A Tale of Two Weddings
Weddings are a celebration of love, family, and culture. Monsoon Wedding and My Big Fat Greek Wedding combine these aspects of weddings to tell us two different stories that revolve around very similar themes. Both movies portray the importance of family and acceptance through events and conflicts that surround a wedding. However, the different types of romances, marriages, and cultural issues depicted in these movies create two distinct images that can be seen as polar opposites, while sharing a similar message.
The love story between the sympathetic protagonist of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Toula Portokalos, and Ian Miller can be seen as a modern day Cinderella story. Toula’s traditional Greek family, especially her father Gus, is the main source of conflict in this movie. Gus is extremely proud of his Greek heritage. The flip side of Gus’ pride is his xenophobia. His dislike of foreigners, or as he calls them, “xenos,” can be seen as a manifestation of his fear of losing his culture. He wants to keep his Greek identity alive, and pass it on to his children ...
The scene where Robby went on a double date. The social structure of class was express through the social construction of posing bonds. Glenn says Robby should look into the bond market business because that is where the money is. Robby shows his income by having a saving bonds worth $25.00 in 1993. The social structure of Masculinity is express through body, when talking Robby and Glenn are talking about the women’s butt as a piece of meat.
The movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding is about a 30-year old and single woman named Toula Portokalos who although has lived a very Greek life-style up to this point, decides to pursue a relationship with a non-Greek man. This, of course, is disturbing to her family since they are so proud about their culture, and do not really know anything different. Her whole life, Toula has been instilled with a very traditional Greek outlook on life. She has been expected to do three things: Marry a Greek boy, make Greek babies, and feed everyone until the day they die. Throughout the movie, Toula overcomes inner struggles to find her own identity, and she overcomes struggles with her family.
The Wedding Singer was put on by the Ole Miss Theatre Department on November 11, 2016. It took place in Fulton Chapel on the Ole Miss campus and featured a very talented cast of Ole Miss students. Rene Pulliam was the director and Kate Prendergast was the choreographer for this musical. The play was dynamic and engaging. From the acting, to the set, to the energy of the cast, The Wedding Singer was a lively musical that left the viewer feeling excited and spirited.
In the short story, “A Ghetto Wedding,” written by Abraham Cahan, the readers are introduced to the lives of Goldy and Nathan, a poor Jewish couple that struggles with economic hardship and financing their upcoming wedding. As the story opens, readers are witnessing Nathan singing and working hard on the streets as a peddler, in hopes of gaining extra cash for the wedding that Goldy desperately desires. However, her dream of a wedding is not one rooted in pure joy and innocence, as one gets an insight into her character. When Goldy unexpectedly meets Nathan while he is peddling, she envisions him being the only peddler on the street, and further says, “wouldn’t you [Nathan] make heaps of money then?” (Cahan, 281). This specific quote automatically
Every movie that is written has a certain attitude to it. Some of these are intended to be laughed at and others are meant to be heartfelt. Though each movie is written with its own voice, so to speak, many have similar plots or themes. The two movies Fools Rush In and My Big Fat Greek Wedding are two of these movies that have similarities in the themes, but not necessarily in the plots. Both of these romantic comedies have strong religious backgrounds on the woman’s side of the family and differences in culture. The main theme between these two movies is the quest for happiness and all the troubles that must be overcome to achieve it.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a film made in 2004 directed by Joel Zwick that evidently portrays several sociological concepts throughout the film. This film highly demonstrates the sociological topics of gender and culture all through the movie. The roles of gender, gender stratification as well as gender stereotyping are exemplified during the film. As for culture, the film displays subculture, counterculture, ethnocentrism, cultural relativism and cultural diffusion. My Big Fat Greek Wedding focuses on a single 30-year-old Greek woman, Toula Portokalos, who works at her family’s restaurant. Toula’s life takes a turn when she unexpectedly falls in love with a man who is not Greek. The film revolves around Toula’s family as well as her boyfriend,
