16x17 - The Best Documentarians Yet

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[theme music playing]

-[Wes] This is the true story...
-[Lacey] Yee-haw!

-[Lacey] ...of seven strangers...
-[Rachel] ...picked to live in a house...

[Nehemiah] ...work together
and have their lives taped...

[Johanna] ...to find out what happens...

-[Danny] ...when people stop being polite...
-Shut up.

-[Melinda] ...and start getting real.
-[all laughing]

-[all] The Real World: Austin.
-[music concludes]

[rock music playing]

[indistinct chatter]

[car horn honks]

There you go. Where you from?

-Camarillo, California.
-Canada.

He's playing with two
different bands during South By.

I am very excited.

-We just met Robert Plant.
-Great!

On the count of three,
can you just say the name of your band?

[all] Halifax!

South by Southwest is making Austin
and Sixth Street

a completely different place
than what we're normally used to.

People are out every single day.

There's bands playing
at all types of different bars.

It's actually a lot more people
and excitement

than I was expecting it to be.

-[rock music continues]
-[Mike] Let's get this party started.

-All right?
-[audience cheers]

[cheers]

[Wes] As the cameraman,
I am underneath Mike, the lead singer,

holding the camera up as he's just, like,
screaming his heart out.

His sweat and beer are just dripping
on the camera lens.

It can't get any more real
than that moment right there.

[Mike singing indistinctly]

[Johanna] Whoo!

[Lacey] After getting to know
the guys in Halifax

and seeing their performance,
I still think they totally suck.

I think their music
is nothing that I have any interest in.

-[guitar riffing]
-[audience cheers]

[music concludes]

[indistinct chatter]

[Rachel] Are you going in?
I'm just gonna tell them

they were really good,
'cause I haven't told them yet.

You did such a good job!
All of you.

I usually don't like musicians.

I usually don't even become
friends with musicians. [chuckles]

So it was a good opportunity for me
to actually see

that some musicians are nice and cool.

-It was great, it was so great.
-Did you enjoy it?

[Rachel] Yes! It was great.
All of your guys' hair

looks so much better
when you were up there sweating.

-Oh, yeah?
-[Rachel] Yeah.

-[Tommy] You like men sweaty?
-[Rachel] Yeah, a little bit.

[chuckles] Ew!

[relaxed music playing]

[doorbell ringing]

-[Wes] Who's that?
-[Lacey] Halifax.

-[Johanna] Hey!
-[Lacey] Hello.

I don't think that Halifax
should be at our house

because I think it breaks down
the professional level

that we're supposed to be building up.

Take this shot. Ready?
I'm gonna count to three...

I think that Mike is cute.
But more than him being cute,

I think that Mike and I
have a lot in common

and a lot to talk about.

-Okay. So, this is my new Jewish friend.
-Mike is my name.

-Mike.
-Thank you. Halifax.rock.com.

[laughs] You're plugging?

Oh, my gosh. In the confessional.

What else do we say on this?

Um, I have to talk
about stuff that I'm feeling.

Okay, go ahead. Talk.

Um, if I was single and Mike was single,
I would definitely hook up with Mike.

-This girl go nuts! Nuts, I'll tell you!
-[chuckles]

[music concludes]

-[machine clattering, crashing]
-[crowd clamors]

[Wes] What the [bleep] she do?

[Nehemiah] Ripped that [bleep]
off the hinges!

You broke the machine!

[Rachel] I'm really drunk,
and I'm trying to help Mike

get the basketballs in the hoop,
and I break the whole thing.

[Nehemiah] What made you jump
into it, Rachel?

[Rachel] I'm stupid.

That's not a good enough reason.
Yeah, obviously.

Is that cute?

Is that attractive?

Is that gonna make him like you more?

-[Mike] What?
-[Danny] Ooh...

-[Nehemiah] I don't like you.
-You don't like me?

-[Nehemiah] No.
-Why don't you like me?

[Nehemiah] You're the reason
why she jumped in here.

[Rachel] Leave him alone!
It has nothing to do with him!

-I was drunk and I was trying to have fun.
-Hey, I'll just go home, all right?

-I'm out of here. I'm leaving, okay?
-Please.

[Danny] Oh, Mike, shut up.
He's joking around with you.

Please. No, go. Take off.

[Mike] We'll settle this
with a one-on-one.

Me and him are going along.
It's a joke. He knows I'm just joking.

