![]() These were real streets and, with that one misstep you caught, all the real locations from the story. You don't need to see the Brooklyn Bridge again. And were ones you haven't seen a thousand times. "Yeah, that was all Joe doing that shot, but listen," Koepp adds, "we wanted locations that looked great, but were real. "That was 2nd unit, and you would have lost your mind, it was a straight down, it moves really fast." "You weren't there that day," Levitt reminds Koepp. Joe's flying down just as the subway is coming up out of the ground on the elevated track. "And it's only a few blocks over, really," Levitt adds, taking one for the team. "Ahhhhhh! That's the one shot! It's the only one!" "Who goes from Columbia University to Chinatown by going north on Broadway at 125th?" "What's the one exception?!?" Koepp barks, practically leaping out of his chair. Because his feat was once in a lifetime, perhaps the passing of the towers reminds us that nothing lasts "forever.I congratulate the team for making a New York movie that makes really good use of the city, and, with one small exception, seems pretty legit with its location geography. Wilee is a disenchanted Columbia Law School graduate who has yet to take the bar. The movie follows the life of Wilee, who is portrayed by Gordon-Levitt. The "forever" pass to the top of the towers he receives as a reward from the city is painfully ironic considering 9/11. To start our list of fixie bike movies we ask a simple question: What more could you want than a bike messenger movie that stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt This is the perfect combination. While the Walk is about this extraordinary man, it is also a romantic eulogy to the towers, which arguably became favorites of New Yorkers after Petit's stunt. Although I don't like heights anyway, I had to look down every time in wonder at the scope of the danger to Petit. Because Zameckis knows his special effects, I was mesmerized by the shots from atop the towers to the street below. Those 15 minutes on the wire are as suspenseful as possible-a mark of the true auteur, who can make us worry for our hero even though we know he will survive (he does narrate after all, and some audience will remember Man on a Wire, the excellent doc from 2008). To co-writers Zameckis and Christopher Browne must go praise for giving the Frenchmen poetic English in small doses, just enough to elevate the proceedings from nuts and bolts to heady ambition. From the first moment we meet Petit talking to us from the top of the Statue of Liberty, and this story is about freedom if nothing else, we know we are in the presence of a man who has followed his dream and achieved it. It's as romantic as Gump and addictive as Future with the added interest of a biopic that is true to its history. But a guy whos used to putting his life on the line is about to get more than even he is used to when his last envelope of the day - a routine premium rush. What did you expect from the director of Back to the Future and Forrest Gump? Robert Zameckis has another thoroughly enjoyable film, The Walk, about Philippe Petit's (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) high-wire walk between the World trade Center's twin towers in 1974. No, my story begins in another one of the world's most beautiful cities, se Paris. Joseph Gordon-Levitt injured in bike accident on movie set Novem 2:04pm. In case you couldn't tell, I'm not from here. Get the latest joseph gordon-levitt news, articles, videos and photos on Page Six. And so, we must go back in time, and across the ocean, because my love affair with these beautiful towers did not begin in New York. So, why attempt the impossible? Why follow your dream? But, I cannot answer this question why, not with words. My dream is to hang a high-wire between those twin towers, and *walk* on it! Of course, uh, this is impossible, not to mention, illegal. ![]() These towers, they stir something inside of me, and they inspire in me a dream. Or as everyone in the world will calls them, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Philippe Petit: So, picture with me it's 1974, New York city, and I am in love with two buildings - two towers. ![]() She needs the ticket delivered to a woman who will make a crucial call to China. For me, to walk on the wire, this is life. Wilee (think WILE-E), played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, lean and intense, is said to be the best bike messenger in Manhattan, which is why Nima (Jamie Chung) asks for him. Yes of okay, I said it once, or maybe three times, just now. Pourquoi? Why? For what? Why do you walk on the wire? Why do you tempt fate? Why do you risk death. ![]() Philippe Petit: "Why?" That is the question people ask me most.
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