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k-wame · 9 months

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lol two queens in the shade room

#can anyone spot the 3rd queer in the room?#lgbt #queer characters #tom ripley #the talented mr. ripley #the talented mr ripley #horroredit #matt damon #philip seymour hoffman #perioddramaedit #period drama #patricia highsmith #anthony minghella #freddie miles #1950s #psychological thriller #hitchcockian

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ripleycano · 1 year

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a tribute to my current favorite film. 🤍

#the talented mr. ripley #tom ripley #dickie greenleaf #freddie miles #peter smith kingsley #art #fanart #digital art #hey there art department

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denimbex1986 · 28 days

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'There is a scene towards the beginning of Anthony Minghella’s 1999 film, The Talented Mr Ripley, when Jude Law’s character, Dickie Greenleaf, asks Matt Damon’s Tom Ripley what his talent is – to which literature’s most famous fraud replies with: “Forging signatures, telling lies, impersonating practically anybody”. Yet there is another talent of Tom’s that is essential in his ability to deceive those around him into thinking that he is one of them – and that’s his sartorial savoir-faire.

Fashion is of vital importance to Tom, in both the novel by Patricia Highsmith and subsequent adaptations, including that 1999 film, but also 1960’s French New Wave retelling, Purple Noon, and the upcoming black-and-white Netflix version, Ripley, starring Andrew Scott in the titular role. The style of the 1999 movie – Jude Law’s polo shirts, white trousers and boat shoes, Gwyneth Paltrow’s high-waist bikinis, broderie anglaise tops and peasant skirts – is still referenced by designers today (it won costume designer Ann Roth an Oscar at the time).

And while Matt Damon’s character is certainly au fait with fashion, he’s without the means to access it in the same way that the other characters are: he has one shirt he washes out nightly, a threadbare cord jacket Dickie offers to replace, and one pair of dress shoes that he has to wear to the beach. In many ways, the film is at pains to emphasise that, though Tom is good at what he does, he’s not quite good enough – after all, Dickie, Marge (Paltrow) and Freddie Miles (Philip Seymour Hoffman) all figure him out. Yet it is with fashion that he manages to move in these circles. In fact, it’s how he accesses them in the first place, having borrowed a Princeton jacket for a piano recital when he first encounters Dickie’s father, who mistakes him for a student and pleads with him to fetch home his wayward son.

In the novel, Tom is obsessed with clothing, spending hours touching Dickie’s shirts and jackets or fingering the jewellery on his dressing table, saying that doing so “reminded him he existed”. His spectacles serve as a way to switch between characters – like a villainous Clark Kent and Superman – while his decision to wear Dickie’s monogrammed velvet slippers and signet rings after he has (spoiler alert) murdered him, alerts Marge and Freddie to the fact something isn’t right.

Fashion is often used by literature’s anti-heroes as a significant tool in their arsenal to deceive...

“The way we dress does, to an extent, affect how people see us, but it’s context dependent,” explains Dr Dion Terrelonge, a fashion psychologist. “It’s about alignment and how we fit in with people’s expectations. We like to think we don’t judge others based on what they are wearing, but we do. It’s not a negative judgement, necessarily; it’s about interpreting and categorising. It helps us navigate the world.”

Whether or not you wield that power for good or for evil is the differentiator. “When you wear an item of clothing that you associate with a certain person, lifestyle or behaviour, then you’re far more likely to take on those things,” explains Dr Terrelonge. “When people copy other people’s style, they’re trying to align themselves with them and their lifestyle. It’s walking 100 miles in their shoes. It’s shorthand for, ‘this is the kind of person I am’ – you look the part.”

For conners, it’s “fake it til you make it” or “dress for the job you want” writ large. As Tom famously says in his final speech in the film, “I thought it was better to be a fake somebody, than a real nobody.”'

#The Talented Mr Ripley #Matt Damon #Jude Law #Gwyneth Paltrow #Andrew Scott #Ripley #Netflix #Fashion #Dickie Greenleaf #Ann Roth #Oscars #Freddie Miles #Marge Sherwood #Patricia Highsmith #Philip Seymour Hoffman

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girltomripley · 1 year

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Posted this on Twitter first but might as well post on here too.

If they let me make a The Talented Mr Ripley adaptation this is who I’d cast!

#my twt username is filmdelon ermmm #yeah anyways i'm really passionate about this fancast like in my mind it's perfect #the talented mr. ripley #the talented mr ripley #tom ripley #dickie greenleaf #marge sheerwood #freddie miles #meredith logue #peter smith-kingsley #fancast #my edits #ig?'?#by me

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lyledebeast · 9 months

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One of the only good things about being middle aged is rewatching films you loved 20+ years ago that have held up. Damn, I had good taste in my early 20s!

Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley is one of those films for me. It’s been well over ten years since I’ve seen it. I remember remembering it while writing a dissertation chapter about queer murderers about thirteen years ago, but I watched it today because I was in a Philip Seymour Hoffman mood. I thought there was more of him in this, and now I realize that’s because his few scenes are so memorable. The scene he shares with Matt Damon leading up to Tom murdering Freddie is my favorite not only from this movie but from his entire filmography. His bitchiness, his fabulousness, his complete contempt for this man who has been able to easily fool every single other character in the film, at least at first.

