The Devil Wears Prada.

[justaquestion]

Ugh.

Did they read the book?

 

[KikiFan]

LOL I didn't read the book but I liked the movie okay. Mainly because I thought Streep was brilliant.

 

[justaquestion]

Yes, she was really good, just as I imagined her character in the book.

 

[Annette_VA]

I thought the same thing! The movie was SO far off from the book, it wasn't even funny

 

[lindalinda]

I thought the same thing! The movie was SO far off from the book, it wasn't even funny

I agree. The book had at least some depth to it. Her best friend, who was key to the story in the book, was a total non-player in the movie!

 

[Soubrette]

I guess I didn't mind the differences. We listened to the audio book over the holidays (long drive!), and I felt really sympathetic to the narrator/main character, but I kind of like that they gave Miranda more depth in the movie...of course, some of that was Meryl Streep. She was fantastic...totally stole the movie from Anne Hathaway.

 

[DMickey28]

I really like the book but read it a long time ago so by the time I saw the movie I wasn't fresh on the details. I really liked the movie in and of itself.

 

[lizardqueen]

I think that if I would have seen the movie first, I would have liked it ok enough, but because I read the book first, I was seriously disappointed. I do think that Meryl Streep was a great choice for the role.

 

[Mike.Wazowski]

I didn't read the book or see the movie -
but I am betting that they are helping teachers EVERYWHERE...
who will now KNOW when a child has written a book report.... based on the movie

 

[smartestnumber5]

Yeah I read the book first and then saw the movie. I still enjoyed the movie and loved Meryl Streep in it, but I was pretty disappointed. I chalked it up to being produced in Hollywood. I mean, the book had a pretty strong critique of the fashion industry going. For example, there was a lot of focus on the disordered eating of the women working at Runway. And Andy was only skinny enough (though still fat compared to the other women) to fit into those clothes because she had just caught some long term illness while traveling abroad just before getting the job. But given that Hollywood is pretty tied up with the fashion industry, I suppose they can't make a movie that's so critical.

Plus, it seemed like in the movie they tried to make some feminist point with Miranda--about how she is just doing what she has to do to get by as a woman in a male dominated world. While I'm usually totally happy to find a feminist message anywhere in movies or tv, I found this one didn't make any sense, and was just too much a betrayal from the book. We're supposed to believe there's a feminist explanation for why Miranda purposely refuses to learn her assistants names, thus acting as if they are not individual people but robots or something

 

[ducklite]

why Miranda purposely refuses to learn her assistants names, thus acting as if they are not individual people but robots or something

I swear that I worked for her! Well, actually I wasn't the assistant to the president of the company, but I worked there and she treated assistants like that. It always amazed me why she couldn't figure out why they never stayed more than a few weeks.

Of course she wanted a tri-lingual "girl" with a BA who could travel on a dime and was willing to work 8:00 am to 8:00 pm with no lunch break (that was taken up running errands for the boss.) And wanted to pay her less than she could have made working as a salesclerk at Macy's.

Anne

 

[Cindy's Mom]

I swear that I worked for her! Well, actually I wasn't the assistant to the president of the company, but I worked there and she treated assistants like that. It always amazed me why she couldn't figure out why they never stayed more than a few weeks.

Of course she wanted a tri-lingual "girl" with a BA who could travel on a dime and was willing to work 8:00 am to 8:00 pm with no lunch break (that was taken up running errands for the boss.) And wanted to pay her less than she could have made working as a salesclerk at Macy's.

Anne

No I worked for her. She was a nut case. She called me one day I was at the office, she was having lunch, she told me that she lost her Channel earring on Michigan Ave -go find it, and hung up.

She would make me take a cab to her house at lunch on my dime and let her dog out. Me and her door man would chuckle every day about her.

She told me that I couldn't leave the office for the night until she called me and let me go. This is when cell phone were still in the cars, so I had no way to reach her. One night it was 8p and a blizzard, I knew what restuarant she was at; I called there, talked to the Maitre'd,told him to tell her that I needed to talk to her; I'm at the office. She told the maitre'd to tell me to go home.

I know what you're all thinking. but believe it did pay off for me in the end. This is something that I would never do now, but it make me such a better boss for having been through all that.

 

[Hedy]

I think that if I would have seen the movie first, I would have liked it ok enough, but because I read the book first, I was seriously disappointed. I do think that Meryl Streep was a great choice for the role.

Agreed-as movies go, it wasn't bad, but compared to the book-ugh.

 

[shortbun]

I have never seen a film stick to a book's story line very well. If I loved the book, I'm hesitant to see the film. Harry Potter is the exception. I LOVE seeing those characters come to life!!!

 

[UrsulasMyHero]

The book was SO Much better, but now I saw the movie, and I'm watching Ugly Betty and there are so many comparisons. *chuckles*

 

[azgal81]

I loved the movie. I didn't read the book though so maybe that's why.

 

[NewJersey]

I too loved the movie...its one of my favorites. I thought Merryl Streep was fantastic in it.

 

[Tazicket]

Like most, I thought Streep was brilliant. She was exactly what I pictured Miranda to be like while listening to the book on tape. I listened to the book a couple of years ago, so I didn't really have it fresh on my mind. I thought the movie was ok, but I had a nagging feeling that lots of things were wrong. I'm listening to the book again (I swear I normally read them, but this one is a hoot to listen to and it keeps me awake and calm in traffic!) and realizing all the differences so far. The book is so fabulous that I might have to buy it and add it to my collection. The movie I don't really need to own.

 

[JunieJay]

The real Miranda is based on Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine. While I loved Meryl Streep's performance, she wasn't British, and she wasn't Anna. I'd have preferred a British actress play that role, and I also thought the movie version of Miranda was a heck of a lot more sympathetic. The end sort of wraps everything up in this warm and fuzzy way -- that was the not the case in the book.

 

[helenabear]

I thought the same thing! The movie was SO far off from the book, it wasn't even funny

To me that was a good thing. I hated the book. I only watched the movie to see if they could make the story line better.

IMO, they did. Andrea in the book was a spoiled brat. In the movie she actually had depth to her.

I did not care for the story line with the roommate in the book either. You have to be a real crappy friend not to notice that your best friend is an alcoholic. I thought Andrea, in the book, deserved all the bad that did happen to her. Selfish and spoiled IMO.

The movie was much better