Hossein Amini
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Strangers on a Train (1951)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
influenced The Two Faces of January (2014)
Plot
For those unfamiliar, Highsmith created Tom Ripley and provided Alfred Hitchcock with the source material for “ Strangers on a Train .”
The three leads, Kirsten Dunst , Viggo Mortensen and Oscar Isaac are all actors we admire, the director may be a first-timer in this role, but Hossein Amini is the high-profile screenwriter of “Drive” and “Snow White and the Hunstman” and, beyond that, it’s based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, whose books have previously yielded such films as “The Talented Mr Ripley,” “Strangers on a Train,” and the underseen “Ripley’s Game.”
With all due respect to admirers of Gone Girl, it takes a lot more than a psychotic wife framing her husband for murder and spitting in somebody's Mountain Dew to be compared to the work of the author of Strangers on a Train and the Ripley novels.
Hitch did a film from Highsmith's novel Strangers on a Train (1951).
Amini adapted his script from Patricia Highsmith’s little-known novel of the same name and, as Hitchcock did with Strangers on a Train, improved upon her story.
The Passenger (1975)
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
influenced The Two Faces of January (2014)
Visuals
Watching the characters’ journey through the desert and back again brings to mind Antonioni’s The Passenger, even though the story threatens to fall back into that film’s languid pace as Amini and his editors struggle to keep the momentum going from time to time.
The Two Faces of January’s slow-burn pacing, mysterious characters, murky morality, and posh foreign setting align it with a certain strand of classical mystery probably best exemplified by Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949) and most recently by the complex Cold War espionage drama Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), a film with which this one shares three producers.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Directed by Tomas Alfredson
influenced The Two Faces of January (2014)
The Two Faces of January’s slow-burn pacing, mysterious characters, murky morality, and posh foreign setting align it with a certain strand of classical mystery probably best exemplified by Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949) and most recently by the complex Cold War espionage drama Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), a film with which this one shares three producers.
“Deep Water” is based on a Patricia Highsmith novel, a writer (“The Talented Mr. Ripley,” “Strangers on a Train,””The Two Faces of January”) right up Lynne’s dark and sordid alley.
The story is adapted from the novel by late-great Patricia Highsmith, whose work has an excellent history of translating to the screen, from The Talented Mr. Ripley to The Two Faces of January , it’s no surprise that Deep Water is another gripping tale of twisted lovers.