If Quentin Tarantino had Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Pulp Fiction (1994), the director never hesitates to praise the titles he finds special when asked. And that includes the sagas and, for him, there is one that constitutes the perfect trilogy…
“I think there’s only one trilogy that completely and utterly works to the nth degree, and that’s it For a handful of dollars, And for a few more dollars and The good, the bad and the uglyhe said on an episode of Bill Maher’s contrarian podcast, Club Random.
What we call the Dollar Trilogy is an afterthought of Sergio Leone’s work: three spaghetti westerns quoted by Tarantino starring Clint Eastwood – and Ennio Morricone’s epic score, released in 1964, 1965 and 1966 respectively. And if the Django Unchained director also mentions the Toy Story trilogy, refusing to watch the fourth film, it’s the Dollar Trilogy that gets his absolute thumbs up for a very specific reason: the movies here always outdo themselves.
“It’s the vision of one director, Sergio Leone, in all of his films, but the thing is, it does what none of the other trilogy has been able to do. The first movie is great, but the second movie is so great and brings the whole idea to such a big screen that it destroys the first one. And then the third, the good, the bad, and the ugly, does the same to the other, and that’s something that never happens. You’ll see this big jump from first to second and they really can’t do third. you know mad max Mad Max 2: The Challenge Don’t let it get dark Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.“
The saga that was not to be
The saga follows Eastwood’s character, “The Man With No Name,” who kills bandits, takes their loot, and establishes his own moral code as he travels through the Wild West. And yet, originally, the first opus was not supposed to have a sequel, but the success was such in the United States that the distributor United Artists sold the three films as one story.
This means that Sergio Leone He didn’t write the stories of the three parts as if they were one, and although he used the same actors, their characters do not have the same name. It also suggests that the three feature films can be viewed and exploited independently. Maybe that’s why the trilogy works so well and is “the best“For Tarantino? Maybe, yes.
The Dollar Trilogy can be seen on VOD.
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