Alain Delon’s Iconic Walk | | Plein Soleil (1960)

Purple Noon (1960) The scene is not only a summary of the entire film, but a prefiguration of Ripley’s end. First, the camera selects an image of a fish caught on a line (this is Greenleaf, caught underneath the boat, as we later see). Then Ripley tastes some “fruits de mer’, and this, unfortunately, is his relationship with Marge. He handles a small swordfish, symbolic of his murder of Freddie Miles. The camera then pans to the pale faces of small sting rays, dragged up from the sea --- the discovery of Greenleaf. Justice is delivered with the shot of the weighing scales, and then Ripley almost steps on a beheaded fish. His fate will be the same. Interesting note: With the film being held to an extremely limited budget restrictions, the production crew could not shut down the market square to film this scene. This resulted in a single take of Alain Delon strolling through the live open air market interacting with actual the vendors. This is made apparent by the signif