the same plot but instead it is a jewish orthodox family and the daughter goes out with a not so jewish boyfriend and he trys to fit in with the jewish heritage. By the end of the movie the boyfriend is all in black hat, black suit kippah...etc
sharenot sure. maybe it would have to be made to see. there was the film 'suzie gold' where she decides to go with the non jewish guy as opposed to the jewish one but the ending wasn't conclusive as far as i remember, they left it open to interpretation as they wondered off into the distance hand in hand. no mention of marriage or of him converting. it wasn't that good a film imo
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let's not go to camelot, it is a silly place
I think this story would work with any ethnicity.
Swing away, Merrill....Merrill, swing away...share
As another poster said, it would work with any ethnicity, which is exactly why the movie was such a big success in the first place - because everyone could identify with it.
That being said, however, it would not have worked with Hasidic Jews. I'm a Jew, so I can say this - nobody likes the Hasids, not even most Jews. They are FAR too different from other people for anyone to think, "Awww, that's still pretty cute." Sure, there's all the weird Jewish stuff, but that would be the same as all the weird Greek stuff. But, at least the Greeks don't wear all black clothes, black hat, beard, those bizarre curls by the men's ears, those ugly wigs and terrible dresses that the women wear. The Greeks, for all their weirdness, are at least semi-normal; the Hasids, not so much.
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.
I'm jewish too. I come from a more modern orthodox family who observes the shabbat. Now I've grown up to make my own choices in life whether to say orthodox or go for a more conservative route, while my sister became more serious and married her husband who goes for the hasidic side of the jewish spectrum
there are two other movies in paticular that pokes fun at jewish life.
Keeping the Faith
and
Keeping up with the Steins
No, I don't think so. Because Nia Vardalos is GREEK, and this is her story.
She was offered a lot of money for her screenplay by production companies who wanted to take her story and transplant it to another ethnicity -- Italian, Latino, whatever. She staunchly refused because she wanted it to stay Greek.
Realistically the Jewish girl would become more assimilated and adapt to the guy's family, or they would meet halfway rather than how the guy had to embrace a Greek identity in this movie. I know intermarriage rates for American Jews is over 50% and most of the resulting kids are not raised Jewish. I think except for the Orthodox ones most Jews in the US are not as insular as the Greeks in the movie.
shareThe problem is that there have been numerous movies about Jews and intermarriage, and the parents' opposition; it's almost a cliche. The fact that this movie was about Greek-Americans is part of what made it a little different; it was not the standard ethnicity that romantic movies focus upon.
(As a side note, the real-life Ian whom John Corbett's character was based on is in fact of Jewish and Latino extraction, and the movie changed him to a WASP.)
Would definitely work because Greeks and Jews have a similarly tightly knit family unit.
That and the fact that they are both big-nosed fishbum's that think they are God's gift to the world.