NEISTAT BROTHERS RESPECTABILITY TOUR PART 3, 2007
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Neistat Brothers Respectability Tour Part 3, 2007. Cross-country in the van, visiting Plum TV affiliates in luxury resort towns like Aspen and Vail. Tom Scott, co-founder of Nantucket Nectars, funded the network and the Neistat Brothers show. Archival footage documenting guerrilla filmmaking and grassroots audience-building before the platform era. All shot on tapes.
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so this is just nice fundamental filmmaking and Casey shot this
little opening credit super simple [Music] handheld great [Music] what was the last thing Dan said to you before he left us alone tonight don't let Casey touch my bike why don't you think you want me to touch your bike
because there was a good chance that you might break it and what have you done tonight all by yourself brake Vans bike bro I broke fans bike
and he's gonna be pissed [Music] we had been in Aspen for two days skiing exploring mingling with the locals and importantly the three of us
had been getting on well I were left alone with the two mini bikes and one simple instruction
don't break Van's mini bike like when he loans his car out to his
kid and he wrecks it uh the reason this whole thing is so significant is because it couldn't have come at a worse time
for relations between me and Van about two hours ago Casey and I were coming up with ways Pharrell not that's me not to piss off fan anymore he's been
a little on edge I've just been trying smooth relations and if there was a list of things not to do to piss him off number one on that list would have been just don't break
his bike yeah I feel like disrespected I feel really bad about it so fix it
just doesn't run good anymore this is like the nicest thing I've ever had and now it's broken and crappy like everything else I have
can you guys just go get me some breakfast or something yeah so I'm like kind of the stern
Taskmaster of the group and I can fix everything so people sort of take it for granted because like
well I don't know how to fix it and then by just being passive I end up fixing it
again after about three hours of wrenching on the broken throttle cable throttle and flywheel housing on my bike I managed to get it running at an
acceptable level for reasons that I never figured out the bike was harder to start and lost considerable acceleration but I did discover a throttle Governor
that capped the top speed of the bike I disabled the governor which would give my bike an advantage on long straightaways I was like Bowser and
Super Mario Kart slow off the line but a monster at top speed I needed an opportunity to test the bike then Casey
challenged me to a race [Music] what do you got three so I'm the guy who can fix things and on a big trip like this a lot of things break and also I was managing all of the tapes
and you know we're also making these videos and so
yeah when rail broke my bike I was pissed it's not so much that I
broke it but that he didn't fix it and Rel is like the sweetest guy on
planet Earth so I was probably a little a little harsh on him
some little racetrack that I think it's for cross-country skiing this little path here
we made this race course and I'm a terrible athlete I'm really really bad at sports like
I have never really won any sport but I love racing
and racing is one of those Sports I love to and I have fun whether or not I win or lose
[Music] I'm almost positive Casey edited this and Ariel Shulman shot it and he's now like a big Hollywood director
directed secret headquarters with Owen Wilson the Sheridan Hotel I'm pretty sure
oh maybe not it's not the Sheridan this was our last day in Aspen [Music] from here we were headed home oh man look at the Prairie
we'd spent 14 days driving around the country [Music] when Pablo Picasso was our age he said I'm always doing the things I can't do that's how I get to do them
[Music] a little recap of the previous two episodes foreign [Music] we try to explain show them our films but to a guy who's busted his ass for a paycheck his entire life making movies
about your life and earning a living at It is incomprehensible
driving cross country was the easy part now we have to go back to New York and figure out how to turn 96 hours of
footage into an hour-long movie [Music] it takes us about two days of editing to finish one minute of the finished movie to put that in perspective we began
editing this project on December 15 2006. today is March 7th 2007 and we're still not done we spent the budget before we even left Colorado so when we got back to New York
we survived mostly on hot dogs [Music] one night during the edit we got a dinner invitation to our favorite Italian spot up the street
bar PD I climbed on the back of the scooter Casey was borrowing and we headed down White Street the reason this is stop-motion is because the scooter did not work
[Music] we made a right onto Church got the green light at Walker and headed toward canal [Music] foreign
[Music] the truck hit us so hard that I was thrown eight feet from the scooter Casey's leg was sandwiched between the scooter handlebars and the ground and
the force from the truck snapped his femur like a Matchstick Casey made this little animation a
Matchstick covered in meat foreign Casey's a high school dropout and this is his preschool graduation the last commencement he ever had and the reason
he's wearing that officer's cap is because he's the only kid in the school who didn't get one of those styrofoam numbers
and I always felt so bad from up there even when I was there he was really embarrassed he ended up
taking the bullet for the entire school which I wanted to burn down after this but at least they played Woody Guthrie
that wake up are you awake it's van hi um Casey was in a pretty bad
motorcycle accident tonight he was just lying there and I said I you know immediately as soon as I got up and realized I was okay I just I was like
are you okay are you okay are you okay and you said no no and then I looked at him and his leg was snapped and the next thing he said was get my stuff get the
camera start taking pictures and Nev Shulman shot this stuff not this but the hospital stuff he just showed up it was
the middle of the night this is all real from the scene Casey's break was so severe it had to be said immediately
in the field without anesthetic he didn't even wince
he's he's a lot of things but he's also extremely tough Casey nice to
[Music] broken here here which you can't see tomorrow they're cutting me open and replacing my femur with the titanium rod
for now they had to drill through my entire Shin drill from here all the way through to here put a pin through and
attach this device tonight they're putting a 20 pound weight to the end of that string to pull my leg tight for the rest of the night
at that 40 milligrams of morphine so far this evening it doesn't touch the pain it's a mess
of course Casey recovered just fine the medical community has been fixing broken legs for hundreds of years two
months after this we summited Kilimanjaro he's still got a bit of a limp but he's recovering way ahead of schedule and
while Casey was in the hospital I managed to sell the best piece of art I've ever made
[Music] and there's Casey and me in the back of the old Volvo the video camera [Music] foreign and that's it that's the end of the
prototype for the uh what became the neistat brothers HBO series
Jordan gallon great job with the music you're hired he got the nice Step Brothers gig to score the entire series and um yeah that was the beginning [Music]
Products & Tools Mentioned
- Volvo mentions — old Volvo referenced in Casey and Van's early days
People Referenced
Casey Neistat, Ariel Schulman, Owen Wilson, Nev Schulman, Pablo Picasso, Jordan Gallon, Rel / Mr. Slice
Films & Media Referenced
- HBO series; this is Part 3 of the prototype/pilot that became the series
- video game referenced — Van compared himself to Bowser
- Ariel Schulman film with Owen Wilson