While Toula kept her new boyfriend in secret from her family, the couple was soon exposed thanks to the tight connections within the Portokalos family. Gus was quick to once again comply with the interactionist perspective by first explaining to Toula the “rules” Ian was meant to follow in order to ask for permission to date his daughter. He later continues by inviting a preapproved suitor for his daughter who would help to continue and maintain their strong Greek culture. The climax of this conflict arises when Toula begins to feel the pressure from her father and tries to break it off with Ian. Luckily for Toula Ian was completely understanding of her family system; even when his own family was more “cookie cutter” in the way his family was smaller in size, they kept to immediate family, as well as weren’t as prideful of their heritage. The couple continues to date and Ian soon proposes to Toula. When she confronts her father with her news he begins to become outraged by the situation and the lack of respect coming from his daughter and her inability to uphold not only tradition but his own expectations of her. After Ian commits to converting into Toula’s Greek Orthodox faith as a way to make her father and family happy and more accepting, Toula proceeded to explain to her father that this is what she had been waiting for and was where she felt comfortable. Again we have some evidence of not only Toula but also her father complying with this idea of constructing a new reality to fit ones needs. Gus slowly begins to accept Ian thanks to his sacrifice and commitment not only to his daughter but the family’s traditions and culture as well. Eventually all turns out well for the Portokalos and Gus and Toula’s relationship becomes strong thanks to
A wedding is a great social event in our society, which establishes a new bond between two individuals and families. Marriage is a joyful occasion with plenty of music, dance, partying and merrymaking. It also brings together long-lost friends, relatives and acquaintances. In India, the parents choose the mate for their child, which is called an arranged marriage. In most cases, the bride and groom do not even talk to each other until after they are married.
This essay will examine my thoughts and those of David Sterrit on the critically acclaimed television show The Honeymooners. First, I will talk about the Honeymooners and it’s setting in postwar America. Secondly, the social and cultural issues the series portrayed. Next, would be the psychological perspective and the aesthetics of the show. Finally, the essay would conclude with my thoughts on how the Honeymooners were impacted by these aspects, but also how the show managed to leave a legacy in television today.
The movie of My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a story of a traditional Greek Family and their thirty year old daughter Toula who had pass the age of getting married and starts a family of her own . Toula’s and her family lived in a normal middle class neighbourhood in a traditional Greek home with Greek statues on their front lawn, and owned a nice Greek restaurant name the Dancing Zorbas where she work as a seating hostess (My)
Blood Wedding is a play that basically based on the generational conflict, gender roles, the cycle of life, physical and emotional isolation and humanity in nature. During the play each of themes are presented on each of the characters because it represents the description of them.Also, it explains how all these things are presented during that time, how the stereotypes of the people during that time is presented and how the beliefs and traditions change with the passage of the time.
The movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, is a movie about a very large Greek family living in Chicago that has many anthropological themes to language and symbols, cultural art, and religious beliefs. In the movie, both Toula and Ian come from different cultures, where as Toula is from a Greek culture and Ian is from an America culture. The cultural values are different because Toula was brought up in a very loud and large Greek family, while Ian was brought up American in a very calm family. Both Ian’s and Toula’s side of the family have different cultural values, such as with the Greeks, the man likes to be the head of the household, and the women of the household like to cook. As you see in the movie, Toula’s dad wants her to marry a Greek boy and have Greek babies, but all
The Hindu wedding is a complex ceremony whose various components has all a specific meaning and has all a relation to
It was a beautiful Saturday morning on January 6. The winter air was crisp and the view was amazing. The soft salty scent from the ocean filled the air. Off the balcony on the second story of the Long Beach Yacht Club I could see the light swells of the Pacific Ocean. The small crashing of waves added to the peaceful instrumental background sounds as the ceremony was about to begin. January 6, my wedding date, was a day that changed the rest of my life.
Almost every culture around the world have the idea of bringing together households in marriage. In the United States, this a coupling of two people who will start a life on their own. In India, a marriage is more than two people falling and love and getting married. Family, religion and casts play a role for the future bride and groom. The Indian culture’s weddings have different traditions when it comes to proposals, ring traditions and ceremonies not only for the couple but for the families as well.