Anyone seen "The talented Mr. Ripley"? Well now... it is a very strange remake of an early sixties french film entitled "Purple Noon". What strikes me most about their differences (I watched them back to back this weekend) is the way they end...

In the talented one, Ripley remains an uncaught psycho threading lies, duplicity, identity theft, and cold hearted murders for his own disgusting needlepoint future... He just keeps getting away with it... Yikes! ...and he's still out there!

In the purple one, He is just on the verge of the 'somebody' he's always wanted to be... Got the girl, the money, the good life... after weaving deception, murder, and identity theft,... he sells the boat for the money... and when it is drydocked for inspection, the girl's late fiance and the 'real' owner, is two weeks dead in the prop...

Not that George is a psycho or anything... but I don't think he saw the purple one...