My Big Fat Greek Wedding Characterization: Gus Portokalos In the movie‚ ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding”‚ Gus Portokalos is the father of the main character‚ Toula Portokalos‚ and is the patriarch of the Portokalos family. He is portrayed as a man who has a lot of pride for his country and can be ethnocentric if his ideas are different from others. He wants Toula to marry a Greek man and doesn’t want Toula to leave him. However‚ Toula falls in love with a non-greek man‚ Ian. This causes Gus to show ethnocentrism
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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
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How My Big Fat Greek Wedding can be viewed in relationship to anthropological concepts of endogamy and family acceptance of marriage to non-Greek partners Professor Rebecca D. Gorman People and Cultures of the World - ANT 3212 University of North Florida By Laurie Kirkland April 14‚ 2013 How My Big Fat Greek Wedding can be viewed in relationship to anthropological concepts of endogamy and family acceptance of marriage to non-Greek partners Introduction My Big Fat Greek Wedding
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My Big Fat Cross-Cultural Encounters Essay When you come from a different culture‚ especially when you are so attached to that culture‚ like in My Big Fat Greek Wedding‚ it becomes very difficult to have to go against your usual cultural ways. Trying to please your parents and yourself can even become a challenge‚ when the two of you want alternative things‚ and have such contrasting point of views. When it comes to flowing in with mainstream society while being raised a certain way‚ life becomes
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An Intercultural Analysis of My Big Fat Greek Wedding GDUFS SEIB1104 Nicole Guan 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
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marriage/divorce is a popular movie from 2002 titled My Big Fat Greek Wedding. The film grossed over $368‚000‚000 in box offices worldwide due to its real life cultural elements in regards to marriage‚ humor‚ and drama (Box Office Mojo‚ 2014). The film starts up with “Toula" the protagonist‚ a Greek woman and main character of the film expressing her disdain for her perceived early midlife crisis. She is in her early thirties unmarried and without children. Due to her Greek culture and pressure from her family‚
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Collectivism in my big fat greek wedding: • All the Greek families from the neighbourhood are very together‚ as they all join up together at the Greek restaurant. • When the main character asks her father if she can go to University he gets very upset and says no‚ as he doesn’t want her to leave the family and get on with her life. • The father offers money to Thia Voula for her travel agents business; this shows how they help each other within the community. • Tula asks to her boyfriend‚
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In the 2002 movie release of My Big Fat Greek Wedding‚ the writer Nia Vardalos‚ director Joel Zwick and producer Tom Hanks‚ tell the story of a real life scenario that is increasing in our ever diverse world. Vardalos‚ basing the movie on her real life marriage‚ gives the audience an inside view as to what goes on inside an interfaith marriage and how to make it work. Yet in today’s society‚ the typical view of a marriage is seen as either a fairy tale or ball and chain. However‚ after watching this
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For my paper‚ i have decided to write about My big fat greek Wedding and Philadelphia. I will say that I really enjoyed watching both films and there are a lot of interesting things to dicsuss about them. Both films varied in the amount of societal implications and interpersonal concepts but there were was plenty of it. Initially‚ i had trouble finding a good connection between the two films but i will be talking about something that i think both of these films do a good job of portraying. Both of
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Film Techniques of ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ * At the beginning of the film‚ she is very upset because she was different and of different culture to the kids in her school‚ but then the movie gradually shows that it is actually a positive because that is what Ian liked about her. * In the opening segment‚ there is the use of voiceover‚ which is a reflective technique. * What she said when in the first scene‚ she said she wanted to be blond girls‚ that later Ian likes her because she
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