Synopsis of the Film

lx who gets job in a fashion world. Although the characters and the events in the film are unreal, it could represent the phenomena in a real social life.

J. Synopsis of the Film

The Devil Wears Prada is an Academy Award-nominated 2006 comedy-drama film. The film was distributed by 20 th Century Fox in which produced by Wendy Finerman and directed by David Frankel. Based on the best-selling novel of Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel of the same title, the movie is set in the fashion world. Many designers allow their clothes and accessories to be used in the film, making it the most expensively-costumed film in history. One of the main characters of the film is Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, a powerful and demanding fashion magazine editor. Priestly is widely believed to be based on Vogue editor Anna Wintour, the infamously cold control freak in charge of the legendary fashion magazine. Author Lauren Weisberger worked for Wintour for a year, and detailed the brutal ‘glamorous’ life in her book of the same title. Weisberger says she was a glorified Starbucks and steak fetcher, and expected to produce the latest Harry Potter galley for Priestly’s twins, months before publication. And that’s not the half of it. Wintour turned the other cheek and attended an early screening in Manhattan, and called the film ‘amusing’. The book was translated into 27 languages and stayed on the New York Times bestseller’s list for six months. lxi The other main character which determines the flow of this film Anne Hathaway as Andrea “Andy” Sachs -a recent college graduate who comes to New York City. Andy gets job as a second assistant for icy editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly. Her lack of style or fashion knowledge and mess up with her job make her an object of scorn around the office. She puts up with Miranda impossible request to get two copies of an unpublished Harry Potter manuscript to her daughters, because she is told if she lasts a year in the position she will get other fine jobs, perhaps even the journalistic position she truly desire. With the help of art director Nigel, Andy adjusts to the position, does her job competently and begins to dress more stylishly as she gets free designer clothing and accessories. However, the more polished Andy’s clothes become, the more tattered her life becomes. She misses her boyfriend’s birthday -Nate Adrian Grenier, a young chef- and finds herself making decisions that the “old Andrea” never would have made, including stealing an opportunity from a coworker -Emily Emily Blunt, Miranda’s first assistant- and flirting with a handsome smooth-talking man -Christian Simon Baker, a famous writer. lxii CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

A. Type of Research