In 2003, My Big Fat Greek Wedding made audiences laugh across the country. It is a movie about family, a large Greek family to be specific. This is important to the story, because it shows how their traditions cause their daughter Toula to look, and feel like a failure. Toula finds herself alone at age thirty working for her parents in their restaurant, she is as unhappy as that statement sounds. Being disappointed with her heritage pushes a wedge between her and her family, but especially her father. She starts plotting a way to make it to college, so her father will think it is his idea so he is not reluctant. She makes her plan sound like it will benefit the whole family, and the restaurant. After taking courses, Toula starts to change …show more content…
Every culture has its own traditions that members try to uphold. In this movie, one tradition that is apparent and is gone back to many times, is the tradition of marrying a Greek man when you are a Greek woman. What some may question, is why does Toula’s father feel like his daughter cannot make her own decision of who she loves? He goes to great lengths to find Greek men for her, and each of them are below the standard she holds for herself. Gus even knows that the men he has chosen are not good enough for Toula. The uncertainty that he expresses when communicating with Ian, but also allowing him to be apart of his tight knit family. Gus views his family as his number one priority, and does not like to upset the balance. Toula’s mother, Maria senses how Gus feels about allowing Ian to be apart of the family, but she puts her uncertainty aside so her daughter can feel the love she has been longing for, for many years. Viewers can see that because she is the last daughter of the family to marry, he also wants to make sure that Ian will be the man she needs him to be. After Gus realizes that Toula has her mind made up, he comes to grips with the fact that Ian is going to be in his life for a long time. Around the time of the wedding, Toula is worried that the stress of marrying outside of her culture is physically ailing her father. What her marriage is going to bring is something that the Portokalos family is not ready for because it is foreign to them. When
"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
After 14 years, the sequel to the romantic comedy ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ is back at the Box-Office.
The consequences of these people making their relationships expendables means they are pushing away and sacrificing the people that love them the most in order to obtain something they think they want/need, but overall has very low importance to their lives.
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.
Mean Girls is a comedy directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey. Cady Heron is the new girl in town who moved from Africa. She instantly makes friends with two teenagers that are nice (Damian and Janis) whom, are considered in the "out crowd." After she meets the Plastics (three rude and popular girls), consisting of Regina the leader, Gretchen (Regina’s follower), Karen is considering one of the dumbest people you will meet. They let her in their group, where Cady falls for Regina’s ex-boyfriend, Aaron Samuels. When Regina finds this out, she wants revenge. However, Cady, Janis and Damian plan together to get back at Regina and take her down from the head plastic. While planning revenge, Cady
Oxford Dictionaries defines the word responsibility as “The state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or of having control over someone” (1). From a young age, every person must accept responsibility for decisions that he or she makes. As situations arise that must be dealt with, people have a duty to deal with those situations. In many ways, the act of living itself is an act of ultimate responsibility. In Robert Penn Warren’s classic novel, All the King’s Men, the central characters of the novel all have to deal with the consequences of their actions, although many of the characters try to avoid this solemn duty of life. Through analyzing the actions and inactions of the central characters, many important lessons on responsibility can be derived from the novel.
“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.
When I was in the third grade I was extremely obsessed with the Nickelodeon soap opera, House of Anubis. If you’ve never heard of it before, it was centered around an American teengaer in a British boarding school where the faculty was involved in some strange cult obsessed with Egyptian mythology and “The Chosen One.” On top of that there was four love triangles, child kidnapping, carrot eating competitions, masquerade balls, a disturbing amount of taxidermy, and a crapload of other random things. Yeah, that existed.
Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men has created controversial views on the significance of this novel. This piece involves a drug deal gone wrong when Llewelyn Moss, a veteran, happens to stumble upon three dead bodies, heroine, and a briefcase full of 2 million dollars. Told in different perspectives, the story continues with Moss on the run from a psychopathic killer Anton Chigurh in search of the money while also being tracked down by Sheriff Bell. Critics like James Wood from The New Yorker see this novel as “an unimportant, stripped-down thriller” solely based on the novel’s outer surface . On the other hand, William Cobb from the Houston Chronicle refers to McCarthy as the greatest living writer and that this novel “... has conjured up a heated story that brands the reader 's mind...and this is a novel that must be read and remembered”(Cooper 2). The literary merit of the novel becomes noticeable when looking beyond the thriller perspective. McCarthy’s literary merit in the novel is discrete, which is why it just appears to be a western thriller that many believe has no greater purpose other than an entertaining story. No Country for Old Men is a neo western thriller based on its writing style that divides the story into different perspectives containing elements such as fragmented sentences and untypical dialogue. The novel remains within the context of a 1980’s Texas plot which influences the diction so it can reflect a western atmosphere. Although it contains
"The Graduate" is a great film, with Dustin Hoffman, playing Benjamin (Ben) Braddock, the epitome of the confused and isolated young adult male. Ben is confused about where his life is heading, he fumbles for an answer whenever one of his parents' friends asks him "what are you going to do next?" He stares mournfully into his fish tank, perhaps likening himself to the fish dwelling within it. He is trapped in this glass cube. This movie is for anyone who’s ever wondered what he or she are going to do with their future. Not a classic love story, “The Graduate” is a coming of age film. You can see that by the different types of love portrayed
The Television shows “Full House” is based on six individuals that live in one house that aren’t the typical “family”. The character Danny is a widower who is forced to raise is three daughters on his own. His best friend Joey and brother in law Jessie moved in to help Danny raise the girls. The three girls from oldest to youngest are: Donna Joe (DJ), Stephanie, and Michelle. In 1993, season seven of the television show presented episode five entitle; “Fast Friends”. This episode was based on Stephanie starting her first year in junior high school. Stephanie meets a new friend named Nicki, and realizes that Nicki and her friends are not a good crew to be associated with. Stephanie feels pressured to smoke cigarettes while in the school bathroom however, she decided against it. Stephanie really like’s her new friend Nicki but knows she could never become a follower. Meanwhile, Jesse and Joey begin to host a radio show and can’t seem to find a decent name for the show. DJ, DJ’s boyfriend, and best friend Kimie are force to pick a side. While watching this episode the cast displayed both verbal and nonverbal cues.
Are Girls To Mean To Each Other I do believe that girls are to mean to each other because well with girls there's always something. It could be an argument, fighting over a boyfriend, something someone said on the internet, or they just don’t like each others. Honestly I don’t know why girls are even like that I mean us guys we don’t really trip off of what people say about us.
The film that I choose to analysis is The Stepford Wives. The Stepford Wives is a Sci-Fi film which was released in 2004. It was directed by Frank Oz, who is famously known for his acting roles. Frank Oz has done the voice of Yoda in the Star Wars series, and several Muppets’ characters, such as Miss Piggy. There are three editions to this story, the book, the 1975, and 2004 film. The 2004 version varies from the others, as it has a slightly different story line. In the 2004 version, the women tend to hold higher up and specialty jobs, where in the other two, the characters were stay at home mothers with a hobby in photography (Thompson, 2009).
“When I was your age, television was called books” (The Princess Bride). A quote from the timeless movie, “The Princess Bride”, when the grandfather is talking to his sick grandson about an old family tradition that was about to get passed down to him. The grandson had previously been playing a video game on the TV that he had in his room, when his grandfather walked in and told him he was going to read him a special book to make him feel better. Reluctantly, the boy turns his game off to listen. Even though the movie was not necessarily trying to make this point, it did show that kids were slowly becoming addicted to the new technology, and cutting themselves off from everything. Since those times, our
First let me explain the roles of married Greek women. Women from this era hated marriage. They were not allowed to choose who they wanted to marry. If they didn’t love their husbands, they still had to get married to a man that they didn’t even know. During this era, a father would offer up his young daughter to get married, to join two families together. The fathers would look for a man deserving of his daughter, and offer her to him. Young women did not have any choice and they had to obey the will of their fathers or other influential male figures. Very often, there were unequal marriages. For instance, a 13-year-old girl could have a 50-year-old husband. Doubtless, this factor was very dramatic inasmuch as the age gap between husbands and wives was very solid. The result of such gaps was clear. Mature husbands did not treat their young wives like a wife should be treated. They could hardly talk about anything with them. Consequently, the only duties of a woman were having babies and household duties or taking care of the man’s needs.