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~ Two different movies, The English Patient and The Talented Mr. Ripley are directed by one director, Anthony Minghella

~ The English Patient is a romance while the other one is a thriller

~ In this essay, I am going to compare these two movies

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~ The English Patient talks about wars

~ Wars break all promises of Almasy to Katherine

~ This movie strongly condemns the wars

~ Scars are marked in all victims by wars

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~ The Talented Mr. Ripley talks about personality

~ Ripley actually isolates himself

~ He kills his friends one by one to hide his secrets

~ He even kills his lover

~ He loses himself gradually in disguising others

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~ Anthony Minghella uses two entirely different styles to direct The English Patient and The Talented Mr. Ripley

~ The English Patient is delicate and romantic

~ The Talented Mr. Ripley is more touching

~ It will make us depressing but we will never cry

~ The range of talents of Minghella is large

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~ Minghella is also a good writer

~ Both The English Patient and The Talented Mr. Ripley are written by Minghella

~ Both use restropection to tell the story

~ The English Patient uses third-person narration to tell the story while The Talented Mr. Ripley uses first-person narration

~ The English Patient is a closed ending story. For The Talented Mr. Ripley, it is an open ending

~ The English Patient tells the story of Almasy, Katherine and other characters. The Talented Mr. Ripley concentrates on Ripley only

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~ Due to the script, the presentations of actors/actresses are different from these two movies

~ The English Patient: all characters get opportunity to show their talents

~ Ralph Fiennes shows his passion towards the love affair

~ Kristin Scott Thomas shows a hidden love

~ Juliette Binoche is the best in the movie. She shows sympathy and care to the patient. She has to smile although she is terribly sad in order to console the patient

~ The ensemble cast is great

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~ The Talented Mr. Ripley: the ensemble cast is satisfactory only

~ Matt Damon is obviously unconvincing in the role of Ripley

~ The screenplay focuses on him and the other characters lose a chance to show off

~ Gwyneth Paltrow is lovely and acts well but her performance here is not as touching as in Shakespeare in Love

~ Cate Blanchett tries her best to play well within twenty minutes

~ She acts well but is far away from her brilliant work in Elizabeth

~ Damon makes the whole movie not be a perfect one

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~ Both movies are produced by the same group of crews

~ Both movies get good music score, cinematography, art-direction and costumes

~ Both movies are excellent in technological field

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~ Both The English Patient and The Talented Mr. Ripley are good

~ But I like The English Patient more

~ I really enjoy this romantic tragedy

~ Casablanca, another similar movie, touches the world 52 years ago

~ The English Patient touches me more

~ It is perfect in my mind