I'll walk you out. Come on.

-[Rachel cries]
-[Mike and Nehemiah chuckle]

Rachel cried because I was kicking
one of the band guys out.

-[Rachel sobbing]
-[Melinda] Rachel,

don't let them see you like this.

Don't let them get
the best of you like this.

[laughs] What the [bleep]
are you crying about?

[Melinda] We love the fact
that the basketball game is broken.

-We love it.
-Stop crying here, okay?

[Melinda] Nobody's crying!

[Tommy] It's okay that you broke
the basketball hoop.

We're laughing really hard.

[Rachel] We're not talking
about the stupid basketball hoop.

We were laughing so hard it hurt.

-This is stupid.
-[Tommy] Group hug. Group hug.

-Group hug.
-Stupid!

[all cheer]

[Mike] I'll quit the band. I'll sit here
and tell you "good shot" all you want.

[rock music playing]

[alarm clock ringing]

[Wes] Danny, Rachel and I,
Team Blue, are getting up early

to drive an hour away
to film Hellogoodbye at a campsite.

But Rachel got so drunk
from trying to hook up

with Mike the night before
that she forgets to set her alarm.

[Rachel] 'Kay,
let me call Forrest real quick.

-[phone beeps]
-Hi, Forrest. This is Rachel.

Um, I was calling
because we had some alarm clock problems.

So we are leaving, um, right now.

I set my alarm for the wrong time,
and we're late.

Okay? I'm sorry.
We'll see you in a little bit. Bye.

[Wes] This is gonna be so worthless.

We're gonna get here,
and we're not gonna be able to find them.

-[Rachel] No. We could find them.
-[Wes] How?

They're not at a normal-type campsite.
Didn't you hear them?

[Rachel] We're late.
That's my fault, but still...

And we don't have a basketball thing.

[Wes] That's ridiculous, Rach.

-[Rachel] What?
-The basketball hoop.

I acted stupid last night,
and I hate myself right now,

so I don't think
you can make my self-esteem

-any lower right now.
-[Wes] All right.

[rock music playing]

Yeah. Rachel broke
their basketball machine last night.

-They're so pissed at her.
-[Ryan scoffing]

She whale-dived on it,
and it folded in half

-and ripped the wire out of the machine.
-[Ryan] She what?

I call it "whale-dive."

And they were like, "You're so stupid."

"Do you think it makes you cute?
Do you think it makes Mike like you more?"

Mike from Halifax walked behind me,
and I turned around and I was like,

"You're gonna cheat on your girlfriend
with Rachel? That's low."

If I was that girl, I would be suicidal.

[Ryan chuckling]

Seriously. Come on.

I was noticing a whole new side
of Lacey the past couple days.

[Danny] She's so conniving, dude.

And the reason
why I think I realized it before you guys

is because I was held up
in that house for, like, three weeks.

I'd be home talking to her,
and she would [bleep] all over everybody.

-Okay, well...
-Just like Rachel thinks

she's the ugly girl in the house,
Wes thinks he's the ugly boy in the house.

No, he does not.

Soon as you turn your back,
she's talking about you.

Not that our roommates are super stupid,

but they're definitely not at the prime
of their intelligence.

[Danny] The only thing
that I could think of is,

"Wow. What does she say
when I'm not here?"

♪ You better watch that girl ♪

-[Ryan] Yeah.
-[Lacey] She started crying.

And having a hissy fit.

[imitates Rachel crying]
And I was like, "Shut up, Rachel."

"Just shut up."

[music concludes]

-[eagle screeching]
-[horse whinnying]

[R&B music playing]

-[doorbell jingling]
-[Rachel] Hi.

I'm with Austin Film Society
and we're making a documentary.

-[attendant] Okay.
-[Rachel] And we're following a band

that's here for South by Southwest.

Do you have any names?

[Rachel] Forrest?

First name is Forrest?

[Rachel] Yeah, he's probably the one
that registered.

I don't know their last names.

[Danny] Do we have their bios with us?

-Where are they at?
-[Rachel] Um, we don't know.

We were supposed to meet them down here
and they were gonna show us

-where the campsite was.
-[Wes] Uh, is everyone spread out?

Is there, like...

[attendant] Well,
there's two different areas.

We've got the, uh,
water and electric sites

and then we got
the primitive backpacking site.

[Rachel] The primitive backpacking site.
Can you give us direction?

