A Tale of Two Weddings Weddings are a celebration of love, family, and culture. Monsoon Wedding and My Big Fat Greek Wedding combine these aspects of weddings to tell us two different stories that revolve around very similar themes. Both movies portray the importance of family and acceptance through events and conflicts that surround a wedding. However, the different types of romances, marriages, and cultural issues depicted in these movies create two distinct images that can be seen as polar opposites
Fools Rush In and My Big Fat Greek Wedding Every movie that is written has a certain attitude to it. Some of these are intended to be laughed at and others are meant to be heartfelt. Though each movie is written with its own voice, so to speak, many have similar plots or themes. The two movies Fools Rush In and My Big Fat Greek Wedding are two of these movies that have similarities in the themes, but not necessarily in the plots. Both of these romantic comedies have strong religious backgrounds
My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a film made in 2004 directed by Joel Zwick that evidently portrays several sociological concepts throughout the film. This film highly demonstrates the sociological topics of gender and culture all through the movie. The roles of gender, gender stratification as well as gender stereotyping are exemplified during the film. As for culture, the film displays subculture, counterculture, ethnocentrism, cultural relativism and cultural diffusion. My Big Fat Greek Wedding focuses
The movie of My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a story of a traditional Greek Family and their thirty year old daughter Toula who had pass the age of getting married and starts a family of her own . Toula’s and her family lived in a normal middle class neighbourhood in a traditional Greek home with Greek statues on their front lawn, and owned a nice Greek restaurant name the Dancing Zorbas where she work as a seating hostess (My) Although, traditional roles may be a thing of the pass . Most traditional
The film that I chose was My Big Fat Greek Wedding. The movie is a romantic comedy about a 30-year-old single woman Toula living in Chicago with her family. As a Greek girl, being raised by a very traditional Greek family she always wanted to be like the other girls instead of going to Greek School she wanted to attend traditional public school and eat American. She was looked down upon by her family because she was supposed to be married to a Greek man, have Greek children, and feed people, which
allowed me to better understand interactions that occur in our daily lives. My knowledge of these concepts was challenged when asked to relate these notions to a movie. During the time that I was watching the movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, I realized myself grasping onto what was going on and being able to relate certain scenes and situations to topics I had previously learned about. Interactions in My Big Fat Greek Wedding display concepts of conflict and politeness theory, which can be pointed out
My Big Fat Greek Wedding My Big Fat Greek Wedding is set in present day Chicago. It is centered around the Portokalos family, particularly Toula Portokalos. Toula is the middle child of Gus and Maria Portokalos. She has an older sister named Athena, and a younger brother named Nick. She also has a rather large and very Greek extended family. Toula is a 30-year-old, Greek woman who is living with her parents, grandmother, and brother. Toula's life has become placid and boring. She feels a sense of
face to face encounters between to individuals and their ability to be aware of one another. This family view best applies to the father-daughter relationship between Gus and Toula Portokalos from My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Gus, the dominant rule setting father, has made it his goal to embrace their Greek Heritage to its fullest extent all while maintaining certain roles for each member of his immediate family. While Gus strives to protect the family’s roles and community
The movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, is a movie about a very large Greek family living in Chicago that has many anthropological themes to language and symbols, cultural art, and religious beliefs. In the movie, both Toula and Ian come from different cultures, where as Toula is from a Greek culture and Ian is from an America culture. The cultural values are different because Toula was brought up in a very loud and large Greek family, while Ian was brought up American in a very calm family. Both Ian’s
After watching clips on the three movies assigned, they all correspond with each other in terms of cross- cultural misunderstanding. In the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding it is a romantic comedy idealistic romance comedy where a very traditional family raised the main character. Whereas in the movie Mr. Baseball the main charter is assigned to a new team outside of the country triggering great barriers. And in the movie the Joy luck club it demonstrates difficulties the relatives deal with as immigrants
My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a film made in 2004 that evidently portrays several sociological concepts throughout the film. This film highly demonstrates the sociological topics of gender and culture all through the movie. The roles of gender, gender stratification as well as gender stereotyping are shown during the film. As for culture, the film displays subculture, counterculture, ethnocentrism, cultural relativism and lastly, cultural diffusion. My Big Fat Greek Wedding focuses on a 30 year old
My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a romantic comedy about a 30-year-old single woman living in Chicago named Toula Portokalos. As a girl, raised by a very traditional Greek family, she faces many deep questions about her priorities in life. These questions range from the role of family in a contemporary society, to the pressures placed upon her by her family and their cultural norms. The Greeks in this movie are very ethnocentric, meaning they tend to evaluate other people and cultures according to the
2: Out of the Shadows and Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, you might also make the case that we – as movie lovers – are unjustly subjected to sequels for movies that no one actually asked for. More to the point, the release of a sequel like My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, which came 14 years after its predecessor, or Finding Dory, coming 13 years after Finding Nemo, forces one to wonder if the original creativity well is completely dried up. As such, films of this nature truly make you to wonder if there
My Big Fat Greek Wedding depicts a patriarchal hierarchy in which, Gus, is the head of the household. This is exemplified when Gus continually makes the decisions about the families wellbeing in the film. Although this becomes complicated as the film depicts Maria
manipulate to gain power over the men. It must be true that the women of the play are more powerful than the men, because the men are powerless without self-control. Works Cited Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. New York: Penguin, 1976. My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Dir. Joel Zwick. Perf. Nia Vardalos, Michael Constantine, and John Corbett. IFC Films, 2002.
Men are said to be the head of the household and are usually the breadwinners with their main role consisting of providing for their families. On the other hand, as stated in the comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding, women act as the neck of the household, therefore they have the ability to turn the “head”, or their husbands, in any direction they choose. Women had no ways of expressing their feelings directly in society, but instead expressed them through manipulation of their husbands. The ladies in
that are associated with this assignment are Latin and Greek American cultures which has four screenings. The four movies include Fools Rush In, The Wedding Planner, Dora the Explorer, which are a part of the Latin American Culture, My Big Fat Greek Wedding which was a part of the Greek American culture. In the movie Fools Rush In, you see a fiery latina played by Salma Hayek who comes from a very religious family, her family is also very big and when they celebrate they go all out just so they can
In a world filled with many different cultures, sometimes people cannot see past their own culture. People tend to think that their own values are right and that their cultural practices are the only customs and beliefs that should be followed. When confronted with a different culture, most people will see differences as “wrong.” We see it in politics and religion all the time. In most cases a person’s culture can affect the way they see the world and others. I think a person’s culture, to an
to review the film, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, a romantic comedy about the life of a thirty year old Greek woman named Toula, who is unmarried and in a rut until one day while serving at her family’s restaurant she meets a school teacher named Ian. In the end they fall in love, get married and start a family of their own, but the film documents their struggle to break through many barriers including her family’s strong traditions, values, and beliefs. My Big Fat Greek Wedding illustrates how socialization
Food is vital to cultural identity and is much a part of a person’s culture as their language or religion. The food that people eat communicate their beliefs and social backgrounds. This essay will explore different ways that people choose to perform their identities through the foods that they prepare and eat. With the United States exportation of SPAM to the Philippines and fast food ‘glocalization’, Matejowsky highlights the importance of food choices by showing how different people in diverse