up next: The Devil Wears Prada
Added 2025-07-30 16:49:56 +0000 UTCHello everyone and welcome new patrons! I'm doing a TIFF talk in a week about The Devil Wears Prada (my REAL favourite movie ever - I've seen it upwards of 30 times and already watched it twice this week) and I thought... what a perfect time to make a video about it! So for the next Patreon exclusive we'll be discussing The Devil Wears Prada - making of, legacy, and what exactly the movie is trying to say? Do we hate the boyfriend? Do we hate Miranda Priestley? And what does our opinion about the film say about us?
So tell me, what do you think of the the Devil Wears Prada? Anything you'd like me to touch on in the video?
Lastly - I'm toying with releasing a slightly expanded version of the Napoleon Dynamite video to Youtube in August. This will not happen often (or at least not so soon after an exclusive release) - but I'm saving up some money to move in October, so it's just a timing thing. But just wanted to be transparent about that!
Hope you enjoyed the war films vid, and I'll see you with our next exclusive <3
...that's all.
Comments
Two ideas: -joking about diets/diet culture: how does this affectively impact the viewer? we laugh at the ridiculousness of it but then “newly skinny”glam Anne Hathaway is presented in this really pleasurable visual sequence. You never see her, like, suffer the way Emily does. Ditto the jokes about Emily starving herself-does laughing at (at? with?) an anoretic character who tries so obviously and so openly (unlike Andie) position us to think of this sort of every day suffering as kinda normal/harmless? idk -the sweater scene!! like, it seems like this big mic drop. but thinking about it now…does that really make anything that Runway does creative or valuable? As someone with a real love hate relationship with fashion myself (I have been fat and had fashion hate me, now I am thin and am allowed to shop at these stores and I feel kinda bitter tbh) I am skeptical of the claims to complex ~artistry~ as much as I enjoy it
M
2025-08-04 12:45:31 +0000 UTCI recently convinced my boyfriend to watch The Devil Wears Prada with me after showing him a clip of the cerulean sweater scene. He was disappointed that there were not more in-depth fashion world educational scenes like that, and dismissed the movie as a basic chick-flick. I suppose what makes this film stand out to me more than other 00's chick-flicks, is that it is career guided rather than man guided. Andy's boyfriend in modern hindsight is irritatingly unsupportive and judgmental, but I do remember what the mindset of movie romance was in the pre-500 Days of Summer world. I can understand the need to create conflict through Andy's friends and relationship through her metamorphosis, but overall this is not the most interesting part of the film. What I love about The Devil Wears Prada is Andy's overcoming of her own hypocrisy. For most of the film, Andy acts like she has no choice. Miranda's high demands and cut throat tactics seem like commands from God. Andy convinces herself that she is only doing a job and can't fully admit to her own enjoyment of the fashion industry's shallow elements. As a people-pleasing person myself, I love watching Andy's realization that she does not want to be Miranda and she literally walks away just when she is finally rewarded and recognized . I do wish that the movie was not so all or nothing, lumpy sweater Andy or fashionable Andy, but overall I feel like it's a great movie about navigating the working world as a people-pleasing but ambitious woman.
Aja O'Brien
2025-07-30 23:53:15 +0000 UTC
