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Film & BooksIssue: Virgo 06

The Devil Wears Prada

"The Devil Wears Prada" is a story that has been told before, but a tight script and compelling performances by Anne Hathaway and the amazingly talented Meryl Streep make it a lot of fun to watch. 

Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway), a naïve young woman from Ohio, moves to New York City and promptly scores a job as an assistant to Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), the powerful and ruthless editor of a top fashion magazine. With hopes of becoming a journalist, Andy struggles to please her impossible new boss from hell in order to get a foot in the door of the magazine industry.

Andy’s agonizing yet humorous catapult from polite, frumpy Midwestern girl to pushy, slick New Yorker who will do anything to reach her goals is a fun ride indeed. I found myself gasping for air with the rest of the audience as Meryl Streep delivered the chilling line “the details of your incompetence do not interest me,” and I clutched the arms of my chair as I waited to see how Andy (or anyone in that situation) would respond. And, even though I found this story and its outcomes fairly predictable, the screenplay, written by Aline Brosh McKenna based on Lauren Weisberger’s novel, had just the right amount of interesting characters and well-developed plot twists to entertain even the toughest film critic.

When does “healthy” ambition compel one as sweet as Anne Hathaway’s character to sell her soul to the devil? Watch Streep force Hathaway to make a “Sophie’s Choice” in this charming film and find out.

“The Devil Wears Prada” was directed by David Frankel, who also directed six episodes of “Sex in the City.”  http://venusrisingmagazine.com/images/articles/dots.gif

by Ann JandaSagittarius

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