The Devil Wears Prada – Part 2

18 Sep 2009 @ 5:05 AM

The Devil Wears Prada – Part 2

Adrian Grenier & Jeremy Piven from Entourage

“Perhaps the next Hollywood ‘genius’ will be the man who can design the whole movie to look like a high-powered ad.” – Noted film critic Pauline Kael (1961)

In the 40-something years since Kael said that there have been many many movies that have looked like wholesale high-powered ads but I thought of that quote quite a few times while watching THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA. Based on the best selling novel, TDWP has slick direction by David Frankel (Sex and the City, Entourage) and an earnest Anne Hathaway as an aspiring journalist who gets schooled in professionalism when she suffers a stint as fashion magazine mogul Miranda Priestly’s (Meryl Streep) assistant. Streep’s Oscar nominated performance is as acidic as it is measured and Stanley Tucci comes on acutely as a cynical clothes horse Yoda. Actually there are a number of Yodas in this motion picture Hathaway gets lectured by almost every character Tucci, her live-in boyfriend Adrian Grenier, rival assistant Emily Blunt, and her hip friends – Tracie Thomas and Rich Sommer. This should have stayed more in a fluffy fashion world spoof mode than to pretend at all to be a statement making cautionary tale. An obvious take would be it’s all style and no substance’ but it’s more apt toconclude that it’s style lusting after substance. High powered ad nauseum. As Streep’s Miranda would state “that’s all”.

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The Devil Wears Prada – Part 2