Playback (II) (2012)

Daryl Mitchell: Wylie

Quotes 

• Julian Miller : Are they cool, the Le Prince films?

  Wylie : Not as cool as the legend.

  Julian Miller : So what is the legend?

  Wylie : The legend is something that only people in the know would know, that Louis Le Prince was the devil.

  Julian Miller : [laughs]  The devil, come on.

  Wylie : Think about it, Louis, Lucifer, Le Prince of Darkness.

  Julian Miller : Really? Come on, the guy's the devil because he's got a weird name?

  Wylie : A name tells a lot about a man, think about it: Louis Cypher - Angel Heart, John Milton - The Devil's Advocate, Van Horne - Witches of Eastwick.

  Julian Miller : That's completely different, those are movies, they're fiction.

  Wylie : What do you think legends *are*?

• Julian Miller : Hey Wylie, have you ever heard of a guy named Louis Le Prince?

  Wylie : Oh yeah, of course.

  Julian Miller : Ever see any of his films?

  Wylie : Well he only made three, but I wouldn't really call them films, they was only like two seconds long. We got a copy around here somewhere.

• Julian Miller : So that's it.

  Wylie : Yep, I told you they were short.

  Julian Miller : And all those people died right after making the movie?

  Wylie : Yep, it's what made the legend so freaking legendary. You know Le Prince's great great great great grandson lived right here in Marshal.

  Julian Miller : Yeah, it's kinda why I'm interested, I'm doing a report on him for school.

  Wylie : Wait a minute, you're doing a report on Harlan Diehl for school?

  Julian Miller : Yeah.

  Wylie : That's fucking weird. Hey, whatever, I hope I was helpful.

  Julian Miller : Yeah, definitely, now I know the reason he killed his entire family... he was possessed.

• Wylie : Oh by the way, all the people in that movie, they died.

  Julian Miller : So? It was over 100 years ago, of course they died.

  Wylie : No, they all died right *after* they made the movie.

• Wylie : Hey man, you ever hear the superstition that photographs steal part of your soul?

  Julian Miller : Yeah, kinda.

  Wylie : Okay, well some people still believe that, then Louis Le Prince comes along and shoots a movie, the exact replica of a living, breathing person, not a frozen moment like a photograph, something that moved, something made of light, like a ghost. The legend evolved that Louis Le Prince found a way to steal not just a part of your soul, but the entire thing.

  Julian Miller : So how does that relate to anyth...

  Wylie : I'm getting to that. Louis Le Prince had a son, his name was Adolphe, that's his real name by the way, pert for the story but anyway, Adolph was in his first movie, Round Hay Garden, the legend is Louis ghost that movie so he could steal his soul and replace it with his own; a dark twisted evil one. That soul, the demonic one, to be passed down through the bloodline, possessing one child from each generation, father to son, getting stronger each time.