Friday 4 October 2013

Conclusion


Reading Log Conclusion



In conclusion to my research on my reading log I have looked and found that my most reliable resource is the critic reviews on the Devils Wears Prada about the way in which women are shown in the business industry.

Looking in to the first critic review is a quotation by Miranda Priestly, to Andrea shows me that Miranda knows what she is talking about when it comes to fashion. When people talk badly about the fashions industry like Andrea did here she is very defensive over it and always has an answer.  When reading in this I can relate to male gaze to some men. Some men like having a woman who is in charge and shows there power in their business. In some ways this can show negative effects on the film as it shows that women in power can be very confidence draining and what I mean by this is that Andrea was new to the position and she had the confidence to say that the belts look the same, basically expressing her feeling to Miranda, but the answer that she received wasn’t nice and very rude.

Looking in to next critic review “Unfortunately, Devil Wears Prada is not just another boss from hell movie. It highlights the values of the fashion industry – values that are incredibly superficial and damaging. If you are a woman and you happen to be lucky enough to wear a size 6 dress, you simply aren't lucky enough. If you aren't size 4 or below, you are fat and need to lose weight. Come on people!”[1] This Review can be read a lot in to it, can be a positive part to the film and it can also be a negative part in the film. The negative effect on the film via this review it is saying that everyone must be a size 6 or size 4 to be a model and work in the fashion industry. Critically this is very bad publicity for the film as not everyone in the fashion industry is that size and it is sending the wrong message to the audience. On this film the audience is going to be teenage girls ranging from 12+, this could lead to many girls having eating issues because following the film will send bad messages saying that every lady has to be like this to be able to work in the dream fashion job.

The gossip around fashion movie The Devil Wears Prada focused on how closely the story mirrored the world of legendary fashion magazine American Vogue - and particularly how much its famous editor Anna Wintour inspired the character of "editrix" Miranda Priestly. As a result, no real designer wanted to appear in the film for fear of upsetting Ms Wintour - by far the most powerful player in fashion. Anne Hathaway stars as Andy Sachs, an aspiring journalist who lands a job as Ms Priestley’s assistant. With parallels to the TV show Ugly Betty, her colleagues ridicule Andy before slowly winning their respect - and free clothes![2] This is positive part I the film showing that if u work hard when you are at work then you will be rewarded for it. A negative part to this is that to get there you must be a hard bitch! This will then lead to you to having no life outside of the work place.

Meryl Streep is indeed poised and imperious as Miranda, and Anne Hathaway is a great beauty that makes a convincing career girl. I liked Stanley Tucci, too, as Nigel... But I thought the movie should have reversed the roles played by Grenier and Baker. Grenier comes across not like the old boyfriend but like the slick New York writer, and Baker seems the embodiment of midwestern sincerity.[3]

The critic Roger Ebert who is a film critic wrote this. So this is a good very strong primary source. He has stated that the male character should have swapped been swapped. I am tending to disagree with him as I think that baker and Grenier played really good roles in the Film. Baker plays a really good role as being a fashion worker as well and Grenier plays a really good role he looks like a chef and the way he acts about Andrea not spending time with him. This shouldn’t be changed as the characters were fit for there roles in the film.

 I have to say as a male - and approaching the fashion industry as Anne Hatheway's character did - thinking she was "apart" from it - a bit of dialogue from Meryl Streep's character was really an education for me.
 Anne's character, "Andrea", snickers when a model, selecting 2 belts for Streep's character, saying that she "still has to learn this stuff".
 What follows from Streep's character is some of the most powerful dialog I have seen on the screen.[4] This is a very good review written by a New York Times writer reviewing on the prospective of the film from the masculine view. I have to agree with him as I thought exactly the same with the way Miranda treated her employers. The dialog in the film is very toned when Miranda talks, as she sounds the same the whole way though the film and this shows that has a level head and she doesn’t raise her voice, to anyone. Her attitude to her employees is very rude and she shows no respect to her employers either.  

Wednesday 2 October 2013

Assessment how do the 2 films differ in their approach to genre to express the cultures idea, myths,history

I disagree with this statement both the films are different with the country that they came from, by looking at the history we had the Spanish Civil War which was around the time of Pans Labyrinth which made a big impacted on the film. In Amelie we had the French new wave, during the time of the film we had the French riots. Linking in with the Marcos the ideas around the film strongly suggest that the films representation of the country is very strong and has a deeper meaning in to the way the films are shown to the audiences.


fantasy french new wave good, childlike films.french pair city of love,
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In both films the myths set the films up as in Amelie we can see by the film that in her world it is the city of love and that is a strong myth from France and when we look at Pans the Spanish Civil war has a big impacted on the film and it also influences the Spanish film culture. When we look at two films in comparison Pans Labyrinth has a message that war is an adults world and that children shouldn't be a part of the war. In Amelie there is no message and many people said that it was a film that only showed the good parts of france and when you visit France Paris there are many things that are going on such as the riots, which had a big impacted on france and the people. The ideas around the film where that they wanted to show the audiences the country and how the films are influnced by them.