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It's like,

"Alright, well let's go skate,

and I'm just gonna bring

the camera with me."

It wasn't, like,

this whole production.

You know, and I think in the

grand scheme of things,

we'll understand that there was

the invention of film,

and that that became domestic

at one point,

but that distinction between

what was 8mm film

and what was home video,

I think was just this weird,

you know, maybe...

20 year blip in our evolution.

I was 10. I saw the movie

when it first came out,

and really was overcome

by just Indiana Jones,

the character himself,

and the world that he inhabited.

You know, being a single kid,

and kinda nerdy, you know,

I wanted to create

worlds for myself.

That was my motivation.

And then getting together with

my friend Eric Zala,

we wanted to recreate

this Raiders film.

And of course, when you have

a passionate idea,

you find the tools to do it.

Eric had more of a drive to see

a shot-for-shot remake

of Raiders in its entirety.

I think for myself,

maybe it was that idea.

But I think for me it was more,

"I just wanna

play Indiana Jones."

We worked from memory

for the first three years.

Video stores weren't as

readily available.

You just couldn't get stuff.

And so you were left

to your own

to go back to the theater

and see the film again.

We bought the script

that was published,

we bought fan magazines.

I snuck a tape recorder

into the movie theater

just to get sound effects,

and ended up getting thrown out.

And then when the film came out

on laserdisc in '84 or '85

we watched it and realized

we were pretty close.

The whole seven year project,

really we just did it

for ourselves.

But there's a nostalgia there

for this generation

of filmmakers

that were teaching themselves

on Betamax.

Something as simple as

setting up your Barbie dolls,

you know, or that could be

something as complicated

as wanting to remake

Raiders of the Lost Ark

in it's entirety

VHS will always have

a historical place

because it was the first way

in which images were circulated

and duplicated,

in a cost-effective way.

There were not

the economic constraints

that were associated with

image-making before.

That's revolutionary.

I remember renting some of

those, sort of, low-rent titles

in the mom and pop video stores.

But then you would get 'em home

and they would have

this look, like

"This doesn't look

like a real movie,

this doesn't look

like a real film.

"Kinda looks like

TV news, or something."

And you'd get, like,

a shot-on-video movie

that would give every appearance

of being a real movie,

but it wouldn't be.

Wake up, b*tch!

No... No!

This isn't real!

There's something about, like,

watching something

shot-on-video.

It makes you feel mo-for me,

like I could-it feels-

there's more of, like a voyeuristic thing,

'cause you associate it

with home movies.

And so then when you see

a movie made on video

you kinda get this feeling like

you're seeing something

that maybe you

weren't supposed to.

Everybody was like, "You know,

you gotta shoot it on film,

what are you doing? You can't

shoot a feature on video."

I'm gonna take my time

with this,

we're gonna treat this

like a movie.

Just the fact that

it's being shot

on Super VHS-C

is gonna be irrelevant.

Sledgehammer... they...

made it on VHS for VHS.

And I-I think,

as far as I know,

it's the first one like that.

And made with a sense of

professionalism, like,

"Maybe this is the new way."

I was here in Ohio doing it and

guys like Tim Ritter

were down in Florida, you know,

doing the same thing,

and he was going door-to-door

to video stores,

But eventually you had guys that

cracked the nut at Blockbuster,

and were getting stuff on

Blockbuster store shelves.

The unprofessional quality of

the shot-on-video movies

to me, is what makes them

beautiful and makes them...

I dunno, it's weird, it's like

they were trashy back then,

but now there's

an artistic quality.

Aaaaaaah.

Despite being

an ex-boxer and marine,

The Rock finally succumbed

to the vicious, relentless,

blood-thirsty,

unyielding, resilient,

devil ant!

And have you seen the giant

horny toad monster?

Errr, he'll attack ya,

errrrrrrrrr!

And the devil ant! Errrrrr!

I make monster comedies,

I've been doin' that since 1990,

and I've been makin'

monster movies ever since.

My plot is I got

a monster out there

and he has to be destroyed!

He has to be stopped!

That's the plot of my movie.

They call Detective Rock

to stop the monster, you know...

Who always doesn't

believe in the monster.

Yeah, Detective Rock.

- Hello.

- Rock.

- Rock

- Hello. Yeah.

- Yeah.

- Hey, what?

Ozzy's dead.

Hey man, I'm tryin' to eat, man.

You know you shouldn't be

interrupt-callin' me this time.

You shouldn't be

interruptin' me, man.

- Ozzy's dead.

- What?

Greg 'Ozzy' Ozumeck is dead?

Yeah, bitten by a devil ant.

- Got bitten by a devil ant?

- Yeah.

Oh c'mon, man, that's an

old wives' tale and you know it.

And it's got a lot

of comedy in there,

and it's got a lot of action,

like monsters battling people.

A lot of victims.

And then at the end of the movie

the monster gets killed,

or he gets stopped, or whatever.

Thrown in jail or somethin'.

This is a person who has...

one day sat down and decided,

"I am going to improve the world

with absolutely no

financial support,

and no critical support

from anybody,

and I'm gonna make

this my life's mission."

He is-he is like a living

embodiment of a middle finger

in the face of everybody

who ever told you

that you cannot do

what you wanna do.

Ladies and gentlemen, please

welcome David "The Rock" Nelson.

- Eeerrrrrr!

- Ah!

Errrr eerrrrr I'm gonna get you

with my devil ant

if you don't watch this movie

by The Rock!

I was a door to door dictionary

salesman from '87 to '91.

So that sorta helped

my sales, you know.

It helped me, it taught me how

to sell to people.

And after that,

after I was let go,

I started sellin' my movies

in '93.

I went door to door with

my monster movies.

I had interviews,

I have an introduction,

so you're getting a full-length

movie, it's like two hours.

Plus you get previews, plus you

get a long intro by me,

flexing my muscles and stuff.

I'm gonna show ya, look!

The Rock's got it! Show 'em!

I drink like four glasses of

milk a day, and I eat good,

I get my protein, you know,

a beef patty maybe with some rice

and maybe some veggies,

or a small salad,

and I... you know, every day

I have a banana or an apple.

You know, get my fiber,

get my fruit.

So, you know,

all natural body-building,

I never took a steroid,

it's all natural, bud.

46, 47, 48, 49,

50, 51, 52!

Ladies and gentlemen!

David "The Rock" Nelson!

Are you jealous of my body?

Yes!

Are you jealous of my body?

Yeah.

The thing is, I got enough footage

for like 100 movies right now.

I'm always filmin' stuff.

And I film so much stuff that

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