Zemeckis high-wire thriller not for the faint-hearted
Oscar-winning director Robert Zemeckis takes movie-goers on a white-knuckle ride to the 最高の，を越す of the World 貿易（する） 中心 -- and to the 辛勝する／優位 of sanity -- in his new film "The Walk".
Thirty years after striking gold with "支援する to the 未来", the American's 最新の 申し込む／申し出ing, which opens the Tokyo International Film Festival on Thursday, is based on the true story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's death-反抗するing walk between the Twin Towers in 1974.
"From a technical 見地, every film that I've done in my entire career has 用意が出来ている me to do this movie," Zemeckis told AFP in an interview on Wednesday, the exact date (October 21, 2015) in the 未来 that Michael J. Fox's Marty McFly travelled to in a souped-up DeLorean fitted with a flux capacitor in the second part of the blockbuster trilogy.
Philippe Petit became a 全世界の celebrity for his tightrope walk across the World 貿易（する） 中心 in 1974, and the French daredevil has since gone on to do other celebrated stunts such as a 1989 walk between the Trocadero and the Eiffel Tower in Paris ?Gilles Leimdorfer (AFP)
"I 手配中の，お尋ね者 the audience to 完全に believe that (Joseph Gordon-Levitt's) character was on that wire. That was the challenge for me: that there would be not a 選び出す／独身 でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れる where the audience didn't 疑問 that they were really up there on that wire with that character."
Filmed in 3D, the 最高潮 to "The Walk" takes place 110 stories up and is not for the faint-hearted. As Gordon-Levitt's Petit steps out の上に a wire hanging over 1,300 feet (400 metres) above the ground, the dizzying bird's 注目する，もくろむ 見解（をとる） afforded by the camera will have vertigo 苦しんでいる人s breaking into a 冷淡な sweat.
"If you have vertigo this is a 広大な／多数の／重要な place to go and get some therapy," smiled Zemeckis, in a hotel room overlooking the Tokyo skyline.
"This is the type of story that is best done through the art of cinema. And with 3D you can make the audience flinch, you can make them squirm."
Zemeckis has 献身的な his new movie to the 犠牲者s of the September 11 terror attacks and the filmmaker 扱う／治療するs the Twin Towers with a touching tenderness.
- 'Living, breathing （独立の）存在s' -
"What Philippe did is probably the second-most 重要な thing that happened in the history of those towers," said Zemeckis. "Philippe fascinated me. He's a character who has this unbelievable passion, this need to 表明する himself creativ ely, although it was 明白に extreme.
"Philippe always considered the towers characters, he always thought they were living, breathing （独立の）存在s and always spoke of them as if they were his partners," 追加するd Zemeckis. "He understood that he could not have done this feat without them.
"The thing that I did was just not editorialise. I understood that everyone would bring their own history of the 悲劇, their own experience of the 悲劇 to the film.
"But I also thought it was important that we have to remember things that were beautiful and things that were human and things that were magnificent, and not just the 悲劇."
The film's co-生産者 Jack Rapke said: "Walking across those two towers without a safety line is 明白に 国境ing on madness. The towers were an iconic symbol of America. （頭が）ひょいと動く (Zemeckis) 扱う／治療するd them with a 広大な／多数の／重要な 取引，協定 of 尊敬（する）・点, a 広大な／多数の／重要な 取引，協定 of honour and a 広大な／多数の／重要な 取引，協定 of love."
However, there was bad news for diehard fans hoping Zemeckis might bring 支援する Marty and Doc for more capers that 危険 unravelling the space-time continuum.
"It's only fitting that we're here on this date," said the 63-year-old, who won an 学院 Award for 1994's "Forrest Gump" and also directed Hollywood 攻撃する，衝突するs 含むing "Cast Away" and "Flight".
"You can look at it as a coincidence or you can look at it as the synchronicity of the universe.
"But no, there won't be a sequel, that's not happening. I'm thrilled and honoured that it has had these １０年間s of longevity. I never 推定する／予想するd it for one second. But I believe it is a very 井戸／弁護士席-made trilogy and it will stay that way."
US director Robert Zemeckis' 最新の movie "The Walk" will be shown at the Tokyo International Film Festival and is based on the true story of Philippe Petit's death-反抗するing walk between the Twin Towers in 1974 ?Toru Yamanaka (AFP)
