@@EdmundSampson-pd7vihe planned this out for months. He went to the towers multiple times, took measurements, created miniature models, and had both his friends and people on in the inside help him. Just watch the movie “The Walk”
He was up there for almost an hour, roughly 45 minutes. He crossed back and forth 7-8 times and laid down midway on the wire for several minutes. Dude’s got serious guts.
There is a scene at the end of The Walk where Petit says to the audience that he had a pass to go to the rooftop on the Tower, and that the architect crossed out the expiration date, and wrote "Forever" on it. It was such a touching scene...I also appreciated how the movie never mentions the 9/11 attacks, it just gives the audience the chance to remember the World Trade Center as it once was.
The film The Walk is absolutely amazing, how they brought the towers back to life is insane and the story is almost unreal. The documentary Man on Wire I think won an Oscar, it's also very entertaining.
Oh man I can't watch those videos of people doing the handstands and whatnot on the edges of buildings... I actually get physically anxious while watching them. And these pictures are no exception. I'm watching this trying to eat my lunch and I'm gonna have to come back to it. The video I mean, gotta eat my lunch. 🙄
I'm trying to eat my lunch and watch this video... Can't do it, I'm gonna have to come back to it, it makes me physically anxious seeing the pictures. The video I mean, gotta eat my lunch.
He said: "I always refer to the towers as 'my towers', but I won't use that again". He said it is from now on "our towers", he also adds that the loss of numerous lives is much more devastating than that of the destruction of two marvellous pieces of architecture.
I wonder why the need to make that as a movie when it was? My guess was when the “new one” was completed and Hollywood wanted to remind everyone of the originals ?
The Walk was an AMAZING movie. I was freaking out the whole time he was on the wire. As an aside, I read somewhere that an idea was floated to have emergency parachutes in the towers just in case of an extreme emergency. If they had done that, who knows, maybe a lot of people who ended up jumping because of the extreme heat and smoke (from the jet fuel) may have lived because they could have parachuted down.
I remember my teacher reading a book to the class about this in 3rd grade in 2009. At the end of the book, they mentioned at how the twin towers were gone. I asked my teacher, "What happened to the twin towers?" I remember her saying "You'll learn about it when you're older." One of my classmates said that they know what happened to them and that "they fell", and my teacher said not to talk about it. I still think about that interaction to this day, cause we were talking about 9/11 without me really understanding what it was. She was trying to protect our sense of innocence and not get us traumatized from talking about it. I ended up learning about it 2 years later in 5th grade for the 10 year anniversary of 9/11. Nowadays, I hear kids are learning about it as early as 1st grade which is insane and also interesting. I guess schools didn't know if they should've talked about it back in the early years of 9/11 because there was no standardized curriculum in schools about it yet, and now more time has passed, so we've had more time to think about when we should be teaching our kids about this.
I am glad they are teaching students about it, but yeah 1st grade seems a bit early. I guess it’s all depending on what is taught. I think your teacher was very kind to protect you from learning about it until you were older. As someone who ‘lived’ through it, I’m always curious as to how the young generations born after 9/11 think about that day. I’ve discussed it with my own neice’s and nephews- Including the so-called ‘’conspiracies’’. I want them to be informed. It was a huge day that changed life as we knew it here in the United States. I feel sorry that you in these younger generations didn’t get to experience that America.
I was in 4th grade during 9/11 and I remember a lot of students getting sent home by parents. I thought it was so odd that so many students kept getting called out. Then they called me, and I went to the office to get picked up by my mom who told me that terrorists hijacked planes and flew them into the buildings. She came to pick me up right after the second plane hit. By the time we got home to watch the news, the south tower had already collapsed. It was such a scary feeling. I lived in PA, not too far from NYC, in a city that one of the flights actually flew over to hit the towers, and it seriously felt like any second, another strike was going to happen. We were literally under attack, and it's a feeling that I haven't felt before, or since that day. The next day, there were no commercial aircraft in the sky, and it changed the way I looked at airplanes in general. Every time I saw a plane, I thought it was going to smash into a building. Even though I was young, I still remember that day vividly, almost more than any other day.
