Greatest Love Triangles

22 March 2010

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The troubled Ménage à trois has long been a trope worth exploring in the movies and with the release of Twilight New Moon on DVD and Blu-ray on the 22nd of March we see that the plight goes as far as affecting the vampire and werewolf worlds.

So without further ado we take a look at the top ten Cinematic love triangles.

Chloe

The recently release Chloe showed the complexities behind a failing marriage between Liam Neeson and Julliane Moore.

In a move to confirm her suspicisions Moore’s character hires excort girl Amanda Seyfried to tempt her unfaithful husband. Along the way things are complicated by a growing involvement between Seyfried and Moore leading to highly charged erotic scenes.

The film has blasted away the good girl image of Seyfried who is used to clean cut ‘good girl’ roles in films like Mean Girls and Mamma Mia! But if this film is anything to go by we will most certainly be steering clear of any potential situations which would see us torn between two lovers!

True Blood

It may not be cinema but we simply cannot ignore the passion of True Blood! Not only do we have the seemingly bizarre relationship between Anna Paquin’s Sookie and Stephen Moyer ‘s vampire Bill Compton but we have the constant tension with third wheeler vampire Eric.

Appearing in dreams and constantly trying to drive a wedge between the two, Eric will be one to keep an eye on in the coming seasons as his intentions are not too clear!

Twilight

Another supernatural trio are involved in this Twilight triangle. First there was the all consuming unconsummated love between Bella Swan and Edward Cullen (Played by real life lovers Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson) in Twilight.

But in New Moon we see this bond stretched to its very limit with the introduction of Jacob. Dividing fan audiences right down the middle Bella has to choose between the pale vampire and the tanned and toned Jacob... put like that our vanity certainly puts us firmly in Team Jacob.

Spiderman

When bitten by a radioactive spire Peter Parker (played by Toby Maguire) was told ‘With great power comes great responsibility’ but he wasn’t given any advice on how to juggle a relationship!

Mary-Jane is torn between two life-long friends: Harry Osborne, son of an evil genius with a penchant to don a goblin mask, and Peter Parker, who has a public duty as a web spinning superhero. Decisions!

Okay it may not be such a hard decision here, especially when Harry goes a bit loopy and evil himself but the betrayal of the two friends makes it interesting none-the-less.

Mamma-Mia!

This may be more love-square than love-triangle but in a film that managed to score big at the box office maybe three is not the magic number, audience want more bang (ahem) for their buck.

You know you are a bit irresponsible if you cannot work out who the father of your child is and there are three potential daddies to chose from but that is the exact premise for this ABBA heavy hit.

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