Honestly a part that they fucked up on is that her boyfriend is a chef. A NY chef. He would be working three times as much as Andy. I'm a professional chef. We work like 70 hours a week. He wouldn't have time to miss her.

The real mystery to me : why would an aspiring journalist NEVER do any research to a company that she intents to apply ?

When her bf and friends started playing with her phone while Miranda is calling and she gets mad, everyone is like "Jeez, what a stuck-up". I was soooo pissed!! They sucked!

I figured Nigel was dressing her on a daily

She did not refuse to eat the sandwich because of calorie concerns. She didn't eat the sandwich because she was so exhausted and frustrated by her job that she lost her appetite. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Um Nigel had been styling her the entire time until she picked out something herself. He was still styling her up until Paris. As we can see by the end of the movie she went back to a similar version of her previous style when it was all left up to her. I'm gonna need yall to get this right before you make up an entire list of the movie and nearly get everything wrong. 🙄

The problem I always had was that her friends, as mentioned, were happy to take all the 'gifts' she gave them, but then bitched and complained because she actually started to take the job seriously. The boyfriend wasn't particularly supportive either. However, Nigel is right when he says she wasn't even remotely trying when she started, and was whining instead of committing to the job. She couldn't win.

I don't think anyone took the Harry Potter thing as realistic lol

"Stiil, there's a lot of strange things that everyone ignores in this film" no honey, that was you. A lot of things were answered in this movie.

My question was how was he complaining about her job when he was a chef in new York like how do you have time off

I know it’s a small detail, but I loved the part where - after weeks or months of barely eating anything for Fashion week - Emily just grabs the chocolate pudding and roll, stuffing her face while berating Andy saying Andy didn’t deserve designer clothes because “You eat CARBS, for Christ’s sake!!” 😂

The plate costs more money than the steak. It's an Hermes plate with has gilded lettering.

I just realized that Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep, and Anne Hathaway were in the same movie like??? Legends.

Andys biggest mistakes was still loving that selfish boyfriend who whines for his birthday. And those senseless, selfish bunch of friends.

Her unsupportive boyfriend and friends would’ve gotten dropped super quick!!

I think it’s strange the heroine’s seen as betraying her coworker by going to Paris when the former is hospitalized. Is she supposed to give up her job because a coworker’s hit by a car?

I stopped watching after the first entry. They do explain why Miranda hired Andy. Andy’s little speech about her work ethic struck a chord with Miranda. Also, none of Emily’s previous hires had worked so Miranda was giving the “smart, fat girl” a chance. At the end of the movie, Miranda states that Andy reminds Miranda of herself. Have you actually watched the movie??

At the end nate was all like ‘we have nothing in common anymore because you’re into fashion now’ , as if all he ever liked about her were her ugly sweaters

Answer to second question: Nigel is dressing her all along just like the first outfit. That's how she's getting all those gorgeous clothes. We learn that in Paris when he complements her outfit and says: "Did you put this together yourself?" And when she says yes. He says: "My work here is done."

You'd think the internship was for a decade and not only a year the way her friends and bf reacted.

There's a deleted scene which you can find here on KZfaq. It explains why Andy so unprepared for the interview and didn't even know who Miranda was. The reason is because she was placed on runway through an agency that same day.

Andy pretends in the end she's not like Miranda, but leaving her stranded and tossing her phone proves she is exactly like Miranda in every way.

Stoped watching because LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE WAS EXPLAINED BY THE MOVIE!!!!

She was hired because Nigel said "who is that sad little person, are we doing a before and after piece I don't know about?" Miranda wasn't going to hire her at all until that point - she shoos her out with "that's all", and then as Andi is leaving the building Emily comes for her - right after Nigel said his line. the point being that Fashion can and does change anything and anyone, it has a profound effect despite some people saying it's irrelevant and they're not that into fashion. That's why at the end of the movie when Andi has gone back to her former self, Miranda let's out the little smirk and chuckle as she is watching Andi walking down the street back as her former self. It's the entire base of the movie - the DEVIL wears Prada.

