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Director Brett Haley discusses his new Netflix film, 'People We Meet on Vacation,' explaining how it pays homage to classics like 'When Harry Met Sally' while pushing the genre forward with more sexiness for a modern audience.
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00:00I mean, When Harry Met Sally is not a sexy movie.
00:01No, it's not.
00:03You see them kiss for like a second,
00:05and then you're like, and now it's the next morning.
00:06And I think it's like, we were like,
00:07well, I think this new audience, new people,
00:09are ready for a little bit more of that.
00:11We push it as much as we could in this movie,
00:13and I think it works tonally.
00:15And I think we're just trying to push the genre forward,
00:18show new ways, make it for modern audiences.
00:20Let's call it the modern When Harry Met Sally.
00:22Let's hope that catches on.
00:24You kind of can't have characters
00:25on a road trip from college and in a diner
00:29without, you know, automatically sort of triggering
00:31those little moments.
00:34I just think we're standing on the shoulders of giants,
00:37and we made a film that is really an homage
00:40to those types of rom-coms
00:42that maybe aren't made as much as they should be anymore.
00:46They're just a different vibe,
00:47a different studio movie that used to be made all the time
00:50that now kind of feels like a relic.
00:52And I think that's what excited us the most about it,
00:55was saying, like, let's bring it back.
00:56Yeah, because we miss it.
00:57We miss it so, so much.
01:00So it's like, let's do our own thing.
01:01It was always, our goal was like,
01:04let's do a throwback rom-com,
01:06but let's move the genre forward.
01:08Let's find ways to make it more modern.
01:10I think this is a really funny movie,
01:13a really bantery movie,
01:14very romantic, very yearning.
01:16I also think it's very sexy.
01:18Mm-hmm.
01:18Mm-hmm.
01:18Yeah.
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