A week doesn't seem complete until I watch a movie or two(at least).
This feeling that somethings missing got the better of me and
I decided to watch "When Harry Met Sally" (Yes this is the film that
inspired "HUM TUM") on an ideal Saturday.Had heard about this a long
time back but somehow couldn't watch it earlier.
Talking about WHMS
Director:Rob Reiner
Cast: Billy Crystal,Meg Ryan,
Carrie Fisher,Bruno Kirby and Lisa Jane Persky
It's a Romantic Comedy that
revolves around the lives(and relationship) of Harry Burns and
Sally Albright played beautifully by Billy and Meg.The movie opens up
slightly unusually with an elderly couple(not part of the movie)
sitting on a sofa set, sort of being interviewed with the Man going like
"I was sitting with my friend Arthur, in a restaurant and this girl
walked in ----
--- and I turned to Arthur and I said, "Arthur, you see that girl ?
I'm going to marry her." And two weeks later we were married. And
it's 50 years later and we're still married."
Similar scenes with old couples of different cultural backgrounds
summarizing how the they met their partners, got married and are still
together, occur intermittently throughout the film and give a subtle
feel to the story.
For the uninitiated its d movie that gave world one of the all time famous
lines "Ek ladka aur ek ladki kabhi dost nahi ho sakte" OR in Harry Speak
"men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way"
Yes, that's how those lines came into existence(1989)and are still
being used and reused by people(basically guys I believe) all around.
Harry is a forthright, pragmatic and maverick glib talker whose in touch
with himself while Sally is a pretty looking, picky women with cerebral
approach whose kinda out of touch with herself(away from her reality).
Harry and Sally start off being acquaintances and eventually end up
falling for each other.The movie focuses on their relationship
as acquaintances, friends and more then just friends. I think any/everyone
who is or was in such a relationship can correlate a lot(I do for sure).
Beneath the layer of consciousness where the people
involved care n feel for each other(in we are just friends way) is another
layer(unconscious) where they secretly and unknowingly like/desire that
chemistry and want it to never end.
I strongly feel(it happens in the film also) that a guy and a girl cannot
be just very good friends, no it's not really that the sex part that gets in
the way but its the emotions part that does. There's a very high chance
that one of the two persons involved would be knowingly/unknowingly
feeling much more about the other person. But then not every pair of
very good friends end up the way Harry n Sally do. Maybe cause there
is not a Harry(Guy or Gal) in every such case.Think about it..
The movie has its share of some really funny and some really
touching moments.Even while writing this I cant stop thinking about some
scenes and laughing out loud.
A must watch
My Rating: 4/5
Imdb Rating: 7.6/10
Scenes that I loved:
1) On way to New York when they enter a restaurant and Sally loudly says
"It just so happened that I had plenty of good sex".
2) The one in which they meet on a plane
3) Harry n Jess raise n do Mexican waves while discussing Harry's wife.
4) When they talk on phone before going to sleep.
5) The one in museum where they speak in a different/funny way.
6) Harry n Jess while practicing baseball
7) The one with "I'll have what she is having"(Orgasm Scene)
8) When Sally breaks down n Harry goes to her place
9) Harry n Sally calling Jess n his wife
10) Harry proposing Sally on new year's eve
Dialogues that I loved:
Well there were lots of them so I put them in a separate post here
Trivia:
1)In the famous faked orgasm scene, the woman who says, "I'll have what she's having. . ." is Rob Reiner's mother.
Links:
1) Answers.com
2) WikiQuote
Sunday, July 22, 2007
When Harry Met Sally
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Osian Film Festival - 2007 (20-29July)
This goes out for all the cinema lovers out there..
"Osian’s Connoisseurs of Art" is organizing 9th Osian's-CineFan Film Festival in
Delhi starting from the 20th to 29th July(in 7 theaters across Delhi).
[from Osian's site]
Osian’s-Cinefan is one of Asia’s leading film festivals devoted
principally to Asia and the Arab world. Established in 1999 in New Delhi
in July every year, the Festival enjoys an international reputation for the
quality of films screened over nine days complemented by panel discussions,
one major seminar each time, an Auction of Popular Culture and Film
Memorabilia along with a number of exhibitions, the Talent Campus for
budding young filmmakers from South Asia, and the presence and
participation of film professionals from all over the world and all over India.
We present a Lifetime Achievement Award for distinguished contribution to
writing on cinema – perhaps the only Festival in the world that recognizes the
role of the scriptwriter and the critic in the creation and the promotion.
