The documentary Man On Wire is revealing of much of the scenes told from the point of view of the tightrope walker, as well as the scenes depicting his audience. The documentary includes several images that reveal the basis for McCann’s inspiration. The film shows Philippe Petit training in a meadow strikingly similar to the scene described in the chapter Let the Great World Spin Forever Down, which details the walker’s training process. The documentary shows Petit walking a tightrope above a meadow while the rope is purposefully jostled by Petit’s friends, which is mirrored in McCann’s description of a meadow that “stretched for the better part of a mile”, which he would cross while a friend would “thump the high wire with a two by four so