影片對白 I will pretend you
did not just ask me that. She's the editor in chief of Runway, not to mention a legend. You work a year for
her, and you can get a job at any magazine you want. A million girls would kill
for this job.
我觀之我見
隨著司機的一條短信提示，整個辦公室都開始進入備戰狀態：穿平底鞋的秘書抓起備用的高跟鞋往腳上套、高級助理飛快地把各種雜志往她桌上擺好、連帶倒上礦泉水捧起日程安排表……
考考你
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文化面面觀
The Devil Wears Prada:
電影與暢銷書的結合
The Devil Wears Prada is a comedy-drama film,
the screen adaptation of Lauren Weisberger's 2003 novel of the same name. It
stars Anne Hathaway as Andrea Sachs, a recent university graduate who gets a job
as a co-assistant to powerful fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly, played
by Meryl Streep. The film co-stars Emily Blunt as Priestly's first-assistant,
Adrian Grenier as Sachs' boyfriend, and Stanley Tucci as a male co-worker of
Priestly's. Tracie Thoms plays Lily, a close friend of Sachs' and Simon Baker
has the role of a writer who assists her with some difficult tasks assigned by
Priestly.
Hoping to work her way to the The New Yorker or Vanity Fair, Andrea "Andy"
Sachs, fresh out of college, lands a plum magazine job: personal assistant to
Miranda, who dominates the fashion world from her perch atop Runway magazine.
She puts up with the eccentric and humiliating requests of her boss because, she
is told, if she lasts a year in the position she will get her pick of other
jobs, perhaps even the journalistic position she truly craves.
Gradually, though, Andrea adjusts to the position and its many perks,
including free designer clothing and other choice accessories. She also comes to
prize chance encounters with hot young writer Christian (Baker), who earns her
eternal gratitude when he helps her with one of her more impossible assignments.
However, her family and, especially, friends are feeling neglected. Ultimately
Andrea realizes she must make a choice between them and her job lest she become
more like the woman she despises working for.
Differences between film and
novel
1. In the movie, Andrea is a graduate of Northwestern instead of Brown, and
is from Ohio instead of Connecticut. Her career aspirations have been changed
from literature to journalism, and she is a brunette rather than a blonde.
2. Lily's role is the most significant change between the novel and the film.
In the former, she is a graduate student in Russian literature at Columbia
rather than working at an art gallery as she does in the film. Her role in the
novel is much larger, and the narrative goes into lengthy detail about her past
with Andrea, depicting her as more free-spirited in contrast to her. In both the
film and the novel she comes to enjoy the free designer gifts Andrea's job
provides. Lily encourages Andrea to pursue Christian in the novel, while in the
film she is angry when she sees the two close together. She's also Andrea's
roommate instead of Nate and, over the course of the novel, starts to pick up
men in bars and develops a drinking problem as a result of stress from her
studies. A car accident she suffers while Andrea is in Paris triggers the climax
of the novel.
3. Nate is named Alex in the novel and is teaching fourth graders in the
South Bronx through Teach for America rather than being a chef as in the movie.
He and Andrea do not live together as they do in the film, and have broken up at
the end, although they remain friends.
4. Emily is seen much more often in the novel, and is more cynical in her
attitude toward Miranda, sometimes not doing things she has told Miranda she has
done. Overall, she is a more sympathetic character in the novel. In the film, it
is Emily, not Lily, who is injured in a traffic accident.
5. In both the novel and the film, Andrea is required to deliver the Book and
Miranda's dry cleaning to her home. In the novel, Andrea walks in while Miranda,
"B-DAD", Cassidy and Caroline are having dinner and starts to talk without cue,
obviously humiliating herself. In the film, this scene is simplified by having
her listen to the daughters tricking her into heading upstairs where she walks
in on Miranda and her husband arguing.
6. Generally, Miranda is extensively much more cold, abusive, and distant to
Andy in the novel. The film offered the two a much more colorful connection and
sense of understanding.
7. The Doug character does not exist in the novel.
8. Christian's last name is Collinsworth in the
novel. He and Andrea do not sleep together as they do in the film. However, by
the end of the book, he and Andrea still maintain their flirtatious friendship.
9. Miranda's explanation of how Andrea's cable knit sweater was ultimately
influenced by the couture in the magazine's pages, and Nigel's lecture about how
important Runway truly is and what it represents to so many people, are not in
the novel and were written for the film.
10. Andrea's effort to get the new Harry Potter books (not copies of the
unpublished manuscript) is less successful in the novel. While she is aware that
the twins want separate copies, only one is actually delivered (to Paris, not
the train) and Miranda again berates Andrea over it. Also, in the novel she is
asked to get the fourth book in the series, not the seventh, as is shown in the
film. (A closeup of the manuscript the twins read says "Harry Potter: Book
Seven".)
11. In the novel, the twins attend the Horace Mann School in The Bronx, New
York, while in the movie, they attend The Dalton School in New York, New York.
12. There is less confusion in the novel on Andrea's part over where to put
the Book and the dry cleaning at Miranda's home (in the novel, a Fifth Avenue
penthouse rather than a townhouse as it is in the film).
13. Irv Ravitz, played by Tibor Feldman and seen in several scenes throughout
the movie, is only referred to in the novel.
14. In the novel Nigel is very tall, British, black and enough of a celebrity
that even Andrea recognizes him; whereas the film's Nigel (Stanley Tucci) is
white, of normal height and from Rhode Island. Also, he is not so nice in the
book and in fact most of his niceness is arranged by Emily in the book.
15. He, and the other male Runway staffers in the novel, are also openly,
even flamboyantly, gay. But while his character in the film could be gay, there
are no references to it in the script, the other men were cut from the story and
this aspect of the novel is largely absent from the film.
16. Nigel is never offered a new job in the novel, and Christian is never
offered a job at Runway.
17. Both Andrea and Miranda are described in the book as coming from Jewish
families (Miranda had even changed her name to something less Jewish). In the
film, no reference is made to either character's religious or ethnic background.
18. Emily is English. The novel made no reference to her nationality.
19. Conversely, Miranda is English in the novel, but Streep plays her as an
American.
20. In the novel, Emily cannot go to Paris due to a bout with mononucleosis.
In the film, Miranda decides Andrea is more capable when Andrea remembers who an
oncoming guest is at a museum benefit after the cold-stricken Emily fails. She
puts Andrea up to telling Emily she's going with her instead, and the film
implies Emily is also fired. However, before Andrea can tell Emily this, she
gets hit by the car.
