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	k-punk: Ripley's glam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tom Ripley was not a character that could fit into the rock and roll era, with its emphasis on teen desire, social disruption and Dionysiac excess.
		Ripley’s trajectory is uncannily in sync with that of Bryan Ferry.
		Ripley is a brilliant improviser, not a planner; the plans he does make are short-term, often leading to more problems than they solve, and he derives enjoyment from cleaning up messes rather than from avoiding them in the first place.
	k-punk.abstractdynamics.org /archives/008098.html (1814 words)

	DVD Review - The Talented Mr. Ripley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ripley" is based on one such story, a thriller that is full of mystery, murders and unexpected surprises, set in front of a beautiful Mediterranean background in the 50s.
		Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) is a poor young man who earns his living as a bathroom clerk and makes some money on the side, playing classical piano for upper-crust social events.
		Tom’s rich friend even goes as far as letting Tom enjoy the riches and the exuberant lifestyle he is leading and all too soon, Tom comes to a point where he forgets his mission.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/the_talented_mr__ripley.shtml (1028 words)

	Thomas Ripley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas "Tom" Ripley is a fictional character of a series of crime novels by Patricia Highsmith and in several films spawned from the novels.
		At first blush, Ripley would appear to be a prime example of a psychopath (and is even described as such by many critics), but certain elements of his personality do not conform to a diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder.
		For example, he is never truly sexually attracted to his wife (in Ripley Under Ground, he describes going impotent with laughter while having sex with her on their honeymoon), and his feelings for a few male characters (particularly Greenleaf) have featured elements of repressed sexual obsession.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tom_Ripley (830 words)

	`The Talented Mr. Ripley': Carnal, Glamorous and Worth the Price
		When Tom is hired by Dickie's father (James Rebhorn) to bring the ne'er-do-well Greenleaf scion home from Italy, he contrives to bump into Dickie on the beach and to echo Dickie's infatuation with American jazz.
		Tom's tricks, from wearing an embarrassingly skimpy chartreuse bathing suit to casually flashing some of Dickie's favorite record albums, neatly accomplish their purpose.
		Once Meredith latches onto Tom, who she thinks is Dickie, whom she regards as a bored and wealthy kindred spirit, the story has developed all the dizzying cross-currents it deserves.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/122499ripley-film-review.html (1044 words)

	Cinema of Shadows: The Shadowland Movie Page
		Patricia Highsmith's novels about Tom Ripley are the exception, a series of books about a man who is irredeemably bad, and yet charming, intelligent and thoughtful about the price he pays for his amoral lifestyle.
		Ripley, her first Ripley novel, published in 1955, shows Ripley in the process of inventing himself and finding his life's work.
		Ripley, at this point still developing the skills that will carry him through several more adventures, instinctively knows that the best way to lie is to admit to lying, and to tell the truth whenever convenient.
	home.att.net /~shadowlandhome/ripley_frame.html (953 words)

	Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley
		Tom is sent to Italy by Herbert Greanleaf, a businessman desperate for his errant son's return from the Bohemian life and still hoping he will take up family business and responsibilities.
		Tom begins to see how unworthy Dickie is of the hand that fate has dealt him, and hatches an inspiringly simple plan to take that fate for himself.
		Ripley is emotionally quite disconnected, and so his fierce affection for Dickie is almost that of a worshipping child rather than a man in love or lust.
	www.rambles.net /highsmith_ripley.html (1217 words)

	The Talented Mr. Ripley Movie Review
		Its title character, Tom Ripley, is a man of many voices, and a man with the kind of face everyone recognizes, but can't really place.
		Likewise, Tom is forced to look at himself in the mirror on several occasions-an old trick often used when a character questions his identity or motives, but effective nonetheless.
		Yes, Tom Ripley runs around pretending to be another person for a great deal of this film, and we must all agree that in our minds, this is an unforgivable act.
	www.killermovies.com /t/thetalentedmrripley/reviews/d4u.html (1285 words)

