When I saw When Harry Met Sally... in 1989, when it came out, I noticed a lot of Woody Allen influence in the movie.
If you're making a movie and you're going to be influenced, and inspired, by another filmmaker, it might as well be one of the best.
There's the scene right before the end of the movie where Harry (played by Billy Crystal) runs across the streets of New York City, to get to the woman he has realized he loves. It's similar to a scene at the end of Woody Allen's 1979 film Manhattan.
There's a scene in a book-store - Sally and Marie are browsing, and Marie notices there's a guy looking at Sally; "Someone is staring at you in 'Personal Growth'" - it's Harry.
In Annie Hall, a book-store is a backdrop for the early part of Alvy and Annie's relationship. They're shopping. Alvy (played by Woody Allen) says, "I'm going to buy you this book on death and dying - instead of that cat book."
And then later, when Alvy and Annie are breaking up (while noting, "we can always come back together"...), they're going through their books and Annie says, "All the books about death and dying are yours. All the poetry books are mine."
Alvy: "Well - you - put your name in all my books...."
In When Harry Met Sally, there's a scene where Marie and Jess are setting up house together and Harry (still in pain from his divorce) warns them, "put your name in your books right now, before they get mixed up, and you don't know whose is whose..."
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Also in When Harry Met Sally they discuss and reference the 1942 American film, Casablanca. Casablanca is a major presence in the 1972 Woody Allen movie, Play It Again, Sam.
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