You’ve Got Mail

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The Prompt: Fourth Wall—You get to spend a day inside your favorite movie. Tell us which one it is — and what happens to you while you’re there.


You’ve Got Mail

That bouquet of sharpened pencils? They had me from the start.
Who knew that Mr. Hanks had that effect upon my heart?
I know it was the writers. I’m a writer. I’m not dim!
And it was just a role he played—it really wasn’t him!
Nor was it his main character that penned those words so fine.
It was his alter ego that he only used on-line!

Suspending disbelief is what we writers count upon.
In another lingo, we might call it a fine con.
We take our readers from themselves into a new dimension,
where we create a world that’s purely of our own invention;
and there we spin a fantasy that catches them within it—
offering a prize so rare that readers want to win it.

And films use music, too, to try to capture our emotions,
wiping out our common sense and filling us with notions.
The track to “You’ve Got Mail” was as romantic as could be!
If little birds fly oe’r the rainbow, why, indeed, can’t we?
We all identified and put ourselves into the tale,
and when it ended happily, we all read, “You’ve Got Male!”

12 thoughts on “You’ve Got Mail”

  2. Ann Koplow's avatarAnn Koplow

    Wonderful poem.
    That movie I know, umm …

    Which movie would I give
    As the place that I’d live?

    Raiders of the Lost Ark?
    What if those snakes hit their mark?

    Singin’ in the Rain?
    I’d be happy, again,
    But I’d have to examine – ahh
    My real tap dancing stamina

    Pride and Prejudice, perhaps.
    (Note how my rhyme skills can lapse.)

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  4. mihrankalaydjianblog's avatarmihrank

    I will check my email from you shortly – LOL – This movie is about Two business rivals hate each other at the office but fall in love over the internet. ”You’ve Got Mail” deserves to trigger a revived interest in the late honey-voiced singer Harry Nilsson, whose music on the lighthearted soundtrack provides just the right mix of jauntiness and yearning. Mr. Nilsson’s beautiful music hasn’t figured this prominently in a film since it turned up in ”Midnight Cowboy,” used to quite different effect.

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Have you seen it? Beats Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally
      and any other tales of thwarted and found romance. Best romantic ending ever. If you haven’t seen it, you are in for a treat…Judy

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