THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA [review]
Okay, so I really wanted to get and read this book before I saw the movie, but it didn't work out that way. But it's okay, because I really like this movie and at this point I'm not quite sure if want to now. A lot of times books end up being better than the movie, and I enjoyed this movie way too much to read.
SPOILERS AHEAD
Okay, I have to say, the way Meryl Streep talks in this movie is what really makes it scary. That calm voice makes you think that any second she may freak out and go ballistic on someone. She was similar to a boss that I had once (that I shared with my best friend and roommate, Jessica, one summer that ended up scarring our fragile little psyches for the rest of our lives).
A big part of this movie was the fact that it was a little bit of a makeover movie. But the fashion, all the fashion. I loved all the clothes and the shoes and the bags... I want that job. The only part that I wouldn't be able to handle is the constant belittling and the orders. I can't handle taking orders.
Then there is the fact that she was given this completely impossible task (obtaining a copy of the yet to be released Harry Potter book). But Andy does it, all while becoming a fashionista (that I'm completely jealous of). The girl eventually becomes her boss's golden girl, her perfect assistant. She basically becomes the first assistant, screwing over the former first assistant right after she (Emily, the first assistant) is hit by a car on her way back from Hermes!
During her rise and fall in the fashion magazine world she alienates her friends, breaks her boyfriend's heart and becomes something she hates... one of the dreaded clackers of Runway magazine. She screws Emily over to go to Paris, where she sleeps with a writer and learns that her boss is about to get fired herself. She earns high praises from her boss when she finds out that her boss already knew, despite her attempts at warning her. Her boss screws over her own friend and colleague (Stanley Tucci), and then tells her that she sees a great deal of herself in Andy. She tells Andy that everyone wants to be them. Andy takes this as an insult and walks away, midtrip and quits her job.
Andy then goes back home and is forgiven by her boyfriend and get a job at a newspaper with help from her hell-boss.
The thing is, I would never have let that job go. I would have eventually forgotten about the ex-boyfriend, even though he was a hottie, there are always more guys. I would have stuck with the job, getting the free designer clothes and meeting the important people. I may be the only one that think that Andy was an idiot for letting that job go, but I would have been one of those millions of girls that would kill for that job. Sure I wouldn't be calling the shots, but I would have Chanel. And like I always say, if all else fails, there's always Chanel!
here is the imdb site:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458352/