When Harry Met Sally Read Free Page B

notices for two weeks until the smell drifts out into the hallway.
    Sally looks over at Harry. Who am I stuck in this car with? She looks back at the road
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    EXT. CAR—TRAVELING SHOT—DAY

As the car turns onto the highway
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    SALLY     
(Voice-over)
    Amanda mentioned you had a dark side.
    HARRY     That’s what drew her to me.
    SALLY     Your dark side?
    HARRY     Sure. Why? Don’t you have a dark side? I know, you’re probably one of those cheerful people who dot their “i’s” with little hearts.
    SALLY     
(defensively)
    I have just as much of a dark side as the next person—
    HARRY     
(pleased with himself)
    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.
    SALLY     
(irritated now)
    That doesn’t mean you’re deep or anything. I mean, yes, basically I’m a happy person …
    HARRY     
(cheerfully)
    So am I.
    SALLY     … and I don’t see that there’s anything wrong with that.
    HARRY     Of course not. You’re too busy being happy. Do you ever think about death?
    SALLY     Yes.
    HARRY     Sure you do. A fleeting thought that drifts in and out of the transom of your mind. I spend hours, I spend days—
    SALLY     
(interrupting)
    —and you think this makes you a better person?
    HARRY     Look, when the shit comes down, I’m going to be prepared and you’re not, that’s all I’m saying.
    SALLY     And in the meantime, you’re going to ruin your whole life waiting for it.
    DISSOLVE TO:
    EXT. CAR—DAY
    The car tooling along a beautiful stretch of highway
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    SALLY     
(Voice-over)
    You’re wrong.
    HARRY     
(Voice-over)
    I’m not wrong.
    SALLY     
(Voice-over)
    You’re wrong.
    HARRY     
(Voice-over)
    He wants her to leave. That’s why he puts her on the plane.
    SALLY     (
Voice-over)
I don’t think
she
wants to stay.
    HARRY     (
Voice-over)
Of course she wants to stay. Wouldn’t you rather be with Humphrey Bogart than that other guy?
    EXT.—CAR EXITING (INDUSTRIAL)—MAGIC HOUR
    EXT.—DINER—NIGHT
    Sally’s
car rounds the corner near some refinery tanks, heads into a diner parking lot
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    SALLY     
(Voice-over)
    I don’t want to spend the rest of my life in Casablanca married to a man who runs a bar. That probably sounds very snobbish to you, but I don’t.
    The car pulls up in front of a diner straight out of the fifties, Harry driving
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    HARRY     
(Voice-over)
    You’d rather have a passionless marriage—
    SALLY     
(Voice-over)
    —and be First Lady of Czechoslovakia—
    HARRY     
(Voice-over)
    —than live with the man …
    INT. CAR—NIGHT
    HARRY     … you’ve had the greatest sex of your life with, just because he owns a bar and that’s all he does.
    SALLY     Yes, and so would any woman in her right mind. Women are very practical.
    Sally takes out a can of hairspray, sprays her hair
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    SALLY     ( CONT’D )    Even Ingrid Bergman, which is why she gets on that plane at the end of the movie.
    EXT. DINER PARKING LOT—NIGHT
    HARRY     
(getting out of car)
    Oh, I understand.
    SALLY     
(getting out of car)
    What? What?
    HARRY     Nothing.
    Harry crosses toward the diner. Sally follows after him
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    SALLY