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Tommy, time for peeping. #RipleyWatch with @rachsyme, @alexanderchee, you, and me!
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Jude Law’s leg placement in these promotional images is A CHAOTIC GOOD.
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I read that Anthony Minghella wanted Tom Cruise for Tom Ripley and I really don't know if that's a deranged choice or an inspired one.
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Matt Damon is so skinny in this movie. He lost 30 pounds for the role. He looks like a CGI’d Chris Evans when he’s playing a pre-Captain America Steve Rogers. #RipleyWatch

Tom Ripley blind-folding himself and testing his knowledge of jazz recordings is me as a college freshman testing myself on Mama Rose performances. #RipleyWatch

COUNTDOWN TO MEREDITH LOGUE!!!!! #RipleyWatch

Meredith Logue's nosi-/neediness is one of the most exquisite things about this movie. So much hinges on her social connections *and* social disconnection. Also Cate Blanchett is perfect. #RipleyWatch

My shirt is Tom’s bathing suit color! As a treat. #RipleyWatch

Okay but for real, 18-year-old me thought that Matt Damon absolutely snapped with this look. I still want this suit. #RipleyWatch

Every. Single. Gwyneth. Paltrow. Reaction. Is. Perfection. #RipleyWatch

These impressions are still HILARIOUS to me. Like... Matt Damon is just talking slightly deeper and Jude Law is freaking out. Obsessed. #RipleyWatch

"Ciao Greenleaf!"

I mentioned this when I watched Ripley on Sun but it’s important to repeat: Yes, I purchased the Talented Mr. Ripley soundtrack on opening weekend. From Sam Goody. Went to #1 (in my heart). I listened to Matt Damon sing “My Funny Valentine” on repeat. Yes, we exist. #RipleyWatch

I blame Dickie Greenleaf for a lifetime of crushes on hot rude idiots. #RipleyWatch

"I fled to Paris to work on my book!" -Me telling a really engaging story about moving my laptop from the living room to the study while in quarquar.
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THE GLIMMER SWEAT ON MATT DAMON'S LIP DURING "MY FUNNY VALENTINE."
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When I, as a closeted 18-year-old saw the scene where Tom asks Dickie if he can get in the bath with him I had a heart attack in the theater and had to walk around the block.
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This deserves as solid a place in the cannon as the Cruel Intentions butt scene.
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::BANGS TABLE::
FREDDIE
MIIIIILES!
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FREDDIE MILES’ BITCHY FACIAL EXPRESSIONS APPRECIATION POST
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The REVEAL in the raising of the Madonna scene plus the sound mixing is mind-blowing.
The way you zoom in on first face to see. Stunning.
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Gwyneth’s three-part startled scream when Ripley comes back from San Remo is such a work of art. Honestly, I rewind and watch it again every time.
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Tom's face every time he sees Marge
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Meredith showed up and my husband, who has never seen this before, exclaimed "Oh no!" like this was a midnight Rocky Horror showing. Amazing film-making.
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Cate Blanchett leaning on the flat Americanness of Meredith's accent especially when she is speaking Italian is *chef's kiss*
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Fun fact: the opera that Tom and Meredith go to see is Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda. #RipleyWatch

OBSESSED with the fact that Peter Smith-Kingsley immediately clocks Tom as queer and is SHAMELESS about flirting with him.
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Peter Smith-Kingsley INVENTED being horny on main.
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Peter Smith-Kingsley to Tom Ripley: "A/S/L?"
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Meredith strutting away from the coffee shop is GLAMOUR. There's also a shot of Cate Blanchett in "Bandits" two years later running out of a bank and dropping a sweater that is an equally stunning bit of choreography.
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Not Tom having a sad little quarquar Christmas unwrapping gifts he bought for himself!
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WHAT A MOMENT.
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I genuinely don't know: is Tom's taste in interior decor bad? #RipleyWatch

This Italian detective is actually really good at his job. I would watch a whole series about him solving crimes, looking under rugs, constructing timelines, and looking strategically confused. #RipleyWatch

Detective: My English is a little coarse.
Ripley: It *is* a little coarse!
Detective:
.
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"Officially there are no Italian homosexuals." -Peter Smith-Kingsley, flirting.
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Peter Smith-Kingsley turning into the total cad Derek Wills on NBC's Smash is both gay rights and also gay TRAGEDY.
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"We'll have to tell Mr. Greenleaf how far his dollar stretched." -Marge has HAD IT.
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Peter is so empathetic. It is the most painful part of this movie. #RipleyWatch

Gwyneth hasn't gotten to do barely contained fury in a movie in so long and she's so *so* good at it.
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Philip Baker Hall being so good and so different in Ripley and Magnolia in the same year is one of the greatest career victory laps.
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Marge freaking out on the boat is one of the best exits in all of movie history. #RipleyWatch

Meredith Logue re-entering the plot.
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If you enjoyed tonight's #RipleyWatch, check out my series Remote Rewind on @ELLEmagazine. I've been revisiting new classics in different genres since the beginning of quarquar.
https://www.elle.com/remote-rewind/

Thanks @rachsyme, @alexanderchee, and everyone who did #RipleyWatch! What a fun night appreciating a magnificent film! Go out and be kind to the PSK's in your life!

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