[TAGS FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE] GIF & IMAGE SETS FROM THE FILM ♥ BEHIND THE SCENES PROMOTIONAL IMAGES, POSTERS MUSIC ♥ MUSIC FROM THE SOUNDTRACK ♥ THE BOOK ♥ PURPLE NOON ♥ ART ♥ AESTHETIC [CHARACTER TAGS] TOM RIPLEY (This is my face.) & MATT DAMON ♥ DICKIE GREENLEAF (I don't love you.) & JUDE LAW MARGE SHERWOOD (I don't get it.) & GWYNETH PALTROW ♥ FREDDIE MILES (How's the peepin'?) & PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN MEREDITH LOGUE (The textile Logues!) & CATE BLANCHETT ♥ PETER SMITH KINGSLEY (You're crushing me.) & JACK DAVENPORT
Ripley silk scarf, inspired by the deception and self-doubling of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley and the colors of southern Italy where the novel unfolds. Printed in full color on a 24”x24” 100% silk twill scarf, double-sided print.
The most important closet in Netflix's Ripley is a room of one's own.
In a traditional closet narrative, desire is truth, one's desires are punished for being what they are, and to suppress this desire is to harm one's self by lying–a narrative that usually ends with leaving the rejecting host body, not trying to burrow yourself deeper into it.
Indeed, in most coming-out narratives, to remain behind in disguise is considered losing the game of life. But for Tom–and, I'd argue, legions of dykes who see their gender identity as in flux–disguise is the lifestyle. What Tom's character experiences is much more like the desire to pass than it is the desire to live openly. But it's not passing the way trans people hope to pass: as themselves, out in the public world. It's a much more greedy, sometimes ugly desire, a desire to have more than you're entitled to, to not be accepted as you actually are or want to be but to be more than that. It’s a desire to beat an entire gender category at its own game.
I wrote a self-indulgent little blog post about what Ripley means to me as a dyke who has all kinds of complex feelings about gender identity and gay sexuality, and why the show's success in reflecting a love of duplicity makes it the best Highsmith adaptation yet. Give it a read if you want!
HEY THERE SLUTTY SCAMMERS 🤑💰💶 LIARS 💁💋 AND DOCUMENT FORGERS 😏 💌 ARE U READ TO GET 💦👅 WET💦 👅💦 IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA THIS APRIL? 4️⃣ DON'T ROCK THE BOAT 🍑⛵IT'S TIME TO MARK YOUR CALENDARS 📅🔥🙌 FOR THE PREMIERE OF RIPLEY AKA THE THE TALENTED MR. DICK😫🍆 LY 💦💦💦💦 EVERY HOE 🍑 DESERVES TO WITNESS THIS SOON TO BE MASTERPIECE STARRING ANDREW THOT 😱 👅 WATCH AS TOM RIPLEY TRIES TO LOCK DOWN A SUGAR DADDY 🍆💶🍆💶🍆 💶 AND IS CHASED BY VARIOUS MEN 👉🏃♂️💦🏃♂️ACROSS SOUTHERN ITALY 😏 🇮🇹 IT'S CUMMING 💦 OUT SOON 😱 SO TAKE A THOT PIC FOR YOUR FAKE PASSPORT 📷🍑 AND GET READY🍆 💁