MUSIC: "TEARS OF THE SUN" by Hans Zimmer
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LENGTH: 04:44 minutes
NUMBER OF CLIPS: 106
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Re-Mastered & Rereleased: June 15, 2008
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COMMENTS:
THE SCORE - Prior to making Tears of the Sun, I wanted to take a break from the action videos I have been making. I had just finished three trailers using gorgeous 16:9 video from season 5 footage and the movie, FIGHT THE FUTURE. I had amassed an alarming amount of footage from season 5 and the movie that could not be incorporated into the types of action videos I have been making. So I sought out music that will match the emotional intensity of movie, and season 5 episodes such as THE RED & THE BLACK, THE PINE BLUFF VARIANT, ALL SOULS, and EMILY, as well as some season 8 episodes such as THIS IS NOT HAPPENING, DEADALIVE, and EXISTENCE.
I settled on several scores by Hans Zimmer because they possessed the emotional intensity, as well as the drum sequences that can still provide a measure of action that can nicely contrast with the looks of apprehension, anxiety, and fear in the footage I have. I was attracted to the overarching, elevating, and heart-pulling main melodies of the motion picture soundtracks for THE ROCK, THE LAST SAMURAI, GLADIATOR, and TEARS OF THE SUN. After teasing out technical aspects of video-editing and audio-editing, I was forced to abandon the very appealing soundtrack of THE ROCK, while the GLADIATOR soundtrack did not match the tone I was seeking. I had the intent of using a section of the LAST SAMURAI soundtrack, but there were sound effects that were too distracting that I could not edit properly.
I was hesitant to use the TEARS OF THE SUN soundtrack because of its ethnic theme. It appeared not to fit my footage. However, I was running out of time, and had promised myself to finish a video during Spring break. So I cut a section of the nearly 10 minute long theme score that contained the repeating instrumental sequences that I can use as the defining structure of the video.
PATTERNS - There are several series of patterns that correspond to the main theme. One of these patterns is a series of clips taken from episodes such as ALL SOULS, THE RED & THE BLACK, EMILY, and THIS IS NOT HAPPENING, as well as the movie. I was interested in the role of spiritual imagery and religious rapture relative to the supernatural. In fact, Mulder, in THE RED & THE BLACK, identifies religious rapture as a part of what he, at the time, believed to be a typical staging of UFO abduction.
from THE RED & THE BLACK transcript
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MULDER: I'm familiar with the regression process and Dr. Werber's work. I've heard hundreds of those types of abduction scenarios.
SKINNER: Well what do you make of this one?
MULDER: The imagery is startling, but not atypical: bright lights, weightlessness, stolen memory, lost time expressed as a close encounter, an abduction, religious rapture as a kind of dark night of the soul.
SKINNER: Expressed?
MULDER: Described and then interpreted into a linear narrative, a, uh, gestalt impression of a subjective, nonlinear experience.
SKINNER: And your interpretation?
MULDER: That Agent Scully witnessed a very powerful event. Not unlike the one I described on my regression tape of the false memory of my sister's abduction.
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The imagery in THE RED & THE BLACK was certainly startling in its luminescence, the falling flakes from a bright light, and presence above, suggesting something akin to a religious experience when one sees an image of God. Therefore it can be seen that occurences of UFOs are sights similar in nature to religious symbols. One of the themes of the show is Scully's evolving religious faith. Mulder does not understand why Scully can be so skeptical of all things supernatural, but seem more tolerant and more open to religion. In the course of the show, Scully's strength of belief is also tried. In REDUX II, Scully tells her mother about her loss of faith as she is battling end-stage cancer:
from REDUX II transcript
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SCULLY: I'm so sorry... I fight and I fight and I fight... But I'm so stupid.
MRS SCULLY: What? What is it?
SCULLY: I've come so far in my life on simple faith, and now when I need it the most I just push it away. I mean, why ... why do I wear this? (Scully holds up the cross necklace) Why do I wear this, Mom? I put something that I don't even know or understand under the skin of my neck. I will subject myself to these crazy treatments, and I keep telling myself that I'm doing everything I can, but it's a lie!
MRS SCULLY: You have not lost your faith, Dana.
SCULLY: But I have. In a way. And when you asked Father McCue to dinner to administer to my faith... I just closed off to him.
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As Scully's faith evolves when she is confronted with her UFO experiences, it is not a coincidence that Mulder's beliefs also evolve, as he comes to believe in the existence of God as alien.
Similarly (but not addressed in this video explicitly), is Mulder's belief that souls exist in the afterlife as starlight. Similar parallels about space and heaven can be drawn with UFOs and religious belief.
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The moments of tension in this video includes moments from REDUX II, FIGHT THE FUTURE, THE RED & THE BLACK, and finally, proof undeniable of their relationship and devotion, tender moments from THE TRUTH.
Directly following the suite of tender, affectionate moments is a sequence of loss and trauma. This is meant to parallel the X-Files tradition that the protagonists rarely achieve what they seek, and are often victims of their quest. Many argue that their relationship was chaste for so long because of Scully's fear of rejection and loss. In A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Scully explains this during her petition to adopt Emily.
from A CHRISTMAS CAROL transcript
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SCULLY: Ever since I was a child, I've never allowed to let myself get too close to people. I've avoided emotional attachment. Perhaps I've been so afraid of death and dying that any connection just seemed like a bad thing... something that wouldn't last.
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When the Mulder-Scully relationship does reach a new emotional and physical level (arguably, during early-mid season 7), Scully loses Mulder to supernatural forces in REQUIEM, only to find him dead in DEADALIVE. Ironically, this is the scenario that she long feared, and only when the relationship intensifies towards something good, perhaps the only positive aspect of their partnership in 7 years, the loss inevitably reciprocates.
This cycle is again repeated when Mulder returns from the dead, and is immediately confronted with Scully's difficult pregnancy, supersoldiers, a plot to kill her unborn child, as well as his own anxieties about the changes in their relationship, professionally and personally.
When he finally achieves peace in the end of Existence, it is brief, since he is made aware of plots against his life, and separates from Scully in order to protect her and William. Again, Mulder and Scully are victimized as a result of their work on the X-Files, making any semblance of normalcy and stability futile.
Finally, in THE TRUTH, Mulder and Scully are reunited, only to be fugitives. The development and continuation of their devotion and affection is arguably one of the few positive developments from their work on the X-Files and their quest to expose far-reaching global conspiracies.
