我的盛大希腊婚礼.doc

跨文化交际教程 学期论文 论文题目：“苹果”和“橘子”的婚礼—— 从电影《我的盛大希腊婚礼》看文化的差异与融合 The wedding of “apple” and “orange”-------- Analysis cultural differences and fusion 学 生 姓 名 满丽丽 学 生 学 号 201107050201418 学 生 班 级 英语2011-2班 学 科 专 业 英语 学 年 学 期 2013-2014学年 指 导 教 师 所 在 学 院 语言文化学院 2014年06月日 “苹果”和“橘子”的婚礼—— 从电影《我的盛大希腊婚礼》看文化的差异与融合 The wedding of “apple”and “orange”-------- Analysis cultural differences and fusionIntroduction The movie my big fat Greek wedding is a story about a ?a?middle class?Greek American?girl who marry a non-Greek?upper middle class?White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Ian Miller. Tula is thirty years old who is the only women who has “failed” her traditional Greek family hope she “marry a Greek boy, make Greek babies, and feed everyone until the day she dies.” But unexpected Tula fall in love with an American man. Though Tula live in America her family is a big traditional Greek family, the family consisted of relatives was big and loud and all her family are the Orthodox Eastern Church. Ian is a typical American, he is the only child in his family, compared with Tula’s family his is quite and boring. Just like Tula’s father said: “they are dry, just like a piece of toast no honey, no jam, just dry.” The great differences between the two cultures have been a big obstacle of their marriage. Tula’s family ask her must marry a Greek man so at the beginning her family disagree their marriage, especially her father, Tula’s father is proud of they are Greek and their traditional Greek culture. In order to be accepting by Tula’s family Ian is baptized, he changes himself and finally marries Tula. They have a great wedding ceremony, it is quite a beautiful and happy wedding ceremony, in the wedding Ian’s “quiet ” and “boring ” parents dance and drinking with Tula’s family In the wedding Tula’s father said: “So, okay, here tonight we have, uh, apple and orange... we all different, but, in the end, we all fruit.” Here