we want xf3! the x-philes explain why they want to see a third movie

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The X-Files 3 in 2012
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19th June, 1998
“Why did they assign me to you in the first place, Mulder?
To debunk your work, to rein you in, to shut you down.”
“But you saved me! As difficult and as frustrating as it's
been sometimes, your goddamned strict rationalism and
science have saved me a thousand times over! You've kept
me honest ... you've made me a whole person. I owe you
everything ... Scully, and you owe me nothing..”
BlueBook
Focus on
I WANT TO BELIEVE
20
Insights
X-Philosophy
16
40
CHRIS CARTER
OMEN NOMEN
Fandomania
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE
AND ENVOLVING...
Features
Insights
32
XF3 Campaign
3-AMARCORD
16-CHRIS CARTER
24-WE WANT XF3!
Fight the Future
The man who rides wave
philes worldwide asking
for another movie
6-NEWS
Fox’s 25th anniversary
London Comic Con
12-CONVENTIONS
X-Con Germany
60-PHOTO GALLERY
Focus on
Fandomania
20-I WANT TO BELIEVE
32-THE X-FILES LEXICON
Analysis by GFelix
The truth is out there and
envolving... by Sarah Blinco
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WE WANT XF3!
Beyond the X-Files
THE X-PHILES EXPLAIN WHY
THEY WANT TO SEE A THIRD MOVIE
THE
THE HOUSE
HOUSE OF
OF MIRTH
MIRTH
AA masterpiece
masterpiece to
to be
be rediscovered
rediscovered
Face to Face
Reviews
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LILLY RUSH & DANA SCULLY
MILAGRO 6X18
Interview
Horror Zone
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46
VAMPIRES IN X-FILES
GIUSTO TONI
Reviews
36-MILAGRO 6X18
Musings of an X-Phile
X-Philosophy
Interview
Dossier
46-GIUSTO TONI
54-VAMPIRE IN X-FILES
Between Sci-Fi and Story
“Three” & “Bad Blood”
Face to Face
Beyond the X-Files
40-OMEN NOMEN
50-SCULLY & RUSH
56-THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
The fate in in the name
Modern heroines
Masterpiece to be rediscovered
Ehi Vidder,
Frank wants you!
If you love video editing,
BigLight wants to see your
chops. Frank is looking for
a 3-5 minute video reel to
showcase his producing
and writing that will
accompany him to various
speaking engagements. We
know there is a lot of talent
out there, so we want to
see how creative you can
get in featuring Frank's
producing, writing and directing work. The winner will be hand chosen by Frank, will
have their work seen at various events, and will also win a signed, one-of-a-kind script
from Frank's upcoming new BBC/Cinemax television show, "Hunted."
If you are interested in entering your work into the contest, we have just a few small
requests:
1. Please do not include any images of Frank himself, just include his work. (The X-Files
(TV series and feature films), Night Stalker, Strike Back, Robbery Homicide Division, The
Lone Gunmen, Harsh Realm, Millennium, etc.)
2. The images in the reel needs to be of DVD quality.
3. Entries must be uploaded to network.biglight.com by August 10, 2012.
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected].
Happy editing!(Please note that the winner will receive the "Hunted" script after the
show has premiered this fall.)
CONTEST
ROBERT PATRICK IN
“LAST RESORT”
BBC America is reportedly eyeing the
upcoming drama series The Fall. The
series, starring X-Files actress Gillian
Anderson, focuses on a serial killer on
the loose in Belfast and the female
detective superintendent in charge of
the investigation. According to TV Wise,
BBC America is considering adding the
upcoming series to its 'Dramaville' block
later this year, which in the past has
included shows like Luther and The
Hour. The Fall debuts this winter on BBC
Two in the UK.
Robert Patrick (John Doggett on The XFiles) will star with Andre Braugher
(Homicide: Life on the Streets)Max
Adler (Glee) in ABC’s Last Resort.
Patrick is one of a crew on a nuclear
submarine who become fugitives after
refusing to fire their missiles
on a foreign country. They take refuge
on a small island and create the
smallest nuclear nation for themselves.
The series is from Shawn Ryan, the
creator of The Shield.
5 QUESTIONS WITH...
We know that as fans of Frank
Spotniz's work, you have a lot of
burning questions. So Frank came up
with the idea of doing a 20 questions
type project. After a little
brainstorming, "5 Questions With..."
was born. The best part about the "5
Questions With..." project is we
want to get as many submissions
from YOU as possible! If you happen
upon an alum from Frank's previous
or current work (at a convention,
festival, etc.), you can film your own
"5 Questions With..." and upload it
right here to the Big Light Network.
We'll have a special place to feature
some of the great Q&A sessions
you're filming so that you can share
your creation with fans from all over
the world. To kick things off, Frank
and I did our own version of "5
Questions With..." via Skype. We just
wanted to give everyone an example
of what you could do, but
remember, it's all up to you! So ask
those burning questions, and dig
down deep to think about what fans
would *really* want to know about.
If you have any questions, just shoot
them over to us at
[email protected].
Gillian AND ROBERT at the
Critics Choice Awards
Gillian in “The Fall”
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Gillian Anderson and Robert Patrick
presented best actor in movie/mini
series at the Critics’ Choice Television
Awards 2012.
the X-Files retrospective
“The X-Files” stars Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny and “X-Files” creator
Chris Carter have appeared together on Fox’s 25th anniversary special.
“
Of all the shows
we did on The XFiles, one of my
favorite episodes,
maybe my favorite
episode, it was
called The PostModern
Prometheus.
It was really a
Frankenstein
story about a kind
of unexpected
Frankenstein.
”
Carter
“
As far as, The X-Files at the
time had the highest
production values of any TV
show. So that was different.
And yes, cinemagraphically
and story-wise, it was very
different from what people
were used to at the time. It
was before all the shows that
followed us that copied us. It
was the first one.
”
Gillian
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“
When I read the Pilot
script for X-Files, I
thought it was a good
script. I thought "Oh
this is an interesting
pilot, an interesting
story, an interesting
one hour movie." I
knew it was going to
be about aliens and I
thought, "Well nobody
is really intersted in
that." (Speaking
about 'Post-Modern
Prometheus') It just
kind of had
everything that The
X-Files was. PostModern Prometheus
was somewhat funny,
somewhat artistic, it
was somewhat scary,
and it was all those
things put together.
And at the end of it is
this beautiful image
of Mulder asking
Scully to dance and
then it turns into a
comic book. I
remember when I fist
saw it, I got chills
because that's kind of
how I'll remember the
show. And in fact
when I catch the show
on TV now, it's like
watching home
movies and I'll
remember what was
happening that day.
”
David
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Gillian Anderson, Mitch
Pileggi, Nicholas Lea
and Frank Spotnitz at
London Film & Comic
Con 2012. The pictures
fill our hearts and
gladden our eyes.
“I think the best episodes were the ones
“My favourite is Clyde Bruckman’s Final
Repose. My favourite episodes are
probably the ones that I’m not in!”
when we didn’t have much money. I
think the show worked best when you
had to use your imagination and that as
it got a bigger budget it lost
something!”
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XF3
“I’d do another one. The question is who’s going to
write the script and when? I’m up for it.”
by Irina
by Sabrina Selle
by Raani Scholes
by Irina
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by Amy Jo Johnston
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I
It started with an vision: an X-Files
convention on German soil. Organised
by fans with the help and support and
for fans. In the beginning of 2009, the project
started: Within the most active and largest
message board of the German Phile community, xfiles-mania.de, fellow campaigners
were looked for - and found.
With the blessing and support of 20th
Germany Fox Home Entertainment, the work
load for the organizing team and the
volunteers on-site rose astronomically:
Potential locations had to be scouted, legal
matters had to be sorted out, a homepage
needed to be setup, supporters had to be
acquired and so on.
Thanks to the never-ending hard work of the
participants the first X-CON was successfuly
held at the Hotel Mercure Berlin Tempelhof
Airport on October 17th and 18th 2009.
The positive feedback from the attendees
and guests showed that even 7 years after
the last episode of "The X-Files" had been
aired - the X-Philes are still out there and the
X-Files Fandom is more alive and active than
ever.
X-CON 2009 was first X-Files convention on
German soil organized by fans for the fans
with international guest stars. More than 150
Philes from all over the world traveled to
Berlin, one attendee journeyed over 5.000
miles from South Africa all the way to the
German capital.
In the end, almost € 600 has been raised for
charity. Some of the raised money was used
for aiding the 2009 summer camp of the
Neurofibromatosis Association BerlinBrandenburg. Two charity projects endorsed
by actress Gillian Anderson were also
supported.
2010 - The Field Trip
Soon after the X-CON 2009 took place, the
organizing team was between the devil and
the deep blue sea:There was no time for
organizing a new convention. That was the
time when the idea about a smaller, more
intimate fan gathering occurred.
People had the opportunity to choose for one
of the following cities: Munich, Hamburg,
Frankfurt/Main and Cologne. Hamburg won
by landslide.
The Field Trip was hold on August 20th to
August 22nd 2010.
About 30 Philes went on a safari with Olivia
Jones on Hamburgs famous St. Pauli District,
conducted a scavenger hunt and visited
various sights in the Germany's second
largest metropolis.
The Future
Like all other X-Philes around the world we
too are hoping for a greenlight for the third XFiles movie. Depending of the future
developments we would love to having an
event around a premiere of a new movie.
Interview with Monika, the head of X-CON Germany
What’s the idea behind the X-CON
Germany concept?
There is no rigid concept. The main goal is
that “X-Files” fans from all over the world
gather at one place where, in the best case
actors and people from behind the camera join
the fans. It should be fun for everybody, enjoy
their favourite show, interact with other and
make new friends.
What ignited the idea to organise a
convention yourself?
I had the idea during a five hour car drive. My
first contact with conventions was initiated by
another favourite tv show of mine when I was
younger. And from that my idea developed:
Why not do a convention for “The X-Files”?
What’s the difference between X-CON
Germany and other events of this kind?
Our feature is the causual atmosphere, that
our guest stars are “touchable”. The X-CON is
no anonymous mass event.
Which challenges is one facing upon on
organzing a convention?
It’s very time-consuming, exhaustive and a
constant emotional roller-coaster.
For months I tried to get the permission from
20th Century Fox Germany. I have to thank
the responsible Marketing Manager at this
point. Tremendously, because he went above
and beyond for us. Thanks to him we found
the solution to certain legal problems. His
general approval of the event were a huge
advantage for us, not only because were
supplied with marketing material for the
second “X-Files” feature film. They also
sponsored our main raffle prize: a € 200 worth
brand new “X-Files “ complete DVD box
What was the reason behind the decision
to hold the convention in the Mercure
Airport Hotel Tempelhof in Berlin-Neukölln
Of course there have been alternative
locations in Berlin. The costs for room hire are
located in the higher range already, and I
would spare the attendees higher ticket prices.
The capacities and flexibilities of the locations
were not meeting our requirements in our
capacity, so we have chosen this hotel. I’m
very happy with it. The staff is very friendly and
helpful, everything is clean and all issues and
questions were resolved timely. It was
complicated endeavour but a lucky one.
Are there „role models“?
The FedCon is a role model. Of course it’s
much harder for us, but we have proven that
it’s not impossible. If our budget is not enough
to pay the salary of a guest star this year,
maybe we can afford them for the next event.
Especially if we do all we can to ensure that
the guests are comfortable.
Other conventions started small and are now
one of the largest of their kind. The size
doesn’t not matter for us, more important are
the fun and interaction.
What does the future hold for X-CON
Germany?
We are currently entertaining the idea of
having a new event soon.
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Deux ex machina
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Massimiliano
A
surfer is like a writer. He is always
standing on the borderline between
dream and reality. He tries to dominate the
uncontrollable strength of nature as well as
a writer tries to manage and tell us about
the various aspects of our existence. The
sea and men’s life have much in common:
they both can be impetuous, unforeseeable,
frightening but even fascinating. The Santa
Barbara Ocean knows well Chris Carter’s
thoughts because of that cruel and honest
bond that only nature can create with men
and because of that silence which gives
voice to the soul. That voice we have
listened to in every X-Files episode, paying
attention to details, because they give birth
to the truth. Carter has written articles for
Surfing Magazine for five years travelling
throughout the world, staying in tents or at
some friends’, just to reveal the spirit of
those who ride waves. Different people who
don’t have much in common culturally, but
who share a secret: they speak the
language of the sea. If Dori, his partner, had
not persuaded him to start his scriptwriter
career, now he still would have been telling
that secret, explaining to us its fascination.
