I know it adds drama to the movie, but if you were in the audience would the lack of a center ring net matter?
"It's the system, Lara. People will be different after the Revolution."
Yeah. The person could fall and die!
shareWould the audience care if the tightrope walker were two feet above the ground instead of fifty feet? Obviously the danger adds to the entertainment.
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Fowler's knots? Did you say ... fowler's knots?
I would much prefer a net. The last thing I want to watch live and up-close is somebody getting killed or seriously injured. That's not entertainment.
shareI went to some circuses when I was younger, and seeing the tightrope walkers and trapeze artists work without a net disturbed me. They were working at a height where a tiny slip meant death or disability. Of course I stopped worrying quite as much when the tightrope walker stopped wobbling on the wire and started making dance moves, I realized he'd been faking the wobbles to hook the audience in.
But the fact is that a fall from that height DOES mean death or disability, and some circus performers work under conditions that are too unsafe to be legal. Seriously, how IS it legal for someone's job to involve doing something insanely dangerous with no safety equipment? It makes me glad circuses have gone out of fashion.