THE X FILES 🌟 THEN AND NOW 2021

[Music] [Music] hello you're watching how they changed is the truth really out there the x-files began its original nine season run on the 10th of september 1993. david dukkovny and gillian anderson returned to our televisions in 2016 to reprise their roles as fbi agents fox mulder and dana scully for two new seasons but both the network and the series's stars have said that there won't be another season while we're sitting here hoping they might change their mind here are some facts about the iconic series on its 28th anniversary the idea for the show originated with a public opinion survey chris carter's interest in the paranormal was picked when he read pulitzer prize-winning writer psychiatrist harvard medical school professor john e mack's analysis of a 1991 roper paul survey which stated that at least 3.7 million americans may have been abducted by aliens everybody wants to hear that story carter told entertainment weekly abduction is tantamount to religious experience chris carter was inspired by all the president's men when asked about his intentions in creating the x-files chris carter told twitch that i'm a child of the watergate era so i questioned authority and mistrusted that was in my blood one of my favorite movies is all the president's men the most amazing thing about it and it's watchable time and again it's that we know the outcome watching it is where the entertainment value lies so i knew i would be exploring these things though i didn't know i would be doing it for nine years in the more than 20 years since the x-files made its premiere carter has cited a number of movies and television shows as helping to inspire its style and tone among them kolchak the night stalker twin peaks the thin blue line prime suspect three days of the condor the parallax view and the silence of the lamps [Music] dana scully was partly modeled on clary's stalling carter has been vocal about his admiration for jonathan diem's oscar-winning film the silence of the lamps and the influence it had on the x-files it's not a mistake that dana scully has red hair like clarice starling in the silence of the lamps carter told smithsonian magazine [Music] jody foster made a cameo in the fourth season episode never again jodie foster who won an oscar in 1992 for her role as clary starling provided the voice of betty a homicidal tattoo yes a homicidal tattoo [Music] david dukkovny pushed for jennifer bills to play scully david duchovny and the flesh dance star became acquainted when the two attended yale i used to see david on the street he tried to pick me up on several occasions bills recalled and i said i'm living with somebody and then i ended up taking this acting class in new york and who walks in the door but david duke of me and he's like i swear i'm not stalking you and we became really good friends his real sweetheart when he was doing the x-files he had talked to me about doing that but i think jillian was much better suited for that part than me entertainment weekly pronounced the series doa in a preview of the 1993 fall television lineup entertainment weekly declared that this show is a goner citing its genre and friday night time slot as two indicators that the series wouldn't last today it's one of the longest running sci-fi series in television history in real life scully is the believer in a 1994 interview with entertainment weekly jillian anderson admitted that dukkovnie was a skeptic and she was the believer psychokinesis appeals to me she said esp telling the future i love that stuff anderson and duchovny did not get along though anderson and duchovny are tight nowadays that friendship while based on the work they did together didn't really come about until the x-files ended the crucible of doing that show made monsters out of both of us duke obny told variety saying that it wasn't until filming the 2008 movie the x-files i want to believe that the two really clicked once we got to step back it was like oh wow we really like each other i didn't know that was going to happen the way we work together has changed whatever rapper we have as actors we earned it's nice to be able to play that without ever even feeling like you're playing it our relationship has definitely become a proper friendship over the last few years anderson added i think we're more on each other's side we are more aware of the others needs wants concerns and mindful to take those into consideration and just sharing more about our experiences in the moment under the sudden realization that we're both in this together and wouldn't it be nice if it were a collaboration scully was written as the center of the show while it's often stated that carter's goal in creating malden scully was to subvert gender stereotypes he says that wasn't a conscious part of the plan it just made sense to me in an instinctive way that she would be the scientist he said i don't know what that says about me but i always saw it that way it was always a man and a woman caught added i'm interested in strong women characters for me scully is the center of our show she's the skeptic in all of us science is at the root of science fiction so mulder while he seems to be often right and it might seem to be his show i always think of scully as the grounding influence and the thing that keeps the solar system of the show in place scully's character has had a big influence on the television landscape anderson taught the chicago tribune that carter fought tooth and nail to get me rather than what used to be the version of women on television back then which was very different and ironically it had an international effect on women and on television and how women were not just perceived but how they behaved this funny old series we were doing had a huge influence on the history of television in many ways from the lighting on television to the kinds of stories that were being told to the characters the amount of things you see right now where they even just have a male and female as investigators it's almost a joke it's like somebody should come with something different now scully may have also inspired a number of young women to pursue stem careers in april 2018 a report from the gina davis institute on gender in media claimed that dana scully served as a powerful role model for women who watched the show the skeptical doctor helped inspire women to go into stem science technology engineering and math careers in the world of entertainment media where scientists are often portrayed as white men wearing white coats and working alone in labs scully stood out in the 1990s as the only female stem character in a prominent prime time television role the report explained previously anecdotal evidence has pointed to the existence of a scully effect in which the measured tv scientist with her detailed note-taking evidence-based approach and desire to autopsy everything inspired women to seek out their own science careers this report provides the hard data the cigarette smoking man was originally cast as an extra when actor william b davies first appeared on the x-files it was a background actor with no dialogue at that time neither davis nor the producers knew that he would end up becoming the show's main antagonist there was a time when i wasn't in any episodes then all of a sudden i had a line or two and i thought that was interesting davis taught the palm beach post in and that just gradually increased then finally i had a big scene where malda comes after me with a gun that was the turning point where the producers decided this character is really interesting and i guess they felt i was okay to handle it the character is very simply written and william is called upon to carry a lot of the weight of the character and that's all for now don't forget to leave a like subscribe and share this video with friends take care

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Length: 10min 7sec (607 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 16 2021