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| Year: | 1998 |
| Rating: | 6.8(38641) |
| Listed in: | Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
| Directed by: | Rob Bowman |
| Actors: | David Duchovny John Neville William B. Davis Martin Landau Mitch Pileggi Gillian Anderson |
| "Fight the Future" | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
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| Rob Bowman | |
| Actors | |
| David Duchovny | as Special Agent Fox Mulder |
| John Neville | as The Well-Manicured Man |
| William B. Davis | as Cigarette Smoking Man/CGB Spender |
| Martin Landau | as Alvin Kurtzweil, MD |
| Mitch Pileggi | as Assistant Director Walter Skinner |
| Jeffrey DeMunn | as Ben Bronschweig, M.D. |
| Terry O'Quinn | as Darius Michaud |
| Armin Mueller-Stahl | as Conrad Strughold |
| Lucas Black | as Stevie |
| Christopher Fennell | as Boy #2 |
| Cody Newton | as Boy #3 |
| Blake Stokes | as Boy #4 |
| Dean Haglund | as Richard 'Ringo' Langly |
| Bruce Harwood | as John Fitzgerald Byers |
| Tom Braidwood | as Melvin Frohike |
| Don S. Williams | as First Elder |
| George Murdock | as Second Elder |
| Michael Shamus Wiles | as Black-Haired Man |
| Craig Davis | as Primitive #1 |
| Carrick O'Quinn | as Primitive #2 |
| Tom Woodruff Jr. | as Creature #1 |
| Greg Ballora | as Creature #2 |
| Ted King | as FBI Agent on Roof |
| Luis Beckford | as FBI Agent |
| Steve Rankin | as Field Agent |
| Gary Grubbs | as Fire Captain Miles Cooles |
| Steven M. Gagnon | as Last Agent Out |
| Larry Joshua | as D.C. Cop #1 |
| Glendon Rich | as Police Investigator |
| Gunther Jenson | as Security Guard |
| Scott Alan Smith | as Technician |
| Ian Ruskin | as Well-Manicured Man's Valet |
| Paul Welterlen | as Control Room Operator |
| Joel Traywick | as Young Naval Guard |
| Milton Johns | as British Valet |
| Paul Tuerpe | as Paramedic #1 |
| Michael Krawic | as Paramedic #2 |
| Larry Rippenkroeger | as Towncar Driver |
| Josh McLaglen | as Buzz Mihoe |
| Randy Hall | as Windbreakered Agent |
| T.C. Badalato | as Fireman |
| Amine Zary | as Tunisian |
| David Paris | as Pilot |
| Jason Beghe | as FBI Man at Bomb Site |
| Darrell Britt | as Texas Businessman |
| Fuad C'Amanero | as FBI Agent |
| Gilley Grey | as Firefighter #2 |
| Mitch Toles | as Security Guard #2 |
| Marcus Turner | as Young Fox Mulder |
| Actresses | |
| Gillian Anderson | as Special Agent Dana Scully |
| Blythe Danner | as Jana Cassidy |
| Maxine English | as Dead Wife in Trunk |
| Glenne Headly | as Barmaid |
| Vanessa Morley | as Young Samantha Mulder |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Filming dates: | 16 June 1997 - 20 September 1997 |
| Budget: | USD 66,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 83,892,374 USD (11 October 1998) UK - 8,280,945 GBP (27 September 1998) Worldwide - 99,700,000 USD (20 December 1998) (except USA) |
| Plot: | Thirty-seven thousand years ago, a deadly secret was buried in a cave in Texas. Now the secret has been unleashed. And its discovery may mean the end of all humanity. When a terrorist bomb destroys a building in Dallas, Texas, FBI Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are drawn into a dangerous conspiracy surpassing anything they've ever encountered. With the dubious assistance of a paranoid doctor, Mulder and Scully risk their careers and their lives to hunt down a deadly virus which may be extraterrestrial in origin - and could destroy all life on earth. Their pursuit of the truth pits them against the mysterious Syndicate, powerful men who will stop at nothing to keep their secrets safe, leading the agents from a cave in Texas, to the halls of the FBI, and finally to a secret installation in Antarctica which holds the greatest secret of all. |
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"Teotihuacan" Written by Noel Gallagher Performed by Noel Gallagher "Walking After You" Written by David Grohl Performed by Foo Fighters "Invisible Sun" Written by Sting Performed by Sting and Aswad "Hunter" Written by Björk Performed by Björk "Crystal Ship" Written by Jim Morrison , Ray Manzarek, John Densmore and Robby Krieger Performed by X Produced by Ray Manzarek "One" Originally performed by Three Dog Night Performed by Filter "Red Right Hand" Nick Cave |
Goofs
