Liked the book very much and I loved your analysis of the book! Great points. Discord discussion was also very fullfiling. I need to watch the movie again, I watched it many years ago.
I loved this book. It has been a long time since I read it, so this was a great recap. I think Ill give the movie a shot too. I also want to read more the next one, Ripley Under Ground, but I've heard such mixed things.
I’ll continue with it for sure, but I do expect something less taught and novel. It would be wild for it to be so socially apt. It would either feel repetitive or dated, I imagine. But we will see~
I liked both the book and the movie. What I don't agree with is that the question of him being queer is left out of the movie. I saw the movie first and after reading the book I actually thought that in the movie his sexuality and him beeing queer was more clear than in the book. It was shown in different ways but I still got the vibe from both.
Just to add. I do think that it's questioned more in the book....everyone's questioning his sexuality.....but his sexuality itself seems bit more clear in the movie....which i would say is because of the bath scene, admitting his feelings to Dickie before killing him and of course because of his whole relationship with Peter
@@alenapeckova9947 interesting, I’ll have to watch it again. It’s been quite some time and I was probably a teenager, so may not have picked up on it as much - or just forgotten some pertinent details.
@@SpringboardThought yes that's possible but you could have just simply see it differently than I do which is ok too. Also there were more movies based on this novel but I'm pretty sure we both are talking about the 1999 one.
Great review and comments. For some reason, I never liked the movie. Maybe Matt Damon didn’t seem to embody the character properly? It just seems too subtle a plot to convey in a movie…. especially with an actor who is not particularly subtle, and with the fundamental problem that Matt Damon does NOT look like Jude Law for one second!
I agree, yeah, the movie was good, but not fantastic. Very hollywoodized and heteronormative and less intelligent, overall. Just “fun”. I certainly like the book far more.
Liked the book very much and I loved your analysis of the book! Great points. Discord discussion was also very fullfiling.
I need to watch the movie again, I watched it many years ago.
Thanks a lot, Berna! Yes, the discussion on the discord was great! Me too, I haven’t seen it in at least 10 years. But probably longer.
I loved this book. It has been a long time since I read it, so this was a great recap. I think Ill give the movie a shot too. I also want to read more the next one, Ripley Under Ground, but I've heard such mixed things.
I’ll continue with it for sure, but I do expect something less taught and novel. It would be wild for it to be so socially apt. It would either feel repetitive or dated, I imagine. But we will see~
I liked both the book and the movie. What I don't agree with is that the question of him being queer is left out of the movie. I saw the movie first and after reading the book I actually thought that in the movie his sexuality and him beeing queer was more clear than in the book. It was shown in different ways but I still got the vibe from both.
Just to add. I do think that it's questioned more in the book....everyone's questioning his sexuality.....but his sexuality itself seems bit more clear in the movie....which i would say is because of the bath scene, admitting his feelings to Dickie before killing him and of course because of his whole relationship with Peter
@@alenapeckova9947 interesting, I’ll have to watch it again. It’s been quite some time and I was probably a teenager, so may not have picked up on it as much - or just forgotten some pertinent details.
@@SpringboardThought yes that's possible but you could have just simply see it differently than I do which is ok too. Also there were more movies based on this novel but I'm pretty sure we both are talking about the 1999 one.
@@alenapeckova9947 oh that’s true. I was talking about that one, with Damon.
@@SpringboardThought me too....so we probably just got different vibes from it.
Great review and comments. For some reason, I never liked the movie. Maybe Matt Damon didn’t seem to embody the character properly? It just seems too subtle a plot to convey in a movie…. especially with an actor who is not particularly subtle, and with the fundamental problem that Matt Damon does NOT look like Jude Law for one second!
I agree, yeah, the movie was good, but not fantastic. Very hollywoodized and heteronormative and less intelligent, overall. Just “fun”. I certainly like the book far more.