The crazy dreamer of the 1905 film network special article may be a madman in the eyes of others. They are maverick, they are unruly, they are troublesome, they are out of place, they don't like to conform, they don't want to settle for the status quo. You can praise or denigrate them, but you cannot ignore them.
They will turn the impossible into possible, the bravest people in the world. The famous American director Robert Zemeckis once established his position in the world film industry with three films, "Forrest Gump", "Time-out Contact" and "The Rest of the Desert Island".
Forrest Gump, Time-Lapse Contact, The Rest of a Desert Island
In all three films, Zemeckis showed a natural skill in portraying characters and choosing plots.
This time, in his "Walking in the Clouds", Zemeckis set his sights on the French acrobatic artist Philippe Pat. And for the audience to recreate the amazing feat of French acrobatic artist Philippe Pat, the aerial dreamer on August 7, 1974.
Poster of Walking in the Clouds
In 1968, philippe (Joseph Gordon-Levitte), a 17-year-old Frenchman, saw the Twin Towers under construction in the magazine of a dental clinic, and in that moment, he saw his dream.
In Philip's eyes, "Walking a tightrope is my way of life." He decided to put a steel cable between the twin towers and walk high in the air. Under the cover of sneezing, he tore off the page of newspaper and hid it in his clothes, and from then on, this decision took root in his heart.
Philip Pat said: "You have to put in hundreds of hours to practice, but what really makes a tightrope walker is passion, soul and spirit. ”
"Whenever I go to a place I like, I want to hang a steel cable there." In 1971, Philip hung steel cables on Notre Dame Cathedral, and then he challenged the Sydney Bridge. The madman seemed to be getting closer and closer to the steel cable at a height of four hundred meters above the shelf.
But, never easy to achieve dreams. When he came to New York, at the foot of the Towering Twin Towers of the World Trade Center like giants, he deeply felt that his dream was out of reach. "It's not possible, but I'll do it anyway." Philip set the Day of Action as August 6.
This crazy paranoid and selfish genius, in order to make the impossible possible, he spent a long time carefully surveying and planning: he went to the Twin Towers every day, and every day he disguised himself as a different identity. He took pictures of everything and took detailed notes for every inch of it.
He even disguised himself as a reporter for the French architecture magazine Metropolis and asked for one of the most crucial pieces of information about the cable, the exact distance between the north corner of the South Tower and the south corner of the North Tower.
Three weeks before the challenge, he had stepped on a nail in the investigation disguised as an architect, but this did not hinder his desire to continue the plan.
After making countless preparations with his companions, they began to act. They entered the building disguised as workers, carrying devices and fixing steel cables on the north and south towers to erect the long and heavy steel cables before sunrise.
When I took the balance lever and stepped on this steel cable that I had dreamed of countless times, ready to take the first step, all the noise disappeared, and only the steel cable became clearer and clearer in the clouds. When he took his first step, the clouds receded and everything fell silent.
A man, a rope, wandered high between two buildings.
Without any protection, Philip carried only a 25 kg balance bar and crossed the tallest building in the world at that time on a wire rope more than 400 meters above the ground.
At an altitude of 400 meters, Philippe's every step is closely linked to people's hearts. When he first managed to walk to the opposite side, his friends cheered for him, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief for him. But when he looked at the South Tower: "The tightrope is still calling to me." ”
Philip, dressed in black, seemed to be walking in the clouds. He knelt down on one knee on a steel cable to thank the audience. He lay on his back on a steel cable with only the sky in his eyes. At the height of the 110th floor, he fearlessly waited at both ends of the tightrope for the police who arrested him. The poet, who walked high in the air, walked back 8 times at the ends of the Twin Towers intact.
"My name is Philip Pat, and I'm a tightrope walker." On August 7, 1974, after careful planning, Philippe Pat finally completed the thrilling performance of high-altitude tightrope walking in the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, and became a sensational figure in the world, and the greatest "crime" in the history of art was also recorded in history.
What heights can a small human being reach?
In the life of people with dreams, they are not just to live, but to constantly conquer themselves, overcome fears, practice their ideas, and move forward bravely. Every idea you have is a challenge, and you have to practice it.
Behind the astonishing success is a person who regards dreams as life: so there will be adventurers who bravely step out of the comfortable life to explore the wider and different world;
There will be artists who will break through prejudices and express the art world in their hearts;
There will be scientists seeking truth to solve puzzles and explore the world!
Every dream deserves respect. "If that's your dream, you have to make it happen." Because, anything is possible.
On July 10, at 22:00, the movie channel will broadcast "Walking in the Clouds" to rekindle your dreams. As long as you want, there is no impossible in the world.