The Art of the Frontier Trilogy
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Big fan of Sheridan’s work. Wind River was one of my favourite movies last year, as was hell of highwater was the year before that. Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen were fucking fantastic in wind river and it’s shame they got no Oscar love.
Yes, I feel the same. Wind River should have been nominated.
It's because it was made by Weinstein
Sicario was the best of the three by far
@King Keanu
Produced not made
Big difference
Shame the academy don't take note of that.
Watched Wind River last night, genuinely floored by Elizabeth Olsen's performance. Never knew she was capable of that.
Wind River was the most eye opening and hardest to watch.
But, Hell or High Water is by far the richest.
The entire trilogy is very important and raises very strong issues that most people don't care about or don't want to think about.
Wind River was awesome one of the top movies from 2017. Criminally underrated.
That movie was kind of like no country for old men. It didn’t really play any music till the end except In Wind River it played like two songs before the credits but yeah underrated
Absolutely agree, kind of ignored, like the problem that this movie is trying to highlight... unfortunately.
I LOVE THIS TRILOGY, Wind River was highly underrated and not talked about nearly enough. That movie is so wickedly unique and clever, incredibly well done, can't wait to see what Sheridan does with Soldado
Little Big Men Productions Wind River really is great. It’s cool that Sheridan capped off this trilogy with a film he directed himself.
As tense as the boarder crossing shootout in Sicario is, the trailer shootout in Wind River comes pretty close. The blocking in the lead up is brilliant, how the contractors slowly flank the cops does wonders in building that tension, much like the cars creeping forward at the boarder
Whoopise. Reading this in 2020, Soldado was a bit of a dud, seeing that sheridan didn't take the helm in the directors chair. It was good-ish. But it reveled in the glory of the first film without the interesting dynamic of having an outsider in there.
@@robrobusa One thing I personally find interesting was the addition of isabella adding a vulnerability to alejandro that wasn't present in the first film, being the catalyst for what would eventually become his "death" at the hands of some random gang members. I think its interesting how alejandro is this unstoppable numb veteran killing just because its a job, but when he softens to help out this young girl, who by all means he should be leaving behind, it results in him getting caught up and nearly dying for it
Hated Wind River, too cliche
The shootout in Wind River was so well done.
Apparently the writer watch hours of police shootouts so he could write the most accurate shootout he could. Not a Hollywood one, but one that shows what they’re actually like. Brutal, painful, and doesn’t take forever.
@@sarahthelibrarian7591 Most of his movies are like that. He understands how to write a shoot out scene.
Hey, why you flanking me? You didn't see it??!!!?? -_- You didn't see it.......
Wind River should've gotten Best Picture, Best Directing and Best Writing nomination, and Jeremy Renner deserved Best Actor. Same with Sicario and Benicio Del Toro.
a real shame it's getting snubbed just because Weinstein's name was on it.
Hell or High Water was nominated and DEFINITELY deserved the win. The Oscars have no love for the western genre.
I've watched Wind River over ten times. I love the acting! The scenes without dialogue are the best. When she sees the mother cutting herself, the father's face crumpling when he opens the door to see his friend.
That scene was heartbreaking. I was so taken by the expression on Martin Hanson's (the father) face, how it transforms from the hard and angry almost smirk at Jane, and then softens and gives way to the truth of his grief and despair when he answers the door to his friend Cory. They now share this awful loss, the loss of their daughters in the most horrible way. I sob every time I watch it. Yes, the acting is brilliant.
This "trilogy" is my absolute favorite thing of the last decade. I adore them.
AGREED.. Sheridan recently directed Those Who Wish Me Dead and it came out this year. I haven't seen it yet but i wanna put it on your radar and I'm curious about your opinion
Those Who Wish Me Dead was good but not great. I think that wasnt supposed to be earth shattering like this trilogy was.
They’re amazing. They’re so different from the usual Hollywood nonsense.
