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In Reply to: "Devil Wears Prada"..a surprising pleasure posted by DWPC on February 21, 2007 at 13:05:35:
... for the part.
For almost half the length of the movie - there was crack after crack about her style, her looks and HER WEIGHT??? Personally I didn't really see this hapless ugly duckling the dialogue was suggesting. EVEN in the context of high NYC fashion.Personally, I was a bit confused by her accused frumpiness. She was a babe!
Of course there was a fashion transformation that took place after her character was committed and determined to win the respect of Miranda Priestly - But it could have been a much more pronounced & exaggerated transformation, and more fun for the viewer too see.
I thought Streep was wonderful.
Follow Ups:
Stories of the gorgeous, trim model or actress starving herself to near death because she thinks she's fat and ugly are far from rare. Its not the chunky ones who kill themselves to lose three pounds. Hathaway's character is probably closer to reality for young women in the high fashion culture than we might think.
I thought the film tedious and contrived and the supposed transformation just a sad tale of if you spend money you will become a happy shiney person.
Calling Hathaway fat was enough for hoots of derision. Calling her failure to buy into the norms of this self serving group of Manhattanites "frumpy" was a return to 1950's stereotyping and conformity.
I thought the film hugely conservative and hugely boring. A film for the Bush generation...
I come to the Asylum to get a little relief from all the politico's...I don't give a f**k about your political opinions or anyone elses on here. There are plenty of outlets for you and me to express our opinions. And no I am not a Bush supporter.(since that was probably going to be your predictable reply).
... was about those who want to return to a ficticious past where everything was fine and dandy.
It was previously called "Reaganite" or "Thatcherite".
If you don't think such things have parallels, and I didn't say that they were used as blatant political propaganda, in culture then that is your choice.
I think its a film which is very much a part of the times.
... was meant to be a reference to the tired cliche of films where the glasses wearing secretary (female of course) would take off her glasses and let her hair down and suddenly her boss (what a surprise... a MAN!!!) would suddenly bust his pants trying to get a date with her.
I'm impressed at the extent you run with the ball
... that's a soccer term by the way!
I guess if they wanted her to be slim and sexy at the end, they had to cast someone slim and sexy at the beginning.
Probably lucky it wasn't turned into an Eddie Murphy vehicle...
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