Harry and Sally

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Movie
German title Harry and Sally
Original title When Harry Met Sally ...
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1989
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Rob Reiner
script Nora Ephron
production Rob Reiner,
Andrew Scheinman
music Marc Shaiman
camera Barry Sonnenfeld
cut Robert Leighton
occupation

When Harry Met Sally is a romantic comedy directed by Rob Reiner from the year 1989 with Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan in the lead roles. The script was written by Nora Ephron .

action

Harry and Sally, both of 1977 its College Accounts at the University of Chicago have done, get to on a common drive to New York know. The 22-hour trip turns out to be not very harmonious, as the two constantly differ. Harry is of the opinion that men and women can never be friends because sex always gets in the way. Sally disagrees with this view. Once in New York (near Washington Square Arch ), they split up again immediately.

Five years later, the two happened to meet at the airport and on the plane. Sally is dating Joe at this point, and Harry is engaged to Helen. Five more years later, the two of them meet again in a New York bookstore. When they start talking, they learn that they are both freshly separated from their partners. They meet up, make long phone calls and become friends. Trying to pair each other up leads her friends Marie and Jess to fall in love. One evening Sally calls Harry crying because she has just found out that her ex-boyfriend is getting married to Joe. Harry comes to her immediately to comfort her. The evening ends with them having sex with each other. The next morning, Harry quickly flees the apartment with an excuse. The friendship then cools down and Sally doesn't call Harry back for a while.

Sally goes to a New Year's party alone, but does not feel comfortable and wants to leave before midnight. Harry walks the streets alone that evening, telling himself that he's okay too. When he arrives at the place where the two separated for the first time after the drive from Chicago, he remembers many experiences with Sally. Harry realizes that he loves Sally. He immediately rushes to the New Year's Eve party and finds Sally there when she is about to leave. He confesses his love to Sally and they kiss. In the last of the interviews with couples in love, which repeatedly interrupt the film story, you see Harry and Sally describing their wedding.

Scene that went down in film history

The sign in Katz's Delicatessen .

One famous scene shows Sally 's fake orgasm in Katz's Delicatessen . Harry claims that no woman can orgasm for him without him noticing. Sally claims the opposite and plays it for him impressively, observed by all guests. After Sally's orgasm appearance, an elderly lady at the next table (played by Rob Reiner's mother Estelle Reiner ) demands "exactly what she had" from the waiter.

The Katz's Delicatessen in Manhattan

The American Film Institute chose this sentence, which in the original version is "I'll have what she's having", among the 100 best quotes from US films of all time in 33rd place.

The scene takes place in Katz's Delicatessen on New York's Lower East Side , where today a sign over the table indicates. Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal had to rehearse this attitude for a long time until it was finally what Rob Reiner wanted it to be. Reiner later recalled a test screening of the film in which the women present laughed at the scene, but the men were silent.

music

The success of the film is also due to the selection of music, which uses swing jazz (English standards ) and music classics from the decades in which the film is set. During a drive from Chicago to New York in 1977, for example, the jazz songs Love Is Here to Stay and Let's Call the Whole Thing Off (both written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin), sung in duets by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald . More songs and artists (selection):

Interestingly, the aforementioned pieces of music are not found on the film soundtrack. For this arranged jazz singer and pianist Harry Connick jr. together with his trio (Ben Wolfe, Jeff Watts) and the arranger Marc Shaiman classics of the genre new. For Connick. jr. this publication marked his international breakthrough. He received a Grammy for “Best Male Jazz Singer Performance” for the album and reached number 1 on Billboard Magazine's jazz charts . The musical arrangements were exceptional. One example is It Had To Be You , which has been pounding through the decades and voiced at high speeds .

production

The budget of the film was approximately 14.5 million US dollars .

Awards

  • The film received five Golden Globe nominations .
  • Nora Ephron's screenplay received an Oscar nomination.

Reviews

“There are films that you would never watch a second time. Others should even be viewed twice. And then there are films that you can watch over and over again. Rob Reiner's light-footed relationship box comedy is one of the latter. "

- Fischer Film Almanac

"A comedy characterized by excellent actors, pointed dialogues and a cautiously restrained staging that creates an amusing and deeply contemplative cosmos of human coexistence with cheerful wit and a lot of humor."

- Lexicon of international film

Harry and Sally Syndrome

According to Harry's assertion of the impossibility of having a purely platonic relationship between men and women or boys and girls, this issue is actually sometimes referred to as Harry and Sally syndrome . A distinction is often made between whether the friends themselves have partners or are single.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Harry and Sally . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2011 (PDF; test number: 62 474 V).
  2. ↑ scene on YouTube (English)
  3. ↑ Estelle Reiner, 94, Comedy Matriarch, Is Dead at nytimes.com, accessed August 29, 2010
  4. ↑ It All Started Like This . In: When Harry Met Sally ... Collector's Edition DVD , 20th Century Fox . 
  5. ^ Jones, James T (December 28, 1989). "Harry Connick Jr .: He's All That Jazz". USA Today
  6. ↑ Walter Schobert, Horst Schäfer (eds.): Fischer Film Almanach 1990 . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1990, p. 164
  7. ↑ Harry and Sally. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  8. ^ Platonic friendship , SPIEGEL-Online article