Editing You've Got Mail (section)

==Production==
===Influences===
''You've Got Mail'' is based on the 1937 Hungarian play ''[[Parfumerie]]'' by [[Miklós László]] and its adaptations.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ng |first=David |title='Parfumerie,' a 1936 Hungarian play, is an overlooked inspiration |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=November 27, 2013 |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-parfumerie-play-20131127-story.html |access-date=October 13, 2015 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=November 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124153437/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-parfumerie-play-20131127-story.html |url-status=live}}</ref> ''Parfumerie'' was later remade as ''[[The Shop Around the Corner]]'', a 1940 film by [[Ernst Lubitsch]], which in 1949 was adapted as a musical film, ''[[In the Good Old Summertime]]'' by [[Robert Z. Leonard]] starring [[Judy Garland]] and [[Van Johnson]] and, finally, in 1963 as a [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] musical with ''[[She Loves Me]]'' by [[Jerry Bock]] and [[Sheldon Harnick]] (composer and lyricist, respectively, of ''[[Fiddler on the Roof]]''). ''You've Got Mail'' updates that concept with the use of email, and the lead character's workplace is named "The Shop Around the Corner" as a nod to the 1940 film.<ref name="LATimes">{{cite news |last= King |first= Susan |title= With 'You've Got Mail,' You Get Lots of Other Goodies Too |newspaper= [[Los Angeles Times]] |date= May 6, 1999 |url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-may-06-ca-34378-story.html |access-date= October 13, 2015 |url-access=subscription |archive-date= November 24, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151124103137/http://articles.latimes.com/1999/may/06/entertainment/ca-34378 |url-status=live}}</ref> Influences from [[Jane Austen]]'s ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' can also be seen in the relationship between Joe Fox and Kathleen Kelly—a reference pointed out by these characters actually discussing Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet in the film. The joke when Tom Hanks explains that the little girl is really his aunt is taken from [[Israel Zangwill]]'s story "A New Matrimonial Relation" in ''The Bachelors' Club'' (1891).<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/366570/summary|title=''The Master'': Reclaiming Zangwill's Only Künstlerroman|first=Lilian|last=Falk|date=March 14, 2018|journal=English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920|volume=44|issue=3|pages=275–296|via=[[Project Muse]]|access-date=March 14, 2018|archive-date=July 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721221731/https://muse.jhu.edu/article/366570/summary|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Casting===
[[Julia Roberts]] was offered the role of Kathleen Kelly, but declined due to a lack of good rom-com scripts at the time, the role eventually went to Meg Ryan.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://variety.com/2023/film/news/julia-roberts-rejected-youve-got-mail-my-best-friends-wedding-sequel-1235829460/ | title=Julia Roberts Turned Down Meg Ryan's 'You've Got Mail' Role Amid Rom-Com Streak, Says 'My Best Friend's Wedding' Warrants a Sequel | date=December 8, 2023 }}</ref>

===Filming===
[[Principal photography]] took place primarily on New York City's [[Upper West Side]]. Principal photography began on February 25, 1998, and completed on June 8, 1998.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/327790/youve-got-mail#notes|title=You've Got Mail|website=Turner Classic Movies}}</ref><ref name="LATimes"/><ref name="Vanity Fair">{{cite magazine |last=Carlson |first=Erin |title=You've Got Nora: A Valentine's Day Tribute to Nora Ephron |magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |date=February 13, 2015 |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/02/youve-got-mail-oral-history |access-date=October 13, 2015 |url-access=limited |archive-date=October 13, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151013001843/http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/02/youve-got-mail-oral-history |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/jaimieetkin/youve-got-mail-guide-to-new-york |title=The "You've Got Mail" Guide To New York |last=Etkin |first=Jaimie |date=December 19, 2013 |website=[[BuzzFeed]] |access-date=March 3, 2018 |archive-date=September 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921044232/https://www.buzzfeed.com/jaimieetkin/youve-got-mail-guide-to-new-york |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Delia Ephron]], recalling the film's bookstore setting, said, "Once we decided that she would be an independent bookstore owner, the reason we made it a children's bookstore is, I think, we always tried to make movies as personal as we could. To find the thing in it that was personal. And we grew up loving children's books more than anything."<ref name="Vanity Fair"/> [[Nora Ephron]] similarly remarked in the film's audio commentary, "This was something that was very important to us—that there be first editions of old children's books. It's part of what make [sic] this a serious bookstore. We wanted to sell the idea that this was a place that really cared about the history of children's literature."<ref name="Vanity Fair"/> Additionally, Ephron had Ryan and Burns rehearse and work at [[Books of Wonder]], an independent New York City children's bookstore, for a week prior to filming in order to get them into character.<ref>{{cite web |last=Todd Van |first=Luling |title=5 Things You Didn't Know About 'You've Got Mail' |website=[[The Huffington Post]] |date=May 19, 2015 |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/19/youve-got-mail-trivia_n_7309240.html |access-date=October 13, 2015 |archive-date=October 29, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151029130924/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/19/youve-got-mail-trivia_n_7309240.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The filming location used as the bookstore was at 106 West 69th Street, at that time Maya Shaper's Cheese and Antique Shop.<ref>{{cite web|title='You've Got Mail' Turns 20 Years Old — See How Much the Upper West Side Has Changed|first=Amber |last=Garrett |date=Dec 12, 2018|url=https://www.distractify.com/entertainment/2018/12/12/o1cy6gP/youve-got-mail-film-locations|work=Distractify}}</ref>

[[Michael Palin]] was initially cast as a reclusive novelist based on [[Thomas Pynchon]], but his scenes were cut from the film.<ref name="Vanity Fair"/><ref>{{cite book |last=Palin |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Palin |title=Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988–1998 |location=London |publisher=[[Weidenfeld & Nicolson]] |year=2014 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/travellingtowork0000pali/page/470/mode/2up 470–71], [https://archive.org/details/travellingtowork0000pali/page/504/mode/2up 504] |isbn=978-0-297-84441-9}}</ref>

=== Website ===
The film's original website remained live until at least May 10, 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://youvegotmail.warnerbros.com/|title=You've Got Mail|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180510200201/http://youvegotmail.warnerbros.com/|archive-date=May 10, 2018}}</ref> The website has proven to be fodder for criticism of web design from the 1990s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.themarysue.com/youve-got-mail-website/|title=The You've Got Mail Website From 1998 Is Still Up And Wow The Internet Was Terrible Then|last=Maggs|first=Sam|author-link=Sam Maggs|date=January 30, 2014|website=[[The Mary Sue]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190710131524/https://www.themarysue.com/youve-got-mail-website/|archive-date=July 10, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.inverse.com/article/19092-you-ve-got-mail-original-website-amazon-prime|title=6 Highlights from the Original 'You've Got Mail' Website|last=Logan|first=Megan|date=August 2, 2016|website=[[Inverse (website)|Inverse]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190710131512/https://www.inverse.com/article/19092-you-ve-got-mail-original-website-amazon-prime|archive-date=July 10, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://hellogiggles.com/website-for-youve-got-mail/|title=The website for the movie 'You've Got Mail' is a '90s web design time capsule, and we're obsessed|last=Foy|first=Kenya|website=[[HelloGiggles]]|date=October 12, 2016|access-date=March 5, 2024}}</ref>