Robert Mckee's theory (five stages)

The Talented Mr Ripley

INCITING INCIDENT
When Tom Ripley wears the Princeton Blazer to a performance which leads to Dickys dad making assumptions that Ripley went to Princeton and asks him to go to Italy to find his son Dicky to bring him back to America.

PROGRESSIVE COMPLICATION
There are many complications through out which lead to the crisis.

1.      There’s the first sign of complication as Tom finds out that Dicky is cheating on his girlfriend.

2.      Tom plans to go home but there’s a complication as he drops all his vinyl’s revealing he likes jazz music (maybe on purpose through the research done on Dicky).

3.      In Rome there is some division because Tom wants to go sightseeing where as Dicky is more fussed over where they go for lunch.

4.      The first time there’s tension is when the new introduced character Freddie and Dicky go off leaving Tom to do his own thing.

5.      Dicky shows a lot of emotion and anger when the girl he was having an affair with drowns herself whilst pregnant.

6.      Dicky figures Tom out when he realises that Ripley never went to Princeton and he doesn’t actually like jazz, this also creates tension.

CRISIS
Tom becomes very attached to Dicky which makes Dicky push him away as he tells Tom that he should go back home and that he has become like a leach which leads up to  the main crisis...
Dicky figures Tom out when he realises that Tom never went to Princeton and he doesn’t actually like Jazz music, meaning that Tom had to be a different person for Dicky to actually like him.

CLIMAX
Tom becomes sick of Dicky constantly insulting him (calling him an annoying leach) and ruling over him to the point where he implodes and whilst being out in a small boat in the middle of the sea he hits Dicky round the head with a paddle breaking out into a huge fight and the death of Dicky.