I’m so glad other people see how insensitive Nate is! He always made me angry lol

Meryl Streep's character was everything! Loved her to pieces! This is a great movie to sit down and enjoy!

she went back to her style at the end but she deff looked better, this job truly updated her style all the way down to the hair. Hence why at the end Miranda smiled after seeing her fix her toupet while she was walking, it was a moment where Miranda realized her/the company’s impact on her

About the"instant Fashionista " Andy does Say when about to celebrate with nigel in Paris that the outfit she is wearing for her date is something she pulled for herself that means that all outfits she has used so far are hand piced for her by someone else i can only assume that Nigel is behind her clothes up to that point in the movie.

Imagine having unsupportive friends to your job and most of all, they know what spot she is in. I can't imagine having those friends. Now Nate, don't get me started on him.

Also: what irked me in this movie is when the girl just aassume Andy Is hooking up with that one dude when they don’t give her a chance to speak. She claims to know Andy, yet doesn’t let her give her side? Sheesh.

Miranda hired Andy because she's different from all the other girls. In a way, she saw the same ambition and will she has herself in Andy. And this proved to be true, because when Andy really worked hard, she was the best assistant Miranda had. She transformed herself and was able to go from super dull and lost to a stylish woman because she set this goal to herself. And this leads to the second point. It wasn't Nigel's help with the clothes, but what he said before that: Andy wasn't really trying. She was all the time fighting and sabotaging herself with her preconceptions about fashion and fashion magazines. It's when she sees that fashion is something more for some people, when she sees that it's a passion, an art, that she commits to be part of that world. She stops fighting.

This reflects the real american life: ZERO real friends, nepotism, conflict of interests, veneers, the bank of mom and dad for all the kids with cool jobs and nice flats.

Miranda explained in the interview why she hired Andy. She said it’s because she always hires the same type of girl and the usually don’t work out for long. She thought Andy would do a better job because she was different.

Emily Blunt was amazing! One of the best book-to-screen character actors I have ever seen! I became a huge fan of hers after this film, and I’ll watch anything with her in it. She’s a true talent.

Nate was the Ross Geller of TDWP. Whiney, needy, annoying.

That ’Gabbana’ line gets stuck in my head every time I watch “The Devil Wears Prada.”

They explain why Andy was hired in the deleted scenes, she was not even expecting to go to an interview with Miranda, she was just sent there by hr without short notice, that is why she wasn't prepared.

Its revealed that nigel continues to dress andy up until the end in paris nigel is surprised that andy could put together a beautiful outfit.

I think the reason Miranda hires Andy instead of any other girl who would “kill to have this job” is because she didn’t know anything about fashion. She was like a blank canvas and Miranda could teach her HER ways of doing things whereas hiring someone with fashion experience, their own view of how things should be in the fashion world may conflict with Miranda’s.. idk maybe I’m thinking too deep into it lmao

Regarding not knowing Miranda, Andy was applying for a different job in the building (deleted scene)

Andy didn’t learn how to dress up like a stylish guru. Nigel tells her what to wear every day. In Paris, he asks her “who dressed you up like that” and says he had taught her everything. It took months of her being told what to wear every morning to actually learn how to do it by herself.

Just to point out another thing. The Harry Potter Manuscript doesn't need to come from a book... it's a file on a computer. My best friend and I actually read it 1.5 weeks before it was released. It was a Notepad file and it didn't take much to find it. Don't worry, I still bought the book when it came out to make up for that piracy action, but hey, I also couldn't wait XD

Yeah, throwing that steak out was the most distressing and puzzling scene in the movie.

I ALWAYS THOUGHT THE SAME THING ABOUT THE GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH! ITS BURNED!!!

