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The Talented Mr. Ripley
Front Row at the Movies by Shirrel Rhoades
[mr_rating_result]Patricia Highsmith (–) was an American novelist known for her psychological crime thrillers.
Alfred Hitchcock liked her sense of macabre. He turned to Highsmith for his film “Strangers on a Train” (). Hitch even used one of her stories on TV’s “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.” And the maestro collected four of her short stories in his various mystery anthologies.
Highsmith is noted for her stinging satirical stories tinged with black humor. In particular, she is recognized for her Ripliad series of books about the character of Thomas Ripley, a charming con dude and serial killer.
There were five Ripley books in all – “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” “Ripley Under Ground,” “Ripley’s Game,” “The Boy Who Followed Ripley,” and “Ripley Under Water” – published between and In each, he comes perilously close to being caught, but manages to escape punishment.
The Guardian noted, “It is near unworkable, I would say, not to root for Tom Ripley. Not to love him. Not, on some level, to want him to win. Patricia Hi
Patricia Highsmith's Queer Disruption: Subverting Gay Tragedy in the s
Published in a noun when tragedy was pervasive in gay literature, Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Price of Salt, published later as Carol, was the first lesbian novel with a happy ending. It was unusual for depicting lesbians as sympathetic, common women, whose sexuality did not consign them to a life of misery. The novel criticises how s American society worked to suppress lesbianism and women’s agency. It also refuses to let that suppression succeed by giving its lesbian couple a future together. My thesis assesses the extent to which the novel broke the conventions of gay literature, and how Highsmith was able to publish such a radical text in the conservative s. The Talented Mr Ripley, a crime novel published in , is more representative of both Highsmith’s operate and s homophobia. Tom Ripley is coded as gay through a number of often pejorative stereotypes, though the novel never confirms his sexuality. This makes it appear far more conventional than The Price of Salt. And yet, it treats Tom sympathetically
TOM RIPLEY IN DRAG
Tom Ripley in Drag
Please forgive me for this rather prolix Ripley Review piece of piffle - with its frankly disturbingly gushing fashion - as nothing more than a camp pop Pompidou Centre quickie tour of Paris (comparing it to a blow-up doll).
Or better yet a West Berlin drag show swan song with Miss Highsmith as Marlene Dietrich singing &#;Falling in Love Again.&#;
These passages I quote and play around with could have been lifted directly from Highsmith's own diaries or notebooks. The Boy Who Followed Ripley seemingly having fallen together in a pile of scattered pieces - like some odd William Burroughs cut-up montage.
After reading the novel, I&#;m left rather simply amazed that The Boy Who Followed Ripley for some reason lacks the urgency of others in the series (although as an aside, I should note that such is my enthusiasm for Ripley that truly only Patricia Highsmith could have written an entire novel consisting of Tom gardening, playing the harpsichord and sauntering around in drag in a risqué Berlin disco.)
Do Gay, Be Crime: The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella, )
When you're both on a boat and one guy's skull gets smote, that's-a Ripley
First things first: This is not just about The Talented Mr. Ripley. It’s about The Talented Mr. Ripley and Ripley (Netflix, ) and Saltburn (Emerald Fennell, ) and Influencer (Kurtis David Harder, ) and… Ripley, like Alienand Fatal Attraction, has become its own genre. Its core elements — poor teen meets rich boy; gay boy meets straight boy; poor gay boy falls in love with wealthy straight boy, then murders him, then takes over his life — contain entered the collective unconscious and spawned a half-dozen mutations.
That said, Minghella’s was the first Ripley I knew, and the only one I knew for a long time, so I’ll re-acquaint you with it before continuing.
Matt Damon plays Tom Ripley, a working-class kid with a talent for impersonation and forgery, who is mistaken for a Princeton learner by wealthy boatmaker Herbert Greenleaf. Mr. Greenleaf’s son, Dickie, has shipped off to Italy (on a boat) and r