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The American Friend is a 1977 neo-noir film written and directed by Wim Wenders, adapted from the 1974 novel Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith. It stars Dennis Hopper as career-criminal Tom Ripley and Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Zimmermann, a terminally ill picture framer whom Ripley coaxes into becoming an assassin. The film uses an unusual "natural" language concept: Zimmermann speaks German with his family and his…
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Patricia Highsmith achieved literary fame with her debut novel, *Strangers on a Train* (1950), a success immortalised by Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1951 adaptation. Yet, her enduring legacy is arguably the series of novels centred on the psychopathic, murdering social climber Tom Ripley. Over the decades, this amoral figure has attracted a number of filmmakers, yielding adaptations ranging from the sleek (*Purple No…More
