Alfred Hitchcock has improved the X-Files finals

According to Chris Snellgrove
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X-files He had a somewhat unequal television debut, but most fans agree that the final of the season 1 “The Erlenmeyer Flask” was a perfect example of the potential of the series. It was also an episode that went home, how vulnerable our favorite characters were to kill a deep neck, a mysterious informant who helped Fox Mulder with his efforts to discover the truth about alien life. Most fans do not realize about this shocking death that it has been influenced by none other 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 Psycho.

How Alfred Hitchcock inspired X-Files

Alfred Hitchcock scared the audience of decades X-files hit the air and part of its influence on the show (such as the episode “Triangle” filmed in the style of the director’s film Rope) are relatively obvious. However, because the scene where Deep Throat Dies does not copy any of the visual elements of Hitchcock, it can be harder to detect the influence of the legendary director. Yet said the director of the Goodwin episode Cinepanastic That “I wanted it to be extremely shocking when (scully) saw a deep neck … he wanted it to be completely unexpected like hitchcock killing janet leigh in inside Psycho”

If you are still confused, why does it make great Alfred Hitchcock Homage, then it’s time to take a break X-files and go watch classic horror Psycho. When the audience got into this film, everyone had to assume that the main Hollywood star Janet Leigh was playing our main character. During the famous shower scene of the film, however, he is killed relatively early and the combination of sudden violence and the death of someone who thought he was the main character has become one of the most shocking scenes in film history.

RW Goodwin is a big fan of Alfred Hitchcock and for that X-files Final of the 1st season, he wanted to replicate the shocking murder of Janet Leigh’s character. As in her Psycho character, X-files The fans had every reason to think that the deep throat was “safe” because he was the main character throughout the season. Killing him (in this case by cutting him down the man, he shot him) for the show for what the scene of the shower did Psycho: Let the viewers know that no one is safe.

While Goodwin has not fully confirmed it, it sounds as if he was further inspired by the voyeuristic nature of Alfred Hitchcock’s shower scene for Scully. The director of the episode explained that “I really felt it was important to get a real clear look” Deep Throat’s death, and decided that “the view was Scully.” Giving her a clear look at the murder of the informant replicates how Psycho It allows us to see the character of Janet Leigh’s eyes of her killer, which makes her brutal murder much shocking.

In short, Alfred Hitchcock went so X-files He could run: The famous director had an impact on many episodes during many seasons of this scary show. Probably, however, this influence was never greater than in “Erlenmeyer Flask”, an episode in which a favorite fans are suddenly and brutally killed. It is a kind of scene that let you feel dirty, but after you learn the influence of Hitchcock on the final of the season 1, we will not soon grab a shower.