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Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Details Magazine (2010)

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The Hindu has a feature on The Walk called "A love letter to the Towers" with some new info and a few quotes from Zemeckis and Joe.

Here is an excerpt:

“To quote Francois Truffaut, ‘A really great movie is the perfect blend of truth and spectacle,’ and I think that’s what we go to the movies for,” says Zemeckis of his approach. “We go to see a story that is rooted in human truth and the human journey. But we also go to see a spectacle.”

The Walk promises to put audiences in the thick of the action, as close as any of us will ever come to walking amongst the clouds ourselves. Zemeckis explains with a laugh: “If you’ve got a fear of heights, you might not be comfortable watching a lot of this, but that was another thing I loved about it.”

But the film is also an exploration of what led up to the famous walk, including Petit’s earliest childhood obsessions, his romantic entanglements, and the volatile relationship with his surrogate father figure, Kingsley’s Papa Rudy.

“Walking on a wire between the two towers of the World Trade Center is beautiful and physically daring, but there’s also a metaphor there,” says Gordon-Levitt of The Walk. “It’s about believing in yourself enough to say ‘I [can] accomplish anything… I [can] be the person I want to be.’”

As for the Towers themselves and the tragedy of 9/11, both Gordon-Levitt and Zemeckis see The Walk as a tribute, which, given the opening of The Freedom Tower, comes at a particularly appropriate moment.

“I think it’s important to remember that tragedy doesn’t erase what was beautiful,” says Gordon-Levitt. “I think it’s also important to remember this beautiful moment… that does greater honour, to not let those towers just become a symbol of disaster, but to also remember them in this moment of beauty.”

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