Haven't watched Sicario but i've loved Wind River and Hell or High Water (so underrated). I remember being so shocked to find out the police officer from Sons of Anarchy is such a talented man in real life
I love Sicario and It's the best of the trilogy in my opinion, it has the best soundtrack, cinematography and directing..
Sicario is on Netflix,
I personally think Sicario is the best of the trilogy
You have missed out on the greatest one of them then. Sicario is one of my favorite films, it's so grim, so excellent shot and it has an amazing soundtrack and fantastic acting
How are these films underrated? Hell or High Water has a 97% on Rotten Tomatoes and was nominated for 4 Oscars had a total of 157 nominations and 42 wins of various awards. Wind River has an 87% rating and was nominated for 17 awards winning 8. Far from underrated in my book.
Taylor Sheridan is without a shadow of a doubt THE MOST IMPORTANT & interesting voice in current American cinema. Great video btw.
Taylor Sheridan is my favourite writer to appear in the past few years and is already up there among the likes of Sorkin and McDoangh for me. His style is just something that hits all of my cinematic sensibilities with ease.
Fabulous synopsis of three of the better films made in the past couple of years. Seen all three of these films and they are all tremendous. Sheridan is a genius IMO.
I loved these movies. I had no idea they were by the same dude. Living in Arizona I see a lot of what these films are about. Drugs and the cartel, poverty and getting fucked by banks, native Americans and the way they’ve been torn apart by the US.
People have desert parties here, just go out to the middle of the desert with a keg. It’s almost dangerous for cops to break up a desert party because when they show up, everyone scatters and they could get stuck wandering and succumb to the elements.
Jeremy Reiner is the most underrated "action star". Wind river I just randomly watched on Netflix because I find that part of the country interesting. Woah was it a surprise to just watch IMO a modern classic, a movie that had great acting, a message most can get behind (not overly political in these times), a just brutal fight scene that felt out of no where considering the rest was reasonably slow. On top of the shoot out being one of the most realistic fight scenes in recent memory. People not dying after one shot to the chest and kinda awkwardly laying there alive but not able to truly fight back anymore, realistic gun physics, showing ARs compared to pistols are hardly comparable in a duel etc, truly amazing. Then Jeremy playing a character that is the hero but in most moral senses not a true fault less hero. Yeah he did it for his friend but also selfishly to take revenge for himself and straight up murdering people. That made his character sooo utterly believable and real that it still sticks in my mind. I actually haven't seen the other two movies but now I feel I have to hunt down where I can stream them and watch ASAP. Not sure how they will beat wind river, solely on the beauty of the landscape.
If you liked Wind River then you really should watch the other two as IMO Wind River is by far the weakest of them.
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One of the best videos you've done. I feel that "Hell or High Water" was the best film of 2016, but only made $27 million at the box office and didn't get the recognition it deserved.
I like your approach calling it a trilogy of three different movies. I agree that in an ever increasing globalize world, the people in the frontier are being forgotten and have no faith in government. Can't wait for Sicario 2 and see if it continues the theme of Sicario, or is it just a shoot em up movie with no real depth.
CardsNHorns04 I wish I could be excited for Sicario 2, however, even if the trailer looks great, it just looks like it's gonna be an action film with no real message behind it
CardsNHorns04 there is no need for sequel. The story, the same story has already been told twice after. HOHW /WR
I agree, Sicario should have been a stand-alone film, but unfortunately, Hollywood saw $$$ and said "F*** it, do it again!"
That's what I thought originally but Sheridan is wrote the script for the sequel also.
Jew stein, but Sheridan wrote the script for the sequel. He planned for there to be sequels. He's had five installments written.
taylor be a talented filmmaker hope he can keep it up
I love this Trilogy. Wind River was a major influence in my own work. Good job!
Wind River stabbed me in the heart. Matt and Natalie were so happy, and then.
I am from Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. Wind River hits hard because i know how real that film is throughout my home city and province. I find this analysis interesting because it lacks a major recognition on the consequences of colonialism on first nations, while putting much of the conflict in Wind River on the environment. While that may be true, i imagine a Canadian, especially one with an indigenous background (which i am not) might analyze it differently.
