First of all, I’m posting this from a BUS! Yes, indeed, I have finally tried out Bolt Bus, and the wireless internet is nothing short of a Christmas miracle.
In honor of Jewish tradition this week, I rented a bunch of movies that I missed in theaters, including the long-awaited X Files follow-up, I Want To Believe. The movie itself is much like a big long X Files episode, except that Mulder has a beard and Scully has really long hair.
However, I really like the extras on the DVD. The blooper reel is outstanding (as, by the way, are all of the blooper reels from the original show). In addition, X Files creator Chris Carter gives some insight into how he made his set more ecologically friendly.
Ford donated hybrid cars to transport cast and crew to and from airports, the crew limited the number of scripts and sides photocopied each day, and biodiesel generators powered equipment. The crew had a no-idling policy for all vehicles, and used sand instead of salt on their snowy location shoots. All food was produced less than 100 miles from the set. It’s actually not that different from the suggestions I made in a previous post about green production and the potential for “slow film.”
Carter says that he had “lost some interest in what I do, because of the waste. . . and the mentality was spend a lot of money, make a lot of money, and don’t think about the product of your process.”
The X Files often dealt thematically with how humans encroach on the natural world, and I think it’s great to hear that Carter takes his own message so seriously.