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The Talented Mr. Ripley is a 1955 psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith. The novel introduced the character of con man Tom Ripley , whom Highsmith wrote about in four subsequent books. Its numerous film and television adaptations include Purple Noon (1960), starring Alain Delon , The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), starring Matt Damon ...
The Talented Mr. Ripley was published in December 1955 to favorable reviews in the New York Times Book Review and The New Yorker, their critics praising Highsmith's convincing portrait of a psychopath. [9]: 351 [5]: 118 The novel went on to win the Edgar Allan Poe Scroll of the Mystery Writers of America.
Ripley has typically been regarded as "cultivated", a "dapper sociopath", and an "agreeable and urbane psychopath." [5] In his review of Purple Noon, René Clément's 1960 adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley, film critic Roger Ebert described Ripley as "a committed hedonist, devoted to great comfort, understated taste, and civilized interests ...
Patricia Highsmith on The Talented Mr Ripley. Ripley is a clever, vicious social climber with a talent for impersonation, who is able to finagle his way into the confidences of the rich.
Dennis Hopper took up the role of Ripley in The American Friend, German auteur Wim Wenders's neo-noir take on the third novel in the series (Ripley's Game). The same book was adapted for film a ...
The new Netflix series “Ripley,” based on the first of author Patricia Highsmith’s five books about Tom Ripley (1955’s “The Talented Mr. Ripley”), is a riveting watch — even if you ...
Purple Noon (French: Plein soleil; Italian: Delitto in pieno sole; also known as Full Sun, Blazing Sun, Lust for Evil, and Talented Mr. Ripley) [2] is a 1960 crime thriller film starring Alain Delon (in his first major role), alongside Marie Laforêt and Maurice Ronet; Romy Schneider, Delon's girlfriend at the time, makes a brief cameo appearance in the film.
Although the eight episodes draw material from all five of Highsmith’s Ripley novels, their content focuses primarily on the first book, The Talented Mr. Ripley, meaning there are untouched ...