The Man-Gift (a ten minute play) (eTens)

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Returning to LA, Guetta becomes bored, and eventually produces his own stickers and decals, putting them up in the city. He visits the location and places the doll while Guetta films it.

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A short while later, however, the rides stop, and the park's security catch Guetta, who is taken to an interrogation room, while Banksy switches clothes and blends into the crowd. During interrogation, Guetta refuses to admit any wrongdoing, and when allowed a phone call, covertly alerts Banksy to his situation. When confronted by security personnel, he destroys the evidence in his stills camera, but stashes the videotape in his sock and is eventually let go, much to the amazement of Banksy who then says he trusts him implicitly because of the incident.

A few days later, "Barely Legal" opens, and becomes an overnight success.

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Street art prices begin to rocket in auction houses. Banksy is stunned by the sudden hype surrounding street art, and urges Guetta to finish his supposed documentary. Guetta begins to edit together the several thousand hours of footage, and produces a film titled Life Remote Control. Banksy questions Guetta's ability as a filmmaker, deeming his product "unwatchable", but realizes the street art footage itself is valuable. Banksy decides to try producing a film himself. To ensure that Guetta remains occupied, Banksy suggests he makes his own art show. Guetta accepts the assignment, adopting the name " Mr.

Brainwash ", putting up street art in the city and six months later, re-mortgaging his business to afford renting copious equipment and a complete production team to create pieces of art under his supervision. He rents a former CBS studio to prepare his first show, "Life Is Beautiful", and scales up his production to something much larger than Banksy suggested, but with little focus. When Guetta breaks his foot after falling off a ladder, Banksy realises that the show may become a trainwreck, and sends a few professionals to help Guetta out.

While the producers take care of the practical side of the show, Guetta spends his time on more publicity, asking support from both Fairey and Banksy, eventually taping up huge billboards with their quotes, and ultimately ending up on the cover of LA Weekly. Preparation is seriously behind schedule, and Guetta's production team insists that he must make decisions—yet Guetta spends his time hyping up and marketing his work for tens of thousands of dollars.

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Eight hours before the opening, paintings are still missing from the walls, and since Guetta is busy giving interviews, the eventual layout of the show is decided by the crew itself. Despite all this, however, the show becomes a raging success with the crowd, and after the first week of the show, Guetta sells almost a million dollars' worth of art, with his pieces showing in galleries all around the world, to the utter confusion of both Fairey and Banksy.

In an ending montage, Guetta insists that time will tell whether he is a real artist or not.

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Banksy has said in interviews that editing the film together was an arduous process, noting that "I spent a year [ It would have been even smaller if the editors didn't keep having mental breakdowns. They went through over 10, hours of Thierry's tapes and got literally seconds of usable footage out of it. The film received overwhelmingly positive reviews.

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The website's critical consensus reads, "An amusing, engrossing look at underground art, Exit Through the Gift Shop entertains as it deflates the myths and hype surrounding its subjects. French journalist Marjolaine Gout gave it 4 stars out of 5, linking Mr.

Brainwash and Jeff Koons and criticizing Thierry Guetta's art as toilet papering. One consistent theme in the reviews was the authenticity of the film: Was the film just an elaborate ruse on Banksy's part, or did Guetta really evolve into Mr. The Boston Globe movie reviewer Ty Burr found it to be quite entertaining and awarded it four stars.

He dismissed the notion of the film being a "put on", saying that "I'm not buying it; for one thing, this story's too good, too weirdly rich, to be made up. For another, the movie's gently amused scorn lands on everyone. It was a bit disappointing when it became basically accepted as fact, that it was all just a silly hoax I felt it was a shame that the whole thing was going to be dismissed like that really — because we knew it was true. The New York Times movie reviewer Jeannette Catsoulis wrote that the film could be a new subgenre, a "prankumentary".

Guetta in an interview said: Banksy captured me becoming an artist. In the end, I became his biggest work of art.

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Guetta faced copyright issues following the release of the film. However, the presiding judge over the case, Judge Pregerson, ultimately ruled Friedman's photograph was protected under the transformative fair use law. Levy was not credited for his work he did on the film; however, Guetta owned the footage which was then licensed to Banksy.

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