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Was the X-Files intro the worst edited of all time?
Posted on 8/14/18 at 9:47 pm
Posted on 8/14/18 at 9:47 pm
The song was catchy, but the content they used was horrible in my opinion.
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Posted on 8/14/18 at 9:53 pm to finchmeister08
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Posted on 8/14/18 at 9:53 pm to finchmeister08
I consider it one of the best intro's ever, to each their own.
Posted on 8/14/18 at 10:04 pm to Hot Carl
It looks like it was done in a middle school project.
Posted on 8/14/18 at 10:16 pm to finchmeister08
Wasn’t it supposed to be like the home videos of ufos and Bigfoot’s etc... grainy and poor quality.
That’s what made it great.
That’s what made it great.
Posted on 8/14/18 at 10:19 pm to memphis tiger
He is too young to understand the concept of the intro.
Posted on 8/14/18 at 10:19 pm to finchmeister08
The frick?
The editing + the music is what makes the intro.
The editing + the music is what makes the intro.
Posted on 8/14/18 at 10:58 pm to DoUrden
quote:Clearly
He is too young to understand the concept of the intro.
quote:it was supposed to.
It looks like it was done in a middle school project
That's the whole charm of the series, especially early on, before the vast conspiracy of the later years.
It's the FBI, nobody expects them to take weird urban legend shite seriously; but Fox Mulder (a brilliant agent, but considered nutso) did. As he said, "I want to believe". So he investigated all sorts of whacko things, going in with an open mind. If it was fake, he'd debunk it, but not without first investigating it.
I loved the early seasons, where there was a hint of hidden knowledge (the Smoking Man), but that was all mysterious and unknown. It was just the right take; not all fantasy like Supernatural, where everything is explained. Just strange stuff that wasn't explainable, that the FBI looked into.
Posted on 8/14/18 at 11:02 pm to finchmeister08
I bet its the parts of the intro where you see Mulder and Scully that he takes issue with. That bit hasn't exactly aged well.
But when the body is falling into the hand of nothingness? frick yes.
But when the body is falling into the hand of nothingness? frick yes.
This post was edited on 8/14/18 at 11:03 pm
Posted on 8/14/18 at 11:53 pm to finchmeister08
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The song was catchy, but the content they used was horrible in my opinion.
The show started out as a low-budget production on the new Fox network. One of the great charms of the series was that they kept that original opening sequence.
Posted on 8/14/18 at 11:58 pm to Fewer Kilometers
The truth is out there: 20 surprising facts about The X-Files you (probably) did not know
11/29/2013/37 Comments/in Cool Culture /by JPW
The-xfiles-facts
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the launch of one of the most iconic TV shows in television history. It created such devotion amongst its viewers, that fans of the show became commonly known as “X-Philes,” a term coined from the Greek root “-phil-” meaning love or obsession. No surprise then that when the series ended in 2002, it had run for 202 episodes making it the longest-consecutive running science fiction series in U.S. television history. This record was only surpassed years later by Stargate SG-1 in 2007 and Smallville in 2011. In honour of a television show, which made a whole generation see the world in a surprisingly different way, we’ve unearthed twenty unusual facts to show the truth really is out there.
1. When the series started on Sept. 10, 1993 by declaring “The truth is out there.” Entertainment Weekly replied, “We know — this show’s a goner.”
2. Screenwriter Chris Carter travelled the world as a writer for Surfer magazine before coming up with the idea for the X-Files.
3. He was inspired to write the series after reading a report that 3.7m Americans may have been abducted by aliens.
4. Acclaimed X-Files writer James Wong originally studied engineering but later switched to film after seeing Apocalypse Now.
5. During the casting process, everyone from Bruce Campbell, to Adam Baldwin, Dean Cain and Lou Diamond Phillips auditioned for role of Mulder.
6. Fox originally wanted a “taller, leggier, blonder and breastier” actress to play Scully than 24-year-old Gillian Anderson.
