My Big Fat Greek Wedding

The director of the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Joel Zwick, attempts to bring to light the cultural differences between Greeks and non-Greeks by portraying the characters in the film, their values, and different events throughout the movie in a relatively stereotypical way. This particular film analysis will focus mainly on the family representations, religious beliefs, dining customs, outer appearance pertaining to hair and style in which they dress, and lastly, on Greek nationalism regarding Greek history, relationships formed with others, and the Greek language. As this film quickly revealed, family is extremely valued, appreciated, and respected by the Greeks. The Greeks often have weekly family gatherings and it is common for the parents…

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 normal house hold like the Portokalos family in the movie. In my family my mother is the one that makes the…

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…

Korbyn Limber University of Oklahoma Have you ever seen My Big Fat Greek Wedding or most recently, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2? Well, I have a double dose! Having come from both Lebanese and Greek backgrounds makes my family big, loud, loving, Orthodox (religion that is), and most of all, irreplaceable! My heritage which is founded on my family values and strong faith seem to lend itself to family communication. Family rules, family rituals, and family stories are definitely a huge part of my…

This paper analyses the character of Toula, Gus, and Ian in their stages of development as they experience different psychological crises in their life in the My Big Fat Greek Wedding film. The analyses of the three characters incorporate the psychosocial development theory in establishing an explanation to the dilemmas that the three characters are facing in their stages of development. This paper conceptualizes ideas about factors that are likely to affect the behavior of the characters based…

Every family has its own beliefs and traditions, no matter how quirky or strange. But according to Toula Portokalos, the main character in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, her family goes above and beyond all expectations of a normal and functional family. She wants to marry the man of her dreams, but she also must try to maintain her family traditions as well as break away and form new ones. This film proficiently portrays the functionality and struggles of family communication by means of Systems…

order to achieve your goal or dream? Well the book “The Raisin in the Sun”, by; Lorraine Hansberry is where a family, of five all living in a small apartment where waiting for a ten thousand dollar insurance check from their father who died. Everyone had different ideas what to do with the money so Mama bought a house with ⅓ of it and gave Walter rest and lost it all. Which resulted calling the man who didn’t want them living in the neighborhood were Mama bought the new house but turned him…

of this is the female protagonist’ case in the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which presents the power of cultural elements on how they affect her life and marriage. Among those elements, two outstanding concepts in the film that will be analyzed are ethnocentrism and collectivism versus individualism. In the film, Toula Portokalos is a thirty-year-old Greek-American woman who works in her family's restaurant, Dancing Zorba's. Her father, Gus, another Greek-American man hopes her to merely get…

Merging two very different families in marriage can create a lot of turmoil throughout the life of a marriage, however, merging to very different families can be a blessing for future generations. This paper analyzes the family portrayed in My Big Fat Greek Wedding from a multi-generational family therapy perspective as well as outlines interventions, Ian Miller and Tula Portokalis can benefit from within their marital relationship. My Big Fat Greek Wedding is about a first generation American,…

I looked at different professions and applied at a lot of schools, before finally choosing counseling, during this time I was on vacation and spending a lot of time considering all the options, and how they would impact my life. The work that we did was fun and interesting, I believe I have been frightened of a program being too over whelming, or not engaging me enough to for me to be productive I believed this course helped me balance, my ambitions, and helped me feel productive. What did…