A T O N E M E N T

X-Files, Supernatural director Kim Manners dies
 
By Alex Strachan, Canwest News ServiceJanuary 28, 2009


Kim Manners, pictured on the set of the B.C.-shot Supernatural, died Sunday after a battle with lung cancer.
Photograph by: Handout, The Province



아주 오랜만에 엑스파일 관련 사이트들 투어했다가 이 기사를 보고 허걱 했습니다.
엑스파일 마지막 피날레 에피소드 두 편을 감독할 정도로
시리즈 전체에 상당한 영향력을 가졌던 킴 매너스 감독.
폐암으로 돌아가셨다는군요. 담배를 많이 피셨나....
엑스파일 종영후엔 수퍼내추럴의 메인감독으로 명성을 떨치셨더군요.
종종 수퍼내추럴 촬영현장 사진에서 얼굴 볼때마다 왠지 반가웠는데.....
평소 잘 알던 분이 돌아가신 듯한 기분이 들어서 울적해지네요.

엑스파일 시리즈가 끝난지도 벌써 7년 가까이 됐나요.
사람들이 하나 둘 떠나가는게 점점 더 두려워집니다.

극장판 XF3 가 제작되서 킴매너스 감독을 추모하는 자막을 스크린으로 볼 수 있으면 좋겠어요.

 VANCOUVER — Supernatural and The X-Files has lost one of its own.

Kim Manners, a Vancouver-based director known for his creative eye behind the camera and his boundless energy behind the scenes, died early Sunday evening at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles.

Manners had been diagnosed with lung cancer, and late last season had to step down from his day-to-day duties as senior executive producer and lead director of the cult thriller Supernatural.

I first met Manners during The X-Files' fifth season, the series' final year in Vancouver. Manners was directing a short, inconsequential filler scene in a parking garage and, always one to take a weird angle on the obvious, had decided to shoot the scene at shoelace level. He lay down in a puddle of cold, dank water on the cold, hard cement floor of the parking garage floor and arranged the camera dolly track so that the camera would tilt up from an actor's shoes.

Manners laughed easily, and he could curse a blue streak that would put Gordon Ramsay to shame.

He could be demanding to work for — David Duchovny once told me it took him a long time to warm to Manners, who joined The X-Files in its second — some say best — season.

Manners' episodes for The X-Files included the seriously "out-there" carnival freak show "Humbug"; and the third season's "Oubliette," an episode Duchovny has cited as one of his favourites, in which a lonely waitress in a diner forms an empathetic bond with a 12-year-old girl who has been kidnapped and is about to be murdered unless Mulder (Duchovny) finds her first. That episode, which Duchovny says featured possibly his best performance in the entire series, revealed Manners at his directorial best.

Manners had kept his battle with cancer to himself. A director's job is to get the best out of the people who work with him, even when they're having a bad day, and Manners was one of the best at it.

I learned of Manners' passing in an e-mail from Dave Riopel, who works in Supernatural's grip department. That says a lot. In the end, it was not a famous star or a prominent filmmaker who thought to share the news of Manners' passing, but rather one of the unsung, behind-the-scenes workers no one ever reads about in entertainment magazines. There's a saying in the production business that you can measure a person by how well they're liked by the crew.

Riopel: "[Manners] will be missed by everyone he met as a unique individual, a unique heart, and a great director. This will be acutely felt by his loyal crew, still working today on Supernatural. Rest in peace, Kim."

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