Episode 30: When Harry Met Sally

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

The LFTS team discusses When Harry Met Sally's elegant use of time, unpacks the Jess and Marie subplot, and lauds Nora Ephron's iconic monologue and dialogue writing skills.

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Show Notes

LFTS video on When Harry Met Sally: https://youtu.be/kR2pLUHBgGM

Brian’s appearance on Missing Frames discussing Titanic: https://www.thenerdparty.com/missingframes/episode-76-titanic

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.
0:09.5	And happy Valentine's Day.
0:11.3	Today, we're talking about When Harry Met Sally, the 1989 film, written by Nora Ephron, directed by Rob Reiner.
0:18.3	I'm joined by the lessons from the screenplay team, writer Trisha Arand.
0:21.6	Hello, everyone.
0:22.5	Writer Brian Bittner. Hello.
0:24.0	And editor Alex Cayeros.
0:25.5	Hello.
0:26.3	So this is one of my favorite movies. But beyond that, this is one of the movies that is the
0:32.1	recent lessons from the screenplay exists. Because way back when, before I started the channel,
0:37.4	I was deciding I wanted to read a bunch of
0:39.4	screenplays and take a bunch of notes and create like a blog.
0:44.0	And one of the screenplays that I wanted to read was when Harry met Sally because I was just
0:49.6	obsessed with this movie.
0:51.4	At the time I was writing like a rom-com, like, web series.
0:56.0	Oh, I remember that. Do you remember that? Oh, yeah.
0:58.4	I got like streamers that were in love and as a long-distance relationship thing.
1:02.0	Like Twitch streamers. Right. That were in love. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, and so I was just,
1:07.1	like, I've always been obsessed with this movie after I saw it the first time and I was like, how is this movie so good? And every time I watched it, the more I thought about it, I just kept
1:15.2	having that thought of like, how is this so good? There's so little external conflict, like all
1:19.8	the things that kind of drive me crazy about normal rom-coms. Like, it's completely absent in this.
1:24.8	And it's just people talking the whole time and I love it to death start to finish.
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