Since the publication of The Devil Wears Prada and its subsequent 2006 film, Miranda Priestly has been pop cultural shorthand for ice queen fashion scion, particularly if you happen to be employed by Anna Wintour and therefore can’t invoke her name lest you crisply be told to collect your things.
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But Priestly’s entire character would’ve been drastically changed if producers had ultimately decided to include these few precious seconds of footage that instead wound up on the cutting room floor.
Buzzfeed‘s Spencer Althouse recently posted this extended version of one of the film’s first big set pieces, which finds Andy Sachs (played by Anne Hathaway) and Emily Charlton (Emily Blunt) giving out names and backgrounds on all the people Priestly (Meryl Streep) would be hobnobbing with throughout the night.
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But in this version, Priestly (gulp) seems to have something vaguely approximating a heart.
Disgusting:
I'm just seeing this deleted scene from The Devil Wears Prada for the first time, and honestly it changed the whole movie for me pic.twitter.com/6Zkr6UxHQO
— Spencer Althouse (@SpencerAlthouse) August 28, 2017
As Refinery29 points out, Twitter is positively spinning from the ramifications of all this:
Whole. Other. Film. pic.twitter.com/Bre17wJV3Y
— Silas Miami (@SilasMiami) August 28, 2017
WHAT?!? Whaaaaat?!
— Nigel Campbell (@nigel_campbell) August 30, 2017
holy shit
— Joe Rodriguez (@jrodriguez713) August 30, 2017
We’re so very sorry for having shattered your world.
h/t: Elle
Jack Meoff
WOW I think people are over reacting to the impact of that few seconds. The film was nowhere near as scathing as the original book was. They gave it the romcom makeover and took the guts out of it. I was sorely disappointed that they did that because the book was much more toxic.
Bob LaBlah
Agreed. That was the first book I read twice because of how good it was.
inbama
As much as I love Streep, when she plays a villain, Hollywood “warms up” the character.
The worst example was “August: Osage County,” originally a play about a mother from hell. The dinner scene was so brutal, audiences stood and applauded smack in the middle of the show.
For the film, Director John Wells sweetened the story by turning it into being about a woman with a drug problem.
It needed a fearless actress like Grace Zabriskie – wonderfully monstrous in “Big Love,” “Ray Donavon”and just about everything she does.
Josh447
Changes nothing. She’s a prime manipulator. Even those people give slack to their main squeezes. If nothing more than to keep them under control and not disappear.
Armiya
Like OMG! Miranda said “Thank You” to someone! And to think this is a game changer for people? Sad.
Jaxton
Nobody cares for Twitter except for twits with nothing better to do with their time.
rand503
Sorry, I still hate the movie. That’s because she is the twerp and her friends are too. I have no problem with Miranda — sometimes a woman who is at the top of her field has to be tough, you know, like a man. If she worked for a man, that type of behavior would be expected. But when you’ve got a female boss, oh boy lookout! She’s the bitch! Like Barbra says, when a male director is demanding, he’s just demanding, but when a female director is demanding, she is a bitch.
So the girl (I forget her name) at first hates her job and thinks it is demeaning to her because she has “real” journalistic creds. So she wrote about janitors and that makes her so superior? Please.
Then she actually takes it seriously. To which her friends now act like jerks to her and demand she spend more time with them. And the boyfriend? Oh don’t get me started. Mr. It’s All About Me demands that she celebrate his birthday on the day of the birthday, instead of waiting for the weekend or least a day that isn’t the biggest party of the year for her as assistant. And then when she does leave the party, he pouts about it!
Then, she gets help from the staff on how to dress and survive, and for all that, she rewards them all by quitting in the middle of a big Paris project (something that in the real world will NOT get you a kind reference letter) and then goes to the alternative newspaper and trashes all the people who helped her!
Please. The only grown up here was Miranda Priestly and her staff. Most of the rest were just a bunch of self absorbed jerks, backstabbers, and selfish egos I wouldn’t spend two minutes with.
MikeE
I think you missed the point of the flick, then. Because the whole thing showed up how superficial and self-centered all of her “friends” were, and how the “superficial/self-centered” people that she at first mocked were not the bad guys.
rand503
Thanks — actually that was my takeaway. The “bad guys” at the magazine were the ones who actually stood by her once she proved herself, while her “friends” were the selfish bastards who only liked the toys she gave out, or were self centered.
Bob LaBlah
@rand503……….Wow. You must have really loved Leona Helmsley.
alanballs
i agree….her ‘friends’ were jealous, self-centered and greedy. Her ‘I’m so cute and adorable” BF was a selfish jerk. Her colleagues were hard working, focused, dedicated pros, and then she rewards them all by quitting in the middle of Paris Fashion Week. I confess to enjoying the movie, because it revealed humorous aspects of my vocation. I’m a designer, and I know for sure that quitting in the middle of fashion week (whether Paris, London, NYC, Milano) never result in good references.
Mike999
Changed the movie? It changed nothing. Actually, the scene doesn’t even make sense and deserved to be cut. It’s not a good movie to begin with, but keeping the Bitch Boss a Bitch Boss is essential to make the story – cheezy as it is – work. Even the tired, saggy scene where Amanda has a “moment of
weakness” and tells Anne she’s getting divorced is so bad and obvious and corny and fake and cheezy it makes you want to puke. Meryl should never have agreed to play it. This movie is so corny and fake
and bogus it would have been outdated in 1942 with Joan Crawford as the bitch. Crap movie beginning to end with the ONLY good thing in it Ms Streep, who, even saddled with this sort of junk manages to make it almost work.
alanballs
I agree….it was a nice scene, but it changed nothing in my mind about the movie.