Sizzling Summer Pt. 5: “The Talented Mr. Ripley” (1999)

Damon learned piano for the role
Law learned Sax
Food in film
Summer in Ischia: aspirational summer [a series]
Summer in Ischia: aspirational summer [a series]
Summer in Ischia: aspirational summer [a series]
Summer in Ischia: aspirational summer [a series]
Summer in Ischia: aspirational summer [a series]
Summer in Ischia: aspirational summer [a series]
Summer in Ischia: aspirational summer [a series]
Summer in Ischia: aspirational summer [a series]
Summer in Ischia: aspirational summer [a series]
Summer in Ischia: aspirational summer [a series]
Summer in Ischia: aspirational summer [a series]
Summer in Ischia: aspirational summer [a series]
Summer in Ischia: aspirational summer [a series]
Summer in Ischia: aspirational summer [a series]
Summer in Ischia: aspirational summer [a series]
Summer in Ischia: aspirational summer [a series]
Summer in Ischia: aspirational summer [a series]
Summer in Ischia: aspirational summer [a series]
A very “Paris Blues” scene
Paris Blues – with BB King, Paul Newman an Sidney Poitier
Paris Blues – with BB King, Paul Newman an Sidney Poitier
Hot Jazz Vesurio
Jude Law didn’t want to play a “pretty boy”
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s entrance
PSH exit
Being replaced, watching from afar
Masterful cinematography – as Ripley wants to become Dickie
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi in Piazza Navona in Rome
The opera shown in the film is the end of Act II from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Yevgeny Onyegin.” In this particular scene, Lenski challenged his friend Onyegin for a duel over Olga, who had been engaged to Lenski at that time. Lenski was mortally wounded, and Onyegin departed Russia for a self-imposed exile.
Watching the opera
Pretty Woman, watching the opera
Stunning cinematography
Summer in Ischia is replaced by Dark Academia

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Talented_Mr.Ripley(film)#:~:text=Minghella%20was%20impressed%20with%20Law’s,play%20a%20%22pretty%20boy%22.

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