Christopher Columbus said “Language is not
enough to describe, and hands can’t write
about all the wonders of the sea”.
For millions of fans’ sake, instead, Chris
revealed himself through X-Files. He talked
about his fears, his anguishes, thus showing
his personal view of politics and society as
well as his idea of love and friendship,
creating stories and characters which allow
the audience to develop their own point of
view. “I’m by nature a restless man. And
restlessness is followed by paranoia ”. This is
how the character of Fox Mulder was
created. Mulder is simply his projection into
a plausible reality which is more mysterious
and terrifying than we expect.
This is what makes it an epic show.
Everything is possible in its improbability. It
is from Scully and Mulder, together, that the
summary of Carter’s personality emerges.
The genial author has never believed in
aliens nor has he ever believed in the
conspiracy aimed at hiding their existence.
His brother is a scientist and he is really
keen on physics, a science almost
completely based on faith in numbers and
therefore hard to demonstrate. This faith
can be identified in Mulder’s will to believe in
mystery and in Scully’s reliance on science.
Faith and Reason meet, unite without killing
each other and let us get to know unknown
truths. Although apparently distant, Science
and Faith have their origin in common;
men’s necessity to try to answer these
questions: who are we? Why do we exist?
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Chris Carter started a production company
called Ten Thirteen Productions.
Since 1993 it has produced:
202 episodes of The X-Files
67 episodes of Millennium
9 episodes of Harsh Realm
13 episodes of The Lone Gunmen
The feature film The X-Files: Fight the Future
The feature film The X-Files: I Want to Believe
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What is there after death? Are we alone in
this universe? Reason (Scully) needs Faith
(Mulder) to avoid becoming a blind
fundamentalism; Faith can’t do without
Science to maintain the humility that men
need. The famous poster in Mulder’s office, I
Want To Believe, perfectly explains Carter’s
interior fight between faith and rationalism:
“I don’t believe in it but I want to!”.
There is also another mystery that has
intrigued men for ages, and that is love.
Carter has a precise idea of how to
represent it on TV: “the strongest
relationships can’t be recognised by
sexuality, but by sensual, love signs and
trust”. In addition to the mysteries of
extraterrestrial life and feelings, Chris has
analysed fear, revealing to us his personal
“demons” and then focused on the new
form of horror created by our society and by
scientific progress. “In my childhood I used to
spend summers on a farm where we
milked cows. There were wheat fields. Have
you ever been in an endless field of wheat?
There is no worse fear. Imagination could
give birth to any type of monster.
There is something upsetting in wheat
fields. It is systematically organised by rows,
and once in, you don’t know how to find
your way out”. In Fight The Future we can
see Fox and Dana attempting to make a
way through a wheat field while pursued by
black choppers. But this is not the only thing
he is afraid of. Bees (which have a key role
in the X-Files mythology), violent death and
especially incurable diseases are Carter’s
other main fears. The theme of incurable
diseases, which often recurs in the show,
focuses on the men’s fight against
pathologies in order to hope for a rebirth.
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The fourth season episode “Momento Mori”
is completely based on this theme.
Nevertheless, Carter has not only a dark
side. This 90s’ TV genius is a polite and
positive man, endowed with a great irony
which is well represented by Mulder’s typical
British humour.
The falling of the Berlin Wall created many
problems, such as the mistrust of people
towards governments, and Carter took
advantage of these circumstances to
develop the best paranoid TV show ever.
Our society created the wave and Carter
rode it and dominated it. A perfect wave,
the one which all the luckiest surfers can
face once in a lifetime. That is why Carter
had heaps of problems to succeed again.
He tried to create, enthusiastically, other TV
series and films of a different genre, but he
failed. Going over their limit is the toughest
challenge for men, especially if they want
to do it by resetting themselves, thus
becoming new men.
Chris Carter is now trying to follow this path.
Since majors didn’t help him, he wrote and
directed a film on his own. “Fencewalker” is
a semiautobiographical drama without
paranormal elements and shot in secret in
2008 in Los Angeles. Unluckily it has not
been released yet, due to a lack of
distributors.As a producer, he financed Derek
Magyar’s “Flying Lessons”, a movie about
the conflict of human relations.
And, in conclusion, X-Files 3 will be the right
occasion for Carter to wipe out the wave
perfectly thus being able to say: “I have
ridden the perfect wave”.
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INTRODUCING
AND CONTINUITY
T
he first, and perhaps the most important
crux of IWTB is the necessity of giving a
semblance of continuity between “The
Truth” and the beginning of a new cinematographic piece. The fans expect a resumption of the
series from “where we were”. Carter instead
offers a convenient arrangement to solve the
problem quickly. Scully as a doctor is a plausible and suitable option for her role in the movie,
if we consider her new characterisation.
However, it is the first sign of a situation which
completely concerns the civilian area. Scully, a
character easier to manage as she is accused of
misdemeanour, whilst Mulder is accused of
crimes, and she doesn’t have to do with the XFiles anymore. But she’s not speared by the
conspiracy. As for the Spooky, the situation is
arguably more serious: he is wanted and
condemned to death. But it’s on him that the
authors (I will talk in plural, but you can read it
as Chris Carter) base the continuity. The
continuity doesn’t follow the final series, but the
X-Files spirit. The narrative trick is soon
unveiled: we don’t try to make Mulder’s return
to the bureau likely, but we will restart from a
new point. And so, in the room of the new house
of the two protagonists there is a bearded man
who expects the visit of Scully, just like he
expected her visit in the Pilot. There is the I
Want To Believe poster with the UFO, there are
pencils from Chinga hung on the ceiling, there is
the photo of Samantha behind the door. It’s a
new beginning. Agent Whitney: “The past is
gone”. Cosy, simply, clean. But not sufficient. A
few words about their return to the F.B.I. offices
as well. The black chopper which picks them up
and lead them on the roof of the governmental
building is the so-called return “in style”. It is
needed for the double aim of creating a “cavalry
is approaching” atmosphere for the regular
audience and give a sensation of “they’re back”
to the x-philes.
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THE NEW CHARACTERS
THE CASE FILE
Agent Whitney is the one who asked about
Mulder. Her behaviour at the beginning is that
of a very professional woman who is gambling
away her career to solve the case, but she
softens as the movie goes on. She is the
antithesis of Scully: Dakota Whitney believes to
Mulder, whilst Scully was sceptic (in this movie,
but even in the first seasons of the series in
general). In contrast, agent Drummy, man, is the
detractor. Nevertheless, she seems to be the
dominant agent in the F.B.I. couple. Father
Joseph, called Father Joe, is the most interesting
character as he embodies some different aspects
which have already been treated in the series
plot. He is a priest. He is a pedophile. He is a
visionary. He has been made for not being
believed, especially by Scully. Instead agent
Whitney gives him some credence at the
beginning, both for collecting clues to solve the
case and acting as Scully’s “counter alter”. Plus,
Father Joe smokes? Does this mean something
to you? Christian, the child treated by Scully. He
performs two roles at the same time: reminding
William, like it has been clearly said, being an
innocent to be saved; being the symbol of the
terrestrial impotence in front of divine choices.
This last aspect is well underlined in the
dialogues too and it is a crux of the
characterisation of Dr. Scully. She works for a
Christian hospital: her superiors are ecclesiastic
and in the meantime she is reluctant to believe
to Father Joe.
Surely, this Frankestein-style case has a little to
do with X-Files. This disappoints especially the
neutral audience since although the fans don’t
want to accept it, X-Files is associated with
aliens. And this is what they expected, if we also
consider that Fight The Future was based on
alien conspiracies. Chris Carter has offered a
dull case, sometimes predictable. It is good for
those who want to see Mulder and Scully on the
big screen again in the F.B.I. agents’ shoes, but
the plot hasn’t been sufficiently interwoven
with the mythology. Somebody tries to justify
that by saying that it would have been
extremely hard to make a new mythology
chapter: that’s true. But still, the mythology is
the essence of X-Files; the movie becomes a nice
thriller without it.
A positive note of the plot is the current theme
of the case. Cancer is the disease of this new
millennium and the Russians were trying to
bypass through unorthodox methods. There is
also the old contraposition between the
Americans and the Russians, the aftermath of
the Cold War which, from the American point of
view, sees the Russians as the enemy of their
country. Not only do these two aspect recall
some typical characteristic of the series, but
they are part of the worldview of the 90s (after
the 11th September 2011, the American chose
new enemies, on both small and big screen) in
which X-Files took place.
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again in that world, which doesn’t belong to
her anymore, and even because she is
sceptical towards Father Joe. She blames him
for still being looking for her sister. She fears
darkness so much that she lets her partner
risk his life alone declining his cooperation
requests (the scene in which he calls her but
she doesn’t answer because she was too busy
with the child’s therapy). She gets back to the
Scully we all know when she gets anguished
over Mulder’s disappearance. Scully: “There
must be somebody with balls there. Let me
talk to him!”.
Mulder would like to demonstrate Father Joe’s
innocence but she stops him, saying that
nobody would believe him. She stops him
because she desires a normal life, out of
darkness. The life she wants doesn’t involve
the X-Files. And he gets convinced.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
MULDER AND SCULLY
On the relation level, the authors have decided
to change the approach adopted up to the last
episodes of the show. They proposed a de
facto couple, not married. Scully: “He’s not my
husband”. A couple who gave their baby in
adoption and whose fosterage still has
consequences, especially for Scully. The
mature behaviour, cohabitation, the sharing of
the same house and bed recalls images of
normal life, so unusual for them but so
expected, especially by Scully. Scully: “ We’re
two ordinary people, who go back home every
night, in a normal house”. But the facts
contradicts her, especially for what concerns
Mulder: he is wanted, he doesn’t go out and
she says she’s worried for him at the
beginning of the movie. Therefore, her prayer
for normality are not supported by facts. She’s
still has the obsession of getting out of
darkness, recurrent theme with which the
movie ends. Mulder has not changed a lot: he
makes explicit his need to have her by his side,
which have always been kept implicit before
the film. They are more than partners. We
knew it before and it is now stressed, for
shippers’ sake.
It is on the professional level that they have
their worst clashes. She is absorbed by the
medical work, she fights to save a child
suffering from an incurable disease. He
supports her because she feels impotent and
doubtful about trying to save Christian’s life or
surrendering to divine choices, which she is
unable to accept and justify. First, worried, she
invites him to get out of his den and accept the
task. Then, she realises she can’t stand that
world and refuses to follow him through his
investigation, because she fears to be involved
RELIGIOUSNESS AND FAITH
IN SCULLY
Scully, once again, lost and re-found her faith.
Her scepticism before her disease can be
compared to the one she has towards Father
Joe. And there is also the clash against the
hospital council, which is presided by
ecclesiastics. However, getting back to believe
will help her find the way. Father Joe tells her
not to give up and she implicitly interprets it as
sign to continue with Christian’s therapy. Later,
she verifies the truthfulness of the information
collected by Mulder and so she restarts
believing in him. At the end, she analyses the
mail box number 25-2, like the Proverbs verse
recited by Father Joe. In the same scene, she
hears dogs barking, just like in the mystic
visions of the priest. That of Scully is a very
introspective role, imposed by the fragility of
the character and by the narrative necessity.
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This also seems to delegitimise Mulder’s
investigation and presence in an official F.B.I.
context. The soundtrack and background music
edited by Mark Snow can be defined as the best
aspect of the film. All crucial scenes, from those
of action to the ironic ones are perfectly
highlighted by the soundtrack. Even the closing
credits soundtrack was carefully chosen.
