Anyone who has ever
watched The Devil Wears Prada knows the dialogue from the end of this entry.
For those who don’t know the story, Andy, the main character, gets a job at a
fashion magazine. Her boss, the infamous Miranda Priestly, is a bit demanding,
to say the least. When Andy gets the job, she knows nothing about fashion, and
it shows. After letting out a laugh because of a problem choosing a belt (the
only thing different between the two is the buckle), Miranda goes off on Andy
and rips her to shreds. For Miranda, the audacity to laugh at the assistants
was almost as bad as not realizing that fashion is more than “stuff”. Long
story short, Miranda’s soliloquy was a lesson that you NEVER laugh at crazy
people, fashion editors, or fail to realize that there are a ton of different
colors of blue.
(149 words, color words)
Miranda Priestly: [Miranda and
some assistants are deciding between two similar belts for an outfit. Andy
sniggers because she thinks they look exactly the same] Something
funny?
Andy Sachs: No. No, no. Nothing's... You know, it's
just that both those belts look exactly the same to me. You know, I'm still
learning about all this stuff and, uh...
Miranda Priestly: 'This... stuff'? Oh. Okay. I see.
You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you
select... I don't know... that lumpy blue sweater, for instance because you're
trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about
what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that sweater is not
just blue, it's not turquoise. It's not lapis. It's actually cerulean. And you're also blithely
unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was
Yves Saint Laurent... wasn't it who showed cerulean
military jackets? I think we need a jacket here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different
designers. And then it, uh, filtered down through the department stores and
then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt,
fished it out of some clearance bin. However,
that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and it's sort
of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the
fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing the sweater that was selected
for you by the people in this room from a pile of stuff. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458352/quotes)
No comments:
Post a Comment