Series are good, movies are great, movie series are even better. Over the decades, the 7th art has offered us many cinematographic sagas of 2, 3, 5 or even 13 films for the most generous.
The word saga has long had a negative connotation, referring to a long-drawn-out, falsely dramatic story that you eventually get tired of. Despite the fact that this exercise can be perilous, many directors have lent themselves to the exercise. Sometimes successfully. THE cinema therefore has many tasty sagas to put in their mouths, to make the pleasure last. Some sagas are imposed, because they are taken from a series of novels of several volumes, impossible to transcribe into a single feature film. And that gave rise to multiple movie sagas like Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Narnia, Twilight, The Lord of the Rings, The Godfather or Jason Bourne. A change of director along the way (or at each part) has sometimes disturbed fans of the novels, as have certain choices of actors, or certain liberties taken with the original plot. Who has never questioned the choice of Josh Hutcherson to play Peeta in The Hunger Gamesor criticized the construction of the films Twilightmuch less dark than are the novels of Stephenie Meyer?
The original and cult cinema sagas
Some film sagas, on the other hand, are original, born from the minds of the screenwriters or directors who then gave them life. This is for example the case of the saga IndianaJones imagined by George Lucas himself, to whom we also owe another cult saga, Star Wars. madmax, an apocalyptic fable with Mel Gibson, is also a creation of George Miller and Byron Kennedy. One of the most legendary sagas of cinema Back to the future is also original, imagined by Robert Zemeckis. A trilogy that entered the history of pop culture thanks to Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. Another legendary cinema saga, Alienwas also created from scratch and put into images by Ridley Scott. Of course, on sagas that make up 5, 8 or sometimes 13 films, as is the case with Fast & Furious, are not equal. Some shutters are much better than others. Jurassic Park 1 is a monument, 3 can be zapped without too much complex. Discover 25 cinema sagas to discover, or re-discover, for once you have time.