MARGINAL NOTE
The arrival of Skinner, even if very late in the
story, is a shot in the arm. Not only does he
restore the X-Files spirit which seldom could be
breathed at the beginning, but also he acts like a
father towards Mulder, who tried to defend
during the trial. The character of Dakota
Whitney deserved to be more deepened or on
the contrary censored further on. She has been
shown as a blue-eyed, clean-looking Mulder’s
fan. Clearly a second female protagonist wasn’t
intended to be too much involved, in order to
not put Scully in the background. Perhaps
showing why she wanted only his help would
have made sense, maybe hinting at a past event
of her life. In addition, one can deduce that the
relationship between her and Mulder hasn’t
been allowed to be tightened: She is killed as
soon as she calls him “Fox”. Was the punishment
for having broken tradition? Never call anybody
by name in X-Files. The overall setting in
Canada, though the facts take place in Virginia,
has some disadvantages. It makes the movie
quite far from the typical setting of X-Files, i.e.
the snow makes the recordings too rich of light,
so different from the ones the x-philes were
used to. Then, it seems that the investigation is
isolated from Washington, thus making the
operation look clandestine. The third point is
that the snow and the movie’s bad guy make the
film background Russian rather than American.
OVERALL RATING
As an x-phile, I was happy to see Mulder and
Scully in action again, even if they were not in
their original roles. However, the movie hasn’t
respected the expectations, neither those of fans
nor that of the audience. Although we got to
know that incomes covered the production
costs, I think that a more mythological plot
would have given more intensity. It looks like
the movie has been thought as a gift for the fans,
since they are able to catch the numerous
references to the series and appreciate the
evolution of the relationship between the
protagonists; but consequently, the movie can’t
catch the interest of the normal audience, which
expected aliens, conspiracies or at least an XFiles worthy of this name.
x
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X-Files Blue Book, X-Files Italian Fan Club, XFiles Universe, Expediente X, The X-Files 3 in
2012 were joined to give a voice to fans
around the world...
WHY DO YOU WANT XF3?
(X-Files Universe)
Evan Thomas and Arianne Nicole Urick : Mainly
because one can never get enough X-Files.
Evan Young: I would like closure on so many levels,
for the characters, the mythology, the people behind
the scenes, etc. And, as the guy above with the same
name as me, because I can't get enough X-Files!
Samantha C. Sullivan: I feel as though that us as
fans need closure. How can Carter and Co. place a
prediction inside the series, but then never act on it?
Never show us if colonization is actually going to
happen and what our duo is going to do. Philers are
sitting in the dark. XF2 didn't even allude to
colonization. It did show us that they are still together,
which is nice. But what does 12/22/2012 mean for
them? What does it mean for the fans? On a side
note, if either of them die in XF3, riots will ensue.
Rose Boose Pérez: For closure. To know what
happens to William. What becomes of him. Where
M&S finally end up. How they manage to save the
world.
Jilly Corgan: Because its my life!
Dee Hinds: We all know "The Truth is Out There" So
need I say more...X-Files will be forever in our hearts
& minds!! We need more from Fox & Dana Please!
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Kellie Andrews: X-Files 3 needs to be more like the series and/or
Fight The Future. The 2nd movie was a disappointment to me; the
story was all over the place. I'd love to see some things from the
series resolved and if it so happens that The Lone Gunmen were
just " Mulder dead " and they made a return to help Mulder & Scully
save the day... that would be great. I saw an X-Files fan made
trailer on youtube the other day that seemed so realistic that I
thought X-Files 3 had already been filmed and was awaiting
release. After watching it a second time, I realized that clearly it
wasn't ... but what I saw looked good.
Olga Pankiewicz: Because so many things are left unsaid or
unexplained... I want to know how they are doing after FBI dropped
all the charges against Mulder, what is going on with William right
now, how Mulder and Scully are doing as a "normal" couple... and
let's not forget about the date of course (Dec 22nd, 2012).
Charly Blänk: Because everything needs an end and IWTB wasn't
an end. There was a open end and I thinks that it isn't a great final.
And I wanna know what happens with the aliens :)
Sharon Prosser: We just need a proper ending the XF and the
Philes deserve this its such a classic series :-)
(THE X-FILES 3 IN 2012)
Eric Ahola : I think there are more ways to go with the whole alien
area of it. David and Gillian still look great, and it has a huge
fanbase. If it is well thought out, it could be great. Already have
good characters, just get a new story. – USA
Christopher Bernard: I'm from U.S.A. And I Believe that X-files 3
should have been made already, because in the mythology it all
goes down in 2012. They dropped the ball on this one. I would love
to see another movie, but for me it will not mean the same. I
thought someone would be smart and creative and tie it in to the
year. And the coming definately needs to be a movie! P.S. Sorry,
but I think the last movies was all wrong.... I just expexted better!
Joe Latimer: Because the conclusion of the series was
pathetic....What really happened with the alien invasion?!
Rachel Hernandez: i want x-files 3 because i think that 2nd movie
could have had a better story line i mean come on its the x-files we
need some aliens and creepy monster stuff and i would like to see
mulder and scully together again and because i love the x-files i
remember watch it with my dad and brothers when i was younger
and now that im 15 and i would love to see mulder and scully on
the screen again :) united states
Rob Wallace: Second movie was utterly brilliant: premise, conceit,
execution, acting, script. I'm fascinated by the inability of the
fanbase to grasp this. The failure of a 2012 production doesn't
undercut the 2008 movie. Hindsight here isn't 20/20.
Marya Petrina Uy: Why do I want X-Files 3? With all the alien
invasion movies today, I think The X-Files team will be the only
team that could deliver an amazing story line. And, I mean, really
well. It has been shown in the series itself. Great writing. Well, sure,
not a lot of people were satisfied by the previous movie but some of
us were. The first one was really good. Having heard the
sentiments of Chris, Frank and the rest of The X-Files team, XF3
will focus on the mythology and when it comes to this arc, they can
truly deliver! It's time for the legitimate one. It is The X-Files. Plus,
Philes have continuous faith not just in the show but those who are
part of this amazing franchise. I think FOX owes us this much to
give us the movie we have always wanted. With the right
promotion, it'll be huge. Let us make our voices heard, WE WANT
X-FILES 3. There are so many questions needed to be
answered. :) (From the Philippines)
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Tony Hansford: The second movie was rubbish. It was more like
an episode of CSI than xfiles. We need a third movie to close off
the series and answer all the unanswered questions about alien
colonisation or weather Mulder was actually a paranoid
delusional. And Scully needs to do a nude scene. Australia.
Jennifer Coston: There's still a huge fan base; all of us want a
3rd movie! Plus, in my opinion, the 2nd movie could've been way
better, it left me with a lot of unanswered questions & it left me
wanting more Mulder & Scully. – USA
Joe Latimer: Chris Carter does have a secret project in the
works...
Mayra Alcivar :Because us xphiles need a great last send off,
and I love X files.
Nadia Abrate: Because there are lots of unanswered questions. I
didn't like the 2nd movie and i think they should talk more about
the alien invasion. This year is 2012!. (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Joey Medina: Beacause it's 2012...colonization!!!!!! They can't
leave it like this!! We Xphiles are still here because the truth is out
there...
Madison Pohl: X-Files 3 will give us fans a chance to finally see
our favorite alien stopping duo save the world from its invaders!
There are plenty of fans who want this.....so very badly! Plus if it
comes out in 2013, then the whole alien invasion arc is a moot
point. – USA
Ashlee Tuaileva: Coles The second movie was great (kinda
pointless, but great), but it left so many questions unanswered!
What about William? What about the alien invasion of the earth?
Aren't Mulder and Scully gonna stop it? We need more answers,
more action, more aliens and X-files, and most of all, more
Mulder and Scully!!!
Nina Cervantes As fans,we need closure,Mulder and Scully need
to stop the alien invasion,and time is running out! We also want to
reunite William with his parents;we need X-files 3!! Spain
Tessa Louise Thomas: I want the X Files 3 because I don’t think
the story will be over until 2012 – Colonisation. Although I’ve come
into the X Files very, very late, I can’t imagine my life without have
knowing the fantastic storyline that captured millions of viewers
each week. For me, it would a suitable closure to have the third
movie revolve around the Alien Invasion; Chris Carter already has
a great cast and writing talent and I’m sure that the film would be
a huge success so long as the story was played right. Personally,
I would love to see the reappearance of Reyes and Doggett as
well as a possible reunion of Mulder, Scully and William. Anyway, I
want XF3 because the X Files is absolutely AMAZING and X
Philes still are here because ‘The Truth Is Out There’! : England
Santiago Grippo: Because I left with more desire to see them:
Argentina
Laura Sockmonkey CANADA: I still am watching reruns of all the
episodes. Even though I know whats going to happen I still enjoy
it every time. I never watch the x-files when it was on TV (due to
my age) and i would love to watch an x files made in my
generation
Susana Valdivia-Rivas: I want a third X Files Movie because a)
the "truth" was never revealed in the series, the mythology needs
a conclusion, b) this is my favorite show of all times, c) the show
has touched me in many ways and I live to have the truth be
discovered to all. I live in the U.S. but most likely I will watch the
movie in my home country of Nicaragua.
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Elizabeth Reuter-Palmer U.S.A. For the same reason Mulder
tirelessly searched for Samantha. Closure! For the same reason
that after 20 yrs we still re-watch episode after episode, why we rewatch the movies. Because it was good TV. We followed the
adventures of Mulder and Scully over nine seasons, we bought
tickets to both large screen events. We bought the t-shirts, the
action figures, the trading cards, the books, the posters, the videos,
the dvd collections. We've written fan fiction, we made fan videos.
How many shows can say that after all this time they still have such
a large global fanbase, that their fans still want more? The X-Files
has done a beautiful job in acknowledging their fans,(Leyla
Harrison) and a third film should be made just for the fans. For
once it would be nice for a studio to make something not for the
revenue aspect, but for the human aspect. It begs to written and
produced and watched. Philes revolutionized fandom, with
fanfiction and fan based movies. If not for the fans there never
would have been a franchise, the fabulous writing, and shooting,
the story line filled a need in each and every fan, X-Files the Third
movie should be made to complete the amazing journey we have
followed all these years. It should be made for the fans, not the
revenue. Make it with meeting the expectations of the fans, and the
revenue will follow.
Waishan Liu: We need TXF3 because this show has touched so
many lives and changed the way we watch TV forever. great
characters, well written stories and overall the Mythology was got
us gripped every week. The alien Mythology needs an epic
conclusion and with 2012 nearing a close, the time is right for
TXF3. It's what the fans and the whole world is waiting for the
Mythos of 2012 and an epic ending to Mulder & Scully's quest for
the truth.
(EXPEDIENTE X)
SPAIN
Estefanía Gala: Yo quiero XF3 porque merece un final digno y no
lo que Chris hizo en IWTB.
Clara Ríos: Yo necesito una tercera película para cerrar la serie,
quiero saber qué pasó con William y si el mundo se acabará o no.
Leo Mg: Porque dejaron cabos sueltos, como la fecha del fin del
mundo y que pasó con William.
Sandra Vázquez- Expediente X: Mi opinión es que quiero una
tercera película porque creo que los fans nos merecemos un final
digno para nuestra serie. Queremos que cierren las tramas que
quedaron abiertas como es el caso de qué fue de William y, sobre
todo, que papel juega en el fin del mundo.
También me encantaría ver a Mulder y a Scully salvando el mundo
en pantalla grande, creo que se podría hacer algo grande que
dejase satisfecho a los fans de siempre y a posibles nuevos
fichajes.Y sobre todo, porque me niego a aceptar que I Want to
Believe sea el final de mi serie favorita!!
TODA GRAN HISTORIA MERECE UN GRAN FINAL!!!
MP Arachné: Porque tan digna serie merece un digno final que
cierre el arco mitológico tan brillantemente desarrollado en 9
temporadas y 1 película...Tod@s los fans merecemos saber qué
pasará el 21-12-2012 con la colonización alienígena y con cómo lo
afrontarán Mulder y Scully. He dicho.
Irene Abernathy: Porque The X Files está muy lejos de ser sólo
una serie. Es parte de nosotros, de nuestras vidas, y sin ella,
muchas de las series actuales no existirían.
