Chow Yun-Fat

My Big Fat Greek wedding is a movie that celebrate Greek culture. The movie starts with Toula Portokalos (Nia Vardalos) , a 30 year old Greek girl who is looked at as somewhat of a failure by her family because she has not done what she is supposed to do, Marry a Greek man, Have Greek Children, and cook for everybody until the day she dies, according to her tradition. This thirty years old woman lives with her parents in Chicago and works in the family restaurant, `Dancing Zorbas. Every…

racist script noted. Most often the racial stereotypes portrayed are what is shown, and most often in a comedic sense. For good reason, the race those stereotypes are aimed toward do not find this in jest, but very offensive. For example, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, was a movie based solely on the way Greeks are supposed to live, and act. All of which was very stereotypical behaviors, a very loud…

behavior. Films can either progressively improve our societal view of typical archetypes, or they can reinforce negative stereotypes that are already so abundant in the media today. The two films I chose to write about were Pretty Woman and My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Both films has positives and negatives influences throughout, but can be referenced as popular films which carry a strong social message. The Film Pretty Woman, was directed by Garry Marshall and written by J.F. Lawton. The film…

1. What is the name of the movie? To the Bone is a somewhat recent Netflix drama, written and directed by Marti Noxon, tells a tale about a 20 year-old girl named Ellen who is battling a chronic case of anorexia. Ellen has been in and out of hospital treatments and in-patient facilities, but still struggles with her obsession of staying thin. This is all of course before Ellen is admitted into a world-renowned doctor’s group home, where Ellen is joined by six other individuals battling…

No family is perfect…We argue, we fight. We even stop talking to each other at times. But in the end family is family…The love will always be there.” This quote by an unknown author relates to the movie “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” and to my family in many ways. Although my Family has very different beliefs than the family in the movie. One big difference in the parenting roles between my family and the Portokalos family is that I come from a divorced house hold which is very different from a…

of money, but it is breathtaking having less and still share with others. A lot of people are being misrepresented by society based on their culture, language or race. One of the movies where people are misrepresented, especially Greeks, is My Big Fat Greek Weeding. This is the story of a Greek girl named Taula who is the member of a…

phenomenal success in Asia and nearly all are limited to martial arts/action hero roles. Of these, the most well-known are Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-Fat, and Jet Li” (Yoo 642). The imported actors do not allow many Asian American actors the opportunity to act in Hollywood because Hollywood only search for Asian actors with Martial Art backgrounds, such as, Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-Fat, and Jet Li. These searches for Asian martial artist leads to numerous movies focusing on martial arts, such as,…

November 1952 to Zhou family, similar surname with a China’s famous premier Zhou Enlai and the popular Hong Kong actor Chow Yun-Fat who is the actor in the Oscar award movie “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”. They are from the same family clan which is the Zhou clan family. The surname was wrongly spelled in his birth certificate as “Choo” instead of Chew in Penang Hockkien or Chow in Cantonese or Chew in his dialect Hakka. Choo is a totally different surname. This is because of the registration…

and many others over years around the world. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is according to Chinese novelist Wang Du Lu’s novels written by “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”. Directed by Ang Lee and featuring a cast of Chinese actors, including: Yun-Fat Chow (Master Li Mu Bai), Michelle Yeoh (Yu Shu Lien), Ziyi Zhang (Jiao Long), Chen Chang (Lo ‘Dark Cloud’), and Pei-Pei Cheng (Jade Fox).…

In 19th century Qing Dynasty China, a warrior (Chow Yun-Fat) gives his sword, Green Destiny, to his lover (Michelle Yeoh) to deliver to safe keeping, but it is stolen, and the chase is on to find it. The search leads to the House of Yu where the story takes on a whole different level. As for what “crouching tiger, hidden dragon” means, a message board posting reveals the answer: “The phrase 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon' (Wuo hu zhan long) is a chinese idiom in which the words 'Tiger' and…