In My Big Fat Greek Wedding, a movie of romantic comedy, a young, yet elderly looking, greek woman wants to get a job and wed a greek man. According to Aristotle, a comic heroine must be a somewhat average person, but must have charm in order for the audience to root for this heroine's happy ending. Toula, the main character, fits Aristotle's description of a comic heroine. She is average, but is smart. Her charm comes from her ineptitudes because her family makes light of these deficiencies. Over the course of the movie, Toula dates a white man, not greek at all. Their big hurdle is getting Toula's father's approval of her boyfriend, Ian.
Our basic human nature is to have sex and procreate. In today's society, however, our human want is love. It is in the nature of today's society to get a job, fall in love, get married, and have children. My Big Fat Greek Wedding exemplifies this human need to be happy in life and with another person. When the movie begins, she is average. Throughout the movie, she fights with her dad to let her be independent. She pursues this goal and goes to college to get a job at Aunt Voula's travel agency. Soon after, Toula fulfills another societal expectation and basic human need when she meets Ian at the travel agency. She sees him run into an old lady and the old lady hits him with her bag. Soon after Toula moves to greet him, but she is connected to her headset and falls over. Toula transforms into looking like an elderly woman, to a beautiful attractive young lady dating a man. My Big Fat Greek Wedding fulfills Aristotle's most important rule for a romantic comedy: the hero and heroine get married. This romantic comedy explains the path that most people in today's society want to follow at some point in their lives.
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