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The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999 · Film · 140 min
Directed by Anthony Minghella
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
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He indeed used to speak about him in the third person and would casually say "Alain Delon did this" (instead of "I did this"). He was widely mocked for it but he claimed it was a sign of "humility" (?!) because it was a way to avoid using "I" or "me"...
He became a huge international star in 1960 with Purple Noon, the first (of many) adaptations of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley. He was 25 and from that moment onward was recognized the world over as the sexiest and most handsome man alive. He continued to work with some of the most acclaimed European directors and starred in over 80 movies.
It's probably difficult to handle that level of fame and stardom if you're not prepared for it (or even if you are).
This was a pleasure to read (even while I am pretty sure that - like chatGPT - I have missed all the insider jokes and insinuations)
As for LLM's it leaves me as baffled as ever as to how exactly these algorithms will land. There is a scary "Talented Mr. Ripley" aspect to this movie.
From the top of my mind that movie is "Terminator 2".
Runners-up: "Scent of a woman" and "The talented Mr. Ripley". Several Woody Allen movies are worth to revisit. "Deliverance" and "Pulp fiction" also.
You're focusing on a very specific niche. Sci-fi and adventure were rarely the interest of good film makers, so few sci-fi or adventure films were made.
But that does not reflect on the larger film industry of the 80s and 90s, which was producing many more incredible movies which stood the test of time. 1999 alone gave us Fight Club, The Talented Mr Ripley, Being John Malkovich, American Beauty, The Iron Giant, Eyes Wide Shut, The Matrix, The Sixth Sense, The Green Mile.
There has always been a lot of schlock cinema being produced, but right now it is dominating much more than in the last few decades.
When does Hollywood cast any but beautiful people in any role?
Probably because a biography of Patricia Highsmith just came out, my first thought was of the movie The Talented Mr. Ripley. Matt Damon played Ripley.
My take when watching the show was that it was intentional documentary drama.
I wonder if that sort of figures into the whole equation.
Did he get typecast or was he really that type of person?
I watched "The Talented Mr Ripley" and I couldn't see Matt Damon as a hero type character in any role afterwards.
> But Hollywood have always done this - recycling old ideas in new wrapping. And Hollywood have always been criticized for being vapid entertainment, empty spectacle etc.
Not to this degree. The last good year for movies was 1999. This is the list of major releases that year:
The Matrix
Fight Club
The Sixth Sense
Toy Story 2
The Green Mile
American Beauty
Being John Malkovic
Office Space
The Iron Giant
Magnolia
Austin Powers
American Pie
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Eyes Wide Shut
Dogma
Galaxy Quest
The Insider
Notting Hill
Man on the Moon
Analyze This
Detroit Rock City
Mystery Men
Bicentennial Man
This is not even the entire list, just the ones I enjoyed and I'm bothering to type.
You can't look at that list and honestly say nothing has changed, because it's just not true. The energy and creativity has clearly moved somewhere else, to TV and streaming services.
This year alone there's two FANTASTIC shows, Chernobyl and Stranger Things S3 that definitely deserve praise.
>has retweeted someone's description of his article as "The Talented Mr Ripley, but with digital nomads"
Everyone who watched that movie felt a pang of longing to live that way; it's still selling the experience to the reader
Loved the movie. Doesn't mean I want to be like him. One of my favorite movies, The Talented Mr Ripley, leaves you feeling unsatisfied about the conclusion-- not a typical Hollywood ending.
Boiler Room is also a favorite, which of course is related to Wolf of Wall Street.
Ooooh... 1999. Fight Club. Go. American Beauty. The Matrix. Boys don't cry. Austin Powers. The Sixth Sense. The Talented Mr. Ripley. The Cider House Rules. Magnolia. Mansfield Park. The Red Violin. Trick. American Pie. ;)
That is despite the fact that installment movies of James Bond, Star Wars, Toy Story, etc., that year.
Everything seemed great that year. Or perhaps if was also a good year for me, and therefore everything seemed good because of that...
Most hated movie = "The Stepford Wives"? surprising. I really liked it. Would be interesting to see if it's a man/woman divide at work. imdb rating is 5.1/10 :/ I can think of far worse movies. Try "The Talented Mr. Ripley".
The headline refers to the 1999 movie The Talented Mr. Ripley about a young psychopath who manages to fool everyone into believing he's the son of a millionaire and eventually becomes a murderer.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134119/