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“The Devil wears Prada” – The movie

If you have read the novel you will not be disappointed with the movie, if you didn’t read the novel…you do not want to miss the film.
Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) is an important editor of an important fashion magazine, the Runway, in New York, USA. She is “the Devil”, she kind of imposes the fashion, she chooses what the designers should or not design, she’s a “workaholic” work addict and so she wants every employee to be like her, to dedicate their lives to work as she does, but this seems to show to everyone that she is an insensitive person and the worst person on earth.
Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) is a young woman who has just finished her degree in journalism and is trying to find a job as a journalist. She ended up in an interview in the Runway office, not for a Journalism job, but to be Miranda’s second assistant. She gets the job and only sees that as a way to get the job that she wants, at a newspaper or another type of magazine, because she doesn’t know nothing about Runway, she doesn’t even know who Amanda is (everyone at the fashion world does!), but she does get the job that “one million girls would die to had!” (Like everyone says to her).
The nightmare begins. Andy has to handle Amanda’s difficult mood every day and to attend to her whims, like pick up Starbuck’s coffees everyday, to pick up her laundry, and the final test that Amanda gives her to see if she really wants the job, to find a copy of the latest Harry Potter that is not on sale yet (better, two copies: one for each twin daughters of Amanda). Andy succefully gets the copies for the twins, and so the confidence of Amanda rises in Andy and instead of taking the first assistant with her, which is Emily (Emily Blunt) she decides that she wants Andy with her during the important fashion week in Paris.
Andy spends all day working, with her cell phone ringing every time (an annoying ring tone!) and because of the dedication to Amanda, Andy just starts losing her friends and boyfriend, Nate (Adrian Grenier), (with whom she lives).
In Paris Andy realizes what type of woman Amanda is, and that she is beginning to become like her and so she leaves Amanda There and comes back to New York to star a different life: a little more fashionable now then when she started work at Runway, she gets a job on a newspaper edition as she always wanted.
“The Devil wears Prada” is a great adaptation from the novel from Lauren Weisberger . It is an amusing movie which shows us the fantastic world of fashion and the sacrifices that sometimes we need to make to stay in an important job.
The movie has some special appearances of designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Valentino Garavani or the special participation of Gisele Bündchen as the character Serena. The Soundtrack is very good and we can see a fantastic wardrobe and an excellent appearance of Meryl Streep.
It is not a marvelous movie but it worth the ticket price.

posted by Maria Albertina @ 4:13 PM