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a bank) and a beautiful Greenleaf townhouse. Another gift was the historic buildings of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, becoming Greenleaf Shipyard. Interiors for Tom's NYC transient hotel, Brooks Brothers, the NYC chiropractor's and dentist's offices were shot on stage at Cinecittà. Atrani In the novel by Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Tom finds Dickie Greenleaf in the Amalfi Coast town of Mongibello, most certainly a stand-in name for Positano. In October 2019, when I began work on Ripley, the focus was: find the town where Dickie lives and find Dickie's villa. I preceded Steve to Italy by about a month. He joined me by the end of November. We scouted all up and down the Amalfi Coast, but neither Positano, Amalfi or Ravello seemed right to us, we wanted something smaller, quieter, simpler. The village of Atrani (by size the smallest in all of Italy) had that clean and simple architecture with a geography that was easy to understand. From the road above, there are views out to the beach and down to the piazza. From the piazza, there is a clear, perfectly framed view to the sea, an easy relationship to the poste and tabacchi, and that maze of steps—celebrated by M.C. Escher in many of his engravings. The town was so perfect that Steve adopted the name of Atrani into the script. The one thing Atrani did not have was the perfect villa for Dickie—that was found in Capri. On a previous trip to Capri, Steve had spotted the eclectic 1902 villa sitting just above the Marina Grande. We sent our Italian producer, Enzo Sisti, on a mission to find who the owners were, and if there was a chance we could shoot there. The G H I J K