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GEOG: Dr. Kurtzweil's office is located at Dupont Circle in Washington, DC. However, when the police search it, some of the officers are wearing patches of the Arlington, Virginia, police department. Continuity: Gelatinous red goop on Scully's gloves in the autopsy scene. Continuity: Mulder's mobile phone changes from a non-telescopic antenna type (presumably as a Nokia product placement) to a telescopic antenna type while he is in the room with the drink dispenser bomb. Continuity: After Mulder is shot, he has a wound on his temple. The wound disappears in Antartica and reappears after the hearing at the end of the movie. Continuity: As Mulder and Scully are climbing down the rocks above the corn field, she is wearing flat-soled shoes. When they enter the beehive, she has high heels. (And not a scratch on them either!) Continuity: For a close-up shot where Scully probes a fireman's corpse, she appears to be wearing a white lab coat that she's not wearing in longer shots in that scene. Continuity: Mulder has gloves on when he falls down the ice chute in the Antarctic, but the gloves mysteriously disappear when he comes out of the chute into the main spaceship area. Continuity: When Mulder discovers the bomb in the vending machine, the door to the room gets knocked down. Later, when Michaud is "disarming" the bomb, the door is back up. Continuity: When Mulder falls down through the ice the hood on his coat falls off his head yet the next scene he is seen pulling the hood off his head. Continuity: When Kurtzweil is talking to Mulder, Mulder's cab arrives twice. Continuity: The snow vehicle that CGB Spender rides out to Mulder's vehicle has long parallel treads. When he is driving back to the base, the tracks shown are the treads on Mulder's vehicle. GEOG: The coordinates that the Well-Manicured Man gives Mulder to locate Scully are not in Wilkes Land. 83 degrees latitude South & 63 degrees longitude East are indeed in Antarctica but hundreds of miles from Wilkes Land, closer to the South Pole. GEOG: In the scene in "North Texas" where Dallas can be seen in the distance, the surrounding area is dusty, treeless desert. The real areas in Texas where Dallas can be seen in the distance are live-oak covered wooded areas or large, sprawling suburbs. Fact errors: The movie takes place in July but during the sequence in Antarctica the Sun is up (fairly high). During July, the Sun never rises in Antartica (at least not at the coordinates given by the Well Manicured Man). Continuity: When Mulder and Scully run out of the domes to escape the bees, Scully takes off her jacket to pull it up over her head twice. Continuity: At the railroad tracks, the car has its parking lights on as Mulder and Scully stand outside, watching the train pass. In the next shot, the headlights are on. GEOG: When the helicopter is flying through Dallas, it passes the "One Wilshire" building in Downtown L.A. As it lands, the building to the right bears the "Pacific Bell" logo which would not be found in Texas. Fact errors: It would be almost impossible to go to the interior of the Antarctic continent in July (middle of the winter) due to extremely bad weather. Barring extreme medical emergencies, no U.S. flights land on the continent between April and October. Fact errors: It would be mind-numbingly cold in the interior of the Antarctic continent in July. Given the meager clothing that Mulder was wearing he would have been hypothermic and frostbitten very quickly. Continuity: In the limo where the well-manicured man shoots his chauffeur while sitting beside Mulder, you can see Mulder lowering his arm while holding the vaccine immediately after the shot. But in the next scene, both of Mulder's arms were raised. Continuity: After Scully gets stung by the bee in the hallway, Mulder rushes back into his apartment and dials 911, while through the windows you can see that it is still daylight. But when the paramedics load Scully into the ambulance waiting outside, it's now almost full dark. GEOG: When the three boys are questioned by Scully and Mulder about which direction the trucks went, they point to their right (viewer's left). Because they are standing in front of the Dallas skyline with Reunion Tower on the left, then they are south of Dallas, and are pointing west. In the next scene Scully and Mulder are driving through Texas. The shadow is on the driver's side (north side) of the car which means they are driving east. Continuity: As the train carrying the tanker trucks passes by Mulder and Scully, the entire