Cristina Vereda: Porque la mitología de la serie está sin terminar.
Necesitamos un final cerrado para la saga.
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Eva Martínez: Porque necesitamos un final digno y no
acabar con la birria de segunda peli que nos hicieron;
porque queremos saber que ha pasado con William;
porque quiero saber si vienen los OVNIS o no leches
para ir preparándome!!
Y porque nos lo hemos currado mucho pidiéndola y
luchando por ella!!!
Eva Inestrosa: Quiero X Files 3 porque no nos pueden
dejar con un final asi,muchas preguntas y muchos fans
deseandolo,porque han luchado mucho para que se
haga.
Sophie Bart: Quiero X-files 3 porque los fans
queremos tener un final digno de todas las luchas que
han vivido Mulder y Scully.Y queremos saber si Williams
tiene un papel en esta invasion tan predecida.Una serie
de esta calidad merece un gran final , no pueden
dejarnos asi, queremos ver nuestra pareja de The Xfiles, una vez mas en accion.
Carmen Sanchez Fructuoso: Quiero XF3 Poque es
necesitamos saber un final, todos queremos ver a scully
y mulder juntos otra vez y saber el desarro llo tambien
de su peque. Además es una serie que si siguiera seria
genial.
Anneli Sijé: Porque los fans de la serie nos
merecemos un final a la altura de Expediente X, porque
es la serie pionera de la que han bebido tantas otras,
porque David y Gillian son unos grandiosos actores y es
maravilloso verlos juntos, porque...la lista es
interminable...X Files 3 yaaaa!!!
Isidro López Zapata: Porque el mundo será más
bonito si logramos conseguir más minutos de Scully, y
porque Gillian y todo el mundo está deseando
participar! y porque necesitamos otra escena con un
buen morreo entre MyS. Y saber qué pasó con William,
Mónica y Doggett. Necesitamos decirles adiós por
última vez como es debido.
Ana Toro: Porque es la mejor serie del siglo XX y sus
millones de fans tenemos la necesidad de que se cierre
bien y de que al final sepamos cual es la verdad
despues de tantos años. Esta serie necesita un final
digno de su embergadura,todos lo merecemos porque
creer es la clave.
COLOMBIA
Carola Doncel: Como ya han dicho anteriormente,
porque sentimos que IWTB no es el final. Necesitamos
un cierre, que nos cuenten qué pasó con la invasión
extraterrestre y el apocalipsis para diciembre de 2012.
También queremos saber qué pasó con William y cómo
regresa al lado de sus padres, porque lo lógico es que
vuelvan a estar juntos. Ése es el final que X-Files se
merece: Nuevamente reunidos después de salvar el
mundo. Una razón muy simple pero muy poderosa:
Porque somos millones de x-philes en todo el mundo
que amamos con todo el corazón a XF y queremos ver
reunidos de nuevo a Mulder, Scully y William.
MEXICO
K-ro Gamboa: Por que una serie que marcó, y apesar
del tiempo, sigue marcando la vida de muchos, debe y
necesita un final, épico, mágico, parnormal, único, todo
aquello que la serie fue . por eso los fans, y los nuevos
fans, merecemos XF3
Lourdes Bolanos: Porque no nos merecemos un final
tan absurdo como el que nos dieron en IWTB, después
de tantos años de FANATISMO PURO, es lo menos que
nos merecemos.
HONDURAS
Gloria Martínez: Porque es una serie icono, única e
inigualable que aun sigue vigente y que siguen
mencionandola; que hasta otras series la siguen y
copian, X files quedara siempre en la historia de la TV y
deben darle su final digno. Aun hay muchas cosas por
muchas cosas pendientes por responder, ademas somos
muchisimas personas en todo el mundo y hasta el cast y
crew de la serie que deseamos XF3, y por todo lo que
brindo The X Files se lo merece y punto !!
ARGENTINE
Claudia Noemi Romano: me encanta la serie... y yo
quiero que hagan el final... porque sino quedará
inconcluso... y ni da para que termine así... fue es y sera
la mejor serie!!!! yo mire esta serie desde que era una
nena de 7 años... por eso fue muy importante para mi...
no m perdía ni un capitulo...somos muchas personas en
el mundo que nos gusta los expedientes secretos x. le
dimos fama a en canal Fox... no tendrían que ser tan
forros de no darle un punto final a la historia... ya que
volvieron los hombres de negro 3, the x files 3 también
tendría q volver... que se pongan las pilas!!!
Nany Ramírez: porq no pueden terminar "semejante"
serie con IWTB!! hace falta un cierre para los 10 años de
x files, para la historia, para los personajes y para
nosotros q somos los q mas lo sufrimos.....asiq FOX, por
esos mas de 10 años q te dimos de comer, DEVOLVE
ALGOOOOO!!!
Georgina Aguirre: Quisiera q venga rhe x files 3 por que
quiero el final con williams!! Estaria genia!! Saludos
desde Argentina
Lucia X-Phile: Porque IWTB no puede ser el final.
Necesitamos saber que paso con William y si se va a
reencontrar con sus padres. Porque queremos ver a
Mulder y a Scully salvando al mundo. Porque nueve
temporadas no se pueden echar a la basura. Porque
quiero volver a ver a DD y GA actuando juntos otra vez.
Porque todos los X-Philes luchamos por XF3. Por todo
eso y mucho mas, I want to believe in XF3!!
Angel Juarez: Es simple es el año del fin del mundo...El
gran 2012 y que mejor q una pelicula donde se buske la
verdad acerka del famoso final de la humanidad con el
21 de diciembre de 2012...Si rocky saco 6 peliculas xq
expedientes x no podria...Aparte falta esta peli sobre el
2012 y sin lugar a dudas seria ganadora de todos los
premios por lo q representa este año y el que vendra si
no sucede nada el 21 de diciembre
VENEZUELA
Gaby Pernía: Básicamente, porque el Sr. Carter dejó
muchas interrogantes que necesitan respuestas, pero
creo que lo que más quiero saber es ¿Qué pasa con
William? ¿y la colonización? ¿Qué harán Mulder y
Scully?X- Files merece tener el mejor final porque fue, es
y seguirá siendo la mejor serie en su estilo. Como bien
dijo Gillian en el especial de la FOX: "... Fue todo entorno
a ella tan diferente. Fue antes de que todos los shows
que nos siguieron, nos copiaran. Fue la primera”.
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PERU'
Fiorella Tucto Rivadeneyra: Tiene q ver xfiles 3 porq
nos merecemos un final digno, porq queremos ver a de
nuevo a mulder y scully, luchando con los
extraterrestres ademas queremos saber de william y
por muchas cosas mas fox no nos puede dejar asi seria
una ofensa.
ITALY
Luis Miguel De La Cruz: Yo quiero X Files 3 porque es
una serie única en su genero que capto mi atención
desde niño tanto así que amo la serie y me gustaría que
cierre con un final grandioso porque Mulder y Scully
harán lo imposible para evitar la invasión extraterrestre,
también porque quiero saber el papel importante de
William en esta hazaña.
Saludos desde PERÚ
CHILE
Katherine Poblete: Quiero X Files 3 porque esta
maravillosa serie merece un final a la altura de esta.
Tambien porque todos los fans de X Files la queremos
para poder aclarar todo y poder ver una vez mas a
nuestra pareja del FBI trabajando juntos.
Mónica Francisca Arredondo Urra: Porque
merecemos un final digno de contar, tanto para Mulder
y Scully, como para todos nosotros, y porque la serie
estuvo 9 años tras la verdad y llegada la fecha de ésta
es imposible que no sepamos que pasa finalmente con
nuestro mundo!!!! IWTB en TXF3...
Maria Jose Espinoza: Por que The X-Files tiene una
historia (mitológica) apasionante que debe seguir su
curso natural y aparecer en la gran pantalla con un final
que todo fans merece ver, porque la historia de la serie
se lo merece, porque cada capitulo que nos dio Chris
Carter fue una esperanza más para ver el gran final
combatiendo el futuro. Porque Mulder y Scully merecen
ser nuevamente los grandes protagonista de ...una
historia cautivante y atrapante que estuvo nueve años al
aire y es una de las mejores series de todos los
tiempos... YO quiero XFILES3 porque no concibo un
final como corresponde, porque no concibo que la Fox,
teniendo todo para que sea un gran exito, no este
haciendo nada.... Yo amo la serie y quiero un final justo
para ella, para los personajes y para nosotros, los fans.
PARAGUAY
Gaby Basz: Quiero un final digno de está serie, algo
que sea inolvidable, que este al nivel de lo que fue está
serie.. Saludos desde Paraguay.
URUGUAY
Fani Xf: Porque nos merecemos una peli para concluir
esta gran serie, tanto nosotros sus fans como sus
actores y productores, porque esta serie le dio
muchiisimo a fox y no se merece que la traten tan mal
como para no querer darle un final digno !! quedaron
muchas cosas inconclusas en la serie, y si invierten en
cosas que no valen la pena, no tienen derecho a no
invertir en una ultima peli de X-FILES que sus mismos
fans estamos pidiendo !!!
BRASIL
Carlos Solo: Quiero X-Files 3, 4, 5, 6 .....
(XF BLUEBOOK/FAN CLUB)
Marco Andreotti: Voglio XF3 perchè tutta la verità deve
venire a galla,e perchè voglio vedere insieme Mulder e
Scully. I Want to Believe.
Davide Feudale: Per dare una degna fine a questo
meraviglioso telefilm,e per chiudere una volta per tutto il
cerchio..dopo 9 anni di telefilm,e tutta questa attesa mi
sento di dire che ce lo meritiamo.
Francesca Pirillo: Voglio XF3 perchè la mitologia di XFiles merita una conclusione. Questo, seppur scontato,
è di certo il motivo numero 1! Poi ci sono un sacco di
altri motivi "affettivi". La serie mi manca da morire, sono
cresciuta con Mulder e Scully, è normale! Vorrei tanto
scoprire come negli anni si stia evolvendo la loro
relazione. In più sarebbe una bellissima occasione per
portare di nuovo questi personaggi sul grande schermo
e magari farli conoscere meglio alle nuove generazioni.
C'è anche da considerare che in questo modo
potremmo vedere nuovamente Gillian Anderson e David
Duchovny recitare insieme! L'alchimia tra i due è
innegabile. Ogni scena tra i due mi emoziona
tantissimo! Un po' noi Philes ce lo meritiamo XF3.
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Rosarita Verdicchio: Perchè sono rimasti dei punti in
sospeso ke vanno chiariti....che fine ha fatto
William,figlio di Mulder e Scully?....che fine hanno fatto
Reyes e Doggett che nel secondo film della serie nn si
sono proprio visti....quello ke aveva predetto l'uomo che
fuma prima di morire,ovvero l'invasione aliena che si
abbatterebbe sulla terra il 22 dicembre 2012,avverrà per
davvero?....e poi rivedere la complicità che esiste tra
Mulder e Scully,rivivere quelle stesse emozioni che ci
hanno regalato per 9 anni,quegli sguardi,quei sorrisi,è
tutto quello ke voglio e che vogliamo tutti noi che
amiamo e ke ameremo per sempre questa meravigliosa
creazione televisiva........GRANDE X FILES!!!!!!!!
