By Chris Snellgrove | Published
X-Files I had a somewhat uneven start to television, but most fans agree that the final of season 1 “The Erlenmeyer Flask” was a perfect showcase of the potential of the series. It was also an episode that led to the house how vulnerable our favorite characters are by killing Deep Gorge, the mysterious informant who helped Fox Mulder in his quest to discover the truth about extraterrestrial life. What most fans do not realize about this shocking death is that it was influenced by none other than Alfred Hitchcock, as a veteran X-Files Director Rw Goodwin wanted the informant’s sudden death to be as surprising as Janet Leigh’s death Psycho.
How Alfred Hitchcock inspired X-Files
Alfred Hitchcock frightened the public of decades before X-Files Hit the tunes and part of his influence on the series (like the episode “Triangle” shot in the style of the director of the director Rope) are relatively obvious. However, as the scene where the deep throat dies does not copy any of Hitchcock’s visual elements, it can be more difficult to detect the influence of the legendary director. Nevertheless, the director of episode Goodwin said Cinefantastic that “I wanted it to be extremely shocking when [Scully] Seen from the deep shooting throat … wanted it to be completely unexpected, as Hitchcock killing Janet Leigh in Psycho. “”
If you are still perplexed about the reason why it pays a big tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, then it’s time to take a break in X-Files And go watch the classic horror movie Psycho. By entering this film, the public had every reason to assume that the major star of Hollywood Janet Leigh played our main character. However, she was killed relatively early during the famous film shower scene, and the sudden violence combination and someone’s death that everyone thought he was the main character made this most shocking scenes in cinematographic history.
RW Goodwin is a big fan of Alfred Hitchcock and for that X-Files Final of season 1, he wanted to reproduce the shocking murder of the character of Janet Leigh. As with her Psycho character, X-Files Fans had every reason to think that the deep throat was “sure” because he had been a major character throughout the season. Killing it (in this case, by making the crew on the crew crew) did for the show what the shower scene did for Psycho: Let the public know that person is sure.
Although Goodwin has not completely confirmed this, it seems that it was inspired by the voyeuristic nature of the Alfred Hitchcock shower scene because of Scully. The director of episode said that “I really thought it was important to get a real point of view” for the death of Deep Gorge, and he decided that “the point of view was Scully”. Giving him a clear vision of the informant’s murder reproduces how Psycho Allows us to see the character of Janet Leigh through the eyes of his killer, making his murder brutal even more shocking.
In short, Alfred Hitchcock walked then X-Files could run: the famous director had an impact on a certain number of episodes throughout the seasons of this frightening program. Undoubtedly, however, this influence has never been greater than in “The Erlenmeyer Flask”, an episode in which a favorite character of fans is suddenly and brutally killed. This is the kind of scene that makes you dirty, but after learning Hitchcock’s influence on this final of season 1, we will not seize a shower anytime soon.
