Differences Between Bend It Like Beckham And My Big Fat Greek Wedding

In this piece from the text it reveals that the author is trying to show how her and her sister have the same background; coming from the same place; but they have yet still gone their separate ways. This piece of evidence supports the idea that a person’s culture affects them differently depending on the person because, the evidence

In Bend It Like Beckham, it showed a girl who idealizes playing soccer. However, with her being a Punjabi Sikh Indian from Hounslow in west London her parents forbidden her to play because of the solo fact that she was a girl. In America girls playing a sport has become more of a norm and are

Imagine the pressure of being expected to follow your culture’s traditions even if you want to rebel and create your own identity. Carrying on traditions can be difficult for many young people who are searching for their identities as they grow up. Two texts, “Life in the age of the mimis” by Domingo Martinez and “El Olvido” by Judith Ortiz, tell about the struggles of losing one’s culture. One shows the reader that forgetting your own roots simply because of being ashamed or embarrassed can really harm you, while the other demonstrates that forgetting your culture for the sake of fame and fortune can also do the same damage.

The film I have chosen is “The Namesake” by Jhumpra Lahiri. A traditional Bengali Indian family, the Ganguli’s, are moving to New England and are trying to stay engulfed in their unique cultural identity. Ashoke Ganguli brings his new wife, Ashima, to a strange new world, leaving her lonely and confused of a culture outside of her own. Ashima needs to learn to love a man she does not know, to customize herself to a country she is unfamiliar with, and to hold true to her values in a culture foreign to her traditional beliefs. In this paper I will inform the reader of the Family structure, social class on gender as well as material culture and nonmaterial culture pertaining to the Ganguli’s and how they made a place in American society. I

Toula is a Greek girl who was always the weird kid when growing up. Toula was the nerdy Greek girl as a child. Toula’s father Gus is a very ethnocentric man, who believes the Greek culture invented everything. He says every English word came from an ancient Greek word. Gus is the head of the house making the family patriarchal. Toula’s mother Maria sometimes plays the dominant role. Her father believes that she should get married to a Greek man, have Greek babies, and feed everyone until the day we die. Toula’s older sister Athena lives up to those expectations when she marries and has three children. “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” is full of Greek culture.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding focuses primarily upon the tribulations of Toula, whose Greek heritage invades all aspects of her life, including her relationship with the markedly American, culturally lacking Ian Miller. Toula’s family perpetuates all the customs of a Greek household down to specific female values among which Toula recites, “Nice Greek girls are supposed to… marry Greek boys.” Her heritage emphasizes marriage and breeding within the race, proving that

In society, most people agree with the conservative value of males are the breadwinners and females are the homemakers. Within this film, the values of these roles are reversed, and we see more women showing masculinity or power and men showing more care and thought into these situations. Daniel and Miranda have switched conventional marriage gender roles in that Miranda is the stern, stressed and workaholic mother whereas Daniel is the happy, loving caretaker of the children. There are many scenes throughout the film in which it shows how the male and female roles have broken the stereotypical standards. For example, in the Court House scene where Daniel, the father and Miranda, the mother are in court over custody of their children. The females in this scene look stern,

“Men are supposed to be assertive, competitive, and tough. Women are supposed to be more concerned with taking care of the home, of the children, and of people in general – to take the tender roles”( Hofstede,2005,p.117). A series of events in this film also highlight the Indian and British belief on that concern. In the scene after Jess’s mother catches her being lift by a boy ( 00:20:05- 00:23:00), her mother angrily says "Jess, we let you play all you wanted when you were young. You've played enough. What family will want a daughter in law who can run around kicking football all day but can't make round chapattis? ". In addition, Jess’s father also advises her to behave like a decent girl. It is clearly illustrated in the film that Jess’ family firmly believe that it is abnormal and unacceptable for women to have such unladylike behaviour. Playing sports which is performed in masculine ways is considered an unladylike trait as Joe, the coach shares “ I’ve never seen an Indian girl playing football”. By Indian tradition, Jess is supposed to learn cooking, dressing like a true Indian lady and marry a Silk man. Jules’ mother, a British, is also totally disappointed in her daughter’s lack of femininity ( 00:15:30- 00:16:21) “ Allen, when you gonna realize you have a toll topped with Brett not Sun our employees boys gonna want to go out with a goatee got bigger muscles”.

