This week, we’re dissecting one other favourite consolation watch film for decor and residential inspiration.
That is an ongoing sequence for us, and this week’s choice is You’ve Bought Mail, a Nora Ephron movie from 1998. That is positively a millennial consolation film to THE CORE.
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Present Notes
Our favourite design parts:
Kathleen’s brownstone residence:
-Window seat
-Ornamental daisy trim across the doorways
-Hung plate assortment
Kathleen’s bookstore “The Store Round The Nook”:
-Twinkle lights
-Checkered flooring
Joe’s residence:
-Black metals
-Sharper edges
-Fashionable fashion
Different cozy inspiration:
-Meg Ryan’s fairy hat
Vogue:
-Cozy outfits: cardigans, white tights with a skirt, sweaters
-’90s hair: small highlights and crisscrossed center half
-Saggy fits
What aged nicely vs. what didn’t on this film:
-Know-how
-Flirting on-line whereas in a relationship
Charge the film from 0 to five bouquets of freshly sharpened pencils:
Elsie – 5
Emma – 5
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Episode 174 Transcript:
Emma: You’re listening to the A Stunning Mess Podcast, your cozy consolation pay attention. This week we’re dissecting a favourite consolation watch film for decor and residential inspiration. That is an ongoing sequence for us, and this week’s choice is You’ve Bought Mail a Nora Efron movie from 1998. That is positively a millennial consolation film to the core. I used to be so excited to rewatch this one.
Elsie: Yeah. I had such a beautiful time, we truly watched it on Valentine’s Day. It’s so cozy and magical, fantastic, all of the issues. Ought to we describe it a bit, I do know there’s most likely isn’t anybody who hasn’t watched, however simply in case
Emma: Yeah, yeah. Go forward. Simply in case.
Elsie: Okay, so Joe Fox performed by Tom Hanks, he’s just about an individual who owns Barnes and Noble, who’s opening a Barnes and Noble in New York Metropolis. However they don’t name it Barnes and Noble.
Emma: They name it Fox Books.
Elsie: Kathleen Kelly performed by Meg Ryan is the proprietor of a magical, lovely little bookshop known as the Store Across the Nook, which can be proper across the nook from the imposing Barnes and Noble. They’ve develop into form of like on-line pin buddies within the earliest, most primitive attainable model of the web. And so yeah, the film is named You’ve Bought Mail as a result of it’s nonetheless within the period the place the pc says you’ve received mail each time she opens her pc. It is extremely nostalgic from a expertise standpoint, sort of surprising, sort of jarring, it makes the passage of time actually clear. Tom Hanks is outdated, however he’s not that outdated, issues have actually modified on this period of time, it’s beautiful. Past that, it’s actually a easy, cozy romantic comedy.
Emma: Yeah, that’s what I might say too. And when you’re a e book lover, then it’s a type of motion pictures the place there’s two completely different bookstores in it and plenty of, . So I really feel like a variety of instances after I learn books, clearly, authors love studying as a result of they’re writers. So there’s a variety of like bookstores and libraries are inclined to pop up as frequent issues, so it’s enjoyable to see them in motion pictures too, as a result of I’m a e book lover, as is Elsie, in order that’s enjoyable.
Elsie: Yeah. So now that I’m a literary particular person, I could make feedback like this. Have you ever observed that in each single e book and film, when there’s a literary feminine character, her favourite novel is all the time Pleasure and Prejudice. It’s all the time, all the time, all the time delight and prejudice each single time.
Emma: I wished to speak about that too, as a result of, I discovered it somewhat humorous. Okay, so primary, I’ll say I really like Pleasure and Prejudice, I actually do. It’s positively in my prime 10 or at the least the highest 20 books of all time. I Love Jane Austin, typically, Pleasure and Prejudice might be one in all my favorites, so I get it, man. It’s not like I’m hating, however I additionally felt such as you personal a bookstore and your itemizing is your favourite e book, probably the most cliche decide of all time. I simply discovered it sort of unusual, as a result of they had been speaking about their favourite books and I’m like, wouldn’t you wanna decide one thing somewhat bit completely different?
