The Climb
X Factor winner Joe (how long will he last?) sings about the uphill struggle, viz ‘ain’t about how fast I get there, ain’t about what’s waiting on the other side………it’s the CLIMB. Now that’s a good attitude for children to pick up.
But I am not sure Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (first men up Everest, 1953) would have agreed. No oxygen and 29,000 feet can’t be that much fun. But what counts is the tenacity and the determination, qualities that are still totally admired today. Making films about famous figures who’ve shaped the world, as we do, I’ve become really aware that they all share these qualities. Marie Curie, tired and sweaty, boiling up rocks to find her radium, Columbus hawking his ‘what’s-across-the Atlantic?’ idea until he found a buyer, Rembrandt still painting flat-out when bankrupt and weeping for his dead wife – the universal message? Don’t give up, keep going.
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