At first glance, the documentary Meet the Patels could easily be billed as a real-life My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Centered on Ravi Patel – a first generation Indian-American man – and his quest for love, it certainly displays all the trappings and inner workings of a riveting romantic comedy. However, beneath the exterior mesh of a typical boy-meets-girl frame story, as well as Ravi’s interactions within his branch of the Patel clan, one can also detect various allusions to the struggles of American homosexuality and gay marriage within the plot.

This is a comparison essay between the book and the movie The Princess Bride. The book is a very interesting book written by William Goldman and he changed the story from a couple different versions. He did a great job on converting the stories of other peoples of the Princess Bride and he put his own twist on it and was able to create a great story. The book is a little bit different from the movie because some things are left out because they get boring in the movies.

It also shows the higher social status of elders in the community. In performing the rituals and traditions of the wedding, which are gender segregated, a performance of gender is embodied. Cowan uses the phrase ‘entering the dance’ to denote entering the field in which knowing what is and isn’t appropriate action, in potentially sexualised and physically intimate scenario is imperative. Therefore, meta-narratives and framing equips participants with the knowledge of appropriate codified norms of behaviour, to be employed in the time and place of the dance rituals. Furthermore, the performers become the dance, putting on the persona of the dancer, adopting the metaphorical masque to ‘perform’ the dance. Cowan argues that social dancing poses specific ‘problems’, as well as pleasures, for women and girls, which differ from the problems and pleasures it poses for boys and men. For the male, the pleasure and problems both stem from alcohol, and maintaining the dominant male status attached to consuming large amounts of alcohol (Cowan 1990: 110 – 112), whilst simultaneously making oneself vulnerable to illness or embarrassment resulting from drinking and drunken antics. For woman, it also concerns how identity is managed beyond the dance. However, concerns revolve around

The mise-en-scene in Monty Python and The Holy Grail plays a very large role in the movie, from the color of the knights outfits to the lighting, and even the setting change how the movie is viewed. From the first moment you meet the nights of the round table, the color of all their outfits provides foreshadowing and reveals traits about the characters. Firstly, when first seeing King Arthur, the color of his robe, gold, reveals to us that he is the clear king of the lands without any formal introduction being made. Gold can be associated with the attributes of wisdom, nobility, and courage. Arthur shows all of these traits at later parts in the film. When encountering Sir Bedivere, his wisdom allows him to answer the riddle Sir Bedivere is

My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a romantic comedy about a 30 year old single woman name Toula Portokalos. Toula is a Greek women struggles to find her own in a family whose traditional Greek traditions doesn’t match the life she wants to live. According to Toula “There are three things that every Greek woman must do in life: marry Greek boys, make Greek babies, and feed everyone.” Instead of living up to the tradition as she seek out to try and make something out of herself by convincing her family in particular her father that it would be a great idea for her to go to college for computer so it could better help the her aunts traveling agency . During her time working for her aunt she meet a non-Greek man and sees him in secret while lying

When I first read that I was to watch a ‘cult classic,’ I had no idea what to expect, mostly due to me having never watched this kind of film before. However, upon farther investigation of the genre and asking friends for their opinion, Monty Python and the Holy Grail literally fell in my lap. This film is centered around one thing, which is King Arthur and his knights finding the holy grail. They go through a series of interesting quests, from fighting a black knight to getting a cow catapulted at them, while searching for the grail.

Dannah Gresh starts off talking about a study that was held with 198 preschool and kindergarten kids. The study was conducted by Sarah Coyne. Both genders, boy and girls, she tells that the boys who were in the study reacted positively to the princess culture. Gresh mentions three points that were a concern that was discovered in the results of the study. One, girls who engaged in the princess culture where more behaved in stereotypical famine ways. Two, girls with lower body image, became more obsessed with princess culture a year later. Three, there was no evidence that the girls who were interested in the princess culture where influenced to behave for the better. In Coyne’s review of her study, she mentions that the stereotypes and obsessions