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Tom Ripley is a fictional character in the Ripley series of crime novels by American novelist Patricia Highsmith, as well as several film adaptations. He is a psychopathic career criminal, con artist, and serial killer. The five novels in which he appears— The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game, The Boy Who Followed ...
Apr 3, 2024 · April 3, 2024. Andrew Scott dons the titular role in Netflix’s ‘ Ripley,’ bringing to screen the dangerous Tom Ripley, whose story takes one dramatic turn after another. He is sought out by a rich man called Herbert Greenleaf, who believes that Ripley is one of the friends of his son, Dickie. He wants Ripley to go to Italy and convince ...
Apr 4, 2024 · Ripley tells the story of Thomas Ripley, a con artist, who is one day approached by a man to find his son for him and persuade him to return to the US. Ripley seizes the opportunity in seconds: a trip to sunny Italy, money for vacation, and the simple job of speaking to a rich man.
Apr 10, 2024 · The central cast of Ripley is as follows. Andrew Scott as Thomas 'Tom' Ripley. Dakota Fanning as Marjorie 'Marge' Sherwood. Johnny Flynn as Richard 'Dickie' Greenleaf. Eliot Sumner as Frederick ...
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Tom Ripley is described as "suave, agreeable and utterly amoral". While he is charismatic, polite and friendly, he has no conscience and is willing to do anything - even commit murder - to get what he wants. He is deeply insecure and envies people who have the money and status he craves. He also covets their identities, as he believes it is "better...
Background
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Thomas "Tom" Ripley was orphaned at the age of five when his parents drowned in Boston Harbor. He was raised by his cold-hearted aunt Dottie, who mocked him as a "sissy". He tried to run away many times until the age of twenty, when he moved to New York City in a failed bid to become an actor. There, he lived a hand-to-mouth existence as a small-time con artist. He managed to get by on his three talents: "forging signatures, telling lies, and impersonating pract...
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tom is approached by wealthy shipbuilder Herbert Greenleaf, who thinks that Tom was a college classmate of his son, Dickie, who is in fact only an acquaintance whom Tom barely remembers. He offers Tom $1,000 to go to Mongibello, Italy, where Dickie lives, and bring him back to the U.S. to take over the family business - a proposal Tom accepts. In Mongibello, Tom befriends Dickie and his girlfriend Marge and insinuates himself into their lives. He falls in love with Dickie's opulent, carefree...
Ripley Under Ground
Six years after killing Dickie, Tom is living a life of leisure at a country estate, Belle Ombre, in Villeperce, France. He still lives off Dickie's trust fund, but he has added to his fortunes by marrying a wealthy socialite named Heloise Plisson and becoming a silent partner in a gallery that sells forged paintings, purportedly by an artist named Derwatt, who is actually dead. He also does occasional work for small-time gangster Reeves Minot, but he avoids direct involvement in crime as muc...
Film
Ripley has been portrayed by five different actors in film: 1. By Alain Delon in Purple Noon, a 1960 adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley 2. By the late Dennis Hopper - who also played Peter Vollmer in The Twilight Zone, Frank Booth in Blue Velvet, President Koopa in Super Mario Bros., Howard Payne in Speed, the Deacon in Waterworld, Victor Drazen in 24, and George Struggs in Deadly Creatures - in the 1977 film The American Friend, an adaptation of Ripley's Game 3. By Matt Damon - who also p...
Television
1. Andrew Scott - who also portrayed James Moriarty in Sherlock, Obake in Big Hero 6: The Series, and Max Denbigh in Spectre - portrayed Ripley in the Showtime series Ripley, an eight-part adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Theatre
1. Eamon Farren - who also portrayed Richard Horne in Twin Peaks: The Return - portrayed a version of the character who comes to life and tries to kill his creator, Patricia Highsmith, in the play Switzerland.
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Apr 15, 2024 · For a total psychopath, Tom Ripley is remarkably popular. As we near the 25th anniversary of the acclaimed Oscar-nominated big screen adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's most infamous creation, The ...
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