
What are you doing?!

1455
01:41:20,120 --> 01:41:21,531
- You S.O.B.!
- Damn.

1456
01:41:21,600 --> 01:41:22,761
Come on!

1457
01:41:22,840 --> 01:41:24,490
Unbelievable!

1458
01:42:09,322 --> 01:42:11,131
Now I've seen everything.

1459
01:42:11,202 --> 01:42:12,442
Damn straight.

1460
01:42:12,522 --> 01:42:14,127
This dude is righteous.

1461
01:42:14,203 --> 01:42:15,683
He better start wrapping it up.

1462
01:42:15,753 --> 01:42:17,383
There's a storm front moving in.

1463
01:42:17,723 --> 01:42:18,724
Okay, Philippe.

1464
01:42:18,883 --> 01:42:20,408
Time to stop.

1465
01:42:24,483 --> 01:42:29,045
<i>There on my
back, the sky fills my vision.</i>

1466
01:42:29,123 --> 01:42:30,363
<i>The clouds,</i>

1467
01:42:32,523 --> 01:42:34,207
<i>they're like music.</i>

1468
01:42:36,964 --> 01:42:39,331
<i>Then, something appears.</i>

1469
01:42:41,764 --> 01:42:43,095
<i>An apparition.</i>

1470
01:42:43,164 --> 01:42:44,404
<i>A bird!</i>

1471
01:42:46,044 --> 01:42:48,206
<i>This bird is looking at me.</i>

1472
01:42:49,004 --> 01:42:51,928
<i>And I feel this silent threat.</i>

1473
01:43:01,925 --> 01:43:02,925
Easy. Easy.

1474
01:43:02,985 --> 01:43:04,246
- Ahh!
- Easy!

1475
01:43:11,365 --> 01:43:13,686
<i>Suddenly, I'm invaded by doubts.</i>

1476
01:43:13,765 --> 01:43:16,575
<i>I'm thinking maybe the cable
is tired of supporting me.</i>

1477
01:43:16,965 --> 01:43:19,286
<i>What if my towers
are talking to each other?</i>

1478
01:43:19,405 --> 01:43:21,766
<i>What if they've had enough?
What if they decide to eject me?</i>

1479
01:43:25,046 --> 01:43:27,310
No, no, no, no. He's okay.

1480
01:43:27,336 --> 01:43:31,086
I'm thinking maybe it's time
for me to end this trespassing.

1481
01:43:39,766 --> 01:43:42,531
<i>This is
the New York Port Authority Police!</i>

1482
01:43:44,687 --> 01:43:48,009
<i>Remove yourself from
the wire immediately.</i>

1483
01:43:48,087 --> 01:43:51,136
<i>You're in violation of
about 100 city ordinances.</i>

1484
01:43:58,087 --> 01:44:00,897
<i>I want you off that
wire immediately</i>

1485
01:44:00,967 --> 01:44:05,097
<i>or we will be forced to take
steps to remove you from it.</i>

1486
01:44:05,447 --> 01:44:06,973
You tell him to come in!

1487
01:44:07,048 --> 01:44:08,413
Philippe!

1488
01:44:08,488 --> 01:44:10,616
They're crazy!
They're going to kill you!

1489
01:44:10,688 --> 01:44:12,372
They're going to cut the cable!

1490
01:44:15,968 --> 01:44:17,015
Philippe!

1491
01:44:17,288 --> 01:44:19,328
Philippe, they're insane!
They're going to kill you!

1492
01:44:20,288 --> 01:44:21,528
They're going to cut the cable!

1493
01:44:23,783 --> 01:44:24,983
Tell him to come in!

1494
01:44:26,088 --> 01:44:27,088
Philippe!

1495
01:44:27,538 --> 01:44:31,332
Philippe, they're insane! They're going to
kill you! They're going to cut the cable!

1496
01:44:34,449 --> 01:44:38,773
<i>But, I can't
end my walk on a moment of doubt</i>

1497
01:44:38,849 --> 01:44:41,580
<i>with curled shoulders
and hanging head.</i>

1498
01:44:43,049 --> 01:44:44,414
<i>I decide.</i>

1499
01:44:45,009 --> 01:44:48,730
<i>I will only leave my
wire and my towers</i>

1500
01:44:48,809 --> 01:44:50,015
<i>in victory.</i>

1501
01:45:33,571 --> 01:45:34,916
Nice and close, now.