talk more about WTC 7, what it was used for, the marriott hotel interesting facts, a bunch of zoomed videos, pics of people gasping for air on tower 1 in both sides, with many jumping to their deaths, show details with that topic. i love you for never stoping and finding all the interesting information for educating the people
@@wyattm6782 yes! All throughout the movie you forget that they're not there cause the cinematography was so good, and then at the end you're like, oh yeah they're gone and it makes you sad
This walk by Petit and Alex Honnold free solo climbing El Cap in Yosemite will always be the two most amazing feats I have ever witnessed. All due respect to Alain Robert as well
Ginger, the way you are obsessed with the time window between both towers collapsing I am obsessed with getting as close to seeing the first plane from different angles (of course other than Jules Naudet)
I Have so many questions about this like how did they get the cable from one building to the other? How did they get those photos, they are really good obviously those color ones are AI generated
I saw this in the theater, I knew that Petit lived to tell the tale and that Joseph Gordon-Levitt was no more than 10-15 feet above the set floor but I couldn't help squirming in my seat during the walk scenes.
I know im a fiend for that but: A video about Edna Cintron the women that was pictured standing on the broken beams in the impact zone of the north tower would be interesting, its crazy to imagine how she must have felt looking down standing right on the edge, waving for help.
Very coincidental that DG posted this as a few days ago, someone walked a tightrope across the graffiti tagged towers that is the Oceanwide Plaza in LA across from the Crypto Arena/Staples Center. And I think I know what he was talking about the towers from the water as I seen it yesterday.
The movie is on my to-do list, apparently critics really liked it. I have seen a documentary which is excellent. Love your videos I can see the raw content anywhere but it's your analysis that I love. Probably i would become member but 7 bucks is too steep for me I think, not sure.
Hi Depressed Ginger, I want to correct you on this specific video, when you mentioned at 0:15 and 2:32 of this video, that "he (Philippe Petit) had walked between the towers in 1973", but in fact he had had walked between the towers which was in the morning of August 7, 1974! Great video nonetheless though.
He and one other friend went up the south tower and 2 other friends went up the north tower. His friends on the north tower installed the cable and then launched the cable to the south tower using a bow and arrow for Philippe to install
Must feel strange for him when he visits the place now to know that exactly somewhere there in the sky he was once walking on a lane and now there is just nothing but air
It's crazy how he didn't fall. From such a high the winds must be so fast.
He had to have done it when there was no wind or very little.
Not to mention the insane amount of tension that would be needed to keep that length of cable taught and still
@@EdmundSampson-pd7vihe planned this out for months. He went to the towers multiple times, took measurements, created miniature models, and had both his friends and people on in the inside help him. Just watch the movie “The Walk”
Yes the wind. I suppose the stuntman must be trained to compensate for that.
Well he wasn’t smoking so why would he be high
He was up there for almost an hour, roughly 45 minutes. He crossed back and forth 7-8 times and laid down midway on the wire for several minutes. Dude’s got serious guts.
The original architect told the NYPD to go easy on him because he didn’t hurt anyone, and it got huge publicity for the towers.
People like that inspire others to get hurt by copying the dangerous exemple , that’s what it is about
@@tristan583Nobody else tried it. Nobody else was that gutsy (or stupid depending on how you look at it).
Oh, it was sanctioned, lol
Even looking at the photos makes my heart pound. Guy with real guts.
There is a scene at the end of The Walk where Petit says to the audience that he had a pass to go to the rooftop on the Tower, and that the architect crossed out the expiration date, and wrote "Forever" on it. It was such a touching scene...I also appreciated how the movie never mentions the 9/11 attacks, it just gives the audience the chance to remember the World Trade Center as it once was.
The film The Walk is absolutely amazing, how they brought the towers back to life is insane and the story is almost unreal. The documentary Man on Wire I think won an Oscar, it's also very entertaining.
_Man On Wire_ did win the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in 2009. Petit actually balanced the award on his chin during the ceremony.
Agreed ! The Walk was fantastic, the towers looked so real
Both are excellent movies. I was working in The North Tower (1WTC) when this happened, and I was fortunate to be able to witness part of this.
