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By Chris Snellgrove | Published
The X files It is full of some of the most quotable lines in the history of television, so innumerable fans still love to pronounce phrases such as “the truth is outside” and “I want to believe.” There are so many great lines, in fact, that it is too easy to ignore what could be the most important line of all. In the episode of season 1 “Ebe”, the favorite character of fans, the deep throat says “a lie … is more convincingly hidden between two truths”, and the writer Glen Morgan then said that this line represented the whole Creative process of writers to combine real facts with the fantastic registered brand fiction of the program.
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It is a catchy line, obviously, but you may need some context, especially if you have not seen this episode in many years (or at all). “Ebe” is an episode in which Mulder and Scully investigate a UFO that was shot down by an Iraqi combat plane, and both are helped and hindered by the deep throat, the mysterious informant of the Mulder government. Mulder finally questions why the informant intermingled the true Intel (the transcription of the Iraqi pilot) with a false photo, which makes the deep throat admit that “a lie, Mr. Mulder, is more convincingly hidden between two truths.”
“Ebe” was written by Fan-Favorite X-Files Writers Glen Morgan and James Wong, and thought that Deep Throat’s line was key to the whole story. Morgan, a little bad remembering his own dialogue, later said about the script: “Everything was written to reach the line:” A lie is better hidden between two truths. “We work everything to get to that.”
As for why this line was so important for these X-Files The writers, Morgan, then pointed out that he basically described the creative process of the show. Many of the episodes of the program were based at least in some kind of genuine spooky phenomenon that a writer, producer or even the Chris Carter showrunner had read in legitimate scientific journals or other authorized texts. Of course, the program would add its own fictional elements to the mixture, but everything was more convincing because … a lie is more convincingly hidden between two truths.
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Examples of episodes that followed this formula include “The Jersey Devil”, which is built from a popular urban legend whose roots date back to the alleged eyewitnesses of a strange creature that get entangled with citizens and even police officers (which They tried to shoot it) in 1909 New Jersey. Meanwhile, the comic episode “Humbug” was inspired by the Sideo show of Jim Rose Circus in Seattle, an attraction of 1991 that lent some of its artists to appear in the episode. And the horrible and controversial episode “Home” was based on the Ward family, a true group of Syracuse brothers who supposedly participated in incest and murder within the family.
Each episode had a X-Files Twist, of course … The true circus show had no murderous monsters attached to the body, and the true brothers Ward did not live with a spooky matriarch or always fought against the application of the local and government law. However, the authentic details in these episodes (and many more) were built helped these spooky stories be convincing and convincing. It turns out that the deep throat could have been a screenwriter because “a lie is more convincingly hidden between two truths” is perfect Tip for anyone who writes their own gender show.
