Thursday, November 6, 2014

Week 4 - EOC: Deeper Meaning of "Devil Wears Prada"

In the movie, Devil Wears Prada, a naïve journalist, Andy Sachs, is hired to work as the second assistant of the powerful and iconic Miranda Priestly, the executive of the Runway fashion magazine. She may be the second assistant and the only person in the office that doesn’t worry about fashion, but little do her and everyone else know, she is on her way to being the best assistant Miranda Priestly ever had. After Andy had her interview and saw the little interest Miranda was giving her, she did what anyone would not do, and stood up for herself and the career she wanted to do. That is why Miranda decided to hire her.


The movie represents female power in career, love, and friendship relationships in complex and often impossible assessments. Female power relationships analyzed in the movie reveal that women use power effectively to compete in the world of business and to help other women advance in their careers; however, love and friendship suffer as women succeed professionally. Andy Sachs personal relationships with boyfriend and friends suffer because of the time and effort she puts into her job and the amount of change she is willing to do, to be the best that she can be. This is all for a job she never even thought of because she wanted to be a journalists, not a fashion-icon`s assistant. Later after helping Miranda save her career in a professional way, by not destroying her competition, Miranda lets Andy take the route she needs to take for her new career choice. In the end after all the time, arguments, effort, and change it was all worth it because she succeeded not only by impressing the famous icon, Miranda, but being prepared for the next job she will take to succeed in her career choice. Andy walks away from the fashion world and finds a job at a traditional newspaper publication company.

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