Elsie: Yeah, I agree as a result of I do know book-snob individuals now they usually don’t title that as their favourite novel. So anyway, simply an attention-grabbing factor that for some motive, regardless that it’s been about possibly 30 years nearly since this film was made, hasn’t modified in any respect. Within the motion pictures and books, everybody nonetheless simply loves Pleasure and Prejudice and solely has references from that. Anyway, so let’s discuss. We’re gonna dissect the film for cozy inspiration. So final time we did twilight and twilight, I’ll say it was low on the comfortable inspiration meter. Not like zero, however it’s decrease. This one could be very, very, very excessive on the inspiration meter, I might name this film like Eye Sweet. I might get pleasure from watching it with the pontificate. Like simply taking a look at stills. So when you haven’t watched it otherwise you haven’t watched it in years, Google, You’ve Bought Mail, film stills, or You’ve Bought Mail, residence and you will note all of the issues we’re speaking about. So I wished to first discuss Kathleen’s Brownstone residence.
So this is among the very, very Coziest film units, most iconic film units of, I might say, all romantic comedies. It’s romantic comedy gold, so I like it. So let’s simply dissect for a minute. So initially, it has a window seat within the entrance front room and I simply love a window seat. I really feel like if in case you have a window, a giant window, a bay window, and there’s nothing there, you had been placed on this planet so as to add a window seat to that window, proper?
Emma: Yeah, you need to. And at the least as soon as sit there and skim a e book, I do know you’re most likely gonna find yourself on the sofa or in your mattress. That’s what . It’s identical to the romantic thought of the place you wanna be sitting studying a e book, which is within the window seat.
Elsie: Take an image of your self studying there after which transfer to the sofa the place it’s extra comfy, that’s tremendous, we have now proof of that. Okay, after which the opposite factor I’m obsessive about from this residence is that the trim across the doorways has these little daisies, like carved wooden, daisies, appliques, it’s identical to actually, actually good ornamental trim. Okay, so I wanna use this in my life. How concerning the pink home it’s the one factor I don’t like concerning the pink home is that it has a farmhouse, like trendy farmhouse trim. They modernized it an excessive amount of they usually additionally put barn doorways. That’s the 2 issues that I might actually change. So I used to be attempting to think about a approach that I might use the inspiration of this daisy trim on these doorways. Perhaps I might by some means add it so I didn’t even need to take away it by some means, identical to spruce it as much as make it look extra historic.
However anyway, I’ll put both an image or a notice or a hyperlink, within the present notes this week so you’ll be able to see this daisy trim up shut as a result of it’s a crucial element. And for me, woodwork and molding, it’s one in all my renovation obsessions, I like it. Don’t skip over it, if you need to put new trim up already, put cool trim, put particular trim. This can be a superb instance of one thing that’s a small distinction, however far more particular.
Emma: Yeah. And usually, I might say her residence feels somewhat bit like cottage vibes, however you can also very a lot inform that it’s a New York residence and it’s imagined to be a New York residence. And in addition her boyfriend firstly of the film is a author. He writes for the newspaper, I feel the Washington poster, possibly the New York Instances. I can’t bear in mind which one they are saying within the film, however he writes for a newspaper, so he’s a author, in order that they’re each literary individuals. So I really feel prefer it simply has that vibe of their residence, he has an outdated typewriter. There’s simply the sensation of, this being a contemporary New York residence, however the fashion isn’t trendy, it’s extra cottagey and comfortable.
Elsie: From my expertise, happening a New York home purchasing rabbit gap, that’s true. There are many properties the place there’s heaps and plenty of authentic molding, like the perfect authentic molding I’ve ever seen wherever, there are such a lot of, and that’s a quite common characteristic. Perhaps it’s as a result of that a part of the nation was constructed earlier. I don’t know why it’s so significantly better there.
Emma: I feel it’s a mix of issues being constructed earlier. You already know, like if in case you have one thing that’s 100 years outdated versus 20 years outdated, I really feel such as you’re extra prone to hold the hundred-year-old factor simply because. In order that, after which I additionally marvel about some areas of the nation, and I’m not a New York native, New York Metropolis native in any respect, by no means lived there. Don’t know. So it might be completely fallacious, however my impression is it may be somewhat bit more durable to renovate there. There are simply not as many Dwelling Depots and Lowe’s round such as you’re within the Midwest, like anybody can stroll in. It’s just a bit bit simpler to sort of change issues. So I sort of marvel if possibly that’s a part of it too, issues get stored as a result of it’s simply extra cumbersome to alter out trim. So like why would you?
Elsie: Additionally, it’s a much bigger renting tradition. So it’s not a lot gutting and renovating.
Emma: Yeah, that might be my guess.
Elsie: Then another factor from Kathleen’s residence was her hung plate assortment. So each Nancy Meyers or Nora Efron film has a hung plate assortment. So only a assortment of lovely vintage plates all hung in somewhat assortment on a wall. I do know that it’s verifiably a grandma factor, however I additionally suppose it’s positively, the fashion they name grand millennial? It’s very drawn to it and I’m very into it.
