In which Hunter Harris attempts to exorcise the movie quotes haunting her brain.
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Who knows why certain line readings stick in the brain.
So many bits of movie dialogue bounce around in my brain: Carrie Fisher sayingmarried inWhen Harry Met Sally.
Beanie Feldstein sayingtitular role inLady Bird.
Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw snatching a bag of weedfrom her boyfriends mom.
Ill be walking down the street and start breaking out into hysterics because, my God, thisline!
You shouldnt be upset that Ifuckedher, you should be upset that I had alaughwith her.
Shouldnt be upset that I fucked her.
Should be upset that I had a laugh with her!
Its easy to dunk on this scene, presented out of context or in memes.
They have fundamentally different ideas about what happened in their marriage.
Nicole plays her trump card: Shes divorcing Charlie because he fucked someone else.
He did the bad thing; he cheated!
This is a fight she can win!
And here is Charlies defense: You shouldnt beupsetthat I fucked her, he says.
You should be upset that I had alaughwith her!
Let me be unambiguous: This is the funniest freaking thing Ive ever heard in my entire freaking life.
is such a specifically funny thing to say.
(Ditto Nicoles drunken hookup with said flirty grip in his car: Just fingering.
Im changing my whole fucking life!
should be embroidered onto a blanket, like, yesterday.)
It took me out of my body.
I actually ascended to a higher level of existence called theHeaviside Layer.
Start focusing on the laughs!
Like I said pure comedy!
He slept with another woman!
I wish I could inject this line and all its hilarity into my veins.
Whats more: Shouldnt his wife pity him for not making a few more?
He was on the cover ofTime Out New York!
Do you love her?
(The real problem with the scene is that she, while not accepting Charlies proclamation, drops it.
It is and I mean this very sincerely a laugh!
