My Big Fat Greek Wedding

After 14 years, the sequel to the romantic comedy ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ is back at the Box-Office.

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“My Big Fat Greek Wedding” stars Nia Vardalos as Toula Portokalos, a 30-year-old daughter in a Greek family living in a city. The movie opens with Toula’s father, Gus Portokalos (Michael Constantine), picking her up in a rain storm and telling her she needs to get married because she is getting old. Toula then recounts her childhood, telling of the difficulties involved with growing up in a Greek family. Toula’s life has been less than stellar to this point, but that all changes when Ian Miller (John Corbett), a teacher at a local school, walks into her parent’s restaurant. It is love at first sight for Toula, but she is too awkward and nervous to converse with the handsome stranger. He leaves.

As a typical intercultural movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding is about Toula, a lower middle class Greek American woman who fell in love with a non-Greek upper middle class “white Anglo-Saxon Protestant” Ian Miller. They overcame a series of difficulties and eventually held a big fat Greek wedding. This movie shows us how Greek Americans live, reflecting the conflicts between Greek culture and American culture in a humorous way. Guided by Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory, this paper mainly explores how Greeks and American handle the cultural conflicts, and how they integrate into each other’s culture. Therefore, we will arrange the paper in three

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"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is a satiric comedy about the quest of King Arthur. The movie starts out with Arthur, King of the Britons, looking for knights to sit with him at Camelot. He finds many knights including Sir Galahad the pure, Sir Lancelot the brave, the quiet Sir Bedevere, and Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Lancelot. Through satire and parody of certain events in history (witch trials, the black plague) they find Camelot, but after literally a quick song and dance they decide that they do not want to go there. While walking away, God (who seems to be grumpy) come to them from a cloud and tells them to find the Holy Grail. They agree and begin their search. While they search for the Grail, scenes of the knight's

The film Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a parody of Arthurian stories. It is a film that is not very elaborate on special effects, costumes and such as it even includes invisible horses with coconuts to mimic the sound of the “galloping” horses. All which indicate the low budget set on the production of the film. Although, the quality of the film does not suffer with it’s low budget since this adds uniqueness and more comical pieces to the film. The concepts triggered in the film come from elements of the Arthurian legends. The elements are concepts related to the education, health of the time, code of chivalry, divine rights, Christianity and social division.

Some may ask what it means to be a part of a specific culture. It may be believed that it merely means to share the same qualities of race, language, and social beliefs. What is not really known are the rise of expectations to fill, repressed wants and needs, or even the binding religious beliefs. A person must begin to recognize the holdings a culture may have on them and how it affects their free will as an individual.

The movie “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” is based on the Portokalos family. The Portokalos family is loud, loving, prideful, and incredibly invasive. The main character, Fortoula Portokalos (also known as Toula,) is a single, 30 year old Greek woman who lives with her parents, and younger brother in a Chicago Greek community. She works as a hostess at her parents family restaurant called Dancing Zorba's. Her appearance is highly symbolic of her current place in life – incredibly dull. However, this preceded the Cinderella-like transformation that came Toula's way. She enrolled in computer classes at the local college, much to her traditional fathers dismay, who believed a Greek woman's sole purposes in life is to “

Gee’s theory of Discourse is that mushfaking can never be successful without already being native within that Discourse or learning the Discourse early on through apprenticeship. The movie Mean Girls is an example to confirm Gee’s claims, but also the claim of constant resistance and reform to mushfake a dominant Discourse well, needs to be included. If the claim is not included, values will conflict between primary and secondary Discourses. The conflict of values in Mean Girls demonstrates the dangers of mushfaking a dominant Discourse and proves that mushfaking itself is not enough to become successful without resistance and reform efforts, which in consequence, will

In My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Fortoula "Toula" Portokalos is held to her traditionally Greek family's expectations. The only thing Fortoula's father, Gus, wants is for her to marry a Greek man and have Greek children. Fortoula's mother, Maria, convinces Gus to allow Fortoula to begin computer classes at the community college. After starting classes and making changes to her appearance, Fortoula's confidence and self-esteem are boosted. Upon finding a course on computers and tourism, Fortoula is able to persuade her mother and Aunt Voula to talk to Gus about permitting Fortoula to work at Voula's travel agency.

Several factors affect the formation of one’s culture, Palispis, E. (2007) quoted Sir Edward Tylor, “Culture… refers to that complex whole which includes knowledge, beliefs, arts, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as member of society.” (Palispis, E., 2007) In this context culture is something we acquire from the people we have lived with since we were born, it is not something a person can learn overnight nor can be disposed effortlessly.

In the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding by Joel Zwick, Toula a single 30-year-old Greek woman struggling against her family's tradition of marrying a Greek man and having Greek children. Or better explained in Toula’s words, “Nice Greek girls are supposed to do three things in life; marry Greek boys, make Greek babies, and feed everyone until the day we die”. But that isn’t what she wants for herself. She wants to go to college and make her own choices, do what makes Toula happy. Toula does everything she can to convince her father, Gus, that it is a good idea for her to go to college and learn more about computers so that she can help improve the restaurant.

30-year old Toula faces pressures from her close knit Greek family to “marry a Greek man and have Greek babies” (Goetzman, Hanks, Wilson, & Zwick, 2002). However, life has other plans for Toula once she begins dating the non-Greek, vegetarian, Ian. The differences between their cultures clash along with their families, making the possibilities of having a Big Fat Greek Wedding all the more difficult.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding In the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding there are many cultural differences between Toula and Ian’s family. This movie displays how Toula’s family reacts to marriage outside of their culture and how they approve it. Toula’s family is patriarchal which means that her dad makes most of the family decisions.