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