Paolo Cingaleras Pignatelli: Perche' vorrei finalmente
avere un finale epico, drammatico, o anche triste, ma
chiarificatore, che chiuda degnamentente la saga di
Mulder e Scully.....una saga mitologica e troppo sfruttata
male degli ultimi anni del serial....qualcosa che faccia
dire a tutti i fan, "ehi, le ultime smaronate fatte da Carter
e co. nelle ultime serie e nell'ultimo film, sono acqua
passata grazie a questo film!" (poco probabile lo
so.....)....insomma, un degno TRIBUTO a tutti quei fan
che si son sempre prostrati di fronte a questo telefilm,
comprandone dvd, vhs, magliette, studiandone
ATTENTANTAMENTE la mitologia, le storie, la scienza
che c'e' dietro, ed appassionandosi cosi' tanto da
guardarla anche quando la serie era diventata poca
cosa rispetto alla serie precedenti, nell'ultimo anno....ed
anche a chi ha lasciato la serie subito dopo il primo film
e che si aspettavan molto di piu' da quest'ultimo
all'epoca, a causa delle solite promesse di Carter, pur
essendo stato carino....Per entrare nello specifico, vorrei
il terzo film, per assistere ad una risoluzione della
mitologia, intricata, raffinata e spettacolare al tempo
stesso, senza che una cosa, debba lasciare il posto ad
un'altra...qualcosa di COMPLETO, ecco. Senza scuse
di budget, o di trama difficile da capire per i nuovi
spettatori (si posson architettare tanti modi furbastri,
come gia' dissi una volta, per spiegare piccoli particolari
del passato, come accade in parecchi film di
Hollywood....basta solo LAVORARCI un po, non in fretta
e furia, ma con tanta pazienza, ingegno e FATICA. Lo
spero per tutti coloro che han sempre creduto in questa
storia. Se lo meritano. E loro lo devono a noi.
Massimo Fontana: Perché vogliamo crederci.
Finally Giorgia Bazzocchi summarizes
the reasons why fans want the third
movie:
I want XF3 because..
We need a conclusion.
We need to close the loop.
We need to find William.
We need ... More X-Files in the
world.
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X-FILES 3
REWARD...
our appreciation
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S
cience Fiction fans have always, proudly
embraced a culture all of their own, but
since the advent of the Internet just under 20years ago, the face of the fanatical has shifted
dramatically. Fandom is no longer reflected
through figurine and video collections, but via
dedicated online chat rooms, fan conventions
(rallied and promoted online, of course),
Facebook, Twitter streams and websites that
are as professionally run as any traditional
form of print media. It was around 1993 when
the first general users of the Internet began to
utilise the ‘new and exciting media’ to promote
favourite films, television series, music and the
like. Back then there were only about 80
websites in existence, and of those, quite a
few were actually dedicated fan sites for
beloved Sci-Fi entities such as The X-Files
and Star Trek. Not only were these websites
interesting and informative, but they
encouraged users from all over the world to
interact. For the first time in history,
international fans could liaise, share,
meet and greet simultaneously. It became
increasingly exciting and evident that we
had indeed arrived in the ‘future’, and who
better to celebrate than the devotees of
Science Fiction who had always dreamed it
possible?Chat sites, search engines,
banner ads, gaming, Napster and
downloadable applications all began to
emerge at the speed of light throughout the
era now referred to as ‘dot com’. As we
cruised through the age of Excite, Yahoo,
Hotmail, Amazon, Wikipedia, MySpace,
and of course, more recently, Google,
YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, the
Internet not only became faster and more
accessible but emerged as an invaluable
communication, marketing, business and
networking tool. As the Internet swiftly
evolved, so did its original core themes
including the Sci-Fi fan site genre, which
has since matured to be more interactive,
engaging, entertaining and sophisticated
than ever before.
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Matt Allair, filmmaker, videographer and
also creator/editor of the popular website
x-fileslexicon.com (launched 2005), is one
of the pioneers of this genre. He enthusiastically rides the wave of the web and has
participated across its evolution from the
‘90s, to the point where he has turned his
passion for sharing information with other
online fans into a professional media entity
all of its own. His site has been so successful that it’s not only sustained fan support,
but he and his international team (who, as
you would guess, all met online through a
love of Science Fiction) have even worked
with creators of The X-Files, having been
invited to contribute to the Blu-Ray extras on
the 2008 release, I Want to Believe. This is
evidently a monumental achievement for
anyone, let alone ‘some fans on the web’;
however it is testament to the critical
influence independent websites can achieve
in the 21st century.
Only a small percentage of fans are ever
included within the inner fold of the production
they admire, and the x-fileslexicon team is
rightly proud to have been invited on board as
associates of the 2008 film instalment – an
indicator that they are passionate but
professional to boot. So how do you turn a
true passion into something viable and useful
to others? Dedication and credibility are key.
Matt says, “running a professional fan site can
be a challenge, and in some ways there are
limits as we choose to be more formal in our
conduct; there’s a trade-off. That said, I’d
advocate keeping your nose clean, and being
respectful and smart in interactions with the
talent. Our editorial team didn’t jump on the
bandwagon with reporting on gossip and
speculation when I Want to Believe went into
production in 2008, and associates of the
show, including Jana Fain and Gabe Rotter
paid attention to our conduct.
I have always felt that in the long run,
quality material wins out over gimmicks.
You can have all of the bells and whistles
imaginable on your site, and gossip of
course, but I believe you won’t last long if
there’s no intelligent content for fans to
digest and discuss. Some of the best fan
sites actually existed on the web in the early
days, and the reason they were brilliant
sites was because of their quality content,
which had to prevail because the design
technology of many sites today didn’t exist
yet”.
Matt is a passionate media buff, blogger
and website producer who admits to
inadvertently entering into professional fan
site activity thanks to his general delight of
all things ‘entertainment and technology’.
“I fell into online fandom as a distraction
when I was having trouble with screenwriting, and it just progressed and inevitably opened up doors I never could have
imagined. Creating and maintaining a fan
site as a business is ideal for anyone who is
looking for a way to creatively channel a
passion, whether it be for a television
series, sport or hobby. I was involved with
two other professional fan sites, including
Harry Potter Lexicon, before x-fileslexicon
and through over ten years experience
maintaining such sites, I learned firsthand
what could work and what didn’t. The idea
of the x-fileslexicon being a ‘professional’
fan site was actually devised from the start”.
Of course, many sites that boast an expert
edge often evolve with the assistance of
an IT professional tweaking behind the
scenes, as in Matt’s case. “I started the
site just by doing simple coding and
having a play with elements that were of
interest to me. Suddenly though,
feedback, interest and reaction from the
public grew, and then the push to further
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develop the site did also. We keep expanding
by trying to think ahead. ‘XF Lexicon TV’,
our video news feature is a good example.
Few X-Files sites have thought of doing
this outside of news podcasts, but we pay
attention to fan feedback and ideas as well
as staying in the loop with technological
advances.
We’ve also instigated a unique networking
facility, syndicateconsortium.com, which
encourages fansite webmasters to join in an
effort to unite all X-Files fans on the web.
Obviously we’ve rolled with the times too
and have links on Twitter, Facebook, Digg,
StumbleUpon, and Ning. We’re always
trying to figure out the best outlets to
capitalise on, as should anyone
maintaining a dedicated site. You need to
be relatable and current, but individual in
your approach”.
While the big guns of the ‘dot com’
corporations battle it out to buy and sell the
next big thing in Cyberland, where can we
go to from here, being that an average
Internet user emails, chats, networks,
‘Skypes’, ‘Googles’, shares information,
engages in traditional forms of media ‘on
demand’, with passionate users like Matt
professionally producing much of this
content free-of-charge on a dedicated daily
basis? Will those facilitating the fan site
genre soon be able to offer television
series or films as they are released? Is an
iPhone app next for x-fileslexicon?
Tim Flattery, General Manager of Digital
Artists (www.digitalartists.tv) has worked in
the thick of the Internet evolution since the
early ‘90s and most recently spent two
years as head of new media and branded
entertainment for Becker Entertainment
working in New York, Washington and Los
Angeles. He also launched the well known
social forecasting and new media
development firm Pophouse.
He anticipates an exciting new Internet age
that will be particularly engaging for online
media moguls such as Matt. “We call it the
‘second digital decade’ where the internet
will disappear’, will stop being something
separate and will be the centre of
everything. The first digital decade was an
entrée to how powerful the internet really is
and the connectedness of everything
through technology.
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It has only just started to stretch its legs in
terms of usage. Wherever there’s electricity it
will touch you… You’ll plug into the Plasma
screen with no problems, and everyone can
become a media proprietor. The future will be
fast, furious and entertaining, especially for
those facilitating their own fan domains. The
Internet is very good at entering inefficient
business spaces like book selling, auctions,
the idea of searching for information – any
industry that doesn’t offer customers great
services is vulnerable to the Internet. For
example, television is a terrible customer
service if you’re thinking with your Internet
head-space. Who wants to wait when you
can have instant access? The internet is
salivating to take control of that industry on a
global level. Higher quality ‘instant’ video and
television over the Internet in the next three
years is the next big thing, particularly with
faster internet being implemented worldwide.
It will change our consumption habits
forever”. It’s extraordinary to witness this technological
progression in our lifetime – definitely
something only imagined for many years.
Whether you plan to host a successful fan
site in conjunction with your very favourite
entity, or fate leads you to such a pastime,
the future looks incredibly bright for those
with passion and media flair. “If you had told
me over a decade ago I would have been
involved with online fandom, I would never
have believed you. It just found me,” Matt
says. “It’s a labour of love – fulfilling when we
engage with other fans, and rewarding when
we’re asked to professionally liaise with the
production we’re promoting. We’re all excited
about a third The X-Files film that’s presently
in the pipeline and anticipate avid growth
because of this buzz. I feel the sky is the limit
as far as the future goes, as long as we hold
to our integrity. The site keeps growing and I
see it going on”.
x
Sarah Blinco
"Co-Conspirators"
The X-Files Lexicon's exclusive interview
with Alex Gansa.
Conducted by Matt Allair (05/08/2012).
Matt: Thematically, do you see any parallels
between 24, Homeland, and The X-Files? Did your
work on The X-Files influence the kind of work
you're doing today?
Alex: Well, I think the kind of stories that we told on The X-Files, and the need to tell a narrative
with a very strong story engine was something I learned on The X-Files, and which certainly carried
over into 24 and into Homeland. They're each unique unto themselves, but there were certain
tricks, and tropes that I learned on The X-Files that have been incredibly helpful over the span of
24, and Homeland, and one of those things is just learning how to compress a story. In other
words, you wind up plotting an episode out, and then you realize that some of those events that
you planned to happen later in the episode, actually should happen earlier, and likewise, over the
course of the series, some event that you plotted, that you planned to happen in the middle of the
season, or towards the end of the season actually wind up being in the second or third episode,
and it always helps propel the story, and gets you off at a good clip in the beginning.
READ MORE: www.x-fileslexicon.com
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“After having worked on The X-Files for so many years and really spent so much time
thinking about these characters of Mulder and Scully, you do fall in love with them a bit,
you do obsess about them. You find yourself thinking about them for hours and hours and
hours. And that’s what Milagro’s about. It’s about the power of that kind of obsession.”
- Frank Spotnitz
Yeah, me too, Frank. Only I don’t get paid for it.
Y
ou’ve heard it all about “Milagro” before.
How writers Spotnitz and Shiban came up
with the idea for it after commiserating
over the trials and tribulations of the creative life.
How the character of Padgett is really a stand-in
for the writers on The X-Files, right down to his
board full of index cards.
I’m going to let smarter, more academically
disciplined heads than I grapple with the more
intellectual issues that “Milagro” raises - authorial
intent, metafiction and the viewer as voyeur. That’s
not why I’m here. I have a much more simplistic
outlook on the “Milagro” message: Dana Scully is a
friend of mine.
“Au contraire,” you say, “Dana Scully doesn’t exist.”
“Au contraire,” I mimic, “Dana Scully exists
absolutely.”
“There’s nothing wrong with my state of mental
health. I like it here with my childhood friend. Here
they come, those feelings again!”
-Men at Work
Dana Scully is real. She lives in my head. She
probably lives in yours too. She gets around like
that.
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You see, an idea is real. It’s an intangible reality
that’s as real as any physical manifestation. Faith is
real. Hope is real. Love is real. No one outside of
Karl Marx would call me crazy for believing that.
But if I said to you that I would only believe Faith
was real if I saw it standing before me, then I’d
have earned my right to a padded cell.
Dana Scully is an idea. She started out in the mind
of Chris Carter the Beloved, she was translated into
the written word by various scribes, she was
interpreted in the body of Gillian Anderson the
Sacred, she was relayed through a series of
messengers, directors, photographers and editors,
and finally, she was accepted by faith into the
hearts and minds of many a television addict.
