'Twin Peaks' and 'The X Files': Adapting from the small to the big screen

摘要

At the approach of the millennium, two television series and their eponymous films have used paranoia, familiar in the 1990s, for artistic inspiration. The quirky characters and horrific images of Twin Peaks reflected America's subconscious at the last decade of the 20th century. The X-Files made anxiety and mistrust flagships for the last years of this decade with government conspiracies, UFOs, and the FBI. How does The X-Files movie compare with Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me? How do critics regard the films compared with the series? Which film is a success? A failure? What do fans want from a television-to-film adaptation of a cult show? Fans want integrity to the show, the characters and the plots. The X-Files: Fight the Future provides that; Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me does not. This answer is the starting point for a study of television, film, Twin Peaks and The X-Files..