The Devil wears Prada: A review

SPOILERS: The movie begins with the opening credits, which show the main difference between Andrea and the other girls who work at Runway. We see the differences in attitude and clothing; mainly, they focus on the clothing aspect. But nonetheless, Andrea ends up getting a job at the fashion magazine, even if she is hated by her coworker Emily. We see Emily's resentment towards Andrea and her ginormous ego, even though literally just a few weeks ago, she was in Andrea's job. Later, we learn about some of Andreas' goals in life; she doesn't want to be in fashion forever. She merely thinks her job is temporary. But she tells her boyfriend that she is just going to stick it out for the year. Everyone keeps telling her, "A million girls would kill for that job." This raises the value of what she has and maybe makes her think she is luckier than she thought she was. A few scenes later she tells her boyfriend that she is just going to stick it out for the year, and then do what she came to New York to do. Then we cut to an awesome montage of Mirandas' coats dumping onto her desk and giving requests that make zero sense. Then Miranda asks Andrea to get her Demarchelier, the same request that was given towards the start of the movie, but this time Andrea calmly types in the number and doesn't even have to look it up in the computer. Yet, she still hasn't changed much just learned more about her job. But after Miranda rips her apart for not being able to get a flight out of Miami in the middle of a hurricane, she whines about how much she hates her job but won't quit. So, she decides to fit in with the people she works with, she changes her sense of style and be more like Emily. It gives us another great montage of her new outfits and how she changes her attitude on her job. Then Miranda gives Andrea the seemingly impossible task of getting the unpublished Harry Potter manuscript. I think she gives her this task to see if she will really go out of her way to make her happy, especially after the whole plane ride home thing. Anyways, With struggle, Andrea does end up getting the manuscript from someone she met at a party that Miranda had sent her to. She goes the extra mile by making copies and already giving them to the twins. Miranda notices her work ethic and has her come to the benefit, which happens to be the same day as Nate's (Andreas' boyfriend) birthday. She ends up being super late and misses his party entirely. Besides the movie, I just want to say that every time I watch this movie, I feel like the actor for Nate changes. This man either just doesn't have a memorable face, or his face isn't shown enough to remember what he looks like. If I saw this man on the street, I guarantee you I would just walk right past him. But, moving on, Miranda ends up really liking Andrea and invites her to go with her to Paris for fashion week, which isn't really an invite. It is more of blackmail; she says that if she doesn't go, she will ruin her chances at getting a job at any other publishing company. Andrea, of course, doesn't want to take the offer; she feels bad for Emily if she goes, knowing how much she wants to go. But all works out and Emily ends up getting hit by a taxi. and in the hospital, she says this line, "You sold your soul the day you put on that first pair of Jimmy Choos." I think this sums up the movie really well and does a good job of demonstrating Andreas' change before and after working for Miranda. This brings us to another line that not only changes Andrea and Nate's relationship but is also something that I think can be applied to life in general. Nate says, "You know the person whose calls you always take? That's the relationship you're in." This can be applied if someone might be in the same situation or a different thing is happening in life. Mainly I think this line says that whatever or whoever you give your attention and thought to is the thing you care most about in your heart. This is also in the movie when Miranda gets divorced from her husband and is talking about the papers people will write, she demonstrates that her job has her heart. I think this moment is when Andrea realizes that Miranda is just like her and lets her career take over her personal life. This is obviously unhealthy because it can easily be ripped away from you. What I'm saying is that if Miranda hadn't already known she was going to lose her job, she would have easily gotten replaced just because of her age. At the end of the movie, it is implied that Andrea quits he job by throwing her phone in the water as Miranda calls her, and she says that Nate was right the whole time, and she apologizes. Then blah blah blah, they move to Boston and leave Runway behind, and each of them gets the jobs they like. Miranda says she loved having Andrea as an assistant, saying that if the new company didn't hire her, they were idiots. Something I really liked about the end of this movie is that within the last 10 minutes, every single problem gets resolved as if it's easy. I think they were just running out of time, but I do like how this movie has a clear rising and falling action, as well as a clear climax and conclusion. I think this movie really is a 10/10; while I was watching it, I really had no complaints and thought every scene added to the plot in some way, either deepening a problem or resolving one. Okay, that's it. The movies over.

Singing off,

Hailey <3