I had a boss whose standards where so high that Senior Associates always asked for a transfer. I was the Associate that made coffee, ran errands, plus compiled the reports, even delivery of contracts and documents were given to me. My boss saw that I fixed everybody's reports and left at 8pm and I got in at 7am.That boss gave me that opportunity to assume Senior Associate responsibilities. He trained me for 3 years which was similar to bootcamp hell and wrote my recommendation letter to Stanford. Now all the Senior Associates report to me as I became the youngest partner in my firm. Hard work and a Tough boss who just wanted the highest quality consulting for the clients gave me a different perspective. Life? didn't have a life for 15 years. Life started when I quit before 40 to become an entrepreneur.

Nate was not right. Didn't think so then and especially don't now. I remember at the time being confused by so many facets of the film. Like the message it was trying to push was counterintuitive. I thought Andy discovered more about herself and what she could do while at Runway. And her transformation was a good thing. She took her work more seriously. She grew to respect the industry and the pressure involved. Whether that's fashion or any other field, that's a good lesson to learn and carry forward. And, it's always great to look your best. It gives you more confidence. More swagger. She worked at a place where she could dress spectacularly and not cost her much. Of course, she should take advantage of that. Oh, and her going to Paris instead of Emily? Why was Emily all of a sudden so, "you sold your soul for fashion"?!!! Bitch, what?!!! It's understandable that Emily is upset that she can't go to Paris, but she had to know that was going to be the case holed up in the hospital and of course, Andy would be the one to go in her stead. But, they try to sell it like this great moral dilemma. It was a script-manufactured conflict. Not actual conflict. LOVE this movie, but for reasons the filmmakers did not intend.

Another fact: Meryl Streep had said this was the first and last time she did method acting. She stayed in her trailer when she wasn’t filming and while the other cast members were hanging out. She wanted to keep her performance as authentic as possible. Only, she said it felt lonely more than anything.

The first question is actually answered in one of the arguments that Andy and Miranda had in the middle of the movie talking about how Andy was only hired because Miranda believed in her being an underdog.

The answers to all these questions is "ITS A DAMN MOVIE"

When Andy threw her phone and left Miranda without courtesy, that sealed the deal. Miranda won. She successfully turned Andy into her clone.

How did Andy and Nate afford their NYC apartment. ..Answer NYC tenant and rent control and succession laws. This is the same way the series Friends explained how they afforded an even swankier apartment.

If you had listened to what Andy's father told her, you would understand why Nate and her friends are not exactly supportive of her job and its consequences: Andy doesn't like Runway, is not interested in pursuing a career related to fashion, doesn't fit in the industry standards, must be available for ridiculous requests, the pay is terrible, the hours are insane and all she does is try to avoid being chewed out by Miranda for every little mistake she could make. It was only a year, but Andy became miserable very soon and it affected her relationships. Even her new boss noted that her choice to work at Runway didn't make any sense if she wanted to become a serious journalist.

Miranda probably goes through so many assistants and fires them when they can’t do the impossible yet Andy does the impossible regularly

The fact that Miranda hired her speaks to the fact she saw something different in Andy. She saw some potential in her being an outsider to the fashion world.

Miranda hired Andy because she had gone through so many "fashion girls" and they all failed. She hired Andy *because* she didn't care about fashion and might be different

Wasn't Nate a chef/cook? Cooks work LONG hours. How can be possibly be mad at Andy for working late when he should be at work til 2am?!

Regarding the first scene, Miranda tells us she took a CHANCE on "the smart, fat girl." Perhaps she saw herself in Andy when she was young. Miranda even states this at the end of the movie when they're in Paris.

I never thought their apartment was all that spacious to begin with.

Emily Blunt..omfg 😍 feel in love with her in this movie!!

nigel styled andy throughout her entire time dressing the part besides at the very end, theres even a scene where he asks who picked out her outfit and she says she put it together herself and he says “my work here is done”

The printed copy of the book was heavily guarded. The script before printing could have been copied by an employee

I can’t be the only one who got sad that emily starved herself and while in the hospital, hogged her food. People should stop framing beauty as being thin or wearing the skimpiest dresses.

