The Devil Wears Prada (DVD)

...frowned upon for not having the latest 'IT' bag. Mix this together with the boss from hell and here you have Andi Sachs.. ******************************************************************** After reading the original book by Lauren Weisberger and being utterly transfixed and besotted with it I eagerly awaited the film to see if it lived up to my mental dream of it. So last night with nothing to do, nobody to see and only ourselves for company.. ...
...is what I thought. The Actors.. ****************** Anne Hathaway is an up and coming Hollywood actress at the mere age of 23. Its times like this I feel old. I've loved her past work including Ella Enchanted and the Princess Diaries film and she has a magical innocence to every character she portrays. She plays Andi Sachs, one of the key characters whom the film is based around. She is a dowdily dressed, laid back young girl who has just left ...

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◊^^^Synopsis^^^◊ The “Devil Wears Prada” is a light hearted comedy that focuses on Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) as she attempts to make it in the dog eat dog world of New York journalism. She soon realises that unfortunately, for her, first you have to get the connections before you can actually get accepted for a job writing for any substantial magazine in New York. So after repetitively interviewing and being rejected for several writing ...
...biggest fashion “book” in the business and applies for an assistant job to try and get a good reference and eventually work her way up to being a full time journalist. Although chief editor of Runway magazine, the extremely famous Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) believes, like everyone else at Runway, that she has “no sense of style and fashion” she takes her on because of her impressive résumé and because she sees something in herself in Andy. The ...

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...editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. In the book the Devil was named Miranda Priestly, and Runway magazine served as Vogue's alter ego. Apparently, the hot-selling novel devotes a ton of pages to Ms Weisberger's tale of woe under La Anna's reign of terror. Now such a story would find little favour with me as wretched whining and annoying victimhood are not my idea of a fun read. Fortunately, the film adaptation improves upon this by, among other things, ...
...ostensibly either for or against the film's utterly confused intent. We know right off that Miranda Priestly wields tremendous power in the fashion world. (Is her last name an intentional pun, as designers quiver before her as before a fashion priestess or oracle? It also happens to rhyme quite nicely with 'beastly'.) Given 'the dreaded pursed lip' sign by Miranda during previews, the unlucky fashion designer must chuck his entire collection into ...

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...I didn't see it at the cinema, although I had been mildly tempted out of curiosity, it is not the sort of thing I normally go for. Nevertheless, I didn't mind watching it on telly when I had little else to be doing! I'd seen plenty of trailers, so had some vague ideas about the film, so my expectations were not too high. Story After a dreadful interview with the completely disinterested Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) ...
...be easy, however, and quickly the frosty reception of her colleague Emily (Emily Blunt) reveals an organisational culture of arrogance, self-promotion and power-madness. Yet she is told repeatedly that this is a job millions of girls dream of having. Frankly, I'd be interested to meet these 'girls' as I've never heard of anyone dreaming of being fashion slave and slave to the queen of cold. This film will not be for everyone, although I was surprised ...

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The Devil Wears Prada is the film adaptation of a book with the same name. I must confess to not having read the book, but I have seen the film so this is a film only review. Our heroine is Andi (Anne Hathaway) who has recently earned a good degree and moved to New York to pursue her dreams of becoming a journalist. Unfortunately journalism proves very difficult to break into, so as well as sending her details to lots of magazines, she signs up ...
...Andy is called when the work-a-holic cum slave-driver Editor-in-Chief Miranda Priestley (Meryl Streep) sacks her assistant and a replacement is needed rather urgently. Runway is essentially a fashion magazine (I imagine it to be like Vogue) but is taken very much more seriously by the employees. Miranda inspires both awe and fear in those that work for her, especially the snotty Brit girl Emily (Emily Blunt) who used to do Andi's job as 2nd assistant, ...

Vixterbelle 17.05.2009 · Read full review
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I actually read the book which was the basis for this film last spring, before I knew that they were turning it into a Hollywood blockbuster. I really enjoyed the book, and found it laugh-out-loud funny, so I had really high expectations for the film, especially when I read that both Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci were going to be starring in it. So here goes my review of The Devil Wears Prada. As previously mentioned, the film is based on the book ...
...It tells the story of a young budding journalist called Andrea (Andy as we know her in the film), who gets a job working for New York's fashion bible Runway as assistant for the magazine's editor, Miranda Priestly. However, the job isn't exactly what Andy thought it would be. Miranda expects Andy to be on call 24/7, running to get her coffee at 6.15am, get hold of impossible book manuscripts for her young twin daughters and memorising the entire ...

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...not time and then theres the disagreeing on what to watch. So when my other half went away for a couple of nights I took advantage and watched The Devil Wears Prada knowing it would definately not be his cup of tea. Before I start I would like to point out that as this is a dvd rental it is a review of the film only. The film was produced in 2006 and directed by David Frankel (previously involved with Sex and The City the TV Show). The screenplay ...
...~~Whats it about?~~ The film opens with KT Tunstalls track 'Suddenly I See' which was a good start for me as I love that song. The song accompanies scenes of numerous females getting ready for work. Many of them appear wealthy and image obsessed. They are seen curling eyelashes, donning the latest clothes and hailing taxis. In between these ladies we meet our main character for the film Andrea (Andy) Sachs. She is clearly not from the same world ...

