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Exit Through the Gift Shop

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Exit Through the Gift Shop	label	Exit Through the Gift Shop
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Exit Through the Gift Shop	comment	Exit Through the Gift Shop is a documentary by French filmmaker/obsessive filming hobbyist Thierry Guetta about Banksy and the street art scene, unless it's a documentary by Banksy about Thierry Guetta. It's one of those movies.Guetta carries a camera wherever he goes and films everything. When he discovers that his cousin is the street artist Space Invader, he becomes the unofficial documentarian of the rising street art movement, meeting and accompanying prominent artists like Shepard Fairey. He eventually sets his sights on the most famous and elusive street artist of all: Banksy. But everything turns around when Banksy inspires him to become a street artist himself under the name Mr. Brainwash.On the surface, the film appears as a relatively straightforward documentary about street art and Guetta's search for Banksy, but as the film goes on, its framing starts to slowly shift, with points like the what the documentary is actually about and whether any of it is actually real becoming more pertinent. Often compared to F for Fake, Exit Through the Gift Shop is likewise a very "meta" exploration on the definition of art and artistry, with its own unique takes on iconography, creative inspiration, and the facetiousness of it all.The film's official website is here.
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Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_12b796e	type	Phoney Call
Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_12b796e	comment	Phoney Call: After the Disneyland prank, Banksy calls Guetta and figures it's time to leave when Guetta replies as if he's talking to his wife. Guetta is already in park custody when he takes the call.
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Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_26f68115	type	Art Imitates Art
Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_26f68115	comment	Art Imitates Art: Mr. Brainwash's art is exclusively created by combining pre-existing images. His general style is accused of being derivative of other street artists.
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Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_26fa627a	type	Elephant in the Living Room
Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_26fa627a	comment	Elephant in the Living Room: Banksy's exhibit features a literal elephant in a living room.
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Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: It takes no time at all for Thierry to let his initial success go to his head, to the point that he nearly sabotages his own premiere because he keeps blowing off the actual hanging of the pictures so that he can give interviews.
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Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_35474f36	type	Sliding Scale of Law Enforcement
Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_35474f36	comment	Sliding Scale of Law Enforcement: Nearer to the negative end, for obvious reasons.
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Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: Life Remote Control (assuming Exit Through the Gift Shop is indeed a mockumentary).
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Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_54cc6b24	type	Le Parkour
Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_54cc6b24	comment	Le Parkour: In the opening credits, a teenager jumps onto a roof to, apparently successfully, evade two cops.
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Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_6f679180	type	Reclusive Artist
Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_6f679180	comment	Reclusive Artist: Invoked in-universe; Banksy is hard to get in touch with and hides his identity.
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Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_7131e4c9	type	Rodents of Unusual Size
Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_7131e4c9	comment	Rodents of Unusual Size: Wharf rats are a recurring motif in Banksy's art.
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Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: Banksy, Space Invader, and several other artists do not allow their faces to be filmed.
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Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_92420773	type	Thematic Theme Tune
Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_92420773	comment	Thematic Theme Tune: Richard Hawley's "Tonight The Streets Are Ours" isn't literally about street art, but rather about creative sterility. And of course, there's the chorus.
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Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_9e1b9a0e	type	Camera Fiend
Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_9e1b9a0e	comment	Camera Fiend: Thierry films absolutely everything. At one point it shows hundreds of unmarked tapes that he's filmed over the years.
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Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Most of Banksy's work.
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Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The epilogue informs about current activities of major characters.
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Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: Guetta claims to be making a documentary about Banksy and other street artists, but he's really just filming mindlessly because he just loves to film street artists. Then he finally does make a documentary of sorts, which he calls Life Remote Control, and it's terrible, so Banksy ends up making his own film about Guetta. Or it's all a hoax and everyone involved is screwing with the audience to make a point. We will probably never know.
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Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: Early in the film, a masked figure who is identified as Banksy says "This was supposed to be a film about me, but I'm pretty boring so we decided to make a film about Thierry instead."
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Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_e3109dae	type	Switching P.O.V.
Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_e3109dae	comment	Switching P.O.V.: A rare case where it ends up affecting the nature of the film on a metatextual level. The documentary starts out appearing as following Guetta's dive into street art culture and Banksy, but once he becomes Mr. Brainwash, this starts to get muddy as his portrayal becomes less sympathetic, and by the ending, the POV has shifted to Banksy and Shepard Fairey trying to wrangle in the arrogant hack they've indirectly created.
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Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_fea27091	type	Buffy Speak
Exit Through the Gift Shop / int_fea27091	comment	Buffy Speak: Guetta lacks the vocabulary to describe Banksy.
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