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521. Directorpiece Theatre: How Rob Reiner Constructs Romantic Comedies

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The Importance of Open Dialogue in Filmmaking

Billy Crystal came up with one of the most famous lines in movie history which is I'll have what she's having. Rob Reiner says okay let's green light that and he starts workshopping it to get it to work. Meg Ryan suggests it takes place in a restaurant which by the way ends up being an awesome sort of poetic rhyming thing that happens in the film. It's just one of those timeless movie scenes where she's proving to Harry women fake orgasms and he didn't believe it before but then he does after.

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