![]() When the women get weepy over Affair, it is played for comedy, and Annie’s best friend Becky (a typically down-to-earth Rosie O’Donnell) tells her that her problem is that she doesn’t want to be in love, she wants “to be in love in a movie”.ĥ. ![]() But it’s also a movie for people who enjoy mocking classic romantic movies. An Affair To Remember is both featured in and heavily discussed and referenced, right down to the meeting on the ‘top’ (or rather the observation deck) of the Empire State Building the opening song is ‘As Time Goes By’ from Casablanca.Ĥ. It’s a movie for people who love classic romantic movies. This is not about a quest for the perfect person – neither Sam (the aforementionedly-delicious Tom Hanks) nor Annie (Meg Ryan) are looking for love. Compare this to the ‘singleton’ opening monologue of Bridget Jones’s Diary. And let’s face it, the world of liking rom-coms in the first place is deeply uncool anyway.Ģ. Except Harry popularised the irritating idea of ‘high-maintenance’ women and Billy Crystal is nowhere near as lickable (so very much not a typo for ‘likeable’) as Tom Hanks – it may be a more authentic movie about love but it isn’t nearly as romantic. ![]() It is not ‘cool’ to have it as your favourite you’re supposed to prefer the earlier Nora Ephron/Meg Ryan outing When Harry Met Sally. My favourite and (subjectively, problematically) the best. 25 years after its first release, it still is. So when I say ‘ Sleepless In Seattle is the greatest romantic comedy of all time’ what I really mean is, it’s my favourite. It’s a flattening-out of something that should be layered.įavourites, on the other hand, are different. Can we ever really label a work of art as ‘the best’ of its kind? Surely to do so is reductionist, to suggest that experiencing something – a book, a movie, a painting, a play, a dance, a song – is a quantitative, rather than qualitative experience. ![]()
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