``When Harry Met Sally...'' Director Rob Reiner x Screenwriter Nora Ephron: How the monumental romantic comedy movie was created

The female orgasm issue that shocked directors

The writing of the script for ``When Harry Met Sally...'' began with Reiner and Sheinman openly expressing ``a man's feelings.'' Reiner and his friends say that they will never be able to be friends with women. This is because the issue of sex always comes into play and interferes with the friendship between the two parties. Efron protests that it can't be like that, but the men won't budge. Also, what men really think in bed leaves her stunned. Why are women and men so different? How can the two understand each other? In this way, the framework of the film gradually takes shape. Above all, Efron was interested in the eccentric and charming man named Rob Reiner. He had a very funny side, but also a very gloomy and introspective side. She builds Harry's character based on Reiner himself.

After listening to a lot of the men's stories, Reiner begins the interview with Efron, saying, ``Next, it's your turn to tell us what women really think.'' When asked what women actually think about sex, Efron talks about orgasms. "Many women have probably had the experience of pretending to have an orgasm." Efron says he will never forget the reaction of the men at that moment. The two of them were silent for a long time, their mouths hanging open, and then they timidly asked back. "...Not everyone is like that, right?"

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A few days after this conversation, the directors asked Efron to include that story in the script. Harry confidently says, ``Every woman I've ever had sex with has been satisfied,'' but Harry is stunned and unconvinced, saying, ``How do you know? All women have had the experience of pretending.'' Sally even gives a demonstration for the purpose. It was the moment when a famous scene that will go down in movie history was born.

After Nora Ephron's death in 2012, Rob Reiner spoke of how charming, intelligent and witty she was. And he points out that Efron himself was indeed inside Sally in ``When Harry Met Sally....'' Cheerful, optimistic, and a perfectionist of sorts. Whenever we went out to eat, he would always order things that even the chef couldn't think of. Efron himself shares an anecdote about ordering at restaurants. When she ordered an avocado and bacon sandwich at a lunch meeting in "When Harry Met Sally...." ``Toast the bread well enough to brown, and fry the bacon until crispy.Also, put the mayonnaise on the side of the plate instead of between the bread.It's definitely tastier that way.'' As she orders smoothly, she notices Reiner and Shainman staring at her with wide eyes. Her appearance is just like Sally, who wants to put anything on the side, whether it's ice cream on an apple pie or cream on a wedding cake.

In 1988, four years after their first lunch meeting, filming for ``When Harry Met Sally...' Premonition'' began. Efron then gets to see how the script is fleshed out on set. For example, the conversation scene about orgasm. Meg Ryan, who has read the exchange between the two about ``real'' and ``pretended,'' suggests that Sally demonstrate her ``pretended'' behavior at the end of the scene at the restaurant. After her performance was over, Billy Crystal advised the woman sitting next to her to order the same thing as that woman (by the way, the woman sitting next to her was played by Rob Reiner). biological mother). Efron, who had previously believed that the pinnacle of his career as a screenwriter was to have his text adapted into a movie with every word of his text changed, realized that he had made a huge mistake. The real thrill of filmmaking is seeing the script change for the better depending on the director and actors.

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