The DEVIL wears PRADA: Book V/S Movie - Which is better ?????

Author: Lauren Weisberger            

Cover artist: Evan Gaffney (design)& Nick Dewar (illustration)

Country: US, UK, France

Language: English

Genre: Chick lit

Published: October 6, 2003 (Broadway Books)

Pages: 360

ISBN: 0-7679-1476-7

Directed by: David Frankel

Produced by: Wendy Finerman

Starring: 

Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly

Anne Hathaway as Andrea

Production company: Fox 2000 Pictures

Release date: June 30, 2006

As the cover of the books says “The International Bestseller”, this book is a story full of drama, glamour, humor, fashion, and last but not the least – Devilish nature of the fashion magazine editor!!

This story is about Andrea Sachs, a young woman who is hired as a personal assistant to a powerful fashion magazine editor. A recent graduate of Brown University with a degree in English, Andrea moves to New York City with her best friend, Lily. Andrea hopes to find a career in publishing where she believes she'll be closer to her dream of working for The New Yorker if she can get a job in the magazine industry.

She gets a surprise interview at the Elias-Clark Group and is hired as junior assistant for Miranda Priestly, the editor-in-chief of the fashion magazine Runway. 

Although she knows little of the fashion world, everyone tells her that "a million girls would die for [her] job". If she manages to work for Miranda for a year, people tell her, she can have her choice of jobs within the magazine industry.

However, this job becomes nightmarish as she struggles to keep up with her boss's grueling schedule and demeaning demands.

At a celebrity party, Andrea meets Christian Collingsworth, one of the hot, new up-and-coming writers of their generation. They are attracted to each other, which complicates her relationship with her boyfriend, Alex.

Andrea's relationships become entangled because of her new job. Lily increasingly turns to alcohol and picks up dubious men to relieve the pressure of graduate school.

Alex, struggling with his own demanding job as an inner-city schoolteacher, grows frustrated with Andrea's long hours and constant stress.

Andrea's relationship with her family also suffers.

Matters finally come to a head when her co-worker, Emily, gets mononucleosis and Andrea must travel to Paris with Miranda in her stead. In Paris, she has a surprise encounter with Christian. Later that night, Miranda finally lets down her guard and asks Andrea what she has learned, and where she wants to work afterwards. She promises to place phone calls to people she knows at the New Yorker on Andrea's behalf once her year is up and suggests she take on some small writing assignments at Runway.

Back at the hotel, Andrea gets urgent calls from Alex and her parents asking her to call them. She does and learns that Lily is in coma after driving drunk and wrecking a car. Though her family and Alex pressure her to return home, she tells Miranda she will honor her commitment to Runway. Miranda is pleased, and says her future in magazine publishing is bright, but phones with another impossible demand at Christian Dior's Paris fashion show.

Andrea then decides that her family and friends are more important than her job, and realizes to her horror that she is becoming more and more like Miranda. She refuses to obey with Miranda's latest outrageous request, and when Miranda scolds her publicly.

Andrea replies, "Fuck you, Miranda. Fuck you".

She is fired on the spot, and returns home to reconnect with friends and family. Her romantic relationship with Alex is beyond repair, but they remain friends. Lily recovers and is lucky to receive only community service for her DUI charge.

In the last episode Andrea learns her dispute with Miranda made her a minor celebrity when the incident made "Page Six". Afraid she has been blacklisted from publishing for good, she moves back with her parents. She works on short fiction and finances her unemployment with profits made from reselling the designer clothing she was provided for her Paris trip. Seventeen buys one of her stories. At the novel's end, she returns to the Elias-Clark building to discuss a position at one of the company's other magazines and sees Miranda's new junior assistant, who looks as harried and put-upon as she once did.

All and all it’s a good read which keeps the reader hooked up with the book. The story line is such that the reader can’t wait to reveal more of it and find what exactly “devil” does to Andy!!

Now, after reading the novel, I decided to watch this movie, just to see if the story was done enough justice with or not?

But sadly, the movie however hard it tried to give the real story, there were not many but not too little too changes!! while reading the book, the person you'd portray as Miranda is not the one you'd get in the movie. Also the main story has Alex, her its Matt!! Who is a chef!! Same goes to the character of Lily. The Lily I had portrayed as while reading, I was almost shocked to see her on screen!!

Also the major drawback the movie has is the climax. The story turns to go haywire when the end comes. The end is badly re-created in  the movie.

But nonetheless, if you're someone who would prefer watching 109 minutes rather than reading almost double, 360 pages then yea you can watch it. But all the readers out there, read the book and then watch the movie(if you want that is!!)

Ratings for Book - 4 out of 5 and for Movie - 3 out of 5 !!

Thank you for reading!! Let me know if there are any suggestions / any book or movie reviews you'd like me to do :) Keep reading until then ;)