Emma: Sometime we might be grandma, millennials, hopefully.
Elsie: Okay, after which subsequent let’s discuss Kathleen’s bookstore, the store across the nook. So it’s positively the right vintage store, every little thing is outdated. It’s like wooden trim, wooden counter, every little thing seems to be prefer it’s 100 years outdated. And there have been a bunch of various companies all through historical past in that area. However it’s a youngsters’s bookstore. Is it only a youngsters’s bookstore or is it a bookstore for everybody? I assume I’m not clear on that. It may be each, however it has a giant youngsters’s part, that’s a giant emphasis on what they present on digital camera.
Emma: Sure, as a result of she has story time the place she reads books to youngsters and generally there’s like youngsters within the neighborhood who appear to know her, the girl from the following door. So it positively is heavy on child stuff, however I can’t bear in mind within the film if they’ve grownup books and issues too. I really feel like Sure, however I actually can’t bear in mind now.
Elsie: I feel so too, I don’t know. The store could be very, very cute and my favourite element from it’s that there’s a scene the place they’re hanging twinkle lights and she or he is speaking about how she thinks there ought to all the time be twinkle lights and prefer it’s not simply Christmas factor, every little thing simply wants twinkle lights, which is how I really feel. I fully agree. Simply get the twinkle lights out any time of 12 months, any day, any time I assist it. Is there anything about her, the store across the nook that caught out to you as cozy and cute?
Emma: Perhaps I’ll deliver this up now, however it’s in a bunch of units within the film or areas within the film, there have been so many checkered flooring like there have been tile checkered flooring. The bookshop’s, one in all ’em, Tom Hank’s character, his residence had one in all ’em, and there was at the least another, and I can’t bear in mind now, possibly it was within the Fox Bookstore. However I beloved it. I solely have one little area in my home that has checkered flooring in my laundry room. However I simply love that look, it’s so basic. They’d completely different ones, I really feel like one was black and white, one was like two tones of brown, sort of an off-white and a darker brown, that may have been the bookstore. And I simply stored seeing it within the film and I used to be like, checkered flooring. Checkered flooring, checkered flooring.
Elsie: That’s inspiring, what number of instances do you suppose you’ll be able to have a checkered ground in a single home, like three or 4? Is that too many?
Emma: I imply, how huge is your home?
Elsie: In a giant home. In a giant home? Yeah.
Emma: Yeah. Positively three or 4. Is it magnificence and the beast? Such as you received a West Wing or like what’s occurring? ,
Elsie: I dunno. No, a daily home. I’m speaking about my home. My new home.
Emma: Yeah. Your present home? Oh, your new home. Yeah, you possibly can most likely have three or 4. I might have had extra, I considered placing it within the entryway too, however I don’t know. I actually love simply having one ground in many of the home. However in areas which have water, just like the laundry room in case the washer and dryer are over flooring, it feels good to have tile in there, after which we have now tile within the bogs. However even my kitchen has wooden flooring.
Elsie: I really like wooden flooring within the kitchen.
Emma: Yeah. Reverse of you, the boring model of you, that’s me. I’m like, hold it easy.
Elsie: That’s not true in any respect. Certainly one of my favourite moments from the whole film is when she’s doing story time and she or he’s carrying that fairy hat, like a fairytale hat. It’s simply so cute, that’s the nonetheless from the film that I feel reveals up most frequently on the web and it’s every little thing. So yeah, like possibly we have to get hats like that so we are able to identical to learn to our youngsters and really feel like we’re in a Nora Efron film.
Emma: Truthfully, when you wished to develop into like we learn books on the library, I might completely do it with you. It might be very enjoyable.
Elsie: Okay, yeah, no I might positively love to try this, that’s enjoyable. The place are another cozy interiors you observed? I do know we simply talked concerning the flooring. I believed the little espresso store the place that they had their meetup, the place she had the roses on the desk was very charming, and the grocery retailer. There was a grocery retailer too.
Emma: The grocery retailer felt very New York, I beloved it. It felt very huge bodega feeling in there. Yeah, and I additionally really feel prefer it’s an unassuming film in that you could sort of really feel like a variety of the areas simply really feel brown, however while you actually look, they’re truly actually fairly. You’ll be fallacious. It’s not simply all brown, there’s much more to it. However I feel when you had been like squinting at this film, that might be the vibe. We didn’t actually discuss Tom Hanks’ character’s residence. To me, that’s the one I might need out of the 2. And I actually want there was a sequel to the film the place we see them cohabitate, I’m assuming they keep collectively.