Freddie is able to look past Tom’s performance to what is true about him: his taste. Even though this is a story about a queer criminal and his (mostly) queer victims, as an unfortunately large number of 90s movies were, it is also a study in queer knowledge and, as this scene particularly shows, queer reading. We see Freddie engaging in his own performance when he first appears, jumping out of his little red convertible and loudly asking “Don’t you want to fuck every woman you see just once?” Here, he picks apart Tom’s performance--his clothes, his hair, his decor--with a contemptuous sneer and a limp wrist. He has nothing to hide here, and neither does Tom; it’s very satisfying to see him wrongfooted for once. The only thing Freddie doesn’t correctly read about him is his propensity for violence.

The rest of film is magnificent too. All of the performances by phenomenal actors (who all look like teenagers from 2023′s perspective. Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow are particularly unrecognizable). The camera work, particularly Minghella’s use of mirror image to reflect Tom’s fragmented identity. Spectacular. I’ll be rewatching this again soon!

#the talented mr. ripley 1999 #anthony minghella #philip seymour hoffman #freddie miles #matt damon #tom ripley

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arc-angel-o · 1 year

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#neo yokio #ny arcangelo corelli #kaz kaan #freddie miles #bachelor board trio

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kinoselynn · 4 months

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vrchat screenshot redraw.

@silverxcristal @octyfish

#spiderverse #fnaf #miles morales #miguel o'hara #moondrop #fnaf moon #five nights at freddy's #astv #vrchat #artworks #redraw

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doctorsiren · 6 months

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It’s my 19th birthday! As per tradition, I drew myself with Mumbo Jumbo, and added in some other special guys as well ^^

Previous years’s drawings below the cut!

2020-2022’s birthday drawings! I didn’t even realize I drew myself this year wearing the same leggings that I was wearing in the 2021 drawing

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camzverse · 18 days

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made their suit designs + them out of suit and some doodles in the middle Yaayyyy ilove spiders

#hiii chattt this au is rotting my brain.#should i give gregs suit a hood too??? which ways better for him hood or no hood. what do we think chat #(i cant stop saying chat)#*inspiration 4 nessa suit: ghost spider + game spider-man + vanny (the purple/indigo?? part below the hood is meant to be like vannys bow)#*inspiration 4 greg suit: classic spider-man + mcu spider-man + game miles morales + glam freddy (red on shoulders + lightning shapes)#cam.art #spider duo au #fnaf gregory #fnaf vanessa #fnaf #fnaf au #prob gonna alter some of gregs suit bc likeee. the area around the waist is Off. ill change it anothet time whatevs

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cocaineheartz · 1 year

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skins cast

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macabreblublu · 6 months

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Slasher Mov High AU by @slashermovhigh

Hi! I was 🔵 anon and I did promise you fanart of your big-brained creation and there were so many memes that I couldn’t do just one

My god this whole AU is something I didn’t know I needed but man I’m dependent on it now-

Anyways

Enjoy✨

The bois ordered takeout:

The bois helping out Michael confess his love:

Someone shared their unnecessary opinion:

Local Tired Artist uses his talent for shenanigans

Is it to point out the chaotic environment he is in? His crippling crush towards Carly? More at 9

Hope you’ll enjoy! It’s nothing original but this whole AU is a walking disaster in a good way so nothing serious :’D

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lostsoullover · 3 months

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He's rancid, he's perfection, I wanna boil him in oil, I wanna kiss him better, I hate him, he's a complete tool, we are married, he owes me money and therapy, he should let me give him a baby, I wanna break his neck with my bare hands, we own a house together, he's my best friend, he's the fucking worst.💔

#this is about a lot of blorbos #homelander #the boys #miles quaritch #avatar the way of water #eddie gluskin #Outlast #omni man #invincible #valentino hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel #spy tf2 #william afton #five nights at freddy's #my god i have a lot of F/Os #violence mention tw #violence #shut up soul

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denimbex1986 · 10 days

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'There’s something rather extraordinary at the core of the new Netflix miniseries RIPLEY, based upon the famed 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. It’s what drives antihero Thomas Ripley (Andrew Scott) to covet the lifestyle of the rich. It has less to do with any glamour and glitz, or even access to Italian villas, fine dining, and tailored clothing, and all to do with sheer relief. The relief that comes from never having to worry about money, the nagging to make more of it, or living the fear of losing it. When con artist Tom Ripley reaches his status of privilege and money, he achieves a zen-like calm, even if he’s achieved his goals via notorious means. It’s access, sure, to better living, finer accommodations, and designer clothes, but mostly it seems to be access to peace of mind that this thief has never known.

And that’s why filmmaker Steven Zaillian’s eight-episode miniseries is so strong. It strips away all the easy things for an audience to drool over in it and concentrates on motive. Why does Tom do what he does? The landscapes and fine wines are incidental. It’s what having money does to his headspace that is dramatized here with such cleverness.

