Students watch a 2.19′ clip from the movie “My big fat Greek Wedding”. A 2002 independent romantic comedy film directed by Joel Zwick and written by Nia Vardalos describing the life of a middle class Greek American woman who falls in love with an Anglo-Saxon guy. The movie earned good reviews from the critics and was nominated for the Academy Award of Best Original Screenplay at the 75th Academy Awards. Like a true Greek immigrant, Nia’s father, Gus, loves and admires Greece and strives to instill this love in his children, but frequently he goes too far, as in this particular clip (on the left).<\/p>\n
The clip’s goal is to expose students to the driving question in a humorous way and make them wonder if Gus is justified in feeling this way about his Greek ancestry.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>