Elsie: So what options did you want about his residence particularly?
Emma: I simply thought it felt trendy however cool and it has that, I really feel like individuals name this fashion masculine. I don’t actually love the gendering decor, it doesn’t actually make sense to me. However the thought is I feel it has like black steel and sort of sharper edges and it tends to be somewhat bit extra trendy. And I identical to trendy fashion, not ultra-modern, however his felt like that. There was even some sort of fancy espresso machine, I really feel like that’s like out on his countertop. It simply felt like a really, I’m a enterprise particular person, however this nonetheless has fashion, which I used to be serious about. I’m a enterprise particular person, however I nonetheless have fashion.
Elsie: The wealthy dad of a Nora Efron film vibe. Yeah. I might see that being like your dream home, That is smart.
Emma: Yeah, out of the 2 flats, I beloved hers too, however I used to be like, I might wanna dwell in his if I needed to dwell in one of many two. Which is humorous trigger I feel you’d dwell in hers and so then we might go to one another and it’d be nice.
Elsie: That’s true. Yeah. We’d like to have our personal separate romcom homes. Okay, that is on my notes and I don’t suppose it’s gonna come into play wherever. However I’ve two humorous issues about Joe Fox. To begin with, I feel Joe Fox is a really fake-sounding film title. Do you suppose that I simply can’t recover from the title Joe Fox. It’s attempting so arduous to be informal that it sounds fully made as much as me.
Emma: Yeah, and for no matter motive, and there most likely is somebody on the planet named Joe Fox, however they simply sound separate from one another, which to me is all the time like a, oh, that is only a title in a e book, , or no matter as a result of they don’t really feel they’re an actual particular person they usually go collectively. I don’t know why although. It doesn’t actually make sense. Perhaps as a result of they’re each so brief, I don’t know. He does spend a part of the film, not saying his title or attempting to omit it. I don’t suppose he’s actually mendacity. He’s simply sort of not saying he’s his title.
Elsie: He’s mendacity, he’s attempting to not inform her who he’s, for certain.
Emma: Yeah. He realizes she’s not gonna be proud of who he’s as a result of he realizes she owns the small bookstore and his bookstore might be gonna put her outta enterprise. So he sort of is like hiding his title rather a lot. So possibly that’s a part of it’s we are supposed to not know his title for a part of the film or we all know that it’s being hidden.
Elsie: Okay, the opposite factor is, that is like my favourite second of the film quote or no matter, like a humorous quote, and Jeremy and I’ve been saying it always as a joke, however I really feel like that is very like quintessential Nineteen Nineties in a approach that it doesn’t exist anymore. However after they’re within the espresso store collectively, he like places up his finger and orders a mocha decaf non-fat, like that’s his espresso order, it’s so loopy and like random, and likewise it doesn’t make sense. It’s such as you’re ordering a decaf non-fat frappuccino, it’s insane.
Emma: Yeah, it’s like, okay, you desire a chocolate milkshake however no fats, that’s horrible.
Elsie: Yeah, I really feel like within the olden days, it was like the start of Starbucks tradition when Starbucks and solely grand millennials or grandma, millennials can bear in mind this, however like when Starbucks was truly so cool. There was a second the place it was like, I’m going to Starbucks and in You’ve Bought Mail has this as a result of in one of many opening scenes, it reveals New York Metropolis, after which it reveals a Starbucks, it’s when Starbucks was so cool, it was not frequent. It was pretentious or fancy. I feel that folks used to get pleasure from having the longest attainable espresso orders.
Emma: Yeah. I feel it was a standing image in a approach, and possibly this reveals my age cuz I used to be early twenties and tremendous broke. So the thought of ordering a $6 drink at Starbucks was like, oh no I can not try this, I’ve no cash for that. So while you heard somebody sort of get some sort of grande or venti, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, you’re like, wow, you have to be a wealthy particular person. You have got this signature drink factor that you simply’re into, which Joe Fox is clearly wealthy due to Younger’s Barnes and Noble.
Elsie: I like it. I like it, his character’s so nice. Okay, so vogue, I feel that Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are the icons of the Nineteen Nineties, particularly in romcoms and their outfit outfits are very cozy. She’s carrying a cardigan and a gown with a cardigan. There’s one the place she has white tights and a skirt and it’s so cute. Sweaters, it feels very fall time.
Emma: Yeah, additionally, Meg Ryan is beautiful, however she additionally has that very nineties hair to me, the place it has the very small highlights after which she does her center half the place it’s like forwards and backwards, crisscross. The crisscross center half, which is simply so nineties, like very highschool to me, which I truly graduated in 2004, so I assume center college for me, no matter, you get it.
