*WHO'S THE VILLAIN?!* The Devil Wears Prada (2006) Reaction: FIRST TIME WATCHING 

I feel you and agree with you on almost everything. Almost everything, because I imagine understanding the circumstances is one thing and then experiencing feelings coming with the circumstances is another. He didn't communicate well at all, that's obvious, but I do understand where he was coming from and can empathise with him in his situation too - in my book putting yourself completely on hold for a whole year is a big sacrifice. Having said that, diminishing her job and her efforts was uncalled for and just wrong on his part.

and hes a chef and should be working long hours himself and should understand what its like to have a demanding social-life-ending job

​​@@WedrownyGrajeki don't understand what you mean by putting yourself on hold for a year? In what capacity is he putting himself on hold?

@@deer541 In an intimate relationship capacity.

⁠@@deer541Putting “yourself on hold” means that he is not Andy’s top priority while she works that job. It means plans will change she won’t be available most of the week, and be more distant. I think BOTH Andy and her boyfriend could have handle things better. He was immature about things, he keeps making fun of the job even though Andi started to take things seriously, so he did act like a jerk for the birthday and the Paris thing. Andi knows her job is incredibly demanding so during the free time she had a home it’s a good time to relax, catch up with friends and get some gifts in advance for important dates. Also it’s important to not make promises for plans. Maybe celebrate things in advance or later date. Make it clear that “I can go out for 30mns- 1 hour but if Miranda calls I have to go”.

Id you see your friend flirting with someone else and their bf/gf is also your friend, would you really just let it slide? Now granted, yes, in the movie the friends and bf are carricatures and failures in communication; but still, in principle, they were on the right. And i know it will be taken the wrong way as my portrait is a guy. At the end of the day, Miranda finally smiles at Andrea (though she does not show it to her as she walked inside the car) when she finally walks away to pursue her true passions.

Andy said it: if Miranda were a man nobody would care

True. All my managers have all been female and they were TOUGH especially my last one. I have to endure 6 years of her constant nagging.

[Edited for grammar] How interesting. I've been hearing this thought process from a lot of women for a Very long time. And it strikes me as interesting that these women never seem to realize that Men have been making these Exact Same sacrifices forever. Just because you don't see something doesn't mean it's not there. Therefore, Andi isn't right in thinking it would be different if the editor was a man. He'd be required to make the Same sacrifices as she'd had to make. If Greatness was easy, everyone would do it. To be in first place and the last word in most industries is no easy task. Coca-Cola isn't slacking off because they're the #1 soda company in the world. Coca-Cola works harder than Pepsi because Pepsi is the #2 soda company in the world and Pepsi wants to be #1 and Coke isn't having it. Do you think for a second Coke is going to hire some kumbaya CEO that's into cooperation, fairness, and everybody getting a turn to be #1; or a fire eating beast that doesn't give an inch to Pepsi or anyone else? Women are just late finding out about this mindset because it's not a female one. They have to learn that the women who get to That Top Spot got what they wanted, and very well knew about The Trade-offs. The same ones Men have been dealing with always. You wanna be a CEO with the penthouse, the town car with a chauffeur, the 7 figure salary, incredible perqs, the envy, the power, the glory? You want to be the leader and sit at the Big Dog table? Well, you can't take the elevator. Ya gotta take the stairs and battle every single boss on that level, and every time you lose, you have to start over somewhere else at or near the bottom. You have to learn every single time and it takes over your life because it takes Everything a person has to get good, and get lucky. Too many Women don't seem to understand how things work at the basic level. If You want to Build something, there's going to be competition, but at least you can have more control. That control has it's own costs. It's just different. Different than if you want to sit in the Big Chair in the place Somebody Else built. You want to be the CEO of Coca-Cola, UPS, United Airlines, Hewlett-Packard, some huge entertainment company, law firm, university system, or HMO? There's someone in That One Seat who wants to keep it, people right next to them who've been working to get in That One Seat, and all the people below them right down to the new Ivy League employee who just started yesterday and is looking up, their eyes on That One Seat. Women aren't special, which is why the ones who think they should be able to play by another set of rules Never make it. Getting to be CEO requires sacrifices, many, many sacrifices. And if you aren't prepared to make them, you may climb up, but only to a certain level. Because the Men and Women who don't have a problem making those sacrifices are moving on to the next round. Andi had what it took. But, she realized that it wasn't what she Wanted. We'll never know what she'll do when she becomes that new employee at that newspaper, what sacrifices she'll be willing to make. But, the first one is likely to be giving up the boyfriend and refusing to let go of her dream job just to chase him around as he becomes the prep chef at some third rate restaurant in a third rate market. Or... maybe now Andi sees a future where being on the rise isn't worth giving up the man she believes can be in her future, and she bails to go work in a less competitive market with him, where they build a happy life together. It's been done, either way

@@LA_HA WOW - you *actually* took the time to type that *long* post just to be so utterly wrong and misguided? Sad. If only you'd spent as much time learning to properly write a sentence imagine how much further you could go in life.