@@DJL0455 wow
My palms got sweaty instantly seeing him again.
knees weak arms heavy, mom's spaghetti
you forgot “he’s got vomit on his sweater already”
Oh man I can't watch those videos of people doing the handstands and whatnot on the edges of buildings... I actually get physically anxious while watching them.
And these pictures are no exception. I'm watching this trying to eat my lunch and I'm gonna have to come back to it. The video I mean, gotta eat my lunch. 🙄
He’s nervous. But on the surface he looks calm and ready
@@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13 And it doesn't get better when you know what happend to people falling from exactly theese buildings...
The awful thing is it gives a view of what it must have been like to be that high up, there's no words for the bravery of those who jumped or fell.
Anyone interested in this incredible feat should watch "Man on Wire" a 2008 documentary. Excellent film.
I saw The Walk in IMAX 3D, blew my mind, was stoned asf
How’s your breathing now?
😄
Haha being sat in those plush chairs with jelly legs 🤣
Weird how they demonitize 9/11 videos, but not WW2, hiroshima, or any other videos of any other tragic event or war.
@depressedginger you did not disappoint this week, awesome work
I'm trying to eat my lunch and watch this video... Can't do it, I'm gonna have to come back to it, it makes me physically anxious seeing the pictures.
The video I mean, gotta eat my lunch.
I wonder how he felt when they were destroyed
If you watch the documentary about him they talk a little bit about how he felt after they felled. Really good documentary very emotional
He said (i don't remeber good) that they were still there for him. Idk if it's correct
He said: "I always refer to the towers as 'my towers', but I won't use that again". He said it is from now on "our towers", he also adds that the loss of numerous lives is much more devastating than that of the destruction of two marvellous pieces of architecture.
They said that movie literally made people sick.
Why?
@@tbc9096 primarily those with a fear of heights. Similar to movies with jerking cameras
next video “what if phillipe walked between the towers on the morning of 9/11”
answer is pretty clear.
@@boblasauce2836 There would probably be more footage of the 1st plane
Which tower was he walking to? Was it the north tower with the antenna or the south tower? Because the north tower got hit first.
What if Phillipe walked between the twin towers after the south tower collapsed and Mohammad Atta was gay
@@xzem613 Good point. Actual good video idea.
My palms are sweating just watching this
Yes to the second channel. And Petit's walk is super inspiring when it comes to the idea of overcoming fear.
That guy was hardcore! The Walk movie is incredible and there is a documentary called Man On Wire where he recalls the story as well
Beyond imaginable
I wonder why the need to make that as a movie when it was?
My guess was when the “new one” was completed and Hollywood wanted to remind everyone of the originals ?
The Walk was an AMAZING movie. I was freaking out the whole time he was on the wire. As an aside, I read somewhere that an idea was floated to have emergency parachutes in the towers just in case of an extreme emergency. If they had done that, who knows, maybe a lot of people who ended up jumping because of the extreme heat and smoke (from the jet fuel) may have lived because they could have parachuted down.
I remember my teacher reading a book to the class about this in 3rd grade in 2009. At the end of the book, they mentioned at how the twin towers were gone. I asked my teacher, "What happened to the twin towers?" I remember her saying "You'll learn about it when you're older." One of my classmates said that they know what happened to them and that "they fell", and my teacher said not to talk about it. I still think about that interaction to this day, cause we were talking about 9/11 without me really understanding what it was. She was trying to protect our sense of innocence and not get us traumatized from talking about it. I ended up learning about it 2 years later in 5th grade for the 10 year anniversary of 9/11. Nowadays, I hear kids are learning about it as early as 1st grade which is insane and also interesting. I guess schools didn't know if they should've talked about it back in the early years of 9/11 because there was no standardized curriculum in schools about it yet, and now more time has passed, so we've had more time to think about when we should be teaching our kids about this.
I am glad they are teaching students about it, but yeah 1st grade seems a bit early. I guess it’s all depending on what is taught. I think your teacher was very kind to protect you from learning about it until you were older. As someone who ‘lived’ through it, I’m always curious as to how the young generations born after 9/11 think about that day. I’ve discussed it with my own neice’s and nephews- Including the so-called ‘’conspiracies’’. I want them to be informed. It was a huge day that changed life as we knew it here in the United States. I feel sorry that you in these younger generations didn’t get to experience that America.
