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The Talented Mr. Ripley is a 1999 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Anthony Minghella, and based on Patricia Highsmith's 1955 novel of the same name. It stars Matt Damon as Tom Ripley, with Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett and Philip Seymour Hoffman in supporting roles. The film was a critical and commercial success, grossing $128 million worldwide. It received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Law.

The Talented Mr. Ripley
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Directed by	Anthony Minghella
Screenplay by	Anthony Minghella
Based on	The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Produced by	William Horberg Tom Sternberg
Starring	Matt Damon Gwyneth Paltrow Jude Law Cate Blanchett Philip Seymour Hoffman Jack Davenport James Rebhorn Sergio Rubini Philip Baker Hall
Cinematography	John Seale
Edited by	Walter Murch
Music by	Gabriel Yared
Production companies	Mirage Enterprises Timnick Films
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures (North America) Miramax International (International; through Buena Vista International[1][note 1])
Release dates	December 12, 1999 (1999-12-12) (Fox Bruin Theater) December 25, 1999 (1999-12-25) (United States)
Running time	139 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$40 million[2]
Box office	$128.8 million[2]

Plot

In 1958, Tom Ripley is approached by shipping magnate Herbert Greenleaf, who believes that Ripley attended Princeton with his son, Dickie, because Ripley wears a borrowed Princeton jacket. Greenleaf pays Ripley to travel to Italy, where Dickie has settled, to persuade him to return to the United States. After a first-class ocean liner voyage, Ripley pretends to be Dickie in the Italian ship terminal and befriends an American socialite, Meredith Logue.

In the seaside village of Mongibello, Ripley befriends Dickie and his girlfriend Marge Sherwood, claiming to be Dickie's former Princeton classmate. Ripley enjoys Dickie's extravagant lifestyle and becomes obsessed with him. Eventually, Dickie tires of him and starts spending time with his socialite friend Freddie Miles, who treats Ripley with contempt. When he returns from Rome, Dickie catches Ripley dressed in his clothes and dancing in front of a mirror, which disturbs him.

When Dickie impregnates a local woman and spurns her, she drowns herself. Ripley, aware of what has happened, promises a guilt-ridden Dickie to keep it a secret. After Dickie's father cuts off Ripley's travel funds, Dickie cancels a trip to Venice and tells Ripley that they should part ways, but offers to take him on a final trip to San Remo. They argue aboard a small boat; Dickie says that he has grown tired of Ripley and is going to marry Marge, while Ripley insists that Dickie is afraid of the feelings they have for each other. The argument becomes physical, and Ripley kills Dickie with an oar. He takes Dickie's belongings and scuttles the boat.

Realizing that people mistake him for Dickie, Ripley assumes his identity. He forges a letter to Marge, convincing her that Dickie has left her and moved to Rome. He creates the illusion that Dickie is still alive by checking into one hotel as Dickie and another as himself, fabricating an exchange of communications between the two. Through forgery, he is able to draw on Dickie's allowance, which allows him to live lavishly. He runs into Meredith, who still knows him as Dickie, in Rome, and accepts an invitation from her to attend an opera with her family. Ripley's ruse is threatened when he unexpectedly runs into Marge and her friend Peter Smith-Kingsley at the opera. Ripley rushes Meredith out of the opera house on a pretext, then rejects her to prevent himself from being exposed.

Freddie shows up at Ripley's apartment looking for Dickie. When the landlady addresses Ripley as Dickie, Freddie realizes the fraud. Ripley bludgeons Freddie to death and disposes of his body. After the body is found, police visit the apartment to question "Dickie". To evade the police and Marge, both of whom are looking for Dickie, Ripley forges a suicide note with "Dickie" claiming responsibility for Freddie's death. Under his real name, Ripley travels to Venice, where he again encounters Peter.

Dickie's father arrives in Italy with a private detective, Alvin MacCarron, and meets with the police. Ripley tries to kill Marge after she discovers that he has Dickie's rings, but they are interrupted by Peter. Mr. Greenleaf dismisses Marge's suspicions and MacCarron tells Ripley that the police are convinced that Dickie, who had a history of violence, murdered Freddie before killing himself. MacCarron tells Ripley that Greenleaf intends to bequeath a portion of Dickie's trust fund to him to reward his loyalty to Dickie and to ensure his silence.

Free and clear of his crimes, Ripley boards a ship to Greece with Peter; it is implied they are now lovers. Ripley is surprised to encounter Meredith, who still believes he is Dickie and also knows Peter socially. Ripley kisses her and promises to talk later. In his cabin, Peter tells Ripley he saw him kiss Meredith, and demands answers. Ripley realizes that he will have to kill Peter, as it is only a matter of time before Peter and Meredith run into each other and Meredith, who is traveling with family, would be missed. After apologizing to Peter for lying to him, a sobbing Ripley strangles him to death and returns to his cabin, alone.

