Name: Man on Wire
Released: 2018-01-27
Duration: 1 h 34 min
Cast: Philippe Petit, Jean François Heckel, Jean-Louis Blondeau

Words to remember

Nouns

1) 6th

Now, I am Tuesday the 6th of August.
2) 7th

but we had fixed the date for August 7th.
3) largeness

...and the overwhelming largeness of the scale of the situation...
4) ordinaire

The first thing we did after a few ordinaire,
5) roue

I scream, "La roue, la roue!" to Jean-François. "The wheel, the wheel!"
6) millimetre

Its a little half a millimetre of mistake...
7) vastness

I remember the vastness of New York! The altitude!
8) inattention

...or a quarter of a second of inattention, and you lose your life.
9) monofilament

and we attached a monofilament or a fishing line wire to the arrow.
10) waterbed

So yes, it did end up on a waterbed in a loft somewhere,
11) burlap

was to bring a burlap bag.
12) castaway

I must be a castaway on a desert island of my dreams.
13) crutch

So, here I am with crutch. Thinking I am incapacitated.
14) apparition

Hes an adorable, little apparition and hes all smiles.
15) juxtaposition

...a wrong juxtaposition. It just was very, very odd.
16) admirer

I saw in the crowd an admirer, she was smiling beautifully.
17) organist

The organist asked me: "What are you doing here?"
18) aeroplane

I remember looking out through this hazy aeroplane window
19) blackmail

...using tenderness, blackmail, threats, insults and tears.
20) robber

stories about cops and robber.
21) friendliness

...to be recognized, with expressions of friendliness and enthusiasm.
22) lunatic

...where lunatic walk round in circles.
23) fresco

I decided in the staircase to draw a little fresco,...

Verbs

1) spellbind

Everybody was spellbound in the watching of it.
2) unseal

"But I happen to have mine freshly unseal from the envelope.
3) enrage

And I was... I was... I was madly enrage by that, but also it saved my life.
4) engulf

I was on the ramp. I was being engulf by the monster.
5) werent

We just werent ready.
6) stagger

I was stagger, dumbstruck.
7) harpoon

...bowled over, harpoon, that's what it was.
8) pounce

waiting for us to make the slightest movement before he pounce on us?
9) kneel

When he knelt down.
10) frighten

...and then I went back... oh, frighten to death, you know, to my friends,
11) expel

I was expel from the United States.
12) obstruct

I have never obstruct justice,...
13) enlist

and we enlist Jim Moore and he was the cameraman.
14) trot

These Twin Towers are trot in my head.
15) inhabit

I see two slabs of concrete, barely inhabit, with some construction.
16) amaze

...and I did something that amaze people.
17) wasnt

He wasnt sure how he was gonna rig it at that particular time.
18) devise

So, what we devise is a... its called a cavaletti in the circus parlance.
19) credential

Our credential reporter, Philippe Petit, kindly requests your co-operation for this article.
20) disguise

I was disguise as a workman with a helmet, a shirt...
21) whisper

When we arrived on the top, I whisper, "Did you see the guard?"
22) thrill

...we were thrill by this image of Philippe lying down up above.
23) rig

What happens if Im up there and I rig it and something happens?

Adverbs

1) diametrically

and I turn around on the side diametrically opposed.
2) relentlessly

...and even more surprised when he began to chase me relentlessly,...
3) madly

And I was... I was... I was madly enraged by that, but also it saved my life.
4) immensely

when actually I feel that I have prepared immensely.
5) secretly

but to bring almost like a ton of equipment secretly,
6) freshly

"But I happen to have mine freshly unsealed from the envelope.
7) desperately

He was desperately sort of proposing it
8) doesnt

...that not only doesnt hurt anybody, but gives something to somebody.
9) underneath

So I just grab Jean-François and I throw him underneath,...
10) backwards

...and watched Philippe walk backwards and forwards.
11) incredibly

He did this incredibly artistic, perfect job of copying it
12) presently

...who are presently constructing the World Trade Center in New York.
13) gradually

Gradually things began to get more serious
14) barely

I see two slabs of concrete, barely inhabited, with some construction.
15) legally

This, we knew that legally we could not do it.
16) literally

He just did it in fact, literally with his eyes closed.
17) essentially

Essentially we spent time there conceiving, er... designing,
18) instantly

I knew that it was... My dream was destroyed instantly.
19) perfectly

and perfectly getting away with it, and it was wonderful.
20) basically

I basically said, "No, I cant... I cant help you rig.
21) regardless

He was just going to go ahead, regardless.
22) somewhere

So yes, it did end up on a waterbed in a loft somewhere,
23) personally

I personally figured I was watching something

Adjectives

1) unmoving

A normal human being staying completely unmoving on a beam for three hours cannot walk.
2) thousandth

- Why did you do this? - Thats the thousandth "why" this morning.
3) litigious

You know, Americas a very litigious society.
4) impetuous

Hes not driven by the impetuous feeling of dancing between the towers.
5) quixotic

Its there. Its... its quixotic,...
6) sombre

Alan was absolutely sombre,...
7) unbridled

Unbridled glee.
8) averse

And I guess I was the kind of guy who was not averse to doing things that were slightly er...
9) disorderly

They finally decided to charge them with trespassing and disorderly conduct...
10) exhausting

That was my job and it was really exhausting.
11) treacherous

...seeing the middle which is so soft and treacherous,...
12) subterranean

...we were driving in the subterranean garage of the two towers.
13) unbearable

It became unbearable.
14) demonic

This was all becoming demonic. I just wanted to say: "Stop!"
15) inhuman

It was inhuman to want to go and walk up there, 450 meters high.
16) unforeseen

Itwas the unforeseen things that really worried me.
17) heres

Plus I needed a pair. Heres one and heres two.
18) terrifying

My legs started to shake, it was terrifying!
19) disgusting

I dont know!... of pleasure of the flesh. How disgusting!
20) perpendicular

Its actually a guy-line that is perpendicular to the axis of the wire
21) frightened

And then I was a bit frightened.
22) overwhelmed

I was completely overwhelmed,...
23) slack

and it looked very, very slack.

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