Ever heard of the movie Bend it like Beckham? I have seen the movie more than once before I had to watch it for class. This is since I actually own the movie, and also because I enjoy football. The movie is about an Indian girl who is not allowed to play on an all-girls football team, even though she is out of high school. While she is playing for fun another girl watchers her, and convinces her and the coach that she needs to join the team. While she hides it from her family, she also has to deal with her feeling for her coach. The movie talks about the culture, different themes, and how the two families are similar, but also different.
There are many different themes with the movie Bend it like Beckham. I put for one of the themes was that
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One of the similarities was that both of the mothers were against their daughters playing football. Another similarity was that the fathers did not agree with their wife’s and thought that the girls should play football. Furthermore, both of the girls had to stand up to their parents saying that they want to play football.
A part of the Indian culture that I noted as different from my own culture was the weddings. There were people around all the time, and also the weddings are very different. The Indian culture has an engagement party rather than a bridal shower. Everybody came to the house of the brides rather than renting a place for the engagement party. Another thing that I noted that was different was that the way that they dressed was different. The women were not allowed to show their legs, they had to have pants on, or capris. It took Jess a while for her to put shorts on, and for her to feel comfortable about them.
I did not know much about the Indian culture beside what I have seen on television. I knew that they dressed different, but that was really it. I have seen this movie before, but never fully paid attention to the culture until now. It is quite different then my own culture. I like some of the ways that the Indian culture is different, but at the same time I like my own
The older sister, Premila, and the younger sister, Santha, live with their Indian mother who taught and raised them as Indian children, which included the customs and appearance as one. They day they were sent to a British school, they notice the difference between their culture with the British. They changed their names, clothing, food and even placement. When Premila was taking a test for her class the teacher made
In addition to, the main actors in the film looked the part and associated with the main idea of the culture of an Indian family. For instance, Samir’s appearance showed he had drifted away from his family’s culture and developed a professional understanding and love for the cooking industry. Farida’s appearance showed she was highly involved with her
From what it seems like even as a child Jess a young indian girl has always loved soccer, her parents didn’t mind when she was a child but to them she has reached an age where it is time for her to stop playing soccer and get married, but Jess doesn’t wish to have a husband, she had dreams of her own. In the movie Bend it Like Beckham, the main character Jess deals with internal conflicts such as her Family’s expectations vs her Own expectations.
Culture is the one of the main reason, which makes American and Indian life styles totally different from each other. Both cultures have some advantages and disadvantages.
...not even wanted to think about having any further personal conversations. This teaches us how two entirely different people can carry one mutual heritage but being brought up into different cultures can be very different and UN mutual. Looking back in the story we realize and feel how important it is to keep our cultural believes when it comes to interact with different people as we are not only representing ourselves but also putting the county, believes and family hood on line. Having any kind off self issues should not be shown to people that are not involved in the situation, that also helps us to stay open minded and not selfish, which in the story Mrs. Das seemed to forget.
When thinking of professional soccer, or football as it is better known around the world outside of the United States, players like Mia Hamm, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Renaldo, and Abby Wambach come to mind. Lovers of the game each have their own favorite player, and if you’re Jesminder Bhamra, your favorite player is David Beckham. In Gurinder Chadha’s Bend It Like Beckham, Jesminder “Jess” is an eighteen year old British-Indian aspiring to be a professional football player despite her family’s orthodox Sikh views. Bend It Like Beckham challenges the ideas of religion and how Indians come to the majority culture.
The first difference between American culture and Indian culture is marriage. A wedding is a great social event in our society, which establish a new bond between two individuals and families. Marriage is a joyful occasion with plenty of music, dance, partying and merrymaking. It also brings together a long-lost friends, relatives and acquaintances. In India, the parents choose the mate for their child, which is called an arranged marriage. In most cases, the bri...
This is evident in films such as Bend it Like Beckham. Both main characters, Jess and Jules, face pressure from their families, teammates and society in general to be the best at both playing soccer and being female. The pressure to excel in sport comes from their motivations and their teammates. For Jess and Jules, it is especially important, since they are representative of all women footballers. They are on one of the few teams for women in the area. If they play badly, others will believe that wo...
The movie Bend It Like Beckham follows the life of teenage girl Jessminder “Jess” Bhamra. Though possessed with an incredible talent and obsession for the game of soccer, Jessminder’s parents believe that it is her destiny to grow up to be a proper, traditional Indian woman, one who is concerned with providing for a man and their kids. Jessminder had never played soccer for a team until her talents were noticed while playing a game of pick-up soccer by Juliette “Jules” Paxton, the Hounslow Harriers’ star player. Juliette invites Jessminder to come to one of their practices to see if she is good enough to play for the team. After wowing both Juliette and Joe, the team’s coach, Jessminder is offered a spot to play on the team.
In the film “Bend it like Beckham” which was made in 2002 and created by Gurinder Chadha it shows different concepts of how people are treated differently according to their race and identity and how they change an individuals life because of the environment. This makes the main character Jessminder who lives in an Indian household overthink the future choices she going to make and struggling between cultural barriers of her dream. Throughout the film it shows how Jess shapes her self because of the environment surroundings. The themes that are expressed throughout the film are about Sexism, cultural barriers and friendship. And the audience wants to react how she is treated because of her culture and identity.
Sexism is a major theme that is present throughout the film. Jess struggles with her environmental surroundings because she lives in an Indian household and faces many cultural barriers. Jules and Jess have the same share of soccer but their parents give them lack of support. This indicates that their parents want their daughter to become a perfect female daughter who likes girly things than being a soccer player. This theme is expressed through Jess’ mother saying “What family would want a daughter-in-law who can run around kicking a football all day but can’t make round chapatis”. The author
People in all countries of the world celebrate their important events like birthdays, graduations, weddings, and funerals, etc. However, the ways we have celebrations are different from cultures to cultures and countries to countries. Thus, Vietnamese and Americans have different celebrations for their events, and people in those countries celebrate their weddings differently in preparations, costumes, and ceremonies.
Derek Walcott (1930) was born at Castries, St Lucia, an isolated Caribbean island in the West Indies. His father, Warwick, was a Bohemian artist; he died when Walcott was very young. “I was raised in this obscure Caribbean poet,” he later wrote in a poem about his family, “where my bastard father christened for me his Warwick.” Walcott’s mother, Alix, was a teacher. She was very well-read and taught her children poetry.
Jess' capability to attend her sisters wedding then play a soccer game for the Harriers and then attend her sister's wedding again. Throughout history, sports have been considered an aspect of masculinity. However, Bend it Like Beckham takes this thought and refuses to acknowledge it. In actuality, it proposes that women are consummately equipped for contending in sport and that it is entirely acceptable for them to be apart of it. All through the film, viewers watch the Harriers play impressively.
Almost every culture around the world have the idea of bringing together households in marriage. In the United States, this a coupling of two people who will start a life on their own. In India, a marriage is more than two people falling and love and getting married. Family, religion and casts play a role for the future bride and groom. The Indian culture’s weddings have different traditions when it comes to proposals, ring traditions and ceremonies not only for the couple but for the families as well.