Chris Britton credited as playing...
Meyers
- Kirby: You know, I've read your review twice on the plane, and I still have no idea what this movie's about.
- Meyers: Hans Backovic was a terrorist. He abused that trust we place in filmmakers. He didn't want to hurt his audience, he wanted to destroy them completely.
- Kirby: I've seen extreme gore and it never made me crazy or violent. What is it about La Fin Absolue du Monde that is so dangerous?
- Meyers: Backovic was brilliant.
- Kirby: Yeah, but all that violence in the theater, that was all exaggerated, right?
- Meyers: If anything, the incident was downplayed. I watched four people die. It smelled like a slaughterhouse. The center aisle was slick with blood. Backovic knew what he was doing. When Stravinsky's "The Right of Spring" premiered to riots, it was an accident. La Fin Absolue du Monde was no accident. He told me so.
- Kirby: Wait. You spoke to Backovic?
- Kirby: There's a chance that there still may be a print out there. I was hired to find it.
- Meyers: To what purpose?
- Kirby: To show it.
- Meyers: You should know what you're getting into. You're right. The film is still alive. Even if they tried to destroy it, they couldn't. Some films are meant to be seen. These -
- [handing audiotapes and headphones to Kirby]
- Meyers: - these will change your life. Now promise me. Promise me, when you find the film, you'll let me see it again. I've dreamed about it every night for 30 years, laying eyes on it again. Once you start this, you can't just shake it off and walk away. It gets inside you.
- Meyers: Mr. Backovic, this is your third feature film.
- Hans Backovic: Well, I prefer not to categorize any film. What difference does running time make? The mechanics of film, the language, that is what matters.
- Meyers: Your work, so far, has been experimental. You eschew conventional narrative.
- Hans Backovic: Narrative is dead. Hollywood is shit. Film, it's not entertainment.