Cold Mountain (North Carolina) settlement on the real-life mountain. The peak is accessible only by hiking a spur of the strenuous Art Loeb Trail. A major motion picture based on the novel was distributed by Miramax Films in 2003. The movie was actually filmed in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania. A Miramax Films spokesperson cited higher production costs however director Anthony Minghella had said that the lack of old-growth forests and period buildings as well as the lack of dependable snowfall were the primary reasons he chose not to film in Western North Carolina. A 2015 opera production followed. "Cold Mountain Hunter" a 2004
Tom Ripley Ripley believes that getting his own way is worth whatever price anyone else might have to pay. We all have a little of that in us." In his 2001 book "Malignant Self-Love: Narcissism Revisited", Sam Vaknin writes that Ripley (as portrayed in the 1999 film "The Talented Mr. Ripley") meets five of the seven criteria for antisocial personality disorder, and displays narcissistic traits. Across the five books, Ripley commits homicide nine times, and indirectly causes an additional five deaths. Highsmith's first three Ripley novels have been adapted into films. "The Talented Mr. Ripley" was filmed as "Purple Noon (French: Plein