Week 4 EOC: Devil Wears Prada - Deeper Meaning

When people watch the movie The Devil Wears Prada all they see is a funny film about an ordinary girl going through hell with her new job at one of the most successful fashion industry, but there is a deeper meaning to this comedic film and that is understanding a person who is living a life that is completely different from someone else. Andrea Sachs (Andy), the heroin of the movie, and Miranda Priestly, the antagonist, also known as the “devil,” are the two conflicting characters that lives the opposite lives of one another. There are two kinds of people in this world and these two main characters represent these people. Andy being the ordinary girl, she symbolizes the people who are at the bottom of the food chain. She lives a simple life, works hard, and fights back. Miranda on the other hand symbolizes those who live in mansions and cares way too much about their appearance and it is not because of narcissistic reasons. Through out the movie Miranda and Andy gets to spend a lot of time together and the more they are together the more they start to change. Andy was forced to be a high-class fashionable clone and the more she wear those designer clothes the more she started to change. Well, more like understand what Miranda is all about. She begins to get why people take their time to look good and she starts to see why Miranda is the way she is. Her friends don’t seem to understand, but deep inside of herself she knew that there was nothing wrong with dressing up and caring. In the beginning of the movie Miranda was cruel to Andy; criticizing her every move, showing no sign of respect, and judging her every whim, but as the story progress she begins to favor Andy more than her other assistant who she has been working with for quiet a long time. In the end, Miranda and Andy decided to go separate ways. There was no hate or any hurtful feelings, but a mutual understanding. They both knew that they are too different from one another and they belong in separate lives, but just because they were not the same kind of people, doesn’t mean one isn’t better than the other.