	The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
		Ripley is about the snobbish voice of superiority that resides within each of us, the voice that proclaims we’re smarter and more sensitive than the fools around us.
		Tom hit him in the side of the neck, three times, chopping strokes with the edge of the oar, as if the oar were an axe and Dickie’s neck a tree.
		While she has been criticized for portraying the murderous Tom Ripley as a repressed homosexual, it seems valid to surmise that Highsmith - who was herself a lesbian - is spoofing the homosexual overtones that play throughout The Ambassadors.
	www.culturevulture.net /Books/TalentedMrRipleybook.htm (1061 words)

	Bleeker Books - The Talented Mr. Ripley
		Ripley is a blend of the narrative subtlety of Henry James and the self-reflexive irony of Vladimir Nabokov.
		Tom Ripley is chosen by the wealthy Herbert Greenleaf to retrieve Greenleaf's son, Dickie, from his overlong sojourn in Italy.
		RIPLEY (1999)--we share Tom's fears and concerns-- realizing we should know better-- as he tells one lie after another to cover his murderous tracks, piling one indiscretion on another but always landing on his feet.
	www.bleekerbooks.com /Books/Titles/Book.asp?ID=880 (1599 words)

	The Talented Mr. Ripley... is a freak, man!
		Highsmith is incredible in her ability to portray Ripley as a protagonist with open motivations (to the Reader) all the while showing his real nature in an almost ironic villainy that he never sees in himself.
		Tom realizes he's a multiple murderer, but never once shows an inkling of guilt or regret any further than the benefit that he's gained from his crimes might get him.
		Ripley (1955) by Patricia Highsmith reviewed by J.C. Maçek III who alone is responsible for his views and for the fact that he is still himself...
	www.worldsgreatestcritic.com /talentedmrripley.html (977 words)

	The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Trivia: Tom Ripley presents Marge with a bottle of perfume from Santa Maria Novella, the same perfumer who concocted Hannibal's telltale fragrance in Hannibal (2001).
		Ripley works so well is that it's central characters are deep labyrinths that beg to explored and analysed.
		The character of Tom Ripley is a true masterpiece of characterisation indeed.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0134119 (914 words)

	Salon Movie Review \| "The Talented Mr. Ripley" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As Highsmith begins the story of Tom Ripley in the first of the five books she featured him in, he's riding out a New York autumn, vaguely taking advantage of a circle of contacts whose means are far above his while working scams almost as an amusement.
		Tom needs to be soft and seemingly weak, so that when we pity him we become the butt of his joke.
		Ripley" is a film made by a man who is uncomfortable with the material he has chosen to adapt.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/1999/12/24/ripley/print.html (1534 words)

	Ripley Games
		Ripley is the street smart, smooth operator who feels no guilt at all, a man who can rationalise deceit, lies, criminal behaviour and even murder in a way not even the sharpest politician could equal.
		Ripley is fearful of apprehension and he is already involved in a minor but elaborate piece of criminal confidence trickery.
		When Ripley spies on Marge and Dickie together he registers disgust at "the big bulge of her behind." Later there is a reference to her "gourd-like figure".
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/00/6/ripley.html (3351 words)

	AboutFilm.Com - The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
		Damon is very good as Tom, but this conception of the character and his yearnings robs the second half of the film of its edge and intrigue.
		Ripley, Tom's visible self-loathing eradicates any sense of narcissism or entitlement in his actions, as if he would content himself to merely belong to Dickie's circle, and is forced to act abominably when ousted.
		The Tom Ripley who wouldn't (or couldn't) have accepted such good fortune was never in the film to begin with.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/t/talentedmrripley.htm (1425 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ripley's Game: DVD: Liliana Cavani,Chiara Caselli,Lena Headey,John Malkovich,Dougray Scott,Ray Winstone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		RIPLEY'S GAME, the most recent transfer of Highsmith's book to film, is part of a trilogy she wrote about the character of Tom Ripley, a sensitive, gentle soul who finds his way into the world of the wealth by means of criminal acts.
		In the second novel, RIPLEY UNDERGROUND, Highsmith seems to drop the sexual overtones in favor of pushing Tom Ripley into the arms of a wealthy wife and monetary power, capitalizing on the greed for achievement overshadowing the need for love.
		Ripley, is in a similar vein -- not so much of a proforma thriller but more of a field trip inside a criminal's fl mind -- but it holds its own pretty well.
	www.amazon.ca /Ripleys-Game-Liliana-Cavani/dp/B00018D40O (1621 words)