Like a game of Telephone, it’s hardly doubtful that
Dana Scully as she began is not the same Dana
Scully that viewers know and love. Every hand she
passes through shapes and creates her, including
the audience that eventually receives her, until she
is a recognizable and independent form that even
an objective observer can say, “That’s Dana Scully”
or “That’s not Dana Scully” the same way they
could say “That’s patriotism” or That’s narcissism.”
She’s her own entity, moving at her own speed and
toward her own destination despite Chris Carter’s
original best intentions. At least, that’s what
“Milagro” is telling us.
Back when I first started to watch The X-Files I
was watching reruns on FX and was way behind
the current run of the show. Before I swore off the
internet and chatrooms (see the upcoming “The
Unnatural” review), I couldn’t resist doing a little
investigating into the future of the Mulder/Scully
relationship. You can only imagine my 13-year-old
horror when I discovered that Chris Carter had
sworn on a stack of show bibles that Mulder and
Scully would never be a romantic pair. I’m not
ashamed to say I felt something akin to panic.
So I did the only thing I could and attempted to
console myself by watching more of The X-Files. I
watched and was quickly comforted - What I saw
didn’t match up with what Chris Carter had so
adamantly avowed. It’s then that the rebellious
thought occurred to me, “That man doesn’t know
what he’s talking about.” Said thought was
accompanied by the dismissive facial expression
only a 13-year-old can make.
Arrogant? Yes.
How can the viewer claim to know more than the
creator? In my defense, I instinctively knew from
watching the real Dana Scully what her
Pygmalion-like creator may have still been in
denial about, that come what may, she was falling
in love with Fox Mulder. It didn’t matter what
anyone else said, including Chris Carter. Scully told
me. It was the gospel truth.
The more cynical among us might say that Carter
eventually caved in the MSR department only
because of fan pressure and potential ratings, but
I’m not of a cynical turn. A Mulder/Scully romance
would have happened eventually because their
relationship naturally evolved irrespective of
original intent or outside expectations. By Season
6, to keep them apart much longer would have
been more unrealistic than a man-sized worm.
My Philey Sense tells me that Chris Carter realized
this and just went with the flow.
Philip Padgett, Scully’s creepy admirer, is a not so
subtle, if far less socially adept, substitute for
Carter himself as the writer whose character has
escaped his control long enough to writer her own
script while he wasn’t looking. Like I said,
intangible ≠ unreal. Scully is so much her own
person, such a fully fleshed idea, that Padgett can
no longer predict her choices. The question is
then, did he ever really? Where does the writer’s
intention end and the real Dana Scully begin?
I don’t know the answer to that exactly but I know
that it’s not just the writer who creates her. According to that same game of Telephone I mentioned
above, the idea of Dana Scully is communicated to
a series of people through a series of mediums and
the method of communication is in part what
shapes her. In a lot of ways, I bet life is easier for a
novelist than a television writer. A novelist creates
and idea and shapes it with words, communicating directly with his audience.
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A television writer sees his vision revised by
several sets of minds and hands until what the
viewers at home see may or may not be
recognizable to him. But that’s just tough cookies.
Is it a wonder fans sometimes act like they own
Scully? We’re partially responsible for creating
her. Not that any of us can take credit for the
original brilliance of idea that she is, but we’ve
taken that idea and obsessed over it until it’s
taken a concrete form in our own minds; she’s a
shared idea. 10 Philes from 10 different countries
with 10 different perspectives could sit around
and talk about her like they all know her… because
they all do. Great fiction tends to work like that.
(For instance, I recognized Hogwarts the instant I
saw it on the big screen. I had already seen it in
my mind’s eye, after all. Funny, but my best friend
whose mind’s eye doesn’t belong to me recognized
it too.) And great characters live on long after you
stop reading or watching them.
And I suppose that’s why The X-Files was/is a
benchmark of fanfiction. It created characters
whose adventures its audience couldn’t help but
chronicle offscreen because they existed, waiting
to be chronicled. After all, how could a TV show
hold them anymore than it could hold you or me?
In fanfiction, the viewer becomes the writer,
flipping the natural order on its head but at the
same time drawing even more attention to the
heart of the process of characterization.
The milagro, the real miracle here is the mysterious
power of the obsessive mind to create life where
there was none. No, these earthly creators can’t
breathe the physical breath of life into Dana Scully,
but they can do pretty much everything shy of it,
to the point where I sometimes find myself
wondering how it could be possible that Dana
Scully isn’t standing in front of me with eyebrow
raised in inquisition the way Naciamento appears
before Padgett…. though I suppose she’d come for
Chris Carter first. But I’m next. Right at this
moment “Milagro” is playing in the background.
And if Dana Scully were to plant her fingers on the
bottom of my television screen and pull herself
out, only mild surprise would register on my face.
She already exists in my head, why shouldn’t she
exist in my room?
The great thing about “Milagro” is that there are so
many intellectual and emotional questions raised
on various levels that like any good work of
fiction, there are many ways to read it. There isn’t
another episode quite like it and it’s certainly
more meta, and more overtly artistic, than The XFiles is usually comfortable with. That’s probably
why it feels so personal.
While Shiban and Spotnitz rough drafted the idea
of “Milagro”, it was Carter, the creator himself who
wrote it up which is so fitting you’d thing someone
had scripted it.
What? You didn’t recognize his legendary purple
prose? I swear, he must’ve been holding the
thesaurus open with one hand for this one. All
these years and I never realized he was actually
holding back most episodes. Here he lets it all
hang out, using his skills in flowery verbiage to
purposeful effect by making it difficult to
distinguish between the actual goings on of the
Scully mind and the writer’s fantasy, for those are
two separate things both in the world of “Milagro”
and in this one. Fortunately for all of us, the wellrounded Chris Carter is no Philip Padgett, though
it’s possible he identifies with him all too well in
some ways. Padgett is the worst kind of stereotype
of a writer; awkward socialization, barren
existence, overuse of highbrow language. And in
his youthful arrogance he believes that as the
author he actually has authority over his
characters. Ha! He learns that lesson.
Padgett is wonderfully played by 1013 repeat
offender John Hawkes, who previously guest
starred on Millennium and auditioned for the role
of Pinker Rawls in “Trevor” (6x17). The part of
Padgett was actually written with him in mind so
it’s not surprising that he fills it well. Somehow,
despite his gratingly calm assurance and his
Creepy McCreepy vibe Padgett manages to be an
empathetic character. We start to glimpse his
humanity when he first confronts Scully before
the painting of the Sacred Heart, a scene that
quietly reveals the root of this episode that’s all
about the relationship between creator and
created.
It’s the God-given desire to share love.
That’s what Padgett tries to explain to Scully
through the story of Jesus and St. Margaret Mary.
That’s why any creator creates, to share their
heart, good, bad or indifferent. That’s what
humans are designed to do is share the love in
their hearts. Maybe for the writer that love is
easier to express in writing. Maybe for the fan the
writer’s love is easier to share in because it takes
place in an alternate reality of fiction.
I’m going to shamelessly take Pagett’s story of
Jesus’ Sacred Heart even further and say that in
the same way the Creator speaks into existence
fully formed personalities and then gives them
free will, a human creator is at his best when he,
through his love, forms an idea so powerful that it
has a life of its own.
Why does the writer write? To share his heart.
Why does the reader read or the watcher watch?
To share the heart of the writer. Who is Dana
Scully? She’s the collective beating hearts of the
writers and the watchers. She’s the idea they all
love.
“Imagine that.”
- Philip Padgett
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t is necessary to start the etymologic/symbolic analysis from the X, and properly, from
two theories: Kubek’s and Jan Delasara’s theory. The first hypnotises that the X stands
for: “the fate of the feminine under patriarchy”, in the “You only expose your father”
essay in “Reading the Xfiles”, and everything is based on the fact that in X-Files there are two
worlds facing each other, the male and feminine world. X, which means unknown, is the destiny
of Samantha, but X is also the symbol of a world where the feminine flees to safety from the
conspiracy. That is to say, Sam “gets safe” because she has been made disappear by the
oppressive male world. Obviously, the author wrote this essay before “Closure”. In my opinion, it
is a weak theory since the series hadn’t finished yet and reducing the issue to the male/feminine
point is interesting, but that doesn’t involve thousands of other aspects and thematic. Instead,
according to Delasara’s “Poplit, popcult and the Xfiles”, the X stands for: (The) crossing out,
denying or negating a piece of information, and mathematically X designs an unknown quantity...”
therefore, the X-Files are the denied things, unknown, kept secret. And as fans, we are used to
thinking this way. Let’s start now talking about Dana Katherine Scully, starting from her first
name. It is the name of a Goddess which comes from the Latin name Diana (Artemide). Joseph
Frank in “Ancient Romans in America?” says: “Diana was the synonym of the Greek Artemide,
the patron of the Olympus, of the working women and the children.
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The X Files
In the Greek-Roman art, both the versions
were usually portrayed with a fox which
followed the Goddess, thus representing her
believers. But this animal is not the only
convincing link between the Old World and the
pre-inca South America..” This is interesting
isn’t it? Is it the fox that mediates between the
Roman Goddess and the new pre-inca world?
And fox always follows the Goddess.
I want to highlight her status of “protector of the
working women”. How much did Scully work to
be recognised as a working woman in a male
world? Diana is, however, the Latin form, in
reality Scully’s name is Dana.
In Gaelic, “Tuata dè danaan” is the name of a
mythical wary people: in the Irish pantheon, it is
Goddess Dana’s people (B.Walker, The
woman's encyclopaedia of myths and secrets ,
1983). The name of the Goddess shows
“knowledge”, she is also the Goddess of fertility
and birth. Sadly ironic is the reference to
fertility for Scully. As a matter of fact, Scully’s
road to becoming mother has a resonance with
this name. Moreover, according to the legend,
the Tuatas arrived in Ireland on “flying boats”
and theories which ties the Tuatas to some
alien visits on Earth can be found on the
internet. Scully’s second name is Katherine,
that in the Greek/Byzantine form refers to
Ecate, the Goddess of hell: in fact, Scully
escaped the Kingdom of the Dead/alien
abduction (I’m thinking about the boat in the
lake, tied to the pier, in “One Breath”).
And in the episodes (“Clyde Bruckman”,
“Leonard Betts”, “Tithonus”), Scully is said to
be immortal: Goddesses are immortal.
Then, in the eighth season, some fans
compared her to the Virgin Mary (either when
she cries for the death of Mulder, the
Deposition, or the birth of William, the Nativity).
Will she be taken up into Heaven? Yes, if she
will be abducted again by the true aliens, and
not by those induced in the memory by the
Syndicate. In addition, in the Greek/Roman
world, Katherine means “clear,
straightforward”, and these are perfect
adjectives for Scully. Clear when she has get to
the point and straightforward when expressing
her opinions. When Mulder has to choose a
name for her in “Arcadia”, he chooses Laura,
but Laura & Rob Petrie are the names of the
1961 “Dick Van Dike Show” protagonists,
where this couple personified the “American
way of life” of those years, which meant
serenity, funny situations and divertissement
bourgeois.
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In the episodes (“Clyde Bruckman”, “Leonard
Betts”, “Tithonus”), Scully is said to be
immortal: Goddesses are immortal.
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The X Files
These two names so indicate that Mulder (or
better, the “Arcadia” scriptwriters) have
considered how these names could be
perceived by an “unnaturally” perfect
community: choosing stereotyped names
means to criticise the false representation of a
perfect society. Josè Chungh gives to Scully
the pseudonym of Diana Lesky, maybe hinting
at Albin Lesky, a famous Russian philologist
and therefore a meticulous figure, or just for a
pronunciation assonance?
Now is the surname turn: Scully is the
surname of Vince, a sports commentator also
known as “God’s voice”, (Carter denied this
link in 1994 D.Bishoff’s interview) but in the
chapter “The Name Game”, op. cit., Delasara
underlines that it is also the surname of
Frank, the author of “Behind the Flying
Saucers” in 1952, and I add that in a FBI note
about the UFO crash in New Mexico, Frank
Scully is mentioned as a witness.
