Tuesday, February 17

Film Studies:
Character Spotlight on Miranda Priestly
 

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Miranda is fashion. She owns the shop and if she decides to wreck it she will. She is the editor of Runway. I salute you Meryl Streep (one of the greatest American Actors of all time). Only she could pull off this role, her villainous yet subtle cruelty was simply mesmerizing. She's not a queen she is a dictator and she rules with a perfectly manicured white gold fist. If you haven't had the pleasure, watch The Devil Wears Prada---it's HILARIOUS!

I fell in love with the Miranda character when she said this:
"This... 'stuff'? Oh... ok. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don't know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise, it's not lapis, it's actually cerulean. You're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar De La Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves St Laurent, wasn't it, who showed cerulean military jackets? I think we need a jacket here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of 8 different designers. Then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic casual corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and so it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of stuff"

I love Miranda's character but Anna Wintour (the real life Editor her character was inspired by) frightens me. Word is a television series was in the works but it was delayed. I hope to hear something soon.

"That's all."

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