Elsie: I did the crisscross half within the nineties although, I’m not ashamed to say it.
Emma: Everybody did it. When you weren’t doing it, it’s such as you didn’t know.
Elsie: It’s true, everybody wished to have hair like that within the nineties. However yeah, so far as their fashion, I don’t know if there’s like something they had been carrying. I feel I might put on possibly the factor with the tights. I simply suppose it’s like a normal vibe greater than an precise outfit to copy.
Emma: I additionally suppose that is an period the place Tom Hanks’, Joe Fox, fits usually are not fairly as fitted. Issues are extra dishevelled, which has truly come again round. I really feel like we’re seeing a variety of that now Within the final 5 years, it’s much more dishevelled garments and bagger issues, individuals aren’t doing the tremendous tight fitted as a lot. However yeah, that’s positively on this film, which is humorous as a result of some years after this, I really feel like all males’s fits had been very tailor-made. It’s not that they had been essentially tight, however they had been very like, that they had a match.
Elsie: Oh, they received tight, they received very tight in some latest a long time.
Emma: Yeah, however his felt dishevelled, not fitted, not tailor-made in that approach but. Regardless that clearly his character’s high-end, it’s not like these are low cost fits. You don’t have that impression. It’s simply form of a special period for vogue.
Elsie: Yeah, it’s positively a special period for vogue. Yeah. Okay, so we all the time do that. What aged nicely and what didn’t age nicely within the film? I didn’t take any notes of something that made me cringe. I can’t consider something off the highest of my head, however I assume the expertise is beautiful, it’s surprising. How completely different the early web was from what it’s now. I truly wrote down a quote that somebody stated within the film and stated, I attempted to have cyber intercourse, however I stored getting the busy sign like they’re simply so primitive. It’s so early web and I feel that everybody, I used to be gonna say You’ve Bought Mail must be a film that performs in faculties as a method to train people who it wasn’t that way back, like to show youngsters like our niece’s age, who’s 13. It wasn’t that way back that folks didn’t have web or that it was model new to them and that is the way it regarded. And that is how computer systems regarded and like they didn’t have telephones. Simply all these items like that I feel could be sort of fascinating for youths to see.
Emma: Yeah, and I imply, the thought of assembly somebody in a chat room after which changing into sort of web pen buddies to me sounds sort of like, Ooh, I don’t find out about that.
Elsie: It doesn’t sound cute anymore.
Emma: Yeah, it doesn’t sound cute anymore however assembly somebody by means of a relationship app sounds actually regular to me. That is just like the model that that they had of that principally. However anyway, yeah, so there’s that. I’ve all the time felt somewhat bizarre about, I don’t know if that is an getting older factor, like did it age nicely, however at the least watching this after I was youthful and now, I don’t love that they’re sort of each in relationships after which they’re form of flirting with someone else on-line. However I additionally suppose they sort of deal with it all through the film in several methods. I do know they actually do, like when Meg Ryan’s character has her breakup, which I truly actually like that scene. I really feel prefer it’s a really grownup breakup the place each persons are very respectful and it sort of showcases that breakups generally occur simply because this simply has run its course and that’s okay. And we are able to nonetheless respectfully half and be sincere with one another about it. And I truly suppose it’s breakup scene. Yeah, I’ve all the time felt somewhat bizarre about that, however I get it relationships are messy and I do suppose they sort of deal with it in locations. However yeah, I don’t know, it’s sort of bizarre.
Elsie: Yeah, I might agree with that. However I actually didn’t give it a lot thought after I was watching it.
Emma: You had been identical to, present me extra interiors.
Elsie: I assume for me, I wished to see her on the finish, I feel she’s beginning to write a e book possibly, it’s like she’s beginning to get a brand new dream as a result of her retailer does find yourself closing and he does find yourself profitable and it’s like Barnes and Noble, no matter. I feel it’s humorous how a lot the repute of Barnes and Noble has modified as nicely as a result of now I feel it’s like an endangered species to be protected and within the nineties, it was like a monster to be stopped and now there’s a special monster now. Anyway, I considered her character, I might’ve beloved for her to both win or discover a resolution, discover a pivot or like some sort of resolution for it, or discover a new dream that was greater and higher. That she expressed she was very keen about it. They sort of alluded to it, however it didn’t fairly, in order that’s most likely the factor I might change for her. It might have been half too, although.
