Tuesday, July 04, 2006

 

The Devil Wears Prada

It was good. Go see it in the theater. There are lots of pretty clothes. I am sure you can see them better on the big screen.

So I have one comment to make about this movie. Afterward, I complained that it annoyed me that she and her friends did not actually sound like real people when they talk to eachother. And Shawn said "well, it is not like they talk like real people on Dawson's Creek."

Now put aside for a sec that Dawson's Creek has never been on my list of favorite shows, there is a difference between shows in which they are not supposed to sound like real people and ones in which they just fail. In Dawson's Creek, as well as Gilmore Girls and the West Wing, the whole point is that they talk in this really stylized way. Part of the reason the show is cool is because of the fast, funny way they talk that is like nothing in real life. The same goes actually for the characters of Miranda and Emily in the Devil Wears Prada. It does not matter that they don't talk like real people, because that is part of the humor of the movie. But when Andy (Hathaway) is talking to her friends, she is supposed to be normal, and failure, well, it is a flaw in the movie.

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