	Feo Amante's Horror Movies: reviews THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY
		Ripley is in the background where, we come to discover, he has been all his life.
		Tom Ripley is written in the movie, as little more than an empty shell without a past or apparent family.
		What's worse for Tom is, he finds himself having to constantly work, and hide, and scheme, and plot, and fear, just to hold on to something that is not his and never will be.
	www.feoamante.com /Movies/MNO/mrripley.html (1105 words)

	A Fistful of Reviews - The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
		Tom has never been to Princeton, of course, but in a desire to belong he says that he has.
		I must say that Tom Ripley is one of the more disturbing sociopaths in recent film, and that is all due to Matt Damon's expert performance.
		It is disturbing, in fact, just how on top of things Tom Ripley is. There isn't a situation that he doesn't seem to have a way out of, even when his lies threaten to do him in.
	members.tripod.com /jason_jones2/qrst/talentedmrripley.htm (1338 words)

	The Talented Mr. Ripley: A Ransom Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tom Ripley is asked by his friend, Dickie Greenleaf, what one talent he has.
		Ripley is in Europe at the behest of Mr.
		Ripley demonstrates how dark (how many demons!) and how ugly that room is, and that such a house—elegant, full of rooms showing its owner to be a person of money and power—if it is built on lies and unreality, is a house of cards.
	www.ransomfellowship.org /M_Ripley.html (971 words)

	12gauge.com 2002 - Film Review
		Ripley is a seductive portrait of the diabolical and unlovable social climbing chameleon, Thomas Ripley (Matt Damon).
		Ripley, while not a natural born member of the privileged class, is an astonishingly quick study and easily assumes the airs of wandering socialite.
		Ripley is a man starved for affection—in fact, Matt Damon looks suspiciously lean in his portrayal of Mr.
	www.12gauge.com /film_ripley.html (522 words)

	The Talented Mr. Ripley. A Hollywood Jesus Visual Film Review.
		Ripley" is best described as "Psycho goes to Italy." It plays like yet another inferior sequel to Hitchcock's classic film version of Robert Bloch's "Psycho." Like most ersatz sequels, this one suffers in comparison with its uncredited predecessor.
		The screenplay gives the Tom Ripley character only the most cursory of motivations (instead of Norman Bates' mother-fixation, we have Ripley's spurned homosexual advances), and Matt Damon's valiant attempts to flesh out his character are not nearly enough.
		Tom, however, is the only one who resorts to murder in coming to grips with these issues.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /talented_mr_ripley.htm (2100 words)

	Amazon.com: The Talented Mr. Ripley: Books: Patricia Highsmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tom Ripley is a down and out young American whose prospects are minimal until he is sent to Italy to persuade an old school chum, Dickie Greenleaf, to return home to the United States.
		Ripley dreams of becoming a permanent fixture in Dickie's life, but when it becomes clear that Dickie is growing bored with Ripley, Ripley calmly and coolly kills Dickie and assumes his identity.
		Ripley's perceptions are necessarily tainted by his own world view, and the book may well be worth a second or third read to try to sort out Ripley's perceptions from reality.
	www.amazon.com /Talented-Mr-Ripley-Patricia-Highsmith/dp/0679742298 (2689 words)

	Amazon.com: Ripley's Game: Books: Patricia Highsmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tom Ripley after playing a foolish trick on a fellow townsman for slighting Ripley, unknowingly sends the mans life into a tailspin.
		Tom takes it upon himself to involve Trevanny in a plot that soon sets the unsuspecting man in the path of murder and revenge.
		Highsmith's writing is superb as usual, making readers loathe and love Tom Ripley all at once, and making readers justify along with her main characters the outrageous actions they take to preserve their lives.
	www.amazon.com /Ripleys-Game-Patricia-Highsmith/dp/0394490053 (2365 words)

