Hi, I'm Michael. Welcome to Beyond the Screenplay. In this episode, we'll be exploring the film The Devil Wears Prada. Today, I'm joined by the lessons from the screenplay team, writer Tricia Around.

Hi, Michael. Writer Brian Bittner. Hello. And editor Alex Cayeros.

Hi.

So in the video that we released on the Devil Wars Prada, it was sort of all focused on the first 10 pages and why the film is so good at quickly and concisely setting up the story in those first 10 pages.

Tricia, you were the first one to bring this to my attention.

So why did you want to talk about the devil wears product?

Well, we were looking for a really focused topic. As I recall, we were just like, what's something that we can like zero in on about a film? So we're not trying to like sometimes it's a little bit of, it's a little complicated to pare down everything you love about a movie

and, or like everything a movie does well into like one video. So I, for some reason, the opening

like montage or sort of three sequences of this film have really stuck with me over the years.

You know, it came out in 2006 and I'm sure I saw it then. And I know I've seen it a number of times since then. But I just remember thinking, like,

this is such smart writing. It gets so quickly to the point. It, like, gets to the inciting

incident so quickly and just introduces the characters really well. I just was super

impressed with the screenplay. And then, you know, it's not exactly, I like that it isn't exactly something that's been

done to death, you know?

I think we as film nerds sort of come back to the same movies over and over again.

Or we like, I want to talk about the same movies over and over.

And I was like, I don't get to talk about this movie with anybody, but it's really,

really well

written. So yeah, that also attracted me to it. I was like, it's a little out of left field, but it's

great. Yeah. No, I remember you mentioning it to me, and I think it was in the middle of working

on some other video. And so I was like, wait, what? The Devil Wars Prada? Okay, sure, whatever. And what the devil worse product okay sure whatever and then you kind of like went off and did a bunch of work on

it and came back and were like here's an outline for it and I was like okay wait we're doing the devil okay wait

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