Emma: Yeah, I do suppose the sequel to this could be actually attention-grabbing and enjoyable. Yeah, however I additionally, realize it’s a remake and there isn’t one other, so it’s like, okay, that’s cool too.
Elsie: There’s not gonna be a remake.
Emma: Yeah, there’s not gonna be a sequel until apart from fan fiction.
Elsie: I cried on the finish. Did you cry somewhat? Did you get somewhat tear?
Emma: No, however I do like their love story. I do like the concept they’ve gotten to know each other by means of letters, and she or he mentions that Pleasure and Prejudice is her favourite e book, and it sort of vibes that approach in that she misunderstands him they usually considerably misunderstand one another. Like, Mr. Darcy, you don’t know why he’s doing a number of the issues he’s doing. When she meets him on the espresso store and he has his ridiculous mochaccino order, she thinks he’s simply teasing her and antagonizing her and she or he doesn’t acknowledge that he’s the particular person she was ready for, he’s the particular person on the pc. So, that’s actually enjoyable and I feel they did a pleasant job with that and it’s pleasant.
Elsie: No, I imply it’s cute such as you need them to be collectively, they need to be, there’s no different ending for this film. So we’re gonna go into trivia time now. So that is all, truly, I don’t know the place I grabbed this from, most likely I M D B or one thing. Yeah, I like love trivia about actors, motion pictures, film units, like the place was movies, like all forms of stuff, so we’re simply gonna geek out for a bit. The casting of Dave Chappelle as Kevin Joe’s buddy and confidant happened as a result of 4 years beforehand, Chappelle was supplied the position of Bubba in Forrest Gump, which is in 1994, hank’s huge blockbuster film, which got here as a worldwide phenomenon. Chappelle turned down the position of Bubba as a result of he felt Forrest Gump would flop on the field workplace, which gave me the most important miniature tear for him. That’s a tragic one. I’m certain Dave Chappelle is doing simply tremendous, however you need to dwell with that. That’s most likely the humorous factor about being an actor you need to decide every script by simply your personal impression and what you’ve seen earlier than it, and also you simply by no means know, proper?
Emma: Yeah. Nicely, and there might be an awesome script after which just like the director simply takes a bizarre flip or vice versa, and the script’s sort of weak, you by no means know. And Forest Gump is a bizarre film, so I might sort of see studying the script and being like, I don’t know if I wanna play this position. This looks like a very unusual film, I’m undecided as a result of fairly the film.
Elsie: Yeah, no, no. I feel it’s considerably not acceptable by right now’s requirements, however on the time it was Blockbuster. Okay, let’s go to the following one.
Emma: All proper, the kids’s bookstore scenes had been filmed at Maya Shaper’s cheese and Vintage Store. I’m undecided if I’m saying that appropriately, however there it’s and it’s at 106 West 69th Road. The filmmakers wished to make use of the vintage store as a result of it had a quaint, homey really feel that they had been going, they usually had been proper, they usually despatched the proprietor of the vintage store on trip for a couple of weeks, and whereas she was gone, they turned it right into a youngsters’s bookshop. After the filming was completed, they put every little thing again the best way that it was. I’m wondering if the shops smelled like cheese the entire time they had been filming. I’m like, cheese and vintage store.
Elsie: Okay. To begin with, I don’t know if that is nonetheless a New York Metropolis institution, but when it is aware of is I might like to go to a cheese and vintage store. There may be this one place in Nashville that it’s like a present retailer, they usually have this little cheese fridge it’s like champagne and cheese and I like it each single time. It’s like sort of like you will get somewhat charcuterie to go, it’s so candy. Anyway, I feel that they positively discovered the right location. So whoever did the scouting, I feel they need to make miniature, Oscars for no matter awards I feel individuals ought to get.
Emma: I feel there are extra awards than we see on the present. I feel that they’ve one other for extra technical areas. So possibly there may be one for locating the right spot.
Elsie: Yeah, like scouting areas I feel is an artwork and it’s very interesting to me. I might like to be if anybody’s scouting a location for a Nora Efron esque film, and you might want to rent an inexperienced, highly-paid, blogger. Okay, Nora Efron organized for Meg Ryan and Heather Burns to work in actual New York Metropolis bookstores in preparation for his or her roles earlier than filming. The shop was Books of Marvel in Manhattan and the roles lasted for a couple of week. I feel that might be useful truly. I all the time say that I wanna write a novel sometime. So I all the time say that one in all my lapses in judgment is that I’ve by no means labored in a restaurant and it’s such a giant a part of tales. I feel that having experiences like that might be, that make a lot sense. I feel working in a bookstore for every week additionally would simply be enjoyable.
