At Chris Snellgrove
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X-Files After all, it became a very mixed franchise bag, but it managed to give us two surprisingly hard films. These films raised rates from the usual episodic price while providing both paranoia chills (for example, Fight the future) and huge passion (eg I want to believe) Fans were waiting. However long before both films the killer X-Files Episode Little Green Men gave a great deal of screen to the small screen … Not surprisingly, as co -author Glen Morgana adjusted it from an unprecedented film scenario.
If you need a refresher, “little green men” was X-Files The episode in which the multi -sent to Puerto Rico his political patron and approaches aliens (Or are they?) than he has ever been before. The episode of this season 2 premiere is fans popular with how it checks agent Mulder and adds a certain creepy faith to his conspiracies alienAs it turns out, one of the reasons why this story seems polished is that Glen Morgan had already written it as a movie.
According to the writer, “I had long written a scenario, called” Little Green Men “, which was a guy who had gone to the telescope in Chile.” Unfortunately, this scenario suffered the fate of so many possible films in Hollywood: “It was never made.” Nevertheless, Morgan said, “I liked many elements” and he was able to incorporate them into this great X-Files Episode.
In addition to having a desire to see his scenario on the screen, this episode had a special motivation: “We liked this idea so much that we decided to do it for the Mulder.” At that time, David Duchovny had expressed interest in making an episode that focused on his hero as “outside the sea” focused on Jillian Anderson Scully. Morgan considered to focus on Duchovny’s “most important” part of this story and wrote this episode to the actor because “I liked him, he deserved it.”
It really succeeds on this front, giving us a multi -oriented episode that turns into motivation of the hero and how far he will go to find the truth in his efforts. It is also very fun to get a new Muldera lesson, including the fact that he has wealthy patrons who secretly fund his work. Sadly, the show will never return to the idea that there could be as many government figures that want to help Mulder as those who want to kill him.
Glen Morgan’s last motivation to create “little green men” was the story of a set (search for extraterrestrial intelligence), a real -life institute that focuses on alien Life. “I was saddened that the government had closed the SETI project and I wanted to deal with it.” In this way, the writer transformed Mulder’s search for aliens for a very real, very important defense of projects.
Retrospective, one of the things that make “little green men” so special is that Morgan incorporated Seti’s defense in an episode that simply fires on all cylinders. It never feels like an afternoon special, full of preached homily. Rather, a legitimate government study on the real miserable state of extraterrrowrige was used to tell one of the best independent X-File episodes ever made.
“Little green men” is still one of the best X-Files Episodes have once been created, both as a provocative study of a multi -Mulder and as a kind of second pilot. Knowing that it is customized from an unproducted movie, we make us even more evaluate this episode. It eventually introduced the cinematic quality to the show that helped create X-Files One of the handsome shows in television history.
