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MOVIE REVIEWS
The Devil Wears Prada
July 12, 2006
Based on the best selling novel by Lauren Weisberger, The Devil Wears Prada has recently opened to theaters everywhere.
Directed by David Frankel (Sex and the City) with a screenplay by Aline Brosh McKenna, The Devil Wears Prada stars Anne Hathaway,
Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Adrian Grenier, and Meryl Streep.
Andrea "Andy" Sachs (Hathaway), fresh out of Northwestern University, wants nothing more than to be a good journalist in New York City.
Un-glamorous, and with no fashion sense, you know she is destined to fail when she is referenced for an assistant's position at the
prestigious Runway magazine, the United States' top fashion staple. Andy figures that Runway will be her entrance into the world of
journalism, but she is surprised to discover that Runway is not such a nice place. The employees of Runway including, Andy's new
coworker, Emily (Blunt) despise her, and she has to put up with Runway's famously vicious editor-in-chief, Miranda Priestly(Streep).
Miranda is a cold, steely woman, ordering her assistants around like slaves, expecting everyone to compromise their dreams to do
her bidding, and to like it. But if Andy can stick it out at Runway for a year, Miranda will reference her for any magazine of her choice
to become a journalist. Miranda's tasks are simple at first, fetch my dog, get my coffee, pick up some clothes for the photo shoot.
Andy is annoyed by these demands in the beginning, but as time goes by, they become more and more demanding, horrifying, and
exhausting, until finally becoming impossible like fetch my children the newest Harry Potter. The unpublished manuscript. On the
verge of a nervous breakdown, and of losing her dream, the answer comes to Andy in the form of her only ally, Nigel(Tucci), Runway's
top fashion designer and Miranda's right hand man: Play by their rules, and you will go far. Overnight, Andy (with Nigel's help) becomes
a glamorous, beautiful woman, and as her complete attitude change earns Miranda's approval, she pushes her social life and dreams
to the wayside in order to serve her. This causes a rift in her relationship with her faithful boyfriend Nate(Grenier) and her friends.
Now Andy must choose: have her dream, or have her life back?
The Devil Wears Prada was a highly enjoyable film. Anne Hathaway has never been more beautiful, and she can hold her own against Streep.
Stanley Tucci is hilarious as the outrageous and flamboyant Nigel, and Emily Blunt, originally from the United Kingdom, is an excellent find
in her first American role. But the film most definitely belongs to Meryl Streep, whose vicious Miranda drops the best lines in the film such as,
"The details of your incompetence do not interest me. That's all." The role seems tailor made for Streep, and the woman can play, forgive
my french, a superior bitch. And that's a compliment.
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