Cast

Production

Casting

The Guardian reported that Leonardo DiCaprio declined the role which went to Damon.[3] Minghella cast Matt Damon after seeing his performance in Good Will Hunting, because he felt the actor had the right mix of "credibility and warmth and generosity" to engage the audience and help them understand how Ripley "thinks and operates".[4] The character of Meredith Logue, not present in the novel, was added by Minghella with Cate Blanchett in mind. He was "entranced" with Blanchett after meeting with her and surprised that she was actually interested in playing the small part; Minghella went on to write more scenes for the character to expand her role.[4]

Minghella happened to see the dailies from a film his wife Caroline Choa was producing at the time, which Law starred in: The Wisdom of Crocodiles. Minghella was impressed with Law's performance and offered him the role of Dickie; in his "insane arrogance", as Law put it, he initially refused, because he did not wish to play a "pretty boy". After learning of the cast Minghella was assembling and coming to understand that he would be "in safe hands" with the director, Law later accepted the part.[5]

Filming

Apart from the beginning scenes filmed in New York City, the film was shot entirely on location in Italy. The cliffside resort town of Positano and various villages on the islands of Ischia and Procida, near Naples, were used to represent the fictional town of Mongibello.[6] Frequent and unpredictable rain hampered the production, with Minghella stating that "we had to deliver this gorgeous Mediterranean world, this beautiful world of Southern Italy, and we could never get Italy to turn beautiful...We would divide the scenes up, often into words, and go out and get two or three words and then it would start to rain and we'd have to go back in again."[4] The scenes taking place in San Remo were actually filmed in Anzio, a resort town near Rome. Well-known locations included the Piazza Navona, the Spanish Steps and Piazza di Spagna in Rome, and the Caffè Florian in the Piazza San Marco in Venice.[6]

To prepare for the role of Ripley, Damon lost 30 pounds and learned to play the piano.[7] Law gained weight and learned to play the saxophone for his character; he also broke a rib when he fell backward while filming the murder scene in the boat.[8]

Music

Reception

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 84% based on 135 reviews, with an average rating of 7.30/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "With Matt Damon's unsettling performance offering a darkly twisted counterpoint to Anthony Minghella's glossy direction, The Talented Mr. Ripley is a suspense thriller that lingers."[9] On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 76 out of 100 based on 35 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[10] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale.[11]

Roger Ebert gave the film four-out-of-four stars, calling it "an intelligent thriller" that is "insidious in the way it leads us to identify with Tom Ripley ... He's a monster, but we want him to get away with it".[12] In her review for The New York Times, Janet Maslin praised Law's performance: "This is a star-making role for the preternaturally talented English actor Jude Law. Beyond being devastatingly good-looking, Mr. Law gives Dickie the manic, teasing powers of manipulation that make him ardently courted by every man or woman he knows".[13]

Entertainment Weekly gave the film an "A−" rating, and Lisa Schwarzbaum wrote: "Damon is at once an obvious choice for the part and a hard sell to audiences soothed by his amiable boyishness ... the facade works surprisingly well when Damon holds that gleaming smile just a few seconds too long, his Eagle Scout eyes fixed just a blink more than the calm gaze of any non-murdering young man. And in that opacity we see horror".[14]

Charlotte O'Sullivan of Sight & Sound wrote, "A tense, troubling thriller, marred only by problems of pacing (the middle section drags) and some implausible characterisation (Meredith's obsession with Ripley never convinces), it's full of vivid, miserable life".[15] Time named it one of the ten best films of the year and called it a "devious twist on the Patricia Highsmith crime novel".[16]

James Berardinelli gave the film two and a half stars out of four, calling it "a solid adaptation" that "will hold a viewer's attention", but criticized "Damon's weak performance" and "a running time that's about 15 minutes too long."[17] Berardinelli compared the film unfavorably with the previous adaptation, Purple Noon, which he gave four stars.[18] He wrote, "The remake went back to the source material, Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley. The result, while arguably truer to the events of Highsmith's book, is vastly inferior. To say it suffers by comparison to Purple Noon is an understatement. Almost every aspect of René Clément's 1960 motion picture is superior to that of Minghella's 1999 version, from the cinematography to the acting to the screenplay. Matt Damon might make a credible Tom Ripley, but only for those who never experienced Alain Delon's portrayal."[19]

In his review for The New York Observer, Andrew Sarris wrote, "On balance, The Talented Mr. Ripley is worth seeing more for its undeniably delightful journey than its final destination. Perhaps wall-to-wall amorality and triumphant evil leave too sour an aftertaste even for the most sophisticated anti-Hollywood palate".[20]

In his review for The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw wrote, "The Talented Mr. Ripley begins as an ingenious exposition of the great truth about charming people having something to hide: namely, their utter reliance on others. It ends up as a dismayingly unthrilling thriller and bafflingly unconvincing character study".[21]

In her review for The Village Voice, Amy Taubin criticized Minghella as a "would-be art film director who never takes his eye off the box office, doesn't allow himself to become embroiled in such complexity. He turns The Talented Mr. Ripley into a splashy tourist trap of a movie. The effect is rather like reading the National Enquirer in a café overlooking the Adriatic".[22]

Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck has cited The Talented Mr. Ripley as one of his favorite films of all time.[23] He hired its composer, Gabriel Yared, to write a theme for his own film, The Lives of Others, and its cinematographer, John Seale, to work on his second feature, The Tourist.

