| Boy, that's disappointing and another indication that the creative team is off track. The Emily Blunt character doesn't have to be British (the character was conceived as American and only became British because Emily Blunt is British), but she has to have some degree of sophistication. She fits into the fashion world, and the movie wisely does not set her up to be deserving of a fall. Blunt's character can be mean and we're not exactly rooting for her, but she's a good employee. Just not as good an employee as Hathaway is. It sounds like her character in the musical is irritating and superficial, which seems like a wrong choice in what sounds like a musical full of wrong choices. It also undermines Miranda's business acumen a bit if Emily is portrayed that way -- in a business that's all about relationships, why does Miranda have a long-ish term employee who is her public face, so to speak, who is superficial and annoying? |
