Monday, July 10, 2006

The Devil Wears Prada

This movie came at just the right time. Women and gay men around the world have started to miss Sex and the City like a dope fiend misses his fix. We pine for the couture clothing, the lavish wardrobes and the frenzied antics of a young woman trying to establish herself in the Big City. The Devil Wears Prada doesn't let us down. While there are many similarities to this movie and Sex and the City, there are not too many to bore you or make you feel as if you have seen this movie before by watching the hit HBO series.

Anne Hathaway plays an eager and fresh young journalist named Andy who accepts a job at Runway, the top fashion magazine in the country. While she would rather be documenting political rallies and interviewing revolutionaries, she takes the Runway job in order to establish herself in the world of journalism. She feels that if she can survive Miranda Preistly, the Senior Editor of Runway, for one year, she will be able to secure a position at any magazine she chooses. Called "The Dragon Lady," Priestly is notoriously crude and scathing.

Andy is faced with a decision. She must choose her job or her friends and family. In order to retain her position at Runway, she must be on-call at all hours, ready to jump to the assistance of her boss. Obviously, this causes strain in all of her personal relationships. The biggest rift lies between her and her boyfriend Nate, played by Entourage's Adrian Grenier. Simon Baker plays Christian Thompson, a writer who attempts to steal Andy away from normalcy and her previous life. The new life being proposed to her seems glamorous and what every little girl dreams of, but at the core lies a cold, vicious demon that goes by the name of Jealousy.

Our carnal fashion obsessions are purged for 109 minutes as Andy is dressed in the designers that most women cannot afford. Not being able to afford these luxuries herself, Andy becomes somewhat of an addict, drowning in samples and freebies. Again, the similarities between Sex and the City and the Devil Wears Prada abound in the costumes, the main reason being that Patricia Field was the lead designer for both. Her fashion sense and quirky style have become a remarkable signature. Everything that Field touches turns to gold. Or maybe gold lamé.

The Devil Wears Prada will do well because every woman who has ever bought a fashion magazine will want to see it. And every man who dates a woman who buys fashion magazines will be forced to see it (and secretly like it).

2 Comments:

At 8:11 PM, Blogger Scooter said...

Anne Hathaway looked hot. This concludes the He Said portion of the review.

Actually, Joolie and I went together to see this and I found myself laughing plenty. It's probably a chick flick, sorry my radar is busted on such things, but Meryl Steep is extremely capable at pretty much anything she does and is a complete cunt in this without going over the top.

There was a lot of fashion, talk of fashion, fashion shows, a ton of shit I could care less about. And don't get me started on Simon Baker's golden locks. But, and this is a big but, Anne Hathaway is hot.

The end.

 
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