However it is Ripley with whom her name is most synonymous; she devoted five books to his nefarious, murderous adventures. But the original novel is a work both more sincere and more profound. If what Ripley turns into through the series is a near-comically unruffled sociopath, then The Talented Mr Ripley proves how sociopaths are made, not born.
When, therefore, he is misidentified by the shipping magnate Herbert Greenleaf as a friend of his wayward son, and asked to go to Italy to cajole him into returning home, Ripley undertakes the trip as an escape from himself. Though the irony is that he can play the rebel only because he has the establishment wealth that allows him to.
Eccentric, acerbic writer Patricia Highsmith is most enduringly associated with Tom Ripley, who she wrote a series of five books around Credit: Alamy. They were not friends. It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for the people that he had known in the past and for those he would know in the future: each had stood and would stand before him, and he would know time and time again that he would never know them, and the worst was that there would always be the illusion, for a time, that he did know them, and that he and they were completely in harmony and alike.
And so it is that, even after Dickie is at the bottom of the sea and Ripley has assumed his identity, the book balances a caper-ish quality and acid-tongued humour with an undertow of deep melancholy. It is, most potently, a study of loneliness — that great taboo of a disease over which so much shame hangs, and that we still struggle as a society to address. Ripley is both very overtly in love — and lust — with Dickie: this comes to a head in a candlelit, smoulderingly erotic scene in which a fully-clothed Ripley plays chess with an unclothed Dickie as he lounges in the bath, before asking if he can get in.
Rewatching it now, it remains an exquisitely assembled and appointed piece of work. Then there is the casting. Back then, after all, they represented the most gilded princelings of modern celebrity. Law, on the other side of the Atlantic, was one of the key players in the so-called Primrose Hill set.
Who can forget Marge in her leopard print coat, matching hat, and bright red lipstick pout sitting outside at the Caffe Florian in Piazza San Marco in Venice? I hope this little armchair trip, although fictitious like the movie, provided a moment of escape to the history and sites of Italy.
Cart 0. Image: www. Ischia Have you been to Mongibello? Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. Besides lying, Tom's talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf's privileges his own. How far would you go to become someone else? Rated R for violence, language and brief nudity.
Did you know Edit. Trivia Is based on a novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith. There are also four novels which follow "The Talented Mr. Goofs Tom sets his modern blue-covered U. In the s when the film is set American passports had green covers. Quotes Tom Ripley : I always thought it would be better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Crazy credits The opening title uses all the adjectives of the complete title before cutting to the final "The Talented Mr.
User reviews Review. Top review. Matt Damon made a good choice in making this film! I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. It can definitely be considered an "intelligent" thriller. And I think that Matt Damon made a good choice choosing this role. He gets to explore the darker side of a character, a change for him, and he does so very well! On the outside he appears so wholesome and harmless but if you watch his eyes, they can give you a chill.
And I must say that Jude Law, an actor I had not seen much of before I saw this film, also gave a great performance. He has great charm and you can almost understand why "Mr. Ripley" would go to such great lengths to possess his life.
Damon did a good job of conveying how desperate he was to be someone with a life worth coveting. Don't be put off by how long it is, it is worth the watch.
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