The Wedding Banquet

The Wedding Banquet

  • Director: Ang Lee
  • Writer: Ang Lee,Neil Peng,James Schamus
  • Countries of origin: Taiwan, United States
  • Language: Mandarin, English
  • Release date: August 4, 1993
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: El banquete de bodas
  • "The Wedding Banquet" is a same-sex movie directed by Ang Lee and starring Winston Chao , Mitchell Wilson Lichtenstein , Chin May , Pual Lang , and Yalei Gui . It was released in the United States on August 4, 1993.
    The film tells a series of stories about the fake marriage of Gao Wei, a gay and lesbian who settled in the United States, with his parents who were forced to marry him and the illegal immigrant female painter Gu Weiwei   .

    Details

    • Release date August 4, 1993
    • Filming locations Phoenix Ballroom, Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel, Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies Ang Lee Productions, Central Motion Pictures, Good Machine

    Box office

    Budget

    $1,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $6,933,459

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $134,870

    Gross worldwide

    $6,933,459

    Movie reviews

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    • By Reggie 2022-04-23 07:03:55

      "Wedding Banquet"

      "The Wedding Banquet", a same-sex movie from the end of the last century, is revisited today. I think Wei Tong is lucky, a considerate Gao mother, and a Gao father who I don't know how to describe (such a father is really not for everyone of the same sex, and Gao's mother is also). There are no scenes of family crying and scuffles in the film, and it progresses slowly with a steady tune, and everything seems to be moving forward as expected. I think all same-sex people hope...

    • By Casimer 2022-04-23 07:03:55

      Watching the wedding feast

      "I didn't get married to explain what you got married." "I thought Chinese people were all submissive, silent and math geniuses. You are seeing the result of five thousand years of sexual repression." "Gao Weitong came over. ... Gao Weitong, I'm sorry, this isn't a happy event in Chen's house. It's upstairs in the phoenix hall in Chen's house." "Dude, you really know what room number to choose. It's not good to pick 1069, Ronaldinho, aren't you drunk? Drunk me. Even if you...

    • By Wade 2022-04-23 07:03:55

      A Feminist View of the Wedding Banquet

      I just happened to be reading "Misogyny" recently, so I unknowingly looked at this article from a feminist perspective.

      As a film from more than 20 years ago, the traditional family described by Ang Lee has been different from the modern family in my eyes, so can it be understood that the status of women in the family and in society has risen?

    • By Alexis 2022-04-23 07:03:55

      Too many words are cited here

      I read it on Sunday and dragged it off to write it now. Why do I feel so busy these days? But it also feels like I haven't hurry up enough... The wedding banquet, the ending is beautiful, it's a compromise from everyone. Movies that actually exist in reality are talking about, and ideal situations that don't exist in reality are also covered in movies. The predicament in Pushing Hands and the Wedding Banquet finally ends with a harmonious ending, which is an idealized and...

    • By Itzel 2022-04-23 07:03:55

      Cross-cultural communication from the wedding banquet

      Abstract: The movie "The Wedding Banquet" tells the story of Gao Weitong, a Chinese living in the United States, and his gay and tenant Weiwei. The story reflects the friction and collision of different family concepts and cross-cultural exchanges between China and the West. This article selects four specific clips from the film, and combines the theoretical content of the English cross-cultural communication curriculum to compare and explain the specific differences between Chinese and...

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    • By Jocelyn 2023-09-15 15:37:10

      I don't deny Ang Lee's insight into the sophistication of human relationships, but the problem with his Chinese lines seems to have always existed. And the acting of the heroine is really too substandard, the whole film seems to be dubbing the dubbing film, only when speaking Shanghai dialect is more comfortable (maybe because I don't understand it). The first half has been troubled by the actors' acting skills. There is no spark of love between the two male protagonists. The female...

    • By Foster 2023-07-15 00:36:51

      The collision of the West and the East, the collision of straight men and the same sex, the collision of family and love, Li An pointed out the five thousand years of Chinese people's sexual desire and this point is enough for me to laugh for a long time, "Wei Tong, how can you choose the number 1069 like...

    • By Beau 2023-07-10 05:12:57

      It's very interesting, as well as the characterization of "Food Men and Women", the cultural conflict is not very obvious. The disadvantage is that the lines are not real enough, like a drama. Gao Jin Sumei's life trajectory is...

    • By Mervin 2023-06-07 08:33:25

      I thought that Dad and Lao Zhang also had an affair, I thought too much, the human heart is too scary to look...

    • By Janelle 2023-06-02 23:49:00

      This is more than three notches higher than pushers. I'm complaining that there is no western theme music in the push hands, and there is a Chinese and Western carnival at the end of the wedding banquet. Li An was indeed a Confucian leader, and finally moved towards unity, and mixed with his tolerant father. Li An's face at the banquet was too...

    Movie plot

    Gao Weitong ( Winston Chao ) who lives in the United States is a homosexual. He lives in Manhattan, New York with his lover, an American man named Simon ( Mitchell Wilson Lichtenstein ) . But Gao Weitong’s parents in Taiwan didn’t know that their son was gay. They kept urging Weitong to get married soon, so as to inherit the incense of the Gao family. It just so happened that in Gao Weitong's apartment, an illegal female immigrant from...
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    Evaluation action

    The biggest feature of the film is that the Chinese people’s unique family ethics and doctrines of the mean are used to deal with the homosexuality problem, so that almost all the social problems that trouble families can be solved in a comedic manner in the film. This way of dealing with homosexuality and the concept of treating homosexuality is Eastern, and similar views can even be found in Chinese classical novels. But this story...
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    Movie quotes

    • Wai-Tung Gao: I don't know, we should have moved you out.

      Simon: I'll survive.

      Wai-Tung Gao: Not if Wei Wei keeps cooking.

    • Justice of the Peace: Okay, now you: "I, Wee-Wee..."

      Wei-Wei: Wee-Wee.

      Justice of the Peace: "... take you, Wai Tung..."

      Wei-Wei: Wee-Wee.

      Justice of the Peace: Okay. "To be my wedded husband... to have and to hold..."

      Wei-Wei: Holding to have, husband, mine...

      Justice of the Peace: "... for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer..."

      Wei-Wei: Better and richer, no poorer.

      Justice of the Peace: "... in sickness and in health, till death do us part."

      Wei-Wei: Till sickness and death.

      Justice of the Peace: Groovy. Rings.

    • Mrs. Gao: [about Wei-Wei] What do you think?

      Mr. Gao: She'll make a lot of babies.