John Cleese dangled himself upside down from a tree for her, Kate Winslet submerged herself in a custom-made fish tank and Clint Eastwood permitted himself to be tied up.
When asked why he decided to dangle himself more than 100 stories above New York, Petit responded: "There is no why.
He is already imagining himself dangling from mountain ropes, slashing through rapids, biking up the trail.
In 1936, German mountaineer Toni Kurz, during an ill-fated attempt to climb the Swiss Alps' Eiger's north face, found himself dangling from rope with his fellow teammate's lifeless body weighing him down.
Here the thin line between the arrogance of the Peter Pan character and the amateur actor playing him is cleverly excavated, as Peter constantly, and not entirely inexplicably, finds himself dangling upside down.
Needless to say, that simple motion will incite seat-dampening delirium among fans of the franchise, who will need no reminding that Luke Skywalker performed the same trick near the start of "The Empire Strikes Back," when he found himself dangling upside-down in an ice cave, with his sabre stuck beyond his grasp and a shaggy white carnivore preparing to treat him as Carpaccio of Jedi.
A friend of Mr. Yang's who dropped from the 30th floor when his rope broke a few years ago found himself dangling outside the fourth floor by the time the screaming ratchet on his backup rope caught and stopped his fall.
It was all a bit corny for ex-college football player Frank, but nonetheless he found himself dangling 24 feet above the ground, belayed by his new co-workers.
Rather than being honest from the beginning, a cocky Ryan fabricated a story and left himself dangling out there for all to see.
In the middle ground behind Saint Christopher, a man is seen lynching a bear in a perverse echo of the Saint himself, dangling a fish he's caught on a line; beyond this a naked figure, only millimeters high, flees a crumpled white mass at the edge of the river, and a fire burns in the distant blue hills.
