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