Greek Feeding Movie

The name of movie that is Canadian- American romantic comedy is My Big Fat Greek Weeding. The movie directed by Joel Zwick. Also movie’s writer is Nia Vardalos, who acts the character of Toula in the movie. The movie is intercultural because it compares the American and Greek cultures reveal the differences. We can see these differences in many scenes of the movie such as family relationships, nationalism, individualism and collectivism. Firstly, main characters are Toula Portokalos, a 30-year-old single Greek girl living in Chicago with her family and Ian Miler, single being school teacher. Family relationships is more important in Greeks than in Americans. The Greeks live in the same house with parents, children and grandmother. …show more content…
Mary's father tries to protect his family from American culture. In the movie, he emphasizes on Greek culture at every opportunity. Moreover, there are the Gods and Goddess of Greek’s statues and Greek flag in front of their house. In addition to send their children to Greek schools and churches. He always says that she can marry only a Greek man in her marriage. The father of Toula says ‘… marry Greek boys, make Greek babies, and feed everyone until the day we die…’ It understood that he cares more about his own race for his children’s marriage. Also he thinks that the origin of the words is Greek and says their Greek origins. Ian has always been tolerant about Greek culture. He was baptized for Toula and he began to get used to the humors of Toula's family. Unlike the Greeks, The American family did not object to being lover with a Greek girl and getting married. Although Ian’s parents are surprised to Greek culture, they began to get used to this situation afterward. When his family came to meet Toula’s family, they thought Greek liquor strange. At the end of the movie, we saw that Ian’s mother did not dance to in wedding. They are not nationalist as Toulua’s