The Reel Rejects - THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (2006) IS VICIOUSLY PERFECT!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:01:05 Thank you so much for being here. This, I think, I don't know what category this film is. Is it a Romance Saturday? I don't really know. Anyway, we have some questions from our Royal Rejects because if you are a Royal, you get to participate in our review. I only got a few. However, I think we should give our thoughts first

Starting point is 00:01:26 and then go into somebody's more specific question. I really enjoyed the film It makes me never want to be in the fashion industry I'll say that for it But I think it's a as Greg pointed out A very cautionary tale On the price of ambition I think having ambition and goals

Starting point is 00:01:44 Is a very smart thing to have If you're going to pursue anything in life But what is the cost of it right And we saw Anne Hathaway At the very beginning of the film She was a very kind endearing and sweet person. And it's not that she wasn't that as she was progressing throughout the film and becoming more married to her career. But what was happening to her personal life as she

Starting point is 00:02:08 became more married to her job, her personal life was suffering as a result. So I don't think there's anything wrong with having devotion to your work. I think that's all and well and good. But are you willing to give up your soul rather? Are you willing to change as a human being and become something else. I think evolving and growing is totally a valid thing that's good to do. I think we should always be open-minded and look to be, look to do the uncomfortable thing so that way we can grow and evolve. But at the same point, we shouldn't change in a way that we're no longer the same kind of person in the positive ways where it negatively affects our personal life. And I felt like a lot of what Andy was doing when she was

Starting point is 00:02:56 doing this. It wasn't even a job that she really initially wanted to do, but I'm glad that she found herself a little bit in the fashion industry. She found something that she grew due to her skills, you know, from Stanford law. And she just had this natural bind of being resourceful. She gravitated towards. But I like that in the end, she was smart enough to know, hey, look, this woman has gone through her second divorce. She's very mean-spirited and cold. She's got some humanity still left in her. I could see she's crying over her divorce. If she had no humanity, she wouldn't even be crying.

Starting point is 00:03:31 So, but I don't want this life. I've already lost one of the great, like I've, I had a man who was one in a million, and I've already lost him because I was so buried to my job. I don't want to become this. Yeah, I'd like to be in a career where I'm successful, but not at the price of my soul and my personal life. So I'm glad she recognized that in the end, and I like resourceful characters who are intuitive

Starting point is 00:03:53 and are very observant like that. The performances in this film from Anne Hathaway, who is not only so beautiful in the outside, but her character is so beautiful in the inside. And I'm glad she didn't let that go to waste in the end. That was awesome. I love Andy. She's such a sweet and welcoming and beautiful character.

Starting point is 00:04:12 And I like, too, the way that Emily treated her throughout the film, and she really actually did care about her, even when Emily was still in charge of her, or even when she took her place, Like, she didn't actually want to make that decision to, you know, take her place in Paris, but she still cared enough about her to go to the hospital and check in on her. And then once she was done with the job, give her the closer pair. So she's a really kind and endearing person.

Starting point is 00:04:34 I really care about her character a great amount. What could you say about Merrill Streep? What a performance. I love that her character was really strategic, really precision-based, and also didn't rely on volume. Like, you could, she was very soft-spoken, but you're not. could really feel a lot of the venom through her through the soft-spoken tone of her voice and she's someone like i would literally need to wear brown or black pants around because like she had that body language and facial tone and expression and she just gave it off through her

Starting point is 00:05:08 incredible performance what can you say she's incredible in this movie i really also emily blunt the way she was able to have the the spunk and sassiness and also the the comedic timing was so good. I didn't know Emily Blunt was funny, but she was hysterical, I thought, in this film at times. I was like, she had Greg and I really laughing out loud. And I thought Stanley Tucci, I love that, especially in such a cutthroat business like this, it's nice to know there's people out there who actually do care. And especially for someone like Nigel who got screwed in the end to have someone like that who's in a position of power and being able, not a full position of power, but a higher up rather, but to be in a position where he's a mentor. and a caring individual. I think that's so important, especially in jobs and stuff like that, to get a little bit ahead. You need that type of support system in place.

