The Devil Wears Prada is about a young journalist who moves to New York to work for a fashion magazine. But she finds out her demanding boss could be the devil incarnate. Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job "a million girls would die for. With breathtaking ease, Miranda can turn each and every one of these hip sophisticates into a scared, whimpering child.
Search Charactour. Sign Up Log In. Character Analysis Avoiding Spoilers Living… in a beautiful Manhattan townhouse with her husband, Stephen, and her twin daughters. Recommendations Fans of her also like:. Up until then, Meryl was usually seen in serious drama films but The Devil Wears Prada promised her viewers that she could do no wrong, even when she was in a seemingly mainstream light-hearted film.
In a recent reunion interview with Entertainment Tonight, Meryl and costume designer Patricia Field spoke about the choice for her hairdo in the film. Patricia recalled that it was the magic of the actor who could just walk in without saying a word and still be heard.
Anne Hathaway, who was also a part of the interview, recalled that during her first reading with Streep, she realised the power of silence and how saying something in a whisper could be so much more authoritative than yelling it out. The Devil Wears Prada features two female characters that are poles apart from each other but it is their differences that make this a film worth revisiting. In Hacks and Devil Wears Prada , both Miranda and Deborah — the latter played with rich emotional texture by Jean Smart — face threats to their empire.
There are plans for Miranda to be ousted for a younger, Frencher version of herself, and Deborah is set to lose her coveted spot headlining at the Palmetto Casino in Vegas.
Because of their age, both women are staring down irrelevancy; however, Hacks takes pains to make clear that at least some of Deborah's undoing is of her own volition. Miranda, on the other hand, is still the best at what she does, and has next to nothing to gain from Andie — other than her loyalty and creative problem-solving. Here is where Hacks diverges from its predecessor: Deborah agrees to try on Ava's story-telling approach to comedy in order to freshen up her act, and thus, Ava Hannah Einbinder has something to teach Deborah.
Because their relationship is two-sided albeit lopsided, but still , we get to see a side of Deborah that we don't of Miranda. Both elders initially dispense the younger women with harsh treatment and impossible tasks; to them, this is preparation for a career in a world where, because they are women, they are ultimately dispensable, replaceable.
As the credits roll on Devil Wears Prada , with Miranda's smile and laugh after spotting Andie on the street, the audience gets the sense that Miranda is happy Andie learned to stand up for herself, but not necessarily that Miranda herself has learned anything from the experience.
Most likely everyone in the fashion industry works extremely hard at their job and putting together a spread for Miranda's approval, and to be shot down by her within seconds must hurt.
Miranda Priestly doesn't care much, if at all, about her staff and employees' well-being and only cares about whether they're getting their job done. If they can't do their job perfectly they're incompetent and will be fired immediately without any remorse. She doesn't care if her assistants are hurt doing something for her, she'll just hire someone else to replace them.
This quote perfectly sums up what Miranda Priestly expects of her staff. On that note, the lack of emotion Miranda says it with makes it pretty clear how little she actually cares about her staff. It would be just an inconvenience. When she makes comments like this, you have to admire her wit and boldness. When Miranda says this to Andy, her character is actually going through quite an emotional time having just found out that her new husband is asking for a divorce.
Even in the face of a marriage breakdown, she still has the ability to be totally savage. Really, Miranda is asking Andy to secure the unpublished Harry Potter manuscript at a time before the series was complete. But Andy comes through in the end, defying the odds to get the manuscript.
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