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Just like television, movies commonly use deception to create suspense and keep a viewers attention. Deception is nothing new. It can be found in classic movies such as Breakfast at Tiffany’s and also modern films such as The Devil Wears Prada. Just about all movies deceive the viewer in one way or another.



The classic film, Breakfast at Tiffany’s staring Audrey Hepburn, demonstrates deception in films. In this film, Hepburn plays a young woman who at the beginning of the movie seems to be fairly well off. One is lead to believe that she obtained this money in a normal way, such from family. Later on in the movie, the viewer learns that he/she has been deceived. Hepburn’s money is really illegally funded. Hepburn goes to visit a “friend” who is in prison. The viewer learns through a conversation between Hepburn and her friend that lives in the same apartment building as her that really this “friend” is not actually someone she truly knows, in fact, he’s a mob boss. She was hired by this “friends” lawyer to visit him once a week to pass messages.





In the movie The Devil Wears Prada, the deception is a little harder to spot. This movie is more about a young woman trying to survive in the cut throat fashion magazine world. Deception can finally be found towards the last scenes of the movie. Through out the whole movie, the viewer is lead to believe that Miranda, the editor of the fashion magazine, would sacrifice just about everyone to get what she wants. One of the few people who work for the magazine that she seems to hold some loyalty to is Nigel. Towards the end of the movie, the viewer realizes they have been deceived. Not only in Miranda only looking out for herself, but she eventually does screw over Nigel to save herself from losing her job.



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__Breakfast At Tiffany's__. Dir. Blake Edwards. Perf. Audrey Hepburn. DVD. Paramount Pictures, 1961.

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__The Devil Wears Prada__. Dir. David Frankel. Perf. Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. DVD. Twentieth Century-Fox Films, 2006.

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