6х04/6х05 Dreamland, Страна грез Опции

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Сценарий: Винс Джиллиган, Фрэнк Спотниц и Джон Шибан
Режиссер: Ким Мэннерс / Майкл Уоткинс
Первый показ в США: 29 ноября 1998 / 6 декабря 1998

Название: "Страной грез" называют в народе Зону 51 (Data Repository Establishment and Management Land), базу ВВС США на территории штата Нью-Мексико. Она прочно вошла в уфо-фольклор, как место проведения секретных испытаний летательных аппаратов, созданных с использованием технологии НЛО.

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-- The Groom Lake facility was officially designated Area 51 by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The adjacent AEC proving grounds became known as the Nevada Test Site and divided into such numbered areas. The base is now known worldwide as "Area 51" though officially this designation was dropped in the 1970s. It is a secret installation that caters to the needs of testing the most advanced aircraft projects in the world, possibly even alien spacecraft.

-- During Season 5, Chris Carter advised the writing staff that he wanted more comedy in Season 6. Gilligan, Spotnitz, and Shiban knew that David Duchovny was friends with Garry Shandling, so toward the end of Season 5 they wrote the "Dreamland" two-parter with him in mind for the Man-in-Black role. Gilligan remembers that he set up a laptop with a second monitor in the new house that he had just bought with his girlfriend Holly so that the three writers could work on the script together.

-- By midsummer 1998 when "Dreamland" was to begin filming, Shandling was not available. He was in the middle of filming a movie with Warren Beatty, "Town and Country," which turned out to be a huge box office flop. They still wanted a big name for the role, and finally settled on Michael McKean.

-- McKean went to college at NYU and Carnegie Tech, where he met David Lander, who would become his life-long friend and collaborator. In 1970 they moved to Los Angeles where they joined a cutting-edge improvisational comedy group called The Credibility Gap. (Robert Goodwin, executive producer for the XF first five seasons in Vancover, was also a member.) In 1976 they joined the writing staff of the sitcom "Laverne and Shirley," and promptly wrote parts for themselves -- and the characters of Lenny and Squiggy were born.

-- Michael McKean appeared on Saturday Night Live during the 1994-95 season. His last show in May 1995 was David Duchovny's first SNL hosting gig. During that appearance, McKean told Duchovny that he'd love to appear on the XF one day.

-- McKean would appear as Morris Fletcher again in Season 6's "Three of a Kind" and in Season 9's "Jump the Shark." He also appeared several times on The Lone Gunmen series.

-- McKean has had a very successful career in TV and films. He also received an Oscar nomination in 2003 for Best Original Song for the film "A Mighty Wind." He and his wife Annette O'Toole wrote the song and several others during a car journey to Vancouver from their home in Los Angeles in September 2001 -- all planes were grounded because of the terrorist attacks on September 11, and O'Toole had to get to Vancouver to film her TV show, "Smallville."

-- This episode featured another Saturday Night Live alumni -- Nora Dunn (as Joanne Fletcher).

-- Morris Fletcher is named after Michael McKean's son, Fletcher.

-- Lana Chee, the 75-year-old Hopi woman inhabited by the personality of a young hot-shot Air Force pilot, was played by Julia Vera, a 58-year-old actress of Hopi ancestry, who wore elaborate facial appliances to age herself for the role. Vera also played the Indian woman caring for (?) with CSM in "The Truth."

-- In order to obtain the scenes of soft-core porn Mulder watches in the Fletcher's living room, producer Paul Rabwin contacted an X-rated movie producer of his acquaintance and contracted for several not-so-risque outtakes to be made during the filming of his next porn video.

-- The scene in which Mulder encounters his own reflection - as Fletcher - in Morris' bedroom mirror is a near-re-creation of the famous mirror scene between Groucho and Harpo Marx in the classic 1933 comedy Duck Soup. This scene was also re-enacted by Harpo and Lucille Ball in a famous 1955 episode of I Love Lucy. David Duchovny and Michael McKean watched Duck Soup and worked with a specially hired choreographer every day for a week and a half to prepare to film the scene. There was, of course, no mirror on the set, but actually two mirror-image sets of the same bedroom, facing across from each other. In rehearsals and during filming, Duchovny and McKean synchronized their movements with an electronic metronome clicking away in the background but erased from the final mix. There are no cuts in the complicated scene; it was done in one complete take from beginning to end. Kim Manners said the two actors got it right on the 12th take, adding that there are two noticeable mistakes in the scene. The first is in the scene when the two actors are being over and shaking their butts. McKean's hand is on what would be the left leg of his underwear and he's pulling it down just a little bit, and Duchovny's isn't. Manner said the second mistake is "my secret."