1502
01:45:36,772 --> 01:45:37,987
I got you.

1503
01:45:39,892 --> 01:45:41,621
Reach. Grab
him, grab him.

1504
01:45:43,492 --> 01:45:45,096
Attaboy. There you go.

1505
01:45:51,252 --> 01:45:54,222
Officers of the New
York Police Department,

1506
01:45:55,252 --> 01:45:56,538
thank you for your patience.

1507
01:45:56,652 --> 01:45:58,336
<i>I announce my
arrival to the police.</i>

1508
01:45:58,412 --> 01:46:00,178
My walk between these
magnificent towers...

1509
01:46:00,190 --> 01:46:01,573
<i>I tell them my
work is finished.</i>

1510
01:46:01,613 --> 01:46:02,853
Is now finished.

1511
01:46:02,933 --> 01:46:05,015
<i>But my walk is not finished.</i>

1512
01:46:05,093 --> 01:46:07,221
I still have three
more steps to do.

1513
01:46:17,993 --> 01:46:18,743
Philippe!

1514
01:46:18,993 --> 01:46:20,183
What's going on?

1515
01:46:20,492 --> 01:46:21,594
Are you okay?

1516
01:46:21,844 --> 01:46:23,776
- Easy.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

1517
01:46:39,454 --> 01:46:41,343
- Okay, come on. Come on.
- All right.

1518
01:46:44,895 --> 01:46:46,306
- I got it. I got it.
- Careful.

1519
01:46:46,415 --> 01:46:49,035
My name is Philippe Petit.
I'm a wire walker.

1520
01:46:49,135 --> 01:46:51,342
- Get down, smart-ass.
- Come on.

1521
01:46:51,415 --> 01:46:52,655
Show's over.

1522
01:46:52,735 --> 01:46:53,816
Bobby, hook him up.

1523
01:47:09,856 --> 01:47:11,706
Ohhh, bring it in!

1524
01:47:14,296 --> 01:47:15,396
What'd you think?

1525
01:47:16,296 --> 01:47:17,621
Told you. Told you.

1526
01:47:17,736 --> 01:47:18,862
Oh, my God.

1527
01:47:19,336 --> 01:47:21,145
Philippe, you've done it.

1528
01:47:21,576 --> 01:47:22,907
My Philippe.

1529
01:47:28,256 --> 01:47:30,066
No, no, no, no!
No, don't cut the wire!

1530
01:47:30,137 --> 01:47:31,137
Don't cut my wire!

1531
01:47:31,177 --> 01:47:32,097
- Shut up!
- No!

1532
01:47:32,147 --> 01:47:34,553
- Nobody gives a damn about your wire!
- There's too much tension!

1533
01:47:34,577 --> 01:47:36,473
It will snap! It will hurt
somebody! You have to believe me!

1534
01:47:36,497 --> 01:47:37,319
Hold on. Hold on, guys.

1535
01:47:37,331 --> 01:47:38,833
You have to loosen
it with the grip hoist.

1536
01:47:38,857 --> 01:47:40,427
He's right. Where's the handle?

1537
01:47:40,497 --> 01:47:43,387
It's, uh, it's hidden in,
uh, a hole in the wall.

1538
01:48:13,418 --> 01:48:14,750
There he is.

1539
01:48:15,459 --> 01:48:16,790
Make a hole, make a hole!

1540
01:48:17,539 --> 01:48:19,943
All right. Out of the way.
Out of the way!

1541
01:48:41,380 --> 01:48:42,541
Watch your fingers.

1542
01:48:42,660 --> 01:48:43,991
They're comin' down, Lou.

1543
01:49:00,104 --> 01:49:01,104
Wooh!

1544
01:49:03,301 --> 01:49:04,712
I gotta hand
it to you damn frogs.

1545
01:49:04,781 --> 01:49:06,783
You sure pulled the
wool over my eyes.

