PRODUCTION RIPLEY
Murderous monochrome thriller Ripley is a masterclass in tone and tension. Nicola Foley sits down with the series’ Academy Award-winning cinematographer Robert Elswit, ASC to find out more
W hen Robert Elswit, ASC got a call from director Steven Zaillian asking if he’d like to work on Ripley , his first reaction was: “Why would you want to remake that?” It’s a fair question. Anthony Minghella’s seductive, sun-drenched 1999 feature, The Talented Mr Ripley , delivered an iconic, five-times Oscar-nominated portrayal of Patricia Highsmith’s enigmatic antihero nearly a quarter of a century earlier. It had been done, and it had been done well. So why revisit it? BACK TO THE SOURCE “Steve made it clear that it wasn’t his intention to ‘re-do’ the film,” begins Elswit,
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