I was in 4th grade during 9/11 and I remember a lot of students getting sent home by parents. I thought it was so odd that so many students kept getting called out. Then they called me, and I went to the office to get picked up by my mom who told me that terrorists hijacked planes and flew them into the buildings. She came to pick me up right after the second plane hit. By the time we got home to watch the news, the south tower had already collapsed. It was such a scary feeling. I lived in PA, not too far from NYC, in a city that one of the flights actually flew over to hit the towers, and it seriously felt like any second, another strike was going to happen. We were literally under attack, and it's a feeling that I haven't felt before, or since that day. The next day, there were no commercial aircraft in the sky, and it changed the way I looked at airplanes in general. Every time I saw a plane, I thought it was going to smash into a building. Even though I was young, I still remember that day vividly, almost more than any other day.
Love your channel man ,im not even American and im still able to sit through all your 911 videos
same here
It was August 7th 1974 petit walked across the towers, he was a brave man ❤
people are awesome, would never do something like that myself but im glad that others do :)
I was watching this with a group of people and one of them asked if this was ‘before or after 9/11’…
2:00 interesting how at this time the Marriot hotel wasn't built. It looks like there were some gardens?
Next video: What if the planes hit the towers while this man was walking on the tightrope between the towers?
Just a lil correction it happened in 1974, not 73, also in 1977 a man named George Willig climbed the South Tower which was cool too.
there was a man who climbed them .maybe you can do a video on that, he was nicknamed spider man.
I need pictures of Spiderman!
I was waiting for this one
So weird that the towers didn't see their 30th birthday.
Yeah unfortunately.
And 30 years really isn’t that long at all, especially for two sky scrapers.
@@btappan88 I know, right?
@@bradycall1889 they’ve been gone 3/4 of that time already. Crazy how time flys
Shortly after the walk he autographed one of the steel beams of the world trade center
I loved that film
this is one of my most favorite stories ever❣
Wow, seeing footage and photos of the old twin towers is something else 😩😰
talk more about WTC 7, what it was used for, the marriott hotel interesting facts, a bunch of zoomed videos, pics of people gasping for air on tower 1 in both sides, with many jumping to their deaths, show details with that topic. i love you for never stoping and finding all the interesting information for educating the people
He’s talked about the hotel several times
How did they get that tightrope from one tower to the other tower??
I'd also like to know this. Lol
Okay so what I found out, is that they split into 2 teams, and shot an arrow across the towers and each team secured the ropes on both sides.
My legs got weak seeing that first overshot
It was August 7, 1974 to be exact.
16 months after the WTC was dedicated April 4, 1973.
There's a really interesting documentary on his story called "Man On Wire"
The ending of that movie made me cry
Why did it?
@dust maybe because of the shot with the tower's at the end
@@wyattm6782 yes! All throughout the movie you forget that they're not there cause the cinematography was so good, and then at the end you're like, oh yeah they're gone and it makes you sad
That and he was given some kind of a ticket to the observation deck with the expiration date crossed out and written “Forever.”
This walk by Petit and Alex Honnold free solo climbing El Cap in Yosemite will always be the two most amazing feats I have ever witnessed.
All due respect to Alain Robert as well
I’m imagining the next video will be “what would have happened if Phillip Petite was walking the tightrope during 9/11”
Absolutely absurd … crazzyyyyy
Ginger, the way you are obsessed with the time window between both towers collapsing I am obsessed with getting as close to seeing the first plane from different angles (of course other than Jules Naudet)
Love how nobody knew about this happening (me included) until one of those ai movie recap channels randomly posted it
This piece of history has been quiet for a long time now im assuming around 2018-2019 idk
count me in, on the membership DG!
This is still the damndest thing I’ve ever seen.
Check out the Low Anthem song “Boeing 737” it’s powerful and moving and references Filipe Petite’s catwalk.