This year, the Festival, with the tagline ‘Recreating Cinematic Culture’
will focus on Japan, with a nine-film tribute to Kenji Mizoguchi. A number
of contemporary films and films on the samurai will be shown.
A must attend event for serious Movie Buffs and a should try event
for all the rest. Those of you who prefer staying in the confines
of Bollywood can try any of the following
Shatranj Ke Khiladi(Satyajit Ray), Dor(Nagesh kukunoor)
The Rising : Ballad of Mangal Pandey(Ketan Mehta),
Mr & Mrs 55(Guru Dutt),Omkara(Vishal Bharadwaj),
Mithya(Rajat Kapoor), Khosla ka Ghosla(Dibakar Bannerjee)
Anubhav (Rajiv Nath),Thang(Amol Palekar),
Jashn-e-Azadi(Sanjay Kak), Kaal(Bappaditya Bandopadhyay),
Devdas(P C Barua),Via Darjeeling(Arindam Nandy),
Kya Tum Ho(Anish Ahluwalia), Shoonya(Arindam Mitra),
A Little Box of Sweets(Meneka Das),Chaurahen(Rajshree Ojha)
Lage Raho Munnabhai(Raj Hirani),Manorama Six Feet Under,
Jagte Raho,Return to Rajapur,1971, and even
Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd(Reema Kagti).
Piece of Advice: In case you are thinking of trying a foreign movie
search more about it on IMDB and see if fits the bill.
Drop in a comment if you plan to catch a flick,also mention the
name of the films you are planning to watch...
Hope to see you there
Ciao !!!!
Links:
1) Schedule
2) Osian's Site
3) Archives
4) Osian's Booklet
5) Event @ Facebook
Friday, July 13, 2007
Movie Quotes from When Harry Met Sally
Harry: I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible
Harry: It is so nice when you can sit with someone and not have to talk.
Sally: You see? That is just like you, Harry. You say things like that, and you make it impossible for me to hate you.
Harry: You realize of course that we could never be friends.
Sally: Why not?
Harry: What I'm saying is - and this is not a come-on in any way, shape or form - is that men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.
Sally: That's not true. I have a number of men friends and there is no sex involved.
Harry: No you don't.
Sally: Yes I do.
Harry: No you don't.
Sally: Yes I do.
Harry: You only think you do.
Sally: You say I'm having sex with these men without my knowledge?
Harry: No, what I'm saying is they all WANT to have sex with you.
Sally: They do not.
Harry: Do too.
Sally: They do not.
Harry: Do too.
Sally: How do you know?
Harry: Because no man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her.
Sally: So, you're saying that a man can be friends with a woman he finds unattractive?
Harry: No. You pretty much want to nail 'em too.
Sally: What if THEY don't want to have sex with YOU?
Harry: Doesn't matter because the sex thing is already out there so the friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.
Sally: Well, I guess we're not going to be friends then.
Harry: I guess not.
Sally: That's too bad. You were the only person I knew in New York.
Harry: The first time we met, we hated each other.
Sally: No, you didn't hate me, I hated you. And the second time we met, you didn't even remember me.
Harry: I did too, I remembered you. The third time we met, we became friends.
Sally: We were friends for a long time.
Harry: And then we weren't.
Sally: And then we fell in love.
Harry: Would you like to have dinner?... Just friends.
Sally: I thought you didn't believe men and women could be friends.
Harry: When did I say that?
Sally: On the ride to New York.
Harry: No, no, no, I never said that... Yes, that's right, they can't be friends. Unless both of them are involved with other people, then they can... This is an amendment to the earlier rule. If the two people are in relationships, the pressure of possible involvement is lifted... That doesn't work either, because what happens then is, the person you're involved with can't understand why you need to be friends with the person you're just friends with. Like it means something is missing from the relationship and why do you have to go outside to get it? And when you say "No, no, no it's not true, nothing is missing from the relationship," the person you're involved with then accuses you of being secretly attracted to the person you're just friends with, which you probably are. I mean, come on, who the hell are we kidding, let's face it. Which brings us back to the earlier rule before the amendment, which is men and women can't be friends.
Harry: There are two kinds of women: high maintenance and low maintenance.
Sally: Which one am I?
Harry: You're the worst kind. You're high maintenance but you think you're low maintenance.
[On Orgasms]
Sally: Most women at one time or another have faked it.
Harry: Well, they haven't faked it with me.
Sally: How do you know?
Harry: Because I know.
Sally: Oh. Right. Thats right. I forgot. Youre a man.
Harry: What was that supposed to mean?
