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As Highsmith became increasingly misanthropic
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Write Around the World with Richard E Grant

As Highsmith became increasinglymisanthropic and dependent on alcohol,Ripley became a...

As Highsmith became increasingly
misanthropic and dependent on alcohol,
Ripley became a vehicle through which she could
vent her own rage, live out her own fantasies

Full Transcript

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As Highsmith became increasingly misanthropic
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and dependent on alcohol, Ripley became a vehicle
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through which she could vent her own rage,
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live out her own fantasies.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
32
Timestamp in Movie
00:42:53
Uploaded
May 22, 2025
Season
1
Episode
1
Genres
documentary
Production
Storyvault Films

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Movie Summary

Richard E Grant packs his clothes and a bag of books and travels to the locations authors have fictionalised to gain a sense of the places that inspired their novels.
S01 • E03 And the reason it's most traditional - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:06
And the reason it's most traditional
S01 • E03 Everybody, under their houses, had their stables, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:10
Everybody, under their houses, had their stables,
S01 • E02 According to Elizabeth David, it's a ragu of vegetables. - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:05
According to Elizabeth David, it's a ragu of vegetables...
S01 • E01 - In many ways, this is the perfect place - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:11
- In many ways, this is the perfect place
S01 • E02 And you have to peel the tomatoes, Carol, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:05
And you have to peel the tomatoes, Carol,
S01 • E01 Having stayed in the room where she invented this character - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:30
Having stayed in the room where she invented this character
S01 • E02 You have to cut the unpeeled aubergine into squares. - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:05
You have to cut the unpeeled aubergine into squares.
S01 • E03 It needs to simmer like this for at least an hour - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:06
It needs to simmer like this for at least an hour
S01 • E02 So I think this will be a situation - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:07
So I think this will be a situation
S01 • E03 And Conchi is busy making patatas a la pobre. - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:05
And Conchi is busy making patatas a la pobre.
S01 • E03 It literally translates as poor mans potatoes. - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:04
It literally translates as poor mans potatoes.
S01 • E03 And what you do, possibly, is just fry an egg with it, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:08
And what you do, possibly, is just fry an egg with it,
S01 • E03 [Speaking Spanish] - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:06
[Speaking Spanish]
S01 • E02 How much would you say that the geography - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:08
How much would you say that the geography
S01 • E01 Oh, I'm very sad to be leaving Positano. - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:04
Oh, I'm very sad to be leaving Positano.
S01 • E02 Um, though I don't always write about here, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:06
Um, though I don't always write about here,
S01 • E03 So she's explaining that mainly after the civil war, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:10
So she's explaining that mainly after the civil war,
S01 • E01 No surprise that the late director Franco Zeffirelli - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:17
No surprise that the late director Franco Zeffirelli
S01 • E02 My new book is set inland of here, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:10
My new book is set inland of here,
S01 • E02 All the savours, the flavours, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:07
All the savours, the flavours,