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career (career):
Greg Kinnear → You've Got Mail.
After the film Kinnear keeps being the obstacle in someone else's romance.
“He plays the Baxter in that.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 0:46:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Kate & Leopold → You've Got Mail.
Ryan ended the millennium with her third go-round with Hanks and Ephron in You've Got Mail.
“So she ends off the millennium with like fucking 3rd time around with Hanks, Efron again, just doing the exact thing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:24:22 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
You've Got Mail → When Harry Met Sally.
This film's quotes are longer and less snappy than When Harry Met Sally's.
“This movie doesn't have like something like when Harry Met Sally is so snappy.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:01:15 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
fun, about
You've Got Mail:
The garnish caviar scene is pure Ephron etiquette advice, slipped into a movie.
“She even puts it in a freaking movie that says, the caviar is a garnish.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:02:43 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
You've Got Mail → Julie & Julia.
Ephron's last film is her overt food movie, though food runs through all her films.
“And obviously her last movie is her like overt food movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:03:50 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
You've Got Mail → Sleepless in Seattle.
Another memorable Ephron food moment: the apple in Sleepless in Seattle.
“The Apple and sleepless in Seattle.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:04:07 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
You've Got Mail → When Harry Met Sally.
Food scenes recur across Ephron's films: Katz's deli, the garnish here, the pie in Heartburn.
“And even obviously, like Cats's deli in... When Harry Met Sally and the Garnish here, like, and the pie in heartburn.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:04:09 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them) -
fun, about
You've Got Mail:
Lindsey and Bobby ran an annotated, pop-up-video style screening at Housing Works with a raffle of items Ephron donated; Bobby met his husband there.
“Because it's the day I met my husband?”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:07:57 · Bobby Finger (0.85 sure it was them) -
fun, about
You've Got Mail:
To fit a hard out the screening cut the Dabney Coleman and father subplot and nobody noticed.
“And we cut the Dabney Coleman subplot.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:13:45 · Lindsey Weber (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
You've Got Mail → Sleepless in Seattle.
Sleepless in Seattle has a more convoluted plot yet runs an hour 45; You've Got Mail runs too long.
“Like sleepless in Seattle, which has a more convoluted plot than this, is an hour 45.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:17:07 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
fun, about
You've Got Mail:
A cut serial-killer-on-rooftops subplot survives in fragments; the final reference explains why he ghosted her.
“they caught the rooftop killer and they're like, well, that explains it, and then they're done.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:21:08 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
You've Got Mail → When Harry Met Sally.
The party scene where someone says they read the writer's piece is lifted from When Harry Met Sally.
“Which is also, which is a scene that's ultimately like lifted from when Harry met Sally.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:30:40 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Greg Kinnear → You've Got Mail.
Kinnear agreed to take the part on condition that his character's exit be the softer restaurant scene.
“Kinnear said, I'll do the movie if this is how my character line ends.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:32:47 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
You've Got Mail → The Shop Around the Corner.
Warner Brothers inherited the Turner library and the producer picked The Shop Around the Corner to remake.
“Lauren Schuler Donner looks at the library and goes, huh, shop around the corner.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:36:33 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
You've Got Mail → She Loves Me (stage musical).
Griffin lists the earlier versions the story had been through, including the musical.
“She loves me shop around the corner and in the summertime.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:38:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
You've Got Mail → The Shop Around the Corner.
In every earlier version the rivals are coworkers whose jobs are at stake; here they run rival businesses and she is not poor.
“So so much of the rivalry between the 2 characters is they're fighting for who becomes the most valuable employee of this store because if one of them nudges out the other, their entire life might be ruined.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:38:35 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
You've Got Mail → Ninotchka.
Ephron borrowed the idea of rivals who are two sides of one coin from a Lubitsch picture.
“I mean she's pulling from like a different Lubich movie, which is here are 2 people who are opposite sides of the coin, don't realize they get along that way.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:38:59 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them) -
fun, about
You've Got Mail:
AOL let the filmmakers use the title free; two years on it was overplayed and three years on AOL was bombing.
“And then AOL let them use it free.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:41:13 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
You've Got Mail → The Net.
You've Got Mail has aged far better than The Net, which claimed to understand the internet.
“Like it has aged so much better than a movie like the net.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:42:03 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them) -
fun, about
You've Got Mail:
The fall leaves in the movie are CGI because they shot in the summer, per the commentary track by Ephron and Schuler Donner.
“They're like, all of the fall stuff is CGI, baby.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:46:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
You've Got Mail → The Shop Around the Corner.
Three scenes appear almost verbatim in all three screen versions, including the friend's line about her coloring.
“3 scenes that exist almost verbatim in all 3 movie versions, which are the scene with the friend, the Dave Chappelle scene where he takes a look at her.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:57:29 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
You've Got Mail → Sleepless in Seattle.
Ryan's loneliness is only hinted at in Sleepless but is the persistent subject here.
“This movie's so much more honest about how sad she is.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:59:28 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
You've Got Mail → The Godfather.
Ephron habitually references movies that men love, such as The Godfather (going to the mattresses), Casablanca, and The Dirty Dozen.
“There's also the godfather, you know, the, which is a classic Efron thing, like Casablanca, um, Harry Metzali, and the Dirty Dozen”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:01:09 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Nancy Meyers → You've Got Mail.
Meyers was starting then and would have paired everyone off at the end; Ephron did not.
“Nancy Myers is starting, you know, around the same time as this movie's coming out and she's like, yeah, baby, everyone's going to be together at the end.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:08:26 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
fun, about
You've Got Mail:
The Zabar's scene was shot overnight from 10 PM to 5 AM; Hanks used the store PA to keep the extras happy.
“So they filmed the entire thing from like 10 PM until 5 AM.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:12:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
You've Got Mail → Sleepless in Seattle.
Both Hanks-Ryan films are experiments on the rom-com: one withholds the couple until the last scene, the other puts them together and makes them unpleasant.
“sleepless in Seattle is obviously like, can you create a rom-com with chemistry between the 2 actors without them ever actually communicating until the last scene of the movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:31:34 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Enough Said → You've Got Mail.
Enough Said is Bobby's favorite rom-com since You've Got Mail, with the same messy, deceitful lovers.
“the brom-com that I think is my favorite, since you've got mail, is probably enough said, which I think captures this dynamic pretty closely”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:34:19 · Bobby Finger (0.60 sure it was them) -
fun, about
You've Got Mail:
The box office for December 18, 1998: You've Got Mail at number one, ahead of Prince of Egypt, A Bug's Life, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Jack Frost.
“So number one, though, it's you've got mail, $18 million.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:50:48 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Hanging Up → You've Got Mail.
Hanging Up is the phone/cell-phone sibling of the Ephron sisters' earlier email movie.
“isn't it funny that there's a Nora Efron project to, like, in the infancy of email that's like an email movie?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:14:03 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Hanging Up → You've Got Mail.
You've Got Mail still holds up because it understood email's psychology; Hanging Up's phone premise has aged out.
“you've got mail and you're like, they understood the psychological and sociological impact of email, even if the technology changed.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:11:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Working Girl → You've Got Mail.
You've Got Mail is a remake of an old story, showing remakes can work.
“that's a story that had already been made like 3 other times before it was made for the AOL era.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 2:11:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)