Sentences with phrase «circus high wire»

Nowhere is The Walk more deliciously cruel to the phobic than in an overhead shot of his protagonist, Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) laying down on the circus high wire he has suspended between the two towers.

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Jeff Bezos» father was a high - wire circus performer, and he initially wanted to call his ecommerce startup «Relentless.»

Being a Reformational Catholic Christian is a circus ride, a high wire act with no net but the loving arms of our faithful Father.

In Sturdy Birdy ($ 20; amazon.com) players try to copy Reggie the Pigeon's high - wire balancing poses (he's trying to get a job with the circus).

And the sound design is equally immersive; scenes of Philippe practicing under Papa Rudy's circus tent combine the rattle of the high wire rigging and the billowing big top to evoke a sailing ship.

The story goes from Philippe's youth, as a boy transfixed with the high - wire act at a local circus, to his young adulthood, performing in the streets of Paris.

Petit begins by explaining his antecedents as a little French boy who sneaked into a provincial circus and was awed by the tightrope walker, as a some - time student of a high - wire master known as Papa Rudy and as a street performer in Paris in the 1970s.

A man in a circus big tent walks across a high - wire and falls when the wire appears to vibrate wildly; he drops his balancing pole and it hits the floor but he catches onto the wire and pulls himself to the ladder safely.

Tutored in technique and stagecraft by the Czech circus performer called Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), Petit embarks on his first «surprise illegal high - wire walk» in 1971 at Notre - Dame de Paris, the Manhattan towers still beckoning.

While sneaking into the big top, he meets Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), the manager of a small circus who eventually becomes his mentor and lets him to practice on the high wire after the show.

His love of the high wire begins with a visit to a circus where he sees a performance by an acrobatic troupe led by Papa Rudy (a scene - stealing Ben Kingsley).

But ever resourceful Alex, seeing an opportunity to have the circus tour the states (equaling a free trip home), instructs the performers to liven up their acts and combine almost a Cirque du Soleil treatment with ridiculously complicated trapeze acts (by Gia and Alex), high wire acts (by Gloria and Melman), and cannon shots (lucky Stephano).

Oddest of all is one in which the foreground is filled by the upturned purple face of a man watching a woman riding a bicycle on a high - wire rendered by a fine line scratched into the darkness of a circus big top.