Hopper isn't at all like the Ripley I'd imagined from the books, but what the hell, it's a striking and convincing characterisation.
Highsmith said somewhere that she didn't think Ripley was gay- after all he seemed able to sustain a happy marriage- more that he was someone for whom sex wasn't terribly important.
The first of the Ripley books has a definite gay vibe- the others not so much.
I don't see his character as gay but his whole story working as a sort of allegory of the gay experience in the mid-20th century. The elaborate methods needed to hide what he's doing, the thrill, the conflicting feelings of shame and liberation, even the occasional clumsiness.
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Highsmith said somewhere that she didn't think Ripley was gay- after all he seemed able to sustain a happy marriage- more that he was someone for whom sex wasn't terribly important.
The first of the Ripley books has a definite gay vibe- the others not so much.
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