The X-Files - The Movie
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| German title | The X-Files - The Movie |
| Original title | The X-Files Alternative title: The X-Files: Fight the Future |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | Cinema: 121 minutes DVD: 118 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Rob S. Bowman |
| script |
Chris Carter Frank Spotnitz |
| production | Chris Carter Daniel Sackheim |
| music | Mark Snow |
| camera | Ward Russell |
| cut | Stephen Mark |
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The X-Files - The Movie (original title: The X-Files ) is a science fiction - thriller from 1998 directed by Rob Bowman . The film is based on the TV series The X-Files - The FBI's Scary Cases and is in the series chronology between the fifth and sixth season. The film opened in German cinemas on August 6, 1998.
action
35,000 BC, in the icy north of what is now Texas : Two prehistoric humans follow in the footsteps of an unknown being in the snow. The tracks lead them into a cave. One of the two finds one of his own kind frozen in ice and is shortly afterwards attacked and killed by an alien creature with black, almond-shaped eyes. After the second succeeded in killing the being, a black liquid emerges from the dead body, flows towards him and crawls up under his skin on his body.
The same place in our time: The cave is now in a dry desert area near Dallas . A boy named Stevie falls into the previously closed cave and is infected by the same black liquid. Four men from the local fire department climb into the cave and never come back. Suddenly numerous people appear in protective suits under the direction of Dr. Ben Bronschweig - a scientist who works for a secret government project - with white, unmarked trucks and tankers. Stevie is taken away from them in a sealed container and the case is disguised to the public as a hantavirus outbreak .
A week later in Dallas: An anonymous bomb threat was issued on a government building and the FBI searches the building but cannot find an explosive device. FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully - who used to work on the X-Files but which have since been closed - are searching the building across the street when Mulder discovers a bomb in a vending machine. The commanding FBI agent Darius Michaud then sends all colleagues out of the building and explains that he will defuse the bomb on his own. In fact, he does nothing, so the bomb explodes and he is killed in the process.
At the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC , Mulder and Scully now have to answer to a commission where they are accused of misconduct. In addition to her colleague Michaud, the bodies of three firefighters and a little boy were found in the building. The Commission plans to transfer Scully to Salt Lake City later , but would rather resign than accept it. Mulder is led by a Dr. Alvin contacted Kurtzweil, who claims to have been a friend of his father's at the State Department. Kurtzweil explains to him that Michaud should not defuse the bomb to destroy traces, that the building also had rooms for the government's civil protection agency ( FEMA ) and that the firemen and the boy were already dead before the explosion. In addition, there have been secret negotiations with aliens about the development of an alien virus for 50 years. Since Dr. Kurtzweil is also the author of books on conspiracy theories, but Mulder does not take him seriously for the time being, but changes his mind after he and Scully broke into the Bethesda Naval Hospital and saw the body of one of the firefighters. Meanwhile, the government is trying to get Dr. To discredit Kurtzweil by accusing him of selling child pornographic images on the Internet.
In the cave, Dr. Bronschweig meanwhile had an isolated laboratory built where the fourth firefighter is still biologically alive, but an extraterrestrial embryo is growing in him that digests his body. However, the alien is mutated and grows to full size faster than expected and breaks out of the body. After Dr. Bronschweig is surprised by the creature and seriously injured by him, the staff ignore his calls for help and seal the cave from the outside; Bronschweig is killed by the being.
Mulder and Scully follow a nightly freight train with the white tanker trucks in their car, which leads them to a huge cornfield in the middle of the desert. In the middle there are two huge domes in which Africanized honey bees are kept. They are experimenting with pollination techniques in order to spread the alien virus through genetically modified maize . One of the bees slips into Scully's clothes unnoticed and later stings her. After she falls into a coma, a fake ambulance is sent to her to be kidnapped and then taken to Antarctica by plane . When Mulder tries to meet Kurtzweil, the latter has disappeared and he meets a well-groomed man from England who is part of the conspiracy. Contrary to his instructions, he does not kill Mulder, but gives him a weak vaccine against the virus and the coordinates of Scully's whereabouts and then blows himself up in his car.
