Jahlyssa Franco
Prompt One
The cultural artifact that I chose to do my blog on is The Devil Wears Prada movie. This movie is a perfect movie that shows gender representation. I use to love this movie because it reminds me of my grandma. We would always sit down and watch it whenever we were together. The movie is about a young girl (Anne Hathaway) getting a job at this big fashion magazine place. She was an assistant to the meanest boss you can ever think of. Her boss would criticize women all the time if they didn't fit the right criteria of a woman's body. Throughout the movie gender representation is shown drastically for women. It would constantly talk about the perfect size for a women, the right clothing for women, the right hairstyle for women, and the right makeup for women.
Prompt two
Lauren weisberger created the story and David Frankel directed it. This movie was released in 2006. During that time, a womens and male representation and male representation was pretty clear and well known. In many other movies that are released, you see similar types of characteristics involving male and female representation with clothing, style and looks. Im confident that with a male director, there was obviously some gazing being contributed to the movie. Some creative techniques that were use to attract my attention, was Anne hathaway's getting the dream job she wanted and working under someone she inspired. Also, all the clothing and models in the movie. The director made it clear on what perception he wanted the “right” type of women to look like. Another creative technique was her falling in love and realizing she didn't like the perception she had to have in order to have the job. That really was a creative technique in the movie because it also had her realize she didn't have to do all the things she was doing to be qualified to be the proper women for her job. Other people might understand the message different than me, because others might think it was dumb of her to let go of such an amazing opportunity for her career. It can also be misunderstood by Anne Hathaway's character going against society and downgrading herself into a more “comfortable” lifestyle and look. They could probably think (again) that it was a dumb decision of hers. I think the most important value anyone should take from this movie, is to be comfortable and happy with yourself, and not to change for anyone. Many people think it's important to “follow the crowd” or follow what society does and thinks, when you should do, wear and say whatever you want. I believe this message is being sent because at the time, society wants all women to look like that, and also act like that. They want women to wear high brands and be super skinny, and never eat anything above 100 calories, so the fact that the protagonist in the movie walked away from all that was eye opening.