@@danusdragonfly6640 Sure. From someone who's making personal attacks instead of, Oh I dunno, pointing out what I wrote that was wrong and backing it up. Good Day

How??

Because they don't support her at all. All they do is whine and moan. She is new at the job and only trying to do her best to impress her boss. Her friends and partner should support her, not complain. They can't handle her being good at her job @@richzip

Where they 100% supportive? No. But overall they were very supportive. They were only disappointed when she let the job affect her commitments to them and when started to become someone that even she didn't want to become.

@@richzip no, she became someone she didn't know she could become. We all change in accordance to our circumstances, no one remains the same. She did a job she became good at, and changed. Change is not always a bad thing.

@@richzipBeing supportive of someone is the most important when it’s cutting into your personal time with them and impacting plans as that’s when it means something. It’s easy to be supportive when it costs you nothing and it’s not like people enjoy working overtime, missing time with friends & family, etc. Andy didn’t skip her boyfriend’s party for kicks rather she was trying to keep her job. Her friends & boyfriend were very self-centered.

Yeah a lot of people now days side with Andy and her work ethic and so do I😂 But I also guess it’s easier to sort of be okay with the fact that your it’s very busy for now and you’re not a priority anymore. Then six months pass and your friend keeps making plans and then ditching. Eventually it becomes frustrating. Also Andy could have handle things a little better with her relationships. For example don’t make promises for events. And if an important birthday or date it’s coming up, buy gifts in advance or celebrate earlier or later date. Etc.

Yes and No. Actually we see her multiple times express utter destain for the job, for the workers and for that life style. She is under the impression that doing this terrible job that she hates with a boss and coworkers that she abused by will open doors down the line. But while she is told this, it's just hearsay. Let's put this in a different light. How would you feel is this wasn't a job but a relationship. Where someone you love suddenly changes completely doing a 180 from what she states she likes to what she states she doesn't. With someone who is utterly emotional abusive to her. Would you not say something to that person about the change in her behavior? At the end of the movie, the message is that her friends were right, that the job changed her into someone different. Someone that she doesn't want to be. Now who was honest with her? It was her Dad. Her boyfriend, and her group of friends. Now people say her Friends and boyfriend should just accept those changes and support her? Thats bullshit to be blunt. Her friends and her boyfriend meet her, become close to her based on whom she was. Not the person she changed into. When people in your life change you have the right to comment about it, and you have the right to decide that they are no longer whom you want to be close to. Same with Andy. And I am not saying Andy and her boyfriend are a great match (they very well might not be). But be very clear he didn't change. This was who he was always presented as. it was Andy who changed, and for the bulk of it, Andy by her own admission doesn't like who she became. Now of course because this is a film adaption the characters (on both sides of this issue) could be very different. making no judgment about how the book portrays them through he course of the story.

I don't know, Andy's friends and boyfriend pointing out she's in a toxic work environment can be a good thing.

I think the friend's reactions were justified, they didn't really turn on Andy till she deserved it. But her bf was judgmental from the beginning.

You don't say! Of course they are not better quality since you buy a lot of money for the name. Makes it only worse.-when make they fun of her cloths? Ned just says he liked the old ones.

That's all... 😂

Wow I can’t believe she method acted for this role 😂

But Streep regreted this afterwards and never method acted like this again

I would have been so pissed off too.

Sorry but if I am out with friends at a bar I switch of my phone! Your friends deserve that kind of respect! There have to be bountaries even bosses have to accept. You shouldn't be forced to be available all the time and it's rude to your friends if you are always on call. She is not a doctor for god's sake.

yes i can see why miranda probably felt jaded. i can imagine it's the same or worse today in the real world with everyone wanting to be influencers and get "content." a lot of people probably simply used the job to get ahead. which, isn't anything wrong with necessarily, but miranda wanted someone who could be different. she thought she'd found that in andi.

If the job is that demanding in hours and you can't make enough money to live in the city without outer support of course people will see such job as a stepping stone. Of course Andi didn't want to be an assistant, the first thing she said is that she wants to be a journalist.

Just remember that Nick watches a LOT of movies in a very short time. Those of us who watch the reactions didn't see these movies in a matter of weeks or months but over years. Reactors can't pick up every little detail on a first viewing. Neither did we.

