“Fuck ’em all/that’s my new motto” Antwon raps as the beat steadies and scenes flash by - a thrilling compliment to the classic footage, given the film’s original jazz score. The resulting three-minute video dips between those intense McQueen thousand-yard stares as cars lunge over notoriously steep hills in a washed out Technicolor haze, spliced with modern next-big-thing Bay Area hip-hop producers (Antwon, MondreMAN, and Squadda B of Main Attrakionz) and their undeniably attractive pals, wandering their neighborhoods, chilling on porches, and pouring spicy Sriracha over hearty breakfasts. Instead of being cobbled together from shaky-cam footage allegedly shot by clueless teenagers whose video shows lots of their own shoes, this one is built around suppressed video allegedly filmed by a professional cameraman for public access TV. Given the driving, heart-pounding beat and casual-cool flow of San Jose rapper Antwon’s “Helicopter” music video - the track’s off the Fantasy Beds mixtape - it made perfect cinematic sense for director Brandon Tauszik to match the song with quick vintage clips of the classic flick. the found-footage subgenre has become a favorite punching bag for disgruntled movie critics tiring of jerky images and half-assed storytelling. Barry Levinsons 'The Bay' is another found-footage shocker, but with a welcome difference. Car chases don’t get much better than the scenes of Steve McQueen speeding through San Francisco in Bullitt (1968).
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