Great video!! Love this trilogy!
Wind River was easily my favorite film of 2017 (most of that could be I'm a huge Native American sympathizer), it's probably my favorite out of the trilogy but I will admit Sicario was probably the most well made out of the trilogy. Nonetheless all three are important films especially if you look at it as presented in this video. I honestly didn't notice the political/economical/cultural trend until this video and makes me appreciate the trilogy a lot more now. P.S. I'm a new subscriber and these two recent videos both discussed 2/5 of my favorite films of last year, looking forward for more of your content.
You can’t beat a movie directed by denis villeneuve but Wind river is also my favorite of the trilogy. As someone from Wyoming it did a really good job of showing how harsh the landscape is and the short of end of the stick native Americans get
@Ted Bundy lol coming from ted bundy?
@Ted Bundy no, but he's not exactly the right person to get moral lessons from!
It's all in good fun!
John Wayne dead....nation mourns. How can fukin John Wayne die?
"Fuhkin Indians got him."
I’m in love with Sheridan’s work
You do some of the best film analysis videos on UA-cam, keep it up!
I feel that this trilogy deserves waaay more love that it has received. Thank you for a really insightful and deeper look into these films that I love. Can't wait to re-watch whilst bearing this video in mind.
Excellent breakdown Ryan. Taylor Sheridan is one damn talented writer, and all three films in this trilogy are modern day film classics.
Late to this, but amazing video. Very impressed!
Actually, everybody is misreading that last scene in Sicario. Alejandro is not menacing Kate because he's corrupt, he's doing it because she "reminds him of his daughter." The affidavit is a pretense. He's threatening her to drive her out of the unit because if she stays, she'll die. It's a "land of wolves" and she is simply not a wolf. On some level she knows this, which is why she doesn't shoot him.
Great flick, and I might add, some first-rate analysis here.
As someone who lives on the edge of (and at times smack dab in the middle of) "the american frontier", i forget how impactful it can be thematically and stylistically to people. (Live in Texas)
Wind river was so hauntingly good!! It is the finest of these films and sticks with you !!!
I haven't seen any of these films yet (regretfully) however Wind River seems like it would be right up my alley.
Yames all 3 are well worth watching. Amazing films!!
Yames You are doing yourself an injustice. Watch the film it's brutal and stunning!
I ended up seeing all of them in theaters when they came out not realizing they were by the same man. I'd recommend watching all three (Sicario is getting a sequel/prequel), but I'll warn you that Hell or High Water is probably the weakest of the three, but still better than your average movie. Most people say that Sicario is the best out of the three, but I favour Wind River and if it looks like your thing it'll probably be the same for you.
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I live in a mexican border city next to Texas, and sicario did a magnificent representation of a Mexican border city, from the federales police, the ugliness of a border city that are different from cities form the center of Mexico that are beautiful, the scene of the international crossing is awesome, because is true is a perfect place to ambsh been surrounded by cars and no way out.
Sicario is getting a new movie called sicario 2: soldado, an in the trailers I see a scene where they find rugs that the Muslims use to pray, and in real life the Mexican government received information about terrorist passing to the USA thru tamaulipas, and the government send the mexicans counterpart of the Navy seals team 6 (the special forces of the high command, that only the president and the defense secretary control, and are trained by the Deltas and seals), ok so they went to tamaulipas and didn't find anybody only this rugs that are used to pray, so the scene is accurate.
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I’ve always enjoyed when media (movies, TV shows, books, etc.) adapt real-world elements into their story instead of creating a fictional place to suit their needs (make the similarities too obvious and it feels forced). It seems to raise the tension and make the story feel authentic. It’s nice to hear that that theme is being continued, contributes to the idea of it being a good sequel.
Wind River always stood out to me because it echoed things I’d been hearing all the time, when I was growing up, about aboriginal communities (I grew up near a reserve). The landscape was familiar, the tension between the people was right, and the bitter cold of it was was familiar.
