Mar 3, 2024
When Harry Met Sally asks the question can men and women be friends without the relationship being effected by sex. In this 1989 classic film Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal play friends that have a chance meeting and then continue to run into one another. Their relationship goes from acquaintances, to friends to lovers and how all of those relationships are impacted.
Timecodes:
- 00:00 - DMP Ad
- :30 - Introduction
- :46 - The Film Facts
- 6:08 - Nora Ephron’s filmmaking
- 14:17 - The Pickup Line
- 26:21- Billy’s acting choices during “the” scene
- 37:59 - Head Trauma
- 38:19 - Smoochie, Smoochie, Smoochie
- 38:42 - Driving Review
- 39:57 - To the Numbers
References from the Episode:
- Kevin Smith & Giant Spider in the Third Act
- Spider Scene from Wild Wild West
- Male Gaze theory
- The Famous Deli Scene
- When Rob was showing Meg how to do the Deli scene, Billy said it was like going on a date with Sebastian Cabot.
- AFI’s Top 100 Quotes: #33 Estelle Reiner in When Harry Met Sally
- Another possible title for the film: Boy Meets Girl
- Meg Ryan going over her characters
- The Mendoza Line
- Meg and Billy won an award at the American Comedy Awards in 1990
- Castlerock Pictures was founded in 1987
Next week’s film will be Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
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