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...Talented Mr. Ripley in 1999. Anthony Minghella’s adaptation featured a poor, young and awkward Matt Damon, Class of 1992, murdering his way into social respectability and Gwyneth Paltrow’s heart. By Ripley’s Game, based on the fourth of Patricia Highsmith??€™s five Tom Ripley novels, Ripley is safely ensconced in an Italian villa bordering a small village, with a doting wife and an impressive chef...
...comparison with Talented, Game is more successful at translating Highsmith??€™s perception of humanity’s inhuman depths: We watch and cheer as Trevanny loses everything for Ripley’s amusement. Malkovich is so dispassionate that life and death become just another game...
Game is a European movie—it never made it to American theaters because of rights disputes, not because of its quality—which allows it to be forthright in bringing Highsmith??€™s vision to life, a strange necessity given Highsmith??€™s roots in Fort Worth, Texas...
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