It is demonstrated in her essays, especially of Peer Gynt, where she believes one simple sentence, ‘Do it on the radio’, can answer the given question. The gap between Rita and Frank also demonstrates the amount of growth and change required for her transition into the world. Russell uses humour to demonstrate this gap where both Rita and Frank find it difficult to understand one another especially with Rita’s colloquial language ‘oh sod it’, ‘off me …show more content…
Frank argues the fact Rita has not found a better song she has simply ‘found a different song’.
Educating Rita can be linked to the growth, changes, as well as, sacrifices made by Andy in The Devil Wears Prada where Andy is on a journey, seeking to begin her life as an adult who is faced with moral and ethical choices. Andy is fresh out of college and her dreams of moving into the world of editing and being a writer is her top priority. The best opportunity offered to her in The Big Apple was as a personal assistant to Miranda Priestly at Runway magazine.
Andy begins as a strong, grounded character, opposite to Rita, who becomes more and more preoccupied with success. When Andy comes for the job at Runway, it dawns on her that making it in this industry, of fashion, will take more than drive and determination. Andy is completely wrong for the job, as stated by Miranda, as Andy has ‘no style and no sense of fashion’ and a slow motion panning shot up and down Andy shows the audience her costume of a cotton blend sweater and shapeless skirt, but Andy refuses to fail and is hired as the ‘smart, fat