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This Movie Changed Me

You've Got Mail — Casper ter Kuile

This Movie Changed Me

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Tv & Film, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6589 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Harry Potter and the Sacred Text’s Casper ter Kuile talks about this classic Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks movie, one he always watches with a pint of ice cream. It shaped the world he longed for as a 14-year-old, and later on, even the kind of man he would marry.

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0:00.0

Hello movie fans. I'm Lily Percy and I'll be your guide this week as I talk with my friend and co-host of the podcast Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, Casper Terquile, about the movie that changed his life, You've Got Mail. If you've seen You've Got Mail, then you know what to expect and you'll be in for a treat. But if you haven't, don't worry about it as we're going to give you all of the details that you need to be just as excited about this conversation as we are.

0:26.2

Dreams are nothing more than wishes and a wish is just a dream you wish to come true.

0:39.3

I resisted watching You've Got Mail for many, many years.

0:44.0

I'm a big romantic comedy fan, so it's not because of the romance in it, or the fact that

0:49.2

Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are the main principal actors, because that's a huge sell for me.

0:54.1

But I resisted it because it was a remake of the original Shop Around the Corner with Jimmy Stewart.

0:59.9

And I just never thought they would be able to do justice to a movie that was so much about unrequited love

1:04.8

and the idea of falling for someone that you shouldn't love, that is the complete opposite of you.

1:10.5

And then, quite frankly, is almost like your arch-nemesis in some ways.

1:14.9

But when I finally watched You've Got Mail in a moment of weakness, I fell in love with it.

1:22.1

Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today I saw one.

1:27.2

It got on at 42nd and off at 59th where, I assume it was going to Bloomingdale's to buy a hat that will turn out to be a mistake, as almost all hats are.

1:36.3

Listen to this. Every night a truck pulls up to my neighborhood bagel place and pumps about a ton of flour into underground tanks. And then the air is filled with white dust, which never seems to land.

1:49.7

Why is that? I fell in love with all the ideas behind this New York that doesn't exist. This

1:55.6

nostalgic warm fall, Christmas-y New York, where everything is beautiful and people say hello to each other

2:01.4

on the street and everyone seems to know each other. And I fell in love with the idea of falling in

2:06.6

love, which is really what this movie is about, even if you find that love on the internet.

2:11.5

Is it infidelity if you're involved with someone on email? Have you had sex? No. Of course not. I don't even know him. I mean cyber

2:19.3

sex. No. Well, don't do it. There's a minute you do they lose all respect for you.

2:26.3

Well, it's not like that. We just email. It's really nothing. On top of which, I am definitely thinking about stopping because it's getting

2:34.9

out of hand. Confusing. But not because it's nothing. So you've got mail is about two people. Joe,

2:44.7

played by Tom Hanks, and Kathleen played by Meg Ryan, who meet online the early days of the AOL

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