I absolutely love these films! Thanks for making this
"You didn't see it." Most heartbreaking line.
Just finished Sicario, being the last of the 3 for me to see. Coming back to this video, I just want to say how well done it is. By far, the most interesting, fleshed out and thoughtful analysis's I've seen, on any movie(s). You do a damn good job and were a great influence to me watching these films. You helped establish a new depth and love for each of these films, especially the modern western. Very much looking forward to what you produce in the near future. Thank you for you hard work.
Amazing work. Loved it and love all three films.
As a big fan of all the 3 films in this trilogy, this interpretation highlighting the common underlying ideas portrayed just blew my mind away! Awesome work!
I honestly think this my favorite episode yet! Sheridan has a unique view and it's awe inspiring. Awesome Ryan!🤘🏾
I didn't realise these were all the same writer but having now seen all of them, I see. You explain it so well. Thanks for the vid.
As someone that grew up on a ranch and made a living as a professional rodeo cowboy, a lot of that frontier wildness speaks to me on a personal level. None of Taylor's work makes up my individual favorite movies of all time but I think when you put it all together it comes out as some of the best stuff I've ever seen. He manages to carry themes and motifs through all of his work that feel authentic and like he's saying something significant about life in the places he writes about.
This was insanely comprehensive. I am a massive Sheridan fan, and have touched on a few of these subtext themes when discussing his films with friends - especially those who believe they are vapid films with not much to say beyond the surface, but I've never meditated on them enough to get as in-depth as you did.
OMG, dude... This essay gave me goosebumps. Well done!
I watched these movies because of this video. I really liked all of the movies and I see what Ryan was speaking to in this video essay. Great work on this one. Thank you for opening that door to watching these movies.
Just watched all three of these, what set me on this trail was No Country for Old Men, which i watched last month. I knew watching all of these that... questions were posed, assumptions challenged, and like you said there was no satisfying resolution to the story. Truly beautiful films and are up there with my favorites (Bladerunner 2049, Logan, Serenity, then No Country for Old Men, Windriver, Sicario, and Hell or High Water.) Thank you for the video man, was truly a pleasure to listen to this
I watched sicario when it came out in 2015. Loved the setting so was eagerly anticipating the movie for a few months. Probably still one of my favourite but it wasn't till recently I had come to see Wind River and Hell or Highwater. What an amazing trilogy, every movie has you on the edge of your seat the entire time. Glad Hell or Highwater got some oscar love but the other deserved so much more than was given. All three are instant, modern classic IMO. Absolutely breathtaking.
I love this video! I love you talking about things you love! I love you!!!
Sicario and Wind River was amazing. Yet to see Hell or high water
Wow, this really was eye-opening. I always liked the "Frontier Trilogy" and Sicario has become one of my favourite movies of all time, but I wasn´t able to find the words to explain why. You have found them and you´ve got a great understanding of subtext and motives. Thank you, I learned a lot about why I love these movies. Greetings from Germany.
I've been going through your video backlog since I found it earlier this week and this is one of the most insightful and thought provoking videos I've seen so far. I'm really impressed with the take on it, and grateful I was able to watch this since none of those movies are ones I would seek out to watch for myself.
I'm of the mind that "Hell or High Water" is the weakest of the three, and it's ironically the one that got the most attention. "Sicario" is an absolute masterpiece.
Brilliant dissection, man, especially on the theme of futility within an unjust system and people's desperate violence as a sometimes-unconscious-sometimes-deliberate reaction to it. I love Neo-Westerns and your essay is helping me understand why that is. Taylor Sheridan is a gem, and so are you, Ryan Hollinger. :)
When I went to see sicario I hadn't seen the trailer so I thought it was going to be a fast and furious deal. I did not want to see it. But it turned out to be one of my top 100 films I've seen
This was the first of your videos I saw, and I just rewatched it. Such a lovely and nuanced analysis!
