Tom ripley gay
The Talented Mr. Ripley: Is Tom Gay?
Summary
- Tom Ripley's sexuality is heavily implied in the production adaptation, with scenes showing subtextual homoerotic tension between him and Dickie Greenleaf, as well as discomfort with heterosexual relationships.
- The character of Tom Ripley has been interpreted as a metaphor for the closeted experience, with his ability to adopt multiple personas representing the necessitate to hide one's true self due to societal pressures.
- The upcoming miniseries adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley has the opportunity to travel Tom Ripley's sexual identity more directly, with Andrew Scott's casting as an openly gay thespian potentially bringing a more authentic comprehending to the ethics. This representation could resonate with contemporary audiences and provide a more inclusive portrayal.
The Talented Mr. Ripley leaves audiences guessing after every scene, but the only unanswered question is whether or not Tom is gay. The subversive period piece movie has intrigued audiences for decades, extending its shape across various media platform
Do Gay, Be Crime: The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella, )
When you're both on a boat and one guy's skull gets smote, that's-a Ripley
First things first: This is not just about The Talented Mr. Ripley. It’s about The Talented Mr. Ripley and Ripley (Netflix, ) and Saltburn (Emerald Fennell, ) and Influencer (Kurtis David Harder, ) and… Ripley, like Alienand Fatal Attraction, has become its own genre. Its core elements — poor teen meets rich boy; queer boy meets straight boy; poor gay boy falls in love with wealthy straight boy, then murders him, then takes over his life — own entered the collective unconscious and spawned a half-dozen mutations.
That said, Minghella’s was the first Ripley I knew, and the only one I knew for a long time, so I’ll re-acquaint you with it before continuing.
Matt Damon plays Tom Ripley, a working-class kid with a talent for impersonation and forgery, who is mistaken for a Princeton learner by wealthy boatmaker Herbert Greenleaf. Mr. Greenleaf’s son, Dickie, has shipped off to Italy (on a boat) and r
One of the main scenes that the "pro-gay interpretation group" use as evidence is the scene where Tom puts on Dickie Greenleaf's clothes, impersonates him and imagines killing Marge. However, I do not think he did this because he is in love with Dickie and therefore jealous of Dickie and Marge's relationship. I think that the only reason Tom wants to impersonate Dickie is because as Dickie the world is open to him. However, Tom, in my perspective, is asexual, rather than vertical or homosexual. Sex is disgusting to him and he only looks at men because it enables him to impersonate their behaviour if necessary. I ponder the drive behind his rage is the fact that he is unable to impersonate the sexual aspect of Dickie's experience and that someone else is apparently so good at reading Dickie's mind and controlling him. Therefore in a sense it is possessiveness that drives Tom in this scene, but the concept that he could not impersonate Dickie
By Vyvyan René
Few novels with openly queer protagonists are as enduringly loved, or have achieved such acclaim, as Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley.
Tom Ripley is a charming, Machiavellian antihero whose talents comprise ‘forging signatures… and impersonating practically anybody’, and whose unreciprocated worship of Dickie Greenleaf, the prodigal son of a New York shipping tycoon, leads him to kill Dickie and assume his identity. He is also asexual, yet not a single adaptation of Highsmith’s work has addressed this. With a new adaptation in the works, in the create of a Showtime drama directed by Steven Zaillan and starring Andrew Scott, it’s important to confirm and reflect on the ways in which this aspect of Ripley’s ethics has been erased.
In Highsmith’s novel, Tom describes his sexuality thus:
‘I can’t build up my mind whether I like men or women, so I’m thinking of giving them both up.’
The statement is presented as a joke, but it’s revealing — in the sexual sense, it’s made clear throughout the novel that he ‘likes’ neither. Where it does not concern hi