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and everything was getting a bit crazier,
like, The guy's gonna film me one time, two times,
He's like, Okay, show me the pictures.
NARRATOR: So now Thierry had to come up with a way
Some people, you know, might think that I'm a rabbit
and me, the only thing I wanted to do
until Thierry decided it would make the perfect venue
NARRATOR: That night when Shepard did meet Space Invader,
But my focus in my head, it was like,
So I love it, you know?
was kind of important,
Whatever elves Thierry had making that stuff
Who are you, and what do you do?
He just wanted to go whenever I was going,
[security alarm ringing]
The right. Right.
I went to a cousin or something outside of what happened,
So yeah, he proved his worth on that project,
like people who have Picassos and, you know, Mondrians
Almost certain
I was refinancing the house.
at all this stuff he got out of it.
MALE NARRATOR: This guy was Thierry Guetta,
taking up his time.
You know, an artist is not a guy that you see in one show
[circular saw grinding]
NARRATOR: Thierry's cousin was Space Invader,
So this is what you're doing?
and he was always...
and starting to blow up, through a pump, a doll.
the unlikeliness of it.
I told him I'd never seen anything like it,
A regular family man,
I wanted to try to do something big.
André has this character
I put it down, and I said,
and then he'd broken his leg
I remember I was in the playground,
Somewhere it's great, but from the people,
Oh, you didn't know him?
could be shared by an audience of millions.
in the city's most bohemian shopping district,
We're gonna do both.
Yes.
I thought it was a big breach of security.
I guess Thierry was in the right place
With the arrival of the internet,
Why does that one reoccur so many times?
to give him a quote for a press release,
to put down his camera
because I wanted to show that I could do it.
I saw Banksy, and I thought he was a genius,
with collectors rushing to get in
What's the matter?
You know, they really loved it.
who killed himself when we were 16...
I started to really see, like, a gallery outside.
It's gothic.
Just put them all like that.
He's holed in L.A. right now, bro.
- Okay. - Life is Beautiful.
finding their style,
following the movement of street art.
I'm making it an art amusement.
Let's make the show go on!
and we used to buy these for $50.
That's why I kept following them,
Thierry was free to spend time
Yeah, yeah, yeah, like, what do you want?
NARRATOR: Thierry returned home to Los Angeles
and then when I came off that,
the authentic inside story of the birth of a movement
and starting to put it all around the city.
Um... you know,
and they said, You are in big, big, big trouble.
and he made a good living selling his wares
My cousin, at that time, he was an artistic...
Sorry for the holdup, folks.
I was a filmmaker.
When I picked up the camera,
[spray paint can rattling]
it's a fascinating thing to observe,
for me, it was done.
We have, like... look at this.
You know, that's the way that I live,
What none of them suspected
from the task in hand.
He's like, This is where I'm gonna do it.
to London, Paris, and even Beijing.
NARRATOR: Thierry had accidentally found a focus.
But I kept filming,
As were we, to be honest.
and after her death,
into the epic documentary
# #
Andy Warhol made a statement by repeating famous icons
Like, Let him film.
# #
Oh, this guy is cool.
He faced Israeli army fire to pull off his latest stunt.
NARRATOR: Thierry's opportunity to meet someone
a problem that we never talk about,
NARRATOR: But there was one very unusual thing
and I'm doing this big show,
had its roots in his childhood in France.
letting Thierry capture every moment
following them, following them.
And he didn't care whatsoever.
You gonna hit that?
I go on Delete, and I go, Pffft!
How do I feel about being partially responsible
on the border of losing everything that I own.