The X-Files star that saved the worst script of the season 1

According to Chris Snellgrove
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Have you ever watched a nice average hour of television, which is saved only by the star of the killer? Sometimes even the professionals in the television industry will be the first to admit that they were handed over to them quite a non -compliant script and that the only thing that holds the story together is a powerful performance by a visiting actor this week. For example, the director who worked on the episode “Roland” agreed that the performance of Željko Ivanek helped save what would otherwise be a very significant episode X-files.

Željko Ivanek with episode X-Files “Roland”

If you haven’t seen or needed refreshing, “Roland” is an episode, where he is the title character of an intellectually handicapped man who is manipulated in the murderous events of his cryogenically frozen twin brother. Even according to the standards of this scary show was this story “90. X-files Episode, starting with director David Nuster, who said “When I knew I had him, I thought it was important to push it as much as possible to help out over the fragile in the script.”

One of David’s greatest criticism of this episode is that his villain was “a little abstract”. This is because The Big Bad was a man in a cryogenic stasis that we do not even see until the end of the episode … Not a completely tangible threat, such as the smoking of cigarettes that is hidden in the corner. But as soon as he realized what extensive acting chops Željko Ivanek had, X-files The director put more emphasis on the character of Roland, which resulted in an episode he thought “he was a really strong figure”.

Chris Carter Generally agreed to this assessment and noted that “for me, (View Željko Ivanek) made an episode” that was “which X-files Fans will never forget. He offered a special praise “David Nutter and writing staff for having ended and that the episode really works.” In fact, Carter loved Roland so much that he allowed one of the unspoken musical rules of the show to be completely broken.

According to X-files Composer Mark Snow, David Nutter “said that a strange small theme for piano would be great for this character,” but Snow knew very well that Chris Carter was “really melodic music”, so he knew he had to get this song “right”. The result is “this simple, very child, slightly abandoned, sad piece”… A species that immediately protruded in the middle of the more spooky and atmospheric traces of the show. Fortunately, Carter loved a song that perfectly encapsulated the inner struggle of the title of the title.

In retrospect, it is easy to see how creative staff for “Roland” really gave all his tokens to perform Željko Ivanek. He got a fleshy share on the screen, his own song and an unforgettable final arch. And this made him standout a character in the season, which included early favorite fans, such as lonely gunmen and Walter Skinner.

At the end of the day, the instincts of David Nutter were right: the powerful acting of Željko Ivanek was really the peak otherwise quite average X-files episode. Fortunately for the cast and crew it was a show based on great personalities and Ivanek’s Roland character succeeded as convincing in his limited time on the screen as David Duchovna and former FBI agents Gillian Anderson. And this causes this episode worth seeing time or two to put it back on the ice (preferably cryogenic freezing).