@@QueenoftheBlackCoast I know. I just joking off of the iconic line. 😆

Oh dang that is a nice little work bonus! Thanks for letting me know!

And that's one of the reasons for 'a million girls would kill for this job!'

Oh I had no idea! I’ll have to look her up

​@@nickreacts6394 Also, Lauren Weisberger (who wrote the book based off of her life) played the nanny on the train with Miranda's twins.

​@@Alexandra_IndinaShe's Blake's and Alexis' daughter that she (I mean Alexis) hid from Blake for more than twenty years!

@@Alexandra_Indina Yes, I know, and I answered that Amanda is Blake's and Alexis' daughter that Alexis hid from Blake for more than twenty years.

Giselle Bundchen, was married to Leonardo DiCaprio.

⁠@@Alexandra_IndinaAnd didn’t even make it to his 25 year old cut off.

Formerly married to Tom Brady*

@@Alexandra_Indina Oh damn right 🤣 Can't really remember with these Hollywood couples 🤣

​@@bidishahDiCaprio doesn't get married. He always breaks up prior to their 25th birthday, lol. What a creep.

in the end you can see the new-found confidence she gained through the experience. i don't think she and nate would get back together, or if they did, it wouldn't last. two seperate places in their lives, different goals, etc. she's not the young college girl he fell for, and that's okay. people grow and change. in my head, they parted ways amlicably and with respect.

@@promisemochi I agree...They probably got back together briefly to give it another try. Yes, Nate made Andie see and take the true direction of where she wanted to go career wise. However, he wasn't supportive (neither were her friends) when she made small sacrifices to secure her job. As a young couple living together and trying to make it in the job market; be supportive 😁

@@valleya6114 I'd argue the corporate research analyst was the most supportive

@@videohistory722 You're right about that...He also knew the fashion industry more than Andie LOL. One might argue he could said to the rest of the group "hey guys, you're giving her a bad time... knock it off" 🤔 Still, he was the most supportive of the group....

Agree. Her boyfriend and friends are insufferable. At the end of the day, her friends love the perks of her career, but not what she's doing to get them those perks. And that little "I don't know this Andy" is before she ever sleeps with the other guy. She's giving Andy this grand dressing down for *talking* to someone. And then there's Nate, who should be crazy busy himself, but instead whines and pouts and stamps his foot at her. And at the end of the movie, he's having her accommodate his career move to Boston. Like, what? You're asking of her what you flounced around tantruming about the entire movie? They're all terrible people.

@@prismmonkey it's not about the working hours alone it is about her change of charakter which is not the same! Maybe Nate was that hurt by her lack of time because there time together was already very short we just don't see that. Besides even at home Andy spend time on work like doing the twins sience project. Besides her father uthers concerne too. And at the point of "I don't know this Andy" she smiled about a kiss from another guy and that kiss was not a "brotherly" kiss. -Besides in every movie with a workoholic people are on the side of the wife married to him. In those cases no one says the wife should stop whining and be more supportiv. -The true villain is the fashon industrie or that kind of work philosophy.

That is just awesome! You must be so proud 😊

@@nickreacts6394 definitely, she went through hell but now Anna counts on her to produce beautiful pieces every month.

That’s what I’m saying, her boyfriend was the real villain and in the end she left everything for him. She could have had so much like fame, social connections, money and success and she left all for him. Why wouldn’t you wanna see her succeed in life if you truly love her ?

Oh boys...you two have a lot to learn about life.

And in the end HE gets a promotion and NOW it's okay? >.

@@nishav5379 Succsess in live dosn't necessarily mean money or fame or social connection. None fo that counts if you are unhappy or burned out from the stress after a couple of years. Succsess can also mean beeing sadisfied with yourself or beeing happy with the work you are doing. Beside the movie dosn't show us whether she is moving in with him again. Maybe they are having a long distance relationship. -For me Christan Tompson is a villain he used her and basically date raped her. She is saying "no" several times befor giving in and she is not compeletly souber at that point but no one talks about that. And also the industry as a whole. Nate dosn't bully anyone, he dosn't but obstacle in her way he is just very critical. In every movie I know with a husband that is a workholic and a woman or his children complaining about it the audience is on their side not on his side.

literally stayed up and waited for her just to say he's going to bed. I get being upset but at that point just go to sleep and talk about it in the morning.

Well, it's always in difficult times where we know who are our real allies

Well, she really did wear hideous clothes. 😂 She looked great and stylish AF in this movie though.

Thank you so much! We had a great time watching it

If Miranda was a man I would call her a mean asshole and an abuser ( I mean mental abuse)because she is a woman I am able to cut her some slack. But there are still moments when I wonder whether her display of emotions is manipulation or genuine.

