They include great directors, wonderful actors and actors, who left an era and will always be a point of reference
Many important directors and especially those who left their mark and had a decisive influence on cinema, often articulated their own story through trilogies. There are of course those who were forced to give in to the temptation of the trilogy, as it was impossible to cover in a film an adaptation of a book or the original script they had in front of them. But there were also those truly great creators whose work was so influential in cinema or even in societies or artistic currents, that in retrospect, specialist scholars characterized three of their iconic films as a “trilogy”.
Without it being easy, we have chosen ten of the most important film trilogies, great directors, wonderful actors and actresses, which left an era and will always be a point of reference for cinema. Classic films, which are characteristic of each director’s work, owe a lot to their contribution to cinema, their spirit and their artistic contribution. Of course, the trilogies – franchises (which often reached two and three trilogies) are excluded, whose main concern for their construction was box-office success.
10. Indiana Jones
Cinema’s greatest storyteller, with the still-appetizing George Lucas behind him in the production, will present us in 1981 the famous archaeologist Indiana Jones, in the person of the charismatic Harrison Ford, in an entertainment festival that will probably be hard to beat. The first film “Raiders of the Lost Ark” along with the third sequel “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” are immortally enjoyable adventures of incredible inspiration and creation, while in between, “Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Lost Treasure” is not of the same level, but has one of the best openings, a tribute to the “Golden Hollywood” era. Two more useless sequels would follow several years later, but Spielberg had more or less mutated into a businessman in addition to an Oscar winner.
9. Of Faith and Silence
From the foam of fun to the deep. Into the unexplored seas of faith, into which Ingmar Bergman, the atheist son of the Lutheran pastor, dived. Bergman talks about faith, the silence of God and existential anxieties in many of his films, but there is also the trilogy that began in 1961 with “Through the Broken Mirror”, followed by “Winter Light” and closed with the famous “Silence”. Inspired direction, but also lessons in script economy, while the memorable performances will introduce us to a great generation of actors.
8. Of Life and Love
The great heretic of Italian cinema, a special poet of images, decides to tell three adult tales, which he stripped down, as only he knew. Starting with “Ten Days” in 1971, based on the book of the same title by Vocaccio, he will spend the next year on “Legends of Canterbury” and close with “A Thousand and One Nights”. Pasolini glorifies love and sex, but also life itself, once again challenging the conservative establishment.
7. For a Handful of Bucks
Sergio Leone’s trilogy, which will bring the spaghetti western to the cinematic universe and introduce us to a tall man from America, Clint Eastwood, making him a star and then one of the most important American directors. From the first shot of the first film “For a Handful of Dollars” (1964), based on Kurosawa’s “Yoshibo”, we understand that here we are dealing with something completely different from the classic western. There are no good and bad characters, everyone is hiding something, and money is the most infectious thing in our dirty world. It will be followed next year by “Duel in El Paso” and the trilogy will close with the masterpiece “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”. It goes without saying that Ennio Morricone’s contribution is perhaps even more important than Leone’s.
6. Tricolor
Three colors, blue, white and red, which make up the French flag and symbolize freedom, equality and fraternity, inspire the great Polish director to make a trilogy, which is also his swan song. The director of “The Double Life of Veronica” with his philosophical and ideological stance, will make three masterpiece films about Europe that is losing its soul, given over to materialism. In 1993 with “Blue Ribbon”, in 1994 with “White Ribbon” and the same year with “Red Ribbon”, he will deliver three films in which the past, present and future are intertwined in a surprising way and in which he stars the excellent Juliette Binoche.
5. Alienation
The critics loved them, the public loved them, the history of cinema placed them in the top trilogies. The poet of images Michelangelo Antonioni with his amazing films “The Adventure” (1960), “The Night” (1961) and “The Eclipse” (1962) will speak as penetratingly as anyone about alienation, predicting the ominous future for human alienated relationships. But the films are also a trilogy of the muse of the Italian creator and unforgettable Monica Vitti, whom many cinephiles will fall in love with for her fragile beauty.
4. The reading of the Bourgeoisie
The famous and surprisingly Oscar-winning “Secret Charm of the Bourgeoisie” is the first film (1972) of a trilogy about the infamous – according to Luis Buñuel – bourgeoisie. The Spanish director and main representative of cinematic surrealism, will mercilessly attack the hypocrisy of the big bourgeoisie, while the wonderful, but not so famous films “The Phantom of Liberty” (1974) and “Dark Object of Desire” (1977) will follow. ). In essence, Buñuel never left out of his great cinematic universe, the bourgeoisie, the church and the sins of their dominant representatives.
3. Indian silk
There is no more indicative and meaningful description of the leading Indian director Satyajit Ray than that of Akira Kurosawa: “Not having watched the cinema of Ray is like not having seen the Sun or the Moon”! Rai will be discovered by moviegoers all over the world from the legendary “Apu Trilogy”. Three films about Apu’s coming of age, with the filming of the first – and best – film “The Song of the Turn” lasting about four years. A cinematic miracle, about Apu’s childhood, that will shock you with its simplicity, the depth of the director’s thought and the exquisite scenes that will enchant you. Two more masterpiece films will follow, 1956 “The Invincible” and 1959 “The World of Apu”. Rai is also characterized as the neorealist of the East, as, as he had admitted, he was decisively influenced by Vittorio de Sica’s “Bicycle Thief”.
2. Godfather I, II & III
Iconic saga from the demon Francis Ford Coppola, which even today retains the privilege of provoking debates about whether the first part is better than the second and therefore the best film ever shot in the cinema. Two unsurpassed films, about which everything has been said, for the directorial greatness, the anthology of scenes and shots, the unsurpassed script by Mario Puccio, the performances of Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Roberto De Niro, John Kazal, but also the unforgettable characterizationists and the immortal faces of mobsters. And of course the music by Nino Rota, the photography by Gordon Willis and the admirable production. After 15 years, in 1990 the third and final film will follow, which may not reach the level of the first two, but it was an excellent film in the spirit of the crime family.
1. Neorealism
Vittorio de Sica, the leader of the holy trinity of neorealism, with Rossellini and Visconti, would deliver immediately after World War II three films that defined Italian neorealism and had a decisive influence on world cinema. Just because it gave us Satyajit Ray is enough to top the list of greatest trilogies. In 1946, he will shoot the heartbreaking “Shoe Polish” which practically gave birth to neorealism and won the forerunner of the Oscar for foreign language films. After two years he will make the classic and perhaps one of the best films of all time, “Bicycle Thief”, which effortlessly and redemptively evokes tears. In 1952, “Umberto D.” will also come, a film overflowing with humanity. De Sica’s screenwriter and close collaborator, Cesare Zavatini, who is behind all three films, should of course also be mentioned.
Source :Skai
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