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Arivne
Since: Jan, 2001
7th Apr, 2024 08:49:23 AM
Better places to ask this type of question (whether something in a work is an example of a trope) are the Trope Talk forum in general and the Is this an example? thread in particular.
king15
Since: Mar, 2024
7th Apr, 2024 09:00:48 AM
Ok, thank you.
Having just seen the show, I've started editing the page of Ripley (staring Andrew Scott as the titular Tom Ripley).
In it, there is an Actor Allusion as John Malkovich plays a character (and in the trailer even says he like Ripley's name, though the context is different in the show itself), having played the role of Tom Ripley in Ripley's Game (2002). This has already been added.
However, on top of this, it's revealed he plays the character of Reeves Minot, a character with a major role in the plot of Ripley's Game. Would this be playing the actor allusion trope straight further, exaggerating it, or something else?