My Big Fat Greek Wedding Essay

How does love govern a family? It governs husbands to return to their wives, to go on a journey to home. We have all been on a journey. A journey, however, does not usually include coming home. The Odyssey is Odysseus’s journey home to his family. Home is where the family is. While the relationship in a healthy family is communication, there are some instances in the Odyssey where there is an unhealthy relationship. In the Odyssey, are the families that are portrayed ‘rooted and grounded in love?” The loving relationship of family had valuable impact on Odysseus, that he made the journey home, while other families became scattered.

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.

The Portokalos family is Greek. Greek families tend to big, loud, and very loving, the Portokalos family is no exception. When Toula Portokalos’ family found out about her new boyfriend they were livid especially her father, Gus Portokalos. The reason for her family’s reaction was because her boyfriend wasn’t Greek, he was American. Gus was very against their relationship, he thought that what was best for his daughter was to marry a Greek man. For most of the movie Gus voices his opinion on the relationship. When they announce Toula announces her engagement, Gus realizes that there isn’t much he can change. He starts to understand how in love Toula is and how happy she is. He sacrifices his values and beliefs in order to support his daughter and to see her happy. At the end of the movie he shows his love and support by buying her and her new husband a nice home. Gus sacrificed his values and beliefs in order to see his daughter happy which is his goal, he accepted her marriage out of love. He loves his daughter and wanted to support her decisions, to do this he had to let go of his values and do what was best for his daughter

As the family became immersed with the traditions of contemporary American culture, they began to forge conflicting identities and values,

When two people appreciate different values, it will eventually lead to conflicts. If they cannot get to a compromise, as a consequence, their relationship will collapse. The family bond between the father and the brother in “Simple Recipes” is destroyed because of their conflict about values. In the story, the competing values in shown when the two characters unable to identify themselves, in terms of cultural identification. The father, representing the family’s cultural roots, is trying to preserve the Malaysian heritage and culture in his immigrated family, in the image of his anger towards his son forgetting the native language, while his son does not identify himself with the Malaysian roots at all, with his rejection of eating the fish (501). These competing values, consequently, incites conflicts between

Ian’s family is American and they are the opposite of Toula’s family, they are part of the low context culture, like many other American families. One of the biggest differences is that Toula’s family is loud, big and always together and Ian’s family is small, quite, and only see each other on special occasions.

Displayed against the setting, golden sun on Gull Lake stands four white columns that resemble that of ancient Greece. White Wisteria sprouts from the top of these columns wafting a newborn baby scent, trickling over the edge in a wild display. Making three swags connecting the towers are ivory Egyptian cotton sheets, swaying from the lake breeze, that give the boxy structures a soft look. The head table is the true centerpiece in front of this backdrop. The table skirting is lit with the warm yellow glow of icicle lights and laid over top are two more swags of the Egyptian cotton sheets; counterbalancing the three on the backdrop. The vases on top of the white linen table are filled with pearls that hold up the silk flowers of

How has P.J. Hogan used film techniques to convey the central ideas in Muriel’s Wedding to his audience? P.J. Hogan effectively conveys the key ideas of identity and individuality, achieving dreams to prove a point, and marriage equating to success in Muriel’s Wedding to his audience through the extensive use of film techniques.

2 Toula would like to work in her aunt’s travel agency, but she had no power to make the decision on her own, even her aunt. Finally, her mother, her aunt and she cooperated together and worked out a good idea that helped Toula realize her dream.

When choosing a film for this assignment, my original choice was Bend It Like Beckham because I had heard of it and I had a general idea what it was about. I then decided that I wanted to take on a more challenging film, one that I had never heard of, and one that I would really have to study to understand its full meaning. After looking into a few of the listed movies, I ended up choosing Whale Rider, a drama filmed in New Zealand in 2002. After watching the movie two times, I feel that I now understand some of the more drastic cultural and gender based problems that are occurring today.

Her father later told her that she was a special girl, that not many little girls can cook or boil water all on their own. Jeannette realizes that she is special just by this happening and later learned to laugh at her crisis. All of her life, decisions affected her life growing up. She decides that she will be the person she wants to be. Jeannette has had a rough life, but as soon as she faced a crisis, she learned something new about herself.

In My Big Fat Greek Wedding, I analyzed the scene where Toula’s family is having a party, and Ian Miller’s parents are going to come and meet the family for the first time. This is an extreme clash of individualistic vs. collectivistic culture. Ian’s parents seemed to be a traditional white, American couple with no sense of foreign food, customs, or culture of any kind. When the parents originally start walking up to the house, and there have to be at least 30 people outside partying, it is an instant sense of confusion and intimidation that they seem to feel. Ian’s parents hand Toula’s parents a Bundt cake and Toula’s parents had never even seen one before. They were so confused about it, that later in the scene they brought it out

Thrownness and Freedom go hand-in-hand. Thrownness is something that people have little control over at first. It is simply a state in which someone finds themselves in. For example, people are thrown into a particular family with a certain family heritage and/or religion and begin to follow these ideas because they were born into it. Freedom allows for the individual to break away from the particular situation they were thrown into if they are unhappy with it. For example, even though in the past you were thrown into a particular situation, in the present and future you have the freedom to escape this state in which the individual finds themselves in. Thrownness was a topic discussed by Heidegger to explain the state in which someone finds themselves in and Freedom is a topic discussed by Sartre to explain that there are always choices that you can make and it is up to you whether to live with them or to change your life; these topics can be found in the movie “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” in which the main character is thrown into a Greek family and heritage and uses her freedom to break away from this and live the life that makes her happy.

     The film¡¦s name is Father of the Bride. It involves George Banks (Steven Martin), and Annie Banks (Kimberly Williams). The time period is in 1991. The technique of the filmmaker is very good, it tells the middle age people¡¦s thoughts and feelings.

Have you ever read the cultural story “A Family Supper” by Japanese author, Kazuo Ishiguro? Generally, it’s the conflict between generations in changing Japan, one can understand that this story depicts a young Japanese man (the narrator) who lived in America and has come back to Japan, his motherland to attend the funeral of his mother. He had dinner with his family at the first time of the year. With emphasis on generational conflict, the three aspects that are relationship between the son and his father from their conservation, the cultural property mentioned in the story and how the father’s disappointment affects his son, the narrator of the story.