-- To simulate the arid environment surrounding Area 51, much of Dreamland and Dreamland II was filmed at "Club Ed," a small movie ranch owned by a fellow named Ed Waldhaus on the outskirts of Lancaster, a high desert community some 80 miles -- two-and-a-half driving hours -- from Los Angeles. Daytime temperatures soared to 110 degrees, nights were, by contrast, chilly; wind, dust, and even rainstorms frequently interrupted filming. One of the signature backstage moments of the entire 6th season occurred during a particularly bleak morning at the distant Lancaster location. David Duchovny emerged from his trailer and said, "When is this show moving back to Los Angeles?". Within days, dozens of X-Files insiders were wearing T-Shirts emblazoned with the exact same question.

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-- Dreamland II was the first directing effort for Michael Watkins. He would go on to direct some of the series' shippiest episodes in Seasons 6 and 7.

-- We get just a brief glimpse of Mulder's personnel file in the teaser, but we learn quite a bit. We learn that Mulder's Social Security Number is 123-32-1321 (that was also his driver's license number -- which at that time in Virginia was the norm), that he started with the FBI on 10/24/1986, and that his mother's maiden name was Teena Kiupers. And he won an Award for Public Service from the FBI at some point. We also learn that the FBI keeps pretty nice photos of their agents in their files. Too bad Mulder didn't fare as well with his photo in Season 8.

-- We learn a little about The Lone Gunmen Newspaper in this episode as well. Their motto: "The Newsletter for Those Who Want to Stay Informed and Alive." Published monthly for one dollar an issue, $10 a year, or $25 for three years. What a bargain!

-- The scraggly desert gas station could not be rented. It had to be built from scratch, a collaboration of the construction, art, and special effects departments. Set decorator Tim Stepeck located a gas station in Los Angeles about to go out of business, bought up its gas pumps and other fittings, and shipped them off to the location site. The fixtures and other merchandise inside the store were obtained from restaurant supply houses, cooperative food manufacturers, and loading up shopping carts with canned goods and groceries from discount supermarkets. The last scene filmed there was of the gas station exploding -- it had been rigged to do so in a spectacular manner throughout the construction process. Then all remnants of the gas station were removed and the roadsite was restored to its previous desolate state. Overall, the show filmed at the site for about two days, and then it was as if the whole thing never existed.

-- By contrast, Area 51 was "built" by visual effects producer Bill Millar and his associates, who created the secret base's aircraft on their Macintosh computers. The only "practical" part was the base's front gate, shot at a fence at the San Bernadino county line 120 miles from L.A. They opened and closed the fence and drove the white Cherokee through it. All the rest was matte paintings and make believe.

-- To create the illusions of gravity warped individuals fused into rocks and floors, special effects makeup supervisor Jon Vulich made extensive molds of the affected actors' body parts; stuck the faces, arms, and torsos into specially constructed holes in the set, then attached silicon body pieces of "feather" the pertinent parts of their body onto the solid surface. For the Gila monster with its head stuck in a rock, they used a real Gila monster and a fake rock made of padded clamshell fiberglass.

-- Fifty-eight year old actress Julia Vera was fitted with special clouded contact lenses to complete the illusion of making her look 75. Nearly blinded by the lenses, she took five tries before she could flick her cigarette butt into Mulder's lap in the jail cell scene. Vera credits her winning the role of the Hopi woman inhabited by the personality of a young Air Force pilot partly to the speech patterns she learned during a stint in the U.S. Army.

-- The "mandroid army' scoffed at by Fletcher is a sly flashback to the season 3 episode "Jose Chung's From Outer Space".

-- This is the first episode in which we see Mulder's bedroom.

-- Scully says to Mulder-in-Morris's-body, "I'd kiss you if you weren't so damn ugly" which is what Zira (Kim Hunter) said to Charlton Heston at the end of Planet of the Apes.

-- This is the fourth episode to have a "John Gilnitz" reference ("John Gilnitz" is a conglomeration of the three writers' names (John Shiban, Vince Gilligan, Frank Spotnitz). Fletcher comments that Saddam Hussein is really a dinner theatre actor named "John Gilnitz."

-- The Little A'Le'Inn is an actual cafe off Highway 375 the "Extraterrestrial Highway" in Rachel, Nevada. But it's much smaller and not as well decorated as the one in "Dreamland II."

-- Gillian Anderson found the two-parter's Fletcher/Mulder bodyswitch alternately fun and difficult to deal with. Not so much because it was hard to keep the characters' identities straight but because it was hard to act with her long-time partner as if she and the actor -- and his character -- were nearly strangers. "I found it easy to treat McKean like Mulder -- after all, I've been dealing with Mulder for five and a half seasons," Anderson said. "But the other way around? Treating David like McKean's character? That was a challenge. I have this intense history with David. There's a lot of energy and chemistry between us, and I had to work hard to not fall into those patterns while I was dealing with him as if I didn't know him. In the end, I think we pulled it off. But it was very tricky, very interesting."

-- Chemistry? Yes, I'd say so. Never more apparent than the beautiful goodbye scene in the desert. One of their best. Mulder knows how to say it with sunflower seeds. Best gift since the keychain.

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Анонсы Dreamland: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz3FGAcTWk0

Анонсы Dreamland II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TJgif3ywS4

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