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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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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Film Analysis: “MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING” Introduction to Sociology “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”‚ is a wonderful movie all about the Greek sub-culture in Chicago. This movie explores‚ and demonstrates many sociological points. This movie is exceptional because‚ this movie also shows the values of Greek immigrants living in America. Furthermore‚ the American Greeks in this movie promotes three traditional values - marry a Greek boy or girl‚ have Greek babies‚ and feed everyone. This is a value that
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Movie Review and Analysis Movie- Outsourced (2006) Outsourced is a romantic comedy film‚ written by George Wing and John Jeffcoat‚ and directed by John Jeffcoat‚ released in September 2006. This movie reflects well on intercultural differences between American and Indian cultures Plot3: When a Seattle-based US firm Western Novelty decides to outsource its call centre to India‚ it asks Mr. Todd Anderson (Josh Hamilton) to train his replacement in India‚ which he has to accept reluctantly. Right
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Comedy Scene Analysis: “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” Comedic movies combine clever dialogue with superb actors and unique cinematography to stir up good feelings in the audience. “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” is a classic comedy film that has the audience laughing throughout the entire movie. The movie tells the story of Ian and Toula and their interesting and hilarious journey to marriage. Ian comes from a very conservative home with two shy parents and no extended family. Toula comes from a very
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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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texts for the Area of Study‚ they are overused because all of the following texts can be found analysed in study guides. If you use a pre-prepared analysis for your related texts realise you will be competing with the thousands of other students who used the exact same text and analysis. Edward Scissorhands My Big Fat Greek Wedding Into the Wild Looking for Alibrandi Shrek The Arrival Mean Girls The Rabbits The Catcher in the Rye
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding: A Narrative Analysis America is a country of many ethnicities‚ colors‚ races‚ and backgrounds. Within this multicultural society‚ life and various situations bring these cultures together‚ forcing members of different groups to interact. This intercultural mix however‚ invites conflict as differing opinions‚ values‚ traditions and behaviors often create misunderstandings and barriers between groups and individuals. The film‚ My Big Fat Greek Wedding may be viewed as a
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enrich a community or a group. | |The two prescribed texts “The China Coin” by Allen Bailey and “Immigrant Chronicle” by Peter Skrzinecki and the related text of my choice “My | |Big Fat Greek Wedding” by Joel Zwick use these techniques to present perspectives about belonging. | |These texts have shown that acceptance and understanding are necessary for a sense of belonging by presenting
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