Gillian-Anderson-39
7. During the early stages of production, Carter began to plan for filming the pilot in Los Angeles. However, unable to find suitable locations for many scenes, he decided to “go where the good forests are” and moved production to Vancouver, Canada.
8. The beloved opening theme for the series was created almost by accident, after composer Mark Snow rested his elbow on the keyboard with the “echo” function on. He like the creepy vibe, and used it to make the theme we all know and love.
9. The theme song’s famous whistle effect was inspired by the track “How Soon is Now” from The Smiths’ 1985 album Meat Is Murder.
10. Club versions of the theme song have charted in France, the UK (40) and Australia, where a remix by Triple X became a number 2 hit in 1996.
11. Gillian Anderson spent most of her time on the series standing on a box — due to the fact that she’s just a little over 5 feet tall — and a full 10 inches shorter than David Duchovny.
12. Mulder’s first words to Scully, when she found his office in the FBI basement were “Sorry, nobody down here but the FBI’s most unwanted.”
13. Gillian Anderson based her matter-of-fact FBI character on Jodie Foster’s performance as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs.
14. Agent Mulder’s cell phone number in the series is 555-0199. The same number is used by the Burnhas in “American Beauty”, and Al Pacino leaves this number in “the Insider”.
Xfilesfacts4
15. Long before Survivor and Fear Factor (in the second season, in fact), Gillian Anderson put a live cricket in her mouth. She spit it out when the scene ended.
16. The series featured a host of stars, including two famous Lucys (Lawless and Liu) and Lili Taylor and Lily Tomlin. Other guest stars have included Jerry Springer, Alex Trebek, Ed Asner and Burt Reynolds. The sixth season had four former Saturday Night Live people — Victoria Jackson, Michael McKean, Charles Rocket and Nora Dunn.
17.Conrad Strughold, played by Armin Mueller-Stahl, was named after the real Strughold, a Nazi scientist who conducted experiments on prisoners during World War II.
18. Both stars, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, have directed episodes. Duchovny wrote scripts or stories for eight episodes. His brother was in two episodes; Ms. Anderson’s teen sister, Zoe, played the teen-age Dana Scully in one.
Xfilesfacts2
19.The legendary “Cigarette Smoking Man” owns a cigarette lighter with the inscription, “TRUST NO ONE”.
20. In 2008 several props from the series and the film The X-Files: I Want To Believe were donated to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
11/29/2013/37 Comments/in Cool Culture /by JPW
The-xfiles-facts
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the launch of one of the most iconic TV shows in television history. It created such devotion amongst its viewers, that fans of the show became commonly known as “X-Philes,” a term coined from the Greek root “-phil-” meaning love or obsession. No surprise then that when the series ended in 2002, it had run for 202 episodes making it the longest-consecutive running science fiction series in U.S. television history. This record was only surpassed years later by Stargate SG-1 in 2007 and Smallville in 2011. In honour of a television show, which made a whole generation see the world in a surprisingly different way, we’ve unearthed twenty unusual facts to show the truth really is out there.
1. When the series started on Sept. 10, 1993 by declaring “The truth is out there.” Entertainment Weekly replied, “We know — this show’s a goner.”
2. Screenwriter Chris Carter travelled the world as a writer for Surfer magazine before coming up with the idea for the X-Files.
3. He was inspired to write the series after reading a report that 3.7m Americans may have been abducted by aliens.
4. Acclaimed X-Files writer James Wong originally studied engineering but later switched to film after seeing Apocalypse Now.
5. During the casting process, everyone from Bruce Campbell, to Adam Baldwin, Dean Cain and Lou Diamond Phillips auditioned for role of Mulder.
6. Fox originally wanted a “taller, leggier, blonder and breastier” actress to play Scully than 24-year-old Gillian Anderson.
Gillian-Anderson-39
7. During the early stages of production, Carter began to plan for filming the pilot in Los Angeles. However, unable to find suitable locations for many scenes, he decided to “go where the good forests are” and moved production to Vancouver, Canada.