Delasara also claims that the names of the
characters could remind of those present in
the comics of EC “Vault Of Horror” in the 50s:
it is evident that “skull” has a dark and
macabre link to Scully as it is pronounced
almost in the same way. Carter have kept on
insisting that no names of those present in XFiles have references, just like Badley says in
“The Rebirth of Clinic” in “Reading the Xfiles”;
but why keep denying such proofs? I made
some calculations from a numerological table
put forward by Delanera about “f o x”, of which
I will talk about later, and “d a n a” results as
number 2. The number two is the
contraposition, the contrast the antithesis of
number one (and Mulder symbolises the
number one…), but two is also the number of
complementarity, of who lies by you. In the
relationship between Mulder and Scully, she
has these characteristics: her character is
Mulder’s co-star, his colleague and
subordinate. She helps him when wounded,
she justifies him during the investigation and
so on. Max Fening nicknames her “Enigmatic”
in “Fallen Angel”. The definition for “enigmatic”
in the Oxford dictionary is: perplexing;
mysterious. And isn’t Scully mysterious for
Mulder’s eyes? Or for every other man she
meets?
Surely, Max refers to this woman’s complexity.
Her feelings and pains always hidden.
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And now Mulder.
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His unusual name “Fox” has very ancient
roots. In Chinese myths, foxes are very
suspicious characters, I think about Mulder
and his “trust no one”.
In Russian folklore, the fox is very cunning
and so is Mulder, even if maybe he is more
curious.
For the Celts, the fox represents slyness and
the ability of putting of the scent, whilst Mulder
often makes tracks!
In myths, the fox sees others’ movements
undetected and so here is the link. It is weird
instead that the fox is a stupid animal in the
Catholic Bible.
More interesting is that in the myths of North
American natives, the fox has the power to
give back life to the dead, a sort of demiurge
like the coyote, and Mulder speaks to the
dead (The Truth, Closure) and in a certain
sense, evoking them, he let them live again.
The link between the American natives and
Fox emerges in the episodes “Blessing Way”
and “Shapes”. In the last one, Mulder receives
the Indian name “Running Fox” or “Sneaky
Fox”, and in my opinion they are due to his
curious and investigative nature. When Albert
Hosteen heals Mulder, he says: “The F.B.I.
man would have surely died had he not
stayed underground, protected like the
jackrabbit or the fox”; referring to fox’s power
to defeat death. In this case and even in the
first episodes of the eighth season, Mulder
emerges like an immortal man.
Kubek, op. cit., referring to Albert’s speech,
evokes the symbology linked to the name Fox
in “Blessing Way”: the fox has been buried by
the symbolic Order (the Syndicate), but being
the unconscious Fox’s usual habitat (he’s a
psychologist, he has bonds to hidden things,
he’s a hidden truths discoverer) he is now
remerged from it (this is my interpretation).
So, I say that the fox is an animal of the
unconscious, which saves from the symbolic
death that the Super Ego (ethic laws of
fathers, the Syndicate here) may make grind
on the Ego. In fact, Fox dreams about Bill first
and Deep Throat then during the ritual
practice, his putative fathers.
I like mentioning another fox as well, the
friend Saint-Exupery’s “Little Prince”.
In this masterpiece, the fox teaches the little
prince the friendship value.
Mulder tells us he is a good friend through his
bonds with Scully and the Lone Gunmen.
Last, I want to mention the pseudonym that
José Chung gives to Mulder, Reynard
(Muldrake, reynard means fox in French). And
Reynard was a character of European tales of
12th/13th Century, says Delasara, and was
famous for the ironic but hard critics to the
Catholic church and the nobles.
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But FOX is also the name of the network,
which believed in Carter and X-Files while
Disney didn’t. Delasara thinks that having the
letters of the network in the protagonist’s
name, an X which stands for unknown,
mysterious, and it also reminds of the name
that cinematographic workers use of special
effects (fx) have let the public identify the
show with the network.
Marketing power.
Delasara, using numerological tables, assigns
the number 6 to the name “Fox”. Six is an
androgynous number, we all remember that
Mulder is an atypical hero in the policemen
scenario of the early 90s: he’s sensitive,
careful , empathic, he never brags, he is a
sort of hero with feminine characteristics (I
want to point that to drive all the doubts about
his heterosexuality away, the authors after
having shown him crying, stressed his
inclination towards pornography).
According to Wikipedia, Mulder’s second
name, William, has two roots: Will and helm,
intended as protection. If broadly speaking we
consider Will as “wisdom”, we can point that
the name barely means “that who is protected
by his wisdom”.
The notions of desire and knowledge make
me think of the Amor Fati trilogy: Mulder is
wiser than other human beings, but this
comes against him.
The helm didn’t work. His “knowledge” of
paranormal squished his mortal brain.
Delasara shows the parallelism between the
many William that there are in X-Files.
Mulder’s father and Scully’s father, and I
would also mention the little William. The
authors consider Bill Patterson (“Grotesque”),
the mentor of the golden boy that has been
just enrolled for FBI, among the father figures
he meets during the show. This is to create a
bond between and world of the fathers which
biblically means that sons are not responsible
for fathers’ sins and Mulder fights against the
sins of the fathers belonging to the Syndicate.
The surname: Mulder.
“To molder” means “decompose, rot”.
In “The Rebirth of the Clinic” in “Reading the
xfiles” Badley mention another verb in
addition to the one before: “to mull over” that
according to the Oxford dictionary, means
“meditate, ponder, speculate”. Delasara,
mentioning the names of the horror comics
we named before, discovers the gothic form
of “mold”, that is to say “mould” which means
“to shape, to forge”.
So Mulder is the man who ponders and
forges, we could say he decodes and
organises clues. He looks for the truth, he
shapes it, despite all the attempts to be
thrown off the track. The definition of
demolition worker is suitable for the character:
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So Mulder is the man
who ponders and
forges, we could say
he decodes and
organises clues.
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he demolishes lies to discover the truth.
According to the numerology, m u l d e r is the
number 1, which is not only the number of
loneliness as Mulder says in “Fight The
Future” but it is also the number of
independence, a quality he often shows. Let’s
now focus on the FBI notes in “Requiem”. As
for the nicknames Mulder receives during the
show, the one chosen by José Chung is
particularly fitting. According to Delasara,
Muldrake for assonance recalls “mandrake” a
curative but poisonous plant. The mandrake
also has aphrodisiac properties.
Does this have to do with Mulder’s love for
pornography? This combination lets me
mention another Mulder pseudonym, the one
he gave to the erotic chat operator, as Eddie
Van Blunth witnesses in “Small Potatoes”:
Marty. In the 60s, an American movie titled
Marty, which talks about a very shy man with
serious relational problems with women,
came out (it earned Ernest Borgnine an Oscar
as best protagonist actor). Do you think these
facts are connected? I have already talked
about Rob Petrie before. In “Little Green
Men”, Mulder uses the name George H. Hale
to book his flight to Puerto Rico. In the same
episode, we can deduce his admiration for the
scientist: MULDER - From 1948 until recently,
it was the largest telescope in the world. The
idea and design came from a brilliant and
wealthy astronomer named George Ellery
Hale. Actually, the idea was presented to Hale
one night. While he was playing billiards, an
elf climbed in his window and told him to get
money from the Rockefeller Foundation for a
telescope. In Hale’s bibliography, the inspiring elf is not
mentioned, but Mulder’s ego identifies itself
with a person whose mind is open to fantasy
despite him being a scientist. In “Fallen Angel”
Max Fenning says that Mulder use a
pseudonym, M.F. Luder, to sign articles about
paranormal, an anagram of his name. There
exist an experiment in psychology, in which
the examined person has to make an
anagram out of his name and surname to
create a new name onto which he can project
a new relative personality with aspects that
would otherwise stand in the background. To
analyse the anagram, it is necessary to point
that Fox doesn’t exist for him and this is
demonstrated by the fact that he doesn’t want
to be called by Scully by his name. This is why
F. remains F. Luder can be connected to the
adjective “loud”. In the article about UFO on
OMNI during the first Gulf War, as Luder, he
wrote “loudly” about topics he could only
“whisper” about as Mulder.
And now the best point, his “classic”
nickname Spooky. I guess that all the
definition for “spooky” would fit his personality.
In Quagmire, Scully refers to Mulder as Ahab,
the Moby Dick captain, just like she does with
her father. However, Mulder claims he is the
antithesis of Ahab and so he is not “Gnawed
within and scorched without, with the infixed,
unrelenting fangs of some incurable
idea.”(Moby Dick, H. Melville). Scully was
instead called by her father with the name of
the “Pequod” chief mate, Starbuck, who in the
book was referred to as “Uncommonly
conscientious for a seaman”. (Melville ,op cit.)
The parallel that Scully wants to create
between Mulder and her father figure is easy
to catch, but Mulder claims his personality not
accepting the parallel. Captain Scully instead
had chosen for Dana a fitting comparison.
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References :
J.Jagodzinski - B.Hipfl Youth Fantasies: Reading “The
X-Files”. Psychoanalytically. Studies In Media &
Information Literacy Education University Toronto
Press ,vol. 1,n.2,2001
J.Delasara Poplit, Popcult and the X-Files ,Mcfarland &
Co., 2000
4. L.Badley The Rebirth of the Clinic: The Body as Alien
in The X-Files ,Deny All Knowledge: Reading The XFiles, Thompson Syracuse University Press, 1996
E. B. Kubek You Only Expose Your Father Deny All
Knowledge: Reading The X-Files, Thompson Syracuse
University Press ,1996
B.Hauser Vanishing Americans , The X files And
literature, S.R.Yang Cambridge, 2007
T.Betonneau-K.Paffenroth The in -breaking
bedhalement of truth The Truth Is Out There: Christian
Faith and the Classics of TV Science Fiction, Brazos
press,2006
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Interview conducted by XFBlueBook and GFelix
I
n the 90s, X-Files has managed to
catch the fears of the Americans and
represent it on the screen. According
to you, could the show be aired on today’s
TV, or as many say, the Ground Zero
attack has generated such fear to put the
theme of the series on the background?
I fear the Ground Zero had an impact on
Carter’s show as well as on other shows.
Science fiction has always had a precise
link to cultural movement and the world
general situation. It was first born as
popular literature so it couldn’t, and can’t
today, move away from the anguish of
people. It could be visionary such as
Dick’s, it could be ironic and paradoxical
such as Sheckley’s, but it can never be
taken out of the projection that anyone
makes of his future, which is influenced
by the present. The heroic prewar science
fiction was the natural heir to Verne, the
men’s struggle in the name of a positive
science with an enlightenment and lay
vision of the universe. The post-Second
World War science fiction identified an
enemy and fought him in space battles on
unfriendly planets, face-to-face, using
weapons in a sort of repetition of the
conventional war; however, there also
were some fictionists who refused that
clash between cultures and hypothesised
better societies and world such as
Roddenberry. After the fall of the Berlin
Wall, the risk of the total war vanished
and the theory of a global conspiracy took
off thus putting in discussion the
certainties of our history, Chris Carter did
this first and magisterially. Ground Zero
erased this tendency, especially in the
Anglo-Saxon science fiction, gave back
the physicality to the enemy, identifying it
in every thing that is different and can
shake our certainties.
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X-Files still is a relevant series for the
language, but it has been overwhelmed
by media’s fear more than the events
themselves which have left the mark in
this decade.
shows. According to you, what are the
main innovations brought about by XFiles?
X-Files and Chris Carter introduced the
industrial model of cinema in the TV show.
Since then, the main series have begun to
used those narrative and grammatical
structures which were typical of the
cinema up to the 90s. I think Chris Carter
rode the wave of something that was in the
air and that was necessary to turn around
the crisis of creativity of those years.
Carter was able to “weigh out” the most
important points of the narration,
dispensing them in the right moment to
open and close narrative threads which
made people’s expectations burst, at least
up to the 7th season.
The relationship between Mulder and
Scully revealed to be the keystone to
success as it was a non-love among the
most aching and romantic of TV, which
kept our eyes on the screen. Why is
always love which makes audience, rather
than aliens, mysterious islands and
supernatural powers?