Taylor Sheridan’s trilogy has been a major influence for a detective novel I’m writing. It’s deals with similar themes and setting, the cycle of crime and circumstance in the rapidly changing social and economic atmosphere of 1980’s Western Canada. I have very much modelled the tone after that of Sheridan’s work, violence is intense and unpleasant but occasionally necessary, but I aim to avoid an ending where the good guys win by shooting the bad guys.
Just wanted to say thanks my man, you've opened my eyes to a great many things with your videos. You've helped me understand media in a much richer and fulfilling way. Keep on doin' what youre doin'...
I think he just went to a few specific places in the USA and wrote stories that were like a sum total or inherent in them. Those stories smell so much of the land in which they were based....
Thank you for talking about Wind River. It doesn't get enough attention. My brother in law is actually from Wind River Reservation and it really is harsh down there.
this is so good wtf how did i not know about your channel until now... i saw wind river when it came out and it was incredible
Nice one. This might be your best, IMO. Thank you.
YES! I'm so glad someone made a video examining these movies as a trilogy. Fantastic work! You misspelled the man's name in the title, though (which is probly why I didn't find this video when searching his name). Should be *Taylor* Sheridan, not *Tyler*. ;)
This is one of my favorite trilogies and I love your take on it
Bravo! Fantastic video! Sheridan’s frontier trilogy has flown WAY too far under the radar. Glad you’re shining some well deserved light on it.
I love that this has brought up conversations about places in America that aren't Coastal Cities, places where everyone is poor and everyone is expected to more or less fend for themselves. I'm a West Virginia native and we deal with our fair share of willful police ineptitude, lack of Federal level concern, and within the last 5 years the Rape of the land and extraction of resources from outside forces that put no money back into the community they exploited.
We are one more economic down turn away from being a Neo-western setting and if people who lived in metropolitan areas understood just what life was like here and places like it they would understand where people were coming from on the distrust of government and social systems and the need for firearms and self defense. Out here if you are murdered it simply will not be solved unless it happens in one of the towns in broad daylight, it has happened, and continues to happen. My small town in particular in the past 20 years has been used as the dumping ground for 4 murders, 2 of which were women who were never identified. In 1993 there was a gunfight that lasted 2 minutes between what can only be described as masked Vigilantes and 3 heroine dealers from Pittsburgh resulting in no casualties and the drug dealers leaving the area as reprisal for a local boy ODing and the police just left it alone.
A large chunk of America is still "The Frontier" in a lot of ways, people just don't pay attention to it. There are still places where you can't get high-speed internet, no cell service, nooks and crannies unseen by human eyes for decades.
I don't regret subscribing to your channel for a second. I loved Hell Or High Water and Sicario, but never saw Wind River. Feels do good to find a yputuber who has tastes so similar to mine.
This is my all time favorite video essay! 10's across the board!!!
Great video! I love hearing your take on film always giving insight on film that other channels just don't have
All three of these films blew me away. Especially the transport section of Sicario and any dialogue from Ben foster in hell or high water
This was fantastic. I’m a huge Sheridan fan
This is a fabulous and well written episode. Fantastic work.
This is a brilliant trilogy of films, which I intend to watch more than once.
I just finished it up. It's great. I really liked all 3 films
such an amazing video on 3 films i LOVE but never saw the connection! if i could give this a thousand likes i would great job 👏 👏👏
All three films are really awesome and this is good video.
Loved this trilogy. Saw three all at the cinema. Wonderful direction and writing. I liked the way you spoke of the inconsquence of the character actions. It mirrors our own lives of nihilism and greed.
What bout for your next film something else by elizabeth olson. Martha may marline or the BONE film i cant recall right now
MASESOX Sort of funny how you say that all had wonderful direction, since all of them had different directors; Denis Villeneuve did Sicario (the most well-directed IMO), David Mackenzie did Hell or High Water and Taylor Sheridan directed Wind River (who was also the one writing the script).
