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If you were Andy in Devil Wears Prada

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Rosewaterblossom · 28/08/2022 21:27

I don't know how old she is supposed to be in the film, but she's young. Just watched the scene where she had to attend the benefit because Emily was sick so Miranda wanted both assistants. Andy is late home for her boyfriends birthday, as in she missed it.

On paper it looks awful.. girlfriend puts work first and missed boyfriends birthday. However... he knows why she is doing the job, to progress to do what she really wants to do in the future which means in the mean time, she needs to suck it up and do as she's told in the job she has. Let's face it, any job we really want in the future usually involves much of what we don't want to be doing for a period of time.

Anyway, I just hate the scene where she arrives home feeling guilty as anything, after turning down an invite to meet people whom might be important to her ongoing career, to Nate, who is sat there having stayed up until she got home, to look at her, make her feel even more guilty and just say "I'm going to bed.."

If that were my young dd I'd be encouraging her to do what she needs to do to further her career and reach for the stars. Not be made to feel guilty by a boyfriend who isn't happy for her to be going forwards.

I'm glad Andy and Nate didn't get back together in the end.

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megletthesecond · 28/08/2022 21:29

Yanbu. Nate was a PITA.

Dotcheck · 28/08/2022 21:30

I thought that was more of a ‘straw that broke the camels back’ - with the amount of hours she put in. She was never ‘ off’ and Miranda took the piss in a big way. Plus Andy had compromised her values for Miranda

RoseDabel · 28/08/2022 21:33

People think Miranda is the villain in that movie but the real villain is Nate!

DustinsHat · 28/08/2022 21:36

I thought they did get back together in the end? Didn't Nate take a job somewhere else and then Andy decided to do with him?

Keyansier · 28/08/2022 21:40

Nate and her friends were all horrible to her. The scene where she gives them all gifts and then the very next second they are sabotaging her and threatening to shout at her boss gives me the rage every time.

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Rosewaterblossom · 28/08/2022 22:07

Keyansier · 28/08/2022 21:40

Nate and her friends were all horrible to her. The scene where she gives them all gifts and then the very next second they are sabotaging her and threatening to shout at her boss gives me the rage every time.

Agree. They were awful when they wouldn't give her the phone back!

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Thesearmsofmine · 28/08/2022 22:10

I never liked Nate or her friends. They weren’t supportive of her really.

RebulahConundrum · 28/08/2022 22:43

Nate is the worst villian in cinematic history!

GetOffTheRoof · 28/08/2022 23:04

Read the books - they are much better. I especially enjoyed the sequel. Both utter trash of course, but fun.

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Rosewaterblossom · 28/08/2022 23:14

RebulahConundrum · 28/08/2022 22:43

Nate is the worst villian in cinematic history!

He's just awful. I mean who sits there until their girlfriend comes home to just look at her (to make her feel guilty) and say they're going to bed.

Sadly this would never wash with a man who was furthering his career... ((yes I know it's a film)

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OnTheBrinkOfChange · 28/08/2022 23:33

Totally agree, he is a manipulative little shit and her friends aren't true friends. They all just want to drag her down to their level.

Crackery · 28/08/2022 23:34

My favourite film of all time!! But I had no idea there was a book, never mind a sequel!!! Off to search Amazon...

Ponderingwindow · 28/08/2022 23:34

Hated Nate.

pouting because your girlfriend has a demanding job while the two of you have no other real obligations to balance. Has he ever thought about what it is like to date a chef? They don’t exactly tend to work sociable hours even when careers advance and they do have more responsibilities outside of work as well.

SecretMoomin · 28/08/2022 23:37

YANBU
Nate is awful!
Dd and I watch this together regularly, we both think he’s a massive plonker, and that Andy should have finished the internship.

MissBattleaxe · 28/08/2022 23:40

What's the sequel called?

RaRaRaspoutine · 29/08/2022 00:01

nate was a wet flannel

Alconleigh · 29/08/2022 09:48

They are back together at the end aren't they?

pippinsleftleg · 29/08/2022 09:53

I hate this film for exactly this reason - how dare she try and further her career working for a magazine her smug friends don’t approve of!

thenightsky · 29/08/2022 09:53

I was very disappointed in Andy when she went back to him at the end.

EduCated · 29/08/2022 09:54

Agree that the books are much better. I remember watching the film for the first time and being pissed at how much they’d simplified it, though I haven’t read it in ages so could be misremembering!

Keyansier · 29/08/2022 11:18

Am I the only one who DOESN'T remember them getting back together at the end (of the film)?

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Rosewaterblossom · 29/08/2022 11:20

She didn't go back to Nate. They met up in the coffee shop in the end where she tells him she has a job interview and he tells her he has gotten a job elsewhere, then they go their separate ways which is where Andy sees Miranda across the street.

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Keyansier · 29/08/2022 11:24

Rosewaterblossom · 29/08/2022 11:20

She didn't go back to Nate. They met up in the coffee shop in the end where she tells him she has a job interview and he tells her he has gotten a job elsewhere, then they go their separate ways which is where Andy sees Miranda across the street.

That's how I remembered it too. Perhaps in the book version they get together.

MissBattleaxe · 30/08/2022 02:37

No I think they do plan to get back together. It's something like he has a job in Boston and says something about joining him there? I definitely got the impression they planned a future together.

CornflowerBlue62 · 30/08/2022 02:49

They don’t get back together in the book version.