[Danny] We drive an hour
to this stupid campsite.

We showed up late
to find out that the band isn't here.

Go around the back of the headquarters
and drop down the hill.

Take this first right-hand turn

and then you'd have to walk
a little over two miles.

-[Rachel] Okay.
-[Wes] Oh, my God.

Damn it, Rachel.

We're all a little frustrated
that we were so late

that we couldn't find the band.

Well, okay,
what do you want us to do, Rachel?

Let's say they are here.
How do you want us to find them?

[Danny] Right now,
there's no... Their car isn't here.

We're gonna walk two miles.
It makes no sense.

So, do we know what the speed limit
on Texas highways are?

Ninety.

Oh, yeah?

[Rachel] We come back home,
and we just wasted

that whole morning, basically.

[phone ringing]

Hello?

[Forrest] Hi!

-Hi. Forrest!
-[Forrest] This is Forrest.

Where are you guys?

[Forrest] We're by the campsite.
Where are you guys?

No. We were there and now we're back.

[Forrest] What? Where were you?

We were at your camp...
Well, we were at the campgrounds.

We drove all the way out there.
We were late. But we were late.

But we went there.

[Forrest] I don't know.
You guys must have been

to the wrong parking lot.

[Rachel] What time are you guys planning
on coming to Austin tonight?

[Forrest] We have to leave to get
to Sake on Sixth by 4:00.

[Rachel] Okay, well, we'll meet you guys
at Sake on Sixth at 4:00 then.

[Forrest] Well, we're gonna...
we're gonna be camping tonight, too,

so tomorrow morning,
if you guys wanna do it.

I think, "Oh, great. This is great.
We can redeem ourselves."

"We can go tomorrow
and get these great shots."

But at the same time,
I'm thinking maybe it's Lacey's job

to kind of do some
of this producing stuff

and go film this.

Maybe... you, Nehemiah, and Mel

can go meet them
because we've been up for like...

[Lacey] We decided that Rachel's team
was going to do Hellogoodbye

and my team was going to do Enon.

So, I'm sorry
that they couldn't find the band,

but that's not my fault,
and it's not my responsibility

to go the next day and find them
because they couldn't.

[audience cheering]

["Bonnie Taylor Shakedown... 2K4" playing]

[Nehemiah] When I'm sh**ting,
I'm pretty much sh**ting

and thinking about editing
at the same time.

So, I go in there knowing
which shots I need to get.

♪ Visit you at Baskin-Robbins
All the time ♪

♪ 'Cause you know that I am yours
And you are mine ♪

♪ So we can take a walk
Through Central Park ♪

♪ And hold each other's hands... ♪

[Lacey] I'm really surprised
by Hellogoodbye's performance.

It's not something that I usually like,
but they're just really happy

and fun and cheesy and perky
and having a good time.

♪ My Bonnie lies over the ocean ♪

♪ My Bonnie lies over the sea ♪

♪ Every night at 2 A.M. ♪

♪ I wonder why can't she lie close to me ♪

[song concludes]

[audience cheers, applauds]

[Danny] We have a busy-a*s day
tomorrow, too.

-[Melinda] Not really.
-[Danny] Yes, sir. We gotta wake up.

We got Hellogoodbye all day.

Filming Hellogoodbye was the last thing
I wanted to do in the morning.

The last thing I wanna do is hike
two miles to find a band in the woods.

Lacey today put her foot down and said,
"I'm not going. It's a waste of time."

[Danny] I thought she was gonna take
this seriously.

She didn't do one thing, like, productive.

Well, the thing that makes me mad
is that's what I wanted to do.

I wanted to be the producer,
and take care of those things,

and I wasn't able to do it.

I think that sometime in the near future,
if Lacey continues to...

to be the kind of person
that she's being,

I'm gonna have to say something.

[Danny] Even though we had,
a bump in the road this morning, Rach,

I think you did a really, really
good job the last three days.

I think you really need to know that
because nobody said it to you yet.

[upbeat country music playing]

I am tired. [laughs]

Danny, Rachel, and myself woke up
early to go to the campground

while Lacey was telling us
that it was stupid,

-that we didn't need to go.
-[Danny] Lacey comes out of the room.

She's, like... she's like, "Danny, um,
will you get some good shots of the city

when you're leaving
and coming in? Thanks."

[Rachel] She doesn't have to make me.
She knows I'm there.