8. The beloved opening theme for the series was created almost by accident, after composer Mark Snow rested his elbow on the keyboard with the “echo” function on. He like the creepy vibe, and used it to make the theme we all know and love.
9. The theme song’s famous whistle effect was inspired by the track “How Soon is Now” from The Smiths’ 1985 album Meat Is Murder.
10. Club versions of the theme song have charted in France, the UK (40) and Australia, where a remix by Triple X became a number 2 hit in 1996.
11. Gillian Anderson spent most of her time on the series standing on a box — due to the fact that she’s just a little over 5 feet tall — and a full 10 inches shorter than David Duchovny.
12. Mulder’s first words to Scully, when she found his office in the FBI basement were “Sorry, nobody down here but the FBI’s most unwanted.”
13. Gillian Anderson based her matter-of-fact FBI character on Jodie Foster’s performance as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs.
14. Agent Mulder’s cell phone number in the series is 555-0199. The same number is used by the Burnhas in “American Beauty”, and Al Pacino leaves this number in “the Insider”.
Xfilesfacts4
15. Long before Survivor and Fear Factor (in the second season, in fact), Gillian Anderson put a live cricket in her mouth. She spit it out when the scene ended.
16. The series featured a host of stars, including two famous Lucys (Lawless and Liu) and Lili Taylor and Lily Tomlin. Other guest stars have included Jerry Springer, Alex Trebek, Ed Asner and Burt Reynolds. The sixth season had four former Saturday Night Live people — Victoria Jackson, Michael McKean, Charles Rocket and Nora Dunn.
17.Conrad Strughold, played by Armin Mueller-Stahl, was named after the real Strughold, a Nazi scientist who conducted experiments on prisoners during World War II.
18. Both stars, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, have directed episodes. Duchovny wrote scripts or stories for eight episodes. His brother was in two episodes; Ms. Anderson’s teen sister, Zoe, played the teen-age Dana Scully in one.
Xfilesfacts2
19.The legendary “Cigarette Smoking Man” owns a cigarette lighter with the inscription, “TRUST NO ONE”.
20. In 2008 several props from the series and the film The X-Files: I Want To Believe were donated to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
Posted on 8/15/18 at 12:11 am to Dr RC
One thing that always nagged at me: Why is the one part of that handprint red?
Posted on 8/15/18 at 12:18 am to DoUrden
quote:
I consider it one of the best intro's ever, to each their own.
Posted on 8/15/18 at 1:08 am to finchmeister08
quote:This is what you've chosen to do with your privilege to post restored?
Was the X-Files intro the worst edited of all time?
Posted on 8/15/18 at 1:34 am to finchmeister08
LINK
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The opening sequence was made in 1993 for the first season and remained unchanged until Duchovny left the show.[12][84] Carter sought to make the title an "impactful opening" with "supernatural images".[93] These scenes notably include a split-screen image of a seed germinating as well as a "terror-filled, warped face".[93] The latter was created when Carter found a video operator who was able to create the effect. The sequence was extremely popular and won the show its first Emmy Award, which was for Outstanding Graphic Design and Title Sequences. Rabwin was particularly pleased with the sequence and felt that it was something that had "never seen on television before".[84] [b]In 2017, James Charisma of Paste (magazine) ranked the show's opening sequence #8 on a list of The 75 Best TV Title Sequences of All Time.[94]
Posted on 8/15/18 at 11:47 am to finchmeister08
Posted on 8/15/18 at 11:48 am to WaltTeevens
I always went to alien implant detected.
Posted on 8/15/18 at 7:14 pm to finchmeister08
quote:
but the content they used was horrible in my opinion.
Your opinion sucks.
Posted on 8/15/18 at 9:42 pm to finchmeister08
quote:
The song was catchy, but the content they used was horrible in my opinion.
How old are you? 16?
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