1546
01:49:09,181 --> 01:49:10,706
I gotta tell ya.

1547
01:49:10,781 --> 01:49:12,431
What you did was somethin'.

1548
01:49:13,421 --> 01:49:16,470
I know I'll never see anything
like that again in my life.

1549
01:49:17,741 --> 01:49:19,345
You got guts, pal.

1550
01:49:20,301 --> 01:49:21,542
Good job.

1551
01:49:43,422 --> 01:49:45,266
- Why did you do this?
- Channel 6 News.

1552
01:49:45,343 --> 01:49:47,159
The world would like to
know why are you doing this?

1553
01:49:47,183 --> 01:49:48,389
Channel 3.
We wanna know why.

1554
01:49:48,463 --> 01:49:50,750
Why are you attempting
something so dangerous?

1555
01:49:50,823 --> 01:49:51,824
There is no why.

1556
01:49:51,903 --> 01:49:53,632
Just, uh, because, uh...

1557
01:49:54,132 --> 01:49:54,663
Uhm...

1558
01:49:54,664 --> 01:49:58,145
When I see a beautiful place
to put my wire, I cannot resist.

1559
01:49:58,223 --> 01:50:03,070
Later in the day, a judge sentenced
Petit to walk the wire again.

1560
01:50:03,143 --> 01:50:05,714
<i>But this time, in Central Park,
for a crowd of children</i>

1561
01:50:05,783 --> 01:50:08,515
<i>and, only a few
feet off the ground.</i>

1562
01:50:09,794 --> 01:50:13,544
The story of the coup was in
the news all over the world!

1563
01:50:13,624 --> 01:50:16,104
<i>In France, when Papa
Rudy heard about it,</i>

1564
01:50:16,204 --> 01:50:18,543
he was the happiest
Papa Rudy that there is.

1565
01:50:18,544 --> 01:50:21,468
<i>And when Papa Rudy's
angry, he's deadly angry.</i>

1566
01:50:21,544 --> 01:50:23,467
<i>But when Papa Rudy's happy,</i>

1567
01:50:23,544 --> 01:50:25,785
<i>his dogs get a
double ration of food.</i>

1568
01:50:31,465 --> 01:50:34,469
The most fantastic
moment for me was

1569
01:50:34,545 --> 01:50:37,674
when I saw you answered
my shooting signal.

1570
01:50:37,745 --> 01:50:40,112
At that moment, I knew
the coup would be a success.

1571
01:50:40,185 --> 01:50:41,994
What you mean?
We almost lost the arrow.

1572
01:50:42,065 --> 01:50:43,201
It was on the edge
of the building.

1573
01:50:43,225 --> 01:50:46,115
No. It was exactly
where I was aiming.

1574
01:50:46,185 --> 01:50:47,391
Oh, so you admit it?

1575
01:50:47,465 --> 01:50:49,001
You wanted to see him
in his birthday suit.

1576
01:50:49,025 --> 01:50:50,993
Oh, yeah.

1577
01:50:51,666 --> 01:50:53,350
Okay. Okay, okay.

1578
01:50:53,426 --> 01:50:55,667
I would like to
make a toast now.

1579
01:50:57,226 --> 01:50:59,752
To all of you, my accomplices.

1580
01:51:00,066 --> 01:51:01,909
I know I can be, uh...

1581
01:51:02,866 --> 01:51:04,356
A bit difficult.

1582
01:51:06,386 --> 01:51:10,206
But, but... you
never gave up on me.

1583
01:51:11,146 --> 01:51:14,674
And because of this, I
was able to walk on that wire.

1584
01:51:14,747 --> 01:51:18,495
So for allowing me
this honor, thank you.

1585
01:51:19,407 --> 01:51:22,426
<i>- Allez, santé!
- Santé!</i>

1586
01:51:22,427 --> 01:51:24,350
- Oh, you mean "cheers."
- Cheers!

1587
01:51:24,427 --> 01:51:26,031
<i>Cheers, cheers!</i>

1588
01:51:27,707 --> 01:51:29,471
Look at that.

1589
01:51:29,587 --> 01:51:31,237
I mean, we did it, Philippe.

