August 28, 2008

Jim Schulz

Movie: "Bride & Prejudice"

The "Bride & Prejudice" was a much different movie than I thought it would be. I felt it would be boring, hard to follow, with English sub-titles or English dubbed in. I guess this shows just how little I know about Non-Western Literature and the types of stories/movies that are produced. The "Bride & Prejudice" seemed to have many of the same characteristics of an American movie. Although it did follow the Non-Western way of writing, it had music, dance, and a family theme, much of the same characteristics of an American movie. When viewing the "Bride & Prejudice" I could relate it to the movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." Both movies dealt with culture, families that wanted their daughters to marry men from their culture, follow the ways of their land, and both movies had daughters that would marry outside of their culture. Although many characteristics of Non-Western literature differ from American literature you can see similarities.