“The Talented Mr. Ripley” quotes
(1999)
Anthony Minghella
directed this movie
in 1999
Title The Talented Mr. Ripley
Year 1999
Director Anthony Minghella
Genre Drama, Crime, Thriller
Year 1999
Director Anthony Minghella
Genre Drama, Crime, Thriller
Plot – The movie is based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, in which a murderer escapes justice. Ripley is obsessively looking for love, but he manages to ruin his only opportunity to find it. Ripley takes the identity of someone else but he's sentenced to lose forever his real one because he preferes to mantain his fake identity rather than his real one. Ripley's adventures in Europe are a sort of punishment then.
All actors – Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Davenport, James Rebhorn, Sergio Rubini, Philip Baker Hall, Celia Weston, Fiorello, Stefania Rocca, Ivano Marescotti, Anna Longhi, Alessandro Fabrizi, Lisa Eichhorn, Gretchen Egolf, Jack Willis, Frederick Alexander Bosche, Dario Bergesio, Larry Kaplan, Claire Hardwick, Antonio Prester, Lorenzo Mancuso, Onofrio Mancuso, Massimo Reale, Emanuele Carucci Viterbi, Caterina Deregibus, Silvana Bosi, Gianfranco Barra, Renato Scarpa, Deirdre Lovejoy, Brian Tarantina, Guy Barker, Bernardo Sassetti, Perico Sambeat, Gene Calderazzo, Joseph Lepore, Rosario Giuliuni, Eddy Palerno, Byron Wallen, Pete King, Clark Tracey, Jean Toussaint, Geoff Gascoyne, Carlo Negroni, Beppe Fiorello, Marco Quaglia, Alessandra Vanzi, Marco Rossi, Roberto Valentini, Francesco Bovino, Stefano Canettieri, Marco Foti, Ludovica Tinghi, Nicola Pannelli, Paolo Calabresi, Pietro Ragusa, Simone Empler, Gianluca Secci, Manuel Ruffini, Pierpaolo Lovino, Roberto Di Palma, , Cesare Cremonini, Fabrizia Dal Farra, Luca Foggiano, Dominic Fumusa, Kent Gregory, Evelina Manna, Frank Slaten
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“- Freddie Miles: Don't you want to fuck every woman you see just once?
- Dickie Greenleaf: Just once?”“Officially, there are no Italian homosexuals. It makes Michelangelo and Leonardo very inconvenient.”
Don't you just take the past and put it in a room in a basement and lock the door and never go in there? That's what I do. And then you meet someone special and all you want to do is to toss them the key and say, "open up, step inside", but you can't because it's dark. There's demons, and if anybody saw how ugly it is... I keep wanting to do... (continue)(continue reading)
“Why is it when men play, they always play at killing each other?”
“I can't write and I can't spell. That's the privilege of a first class education.”
“- Dickie Greenleaf: Everybody should have one talent, what's yours?
- Tom Ripley: Forging signatures, telling lies... impersonating practically anybody.
- Dickie Greenleaf: That's three, nobody should have more than one talent.”“- Tom Ripley: Nothing is more naked than your handwriting. See how nothing's quite touching the line? That's vanity.
- Dickie Greenleaf: Well, we certainly know that that's true.”“I always thought it would be better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.”
“Now you'll find out why Ms. Sherwood shows up for breakfast, Tom. It's not love, it's my coffee machine.”
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