So the movie entered the so-called climax, that is, the Frenchman followed The footage taken by Banksy. Including the entire production process of the murdered phone box, as well as the infamous rat stencils of LA. A famous Disney event. . . The back and forth story is like the kind of "Artist behind the scene story" that everyone imagines in the movie theater. I have to sigh that these footages are precious because of adventure, because they are priceless because of the love of pure art, because they are 100% truthful. And full of fun.
It's just that these footages have nothing to do with ETGS.
The real theme is here! When the Frenchman finally made up his mind and paid for the editing of his 10-year video material, (and gave it a decent name!) he showed it to Banksy with joy. Banksy only discovered that this person was not a filmmaker but a video fanatic with a bit of a brain problem. Banksy said to him, it's good...its good, but it's better to stop taking pictures and make your own art. Why don't you make your own art, and then open your own art show. The Frenchman really listened to what he said. Using the essence he has absorbed from other elites for many years, he began to produce artwork on a wholesale scale like the Dongguan factory. He also gave himself the name of Mr. BrainWash (Mr. BrainWash). In addition, people with a status like Banksy came to promo. As a result, in 2008, an unprecedented solo exhibition was held in LA. (That's the life is beautiful!!) In ETGS, we saw this from the perspective of a real director. In Life is Beautiful, the audience of art collectors and hipsters watched the camera one by one and admired the piles of photoshop art prints that were exactly like Dongguan wholesale goods.
(Even the next day’s newspaper exaggeratedly said that he was The second Banksy!) And the theme of the film is about to come out with the end of MBW's successful Artshow. . .
In fact, after watching the documentary cut by the Frenchman, Banksy started planning an Exit Through the Gift Shop. Because how could he let so many Theirry's footage be buried with the passing of the times! So he came to tune the tiger away from the mountain. Let the French do art, and use the record of this whole process to express the embarrassment of PopArt today.
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Exit Through the Gift Shop is a movie that really convinced me to watch. Absolutely low-cost production, small-scale (he said that if it weren't for the constant change of editors because the editors that were cut for a few seconds against the 100,000 hours of Theirry's footage were cut into schizophrenia, it should have been smaller.)
Banksy is the director of this film, but it is not the protagonist and theme of the film at all, although he has led the audience to mistakenly believe that this is a great graffiti documentary from the beginning. One of the film’s signature quotations was named "The World's First Street Art Disaster Movie". The first street art disaster film in prehistoric times. Because upstart artists like MBW are a complete disaster for Street Art. What the title call is talking about is to guide the audience to look for the outlet in GiftShop that is flooding with PopArt replicas. I don’t know if Shepard said it or Banksy:
"Pop art was never a bad word to me until I saw Thierry's show in LA It was then I found the line between what looks cool but has no meaning and a piece that maybe continues a deeper conversation . It's helped me not to make those mistakes in my own work, the cheap shots, ever again."
Therefore, this is an era that would perish if there was no dialectical spirit. As viewers, imagine how we have never had a silent suspicion of being a contemporary artist! As an artist, I decided to abandon the tenet of "purely because it's so beautiful" for many years. At the same time, I admire and believe in artists like Space Invader who are not restricted by media. They will always do things with a playful mood and a sense of responsibility for their actions. Zenzen protested against those ambitions to "become famous". And Banksy has also shown to the world that true talent can shine without the media.
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