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Synopsis: A heart-racing documentary portrait of Carl Boenish, the father of the BASE jumping movement, whose early passion for skydiving led him to ever more spectacular -and dangerous- feats of foot-launched human flight.
Director(s): Marah Strauch
Production: Magnolia Pictures
  3 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
91%
PG
Year:
2014
100 min
$83,537
Website
68 Views


New heading entitled The Gypsy Moths.

He was working at Hughes Aircraft.

And he got the opportunity

to do Gypsy Moths.

And that was a big MGM production.

I was asked by MGM

to be in charge of the aerial free-fall

filming sequences.

John Frankenheimer,

the director who created

the excitement of Grand Prix,

now captures the drama and spectacle

of the death-defying game called

skydiving in The Gypsy Moths.

So he went and took the Gypsy Moths job

and that was the end

of his electrical engineering career.

I didn't know how I wanted

to film the aerial sequences.

I had to experiment

and try all kinds of things.

And I had to find really young guys

who were willing to do that.

Pull it! Pull it!

Carl was an innovator. He was

probably the only one in Hollywood,

or the area, that was known

for free-fall photography.

Background of Carl Boenish

and his films.

Carl Boenish's early start.

He has been able to put off going back

to work two months at a time

such that for over the last ten years,

he's never had to go back to work,

and is accustomed to making film

payments instead of car payments.

As it's worked out in the past,

Carl Boenish usually spends

about two years

to make one 15-minute film.

If you were jumping with Boenish,

it was expected

that you'd wear a helmet-mounted camera

or possibly two.

Carl's main focus was to share

the wealth. Share that feeling.

To share the feeling with people

that didn't understand it,

that thought we were absolutely crazy

to do something like this.

But once you see it

and see the beauty of it,

I think people tend to understand

the motive.

I've been skydiving for 18 years now

and I've been filmmaking

for just as long.

Primarily, I consider myself a filmmaker

first and a skydiver second.

So whatever he did, he wanted to capture

on film the best way he could.

I think he wanted to show the humanity,

the freedom, that is felt

when you are pushing the envelope of

what the human spirit can accomplish.

Yosemite is beautiful.

It's breathtaking.

Many people cry when they first see it.

It's beyond their expectation,

beyond their experience.

I was the chief ranger in

Yosemite National Park.

And my job was protection.

So protecting the park from the people

and the people from the park

and the people from the people.

Where did you get the inclination

to jump off a cliff?

Well, this comes from making

1500 parachute jumps over 15 years

and becoming so proficient at it

that you wonder,

well, what else is out there?

El Capitan.

3,600 feet of polished granite

rising from California's

Yosemite Valley.

For climbers, its vertical ascent

is one of the great challenges

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