![]() But it’s also a movie for people who enjoy mocking classic romantic movies. An Affair To Remember is both featured in and heavily discussed and referenced, right down to the meeting on the ‘top’ (or rather the observation deck) of the Empire State Building the opening song is ‘As Time Goes By’ from Casablanca.Ĥ. It’s a movie for people who love classic romantic movies. This is not about a quest for the perfect person – neither Sam (the aforementionedly-delicious Tom Hanks) nor Annie (Meg Ryan) are looking for love. Compare this to the ‘singleton’ opening monologue of Bridget Jones’s Diary. ![]() And let’s face it, the world of liking rom-coms in the first place is deeply uncool anyway.Ģ. Except Harry popularised the irritating idea of ‘high-maintenance’ women and Billy Crystal is nowhere near as lickable (so very much not a typo for ‘likeable’) as Tom Hanks – it may be a more authentic movie about love but it isn’t nearly as romantic. It is not ‘cool’ to have it as your favourite you’re supposed to prefer the earlier Nora Ephron/Meg Ryan outing When Harry Met Sally. My favourite and (subjectively, problematically) the best. 25 years after its first release, it still is. So when I say ‘ Sleepless In Seattle is the greatest romantic comedy of all time’ what I really mean is, it’s my favourite. It’s a flattening-out of something that should be layered.įavourites, on the other hand, are different. or someone really sick, someone like my Rick.Can we ever really label a work of art as ‘the best’ of its kind? Surely to do so is reductionist, to suggest that experiencing something – a book, a movie, a painting, a play, a dance, a song – is a quantitative, rather than qualitative experience. "He could be a crackhead, a transvestite, a flasher, a junkie, a chainsaw murderer. "You know that dream when you're on the street naked and everyone is looking?" - Annie Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?" - Walter I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. "She wants to meet me at the top of the Empire State Building. And I knew… I knew we would be together forever and that everything would be wonderful." - Barbara At one point I looked down and I couldn't tell which fingers were his and which were mine. "I've probably told you this a million times, but I don't care. I've never seen potatoes cooked like that before." - Jonah So what is that? That's sort of an afterlife, isn't it?" - Sam And we have these long talks about you and how you're doing, which she sort of knows, but I tell her anyway. I mean, the whole idea of an afterlife … But now, I don't know. Six girls in college, maybe seven." - Sam I'm the only man in America who's getting laid this weekend and I haven't been laid that much. It's the 1990's and nobody's getting laid. "I'll tell you what I'm doing this weekend, I'm getting laid. "I am having all these fantasies about some man I have never even met. wait a minute, she IS my third grade teacher!" - Sam "She looks like my third grade teacher, and I hated my third grade teacher. " A ho! A ho! My dad's been captured by a ho!" - Jonah So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match." - Dennis ![]() "Annie, when you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. You want to be in love in a movie." - Becky ![]() "That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. I just want somebody I can have a decent conversation with over dinner." - Sam "Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble." - Becky I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew it. It was like coming home, only to no home I'd ever known. "It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together, and I knew it. "I am not going to New York to meet some woman who could be a crazy, sick lunatic. Whereas if it's just a drink, if you like them you can always ask them to dinner, but if not you can just say, "Well, that was great," and then you go home, if you see what I mean." - Sam Not necessarily on the first date, because halfway through dinner you could be really sorry you asked them to dinner. "When a man is a widower why do we say he was widowed? Why don't we say he was widowered?" "Destiny is something that we've invented because we can't stand that fact that everything that happens is accidental." - Annie ![]()
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