For Tarantino, there is only one trilogy that can be said to be “perfect.” Although it was not originally intended as such

Quentin Tarantino may be many things, but he certainly isn’t fooling anyone: neither ‘Star Wars’ nor ‘The Godfather’ are his favorite trilogies. It makes all the sense in the world that, watching his films (especially ‘Dyango Unchained’ or ‘The Hateful Eight’, but also ‘Inglourious Basterds’ or ‘Kill Bill’), the director has Sergio Leone’s Dollar Trilogy on an altarthe three films that completely reformulated the classic Western and launched it into a universe of ruthless characters and deadly environments.

This is the trilogy composed of ‘For a handful of dollars‘ (in Movistar Plus+ and FlixOlé), ‘Death had a price‘ and ‘The good, the bad and the ugly’ (in FlixOlé). The international success of all of them generated an immense market for farms in Mediterranean countries such as Italy and Spain, which began to imitate them without any complexes, but their influence continues to this day. Today it is impossible to see a western that, voluntarily or not, does not have the imprint of Sergio Leone in its DNA.

Tarantino said about her in an episode of the ‘Club Random’ podcast that did “what no other trilogy has been able to do. The first movie is great, but the second one is so good and takes the entire first idea onto such a large canvas that it nullifies that one. And then the third, ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’, does the same thing with the second, and that’s what never happens. You’ll see this big jump from first to second, but they never get to third. For example, ‘Mad Max 2’ is not overshadowed by ‘Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.'”

The curious thing is that Leone did not conceive these three films as a trilogy: Clint Eastwood appears in all of them playing a similar character, a man with no name dressed in a poncho, but it is not clear if he is the same person in all of them. Other actors, such as Lee Van Cleef, appear in several or all of the films in the trilogy, giving life to openly different characters. But the box office success of the films was such that United Artist distributed them in the United States as if they were part of a trilogy, given their aesthetic and plot similarities.

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