Comments on: Devil Wears Prada http://lawshucks.com/2009/07/devil-wears-prada/ A self-deprecating look at life in and after BigLaw Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:16:15 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: imfree http://lawshucks.com/2009/07/devil-wears-prada/#comment-990 imfree Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:14:50 +0000 http://lawshucks.com/?p=2254#comment-990 Cassandra predated the fall of Rome by nearly 2,000 years. She was from Troy, and was brought home to Greece by Agamemnon as a spoil. She was welcomed to the house as a slave by Agamemnon's wife, who was still really really mad at Agamemnon for throwing their daughter Iphigenia off of a cliff to get favorable winds to sail to Troy 10 years before. Plus she had taken a lover while Agamemnon was off fighting the war. The fall Cassandra predicted was the fall of the house of Agamemnon. Rome hadn't even been invented yet. Cassandra predated the fall of Rome by nearly 2,000 years. She was from Troy, and was brought home to Greece by Agamemnon as a spoil. She was welcomed to the house as a slave by Agamemnon's wife, who was still really really mad at Agamemnon for throwing their daughter Iphigenia off of a cliff to get favorable winds to sail to Troy 10 years before. Plus she had taken a lover while Agamemnon was off fighting the war. The fall Cassandra predicted was the fall of the house of Agamemnon. Rome hadn't even been invented yet.

]]> By: dlasucks http://lawshucks.com/2009/07/devil-wears-prada/#comment-919 dlasucks Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:17:59 +0000 http://lawshucks.com/?p=2254#comment-919 what? Why are you calling him Cassandra? Cassandra could accurately tell the future but was cursed by Apollo so that nobody would believe her. That's why Rome fell. Because they didn't hear her prophesies. Are you calling Laid Off Cassandra because he can tell the future and nobody is heading his cries and BigLaw will fall like Rome? If so, ok, I can agree with that. Otherwise, I think you're trying to use the reference to Cassandra and other words that are too big for you incorrectly. I hated this movie too. what? Why are you calling him Cassandra? Cassandra could accurately tell the future but was cursed by Apollo so that nobody would believe her. That's why Rome fell. Because they didn't hear her prophesies.

Are you calling Laid Off Cassandra because he can tell the future and nobody is heading his cries and BigLaw will fall like Rome? If so, ok, I can agree with that.

Otherwise, I think you're trying to use the reference to Cassandra and other words that are too big for you incorrectly.

I hated this movie too.

]]> By: Christopher http://lawshucks.com/2009/07/devil-wears-prada/#comment-889 Christopher Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:11:38 +0000 http://lawshucks.com/?p=2254#comment-889 Ugh...ok Cassandra, maybe the point of the movie is that there is a balance between "driven careerist" and "saving your soul" by not becoming one... You exhibit, unfortunately, the smug assumptions of BigLaw, and therefore, have sadly lost the capacity to realize that the movie may speak to both women AND men (defalting your sexist angle), and that why many find BigLaw such a singularly unsatisfying "either/or" proposition. Ugh…ok Cassandra, maybe the point of the movie is that there is a balance between "driven careerist" and "saving your soul" by not becoming one… You exhibit, unfortunately, the smug assumptions of BigLaw, and therefore, have sadly lost the capacity to realize that the movie may speak to both women AND men (defalting your sexist angle), and that why many find BigLaw such a singularly unsatisfying "either/or" proposition.

]]> By: Daigo http://lawshucks.com/2009/07/devil-wears-prada/#comment-882 Daigo Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:32:13 +0000 http://lawshucks.com/?p=2254#comment-882 Hilariously angry!! I hate that movie, too! Those over-worked alcoholic partners should just wait to get fired, though. Maybe they'll be able to get a wrongful termination lawsuit out of it: <a href="http://lawblog.legalmatch.com/2009/06/24/what-fired-but-why/" target="_blank">http://lawblog.legalmatch.com/2009/06/24/what-fir...</a> Hilariously angry!! I hate that movie, too! Those over-worked alcoholic partners should just wait to get fired, though. Maybe they'll be able to get a wrongful termination lawsuit out of it: http://lawblog.legalmatch.com/2009/06/24/what-fir...

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