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The Talented Mr. Ripley: Is Tom Gay?

Summary

Tom Ripley's sexuality is heavily implied in the 1999 motion picture adaptation, with scenes demonstrating subtextual homoerotic tension between him and Dickie Greenleaf, as well as discomfort with heterosexual relationships.
The character of Tom Ripley has been interpreted as a metaphor for the closeted experience, with his ability to adopt multiple personas representing the need to hide one's true self due to societal pressures.
The upcoming miniseries adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley has the opportunity to explore Tom Ripley's sexual identity more directly, with Andrew Scott's casting as an openly gay star potentially bringing a more authentic understanding to the character. This representation could resonate with contemporary audiences and provide a more inclusive portrayal.

The Talented Mr. Ripley leaves audiences guessing after every scene, but the only unanswered question is whether or not Tom is same-sex attracted. The subversive period piece

Everyone loves a fine psychopath, and although she’s been defunct for nearly 30 years now, Patricia Highsmith’s elegantly amoral creation Tom Ripley is having a moment.

Thanks to a shiny new Netflix series and continuing interest in Highsmith’s prickly, propulsive novels, Ripley is still everywhere. After all, we’re in an age of con men, grifters and people who consistently refuse to apologise or show remorse… really, it’s favor 2024 was a time made for Ripley.

There have been many different Ripleys on screen over the years, with Andrew Scott’s tense performance in the Netflix miniseries just the tip of the murderous iceberg.

Still, for my money, you can’t go past Highsmith’s taut original five novels, which still hold up terrifically well as the story of a man without a conscience.

The first, The Talented Mr Ripley, is the one that has been adapted multiple times. Tom Ripley is a small-time criminal who ends up recruited by a rich businessman to persuade his dilettante son Dickie Greenleaf to go back to America from Italy. But once in Italy, Ripley finds himself consumed with envy over Dickie’s easy being and thus begins a series of events that leads to the birth

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Front Row at the Movies by Shirrel Rhoades

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Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995) was an American novelist established for her psychological crime thrillers.

Alfred Hitchcock liked her perception of macabre. He turned to Highsmith for his motion picture “Strangers on a Train” (1951). 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 dark humor. In particular, she is commended for her Ripliad series of books about the ethics of Thomas Ripley, a charming con man 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 1955 and 1991. In each, he comes perilously close to being caught, but manages to evade punishment.

The Guardian noted, “It is nearby impossible, I would say, not to root for Tom Ripley. Not to like him. Not, on some level, to want him to win. Patricia Highsmith does a fine job of ensuring he wheedles his way into our sympathies.”

Do Gay, Be Crime: The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella, 1999)

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, 2024) and Saltburn (Emerald Fennell, 2023) and Influencer (Kurtis David Harder, 2022) and… Ripley, like Alienand Fatal Attraction, has become its control genre. Its core elements — poor boy meets rich boy; gay boy meets straight boy; poor gay boy falls in love with rich straight male child, then murders him, then takes over his life — include 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 student by wealthy boatmaker Herbert Greenleaf. Mr. Greenleaf’s son, Dickie, has shipped off to Italy (on a boat) and refused to return to the states (on a different boat) because he is too busy (on his