	Guyville.com: Entertainment: Movie Reviews
		Young Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) is a talented musician who has tried his entire life to become someone better.
		In his role as Ripley, Damon is able to stretch his acting muscle into many separate veins: as a bumbling, yet talented Ripley, his personification of Dickie Greenleaf, as a jazz singer, and many others.
		The complete lack of background into the life of Tom Ripley gives the audience nothing to base their judgement on (Although this movie is based on a book of a series, a better foundation could have been provided).
	www.volumesquared.com /guyville/entertainment/movie_reviews/ripley.html (612 words)

	The Talented Mr. Ripley
		Ripley is a richly textured and enticingly nasty work about a man who takes matters into his own hands when he feels passed over by fortune, and it’s the best Alfred Hitchcock movie made since Alfred Hitchcock died.
		Dickie is Tom’s dream version of himself, a playboy in exile who spends his days carrying on with his American girlfriend, Marge (Paltrow), and his nights drinking in the jazz clubs of Naples and Rome.
		Tom wheedles his way into Dickie’s trust – the insidious impression he performs of the elder Greenleaf subtly poisons the son against his father – and he soon moves into Dickie’s house, thinking that he’s found a friend, a home, and a life.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/TalentedMrRipley.htm (811 words)

	Charity's Place.com > The Talented Mr. Ripley
		Ripley is just such a film, one you don't know whether to love or hate based on its moral flaws.
		Tom Ripley is a struggling pianist-tuner and bathroom attendant living in the basement of a Manhattan slum.
		The character of Tom Ripley is second only to Hannibal Lector when it comes to cold-hearted psychopaths.
	www.charitysplace.com /review/talentedmrripley.htm (1299 words)

	Ripley's Game Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Ripley, re-imagining the character as sort of a grown-up and deadly Opie Taylor (of The Andy Griffith Show), a naïf with a talent for murder.
		In short order, Ripley discovers that Trevanny is terminally ill with leukemia and Reeves (Ray Winstone), an old business associate, turns up seeking Ripley's help in dispatching a Russian mobster.
		At one point, Ripley tells Trevanny, "The most interesting thing about doing something terrible is often, in a few days, you can't even remember it," and certainly the casualness with which Ripley commits the most violent acts bolsters that assertion.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=131793 (1047 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The ball gets rolling in New York City in 1958, when a man (James Rebhorn) persuades Tom Ripley (Matt Damon), who says he is a Princeton graduate, to travel to Europe and persuade his rebellious son, Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law), to return home with him and leave behind his excessively luxurious lifestyle.
		Tom agrees, and is soon in Italy, becoming pals with Dickie, who starts hanging out with him and taking him to jazz clubs, even after he discovers Tom's true purposes for the trip, and his girlfriend, Marge (Gwyneth Paltrow).
		Each one is waiting for Tom Ripley, but Meredith believes he is Dickie, whom Marge has been desperately trying to find since he, more or less, disappeared from her life after taking a trip with Tom.
	www.themovieboy.com /reviews/t/99_talentedmrripley.htm (897 words)

	DVD Review - The Talented Mr. Ripley
		Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) is hired by Herbert Greenleaf, the wealthy owner of a shipping business, to travel to the south of Italy and bring back his son, Dickie (Jude Law).
		As Tom and Dickie's friendship evolves, Tom starts to emulate Dickie, and he completely involves himself in Dickie's escapist lifestyle.
		Tom's sly, inquisitive nature, which never comes off as nosy or prying, works to his advantage as he pries into their minds to satisfy his obsessive need to know.
	www.thedigitalbits.com /reviews/talentedmrripley.html (1034 words)

	The Talented Mr. Ripley Movie Review
		Ripley" is the second of the series and the first to be filmed.
		Tom Ripley, a pianist who lives in poverty in New York as a men's room attendant, is mistaken by shipbuilder magnate Herbert Greenleaf for a Princeton schoolmate of his profligate son.
		Tom paints himself into corner after corner, yet he always manages to get out of them in "accelerando" tempo.
	www.killermovies.com /t/thetalentedmrripley/reviews/ctm.html (884 words)

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