Testaments to the Boom Times to Come

[Testaments to the Boom Times to Come]

birdsheadrevisited replied to your post: birdsheadrevisited replied to your post …

love your review btw! “Tom has gone from being a representation of something, to being one specific, terribly broken individual” SO MUCH YES. what you discuss here is a large part of why i’ve never quite been able to sink my teeth into Highsmith’s Ripliad and i’m suuuuuper curious as to how a new writer will handle it. oh the sociopolitics of it all…

The RIPLIAD, oh my god only calling it that from here on out thank you

And thank you!! Yeah I love the book but I certainly read it held slightly away from me, some distance to keep it as A Thing I Am Reading From A Particular Time Period. And if this adaptation doesn’t do something Minghella-like about that element they are going to catch hell.

[Testaments to the Boom Times to Come]

birdsheadrevisited replied to your post “Upcoming TV series adaptations that have me thinkin: The Name of the…”

i WANT the Ripley series to be amazing but, as unfair as this may be, i can’t imagine it living up to the unreasonably high standards set by the film (for me at least!)

Oh god I knoooow, I’m in a similar [murder] boat. I think this one is the surest bet to be a bona fide pop culture ~sensation~ regardless of quality, just because all you have to do is put three hot, two-rich-and-a-lie Americans in a queer con artist/murder plot in Italy in the 1950s and people will turn UP, like I will absolutely watch this even if it’s trashy and problematic—but I sure hope that it’s (still kinda unseemly and) fantastic. 

What will be interesting to see is how this new writer adapts things, because I think Anthony Minghella made some hella good gay rep changes in his movie, but changes from Highsmith’s novel they sure were.