Sally: Nothing. Its just that all men are sure it never happened to them and all women at one time or other have done it so you do the math.
Harry: I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Harry: With whom did you have this great sex?
Sally: I'm not going to tell you that.
Harry: Fine, don't tell me.
Sally: Shel Gordon.
Harry: Shel? Sheldon? No, no, you did not have great sex with Sheldon.
Sally: I did too.
Harry: No you didn't. A Sheldon can do your income taxes, if you need a root canal, Sheldon's your man... but humpin' and pumpin' is not Sheldon's strong suit. It's the name. 'Do it to me Sheldon, you're an animal Sheldon, ride me big Shel-don.' Doesn't work.
Harry: Oh, really? When I buy a new book, I read the last page first. That way, in case I die before I finish, I know how it
ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.
Marie: All I'm saying is that somewhere out there is the man you are supposed to marry. And if you don't get him first, somebody else will, and you'll have to spend the rest of your life knowing that somebody else
is married to your husband
[after Sally fakes orgasm in a deli]
Older Woman Customer: [to waiter] I'll have
what she's having.
Sally: Well, basically it's the same dream I've been having since I was twelve.
Harry: Which is?
Sally: Okay, there's this guy...
Harry: What does he look like?
Sally: I don't know, he's just sort of faceless.
Harry: Faceless guy, okay.
Sally: He RIPS off my clothes.
[pause]
Harry: And?
Sally: That's it.
Harry: That's it? Some faceless guy rips off all your clothes, and THAT'S the sex fantasy you've been having since you were twelve?
Sally: Well sometimes I vary it a little.
Harry: Which part?
Sally: What I'm wearing.
Sally: No. But why didn't he want to marry me? What's the matter with me?
Harry: Nothing.
Sally: I'm difficult.
Harry: You're challenging.
Sally: I'm too structured, I'm completely closed off.
Harry: But in a good way.
Sally: No, no, no, I drove him away. AND, I'm gonna be forty.
Harry: When?
Sally: Someday.
Harry: In eight years.
Sally: But it's there. It's just sitting there, like some big dead end. And it's not the same for men. Charlie Chaplin had kids when he was 73.
Harry: Yeah, but he was too old to pick them up
Harry: I don't know. May be you get to a certain point in the relationship where it's just too late to have sex, you know?
Harry: You know you just get to a certain point where you get tired of the whole thing.
Sally: What "whole thing"?
Harry: The whole life-of-a-single-guy thing. You meet someone, you have the safe lunch, you decide you like each other enough to move on to dinner. You go dancing, you do the white-man's over-bite, go back to her place, you have sex and the minute you're finished you know what goes through your mind? How long do I have to lie here and hold her before I can get up and go home. Is thirty seconds enough?
Sally: That's what you're thinking? Is that true?
Harry: Sure! All men think that. How long do you want to be held afterwards? All night, right? See there's your problem, somewhere between thirty seconds and all night is your problem.
Sally: I don't have a problem!
Harry: Yeah you do
Harry: You know the first time I met I really didn't like you that much.
Sally: I didn't like you.
Harry: Yeah you did, you were just so uptight then. You're much softer now.
Sally: You know I hate that kind of remark. It sounds like a complement but really it's an insult.
Harry: OK, you're still as hard as nails.
Sally: I just didn't want to sleep with you and you had to write it off as a character flaw instead of dealing with the possibility that it might have something to do with you.
Jess: I don't understand this relationship.
Harry: What do you mean?
Jess: You enjoy being with her?
Harry: Yeah.
Jess: You find her attractive?
Harry: Yeah.
Jess: And you're not sleeping with her.
Harry: No.
Jess: You're afraid to let yourself be happy.
Harry: Why can't you give me credit for this? This is a big thing for me. I never had a relationship with a woman that didn't involve sex. I feel like I'm growing.
Sunday, July 01, 2007
The Never Ending Post .....
Yeps, it a post unlike a post and what does that mean ???
For one it means that it'll be updated and outposted......
And what we'll have in it..Hmmmm...OK
It will have some of the nicest movie quotes, lyrics,
one liners and all those sort of things
Lights, Camera, Action..........
Movie - Dead Poet's Society
No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas
can change the world.
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I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately.
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life...
to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to
die, discover that I had not lived.
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Boys, you must strive to find your own voice.
Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you
are to find it at all. Thoreau said,
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation."
Don't be resigned to that. Break out!