Miranda isn't just a fashion icon. She has an in with anyone in the writing industry. Be it photography, writing/journalism, editors, modeling, etc. She's a force and it's shown when she states that she has a list of prominent people in the journalism and fashion industry who would walk if she left runway.

"Everyone gets born, Nate, get over it!" Best thing I've ever heard about that scene

"Miranda who?" is moot. Andy wasn't interviewing for Runway specifically. She only found out which magazine she's going to be interviewed for once she was with Sherry (human resources staff).

Yes, lots of romantic movies have these totally unrealistic situations. Like Nate can’t give her the job for a year. Selfish

I think the two first things ARE answered in the movie. Miranda, when doing the monologue "destroying" Andy about the flight she couldn't get, explains hiring Andy as a leap of risk in trying something new. If she is a legend, she always take risks. And about Andy's looks, a little line at the end gives us a hint that all her looks where put together by Nigel except the one she dresses to meet Christian (which is the one Nigel praises her for putting together alone. "My work here is done", he says.)

This is a weird video but just so happens I have watched this movie about 50 times . . just really like it . . and maybe because watching so it so much I have started to pick it apart . . for example why would anyone eat an onion bagel before a job interview . . lol and if you are an aspiring journalist seems you would research the company you are interviewing with and be on top of your game . .obviously I need to get a real life in 2020 considering I'm still awake and writing this comment . . lol

There is a moment at the end of the ball scene where Andy has just helped Miranda remember the names of the guests. This part was not included in the film: Miranda quietly says thank you over her shoulder.

"Maybe we're being a little nitpicky here ....". You think?

Miranda depended on Emily for her new assistants and they failed so Miranda takes a chance on Andrea.

Another question.. When Emily gets hit by a car & ends up in hospital all the trees are green & in bloom, it's obviously spring/summer. Yet at the same time Paris looks grey, wintery & covered with lights that makes you think it's getting ready for Christmas.

What I still to this day can’t understand is why Miranda was mad at Andy for her inability to book a flight during a hurricane... like I don’t understand, planes can’t fly during hurricanes! lmao.

You guys really love this show because this is like the 10 video you made from it

I payed attention to all of the things you've mentioned in this commentary. I also pondered exactly HOW did Andy and Nigel have time to put all of those fabulous outfits together moreover, how was there time for that complete and total makeover? We're talking hair AND makeup and all before she returned to her desk which she was told by Emily that she must remain chained to. Never the less, one of my most favorite movies.😎

actually the total earlier indiference and self-reliance on Andy at the job interview and meeting Miranda is what make her to choose Andy - she somehow sees the whole potential inside Andy that she didn't knew either before, and all of her is a blank page so PERFECT FOR EXPERIMENTATION. Miranda took a chance for shaping-on Andy at her own self traits, and IT WORKED, she is totally right at the very end that Andy could have choose to left the work anytime BEFORE, but she CHOOSED to keep being there and stay, because after all, innerly SHE LIKED IT!! However when that moment on claiming victory over Andy, telling the whole true, was the breaking point when Andy on her new self improvements CHOOSED then to break-up and made her own way freely. Miranda was first quite shocked, but later on SHE IS HAPPY because not only she improved Andy's own self, but that actually she made a choice that she thought none could have ever done, as she, or Emily, didn't made it on time, while Andy did, and she was quite happy, because SOME HOPE in the world came to her. (Miranda actually was and is deeply broken innerly, but you could see that sometimes she wants someone could make her prove being wrong about something, and Andy DID IT. That makes something good for Miranda, though she keeps it hidden from everyone else to notice, as on her work she can't allow herself being softer, but she is actually very glad about that happening!1)

When I first watched that movie, back in 2006, my sister and I talked about most of those things. We thought she was lucky to get the job, and that Nate and her friends should have been more supportive. It could have been her big break.

