The Most Interesting Scene In The Devil Wears Prada

For me, the best part of this movie is this Andy's quote: "Okay, she’s tough, but if Miranda were a man…no one would notice anything about her, except how great she is at her job"

”Book Andy gets tortured by the devil, film Andy makes a deal with the devil” not to be dramatic but WOAAAHHHH

I always loved that scene because she just said "No." and everyone changed what they were doing. No excuses, no explanations, no fake positivity, no false praise to pet egos. It was against everything I had internalized as needed for women in the corporate world. It was amazing and eye-opening and the scene that cemented her power for me.

My favorite scene, hands down, is the very last - where Miranda smiles ruefully for a split second after seeing Andy wave to her, then snaps right back into character. Meryl Streep deserved an Oscar purely for the expression on her face as she utters: "Go."

Ultimately, the book has an antagonist who is not respectable, but the movie has an antagonist that is. Having an antagonist who is respectable almost always elevate the protagonist as well.

The original line, "Everybody wants this, everybody wants to be us." was originally written as, "Everybody want this, everybody wants to be me" because Streep felt Miranda wasn't that vain. It was brilliant. The film would have been interpreted different had this line not changed.

Nigel as a character is much more tragic when you realize it's a stand in for Andre Leon Talley. Who was famously dumped from Vogue years later in the mid 2010s by Wintour :(

“I need the best possible team around me, that no longer includes Emily.” — she says in her monotone voice. This in my opinion is the first time we see how cut throat Miranda can really be. I felt that betrayal in my bones as if a was Emily. Imagine putting your all, everyday into your dream job and you end up loosing your bosses respect and the event you’ve been planing for all year because you get mono? She’s ruthless

It seems the film is better and more nuanced than the book - a rare occurrence, especially when it comes to Hollywood.

We all have to agree that Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci really stole every scenes they were in

Fact check: "Ugly Betty" cannot have been "inspired" or a "copycat" of "The Devil Wears Prada". Ugly Betty one is based on the original Colombian tv series with the same name produced in 1999. The Devil wears Prada (the book, from which the movie is based on) was published in 2003.

I really love this thing that you said: "Book Andy is tortured by the devil. Film Andy makes a deal with her."

For someone that never cared for the fashion industry at all. This film is a masterpiece.

Oh the irony of how the author of the book wrote it to say how toxic and how much she despises the business of fashion. And then this movie has audiences loving Miranda Priestley, and hating the boyfriend and Andy's friends instead. Wah-wah...

I always interpreted this movie as being about a tough woman who has hidden vulnerability, and a vulnerable woman who has hidden toughness. It's a yin and yang story, and it's far more sophisticated in it's character development than people give it credit for. Well done review.

The glass wall of the conference room always struck me and I wound up noticing all the glass throughout the film. You can see it (the life, the work), but you're still outside it. Andy wasn't ready for entry into that room. Emily wasn't either, and, in fact, sullied it.

“you already did...to Emily” - so sinister. Meryl made this movie

Some needed context: Anna Wintour has so much power that when the book was first published, some publications refused to review it out of fear of retribution. There was a lot of mystery surrounding Wintour before the book (she has apparently mellowed out a lot since the movie’s popularity boosted her profile in the wider public’s eye, whereas before she could afford to be more of a tyrant in relative privacy). One of the more famous story about Wintour in the past is that employees were NEVER to make eye contact with her, and once, when Wintour tripped and fell down in the hallway, people pretended not to see her (out of fear of making eye contact) rather than help her up. The original buzz around the book wasn’t that it was an entertaining read, but that it was a startlingly accurate portrayal of how Wintour ran her ship. However, Wintour’s power over the American fashion & celebrity industry meant that any movie adaptation HAD to paint her in a sympathetic light. In the end, that was the best choice for the story, but I believe the differences in Miranda’s character in the book vs the script is largely because there was pressure to make Miranda/Wintour look more sympathetic. Fun side fact, Miranda’s office in the movie was almost an exact replica of Wintour’s real office, and Wintour famously remodeled it afterwards.

Miranda s hair is definitely almost a character in itself. absolutely flawless. yes, you always see her.

You know Meryl is good when you see Miranda Priestly as a totally different person. Like she exists.