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I first saw The Devil Wears Prada while I was in America during the summer. It wasn't something I would have picked myself, due to thinking that it was all going to be about fashion and shoes and bags and all that kinda thing that really doesn't interest me. But I did see it, and I did enjoy it. I was given the book as a gift for Christmas, so I thought it was time to revisit the movie to see how well it had made the changeover. *** Plot *** Andrea ...
...in the big bad city. An aspiring author, she's fresh out of college and looking for an editorial job somewhere. When Andrea first walks into the Runway offices, she knows nothing about fashion, and doesn't particularly care to know either. Through some twisted hand of fate, the fashion-naive Andrea ends up as the junior assistant to the most powerful woman in the fashion industrial - a rather controlling woman by the name of Miranda Priestly, Editor ...

liz1102 26.12.2006 · Read full review
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...becoming a journalist. This is the situation that Andrea, (Anne Hathaway), finds herself in, although the job she had in mind is very different to the opportunity which presents itself as Assistant to the Editor in Chief of Runway magazine. At the beginning of the film, we see her going for her interview, and the interview being interrupted by the entrance of the boss, Miranda Priestley (played by Meryl Street), which should have given poor Andrea ...
...who literally scared most of the staff that work for her into a chaotic arrangement of seeming calm whenever Miranda appeared on the scene. She is the Editor in Chief of Runway Magazine, and a career magnate. Telling you where the story goes would be a shame, as you need to discover this for yourself, although it does have morals to tell, and the introduction of many characters along the way. The film is an award winning combination of skill nominated ...

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I fought of the urge to see this film for a long time as like Andy, I felt no connection with the world of fashion and trend and felt sure I would be bored senseless by an endless parade of ultra-thin models and mean stylists. It wasn't until flipping through the movie channels while home in Canada that I stumbled across this and faced with little alternative decided to give it a chance. Director: David Frankel Actors: Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, ...
...all about ********************* New York: The city of all things fashion. Here, journalism under-graduate Andrea Sachs swallows her pride and takes a job at Runway fashion Magazine working as the (second) PA to Miranda Priestly, the extremely sophisticated and extremely frightening Editor in Chief. Andy, the New Yorker who missed the fashion bug completely when it came around, rubs Miranda the wrong way with her un-tailored wardrobe and inability ...

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...to write my review on the film "The Devil Wears Prada", I really wanted to go to the cinema to see this when it first came out but never actually found the time, you know what its like something always happens to come up when you finally decide you want to do something, well this happened, three times I thought yep…I'm gonna grab the girls and go to the cinema…well no your not Mell and when I managed to get time to go and see it…guess what it wasn't ...
...know what the wait was actually well worth it!! Sorry!! Back to the original topic…The Devil Wears Prada, it's a really good comedy, chick flick would I say?? Um yes I would. But throughout the film I couldn't help but think this reminds me of another film but just couldn't put my finger on it and still cant so if you have seen the film and know what I am on about please put me out my misery and tell me!! It was released back in October 2006, and ...

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The devil wears Prada is a 2006 comedy drama film directed by David Frankel and starring Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep. It revolves around the vicious and back stabbing world of fashion, and the people in it. Andy Sachs (Hathaway) has just graduated from Northwest university and moves to New York, hoping to be a journalist at the New Yorker. However, the reality’s a little different. While looking for jobs, she finds out that if she becomes the ...
...out to be anything but. The job that a million girls would dream for turns out to be more like Andy’s idea of hell, working for the demanding Miranda Priestly exhausts her and her life outside of work begins to disappear. Also, she doesn’t fit in at all with the other high end fashion employees. Will she change and fit in? Will Andy be able to stick out the year with Miranda Priestly? This is another film with near perfect casting. The main people ...

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I had actually read the book of The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger before seeing this film for the first time and therefore think I may have a slightly different opinion to someone who has not read the book. The plot of the film is that a young girl called Andrea who has just graduated from college is out to find her first job. She really wants to become a journalist but knows she must find any way into the industry she can. She ends up going ...
...though; it is to be the new assistant to Miranda Priesly. Miranda is a notorious woman in the fashion industry who will not take no for an answer. When Andy attends the interview Miranda looks her up and down and is certainly disapproving of her attire. Andy ends up bursting out in anger during the interview, which seems to be the ticket to her employment. When she starts at Runway Andy is sceptical and mocks the other size 0 Miranda worshipers to ...

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...long time now so making the most of my last few days until my husband gets back and starts hogging the TV again I decided to buy and watch the film. THE FILM The film is about Andy Sachs, played by Anne Hathaway, who gets a job working in for a fashion magazine. Her job is the second assistant to Miranda, played by Meryl Streep. Andy has taken the job as she thinks it will get her meeting people and will result in her getting a good job in journalism ...
...she is soon enticed into the world of fashion though and transforms her image with the help of her friend who also works for Miranda. The film follows Andy through the tough times in her job and the toll it takes on her relationship. Will Andy succeed at her job of being Miranda whipping girl and will she ever be able to please Miranda. Does she get the dream job in journalism she has always wanted or will she go back to her old self and her old ...

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I reckon that the value of this film is NOT dependant on the way it ends, and so I have reviewed the whole film, including the last 5 minutes. Sadly that has annoyed some readers, so I have now inserted this warning to you.! **** If you prefer to read reviews of films that are truncated by witholding of important aspects of the film's purpose and message, and in particular, the way in which the script writer has constructed the closing 5 minutes, ...
...film and DVD. So essentially, the two reviews are more or less identical. The cinema experience adds a little bit over home viewing of a DVD, because there are several really witty moments in the film, that a large audience responds to en masse. Miranda ( see later in review itself ) - is trying to cover up her emotions at the death of her marriage, and is asked thoughtfully, by her assistant, Andie, if there is anything she can do for her - to ...

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