Emma: Yeah, I feel so too.
Elsie: I guess they had been so excited to have Meg Ryan of their bookstore.
Emma: I’m wondering in the event that they put her within the again or one thing as a result of I really feel like she would most likely not get a lot finished if she was on the ground, everybody could be like, excuse me, are you, Meg Ryan? However yeah. And I additionally suppose I’m not an actor, however I might really feel like I might wanna know, even one thing easy like that, like how do you learn inventory books? I wanna study that from somebody who’s finished it. If I used to be gonna do a scene the place I used to be a librarian, I’d wanna go work with a librarian so I perceive like how are you doing this? And what’s probably the most environment friendly approach? As a result of somebody’s gonna see this, who’s a librarian, and I need them to really feel like they’re seen, I received it I do know what you’re doing. I do know the little tips as a result of there are all the time little issues that somebody in an trade is aware of that, different individuals most likely don’t know as a result of why would you?
Elsie: Sure, I feel that’s an awesome thought. And understanding like what you do between, , while you’re not checking somebody out and also you’re not placing books on a shelf, what different issues are you want strolling round doing?
Emma: The subsequent one is fairly humorous. I feel the placement of Fox Books within the film is the placement of Actual life, Barnes and Noble. It’s at Broadway and 83rd Road on the higher West aspect. You may actually inform, yeah, that Barnes and Noble generated appreciable neighborhood opposition when it opened within the early Nineteen Nineties. So very true to the movie.
Elsie: Yeah, I really feel like in our lifetime we have now seen such a shift in individuals’s notion as a result of I bear in mind when Barnes and Noble had been thought-about like nearly boycottable due to small bookstores and all of that. Nevertheless it’s simply so completely different now. I’m simply glad that it exists, I’m glad I can take my youngsters there. I additionally am glad that like 30 years sooner or later we nonetheless have small bookstores as nicely, in our cities. So it’s like we’re all nonetheless coexisting, nobody was, absolutely extinct, which is sweet.
Emma: Yeah, over the weekend, simply humorous sufficient, I actually went to our Barnes and Noble and one in all our native bookstores right here in Springfield. I took my son, Trey, and I went with Oscar to Barnes and Noble, and he picked out some books then the following day whereas Oscar’s napping, Trey stayed residence and I went to the native bookstore, Pation Bookstore, the one I took you to. I received some issues for myself, it’s somewhat me time.
Elsie: I can’t wait to go to that bookstore on a regular basis. I truly suppose, although, right here’s my manufacturing. Truly, that is apparent, however I feel that ultimately Barnes and Noble gained’t exist anymore, however native bookstores will nonetheless all the time be round. I feel that native bookstores, there’ll all the time be a spot for that, proper? Hopefully Barnes and Noble will final so long as it will probably too.
Emma: Yeah, I actually went to each this weekend, so it’s working for me.
Elsie: Yeah, my youngsters like it, they name it the bookstore with a stage, they just like the stage, I get it. It simply has far more character books than the native bookstore which is what they need.
Emma: Yeah. Oscar received, what did he get? He received a e book that’s formed like a automobile and it has wheels on it. He loves automobiles after which has a special automobile all through the e book. After which we additionally received Lama Lama Purple pajamas as a result of he didn’t personal that one but.
Elsie: Oh, the Lama Lama sequence and the part of parenting are a number of the prime, greatest recollections of my complete life. Everytime you’re prepared, I’ve all of the Yodo card too. Okay, so Meg Ryan received her very first pc in the course of the filming of this film, that has received to be my favourite truth. And yeah, it actually was, this was the time. What 12 months did it say this film got here out? 1998, in order that they had been filming it most likely in like 1997 or six. And other people had been nonetheless getting residence computer systems. We’ve got to look at this with Penny, let’s strive to try this. Watch it with Penny and Bella sometime and simply see their reactions as a result of we had been in highschool or I used to be in highschool when this film got here out. To me, it’s an outdated film, however it was probably not outdated.
Emma: It’s fairly outdated. We’re outdated man.
Elsie: No, yeah, it’s outdated, however I imply, I wasn’t somewhat child when it got here out. Have you learnt what I imply? Yeah. It’s so attention-grabbing, I just like the expertise time capsule factor of it’s unmatched.
Emma: Okay, subsequent trivia is one in all Nora Efron’s signature filmmaking quirks was her use of songs to intensify plot factors. So one of many chief parts that led her movies to be termed chick flicks. When Meg Ryan and Tom Hank’s characters lastly meet in particular person each understanding that they’ve been emailing one another, the tune over the rainbow performs on the movie soundtrack and the duo shared a scene with the identical tune in Sleepless in Seattle.
