Jose Chung

Xfiles character


name=Jose Chung
affiliation=None
first=Jose Chung's "From Outer Space" ("The X-Files")
last=Jose Chung's "Doomsday Defense" ("Millennium")
portrayer=Charles Nelson Reilly

Jose Chung is a fictional writer, created by Darin Morgan, who appears in "The X-Files" episode Jose Chung's "From Outer Space" and the "Millennium" episode Jose Chung's "Doomsday Defense". Chung is played by Charles Nelson Reilly, and is the author of both the titular works in both episodes.

Character appearances

The two episodes that feature Chung are among the more light-hearted of both programs. The character is a parody of Jack Cohen, who assisted the series in designing plausible extraterrestrials, with shades of Truman Capote. In both series, Chung — who freely admits that he's exploring the paranormal incidents he writes about purely for the money — exists as a wittily sarcastic and cynical contrast to the more credulous, believing, serious-minded natures of the main protagonists of both series (in particular Fox Mulder); for example, he depicts certain individual aliens as constantly smoking something that looks like (and may be) tobacco and/or marijuana. In his first appearance, Chung turns his attention to UFO sightings and alien abductions, interviewing Scully and basing two characters from his novel, "From Outer Space", on her and Mulder ("Diana Lusky" (Lusky being an anagram for Sculy) _ and "Reynard Muldrake", respectively; 'Reynard' being 'renard', French for 'fox').

In his second appearance, on "Millennium", he turns his attention to the coming Millennium, concluding that it will bring about "1000 years of the same old crap." In the episode, Chung's help was enlisted on a case involving "Selfosophy", a Scientology-like religion formed by a former science fiction writer colleague of Chung's named Juggernaut Onan Gupta. Sadly, Chung is brutally murdered in this episode, by a madman obsessed with the prophecies of Nostradamus. David Duchovny, who plays Fox Mulder in the X-Files, appears in this episode on two movie posters, as a Hollywood star whose career was revitalized after adopting Selfosophy as a religion.

"The Caligarian Candidate" (taken from "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and "The Manchurian Candidate"), and "The Lonely Buddha", by Chung, are both favorite books of Scully's.

Trivia

*Although Jose Chung does not appear in "", his book "From Outer Space" does. The game is about the disappearance of Mulder and Scully.

External links

* [http://www.charlesnelsonreilly.com Charles Nelson Reilly's official site]