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Having stayed in the room where she invented this character
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Write Around the World with Richard E Grant

Having stayed in the room whereshe invented this character and feeling how beautifulthe...

Having stayed in the room where
she invented this character and feeling how beautiful
the place is and how aspirational it is that people arrive here in
their millions, I can perfectly get why
Patricia Highsmith set Positano as the meeting place between
Marge, Dickie Greenleaf and Tom Ripley,
which then sets in motion this absolutely inevitable
serial killing maniac on the loose

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Having stayed in the room where she invented this character
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and feeling how beautiful the place is
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and how aspirational it is
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that people arrive here in their millions,
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I can perfectly get why Patricia Highsmith set Positano
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as the meeting place between Marge, Dickie Greenleaf
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and Tom Ripley, which then sets in motion
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this absolutely inevitable serial killing maniac
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on the loose.
Duration
30 seconds
Views
29
Timestamp in Movie
00:43:14
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 • 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,
S01 • E02 Um, the sea is very important to me, too, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:05
Um, the sea is very important to me, too,
S01 • E01 It's now been converted into a hotel that - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:07
It's now been converted into a hotel that
S01 • E03 [Speaking Spanish] - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:12
[Speaking Spanish]
S01 • E02 I think also the Provençale way of thinking - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:06
I think also the Provençale way of thinking
S01 • E02 It is absolutely... It is a language - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:13
It is absolutely... It is a language
S01 • E01 Bruce Robinson based his experience as an actor - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:07
Bruce Robinson based his experience as an actor