This is still my favorite movie!!

Hello, dear commentator. Thank you for underscoring and offering such a profound analysis of all the key turning points that manoeuvre the plot. It makes one wish they had perceived things as deeply as you do on the very first occasion one watched this film.

She has every rights to complain! She's being harassed, emotionally abused, never thanked for all the work she did... being a nationally known company isn't an excuse to treat people like dirt

She literally explains why she hired her in the film

Coz of this suddenly yt recommend i go to my netflix and watch it again NOW!. Hahaha 😍😍 Love this movie watched it many times....

I love this movie, but I was so happy and relieved at the end when Andy chucks it all and reverts to her original, genuine self, and gives Emily all of her Paris fashions.

The problem with the 'blue jumper' monologue is that it only tells you how fashion works, it doesn't say why fashion works, or why we should care what colour blue is blue.

This video actually took all the fun out of “DWP.”

Andy may have been a sell-out, but I have never seen a "chef" sitting around the house as much as Nate does - especially if he supposedly owns the restaurant.

THANKS for this. I always have a lot of questions about movies

Nate more so got irritated with her, because Andy would still try to down the job while becoming the people she claimed to hate so much. When he said “I wouldn’t care if you were out pole dancing every night, just do it with some integrity” he didn’t care what she was doing, but wanted her to stop whining to him about how terrible the job was all while becoming an awful human.

Oh, AND Nate even SAID he wasn't upset that she missed his birthday... ("What, am I four??..." -- that's a quote from the movie btw, beings you obviously didn't see it or REMEMBER it!) It wasn't about his birthday...it was the fact that she always put work ahead of everything else. (Which, I know is another discussion, however you state he's pouty that she missed his birthday...) #timewasted

"get over it!" ? Imagine the bf saying this! Lol

The real question is, how did she get back to New York after she tossed her phone in the water. Was she gonna buy her own plane ticket for $2,000? No. She was gonna use her free ticket paid for by the magazine.. which means flying with Miranda... who she just ditched and left alone the remainder of her busy week. She was a terrible employee in that moment and shouldn't of used Miranda as a reference. Also who gets a job by saying "in the end I kindof screwed it up"? She has bad interview skills. Maybe the book explains all that better.

Nate says later that its not about his birthday, that he isnt a child anymore and goes on explaining what his problem is ..

Miranda does tell Andie why she decided to hire her; 30 mins into the movie, right before Andie’s makeover. She said that all the other girls that were fashionable and worshipped the magazine always turned out to be just “disappointing”. Miranda goes on to say she wanted to take a chance on Andie because she was different. This was the conversation that prompted Andie to get the makeover.

I hate how her boyfriend was though. Rest of the movie was cool.

I would also mention the "Miami hurricane incidents". Hurricanes do not just appear out of nowhere, it is known days in advance that they are about to hit a certain area, and the FAA usually announces as far in advance as possible when airports will be closed, so that airlines can move aircraft out of the hurricane zones. Miranda went to Miami for the weekend, it was a short trip, since she obviously knew in advance about the twins' school recital. Venturing down to Florida with an important commitment in New York just a few days later and a hurricane looming shows incredibly poor planning, which should be a shared responsibility between Miranda and her staff. She has two assistants running her life, anticipating her every need, and they must have known about the recital: how is it possible that none of them saw the hurricane issue coming?

Nothing is ignored in this film, true fashion aficionados would notice every minute detail in this iconic movie

I wish i was a size 6. Im a size 17. Used to be size 20 so on my way to more weight loss and healthier me

things everyone ignores in the devil wears prada? more like 11 and a half minutes of complaining and criticising an iconic marvellously fabulous movie

This is still entertainment and takes on story details that may not exist in real life but makes the drama so much better.

"Everyone gets born, Nate. Get over it" THAT WAS SAVAGE LOL