train is past the railroad crossing before they even move, yet when they start to get into the car the train is passing over the crossing again. Revealing mistakes: When Mulder is reading the article in the newspaper in the last Mulder/Scully scene (by the fountain) you can see that some pages of the paper are entirely blank - most noticeably, on the first shot of Mulder's face in this scene, and then again when he hands the paper to Scully. Continuity: When Mulder frees Scully from the aliens she is naked, yet she is fully clothed when they get to the surface. Moreover, Mulder doesn't seem to have prepared any spare clothes for her prior to the rescue. Fact errors: The film opens in prehistoric times, 35,000 B.C., in North Texas . A Neanderthal man stumbles upon what appears to be a large, primal, vicious alien in a cave. Neanderthals' habitat ranged from Western Europe to the Middle East. No Neanderthal has ever set foot in North America as far as the fossil record is concerned. Fact errors: SPOILER: The bees have been raised using a corn field in the middle of the desert. Bees do not pollenate/feed on grasses and so cannot have fed on the corn. Continuity: In the scene where Mulder and Scully enter the bee domes, Mulder opens the door and is blasted by the rush of air used to support the structure. The next shot of Mulder shows his tie blown back and up over his left shoulder; the next shot shows his tie in normal position and the next shot the tie is back up and over his shoulder. |
Quotes
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[after shooting the driver in the head] Well-Manicured Man: Get out of the car. Mulder: [expecting to be next] Why? The upholstery is already ruined. Well-Manicured Man: Your aliens, Agent Mulder, your little green men arrived here millions of years ago. Well-Manicured Man: Trust no one, Mr. Mulder. Mulder: Whatever happened to playing a hunch, Scully? The element of surprise, random acts of unpredictability? If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced. [Pops a sunflower seed into his mouth] Mulder: What are we doing up here, Scully? It's hotter than hell. Mulder: Maybe we should call in a bomb threat to Houston. I think it's free beer night at the Astrodome. Mulder: After all you've seen you can just walk away? Scully: I have. I did. It's done. Mulder: [Mulder and Scully are attempting to follow a truck] I think they went left. Scully: I don't know why, I think they went right. Mulder: [Mulder impulsively guns it and takes off straight ahead] Five years together, Scully. How many times have I been wrong? Never! Mulder: [He looks at her and amends:] Not driving, anyway. [last lines] Strughold: Oh, you look hot and miserable. Why have you traveled all this way? Cigarette Smoking Man: We have business to discuss. Strughold: You have regular channels. Cigarette Smoking Man: This involves Mulder. Strughold: Ah, that name. Again and again. Cigarette Smoking Man: He's seen more than he should. Strughold: What has he seen? Of the whole, he has seen but pieces. Cigarette Smoking Man: He's determined now, reinvested. Strughold: He's but one man. One man alone cannot fight the future. Cigarette Smoking Man: Yesterday, I received this. [hands him a telegram] Strughold: [reads it, then drops it] [we see that it reads: "X-Files reopened. Stop. Please advise. Stop] Mulder: How many times have we been here before, Scully? Right here. So close to the truth and now with what we've seen and what we know to be right back at the beginning with nothing. Scully: This is different, Mulder. Mulder: No it isn't! You were right to want to quit! You were right to want to leave me! You should get as far away from me as you can! I'm not gonna watch you die, Scully, because of some hallow personal cause of mine. Go be a doctor. Go be a doctor while you still can. Scully: I can't. I won't. Mulder, I'll be a doctor, but my work is here with you now. That virus that I was exposed to, it has a cure. You held it in your hand. How many other lives can we save? [clasps Mulder's hand] Look... if I quit now, they win. [on the phone] Bronschweig: It's Bronschweig. Sir, the impossible scenario we never planned for? Well, we better come up with a plan. [to a bartender, while drinking] Mulder: I'm the key figure in an ongoing government charade, the plot to conceal the truth about the existence of extraterrestrials. It's a global conspiracy, actually, with key players