Any Man who DENIES this is either LYING, or is as Queer as Liberace.
Sally: We are just going to be friends, OK?
Harry: Great, friends. It's the best thing...You realize, of course, that we can never be friends.
Sally: Why not?
Harry: What I'm saying is - and this is not a come-on in any way, shape, or form - is that men and women can't be friends, because the sex part always gets in the way.
Sally: That's not true. I have a number of men friends and there is no sex involved.
Harry: No, you don't.
Sally: Yes, I do.
Harry: No, you don't.
Sally: Yes, I do.
Harry: You only think you do.
Sally: You're saying I'm having sex with these men without my knowledge?
Harry: No, what I'm saying is they all want to have sex with you.
Sally: They do not.
Harry: Do too.
Sally: They do not.
Harry: Do too.
Sally: How do you know?
Harry: Because no man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her.
Sally: So you're saying that a man can be friends with a woman he finds unattractive.
Harry: No, you pretty much want to nail them, too.
Sally: What if they don't want to have sex with you?
Harry: Doesn't matter, because the sex thing is already out there, so the friendship is ultimately doomed, and that is the end of the story.
I usually am not one to mess with brilliance and genius, and that dialouge is some of the most brilliant/genius stuff ever done on film (or any other medium).
However, I woud ONLY add the following.
Given a straight man dealing with a woman he did not find visually or sexually attractive from the get go, if for some reason they get to know each other well enough and the guy finds things about the woman he likes, that are not directly related to the most superficial and or visual aspect of sexual attraction,
he pretty much wants to nail her too. (yes. There can be women who a straight male would not want to nail, BUT BUT BUT, the women would have to be REPULSIVE on most if not all practical levels, for that to be the case.)
That is the one bit of truth missing from the dialouge.
Other than that, it is a thing of perfection.
Harry: Great, friends. It's the best thing...You realize, of course, that we can never be friends.
Sally: Why not?
Harry: What I'm saying is - and this is not a come-on in any way, shape, or form - is that men and women can't be friends, because the sex part always gets in the way.
Sally: That's not true. I have a number of men friends and there is no sex involved.
Harry: No, you don't.
Sally: Yes, I do.
Harry: No, you don't.
Sally: Yes, I do.
Harry: You only think you do.
Sally: You're saying I'm having sex with these men without my knowledge?
Harry: No, what I'm saying is they all want to have sex with you.
Sally: They do not.
Harry: Do too.
Sally: They do not.
Harry: Do too.
Sally: How do you know?
Harry: Because no man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her.
Sally: So you're saying that a man can be friends with a woman he finds unattractive.
Harry: No, you pretty much want to nail them, too.
Sally: What if they don't want to have sex with you?
Harry: Doesn't matter, because the sex thing is already out there, so the friendship is ultimately doomed, and that is the end of the story.
I usually am not one to mess with brilliance and genius, and that dialouge is some of the most brilliant/genius stuff ever done on film (or any other medium).
However, I woud ONLY add the following.
Given a straight man dealing with a woman he did not find visually or sexually attractive from the get go, if for some reason they get to know each other well enough and the guy finds things about the woman he likes, that are not directly related to the most superficial and or visual aspect of sexual attraction,
he pretty much wants to nail her too. (yes. There can be women who a straight male would not want to nail, BUT BUT BUT, the women would have to be REPULSIVE on most if not all practical levels, for that to be the case.)
That is the one bit of truth missing from the dialouge.
Other than that, it is a thing of perfection.
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