World Trade Center videos

Segment from The Cruise (1998), a cult documentary about the eccentric & erudite New York City-based, Gray Line Bus tour guide, Timothy "Speed" Levitch. A film directed by Bennett Miller (Capote).

(By the way, I've already included a Speed Levitch monologue from Richard Linklater's Waking Life in my blog.)

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From The Cruise (1998).

Timothy "Speed" Levitch: (over Grey Line Bus loudspeaker) [click] "200,000 people... work in the World Trade Center buildings... daily. The World Trade Center buildings have their own zip code. The World Trade Center towers themselves built to sway in heavy winds a foot and a half in any direction... Something to... consider." [click]

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Timothy "Speed" Levitch: (to a child sitting on Gray Line double decker bus observation deck) "These are the World Trade Centers... yeah... See these two towers? They're Twin Towers, see... They're brothers... Sometimes I like to spin in-between the two towers... you know, like... spin around and you make yourself dizzy and then you look up... and it looks like the buildings are falling in on top of you... yeah, it's amay... I recommend that. It's fun. If you get to, stand in the plaza in between the two towers. But don't look up until after you're dizzy."