Starting point is 00:06:00 So I really enjoyed this film a great deal. And also like the chemistry between Adrian Grenier, Nate, rather, and Han Hathaway. If I had one little complaint, I would have said I would have liked to spend a little more time with them. But yeah, those are my initial thoughts, Gregory. How are we doing?

Starting point is 00:06:19 Good, yeah. Uh, there's not really much more to, to add on to that. Uh, you pretty much said it all. Shets, I'm sorry. Right there. It's a good movie. It was a little bit, it was moving. You don't have to be sorry.

Starting point is 00:06:36 Uh, what do you mean by you wanted more from, what did you want more from Adrian? I just would have liked to have spent more time with them. Just, I mean, we, obviously the time we did get to spend with them, you see, like, she's constantly disappointing him because she's not there. and she's married to her work. So, yeah, I get that. But I just would have liked to have gotten to, just as I pointed out,

Starting point is 00:06:58 spent a little more time with them. But that's just a little minor complaint. Nothing like that devolved in how I felt in my experience in the film or anything. No, okay. No, I like that. Yeah, the movie was a really good movie. It was surprisingly...

Starting point is 00:07:20 it had like is weird because it's most of it is rather predictable but the even in spite of it being predictable it's rich in its details and for a movie about fashion which is all about details it's good to have a story that is layered in its main characters that you're following from maryl streep and hathaway and even emily blunt and exploring the nuances there because like the men in here are kind of one note you know like like uh one guy just trying to like sleep with her the whole time sexy and then the other guy is just like the coolest most understanding boyfriend yeah and apparently from some royal reject questions that there's as other side where people think he's not supportive I think he was kind of supportive of a movie,

Starting point is 00:08:16 but maybe I misinterpreted that? It was obvious that she was a slave to her job and becoming something she didn't ultimately want to become. And he saw that in her. Granted in relation, I mean, yeah, there could be a little bit more depth to the relationship because people grow when people have individual careers and individual lives doesn't mean.

Starting point is 00:08:38 And then you're a couple, you still grow. And sometimes you can grow apart. and then what kind of couple there's couples who endure during that or you grow apart but sometimes you grow separately but you're also growing together simultaneously and you know

Starting point is 00:08:55 a story's not about their relationship though that's like the B story to all of it in terms of like the main story at hand it was kind of a riveting movie the entire time the energy of it right from the get go it was kind of it's kind of like hooked in immediately there was a there was a panache to it there was a

Starting point is 00:09:17 there was there was a there was like a fun anxiety which is kind of a sentence i don't often say like anxiety is not a word i associate to be fun but this is how to have fun and it managed to keep like multiple layers going in its emotion where it could be anxiety tense and fun at the same time like i think the most emblematic moment of that is when Emily Blunt gets hit by the car because that whole scene is is like, ooh, you're on edge. Oh, this is uncomfortable. You have to say this whole, you have to have this whole moment where you're, you have to have this whole scene with them when you, when she's the uncomfortableness of the tension of like, I have to communicate this message to her. And then she gets hit by a car, which is like a shocking moment and a tense moment.

Starting point is 00:10:07 But it's also like kind of funny that it happens just because of how absurd. everything has become and how about landish and big everything has become and they did this thing throughout the whole movie which is you have anne hathaway's character and you're watching this from her perspective so you're you're with her and when you're with her in the beginning i kind of share the same opinion as her of this is ridiculous like this is all fashion this is not a big deal this is that people are making the most dramatic intense conversations out of the tiniest things possible but then as you get more absorbed into it those things that you're judgmental about and find little suddenly you're into the trauma of

Starting point is 00:10:57 of it all you feel the magnification of it and that's a really that's a testament to the movie's execution on what they're doing so i was really surprised by how fun is it was, how heartfelt it is, and how tense the experience is called the Devil Wars Prada, and it's like, it's got its cheesy moments, but the cheese compliments, the cornyness, compliments.

