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The Most Awkward Cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2
The Last Supper makes a conspicuous—and strange—appearance during a gathering of self-styled elites.
TL;DR
- A scene in 'The Devil Wears Prada 2' uses the rectory of Milan's Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, featuring Leonardo da Vinci's 'The Last Supper,' as a backdrop for a climactic event.
- The film contrasts the sacredness of art and humanism (represented by Miranda and Andy) with the profanity of AI and data (represented by tech mogul Benji Barnes).
- The sequel shifts the focus from critiquing consumerism to opposing big data and finance, which are portrayed as the new villains threatening journalism and human creativity.
- While the first film explored the ambivalence of fashion as both art and industry, the sequel simplifies this by deifying fashion as art and presenting technology as its antagonist.
- The film's marketing aligned with the Met Gala, which was co-chaired by Jeff Bezos, linking the movie's themes to real-world intersections of wealth, fashion, and technology.
- The sequel is criticized for its broad, meaningless binaries and a loss of the original film's nuanced satire and ambivalence towards the fashion industry.