Devil Wears Prad Movie Analysis

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“You have no sense of fashion” That’s how the most powerful fashion magazine editor, Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) slights each discussion with her colleagues in The Devil Wears Prada, a motion picture in view of glam and allure of fashion industry. The Devil Wears Prada was released in 2006 by Fox 2000 Pictures, directed by David Frankel who is best known for directing the pilot episode of the comedy series “Entourage” and the movie “Marley and Me”. This film is based on its book adaptation written by Lauren Weisberger, who is an ex-employee of Vogue.
The Devil Wears Prada focuses on a young, smart woman, Andrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway) who is an aspiring journalist fresh out of Northwestern University. She is in desperate need of a job as a journalist and is hired by Miranda as her second assistant. Andrea doesn’t have a clue about fashion but still
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Miranda (Meryl), carries each costume with poise and her stilettos are to die for. All this is accompanied by her dazzling entry from her car or when showcasing her cold demeanor in a scene where she is found to not share an elevator with anyone and finish the conversation with every person in the room by “that’s all.” If looks could kill, Meryl Streep would for sure be the sensational fashion industry’s notorious killer.
Also, The Devil Wears Prada is filmed in New York and in the fashion hub; Paris that gives the movie an imaginative and climatic background that takes us into the more profound universe of fashion where scenes of disloyalty and stealing away another person’s credit are shot. For example, the well-known scene filmed here was when Miranda doesn’t want to let go of her job and refuses to let Runway Magazine stylist, Nigel (Stanley Tucci) work with James Holt as a creative director and instead offers that post to someone else. This piece of the movie blew my mind completely. I was as shaken as Andrea was in the

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