in the highest levels of power, that reaches down into the lives of every man, woman, and child on this planet, so, of course, no one believes me. I'm an annoyance to my superiors, a joke to my peers. They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder, whose sister was abducted by aliens when he was just a kid and who now chases after little green men with a badge and a gun, shouting to the heavens or to anyone who will listen that the fix is in, that the sky is falling and when it hits it's gonna be the shit-storm of all time. Barmaid: Well... I say that about does it, Spooky. Fire Captain Miles Cooles: [to Bronschwieg] What about my men!What about my men! Mulder: Is this Dr. Kurzweil's residence? Detective: You got some business with him? Mulder: I'm looking for him. Detective: Looking for him for what? [Mulder shows his ID] Hey, the Feds are looking for him, too. Real nice business he's got, huh? Mulder: What's that? Detective: Selling naked pictures of little kids over his computer. You looking for him for some other reason? Mulder: Yeah, I had an appointment for a pelvic examination. Mulder: You told me you had answers! Dr. Kurtzweil: Yes, but I don't have them all. Scully: Are you drunk, Mulder? Mulder: I was until about 20 minutes ago. Scully: Was that before or after you decided to come here? Mulder: [after Scully tells him that she is planning on resigning from the FBI rather than being transferred] You wanna tell yourself that so you can quit with a clear conscience, you can, but you're wrong! Scully: Why did they assign me to you in the first place, Mulder? To debunk your work, to rein you in, to shut you down... Mulder: But you saved me! As difficult and as frustrating as it's been sometimes, your goddamned strict rationalism and science have saved me a thousand times over! You've kept me honest. You've made me a whole person. I owe you everything... Scully, and you owe me nothing. I don't know if I wanna do this alone. I don't even know if I can. And if I quit now, they win. Scully: Any thoughts as to why anybody would be growing corn in the middle of the desert? Mulder: Those could be giant Jiffy-Pop poppers. Mulder: You know, one is the loneliest number. Mulder: But you saved me. As difficult and frustrating as it's been sometimes, your God-damned strict rationalism and science have saved me a thousand times over. You kept me honest. You made me a whole person. I owe you everything, and you owe me nothing. I don't know if I want to do this alone. I don't even know if I can. [Scully is slow to realize a countdown timer signifies a bomb] Mulder: Thirteen fifty-four. Thirteen fifty-two. Thirteen fifty. You see a pattern emerging here Scully? Scully: I need this building evacuated and cleared out in ten minutes. I need you to get on the phone and tell the fire department to block off the city center in a one mile radius around the building. DON'T THINK! JUST PICK UP THE PHONE AND MAKE IT HAPPEN! Well-Manicured Man: Survival is the ultimate ideology. Scully: Here I am in the middle of nowhere, Texas, chasing phantom tanker trucks. Scully: Mulder I can't tell you what killed this man. I'm not sure if anybody else can, either. Skinner: Agent Mulder, you and I both know that if it looks bad, it's bad for the FBI. Blame has to be assigned somewhere. Scully: I saw your face Mulder. There was a definite moment of panic. Mulder: You've never seen me panic. When I panic, I make this face. [remains impassive] Cigarette Smoking Man: Everybody down below. We may have a security breach. If you're not armed, arm yourselves. Dr. Kurtzweil: And why do you think you're here talking to me today? These people don't make mistakes! Bronschweig: So much for little green men. Strughold: He is but one man. One man alone cannot fight the future. [Scully rings Mulder while he stares at the bomb] Mulder: Remember that face I showed you, Scully? I'm makin' it again! Scully: [after tricking Mulder into the door being locked] I had you. Mulder: No, you didn't. Scully: Oh, yeah. I had you big time. Mulder: Whadda want? Coke, Pepsi, saline IV? Barmaid: I'd say this about exceeds your minimum daily requirement. Barmaid: [Mulder knocks over his glass] Whoa! You've gotta train for that kind of heavy lifting. Scully: [hands over bee evidence] I don't believe the FBI currently has an investigative unit qualified to pursue the evidence in hand. |
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