Starting point is 00:11:24 Yeah, well, yeah, totally. What are you going to say something? No, no, no, continue. I'll say it after. Go ahead. No, you can go ahead. I was just going to say to your excellent point, I think some of the lines put it in perspective of just like how fashion can be so important to some

Starting point is 00:11:39 people like Miranda is talking about like you make fun of fashion but look at all the stuff you were wearing we had to pick all this out in a room just so you could wear this that is you know what you are that in that sense and then also too Stanley Tucci is that conversation he has with her and saying like you know a six year old boy who was sneaking off under the bleachers when he was supposed to be at soccer practice or whatever like this is actually important stuff to certain people so you know it's what might be funny or made fun of for certain people is a very

Starting point is 00:12:12 gets really absorbed for others and is actually something that others like really some people that take for granted certain things others like really is something that helps them move in life excuse me makes them feel alive so I think the film

Starting point is 00:12:30 was very poignant about that and really did a great job of executing on that message and I just appreciate that I think that's why what we do here is so important I've seen so many messages of people saying hey I'm going through a very tough time but like the rejects you guys help me get through it I love watching movies

Starting point is 00:12:47 with you guys and like those touch me I love messages like that like how art can bring us all together or could be fashion you know just any any different things in life I love hearing stuff like that so that actually resonated with me those two different point of views from Miranda and from Nigel

Starting point is 00:13:03 yeah definitely and I like how Nigel stays still after all this and I like how Emily Blunt even stays and it shows that sometimes at the end of the day this movie's about

Starting point is 00:13:18 choice. This movie's saying that we we choose it whether something's like bad or toxic or whatever we're choosing to be a part of that and we have a choice to not be a part of that

Starting point is 00:13:34 as much as we tell ourselves we don't like Anne Hathaway in this movie who's constantly feeling like she doesn't have a choice she realizes she does and that's usually what a lot of our situations are are there times where we don't have a choice of course and then they're but most of the time we do

Starting point is 00:13:54 when we think we don't and I like how they and the other part is too is even though Stanley Tucci and Emily Bunt choose to stay that doesn't make them bad they're not bad people it's just the path they've chosen it They've chosen this world. And at the end of the day, as much as the dialogue is very cynical of this world. They like it.

Starting point is 00:14:14 It's the world they like. It's the world they want to pursue. It's the world they actually want. You know, and if it takes to be a certain kind of person to be in it, even if you feel like you'll never really rise. But it's also saying that in order to rise in this world, it's not ideal. You know, a lot of people have like an idealistic way of viewing how rising through the rings can be. But they're ultimately saying it has to be cut. throat. I do wonder what this equal.

Starting point is 00:14:39 Yeah. No, and to your point as well, like sticking with this path when you were being constantly spat on like Emily and also like Stanley Tucci's character and paying your dues at the cost of ambition, if you

Starting point is 00:14:55 can still keep your soul intact, I think it says a lot about you as well as an individual and what your values are. I think so. Yeah. So I think like I find that so to be fascinating as well. And that internal look we got rather from Miranda's character at the end where you pointed it out like where she is looking out at Andy and Andy is looking out at her like this is what I could have become and then

Starting point is 00:15:19 Miranda is looking at her like this is the life I could have had I could have had I could have been with a man I mean she did have a family and kids but she didn't prioritize that she prioritized work and being cutthroat and making the the slash cutthroat choices so that's the life she lives it's the life she lives man yeah and we're gonna do what you gonna do life like him for you but i know i like i actually kind of love the movie i did too you know what stood out to me in the first 10 minutes you're like usually i need a warm-up to get into i'm like nope i'm into this right we filmed so many movie reactions and it normally does take me like you were in like 20 minutes you'd be like okay

Starting point is 00:15:59 i'm here i'm in i'm in the world and i was like i'm kind of just like lost in this right now i was I was there with you, I think maybe Anne Hathaway's suiting up right away in the beginning of that's a different thing. Yeah, man, and it's also really well directed, so that's a really good move. For sure. Let's read some questions here. Let's do it. J. Dell.