And I'm like, "I'm sorry, [bleep].
What are you doing?"

-Absolutely nothing.
-[Rachel] Jerky pants.

The reason she didn't wanna come here

is 'cause, "I'm not gonna walk two miles
just to get stupid shots

of the stupid band,"
and I was like, "Ugh!"

[Melinda] Oh, but you know what, like...

"Okay, I'll do it two days
in a row." Fine, [bleep].

[country music playing]

-[Melinda] Let's go to the wedding.
-[Rachel] Wedding? [laughing]

[Melinda] Actually, it's a "weddin."

[Rachel] Oh! That's country, man. [laughs]

-No g.
-[both laugh]

[Rachel] I'm excited to go
to the campsite today actually.

-[Melinda] Why?
-[Rachel] I'm just excited to see

more of them, and probably get
some really, really good shots.

This is a promising situation

for some really great shots
for our documentary.

Hi, Keith.

A small band
that doesn't have enough money,

so they pay eight dollars
and go camping

in the wilderness
before South by Southwest. perfect.

-[groans]
-[Danny] Aw, this is sick.

[Keith] This is the hole we found.
And if you can get over there,

you can easily jump in.

Let's do it.

I'm gonna jump off
of this cliff no matter what happens.

-[Danny] Oh, jumping off a cliff.
-[Melinda] Not me.

-[Danny] Yes, you will.
-[Melinda] No, I'm not.

I don't wanna jump off the cliff

because... I'm scared of heights. [laughs]

["Oh, It Is Love" playing]

-[Keith] It's good booming.
-That's good. That's good.

-[banjo strums]
-You guys all ready to go?

Tell us what this song is called.
Introduce it.

Um, it's new,
so I think it's called, "Oh, It Is Love."

♪ Oh, it is love? ♪

♪ From the first time
I set my eyes upon yours ♪

♪ Thinking, oh, is it love? ♪

♪ Oh, dear
It's been hardly a moment ♪

♪ And you are already missed ♪

♪ There is still a bit of your skin ♪

♪ That I have yet to have kissed... ♪

[Melinda] Listening to Forrest
play the " Oh, It Is Love" song,

it's a really touching moment, I think,

and it's a great song
and it's a lot of fun,

so I think that's definitely
gonna be a key moment

that we can use
in our documentary.

[Forrest] ♪ Oh, you know you can trust ♪

-♪ We'll be holding hands once again ♪
-[Melinda giggling]

♪ All our broken plans I will mend ♪

♪ I will hold you tight, so you know ♪

♪ It is love ♪

♪ From the first time
I set my hand into yours ♪

[group cheers]

♪ Thinking oh, is it love? ♪

[Danny] Getting Mel to jump off with me
is more than just jumping off a rock.

I want her to trust me.
She was really, really scared

and I think it's a good way for her
to get over her fear with somebody,

and I'm glad it's me.

[Forrest] ♪ I will kiss you soft
So you know ♪

♪ It is love ♪

♪ From the first time I pressed
My lips against yours ♪

♪ Thinking, oh, is it love? ♪

[song concludes]

Hellogoodbye are some
of the most quirkiest guys

I've ever seen or met.

Their music is fun and it's different,
but it's something that I think

could actually go a really long way
and they're awesome guys.

Do you guys wanna play
at South by Southwest next year?

-Yes!
-We'll probably end up doing it.

Yeah, yeah, we do. It's cool.

The only bad thing about Austin
is it's surrounded by Texas.

That's what, uh... Lacey said, I think.

-Oh, really?
-She was talking smack on you guys' digs.

She talks smack on everything. [chuckles]

[tense music playing]

[Lacey] I feel, I feel really bad.

I just cannot be around Rachel lately.

I just cannot... cannot deal with her.
And I feel bad because I realize

she's not necessarily trying
to be annoying or trying to be a jerk.

She just is. And usually
I can be patient with her,

but just lately,
I just wanna be like, "Shut up,"

and it makes me feel bad
'cause... I don't know.

See, I don't like to talk behind
people's backs, you know what I'm saying?

I say everything
that I would say to you right now

-about anyone, I'll say it to their face.
-[Lacey] Right.

And everyone knows that.
Everyone in the house knows that.

I'm like, "Lacey,
I know what you're talking...