Accolades

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Year	Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref.
1999	Academy Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Jude Law	Nominated	[24]
		Best Adapted Screenplay	Anthony Minghella	Nominated
		Best Original Score	Gabriel Yared	Nominated
		Best Art Direction	Roy Walker (art director) Bruno Cesari (set decorator)	Nominated
		Best Costume Design	Ann Roth Gary Jones	Nominated
2000	BAFTA Awards	Best Film	William Horberg Tom Sternberg	Nominated	[25]
		Best Direction	Anthony Minghella	Nominated
		Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Jude Law	Won
		Best Actress in a Supporting Role	Cate Blanchett	Nominated
		Best Adapted Screenplay	Anthony Minghella	Nominated
		Best Cinematography	John Seale	Nominated
		Best Film Music	Gabriel Yared	Nominated
2000	Berlin International Film Festival	Golden Bear	Anthony Minghella	Nominated
2000	Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards	Best Film	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Nominated
		Best Composer	Gabriel Yared	Won
2000	Chicago Film Critics Association Awards	Best Cinematography	John Seale	Nominated
2001	Empire Awards	Best British Actor	Jude Law	Nominated
2000	Golden Globe Awards	Best Motion Picture – Drama	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Nominated	[26]
		Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama	Matt Damon	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture	Jude Law	Nominated
		Best Director	Anthony Minghella	Nominated
		Best Original Score	Gabriel Yared	Nominated
2000	Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards	Best Film	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Nominated
		Best Director	Anthony Minghella	Nominated
		Best Actor	Matt Damon	Nominated
		Best Screenplay	Anthony Minghella	Nominated
		Best Score	Gabriel Yared	Nominated
		Best Cinematography	John Seale	Nominated
2000	London Film Critics Circle Awards	British Supporting Actor of the Year	Jude Law	Nominated
		British Screenwriter of the Year	Anthony Minghella	Nominated
2000	MTV Movie Awards	Best Musical Sequence	Matt Damon Rosario Fiorello Jude Law	Nominated
		Best Villain	Matt Damon	Nominated
2000	National Board of Review Awards	Top Ten Films	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Nominated	[27]
		Best Director	Anthony Minghella	Won
		Best Supporting Actor	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Won
2000	Online Film Critics Society Awards	Best Adapted Screenplay	Anthony Minghella	Nominated
1999	Satellite Awards	Best Film	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Nominated
		Best Director	Anthony Minghella	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Drama	Jude Law	Nominated
		Best Adapted Screenplay	Anthony Minghella	Nominated
		Best Cinematography	John Seale	Nominated
		Best Editing	Walter Murch	Nominated
2000	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie: Actor	Matt Damon	Nominated
		Choice Movie: Breakout Star	Jude Law	Nominated
		Choice Movie: Drama	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Nominated
		Choice Movie: Liar	Matt Damon	Nominated
2000	Writers Guild of America Awards	Best Adapted Screenplay	Anthony Minghella	Nominated

Notes

References

External links

• Official website
• The Talented Mr. Ripley at IMDb
• The Talented Mr. Ripley at AllMovie
• The Talented Mr. Ripley at Box Office Mojo
• The Talented Mr. Ripley at Rotten Tomatoes
• The Talented Mr. Ripley at Metacritic
• Shooting script by Anthony Minghella

На других языках

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[de] Der talentierte Mr. Ripley (Film)

Der talentierte Mr. Ripley (Originaltitel: The Talented Mr. Ripley) ist eine Verfilmung des gleichnamigen Romans von Patricia Highsmith. Der Film wurde 1999 von Anthony Minghella gedreht. Bereits 1960 diente der Roman als Vorlage für den Film Nur die Sonne war Zeuge mit Alain Delon und Maurice Ronet in den Hauptrollen.

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[ru] Талантливый мистер Рипли (фильм)

«Талантливый мистер Рипли» (англ. The Talented Mr. Ripley) — американский психологический триллер 1999 года, снятый режиссёром и сценаристом Энтони Мингеллой по мотивам одноимённого романа Патриции Хайсмит. Заглавную роль сыграл Мэтт Деймон, в фильме также снялись Гвинет Пэлтроу, Джуд Лоу, Кейт Бланшетт и Филип Сеймур Хоффман. Фильм получил положительные отзывы критиков, был номинирован на «Оскар» в пяти категориях, включая «лучший адаптированный сценарий» (Энтони Менгелла) и «лучшую мужскую роль второго плана» (Джуд Лоу) — и другие кинонаграды.

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