Chris Snellgrove | publishing
X File It’s a show that gives us the coldest vision in television history. For example, anyone who grew up using his magical powers for the evil gentleman may still be afraid of escalators, which is “tooms”. But bringing such monsters to life is just another day in the production team office, they The nightmare is often getting closer to home. For example, the episode of Season 1, “Dark Falls,” is condemned by almost everyone behind the camera. X File The plot’s outdoors and horrible weather usually make shooting nearly impossible.
Dark Falls is an X-files nightmare
Reference, “Dark Falls” is X File Mulder and Scully have to fight against the scammers, deadly insects and new life forms, all running around the Olympic National Forest in Washington State. Two different Vancouver forests are used to bring the famous American forest to life, and this episode looks so great that you never know it is plagued by hard work. However, outdoor shooting didn’t cause the end of the headache, first of all, all the extra scene travel time means the crew can only shoot six pages of scripts a day, rather than planning eight.
Not only the external location of the “dark falls”, this slows down the speed X File Production staff. There is also a very specific road access problem. The crew had a work battalion that was accessible only through a dead end road, which allowed only single-lane traffic and required vehicles. As a result, they had to spend a lot of time transporting actors and crew from public parking lots, up to 200 yards from public parking lots.
Now that will make “dark fall” difficult to shoot, but X FileThe S crew also has to fight against the elements. The heavy rains caused delays, and this problem exacerbated how many plots were filmed outside. Executive producer RW Goodwin later estimated: “In eight days of shooting, six of them were in the forest”, which made daily work and night work heavy.
The weather was so bad during the filming of “Dark Falls” that the rain was just an obstacle. X File All personnel. Director Joe Napolitano complained that it rained every day and the crew feared that the nearby dam would break due to the weather. Additionally, the guest star (and David Duchovny’s childhood friend) Jason Beghe said: “There can’t be better shooting conditions,” and “It’s raining, snowing and Freeze. “In Goodwin’s words, all of this adds up to the “logistical nightmare” where only seeing what’s in front of them is “like trying to see through a waterfall.”
Although “Dark Falls” was completed and aired, the version we saw on TV with X File The crew initially envisioned. The expected lens must be cancelled because rainfall makes the lens and position of some cameras impossible, and tasks like recording clean audio are nearly impossible due to the weather. The weather even makes shooting daytime scenes sometimes impossible, because as a suitable episode title, dark clouds surround everyone in the darkness.
Credits with credit lines expired: “Dark Fall” is very solid early X File The plot, these production difficulties are invisible on the screen. Now, we know how difficult it is to shoot, but we will never look at this classic plot the same way again. Mulder tries to tell us “the truth is there”, but it turns out we real It is necessary to note that the rain is.
