INTRODUCTION My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) is a Canadian-American film that tells the story of Greek-American, Toula (Fotoula) Portokalos. At thirty, Toula is still waitressing for her family’s restaurant, Dancing Zorbas. Constantly under pressure from her traditional, Greek parents to marry a Greek man and start a family, Toula seeks some distance from the family business. Toula starts attending college classes and eventually begins a new job at her Aunt Voula’s travel agency. After a short period
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
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
“My Big Fat Greek Wedding” is a charming romantic comedy that explores cultural differences in a combination of adorable romance and cute humor. The story revolves around Toula, a thirty-year-old Greek American single woman, who lives with her family in the suburb of Chicago. Like many obedient Greek daughters, she works in her family’s business, a restaurant called “Dancing Zorba’s.” Toula belongs to a traditional collective upbringing where all good daughters are expected to marry from their ethnic
2.2 My Big Fat Wedding (2002) This movie tells about a 30-year-old Greek woman who had not married yet fell in love with a Turk man. The Greek woman was Tortula Portokalos and the Turk man was Ian Miller. Tortula’s father, Mr. Portokalos, was ‘very Greek’ who was very assertive in maintaning Greek cultures, one of them was a culture that a Greek has to marry a Greek. That was why Tortula and Ian dated secretly until one day their relationship was known by Tortula’s relative. Their relationship were
Synopsis “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
conflicts in family, categorize the variances in communication between genders, and generally create a better understanding of human communication. Many of these useful theories abut the patterns of communication can be seen in the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, a show about a very large and diversely dysfunctional family. The first topic that I found to be recurring is conflict, a topic located within interpersonal communication. Conflict is an expressed disagreement over perceived incompatible
During the movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, there was a lot of positive and negative communication that influenced the main character’s life decisions. The story is about a young woman, named Toula, that is of Greek decent who is fearful of being stuck in the life she is now living. She is a frumpy girl that works in her family’s restaurant because she has not been able to find a Greek man to marry, and because of this, her family claims that she is old and has failed in life. She is allowed to
I. Introduction A. What's the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a film released in 2002 under the direction of Joel Zwick. It is a Canadian-American romantic comedy film written by and featuring NiaVardalos. The film revolves around the life of Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos, a Greek-American lady in the lower middle class who fell in love with a non-Greek upper middle class Ian Miller. It was selected for nominations for Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 75th Academy Awards. It was an
Mi Familia, My Big Fat Greek Wedding The movie “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”, established in Chicago, filmed in Toronto Ontario City located in an area with the largest Greek population, the movie genre was a romance, comedy film that consists of 16 cast members. The character’s playing roles communicating stereotypical portrayals of compassion, and sincerity giving the movie an honest warmth sense, and feeling while sharing a real life experience with its audience. While revealing behaviors and personalities