Thursday, October 4, 2007

The Devil Wears Prada...and so will Anne...and so shall I

From the moment The Devil Wears Prada's opening credits commenced I knew exactly what this film was all about. It forcasted so perfectly the film's story line. The first image we see during the opening scene is Anne Hathaway--a young woman whom is frumpy, unfashionable and by Hollywood's standards fat--brushing her teeth in the bathroom of her apartment (an apartment I might add that lacks just as much in decor as she in style). In juxtaposition to Anne Hathaway sifting through a drawer of cotton granny panties we're shown a montage of beautiful model thin girls (you know the kind you see in magazine ads) sifting through their drawers of La Perla (I'm sure) delicates and opting for laced thongs, selecting couture clothes from their custom closets and applying designer makeup to their designer faces. The sequences of this opening scene are all set to K.T. Tunstall’s "Suddenly I See" and low and behold before the opening credits even conclude "suddenly I see"; I see that Anne Hathaway isn't going to survive the fashion world as is. Anne Hathaway will have to swap her frumpy and plain style (and I'm being generous by calling what she throws together "style") for couture and elegance. In short, after watching the opening scene I know that if Anne Hathaway is going to survive hell, like the Devil, she will wear Prada. She'll wear Prada and she'll wear it well.

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