Slate Money - Slate Money: Movies: The Devil Wears Prada
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Slate Money Goes to the Movies, a miniseries in which Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, and a different guest each week discuss popular business-themed movies.
This week, Felix and Anna are joined by Edmund Lee of The New York Times to talk about The Devil Wears Prada. They discuss the film’s dated depiction of the magazine and fashion industries, Andy’s judgey friends, and of course, the IRL Miranda Priestly, Anna Wintour.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! |
| 0:10.9 | Welcome to the Devil Wears Prada episode of Slate Money Goes to the Movies. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm here with Anna Shamansky. |
| 0:23.4 | Hello. |
| 0:24.7 | And we're here to talk about the Devil Wears Prada |
| 0:28.0 | with, frankly, the only person with whom it would be possible to talk about the Devil Wes Prada. |
| 0:35.3 | Edmund Lee of the New York Times and formerly of every other New York |
| 0:40.7 | media organization that you can name. Welcome. Thank you. Hello. We are going to talk about |
| 0:47.7 | the plot, the acting, the message, the script, and everything about this movie, which is a glorious confection of the mid-2000s, |
| 0:59.7 | saved and elevated by an absolutely astonishing performance from Meryl Streep. |
| 1:05.0 | This is a fun one. |
| 1:06.3 | People, you're going to enjoy this. |
| 1:07.6 | Stay tuned. |
| 1:09.3 | For Slate Money goes to the movies. |
| 1:13.2 | So, Ed, where were you and how old were you? |
| 1:17.7 | This is the question I always ask when you first watched the devil where's brother. |
| 1:22.5 | How old was I? |
| 1:23.7 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:24.2 | That's what? |
| 1:25.2 | It was 2006, right? |
| 1:27.2 | It was not that long ago. I guess it was. |
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