Starting point is 00:16:23 Hey, J. Dell, thanks for being here. This is one of my favorite movies. Did you know Merrill Streep chose to make Miranda's voice calm and low instead of loud just to quietly command the room. Yeah. It's true. A lot of people

Starting point is 00:16:40 assume when you have to command the room, you've got to go loud. But sometimes when you're going loud, if you really want someone to listen, you can go quieter. I think it's scary being quieter? Do you think that made her scarier than if she's got a full boss from hell energy or would you prefer to more explosive Miranda?

Starting point is 00:16:57 I mean, yeah. Oh, sorry, go ahead. No, that's all right. You can go ahead. No, I was just going to say that, look, when someone gets explosive that can be definitely more scary but I think in order to grab one's attention and to still be on the fearful

Starting point is 00:17:12 tactical side like I think it's more strategic to be calm and still get your point across is by being more quiet and to really grab people's attention like that and to still commandeer the room so I think that was such a damn smart and wise choice

Starting point is 00:17:28 and I think that speaks again to the prowess and the wiseness of Meryl Streep as an actor, she must have read the script, got into the character of Miranda, got into the narcissistic personality of someone like this and someone who is a mean bitch boss lady like this, like I think someone like this would be a lot more commandeering and commanding with a more low voice

Starting point is 00:17:51 and that body language prowess as opposed to shouting. It really honestly, if she would have shouted most of the film, I'm like, I'm kind of bored of this of her yelling the whole movie. like this is so much more like it's so much more mesmerizing to watch her in that quiet tone and scarier to be quite honest but how do you feel i wonder if this question comes because in the book she's boss from hell energy i don't know i didn't even know there was a book well i know there's a book because i was that bars and almost said the devil wars prod a two book i was like oh it must be based on a book and then the opening credit said it was based on a book ah miss that

Starting point is 00:18:28 i was looking too much at anathaway's panties it was actually during the situation shots whatever i was thinking about it then the uh the the idea if she was like loud i don't think that would make sense uh because this character is all about control and a person who's in control wouldn't be losing their temper sure a character who's in control that is truly the devil is the one who can be like soft spoken yes and is it a constant state of commanding so yeah i think she made the the perfect right choice for it because it's also manipulative and it's deceitful because you can say something nice in that tone and then the very next sentence have the same volume and say something mean like oh when she checks in the work and she says like can you go pick up this thing and then

Starting point is 00:19:23 I want you to get and then the very next line is oh I want you to also get the Harry Potter manuscript you did something fall in your head like there's something falling your head less something like that you know yeah so i think there's there's uh i think the way she did this performance was she was perfect in that this is like a perfect performance yeah for sure all right valerie fisher valerie thank you so much for being a royal reject for asking us a question we appreciate you the uh hi gregg and andrew hi valerie i love this movie thank you for reacting to it i have heard debate on that miranda is a villain while others have said no she's a tough business woman what is your opinion

Starting point is 00:20:01 Greg you want to take it away well I don't feel like she's the antagonist yeah that's what I would say to but I wouldn't call her a villain yeah they portray her as human and she's not a very kind person

Starting point is 00:20:17 and yeah talking about like if I knew this person in real life I or if I there were someone I heard stories about I would I would say they are not a good person I would say they're not a good person, which is true. But does that make them a villain?

Starting point is 00:20:35 Yeah, they're the villain of this story. They're the antagonist of the story. Yeah. At the same time, she's like, that is the business world. Yeah, exactly. She's portraying what it takes, especially in like the New York scene,

Starting point is 00:20:51 what often it takes, is that right? I wouldn't call it right. For sure. Is it ideal? Definitely not. you know it's it feels like very totalitarian it's it's awful um but no so i wouldn't chalk it up as something as simplistic as she's a tough business woman so give her a pass yep nor what i chalk it up to she's just a villain because she's anything but you know cruella toville

Starting point is 00:21:18 she's she's actually yeah she's nuanced she's in the right line between tough business woman and sure and villain because yeah you have to it's the movie's kind of saying it or to survive in this world you've got to be willing to step over people and sacrifice your integrity and values in order to keep advancing and do you really want that so in this world and that world does exist in real life she's just a part of that pie yeah no absolutely she's the antagonism and she's not evil she doesn't skin dogs she doesn't kill people but she walks all over them she will sacrifice people if need be to get where she needs to get to to advance to where she needs to be. So that is clear. And look, it's a good throat business, the fashion industry. And they

