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The Devil Wears Prada - alternative film review

Warning: Movie Spoiler

I finally got round to watching The Devil Wears Prada last weekend (I know I’m a year behind everyone else!) and I was very disappointed. Girl goes to the big city to get her dream job and then jacks it all in because her boyfriend doesn’t like her new lifestyle (and, if you ask me, her best mate seemed jealous as well).

The moral of the story seemed to be that if you want the powerful, glamorous job that Miranda Priestly has you will end up a lonely divorcee, but if you toe the line and get the good little girl job all will be right in your love life. I’m told the book has a different ending so I’ll have to move that up my to be read pile to find out.

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Nicola Pedley

And let&#39s not forget Priestley hired her because she was a journo, not because she was into fashion - she obviously wanted someone who valued their career.

Nicola Pedley

Lucie, yes, I actually enjoyed the film and even if she&#39d given up the job for herself that would have been okay, but it was the bit where she met the ex and told him he was right about everything. Grrr.

Shanna - I think there came a point where she made the decision to really go for it with the job - before that she wasn&#39t too bothered and just thought she could coast it, but as soon as she committed herself boyfriend and best friend didn&#39t like her success.

Megan - you&#39re right, she wasn&#39t really interested in fashion but that fella friend (can&#39t remember his name - James?) gave her the speech about all the greats who&#39d walked the halls of &#39Runway&#39 and I think that made her realise she was being a bit up herself and she was actually working for an amazing institution. Yes, she wanted to work for smarter pubs but I reckon if she could do well under Priestly she could do well anywhere

megan

I have been told by a few to read the book cuz yes i was disappointed that andy left such an amazing job just like that.

it is true miranda&#39s charecter could&#39ve had her cake and ate it to. the thing that made me mad was she did not even give a crap about fashion she just wanted the job to get her into "smarter" publications.

Shanna Swendson

The book ending is actually somewhat happier, in a way. She was a lot more triumphant and strangely saintly.

My issue with both book and movie was that she was killing herself in a job that wasn&#39t actually going to get her what she wanted. She wanted to be a serious journalist, so why was she killing herself doing a job where she was mostly just running personal errands for the editor of a fashion magazine and not actually writing anything that would give her the kind of clips that would get her a real journalism job? I could think of dozens of other jobs she could have had or things she could have done to get where she wanted to be. And yet we were supposed to see her as somehow superior to all those silly airheads who actually cared about fashion, even though they at least were the ones working in their chosen field and doing what they really wanted to be doing.

Lucie Simone

I liked this film, but I found it utterly irritating that her boyfriend and friends were such nags when she was clearly "paying her dues" in a very cut-throat industry - one in which she was lucky to even have a job. How many women in the history of the planet have been neglected as their husbands pursued their careers? If I were her, I would have chucked the boyfriend and stuck to my career path. Boyfriends come and go, but a career in fashion is much, much harder to come by!

I didn&#39t know that the book had a different ending. I&#39ve heard that most people liked the film more than the book, so now I&#39m curious about that. I wonder if the book doesn&#39t have the "happy ending" the film does.

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