The story remains the same from the book and previous filmed adaptations: Tom Ripley is asked by the wealthy Herbert Greenleaf (Kenneth Lonergan) to convince his prodigal son Dickie (Johnny Flynn) to return to NYC from Italy. But Tom’s introduction to Dickie’s leisurely lifestyle in the coastal city of Atrani turns out to be catnip for his former college classmate.

Still, this is a film about cons and crimes, not country splendor and that is why Zaillian shot his adaptation in black and white. He doesn’t want the camera lusting over sunny days, tanned torsos, and electric nightlife like director Anthony Minghella did with his lingering shots of such things in 1999’s THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY. In Minghella’s film, everything was glamorous, especially bronzed playboy Dickie (Jude Law) and his leonine girlfriend Marge Sherwood (Gwyneth Paltrow). It was easy to see why the impressionable and naïve Tom (Matt Damon) would become so mesmerized. Heck, Damon all but played the character as a kid in a candy store, wanting to gorge himself on everything associated with the one percent.

Not Scott. He plays Tom as a desperate criminal who wants the calm that comes with a fat wallet. And Johnny Flynn and Dakota Fanning, playing Dickie and Marge this go-round, are hardly worth putting on a pedestal. As directed by Zaillain, their rich characters are dead-eyed, soulless zombies. These two world travelers are not bright, nor personable, and far from gorgeous. What they are, are the type of entitled rich kids who sleepwalk through their lives of privilege, so used to daddy’s money that they aren’t impressed by it one iota.

And wow, is this couple lacking in any discernible talent. Dickie wants to be a painter but his work is simply awful, while would-be writer Marge’s poems and prose are wholly mediocre, as are the bland photographs she’s taken during her time in Atrani. Tom likes them less as people and more as aspirational figures; those who never have to scrape and claw to survive. These two dullards just sit around their homes all day with nary a worry. It’s a state of bliss that Tom would love to know. So much so, that he’ll kill to experience it.

The black and white cinematography is Zaillien’s way of showcasing how Ripley delineates his “have and have not” sensibilities. It’s also there to underline the miniseries noir-ish tendencies as once murder enters the frame, the remainder of the series becomes a cat-and-mouse game between Ripley and an intrepid Italian detective ((Maurizio Lombardi) on his trail. The black-and-white palate is also there to underline that this is essentially a dark comedy. It’s pretty funny watching Tom have to continue his life of labor once he starts killing people as it takes a ton of effort to dispose of bodies and keep track of his ever-mounting series of lies. The poor bastard was already huffing and puffing enough as it was simply following Dickie up and down the various staircases they encountered through the winding streets of the city, and now homicide is really making him put in the work!

At times, Scott’s performance recalls a jittery Anthony Perkins in his male ingenue days, but more often than not, his Tom is played close to the vest. Even when Dickie’s loutish friend Freddie (a scene-stealing Eliot Sumner) comes a calling, suspicious about why Dickie has disappeared, Scott’s Tom remains stone cold. And it’s darkly humorous how he returns a square, glass ashtray he weaponizes to its proper place on an end table. He adjusts it just so.

It’s always easy to vilify the rich, of course. and Hollywood has done it time and time again, from YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU in 1938 to SALTBURN this past Christmas. RIPLEY may be the third filmed adaptation of Highsmith’s classic book but I think it’s the best of all of them due to its slyly subtle nastiness and emphasis on Tom’s truest motive. Class warfare has rarely been as apparent as it is here, seen in black and white by both Tom and Zaillian’s camera.'

#Ripley #Netflix #Patricia Highsmith #The Talented Mr Ripley #Andrew Scott #Steven Zaillian #Jude Law #Matt Damon #Gwyneth Paltrow #Dickie Greenleaf #Marge Sherwood #Johnny Flynn #Anthony Minghella #Kenneth Lonergan #Freddie Miles #Eliot Sumner #Maurizio Lombardi

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springysprongy · 10 months

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Hello

I drop biblically accurate davesport :]

#miles art #dsaf #day shift at freddy's #dsaf dave #dave miller #dsaf jack #jack kennedy #dsaf davesport #davesport #its midnight ahshhdjdb #im still drawing these fuckers #also im feeling far better :3 #thanks for the ppl that showed me support <3 #i hope to give y'all sum more gay ass content

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franticfanficloremakers · 11 months

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another work of art

yeah so my good friend (and fellow co-writer/author) @mysticbloodrose decided to make this for the characters we used in The Fanfic with Five Names, gotta say its p fitting

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arc-angel-o · 2 years

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Gay people who love celebrity drama (me) must be so delighted by the shit going on at the top of the bachelor board in Neo Yokio rn

#i never know if im supposed to capitalize bachelor board?#i kinda wanna make an outsider pov fic with this idea #fanfic ideas #neo yokio #kazangelo #kaz kaan #ny arcangelo corelli #ny arcangelo #arcangelo #freddie miles #neo yokio ocs #posts from neo yokio

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