Background of the Study

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

A. Background of the Study

Film has been growing into an interesting industry to express people’s creative thought and skill. Most of people consider film as a media to share their ideas and opinions about some phenomena in the real life and sees it as a promising business as well since most people like to spend their spare time by watching film. Film is a unique art production and has a strong influence toward its viewer because it combines paint, technology, music, literature, and drama. 1 On the other hand, film also reflects political and social pressures and issues indirectly in many complex and contradictory ways 2 Unlike the novel, short story, or play, film is not an easy thing to study. It also cannot be ignored because studying it requires extra effort. In watching a film we shouldn’t ignore the principles of literary or dramatic analysis. Literature and films do share many elements and communicate in similar ways. 3 The Devil Wears Prada is a comedy-drama movie which is adaptation of Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel of the same name. It is starred by Anne Hathaway as Andy Sachs, a recent college graduate who goes to New York City 1 Boogs, Joseph M. and Petrie Dennis W. The Art Of Watching Films, 1999. p.2 2 Lausen, John Howard. Film the creative process 1964. .108 3 Boogs, Joseph M. and Petrie Dennis W. The Art Of Watching Films, 1999. p.32 and gets a job as a co-assistant to powerful demanding fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly, played by Meryl Streep. This film which based on Lauren Weisberger s best-selling novel tells us about a young woman who stumbles into the hectic worlds of high fashion and publishing. Andrea Andy Sachs is a bright young woman from the Midwest who has just graduated from college and wants to work as a magazine writer. Andy has applied for a job at Runway, Americas most prestigious fashion journal; though Andy has little interest in the garment trade, they are one of the only magazines in New York with a good recommendation. When a person hired as assistant to its editor Miranda Priestly it will open lots of opportunity. As Andy quickly learns, Miranda is a diva with plenty of power within the magazine business and she isnt afraid to use it, and though Andy lands the job, primarily by being in the right place at the right time, she soon learns that working for Miranda could test the patience of a saint thanks to her endless demands and refusal to acknowledge the end of a work day. Andy struggles to hold on to the job and her sanity, knowing that a recommendation from Miranda can open nearly any door at any magazine. 4 Andy’ father know it is not the life that his daughter would want. He asked Andy to stop working there but Andy refuses. Andy convinces her father that he can handle the entire problem and get her dreams in the same time. Andy’s = http:www.moviefone.commoviethe-devil-wears-prada Accesed on Tuesday, December 1 st , 2009. boyfriend, Nate Cooper, do the same thing. He asked Andy to quit and looked for another job. Nate is thinking that Andy starts loosing her identity and become somebody else. This movie is telling about how a young woman pursues her life and gets her self self-actualization. In order to see whether she is success or not it, there are some characteristic that influence the process of getting the self-actualization. A person characters can influence the person life to get motivation that can lead her to self-actualization, so that the person can reach the perfect ness of life and feel satisfy about the life itself. Character in a story can be treated like a human character. Therefore, every character has some processes that reveal the need that the character must fulfill. In order to understand the needs that the character must fulfill, the writer will analyze the main character by the concept Hierarchy of Human Needs by Abraham H. Maslow’s Theory. The main character in The Devil Wears Prada has needs which must be fulfilled in her life. In this story, Andy is described as a woman who is a hard working woman, smart and she also has the patience of a saint. She cannot refuse any order from Miranda Priestly, her boss. Andy always tries to fulfill what Miranda wants, doing exactly what Miranda wants, even though sometimes it is so hard, Andy always tried to do the best to please her boss. In fact everything started to change. She started to loose her personality and it makes her started to lose her purpose in life. Everything can change if Andy wants to try to change it. In this story Andrea struggle a lot to have a life that she dreams of even though it is hard. It’s always said that “thousand of people would die for this job”, but whether it affect the same way to Andrea or not, so it will need a further analysis. In order that, the writer will analyzed it by applying Maslow’s theory about the human needs to see whether Andy can or cannot reach the self actualization in the hierarchy of human needs by Abraham Maslow in fulfilling her dreams and to see what characterization of Andy that made her can or can not fulfill self actualization in the hierarchy of human needs

B. Focus of the Study.