Starting point is 00:22:03 made that crystal clear. And if you want to make it in this business, that is what you need to be. And that is what she was. And I think Anne Hathaway is a representation of what she used to be when she first started versus what she transformed into. And Anne Hathaway was like, as we pointed out earlier, a cautionary tale to what I'm becoming, what I don't want to be. And, you know, I think the film just did a great job on executing on that. So I would not call her the villain, but as Greg pointed out earlier, I would call her the antagonist of the story, for sure, no doubt.

Starting point is 00:22:37 Agreed, agreed. Laura 6.18. For The Devil Wars Prada sequel, what storyline or plot beats would you like to see revisited and expanded on? What new aspects of these characters you want to see explored? I love this classic movie so much. Hope you enjoyed.

Starting point is 00:22:55 Thank you, Laura. SR 618 for the question. We appreciate you. I want to see Miranda is retiring. She wants the greatest disappointment of all time Anne Hathway to take the job. She rightfully should have taken in the first place that she gave up on.

Starting point is 00:23:10 I have no idea what the storyline should be. She's going into her retirement home. She wants to get her husband back. I have no clue. Just the fact that we're going to get back into the world with these two characters is going to be fun enough. So if they feel like there is a story to implore or explore rather,

Starting point is 00:23:26 great. I have no idea what it's going to be. So I would imagine, though, she's at the end of her rope. They already tried to replace her at this point with Francois or whatever, and she screwed over Nigel in the end. So we're what? We're 20 years removed from this movie. I've got to imagine they're going to stay on that timeline. So, you know, Miranda's another 20 years.

Starting point is 00:23:51 I don't think age is obviously that big of a factor when it comes to this. but the point I'm making is she's a little bit older, so I don't know how much longer she's going to want to keep doing this, although I guess until they say you can't do it anymore, but she did say I'm going to do this until I don't want to do it anymore. Not sure. We'll see what they do. I just want to get back into this world.

Starting point is 00:24:10 I don't really, as long as it's a very immersive storyline, and it's compelling. I'm down, and I just want to see a little more. Hopefully Nate comes back. We get to spend a little more time with Nate. That's what I want, Greg. What do you want, Greg? And Devil We're Spotted, too.

Starting point is 00:24:27 I imagine Ann Hathaway is like a successful journalist by that point or like doing maybe doing an editorial piece on her or maybe she's retiring and she's going to write the book. Maybe that's, I feel like that would be a cool story, actually. She's getting a book about Maria. Writing the biography book or something or getting into the fashion, like the writers have to work with the fashion world. I don't know. I don't know. We watch a lot less trailers now, which pisses off.

Starting point is 00:24:54 lot of people but we watch a lot less trailers simply because of this reason like it's more fun i don't i like going in blind the less we know the more fun it's been so the channel's just changed yeah more and you know unless the trailer feels like an event trailer yeah like an avenger's doomsday like that makes sense of the fucking that we gotta watch it's like it's an event trailer yeah but most of these trailers nowadays i'm like ah we can wait yeah i'm not gonna lie to you i did not see one piece of footage for predator badlands i went in not knowing a thing and i'm like holy shit that was so much fun going in blind and what an immersive amazing experience like i love this so having more of that i'll try to dodge this trailer for as long as possible the only

Starting point is 00:25:35 time i catch a trailer now generally is what it happens to play before a movie i'm watching yeah you're like that the most of the time i'm i'm usually showing up but before the movie starts but anyway uh thanks for the question thank you so much let's move to j rushden all right j rushes what up jay question is that they're a clothing ad you actually remember and what do you think of the american eagle ad with sydney swiney i don't think i saw the sydney did you see the sydney swiney ad was like causing controversy caused a whole bunch of controversy for some reason that i didn't understand i honestly don't even remember what the ad was i just remember she was really good looking in the ad i mean

Starting point is 00:26:20 that's what she's there to be hot in the ad yeah i don't think i saw it either I think Cindy Sweeney's kind of a boss, man. She's a badass. Is there a clothing ad I actually remember? No, I remember ads of like, I remember like the Carl's Jr. commercials of like, if it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face and like the model eating it at a car. That's what I remember. In terms of like clothing ad, I remember like Old Navy where they're dancing.

