Small masterpiece signed Pixar, “Up” is broadcast tonight on M6. Imagine that the character’s balloon escape in 2015 gave an idea as unusual as it was dangerous to a Canadian who had taken it into his head to imitate him!
It’s not so common for an unencrypted channel to broadcast a film on a Friday evening, and what’s more an animated film, excluding school holidays or festive periods of course. Reason enough not to deprive yourself of seeing or reviewing Pixar’s formidable Up there broadcast this evening on M6.
A nugget from the studio released almost thirteen years ago, the film had already gathered more than 4.5 million spectators in theaters. Spectators sometimes moved to tears, with this poignant and even heartbreaking opening scene featuring Carl Fredricksen and his wife…
Remember: the dream of Carl, balloon seller, was to live a great adventure, which will push him to tie thousands of balloons to his house to fly away to the wild regions of South America.
Carl’s unusual escape with his balloons seems to have given ideas to a Canadian, who had taken it into his head to do the same thing… With a chair!
In July 2015, a 26-year-old Canadian named Daniel Boria, living in the city of Calgary located in the province of Alberta, came up with an idea as ingenious as it was very dangerous to promote his cleaning business: he tied 110 balloons to a chair to fly away with!
“At one point I was watching the balloons, they were popping, the chair was shaking and I was watching my feet swinging through the clouds” he told cbc.ca. “It was amazing. It was the most surreal experience you could imagine. I was just all alone in a $20 lawn chair in the sky above the clouds!”
An ultra dangerous “Jackass” waterfall, especially as the weather got involved; the person concerned landing a few kilometers from the planned point, on industrial land, and spraining his ankle as a bonus. A communication operation which nevertheless cost him $20,000, in addition to being received on arrival by the Police who embarked him at the Post Office, to release him the next day, charging him with endangering the life of others.
“I don’t think a publicity stunt is worth your life, or obviously anyone else’s life or property” commented the police inspector in charge of the case, explaining that the indictment concerned above all the use of the chair, which could logically have fallen, and from very high, on someone below…