“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
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related to interpersonal communication. I have come to believe that these concepts have 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
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding is Canadian-American movie which was directed by Joel Zwick in 2002. The movie combined between romance and comedy to show the different habits between Greek and American ordinary people. The main character is girl named Tula who suffers from her Greek family whose tried to prevent her from marrying the man she loved. At last Tula won and married her lover Ian Miller and they celebrate in a purely Greek wedding. I noticed that marriage in Greek culture is a very big
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” is a romantic comedy that explores cultural differences in a combination of romance and humor. The story revolves around Toula‚ a thirty-year-old Greek American single woman‚ who lives with her family in the suburb of Chicago. She works in her family’s business‚ a restaurant called “Dancing Zorba’s.” Toula is expected to marry from their ethnic background. However‚ she struggles with her strict father to convince him that she longs for something
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The biggest difference in communication between many of the characters in the film‚ My Big Fat Greek Wedding‚ and myself would be their naturally outspoken and openly emotional nature. Though the character of Toula was more reserved than the rest of her family‚ a large portion of the humor and the tension in the movie is derived from the candor of her father and mother. At the opening of the movie‚ Toula’s father‚ Gus‚ criticizes Toula and tells her‚ “You better get married soon. You’re starting
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last week titled “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” which shows that a Greek woman (Toula Portokalos) who’s in her 30’s still haven’t married yet and all her dad wants is for her to marry a Greek Boy but the woman doesn’t have one yet. Then she took computer classes and work at her aunt’s agency‚ finally saw an American boy who she saw years before also single. Then they met and talked finally both of them have fallen in love. But the problem of them is that she can’t marry a non-Greek man which is the American
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Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos (Nia Vardalos) is going through an early midlife crisis. At thirty‚ she is the only woman in her family who has "failed". Her family expects her to "marry a Greek boy‚ make Greek babies‚ and feed everyone until the day she dies." Instead‚ Toula is stuck working in the family business‚ a restaurant‚ "Dancing Zorba’s". In contrast to her "perfect" sister‚ Athena (Stavroula Logothetis)‚ Toula is frumpy and cynical. She fears she’s doomed to be stuck with her life as it is
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Film Conceptualization Paper My Big Fat Greek Wedding‚ is a 2002 film‚ that portrays the main character‚ Toula Portokalos and the conflict that occurs after she decides to marry someone outside of her culture. In the film‚ Toula is the middle child of an immigrant family that proudly represents their Greek Heritage. The most prominent cultural belief is that Toula must marry a Grecian man. With the assistance of her mother and her aunt‚ Toula is able to attend college and work for her aunt’s travel
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The movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a very clear example cultural diversity. Cultural diversity is differences based on cultural‚ ethnic and racial factors. This movie was about a Greek female‚ named Toula Portokalos‚ who was embarrassed by her culture. Her father‚ Gus only wants her to do three things: get married to a greek boy‚ have kids with a greek boy and cook greek food. Gus is ethnocentric‚ this means that he believes that being Greek is better than being in any other culture. In the beginning
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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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