Starting point is 00:26:47 That's the only thing I really remember. I can't tell you of a clothing ad actually or a fashion ad. I've got the memory of a teaspoon. I don't, I, I, when it comes to clothing ads, I, I, I don't remember. I'm sure if we looked up some clothing ads from like the 90s or something, maybe something would pop up, but in the moment right now, I'm sorry, Jay, I do not. I remember the Nike ad with the basketball. That was cool.

Starting point is 00:27:12 They bashed the ball around screen movie, too, makes more of it. You know which trailer. Is that Nike? I don't know if that's Nike. Hey, you know, you know, which trail or ad I do remember from, I think it was Nike. It was Michael Jordan's Nike, right? Yeah, Michael Jordan's Nike. You know which one I do, remember?

Starting point is 00:27:24 I want to, was it, I can do anything you can do better. Remember that one? That was a good one. I know that's nothing to do with clothes, but that was a good one. Nicky San Risa. Hey, Greg and Andrew, I hope you both enjoyed the movie. My question is, if you were to give an opportunity to work for someone like Miranda for just a year to gain experience, would you do it?

Starting point is 00:27:46 Do you agree with Andy's trying to shut the job change, or do you think that change helped her grow as a person? would i work for someone like miranda hell no hell no love you gregg you're a good man uh no i would not work for her i look i would i would love to gain knowledge and grow and evolve as a person and i am a very ambitious person gregg and anyone here on this channel will tell you that but i am not sacrificing my soul or working for someone as heartless and someone who will use me as a pawn and not give two shits about me and i don't even care if you do don't give two shits about me, but I'm not working for someone like that.

Starting point is 00:28:25 I'm good. Do I agree with Andy's friends that she let the job change her? Do you think the job, or do you think the change helped her grow as a person? I think a bit of both. Definitely changed her a little for the worse, but also, too, it gave her a little bit of perspective on what she did not want to do and who she did not want to become. So I think that was a growth in itself and gave her not only perspective, but made her very objective and observant rather

Starting point is 00:28:51 to what she wanted to pursue in life which was already journalism but yeah I think this was everything happened for a reason and yeah that's what I would say what about you Gregory no not a million years I've worked with bosses way less bad who I hated and quit I moved

Starting point is 00:29:12 from a shitty apartment because I hated the landlord yes I've had shitty landlords they're the worst I would never foot up with someone like that that's not it's not my personality five days seven days a week and I would also I would probably like lose my I would lose my temper and

Starting point is 00:29:28 say something I know me too did I would lose my temper yeah and like screw everything for myself so no I wouldn't do you agree with Andy's friends shut the job change her I mean yes to both of course

Starting point is 00:29:45 it's not black and white she did grow I think she gained resilience, belief. She was a character who was quitting a lot, as established by her dad. She also found self-confidence and self-appreciation, while also sacrificing other qualities of herself that she maybe shouldn't have. So, yeah, it was a little black and white. It wasn't black and white.

Starting point is 00:30:06 It was nuanced. And I think it was a good depiction. Very human. I mean, I don't care for movies predictable. As long as the journey there is detailed enough. And there was not everything was predictable. Definitely. once you're enjoying the ride by a car yeah that was a big surprise right there that was

Starting point is 00:30:23 did not predict that one coming at all yeah that was crazy anyway guys uh that's it for today jadele i know you asked a couple of questions about um Nate but I think we already kind of covered that he was not unsupportive in any way he was the definition of supportive she missed his damn birthday for crazy sakes come on but what do you guys think about the devil wars prodda are you excited for part two did you read the book I wonder what the differences are between the book and the movie i'll be looking that up thanks andrew for being here and showing your sensitivity always let's get down to business we'll see you got soon rejects peace

The Reel Rejects - THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (2006) IS VICIOUSLY PERFECT!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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