There is definitely something appealing about the word trilogy. In any art, but in cinema especially. Whenever somewhere in the world someone says, “You know, I really loved Fassbinder’s Lola,“ or, “Man, I finally saw that Oldboy movie; it’s really something else!,“ on nine out of ten of the occasions the answer will be, “Yeah, it’s a good one, but, you know, it’s a part of a trilogy. Now you must see the other two.“
While there are plenty of lists on the web that deal with the best trilogies of cinema in general, where one can usually find only two to three entries from this list, while the usual high-budget winners range from The Lord of the Rings via Oceans to The Godfather trilogy, this list focuses on the mastership of non-English speaking cinema which, rather expectedly, narrows down exclusively to Europe and Asia.
Some of them are “unintentional trilogies,“ yet some of them deliberate, here is the list of the top fiften of which have somehow changed the history of cinema.
15. Millennium series (SWEDEN, Niels Arden Oplev/Daniel Alfredson)
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2009), The Girl Who Played With Fire (2009), The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest (2009)
Millenium series is the first, and probably most, unintentional trilogy on the list. The now-bestselling, late writer Stieg Larsson intended to write ten installments of the series, but his sudden death (which, by the way, is painfully comparable to the death of another great writer of his era, Douglas Adams), cancelled his plans before he could finish the number four.
In 2008, four years after his death, Larsson became the second best-selling author of the world, behind Khaled Hosseini, which naturally led to the filming of the trilogy. All three installments were finished and premiered in 2009.
Thanks to the popularity of the trilogy, you probably already know that its plot evolves around Lisbeth Salander, an extremely intelligent young woman with a troubled childhood, a role which launched the actress Noomi Rapace to the universe of Hollywood industry. The really important part is the origin of the whole idea, which is as dark as it can be – when he was fifteen-years-old, Larsson witnessed the gang rape of a girl and was too scared to help her, thus he was left with a lifelong trauma.
One should follow the golden rule that the original is always far better than its US remake (Oldboy being the most recent example) and therefore see these three films and pass on David Fincher’s 2011 version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
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