The 16 emotional stages of Meg Ryan's hair in When Harry Met Sally
The 16 emotional stages of Meg Ryan's hair in When Harry Met Sally
Those of you with a finer eye for beauty could most likely watch When Harry Met Sally with the sound off, and get a solid gauge of where Meg Ryan's title character is at emotionally, simply by looking at her hair. It makes sense really, considering the well documented importance the film's creator, Nora Ephron, placed on a good blow dry.
While Sally's changing styles also go a little way to suggest at which point we are during the twelve years the film takes place - those Farah Fawcett flicks as she leaves Chicago in 1977 or the corkscrew perm she wears when her and Harry finally get it on in 1987 could belong to no other era - there's a definite correlation between the character's 'togetherness', and how free and easy she likes her hair to be. Ergo, when control freak 'on the side' Sally has little say over the trials and tribulations of what's going on in her life, at least she can tell her hair-dryer and curling tongs what to do, whereas when she's at her most confident and carefree, loudly 'faking it' in a restaurant, her hair is all over the place. Literally.
Click through the gallery and you'll see what we mean. SPOILER ALERT: At the end Harry and Sally... oh, like you didn't know.
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