Budding fashionista

Rating: 7/10 (26 March 2018)

The Devil Wears Prada finds an eager young journalism major Anne Hathaway
starting a new job at the fashion industry magazine Runway. She's got the
writing credentials, but experience in the industry not a bit. Which is going
to be tough because she will be working for Meryl Streep a queenpin of the
fashion industry. She's a tough and exacting and demanding supervisor and
can't seem to keep good help.
Watching Streep as Miranda Priestley I was reminded about how law clerks
worked that way for William O. Douglas on the Supreme Court. He went through them like tissue paper he was that demanding. A brilliant jurist not a
very nice man.
Anne Hathaway ever since she was a Disney princess seems always to be cast
as sunny, upbeat characters and the casting suits her well. Streep really puts
her through the ringer. But the girl had grit.
Streep's a survivor, she's tough in a tough business. One wonders when she was up and coming herself what she might have gone through that make her
the way she is.
Hathaway's also got relationship problems with her boyfriend Adrian Greiner who is trying to make it in another tough business, cooking. Hathaway temporarily falls for the charming fashion designer Simon Baker on a quick
trip to Paris with Streep.
The Devil Wears Prada got two Oscar nominations, one of the many for Meryl
Streep as Best Actress and one for costume design. As this is a film about the
fashion industry that would almost seem a requirement.
Fans of Meryl Streep will enjoy this one. You might try viewing this back to
back with the Susan Hayward classic I Can Get It For You Wholesale. That
film will give you an idea where Streep might have originated from.