GG must see
GG stands for girls and gays.
I believe it will be a big hit of Summer 06.
The Devil Wears Prada tells a story about how did a girl get herself lost and slipped away from what she had believed…… It is based on the best-selling novel but it smells familiar. It’s a fashion version of The Wall Street. I have no problem with repeating stories. All the Hollywood movies are based on 2 or 3 same stories. The point is they need to be told in a smart way. Although sometime the rhythm was lost and not all the materials are well organized, but overall the director of this movie did a good job on making it a funny sweat popcorn fairy tale. Like what I’ve said on my previous post, it reminds me Steve Carrel’s The 40-year-old Virgin.
Ann Hathaway plays a personal assistant to a chef editor of a Fashion magazine (Meryl Streep), a live legend of fashion. Not like in the Brokeback Mountain, Ann Hathaway can easily handle her role in this Princess Diary-like movie and don’t need the meaningless topless. Meryl Streep created a very impressive "godmother of the style" without putting too many efforts. It’s an interesting role to her, and is easy as well. To see a great Meryl Steep performance, go to A Prairie Home Companion, not this one. Lady-girl partner stories are not Hollywood’s favorite type, but this one works well.
But what makes this movie special is not the old fashion story. It is the fashion that gonna suck hundreds of millions on the box office.
I don’t know how many Hollywood movies are fashion-related besides Ready to Wear, (Zoolander doesn’t count) but they sure should have done more. The reason why 007 movies are so popular is James Bond has everything a man could dream of: bikini girls, money, race cars…. A well cooked fashion movie like the Devil Wears Prada could be as popular as 007, because the girl in the movie has everything a woman could dream of: shoes.
Ann Hathaway got chances to wear tons of shining shoes, glamour shirts and other fashion accessories and meet top fashion designers like Valentino Garavani in the movie. If you can not understand what all this means to a girl, let me put it this way: it’s like playing (not watching) in the World Cup final with Ronaldo as your teammate.
One word can sum up: irresistible.
To the girls, and gays.
