You've Got Mail

Directed by Nora Ephron, this 1998 movie is truely one of the ultimate classic Romantic Comedies. You've Got Mail, star's two of the most recognised actor's within the Hollywood Film industry in the past two centuries, Tom Hanks- well known for many roles, such as (Toy Story's voice of 'Woody', Apollo 13 and also The Da Vinci Code & Forrest Gump- just to name a few.) Meg Ryan who co-stars with Hanks, well known roles such as (Sleepless in Seattle & When Harry Met Sally.) The movie had a budget of $65,000,000 and wrapped up $18,426,749, in its first weekend of realease in the United States of America and went on within a few months to gross $115,731,542, at the box office alone in America.
 Presented by Warner Bros. Pictures, the film brings back together actors who have already starred in another romantic genred movie- Sleepless in Seattle. Hanks plays a son (Joe Fox), who co-owns a huge book chain with his father, 'Fox's Books' that has a store being built, right around the corner from Ryan's (Kathleen Kelly), 'Little Shop around the corner'- a small, one off book seller. Fox's books will rival and take business from Kelly's store. Little do they know, the two rivals who dispise one another in person, are talking to each other online under IM names, which don't conceal there true identity. Yet, the two find themselves extremely fond of their growing online relationship.
 The start of the movie shows 'A Lauren Shuller Donner Production' upon a desktop of a computer screen, the non-diegetic sound that plays at the current timing of this is an internet start up connection, with click's of a mouse. The mouse clicks center page, which shows titles of the film, amongst the opening sequence aswell. The screen then expands its shot zooms and dissolves the desktop. Spinning arcitectual globes pan across the screen as they grow bigger one becomes centeral and the settting of our movie is revealed in computer form, which builds upon itself, in both colour and shapes, New York City. Whilst this is happening, 'the puppy song' by Harry Nilsson plays.
 The scene ends its computer technology and the screen once again expands and dissolves the previous scence and changes into an establishing shot of the front of Kathleen Kelly's apartment, it then dolly zoom's into her window where it pan's what seems to be a long shot of her bedroom, which is a soft-lighting, breezy space, colours of cream's and light pinks, showing a work space and then turns to face Kathleen asleep in bed.
 What is clear to the audience as either Kelly's partner, whom she is living with and he kisses her, Frank Navasky's (Kinnear) voice enters the scene before he does, waking Kathleen up. He begins conversing with Meg Ryan's character as she seems to be un-prepared for the sort of conversation he is giving, shown in the medium shot of the pair. As she ventures out of the bed we, as the audience see more of the apartment and the moderate shot of the two turns into a longer shot of Kathleen whilst still a medium shot positions Navasky. Kelly in the bathroom, Frank is getting outer-wear on and suggests to her that "You think this machine's your friend but its not!", ironically as the story un-folds the computer plays a big part of the main stage of the movie. Frank leaves and the pan of the long shot as Kelly moves across the scene, let's us see how she is checking the apartment, through a point of view shot- the door peep hole, to ensure Frank's departure, a bird's eye view from the window of her place confirms this.
 A close up from the back of her head, zoom's out to the long shot and track's Kelly back to her desk which we now can see the opposite side to, she resides within its chair and the camera takes to an extreme close-up to the computer screen showing our character's IM screen name 'Shopgirl'. A side angle of the actress flows through to an over the shoulder viewpoint of the computer screen. Once again the non-diegetic sound of the internet connection over-tones the scene as her computer screen shows her internet and messenger are loading. Within the first 5 minutes of the movie, a key feature is the non- diegetic sound that is supposidly mean't to be the computer that says "You've got mail", an extreme close up of the screen shows another IM screen name, 'NY152'- which later on we find is Hanks.
 Kathleen starts to read an email that has been sent by what she doesn't know is NY152- Joe Fox. She begins to read the email aloud and then a narrative voice of Hanks takes over reading the content of the email while the screen cross cuts into Joe Fox's world (apartment).

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