Eugene Lau did they not? Good direction sometimes means that a script is so strong that direction can feel natural and subtle, not getting in the way with flashy jump cuts and pans but to allow the action to be shot objectively and in turn i think this allows the actor to truly engage the audience, something, sadly that i feel we get far to rarely in modern cenima
Loved all 3 of these sad glorious movies! Sheridan improves in each one and I’m looking forward to his next script for the Sicario sequel later this year
These three films are incredible and really turn the settings into their own characters.
I haven't yet seen Sheridan's Yellowstone, but it looks to be a continuation of the setting forging the characters, not the other way around.
These movies helps me cope with my little town losing it. When the factories move away and people starts leaving too
Man, awesome video. I love all three of these movies, Sicario especially. Keep up the good work!
Three excellent movies! You have covered them well in your video.
Great video. I think that the recurrent theme is just violent out of control vs violence under control, perfectly represented in sicario when they gun down the narcos on the treffic jam.
Fantastic job!
Didn't realize these three excellent films were linked. Thanks.
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Man what a talent Taylor Sheridan is ,this three films stayed with me for a long time since no country for old men and oldboy
Taylor created memorable characters like no other
Nature is a vile and beautiful mother. A dance, eloquent and violent. One should regard that which fears nothing. And respect the forgotten.
I've watched this four times. Awesome.
Three exceptional films from Sheridan though my favourite is Hell or High Water , Toby's monologue at the end about poverty being a disease stayed with me long after I saw the film and is probably one of my favourite pieces of film Dialogue. Great review of these movies- all the best
All 3 of these films are AMAZING. I like to think all these films as well as Yellowstone all take place in the same universe.
Soon to be a quadrilogy since Sicario's getting a sequel written by Sheridan.
Which unfortunately was severely bellow-par compared to these films. It wasn't bad, just felt rather unnecessary.
William S honestly, I liked it better than the first one. Mainly because I disliked Emily Blunt’s character in the first one.
jim treebob then you missed the point of Emily Blunt’s character in the first one.
@@DakodaWilliamsFilms Exactly! Without her moral quandary there is no conflict in the film.
@@William_Sk I don't remember a single thing about the second one, which probably means I didn't like it that much.
Amazing films.. all of them
have only heard of these movies in passing. will need to check them out
Fantastic video Ryan!
It was a long time and well past all three films before I realised it was the Taylor Sheridan that was in Sons of Anarchy.
I was fortunate enough to see Wind River in a small theater all by myself - as in there was not a single other person in the theater. I cried during 3 scenes in the film (if you know it, you can probably guess which), and was completely floored by it.
I was disappointed that neither Sheridan (script), or Jeremy Renner (a career-defining performance) received any awards hype.
Hell, when I first saw Sicario I thought Benicio was a shoe-in for a Supporting Actor Oscar nom.
Doubling back to the title, and over-arching theme of the video (and films), I'm willing to bet that these movies would receive more hype if they took place in South America, or Europe [Call Me By Your Name]. The American Frontier is just not "sexy" enough for awards hype.
All three of these movies are amazing. Sicario is one of my favorite movies ever & Wind River is highly underrated to me. Of course, Hell or High Water is just as great.
Tanner's final shootout isn't pointless. It's the only reason Toby managed to evade the law. I hope there will be more analyses on Westerns in the future.
Wind River was amazing!
Hey man, great video, but you got Sheridan's name wrong in the title. It's "Taylor," not, "Tyler," which I know you know because you said his name right in the video. Honest typo, just thought I'd let ya know.
Fantastic video with great analysis keep up the good work
All 3 movies were fantastic
Given that I live about four hours north of the Wind River Reservation, it never occurred to me that it was a "Neo-Western." My city has a population of about 100,000, with the metro area being about 180. It is by FAR the biggest metro area along the Northern Rocky Mtn front. Still though, many times I lose sight of truly how few people actually live here.
I hope Sheridan gets to make more movies like these. It is time we had some decent movies today.
Three absolutely brilliant films!