There is an amazing film that was made about this guy, I think it's called " The Longest Walk "
It was called The Walk Joseph Gordon Levitt played the lead role
@@dustinsindledecker154 if it wasn't called " The Longest Walk " it should have been !
What would be the escape protocol if this eventuality would happen again??
Tall towers with people in them ??
I Have so many questions about this like how did they get the cable from one building to the other? How did they get those photos, they are really good obviously those color ones are AI generated
I saw this in the theater, I knew that Petit lived to tell the tale and that Joseph Gordon-Levitt was no more than 10-15 feet above the set floor but I couldn't help squirming in my seat during the walk scenes.
Yoo it’s phillipe
There was a Documentary called ‘The Wire’ in 2008 about just this but again a documentary instead of a Hollywood film
Bless his heart
Make a Patreon instead of membership
I know im a fiend for that but: A video about Edna Cintron the women that was pictured standing on the broken beams in the impact zone of the north tower would be interesting, its crazy to imagine how she must have felt looking down standing right on the edge, waving for help.
Very coincidental that DG posted this as a few days ago, someone walked a tightrope across the graffiti tagged towers that is the Oceanwide Plaza in LA across from the Crypto Arena/Staples Center. And I think I know what he was talking about the towers from the water as I seen it yesterday.
The movie is on my to-do list, apparently critics really liked it. I have seen a documentary which is excellent. Love your videos I can see the raw content anywhere but it's your analysis that I love. Probably i would become member but 7 bucks is too steep for me I think, not sure.
Hi Depressed Ginger, I want to correct you on this specific video, when you mentioned at 0:15 and 2:32 of this video, that "he (Philippe Petit) had walked between the towers in 1973", but in fact he had had walked between the towers which was in the morning of August 7, 1974!
Great video nonetheless though.
This movie deserves more like not gonna lie
I viewed Columbia Pictures' 2015 film "The Walk" (about this French daredevil). A good experience.
I think I watched a movie about this.
How did they get the wire across?
Also, instead of just making a membership, you should just make a second channel and then if that gets banned, then you make another one
how did he (illegally) install the rope there?
He and one other friend went up the south tower and 2 other friends went up the north tower. His friends on the north tower installed the cable and then launched the cable to the south tower using a bow and arrow for Philippe to install
Impressive to the max.
Idk how much info is out about him, but can you make more videos about Muhammed Atta? He fascinates me.
As you did this video someone was actually walking between some abandoned building in Los Angeles the graffiti building or something about 47 stories.
I’m just wondering why this movie was made around the time it was ?
Wasn’t it when the “new tower” was complete ?
How many Twin Tower videos you have made?
2, plus one that got taken down.
Must feel strange for him when he visits the place now to know that exactly somewhere there in the sky he was once walking on a lane and now there is just nothing but air
Philip Petit!!!
if im not mistaken he done this 07/08/1974
"1973 to be exact"? How about August 7, 1974 to be exact.
Good movie, made by the same guy who made Back to the Future
If you were jumping off on 9-11 would you close your eyes, or watch the ground coming ?
I’ve questioned this for years
I still have yet to see that movie, appreciative of the reminder I haven't seen it lol.
Channel members rise up
How about starting your own website
Keep the same channel for sports, and the separate one for all else.
The film The Walk wasn’t bad actually. I liked it.
Phillip has my same birthday
i wonder how they got the wire across
Anything is possible if u put your mind to it
That is crazy. There’s movies and books about that. Can you please pin me for my first pin?
By the way there is no X link in the description
I did that too
August 7 will mark 50 years since his walk between the towers.
Half a century
@@Zxu99_FG Hard to believe.
@tbc9096 ikr mate that's such a long time.
The walk
9/11 happened, it was awful, but it doesn’t mean we can’t discuss and analyze it. CZcams is really starting to get more than ridiculous.
And i will be will to say i saw that movie 🎬 god it good and those were liget mezy's twin's then i said god i miss my twin's
He walked this in 1974...
He's French. His name isn't Philip, it's Philippe (Fil-leap).
Some guys just have to be that guy 🤷🏻♂️
PHELIPPE PETIT IS STILL POPULAR-
Petite, you silly man
25% Walk between the towers
75% Need more money but not sure