I’ve been with my husband for 23 years, and we obscenely love each other. Trust me. You both got the marriage vibe.

Another thing to point out is that the Miranda argument Andi walked onto was about Miranda missing an event due to the storm. Later when Miranda breaks down about the divorce and Andi asks if she could do anything else, Miranda says "your job". Full circle moment, where it is implied that when people fail to do their jobs, Miranda's personal life is affected. Miranda still chose the job, but it brings up some nuance to her character's demands. She actively sacrifices a lot for her career while all the people around whine.

@@kool2btrue But people who are under constaned pressure and stress who have long working hours are more likely to make mistakes and mistakes cost money. I'm also sure if people in companies would try to cooperated with each other instead of competiting all the time they would achive more.

Miranda should have checked the damn weather report herself! She is an adult woman. Beside we don't know why she was there. What if the buisness she addented to lasted to long to get out of there in time? Blaming that on Andi is unfair there are just things out of her control.

@@sawanna508 what part of she has two assistants for stuff she literally doesn't have time for are you not getting?

@@sawanna508 She does overwork people, but the point is that she also overworks herself. People want to be her, but don't want her burden. They all have the choice to leave or rise to the challenge from her POV. After all, there are countless people lined up for a position at that company. Sure Miranda could have checked the weather, but as @videohistory722 mentioned, it was Andi's job to make sure this didn't happen at all. Is it an unreasonable expectation? Sure it is. I'm just pointing out Miranda is not cruel for the sake of being cruel, but rather she holds her employees at the standard she holds herself, for the very career they chose.

Honestly, it's hard to imagine him nicer 😂

Yeah. I would've preferred them both to get together and just talked things out and go their separate ways on good terms. Maybe a cheesy scene where they leave the coffeeshop and walk off in opposite directions. And he suddenly turns around "Hey Andy!...Those boots really work with the jacket" Andy grins, turns and....bumps into Miranda. Miranda stares her down until Andy spontaneously combusts into flames and ends up in a pile of ashes. Miranda takes out her cellphone: "Is there a particular reason why my driver isn't here yet? Has he gone to Qatar to get the fuel? Is it impossible for my staff to complete a simple task?" Fin.

It definitely had a broad range of products in 2006. From 10 Things I Hate About You (1999): "See I like my Skechers, but I *love* my Prada backpack."

Her Boyfriend didn't force her to quit, she did that on her own. She could have stayed and never met up with her boyfriend, so both would go their seperate ways and aknowledge they grew apart. Miranda was the only villain in the movie.

​@@19Rena96He was guilt tripping her the entire movie and acting like a man child. Miranda didn't do anything bad, she could of quit whenever she wanted but decided not to. Miranda saw potential in her and wanted her to keep growing, but unfortunately, she was held back by her self-centered boyfriend.

@@Dante-xb9tv If you don't have time for a relationship anymore, you should end it. She was prioritising her job over him and her friends BUT still complained about it all the time. If you want that job, do it, but don't expect others to cheer you on for neglecting them. And imagine defending Miranda. A cruel and highly toxic boss NOBODY should ever have to deal with in real life.

@@19Rena96 Calm down buddy, her boyfriend wasn't supportive at all. He wanted her attention and her friends too, they were all being self-centered instead of being supportive of her. I imagine you don't understand that if you want to be the center of everything all the time? It made it seem more like he was jealous of her success more than anything, it wasn't even like she was avoiding him on purpose. Miranda showed more support than her boyfriend and her friends combined. Welcome to reality, not everything is sunshine and rainbows. Bosses are there to keep everything and everyone on schedule, there's nothing wrong with being demanding, especially in such an industry.

@@Dante-xb9tv Call down? Wtf are you talking about? Why would i not be calm? 😂 It's the problem of the movie. It screwed up tbe timeline and left out the majority why the boyfriend and friends where mad at her in the first place. Andy screwed up big time multiple times in the novel and they gave her multiple chances and forgave her every single time. The movie just skipped all that and decided to just wing it. She doesn't even get back together with her boyfriend, but ofc they had to change that for the movie as well. And no, those bosses deserve to be called out for their shitty behavior and need to be replaced. Are you a boomer by any chance? 😂

Thanks so much!

Thanks so much!!

@@nickreacts6394 btw I am a fan! Love your reactions Thor!

And leaving them

Why in an auction house and not in a fashion company?

​@@kurikuri6683She probably was too fat to get the job.

Common they don't hurt anyone liek villains too. -What about Chritian Tompson who date raped Andy (her under influence saying "no" several times before giving in?).