Anyone who has read the book knows how awful this adaptation really is. Patricia Highsmith's Ripley is so much more insane. He has so much more of an agenda than Dickie's money and winning Marge, in fact, HE HATES MARGE!!! Both Dickie and Tom are in-the-closet, which would make sense for a book written in 1955. Egads, what was Rene Clement thinking??!! Of course, I know in 1960, it was still super taboo for people to be gay, but can that possible explain all the other differences?? Like Phillipe Greanleaf? HIS NAME IS DICKIE. He is supposed to be and American, that's why he has an American name. And what's all this talk of San Francisco? Patricia Highsmith never mentions San Francisco once. He's from New York. And the ending... Hello!!! I won't tell you the differences here, but you will see for yourself, it changes the entire story all around!!
Review of Purple Noon
