Maybe I missed something, but when Ripley is talking to inspector Ravini in Venice with the subdued lighting and wig, it sounds like he's using the same voice that he used with him when he was pretending to be Greenleaf. Even if the inspector fell for the disguise, wouldn't he realize it's the same voice as the person he was talking to previously and believed to be Greenleaf?
sharecame here to say the same thing. that scene was such a huge disappointment. i was dying to know how they could cleverly write it so that tom could avoid talking to the inspector somehow. turns out it was just a shitty disguise. tom didnt even change his voice nor cadence. there is no way a detective would not have recognized him. it's like the director told the actor to act just as subtle as possible about everything and every scene. this doesnt fit the character of a scammer who can become anyone.
shareAgree. Seems like we need to suspend a lot of disbelief that he was able to make a disguise that good and not even change his voice.
shareThat was really off, to me. He would have had to do a lot more than that.
shareon the other hand - how much time has passed since the inspector interviewed Greenleaf? half a year?
you can forget how somebodies voice was in this period of time...can't you?
It was probably no more than a few weeks later. Dickie was interviewed by Ravini for the second time on January 16th, and he failed to return from Palermo on the 28th. Ravini likely held the press conference to announce his disappearance a few days later. Ripley, having just settled in Venice, read the papers and went to the police station on the following day. If Ripley deliberately 'missed' the coverage of that press conference and claimed to only see a later story, then it would have been at most 7 weeks later because the party he attended was on March 10th.
Still, I don't think I'd remember the voice of someone I'd spoken with only briefly a few weeks prior. And as English was Ravini's 2nd or 3rd language, the most memorable aspect of Dickie's and Tom's voices for him would likely have been the accent. It wouldn't surprise him that both sounded "Americano".
I think you're right on all counts.
shareI kept thinking "The inspector knows it's him - he's just messing with him!". But wow - look at Inspector Clouseau over here...
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