Devil Wears Prada Gender Analysis

The Devil Wears Prada

The film The Devil Wears Prada, offers different views of gender roles than other movies. The movie gives women the roles generally portrayed by men, which gives them a bad representation by depicting women as career people who have no time for a personal life, therefore giving them a bad image. It gives men the favorable opinion by having them perform miracles. It also tends to give a more positive portrayal of men by giving those roles that have female characteristics. The Devil Wears Prada tends to favor the men while impairing the female characters and making them look like bad people. Andrea, also known as Andy, works as a secretary at the magazine Runway. She works for the great Miranda Priestly, the chief editor at Runway, and doesn’t really care about the job. Andy is unwilling to change her appearance even if pressured by her colleagues. She is pushed to the edge of her job many times by her boss Miranda and thinks about quitting. She gets help from the art director Nigel and a few other people as she eventually transforms into another person as her appearance changes as well as her personality and attitude towards her job. In the opening scene of The Devil Wears Prada, gender portrayals can be viewed as switched from their typical roles. The women are the first to get ready for the day while the men are still in bed. The model’s companion and Andy’s boyfriend are still in bed while the women begin their morning. Before the women leave, they give a kiss goodbye to their opposite. The scene sets the role genders play in the film for the whole movie, which is that women are the career people. The scene implies that the women care about their work and goes against how traditional gender roles play. By doing so, it favors the men because it is now the women who have careers and have no time for a relationship. This is the same for Andy, whose image is damaged due to her job that is now her first priority. The film