From Chris Snellgrove
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The X files is full of some of the most quotable lines in television history, which is why countless fans still like to love phrases such as āThe truth is out thereā and āI want to believeā. In fact, there are so many great lines that it is far too easy to overlook the most important line from everyone. In the episode of the first season āEBEā, the fan favorite character Deep Throat says āa lie ā¦ is most convincing between two truthsā, and the writer Glen Morgan later said that this line represents the creative process of the writer, Mix real facts with the trademark of the show Fantastic fiction.
The perfect X files quote
It is of course a catchy line, but it may need a context, especially if you havenāt seen this episode for many years (or at all). āEBEā is an episode in which Mulder and Scully examine a UFO that was shot down by an Iraqi fighter jet, and they are both prevented and hindered by Deep Throat, Mulderās mysterious government. Finally, Mulder questions why the informant real Intel (the transcript of the Iraqi pilot) mixed with a fake photo and admits the deep neck that āa lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincing between two truths.ā
āEBEā was written by fan favorites X files Writer Glen Morgan and James Wong and thought that the line from Deep Throat was the key to the entire history. Morgan, who slightly reminded his own dialogue, later said about the script: āThe whole thing was written to get into the line:ā The best way to lie is hidden between two truths. āWe worked on the whole thing to get to it.ā
Why this line was so important for this X files Authors, Morgan, later pointed out that it basically described the creative process of the show. Many of the show episodes were at least partially based on a kind of real creepy phenomenon that a writer, producer or even show runner Chris Carter Had read about in legitimate scientific magazines or other relevant texts. Of course, the show of the mix would add its own fictional elements, but everything was more convincing because ā¦ a lie between two truths is most convincingly hidden.
How the quote influences the series
Examples of episodes followed by this formula are āThe Jersey Devilā, which is built by a popular urban legend, the roots of which return to alleged eyewitness reports about a strange creature that in 1909 with citizens and even police officers (the attempted Shooting), New Jersey in 1909. The comedic episode āHumbugā was inspired by the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow in Seattle, an attraction from 1991 that had borrowed some of his actors to appear in the episode. And the cruel, controversial episode āHomeā was based on the Ward family, a real group of Syracus siblings who are said to be involved in incest and murder within the family.
Every episode had one X files Twist, of course ā¦ The real circus -in -laws had no murderous monsters that were bound to the body, and the real Ward Brothers did not live with a creepy matriarch or ever fought against the law enforcement authorities of the region and the government. However, the authentic details on which these episodes (and so much more) were built up helped to make these creepy stories both convincing and convincing. It turns out perfect Advice for everyone who writes their own genre show.