The most stupid answer could be that 55%
of the TV audience is made of women,
and love stories catch women’s heart. But
the very key to success was indeed the
incompleteness of the relationship
between them. Narratively speaking, it is a
great solution if one is able to manage, the
step to ridiculousness is quite short. Carter
manage to make the show the object of
the daily chats between friends and
colleagues, and the success didn't distort
the plot of every single episode in anyway.
X-Files has historically marked a turning
point the science fiction production as it is
still used today as an element of comparison to evaluate the quality of new TV
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P
lenty of female characters have inspired
TV series in the last ten years. After the
revolution brought about by a character
like Dana Scully: a strong-willed woman beside
a weak man. A woman who is ready to question
her certainties as well as her life; who is ready
to believe and love; a professional but not a
virago; who has doubts, but is able to pursue
the truth at any cost; it is therefore not
surprising that finding another Scully-oriented
character has been a challenge in shows that
followed. Yet something that Scully may have
inspired, although in a very different context,
can be found in Lilly Rush, the heroine of "Cold
Case". Cold Case, a TV series which ended this
year after seven respectable seasons, focused
on unsolved cases being reopened after several
years, thus even rebuilding parts of American
history. Physically speaking Gillian Anderson
(Scully) and Kathryn Morris, who plays Lilly,
are different but they have many things in
common. Those determined blue eyes wide
open towards the unknown; always in search
of truth and justice. Their sober dress sense
does not hide their sex appeal, but neither does
it transform them into cheerleaders; both
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women are characters who seldom yield to
emotion.
Their differences can be seen in their family
backgrounds. Dana Scully comes from a
military family. She grew up in a strict but
loveable environment, tied to her sister Melissa
who died prematurely. She is a brilliant FBI
agent with multiple degrees and records of
accomplishments in varying areas. Compare
this with Rush, who as a child had to look after
her alcoholic mother, who finds her father
(played by Raymond J. Barry aka Senator
Richard Matheson who protected Mulder in the
first season of The X-Files) again only in
adulthood, who’s wild sister, who has made the
police her second family, creates problems
every time she reappears in her life. Both
women find that their job provides them with a
reason to live. Even though in the beginning
Scully’s work for the X-Files is essentially to
ensure that Fox Mulder does not actually go
through with any of his wild ideas, and she only
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later develops a passion for her colleague’s
cause (later friend and then partner).
In contrast Lily Rush is a woman on a mission
(including John Finch, a well-known name from
the X Files, playing Lt. Stillman here) to bring
justice to the victims whose memory has not
yet vanished. She wants justice and not
revenge, because in the Cold Case’s universe
perpetrators are often the defeated. There are
no absolute evils such as the Cigarette Smoking
Man, and despite they are being a central
thread in the characters’ lives, a main story like
X-Files’ mythology is missing. As for the love
life of these two protagonists, there are
commonalities and differences. Being two
women in a world of men, and two career
women at that, they seem to be destined to
solitude. We only know that Scully had a
boyfriend and that she had an affair with her
teacher at Quantico. Lilly seems to be modern
version of an old maid living with three cats,
trying to heal old and current wounds.
As the series progress, there are some
developments in the relationships between
Mulder and Scully; and Lilly finds her partner
in Eddie Saccardo, a cop who carries out often
dangerous investigations, to Lilly and Scotty’s
shippers’ disappointment. Their adventures
are obviously different, but Dana Scully and
Lilly Rush are good examples of modern
heroines, constricted between fragility and
strength, with a mission to carry out, not
blindly, but with reason and emotion. Neither
of them will ever replace the other, but both are
valid and interesting studies due to their
attitude to work, their attitude to others, and
because they make truth and justice their
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SHOW SUMMARY from TV.com
Cold Case stars Kathryn Morris (Minority
Report, Mindhunters) as Lilly Rush, the lone
female detective in the Philadelphia homicide
squad who finds her calling when she's
assigned to "cold cases" -- crimes that have
never been solved. Previously, she used her
instinctive understanding of the criminal mind
on current murders. Now, she's interrogating
witnesses whose lives and circumstances have
since changed, making use of today's new
science and finding fresh clues to solve cases
that were previously unsolvable, all of which
appeals to this smart, driven detective. She's
also prepared for the consequences: that her
work will open up old wounds and may lead
suspects to commit new crimes. When she hits
a dead-end, Lilly seeks advice from her
respected mentor, Lt. John Stillman (John Finn,
Catch Me If You Can). Also on the team are
Det. Scotty Valens (Danny Pino, The Shield),
Rush's confident and strong-willed partner; Det.
Will Jeffries (Thom Barry, The Fast and the
Furious), who's been around long enough to
serve as Lilly's link to the past; and Det. Nick
Vera (Jeremy Ratchford, Angel Eyes), a tough
cop who's considered the go-to guy for getting
a confession. Lilly makes it her business to
ensure that no victim is ever forgotten. On the
show's third season, former narcotics detective
Kat Miller (Tracie Thoms, Wonderfalls, As If), a
young and spunky girl, joins the team. Cold
Case is created by Meredith Stiehm (ER, NYPD
Blue). Executive producers -- in addition to Ms.
Stiehm -- include such reigning entertainment
industry names as Jerry Bruckheimer (The
Amazing Race, CSI), Shaun Cassidy (Invasion, The
Agency), and Jonathan Littman (The Amazing
Race, Close to Home).old Case is an American
police procedural television series which ran on
CBS from September 28, 2003 to May 2, 2010.
The series revolved around a fictionalized
Philadelphia Police Department division that
specializes in investigating cold cases. On May
18, 2010, CBS announced that the series had
been canceled.
Seven Season;
146 episodes;
6 ASCAP Awards
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Elena Romanello
ampires have had a great significance in
our imagination for a long time, before
the current trend of teenage bloodsucker,
and in a TV series which focuses on supernatural inquiries such as X-Files, vampires were
a must-be though they weren’t Mulder and
Scully’s favourite second leads. Two are the
episodes about vampires, one belonging to the
second season (Three) and one belonging to the
fifth season (Bad Blood); they are poles apart in
terms of rhythm, editing and story, with two
opposite approaches to vampires, not canonic
but with some points of interest.
“Three” is one of the few episodes Scully doesn’t
appear in because she is just been abducted (by
aliens? By governors?) and that left Mulder in
despair since he feels responsible for that. As a
distraction, he accepts to inquire into a series of
murders which seem to be committed by a
vampire, complete with bloodless victims, thus
getting to a psycho- pathic trio which created a
sort of brotherhood between them. Fox Mulder
gets in touch with Kristen, the weak link to the
V
group, and together throw themselves into a
futureless relationship: the woman will
sacrifice herself and the others to save him
leaving us wondering if they really were
vampires or serial killers. An interesting story,
with the always effective combination between
vampirism, death and sex, a good attempt to
make vampires plausible in a real inquiring
context, involving even satanic sects.
Somebody saw reminiscences between the
vampire congregation and Charles Manson’s
“family”, the author of one of the bloodiest
crimes. In addition, shippers didn’t like Mulder
“cheating” on Scully, even if it was a moment of
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“3”
- Credits
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
Glen Morgan,James Wong
Director: David Nutter
Original air date: November 4, 1994
Jokes: Club Tepes is named after
Vlad the Impaler Tepes, who is the
real-life inspiration for Bram Stoker's
Dracula.
“Bad Blood “- Credits
Writer: Vince Gilligan
Director: Cliff Bole
Original air date: February 22, 1998
Jokes: Sheriff Hartwell is named for
Vince Gilligan's girlfriend, Holly Rice
(her middle name is Hartwell).
despair and relationship was undoubtedly
futureless. Out of curiosity, Kristen was played
by Perrey Reeves, who was then Duchovny’s real
fiancée. So different is “Bad Blood” as Mulder
and Scully tell a story, like a flashback, about a
case they investigated a case which ended with
the death of a presumably vampire suspect, a
pizzaboy who used his job to obtain his victims.
They give a different point of view about the
case, the narration structure resembling that of
Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, even if the result is
not one of the best. “Bad Blood” is too grotesque
to be an X-File, it’s not what we would call a
masterpiece, but in the meantime it’s interesting
how the agents‘ points of view are in conflict and
it’s also interesting the desecrating treatment of
the vampire theme, which is nice compared to
today’s romantic vampires. Sure, Polanski made
better, but he was Polanski.
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G
illian Anderson has chosen since
long time to devote her time to
theatre and high-quality movies:
after having reached success with X-Files,
she prefers now to devote herself to things
she considers closer to her feelings and
her interests as an artist. A path she had
deci- ded to take while she was still playing
Dana Scully in 2000, when she was
enrolled for “The House Of Mirth” by
Terence Davies. She shot the movie during
her holiday trip to Scotland and Ireland
after having been engaged by the director,
who had never watched any X-Files
episode but was amazed by her
resemblance to the women’s portraits
painted by the late 19th-century painter
John Sargent and to the leading actresses
of many romantic movies of yesteryear
such as Greer Garson and Eleanor Parker.
Inspired by the homonym novel by Edith
Wharton, one of the most ruthless
chronicler of the well-off American society
customs, “The House Of Mirth” narrates
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the rise and fall of Lily Bart, an heiress
oppressed by debts and the necessity of
finding a suitable husband in a society
which doesn’t allow women to have a bad
reputation (not only sexually) and earn
their living, even if reduced to penury
though belonging by birth to the aristocratic
society. You can watch the fall, through a
series of scenes with great settings, of this
good-natured social climber, incapable of
being wicked just like her rival Bertha
Dorsett, but even incapable of sensing
both the rapaciousness of others and the
love of the only man that could save her.A
ruthless moral story, masterfully conducted
by the director who managed to make it
more exciting on the screen (a very rare
thing) rather than on book pages.
Costumes, musics and settings are simply
impeccable and contradicts the saying
according to which great money expenses
and computer graphic aids are required to
produce costume films: the budget wasn’t
indeed one of the biggest but everything
was in the right place, and sometimes you
can even recall Visconti in Davies’ touch.
The cast, which stars excellent second
leads, ranging from Laura Linney, perfect
in the villain role so diverging from her
usual roles, to the Jack Malone-to-be
Anthony Lapaglia; from Dan Aykroyd to the
unforgotten lost girl of “Once Upon A Time
In America” Elizabeth McGovern, even
including Eric Stolz, is captained by a great
Gillian, so at ease in the 19th-century
tangles, which will get her in confusion just
like the X-Files conspiracies and aliens did.
While watching the movie one never
thinks: “Look at the 19th-century Scully!”
but one will appreciate the great performance of a chameleonic actress which has
found in theatre and cinema a better place
to express herself and her talent.
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“The House Of Mirth” is a movie not only to
be rediscovered by the X-Files fans, but it
is a real gem to which everybody
contributed, Gillian primarily, and we are
sorry it didn’t received any Oscar
nomination. Gillian is not only Scully, but
she’s a real actress, we’re happy for her
devoting to theatre, but we still hope to see
her taking parts in such movies: there are
plenty of stories she could act in perfectly
and we’re sorry for her refusal for the
reporter Martha Gellhorn project (what
about reconsidering the idea?) and for the
closure of the civil rights activist Edna St.
Vincent Millay project, because we could
really appreciate a great actress in “The
House Of Mirth” apart from our love for her
as Scully. At that time she received indeed
good recensions (“Scully is a good actress
even without aliens, but also smarter
comments) and approvals for a movie
belonging to a niche genre, the so-called
period movies, which could count on a
faithful public. Looking forward to seeing
Scully playing in period movies again, it
could be nice to relive with her the drama
of Lily Bart, a heroin suspended between a
now unsuitable romanticism and a
modernity that she doesn’t want to follow.
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Directed by Terence Davies
Produced by Olivia Stewart
Written by Edith Wharton (novel)
Terence Davies (screenplay)
Starring:
Gillian Anderson
Laura Linney
Dan Aykroyd
Anthony LaPaglia
Terry Kinney
Elizabeth McGovern
Eric Stoltz
Cinematography: Remi Adefarasin
Editing by Michael Parker
Studio Granada Productions
Distributed by FilmFour (UK)
Sony Pictures Classics (USA)
Release date(s) 2000
Running time:140 min.
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