(3/5)My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a romantic comedy film written by Nia Vardalos and directed by Joel Zwick. It was the fifth highest grossing movie of 2002 in the USA. It tells the love story between an American woman of Greek descent and a non-Greek American, which finally ends in the 'Big Fat Greek Wedding'.
The movies also examines her troubled love/hate relationship with her greek heritage and culture. Her parents are in a greek world in the midst of America and she very much wants to get out of it. A nice story of how a frump finally became a cutie.
The movies gives out the message 'don't let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become'. As it says, be proud of who you are, be Greek.
A decent family comedy with a good message. But I think the greeks are more good looking than what they are show as in the movie ;-)
Here are some quotes from the movie:
Aunt Voula: What do you mean he don't eat no meat?
[the entire room stops, in shock]
Aunt Voula: Oh, that's okay. I make lamb.
Maria Portokalos: Toula, on my wedding night, my mother, she said to me, "Greek women, we may be lambs in the kitchen, but we are tigers in the bedroom."
Gus Portokalos: The root of the word Miller come from a Greek word, millah, meaning apple, so there you go. And our name, Portokalos, is come from the word meaning orange. So today here, we have, apples and oranges. We all different now, but in the end, we're all fruit.
Gus Portokalos: There are two kinds of people - Greeks, and everyone else who wish they was Greek.
Toula Portokalos: [narration] My family is big and loud but they're my family. We fight and we laugh and yes, we roast lamb on a spit in the front yard. And where ever I go, what ever I do they will always be there.
And here comes the best!
Toula Portokalos: Ma, Dad is so stubborn. What he says goes. "Ah, the man is the head of the house!"
Maria Portokalos: Let me tell you something, Toula. The man is the head, but the woman is the neck. And she can turn the head any way she wants.
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