When harry met sally...12/28/2022 ![]() When one considers how false the film’s ending is to its creators and audience, it becomes creepy how predetermined that ending is. So I wasn’t surprised to learn that Ephron and Rob Reiner originally planned an ending where Harry and Sally remained friends, which they felt was the “true ending” only later did they bow to the expectations of genre. When harry met sally... movie#Meg Ryan has male friends. I have male friends! Male friends are everywhere, they cannot be stopped. Yet this legendary movie that my lady friends and I are obsessed with essentially claims that our lives are impossible. The film resists this inevitable thesis for as long as possible because that thesis is pretty obviously incorrect. Nora Ephron had male friends. They must end up together, and when they do the thesis of the film becomes men and women cannot be friends. While the idea of “soul mates” is now associated with passionate love, throughout history (in the Bible, in Plato, in Cicero) it has been reserved for exceptional friendships. That Harry and Sally are a split soul is visually emphasized in the split-screen scene where they sit in their separate apartments and watch a scene from Casablanca: “I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”īut their beautiful friendship exists in a rom-com. They joke about dead people’s apartments, talk in silly accents, and do karaoke at Sharper Image. Harry and Sally are as comfortable together as they are with themselves they are one soul in two bodies. Harry and Sally do, for a good portion of the film, have a strong platonic bond. They are the only friends in the film who talk about subjects other than romance. The film’s hook and its commercial obligation to romance create a tension. Before the question is even asked, we know whether Harry and Sally can be friends they can’t. They inhabit a rom-com, and so they ultimately have to end up together romantically. And according to Harry, it doesn’t matter if the woman doesn’t want to have sex with the man, “because the sex thing is already out there, so the friendship is ultimately doomed, and that is the end of the story.” It’s a universal rule, he says. All men want to have sex with all women, regardless of whether or not the man finds the woman attractive. Within the first fifteen minutes, Harry makes a statement which the rest of the film debates: “Men and women can’t be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.” Sally argues that she has platonic men friends, but Harry says these friendships are invalid because those men secretly want to have sex with her. As a commercial romantic comedy, its entertainment stems from its romance (Harry and Sally ending up happily together) and from its comedy (“baby fish mouth”). The film is romantic, it is comedic, and thus it was a commercial success.īut to When Harry Met Sally’s fans, it is not about commercial success but about the question of whether men and women can be friends. This is the hook of the movie, the foundation for its romance and jokes. Its mission is to be entertaining, to ensure as much watching as possible. Older lady customer at Katz', When Harry Met Sally (Played, famously, by Rob Reiner's mother.When Harry Met Sally is a commercial film. "I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." If Marie or I had found either of them remotely attractive we would not be here today."Ģ. "I want you to know that I will never want that wagon wheel coffee table."ģ. "How much worse can it get than finishing dinner, having him reach over, pull a hair out of my head, and start flossing with it at the table?"Ĥ. "Waiter, there is too much pepper on my paprikash."ĥ. You may be the first attractive woman I have not wanted to sleep with in my entire life."Ħ. ![]() Klein died today leaving a wife, two children, and a spacious three-bedroom apartment with a wood-burning fireplace."ħ. "They should put the two sections together, real estate and obituaries- Mr. ![]() If not, then no ice cream, just whipped cream, but only if it's real. And I'd like strawberry instead of vanilla if you have it. "But I'd like the pie heated, and I don't want the ice cream on top, I want it on the side. That way, if I die before I finish I know how it comes out. "Oh, really? When I get a new book, I read the last page first. From the famous Katz Delicatessen scene to Jess's and Marie's fight over the wagon wheel coffee table- we've pretty much covered the basics so you can recite these quotes as well as Harry and Sally can recite the lyrics to Surrey With a Fringe On Top!ġ0. ![]() To celebrate the glory that is When Harry Met Sally., we've hand-picked 10 memorable quotes from the 1989 classic. ![]()
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