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
Fools Rush In and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 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
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 out in a few specific scenes. During the movie, I found that these concepts
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
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) Although, traditional roles may be a thing of the pass . Most traditional
The film that I chose was My Big Fat Greek Wedding. The movie is a romantic comedy about a 30-year-old single woman Toula living in Chicago with her family. As a Greek girl, being raised by a very traditional Greek family she always wanted to be like the other girls instead of going to Greek School she wanted to attend traditional public school and eat American. She was looked down upon by her family because she was supposed to be married to a Greek man, have Greek children, and feed people, which she
My Big Fat Greek Wedding My Big Fat Greek Wedding is set in present day Chicago. It is centered around the Portokalos family, particularly Toula Portokalos. Toula is the middle child of Gus and Maria Portokalos. She has an older sister named Athena, and a younger brother named Nick. She also has a rather large and very Greek extended family. Toula is a 30-year-old, Greek woman who is living with her parents, grandmother, and brother. Toula's life has become placid and boring. She feels a sense of
to face encounters between to individuals and their ability to be aware of one another. This family view best applies to the father-daughter relationship between Gus and Toula Portokalos from My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Gus, the dominant rule setting father, has made it his goal to embrace their Greek Heritage to its fullest extent all while maintaining certain roles for each member of his immediate family. While Gus strives to protect the family’s roles and community
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
My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a romantic comedy about a 30-year-old single woman living in Chicago named Toula Portokalos. As a girl, raised by a very traditional Greek family, she faces many deep questions about her priorities in life. These questions range from the role of family in a contemporary society, to the pressures placed upon her by her family and their cultural norms. The Greeks in this movie are very ethnocentric, meaning they tend to evaluate other people and cultures according to the
After watching clips on the three movies assigned, they all correspond with each other in terms of cross- cultural misunderstanding. In the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding it is a romantic comedy idealistic romance comedy where a very traditional family raised the main character. Whereas in the movie Mr. Baseball the main charter is assigned to a new team outside of the country triggering great barriers. And in the movie the Joy luck club it demonstrates difficulties the relatives deal with as immigrants
My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a film made in 2004 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 shown during the film. As for culture, the film displays subculture, counterculture, ethnocentrism, cultural relativism and lastly, cultural diffusion. My Big Fat Greek Wedding focuses on a 30 year old
see a connection between marriage and death, the Greeks did. Both define an irreversible physical change—the loss of virginity and the loss of life. This idea of loss, rebirth, and renewal are present in both wedding and funeral. This is evident in the way wedding and funeral ceremonies complement each other in character and content. Both ceremonies are interwoven with ritual meaning and overlapping rites. There are three distinctive parts to a Greek marriage: the engue, ekdosis, and gamos (Powers)
WEDDING TRADITIONS Ethnic diversity lies at the core of cultural or social anthropology. Anthropology, derived from Greek, literally means ‘study of human’. The discipline examines, from a holistic, scientific and cross-cultural viewpoint, how humans lived in the past and how they live today, what activities they performed or perform in this day and age and their manners of interacting with members of vast social groups. Being aware of distinctive cultures enables us to see the world from a broader
Therapist. Retrieved November 4, 2011, from http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200505/marriage-history Origins of the wedding ring. (n.d.). Origins of the wedding ring. Retrieved November 4, 2011, from http://www.weddingringorigins.com/ S.E.. (n.d.). The History of Marriage. The History of Marriage. Retrieved November 4, 2011, from http://www.richeast.org/htwm/Greeks/marriage/marriage.html The Canadian Encyclopedia. (n.d.). The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved November 4, 2011, from http://www
particularly in western culture. In most cases, women wear sapphire engagement rings in view of the fact that they feature diamonds or other gemstones. In some cultures, men and women wear diamond ring and in other cultures, engagement rings are used as wedding rings. As a point of fact, engagement rings have been the ultimate symbol of love for thousands of years. A man presents the woman’s ring as an engagement gift to his probable spouse while he proposes marriage or after she accepts marriage proposal
fun & the ultimate test of memory! It works best as the first game. The one with the most correct answers (types of clothing, colors, etc..), is the winner. Bridal Pictionary contributed by Loida Write down as many names of things associated with weddings and brides on slips of paper. Put the slips into a bag. Divide all of the guests into two teams. One person from each team gets a chance to draw the word on a slip of paper pulled out of the bag, and the team must guess what is being drawn in one
of the Shadows and Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, you might also make the case that we – as movie lovers – are unjustly subjected to sequels for movies that no one actually asked for. More to the point, the release of a sequel like My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, which came 14 years after its predecessor, or Finding Dory, coming 13 years after Finding Nemo, forces one to wonder if the original creativity well is completely dried up. As such, films of this nature truly make you to wonder if there is
Men were taught to be superior to women since the dawn of time, whereas females were looked down upon. Ruled by patriarchy, it was hard for most of these women to do more than just be a stay at home wife. In some of the stories we have read, the women were portrayed as submissive, obedient, with no voice. Women have struggled to break out of this mold and find a voice for themselves. However, some managed to break out of these expectations and standards. Women and men have had to fulfill different
My Big Fat Greek Wedding depicts a patriarchal hierarchy in which, Gus, is the head of the household. This is exemplified when Gus continually makes the decisions about the families wellbeing in the film. Although this becomes complicated as the film depicts Maria as a