Alfred Hitchcock made an even better X-Files

By Chris Snellgrove | Published 25 seconds ago

The X files I had a somewhat unequal television debut, but most fans agree that the end of season 1 “The Erlenmeyer Flask” was a perfect show of the series potential. This was also an episode that led home how vulnerable they are our favorite characters in killing the deep throat, the mysterious informant who helped Fox Mulder with his search to discover the truth about alien life. What most fans do not realize this shocking death is that it was influenced by nothing less than Alfred Hitchcock, as a veteran X-Files Director RW Goodwin wanted the sudden death of the informant to be as surprising as the death of Janet Leigh in Psychopath.

How Alfred Hitchcock inspired X-Files

Alfred Hitchcock was scaring the public decades before The X files It comes to the air, and part of its influence on the program (such as the “triangle” episode filmed in the style of the director’s film Rope) They are relatively obvious. However, because the scene in which the deep throat dies does not copy any of Hitchcock’s visual elements, it may be more difficult to detect the influence of the legendary director. However, the director of Episodes Goodwin said Cinefantastic that “I wanted it to be extremely shocking when (Scully) saw a deep throat shot … I wanted it to be completely unexpected, like Hitchcock killing Janet Leigh in Psychopath. “

If you are still bewildered why this is a great tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, then it’s time to take a break from The X files And see the classic horror movie Psychopath. Upon entering that film, the public had all the reasons to assume that the great Hollywood star, Janet Leigh, played our main character. However, they kill her relatively early during the famous shower scene of the film, and the combination of sudden violence and the death of someone who everyone thought was the main character made this of the most shocking scenes in cinematographic history.

RW Goodwin is a great admirer of Alfred Hitchcock and for this X-Files End of season 1, I wanted to replicate the shocking murder of Janet Leigh’s character. As with her Psychopath character, X-Files Fans had all the reasons to think that the deep throat was “safe” because it had been an important character throughout the season. Kill him (in this case, by making the crew cut the man to shoot him) he did it for the program why he did the shower scene Psychopath: Let the public know that nobody It is safe.

While Goodwin did not completely confirm this, it seems that it was further inspired by the voyeurist nature of the Alfred Hitchcock shower scene due to Scully. The director of the episode clarified that “I really felt it was important to obtain a really clear point of view” for the death of Deep Garging, and decided that “the point of view was Scully.” Give him a clear vision of the murder of the informant replicates how Psychopath It allows us to see the character of Janet Leigh through his murderer’s eyes, making his brutal murder much more shocking.

In short, Alfred Hitchcock walked like this The X files He could run: the famous director had an impact on a series of episodes along the many seasons of this spooky show. However, it could be said that this influence was never greater than in “The Erlenmeyer Flask”, an episode in which a fans’ favorite character is suddenly and brutally murdered. It is the type of scene that leaves you dirty, but after learning of Hitchcock’s influence in this end of season 1, we will not take a shower in the short term.