1590
01:51:31,307 --> 01:51:34,038
We showed the world
that anything's possible.

1591
01:51:34,867 --> 01:51:36,198
They're different.

1592
01:51:36,267 --> 01:51:38,077
Hey, Philippe,
they're different now.

1593
01:51:38,628 --> 01:51:40,073
Yeah, that's right.

1594
01:51:40,148 --> 01:51:42,754
They're different because
you walked up there.

1595
01:51:43,948 --> 01:51:47,794
You know every New Yorker I talk to
now says they love these towers?

1596
01:51:50,708 --> 01:51:52,790
Perhaps you
brought them to life.

1597
01:51:53,788 --> 01:51:55,472
Given them a soul.

1598
01:52:13,989 --> 01:52:17,277
Jean-Louis and Jeff, soon
afterward, they returned to France.

1599
01:52:17,349 --> 01:52:18,794
But I stayed.

1600
01:52:18,869 --> 01:52:21,840
I was proud to
become a New Yorker.

1601
01:52:22,470 --> 01:52:25,917
Now, in order to stay,
I had to pay my debt to society.

1602
01:52:25,990 --> 01:52:30,120
So a judge mandated that I
perform a free walk in Central Park.

1603
01:52:30,230 --> 01:52:32,358
And, of course, I
was happy to do this.

1604
01:52:34,110 --> 01:52:35,271
Annie...

1605
01:52:36,550 --> 01:52:38,120
Sadly, Annie returned to France.

1606
01:52:43,390 --> 01:52:45,041
Wait. Wait, wait.

1607
01:52:48,031 --> 01:52:49,078
Are you sure?

1608
01:52:49,751 --> 01:52:50,957
I'm sure.

1609
01:52:53,151 --> 01:52:56,360
You accomplished your
dream. It's time for me to find mine.

1610
01:53:02,751 --> 01:53:04,196
See you soon?

1611
01:53:09,952 --> 01:53:11,238
Goodbye.

1612
01:53:16,872 --> 01:53:18,078
Annie.

1613
01:53:19,872 --> 01:53:21,237
Thank you.

1614
01:53:21,312 --> 01:53:22,677
For everything.

1615
01:53:26,072 --> 01:53:28,154
I'm glad the towers called you.

1616
01:53:50,713 --> 01:53:51,795
That was incredible.

1617
01:53:51,874 --> 01:53:53,524
- Just don't do that again.
- No, never.

1618
01:53:55,274 --> 01:53:57,675
<i>And you remember Guy
Tozzoli from the press conference,</i>

1619
01:53:57,754 --> 01:54:00,041
<i>one of the men behind
the creation of the towers.</i>

1620
01:54:00,114 --> 01:54:01,195
<i>He loved the walk,</i>

1621
01:54:01,274 --> 01:54:03,595
<i>and he gave me a pass
to the observation deck</i>

1622
01:54:03,674 --> 01:54:05,324
<i>so I could go anytime I wanted.</i>

1623
01:54:06,034 --> 01:54:08,480
<i>And I went there
many times alone.</i>

1624
01:54:24,315 --> 01:54:27,398
<i>I would find myself there,
looking at the void</i>

1625
01:54:27,475 --> 01:54:29,762
<i>to see how the
thought comes back,</i>

1626
01:54:29,835 --> 01:54:31,439
<i>how the feeling returns.</i>

1627
01:54:50,716 --> 01:54:52,366
Because it was...

1628
01:54:54,076 --> 01:54:55,646
it was a beautiful day.

1629
01:54:56,756 --> 01:54:58,885
And you know this
pass I was given.

1630
01:54:58,957 --> 01:55:01,358
Well, these passes,
they have a date on them,

1631
01:55:01,437 --> 01:55:02,484
a date when they expire.

1632
01:55:02,597 --> 01:55:06,318
But on my pass, Mr. Tozzoli,
he crossed out the date,

1633
01:55:07,477 --> 01:55:09,047
and he wrote on it,

1634
01:55:09,997 --> 01:55:11,408
"Forever."

1634
01:55:12,305 --> 01:56:12,395
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