I... I know you're talking things,
and, you know... [inhales deeply]

...if you wanna talk things,
just try not to talk 'em

about the people who you sit
and smile in front of."

-Do you talk about me behind my back?
-No.

You talk about anyone else?

The only person I would say
that I talk about behind their back...

but I've told them to their face, too,
so it's not necessarily

talking behind their back,
it's just re-commenting

on what I've already said... is Danny.

-About how much he whines and annoys me.
-[chuckles]

I cannot figure out why my roommates
think I talk about them,

especially because I'm home
by myself all the time.

So I'm just curious who they think
I'm talking to about them.

Like, the wall? The painting?

My roommates have no foundation
of saying I talk about them.

[jazz music playing]

[Rachel] I watched it and I'm like...

I sat here, and I'm like,
"No, that didn't just happen."

And I'm like... "It did."
And I was like... [chuckles]

I'm in the editing room,
early in the morning,

and I'm going through footage
to edit it.

And at the very beginning
of the footage, there's Lacey.

And I just hear her say...

You are gonna cheat
on your girlfriend with Rachel?

-Are you kidding me?
-[Melinda] Wait, when did they make out?

She's talking about Mike
from Halifax and me.

It wasn't even
"You're gonna cheat on your girlfriend?"

It's "You're gonna cheat
on your girlfriend with Rachel?"

Lacey got caught red-handed by Rachel,

on videotape,
talking trash behind Rachel's back.

You are gonna cheat on
your girlfriend with Rachel?

Are you kidding me?

And she said it with, like,
this look of disgust on her face

when she said my name.

-Am I that gross? That's all I can think.
-[Johanna] No. Rachel, you're not.

My self-esteem was already
kind of low in this house, and I'm like...

So what are you gonna do about it?

I know she talks [bleep] about me,
but come on, now I had to hear it.

This is the first time
that I actually get to see

the effect it has on the person
that Lacey's talking trash on.

And that makes me feel really bad.

I have to confront her about it,
'cause I'm that insulted about it.

But is she gonna really insult me
where I'm gonna cry and...

[Johanna] No, she's not gonna insult you.

She'll say,
"Yeah, I did say that. So what?"

[Wes] No, she'll say this.

She'll say, "I don't think that Mike
should be cheating on his girlfriend

with anyone, especially you."

-That's what she'll say.
-Oh, good friend.

And then I'll say,
"What's wrong with me?"

[Johanna] She's gonna say
that it's not you, it's just cheating.

And then that's what you'll say
and then that's when you replay it,

and you say, "What's with the face
when you say 'with Rachel?'"

Everybody agrees that I need
to bring Lacey in here.

Lacey, can I show you something
in the editing room?

[Lacey] Yeah. Okay.

[tense music playing]

[Lacey] I was, like, "Okay."

[Rachel] Okay,
so I was editing this morning...

[Lacey] Mm-hmm.

-[mouse clicking]
-[recording plays]

[Lacey] You are gonna cheat
on your girlfriend with Rachel?

Are you kidding me?

She'll say... she'll say, "Yeah,
I did say that. So what?"

[Lacey] I told you this.

Why is it "with Rachel"?

[Wes] She'll say, "I don't think
that Mike should be cheating

on his girlfriend with anyone."

I meant with anybody.

And that's when you replay it,
and you say,

"What's with the face
when you say 'with Rachel?'"

Ask her about that.

[Lacey] You are gonna cheat
on your girlfriend with Rachel?

Are you kidding me?

I was saying, like, "I just asked you
if you would cheat on your girlfriend."

And you were like, "No."

[Rachel] Well, just so you know
how that sounds insulting, though.

-I'm sorry.
-I don't know if I believe Lacey

that she wasn't really saying it
as an "Ugh, Rachel!"

'Cause I don't really trust Lacey.

I know that I showed her,
and that I just need to drop it,

because there's no way to prove
or disprove her at this point.

And I just figure I'm just gonna move on.

[music concludes]

Do you know how to watch it?

-[Danny] Do I know how?
-[Wes] Yeah.

-[Danny] No. Do you?
-[Wes sighs] No.

[Danny] I think you just hit...
press play, dude, on the thing.

Press play.

Never mind.

Ah, let's get booze.
We're [bleep], we can't do this.

How did Rachel know how to do
this, and we don't?

-I don't know.
-Oh, that's right.

We don't pay attention.

-[Danny] Hmm. [laughing]
-[Wes laughing]