Fasion magazines, the devil and Prada!
January 1st 2010 02:13
I'm not sure what's caused this chick-flick craze in my recently, but here's another: The Devil Wears Prada. This movie garnered a lot of praise and attention when it came out but I ignored it assuming it was for the tween set and the weekly manicure types.
I had little interest in the movie (what little I had was held by the fact that Adrian Grenier - yum - and Meryl Streep - wow - were in it) until I saw the clip of Streep playing the editor, Miranda Priestly, of fictional fashion magazine. It's a scene wherein Miranda tells Andrea (Anne Hatheway) how her "lumpy blue sweater" is a cerulean byproduct of the couture fashion world that Andrea so easily dismisses. I watched it with a bit of glee, not because I love fashion, but it's always fun watching someone getting knocked down a peg. Miranda was not going to let little ms. could-have-gone-to-Stanford-l aw, Andrea, dismiss her life's work.
I didn't fall head over heels for the movie, but I didn't hate it either. Stanley Tucci was fantastic as Nigel, the supportive and wise but not overly supportive or wise, and only Runway comrade of Andrea. Emily Blunt however was terribly obnoxious as Emily, the number one assistant. I'm on the fence--I know her character is supposed to be obnoxious, but personally, I don't think it was the character, I think it was Blunt's acting (and accent!).
The movie also suffered from small plot points that irk me. The entire romantic, cheating, sub-plot with writer Christian Thompson had no point. Or at least was not very interesting at all. At the end of the movie (SPOILER? Is it still a spoiler if the movie is over three years old?), when Anne and her boyfriend Nate are reconciling, he tells her that they'll work things out... in Boston. And yet, moments later she accepts a job at the New York Mirror. So, do they actually reconcile? It's unknown!
I think the film could have been a lot more interesting if Andrea had decided to stay with Miranda. Sure, her soul would have been permanently lost, BUT we would have seen the making of an icon, a legend and the sacrifice it takes. Alas, this movie is based on a book, and this book, supposedly based on a woman who did work as an assistant to a huge fashion giant. But the book isn't about her, it's about the other assistant--who probably never had a moral epiphany and is climbing the fashion ladder as we speak. And that would be much, much more interesting.
Oh the great thing about the movie--yes all the amazing clothing sequences. Most were lovely, a few were silly, and a some couture, but I wouldn't know anything about that.
I had little interest in the movie (what little I had was held by the fact that Adrian Grenier - yum - and Meryl Streep - wow - were in it) until I saw the clip of Streep playing the editor, Miranda Priestly, of fictional fashion magazine. It's a scene wherein Miranda tells Andrea (Anne Hatheway) how her "lumpy blue sweater" is a cerulean byproduct of the couture fashion world that Andrea so easily dismisses. I watched it with a bit of glee, not because I love fashion, but it's always fun watching someone getting knocked down a peg. Miranda was not going to let little ms. could-have-gone-to-Stanford-l aw, Andrea, dismiss her life's work.
I didn't fall head over heels for the movie, but I didn't hate it either. Stanley Tucci was fantastic as Nigel, the supportive and wise but not overly supportive or wise, and only Runway comrade of Andrea. Emily Blunt however was terribly obnoxious as Emily, the number one assistant. I'm on the fence--I know her character is supposed to be obnoxious, but personally, I don't think it was the character, I think it was Blunt's acting (and accent!).
The movie also suffered from small plot points that irk me. The entire romantic, cheating, sub-plot with writer Christian Thompson had no point. Or at least was not very interesting at all. At the end of the movie (SPOILER? Is it still a spoiler if the movie is over three years old?), when Anne and her boyfriend Nate are reconciling, he tells her that they'll work things out... in Boston. And yet, moments later she accepts a job at the New York Mirror. So, do they actually reconcile? It's unknown!
I think the film could have been a lot more interesting if Andrea had decided to stay with Miranda. Sure, her soul would have been permanently lost, BUT we would have seen the making of an icon, a legend and the sacrifice it takes. Alas, this movie is based on a book, and this book, supposedly based on a woman who did work as an assistant to a huge fashion giant. But the book isn't about her, it's about the other assistant--who probably never had a moral epiphany and is climbing the fashion ladder as we speak. And that would be much, much more interesting.
Oh the great thing about the movie--yes all the amazing clothing sequences. Most were lovely, a few were silly, and a some couture, but I wouldn't know anything about that.
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