Winner of six Oscar statuettes in his long filmography, Billy Wilder was noted for his expansive talent, varying in several genres and achieving success in all, managing to bring to the cinema several masterpieces. Born in the early twentieth century in 1906, Billy Wilder went to the directorial debut, as enshrined in subsequent decades in 1934, in film “Bad Seed”. Wilder still more 25 films until 1981. Top 10, we set out on the hard mission of sixteen elemental elements to understand the heart of Wilder’s cinema. The films are very different, evidencing the different types of director’s career. Let’s go to the list!
10º – One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder, 1961)
In East Germany, in the midst of the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is charged with the mission of caring for the daughter of a prominent business man. When it comes to a man when it comes to a child, you have control over the child’s individual in a series of confusions for him. Dynamic bastard, “One, Two, Three”, Billy Wilder, but still, he has just made an excellent comedy.
9º – Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder, 1953)
The strategy of focusing on a concentration camp in the midst of a world war is to show the prisoners’ interests in their search for different ways to have fun and information about information from an informant in place. Nurturing a concise script and flawless performances, ‘Stalag 17’ is one of the most substantial dramas in Billy Wilder’s career.
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