Elsie: That’s cute. I haven’t watched Sleepless in Seattle in latest historical past, so possibly we’ll have to try this one over time, that’s actually candy. I feel that they’re like film couple for certain. Okay, the following one is Kathleen’s Bookstore is the store across the nook an homage to a film? The film was primarily based on 1940. I truly examine that a few instances. In order that’s cute, proper? It’s named after a film.
Emma: Yeah. I’ve by no means seen the unique of You’ve Bought Mail, I haven’t seen. That is the remake and I’ve by no means seen the unique one.
Elsie: They’re saying the film was known as The Shopper on the Nook, not You’ve Bought Mail.
Emma: Yeah, so isn’t You’ve Bought Mail a remake of one other film I feel it’s known as Store Across the Nook and the expertise’s completely different. The opposite one is letter writing however this one is just like the web, very completely different expertise, however it’s like the identical film.
Elsie: Oh, okay, nevermind. I simply discovered one thing new. That’s superior. Then we should always watch that, that’s cool. I believed it was simply the title, that’s so attention-grabbing. I don’t watch a variety of motion pictures earlier than the fifties and I want to, I might wish to, and even like motion pictures from just like the 20s, 30s, and forties, it’s fairly uncommon to search out them streaming and likewise to search out them being really helpful or know what they’re about. They don’t have trailers so you’ll be able to’t verify them mountain that approach. So yeah, if anybody has form of a primer for outdated motion pictures earlier than 1950, the place it’s like prime three, one thing like that, that’s manageable. I might love to listen to it as a result of I feel that’s one thing I’d wish to get into, however I’ve not watched hardly any, principally simply horror.
Emma: Yeah, I used to be gonna say, I really feel like you could have seen some outdated horror. I do know you guys have seen the seventies, however there’s gotta be some outdated ones, , Hitchcock-era stuff. Ought to we give this a score?
Elsie: So the score is from zero to 5 bouquets of freshly sharpened pencils. I simply suppose there’s no approach it’s getting a 5. Truly, I wanna provide you with mine. I need mine to be, mine is 5 Mochaccinos decaf, non-fat. Yeah, I beloved it. I feel I’ve watched it truly twice within the final two years, which I feel is somewhat an excessive amount of, however as soon as each three to 4 years I feel is an efficient quantity. When you haven’t watched it in 5 years, watch it like instantly. It’s fully fantastic and iconic and I don’t know, I really feel prefer it’s a fall film and a spring film too, in order that’s arduous to say cuz it has each.
Emma: Yeah, it has all seasons, and Yeah. And possibly we talked about this in one of many different rewatch episodes, I can’t bear in mind, however I really feel like they’re not making as many romcoms which are huge as in theaters. I feel they’re extra like Netflix has its personal, or HBO Max has its personal which remains to be cool and I nonetheless like watching these, however I really feel like there usually are not as many romcoms had been like all people revisits these. I feel it’s actually enjoyable to see what was the factor that was within the film theaters and all people went with their mother.
Elsie: Do you suppose there was a Romcom period?
Emma: Yeah. I really feel like now it’s like, issues which are in film theaters are typically extra, it appears like motion and like family-friendly issues. Which is cool, I like each of these. However I really feel like I don’t see as many romcoms which are like all people noticed within the theaters, not that everybody even goes to the theaters anymore. I sort of missed that period, I like revisiting all these.
Elsie: Yeah, we’ll hold doing romcoms, we are going to dig for the gold as a result of there are such a lot of and I really feel like we’ll most likely do consolation re-watches for at the least a few years as a result of there are such a lot of motion pictures on our checklist. We’re not gonna get to them shortly.
Emma: Oh yeah, individuals electronic mail us new ones each week.
Elsie: So it’s true, I really like these emails. Okay, it’s time for everybody’s favourite a part of our present, A joker, a truth with Nova, and I feel this week we have now a joke.
Nova: This week the joke is, what’s Santa when he stops?
Elsie: What’s he?
Nova: Santa Pause. Get it, he pauses for a second.
Elsie: That’s actually good, I like that one. You wanna say bye.
Nova: See you quickly and have an awesome day.
Elsie: If in case you have a consolation re-watch request, we might love to listen to it. Our complete checklist is only a request. So electronic mail us anytime at podcast@ lovely mess.com. And yeah, we’ll be again subsequent week with our spring bucket checklist episode.