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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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 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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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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The movie chosen for this assignment on 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
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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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out of the love for daughter and the young man’s inclusion‚ he helped them hold a big weeding and bought a house as a gift to this couple. Key Words：intercultural marriage‚ Greek culture‚ self-surrender‚ inclusive‚ religious Part 1: Introduction My Big Fat Greek Weeding is a romantic comedy film which is centered on Fotoula“Toula” Portokalos‚ a middle class Greek American woman who falls in love with a non-Greek upper class “White Anglo-Saxon Protestant” lan Miller. Toula is a dull girl‚ being
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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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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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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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