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"See Venice and die," is what they say? Or is it Rome?"

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

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The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), TOM & DICKIE

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The Talented Mr. Ripley | 1999, director Anthony Minghella

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Required reading for fans of Ripley, btw, is John Berger on Caravaggio as a painter of the underworld 😝😝

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Ripley — la dolce vita

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Ripley — seven mercies

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ripley (2024) || episode one [ I a hard man to find ] yeah, that's right. dickie. dickie greenleaf. it's nice to meet you, too. '

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In a traditional closet narrative, desire is truth, one's desires are punished for being what they are, and to suppress this desire is to harm one's self by lying–a narrative that usually ends with leaving the rejecting host body, not trying to burrow yourself deeper into it. Indeed, in most coming-out narratives, to remain behind in disguise is considered losing the game of life. But for Tom–and, I'd argue, legions of dykes who see their gender identity as in flux–disguise is the lifestyle. What Tom's character experiences is much more like the desire to pass than it is the desire to live openly. But it's not passing the way trans people hope to pass: as themselves, out in the public world. It's a much more greedy, sometimes ugly desire, a desire to have more than you're entitled to, to not be accepted as you actually are or want to be but to be more than that. It’s a desire to beat an entire gender category at its own game.

I wrote a self-indulgent little blog post about what Ripley means to me as a dyke who has all kinds of complex feelings about gender identity and gay sexuality, and why the show's success in reflecting a love of duplicity makes it the best Highsmith adaptation yet. Give it a read if you want!

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The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) dir. Anthony Minghella

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STOP PLEASE I CAN ONLY GET SO HARD

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HEY THERE SLUTTY SCAMMERS  🤑💰💶 LIARS 💁💋 AND DOCUMENT FORGERS 😏 💌 ARE U READ TO GET 💦👅 WET💦 👅💦 IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA THIS APRIL? 4️⃣ DON'T ROCK THE BOAT 🍑⛵IT'S TIME TO MARK YOUR CALENDARS 📅🔥🙌  FOR THE PREMIERE OF RIPLEY AKA THE THE TALENTED MR. DICK😫🍆 LY 💦💦💦💦 EVERY HOE 🍑 DESERVES TO WITNESS THIS SOON TO BE MASTERPIECE STARRING ANDREW THOT 😱 👅 WATCH AS TOM RIPLEY TRIES TO LOCK DOWN A SUGAR DADDY 🍆💶🍆💶🍆 💶 AND IS CHASED BY VARIOUS MEN 👉🏃‍♂️💦🏃‍♂️ACROSS SOUTHERN ITALY 😏 🇮🇹 IT'S CUMMING 💦 OUT SOON 😱 SO TAKE A THOT PIC FOR YOUR FAKE PASSPORT 📷🍑 AND GET READY🍆 💁

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Philip Seymour Hoffman, July 23, 1967 - February 2, 2014.

On the set of Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999). Photo by Brigitte Lacombe.

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PURPLE NOON / PLEIN SOLEIL (1960) dir. René Clément

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ALAIN DELON as TOM RIPLEY Plein Soleil / Purple Noon (1960) Dir. René Clément

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oh my god i completely forgot about the hbo series. One Fear. (the "it's bad" fear)

My One Fear is that it processes the gay stuff incorrectly, or that it processes it in a way that's accurate to the book and our current cultural climate can't process it. Tom Ripley Self Loathing Closeted Gay Psychopath For Whom Being A Psychopath Is Way More Important Than The Gay Part is all I want in this life ... but will I get it? Unknown. Can't wait for the twitter rants about how it's bad gay rep or queerbaiting or whatever lmfao