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THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
“You sold your soul to the devil when you put on your first pair of Jimmy Choos,” says Emily (Emily Blunt) to Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway), the newest assistant to Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), an icy magazine editor. In order to obtain a good referral at the end of her apprenticeship, Andy will need to give up life as she knows it and become Miranda’s slave.
Andy fetches coffee, dry cleaning and food. She is humiliated by Miranda, Emily and others. Nigel (Stanley Tucci), the magazine’s graphic designer, rescues Andy’s nonexistent fashion sense when he lets her select clothing and accessories from the stockpile that the big-name designers deliver to the magazine for Miranda’s approval.
The Devil Wears Prada is based on Lauren Weisberger’s best-selling novel, which I liked better than the film. Screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna (Three to Tango) adds characters to populate the story and changes the plot somewhat, which lessens the impact of the film’s climax.
Meryl Streep is deliciously devilish in her role as the inflexible and conniving editor. But the other characters, including Hathaway, are not quite believable. For example, when people keep telling Andy, “A million girls would kill for this job,” she never screams, “Why?” in frustration, as I did.
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