StMarc wrote:
So I finally got this movie from NetFlix and watched it the other night. Some observations:

1) Meryl Streep is freaking hot with that off-silver hair. Seriously.

2) There were some *fantastic* lines in that movie. I think my favorite was this exchange:

(Miranda, editor-in-chief of RUNWAY and some assistants are deciding between two similar belts for an outfit, and someone comments on how different they are. Andy, her new assistant who is entirely ignorant of fashion, sniggers because she thinks they look exactly the same.)

Miranda Priestly:  Something funny?

Andy Sachs: No, no, nothing. Y'know, it's just that both those belts look exactly the same to me. Y'know, I'm still learning about all this stuff.

Miranda Priestly: This... 'stuff'? Oh... ok. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don't know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise, it's not lapis, it's actually cerulean. You're also blindly unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar De La Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves St. Laurent, wasn't it, who showed cerulean military jackets? And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of 8 different designers. Then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue sweater represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and so it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of stuff.

3) I haven't read the book and so this isn't a comparison, but I wish they hadn't tried so hard to put little humanizing elements into Miranda. I wanted her the *complete* stone bitch. If it had turned out at the end of the movie that she actually was the Devil, that would have been fine with me.

M

You know what Marc... I would NEVER think you would of enjoyed that kind of movie... I haven't seen it myself.. but you made me want to go rent it!!!

StMarc wrote:
So I finally got this movie from NetFlix and watched it the other night. Some observations:

1) Meryl Streep is freaking hot with that off-silver hair. Seriously.

2) There were some *fantastic* lines in that movie. I think my favorite was this exchange:

(Miranda, editor-in-chief of RUNWAY and some assistants are deciding between two similar belts for an outfit, and someone comments on how different they are. Andy, her new assistant who is entirely ignorant of fashion, sniggers because she thinks they look exactly the same.)

Miranda Priestly:  Something funny?

Andy Sachs: No, no, nothing. Y'know, it's just that both those belts look exactly the same to me. Y'know, I'm still learning about all this stuff.

Miranda Priestly: This... 'stuff'? Oh... ok. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don't know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise, it's not lapis, it's actually cerulean. You're also blindly unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar De La Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves St. Laurent, wasn't it, who showed cerulean military jackets? And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of 8 different designers. Then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue sweater represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and so it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of stuff.

3) I haven't read the book and so this isn't a comparison, but I wish they hadn't tried so hard to put little humanizing elements into Miranda. I wanted her the *complete* stone bitch. If it had turned out at the end of the movie that she actually was the Devil, that would have been fine with me.

M

Bought the DVD and I love this MOVIE

dgold wrote:
...coincidently, also watched the "Prada" movie in the home theatre this weekend-loved it.
In the book, your scenario wish for the bitch is a hundred more times played than in the flic. Hollywood softened the razor sharp edges of Miranda's character.

I am going to get the book I just love Miranda's character