The coordinates lead Mulder to an ice station in Wilkesland , under which there are numerous cold sleeping tanks with infected people in underground rooms. After he has rescued Scully and injected her with the vaccine, the system becomes contaminated and the previously stable environmental conditions become unbalanced. The aliens wake up from their cold sleep, and the subterranean rooms turn out to be a huge spaceship located under the ice, which then takes off and flies away.
After the spaceship disappears, all information is covered up and evidence of the project is destroyed. Scully's story is not believed by the FBI, the only remaining evidence she has is the dead bee that stung her, but the FBI no longer has a department to investigate such cases.
In the last scene you see huge corn fields and domes in the Tunisian desert near Foum Tataouine , and you learn that the X-Files have now been reopened.
background
- The events of the film take place between the last episode of the fifth season (episode 117: The End ) and the first episode of the sixth season (episode 118: The beginning ).
- In the television series, Mulder's sister was abducted by aliens when he was 12 years old. In the film, we now learn that his father allowed this to create a clone of human and alien so that they would survive the alien virus as a genetic cross.
- The titles of the Dr. Kurtzweil's books are The Four Horsemen Of The Global Domination Conspiracy and Countdown to the Apocalypse .
- In the film, Mulder urinates in front of an Independence Day movie poster and in Independence Day you can hear a character say the sentence: I love The X-Files too .
- Filming began on June 16, 1997 and ended on September 20, 1997. The shooting took place mainly in various locations in British Columbia and California .
- Production costs were estimated at $ 66 million. Around 189 million US dollars were recorded in cinemas around the world, of which around 84 million US dollars in the USA and 15.5 million US dollars in Germany.
Reviews
“The movie for the television series begins where the last US TV episode ended. It should build a bridge to the next, the sixth year of series. But of course, previous 'X-Files' ignoramuses should also be able to amuse themselves in the cinema version. So you bet on action plus conspiracy. That's working. 'The X-Files The Film' keeps the viewer excited. However, if you have got used to thinking for yourself, you will find too many inexplicable phrases. "
"The actual plot of the film is very soon reduced to a banal and moderately suspenseful" hero saves heroine from the clutches of the bad guys "story, which is wrapped in endless talk that never gets beyond the hollow, threatening conspiracy that is well-known from the series -Geschwurbel - which then, as usual, pointlessly and aimlessly with a truce demanded to be continued, petered out almost exactly where you were at the beginning. The only concession to the “special” status of the cinema is that the existence of aliens is confirmed with reasonable certainty - but that should only knock those unfortunate geeks off their feet who have always seen “X-Files” as a documentary series. "
“A series adventure inflated to cinema dimensions, which retains the essential characteristics of the television episodes. Despite numerous costly effects, the mysterious-eerie atmosphere is in the foreground here too. Many plot details use the predisposed fear complexes of the (American) audience as a means of increasing tension. "
Awards
- The film was nominated for a 1999 Saturn Award in five categories : Best Actor (David Duchovny), Best Actress (Gillian Anderson), Best Director (Rob Bowman), Best Make-up, and Best Science Fiction Film .
- For the film music, composer Mark Snow received an ASCAP Award 1999 from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in the Top Box Office Films category
- For sound editing, the film was nominated for a Cinema Audio Society Award in 1999 and a Golden Reel Award (Motion Picture Sound Editors) in 1999.
- The film won the 1998 Bogey Award for reaching 1 million moviegoers in 10 days.
- The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
continuation
literature
- Attention, conspirators! In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 , 1998 ( online interview with screenwriter Chris Carter on the film).
Web links
- The X-Files - The movie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The X-Files - The Movie at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- The X-Files - The Movie at Metacritic (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions theatrical version - DVD of the X-Files - The film at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Locations for the film
- ↑ Financial data on the film
- ↑ Gunter Göckenjan: Entangling . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 6, 1998
- ↑ Film review I swear, eyh, conspirators!
- ↑ The X-Files - The Movie. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