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Carpe Diem! Seize the day. Make your lives
extraordinary
Movie - Me and You and Everyone We Know
I can't sleep at night thinking about her. I just wish
I had met her 50 years sooner.- Yeah.- But then
maybe I needed 70 years of life...to be ready for a
woman like Ellen
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Ice Land is—It's kind of like that point in a relationship,
you know...where you suddenly realize it's not gonna
last forever. You know, you can see the end in sight.
Phir Teri Kahani Yaad Aayi(Song)
"Bin tere koi bhi aas naa rahi...itna tarse ki pyaas bhi naa rahi"
Movie - Waking Life
"What is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?"
"Actually, the gap between say Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human."
"They say that dreams are only real as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?"
"And on really romantic evenings of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion."
"The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything."
" The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure while always arriving."
"Did you ever have a job that you hated and worked real hard at? A long, hard day of work. Finally you get to go home, get in bed, close your eyes and immediately you wake up and realize... that the whole day at work had been a dream. It's bad enough that you sell your waking life for minimum wage, but now they get your dreams for free"
Movie - Shall We Dance
We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet..... I mean, what does any one life mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things..... all of it, all the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go unwitnessed because I will be your witness'.
Movie - Fight Club
This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
Movie - Someone Like You
"There are very few things sadder in this life than
watching someone walk away after they have left you.
Watching the distance between your bodies expands
until there is nothing left but empty space and silence"
Movie - Forrest Gump
Life is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you`re gonna get.
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I am not a very smart man, but I know what love is.
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Movie-Scent of a woman
"some people live a lifetime in a minute."
Movie-The shawshank redemption
"Get busy livin or get busy dying..."
Movie - Being Cyrus
Once the game is over both the King and the
pawn go to the same box
Movie-Phenomenon
George: "Do you think that you could love me for the rest of my life?"
Lace: "No, I'm gonna love you for the rest of mine."
Movie - Vanilla Sky
Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
Movie Karam (song)
Tinka Tinka Zara - Zara
Hai Roshani Se Jaise Bhara
Har Dil Me Armaa Hote To Hai…
Bas Koi… Samjhe Zara
Movie-Masoom (Song - Tujhse Naaraz Nahi...)
Jine ke liye socha hi nahi dard sambhalane honge.
Muskuraye jo to muskurahton ke karz utarne honge.
Song - Everybody's Free (to wear sunscreen)
Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you
want to do with your life. The most interesting
people I know didn’t know at 22 what they
wanted to do with their lives, some of the most
interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.
you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind.
The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself.
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
Enjoy your body, use it every way you can.
Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it,
it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.
Movie - Clueless
Cher: I want to do something for humanity.
Josh: How about sterilization?
Movie-The Lion King
...the way I see it, you can either run from it,
or learn from it.
Movie-A Beautiful Mind
I don't exactly know what I am required to say in
order for you to have intercourse with me.
But could we assume that I said all that.
I mean essentially we are talking about fluid exchange
right? So could we go just straight to the sex.
Movie-Departed
Marriage is an important part of getting ahead.
It lets people know you're not a homo.
A married guy seems more stable. People see the ring,
they think "at least somebody can stand the son of a bitch"
Ladies see the ring, they know immediately that you must
have some cash, and your cock must work.
Movie - Swordfish
You know the problem with Hollywood? They make shit.
Unbelievable, unremarkable shit.I'm not some grungy filmmaker-
wannabee searching for existentialism through a haze
of bong-smoke. It's easy to pick apart bad acting,
short-sighted directing, or the purely moronic stringing
together of words many of the studios term as prose.
No,I'm talking the lack of realism.Realism.
Not a pervasive element in the modern American
cinematic vision.............
ROBERTS: You know, this movie of yours, I don't think it would have worked.
GABRIEL: Really? How come?
ROBERTS: Audiences love happy endings.
GABRIEL: Pacino escapes. With the money.Boyfriend gets the sex change operation. They live happily ever after.
GABRIEL: No?
STANLEY: No.
GABRIEL: Homophobia?
STANLEY: Bad guy can't win. It's a morality tale. One way or the
other, he's gotta go down.
GABRIEL: Oh, well. Life does tend to be stranger than fiction
Movie - Hitch
One dance, one look, one kiss, that's all we get, Albert. Just... one shot, to make the difference between happily ever after, and oh? he's just some guy I went to some thing with once.
So how does it happen, great love? Nobody knows... but what I can tell you is that it happens in the blink of an eye. One moment you're enjoying your life, and the next you're wondering how you ever lived without them
Movie - The Notebook
I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.
Movie - Omkara
Mann meri nahi maan raha hai aur main mann ki
Quote:
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. - Aldous Huxley
