Introduction and details of the wedding banquet

Plot summary

Wei Tong (Zhao Wenxuan) is a successful gay man who lives happily together with his boyfriend Simon (Mitchell Lichtenstein) in the United States. Various tricks are used to deal with forced marriages from the father (Lang Xiong) and mother (Gui Yalei) who are far away in Taipei. Wei Tong was forced to write a letter claiming to be a "good boy" and claimed that he would get married in the United States. Unexpectedly, his parents wanted to witness it with their own eyes. Helpless, he had no choice but to marry Wei Wei (Jin Sumei), an unsuccessful female artist from Shanghai, in a "fake marriage" in order to escape. ? Stills

Parents were quite satisfied with Weiwei, but were dissatisfied with Wei Tong's hasty attitude. In order to satisfy his parents and return to Taipei as soon as possible, Wei Tong was like a "desperate man" who tried his best. But God is not as good as man, and constant twists and turns have delayed his parents' return to Taiwan time and time again, causing a "red light" in his relationship with Simon, and Weiwei unexpectedly became pregnant with his child. It seems that in the face of powerful parents (tradition), Wei Tong can only choose to be a "superficially normal" man. Cast and Cast ListCharacter ActorWai-Tung Gao Zhao WenxuanWei-Wei Kim SumeiMrs. Gao Gui YaleiSimonMr. Mitchell LichtensteinMr. Gao Lang XiongEgg HeadYao PeideAndrew Dion Birney Baby Li ChunDirector Wang Dean Li Joe John Nathan Old Chen Tien Pien Miriam Marny Pocato Simon's Nurse Tonia Rowe Credits Producers Xu Ligong, Ang Lee, James Schamus, Dolly Hall, Ted Hope, Feng-Chyt Jiang Director Ang Lee Assistant Director (Assistant) Annie Tan Screenwriter Ang Lee, Feng Guangyuan, James Schamus Cinematography Lin Liangzhong Music Score Mader Editor Tim Squyres, Ang Lee Casting Director Judy Dennis Art Director Steve Rosenzweig Art Design Rachael Weinzimer Costume Design Michael Clancy Set Designer Amy Beth Silver

Source of the above information? Character introduction

Zhao Wenxuan plays Gao Weitong

Gao Weitong is a successful gay man and the only son of the Gao family. He lives together with his boyfriend Simon in Manhattan, New York, USA.

Mitchell Lichtenstein plays Simon

Simon is an American, a doctor, and a homosexual who has been in love with Gao Wei for five years.

Jin Sumei plays Gu Weiwei

Gu Weiwei is an unsuccessful female artist from Shanghai who lives in Gao Weitong's apartment and is an illegal female immigrant. In order to obtain a U.S. green card, she agreed to marry Gao Wei under false pretenses. Highlights

1. Ang Lee was very cautious in selecting actors. He couldn't find a suitable male lead in "The Wedding Banquet". He once wanted to play the gay role of Gao Weitong himself. Stills

2. Zhao Wenxuan, who plays Gao Weitong, was a flight attendant before joining this film. At that time, he sent the audition tape to Ang Lee for viewing, and it actually made Ang Lee and his son laugh for a whole week. Ang Lee's evaluation of him was "This guy can't act at all", but despite this, Ang Lee still chose this handsome guy who can't act to be the male lead. Ang Lee believes that "directing is to teach actors to act."

3. Among the many guests who appeared at the wedding banquet, director Ang Lee was also included.

4. Ang Lee wrote the script 6 years before the filming of this film.

5. The plot of the first half of the film comes from the personal experience of Ang Lee’s good friend Neil Peng, who also participated in the screenwriting of the film.

6. In the film, there is a side-by-side scene on the night when Simon cooks for the newlyweds. The chopsticks in Simon's hand change in different angles of the shot, and the bowls around him appear and disappear from time to time.

7. When Ang Lee won the Golden Bear Award for "The Wedding Banquet" at the Berlin Film Festival, Zhang Yimou was the chairman of the jury. In 2007, the jury chaired by Zhang Yimou awarded the Golden Lion of Venice to Ang Lee's "Lust, Caution".

8. Xu Ligong recalled that after "The Wedding Banquet" won the Golden Bear Award, there was a celebration banquet. Ang Lee started crying when he saw the shark fin soup on the table that day. Later, Xu Ligong went to the toilet and asked him quietly. You know, that bowl of shark fin reminded him of his wife and children in the United States. When he was working hard in the film industry, his family was having a hard time, but he was honored. Someone invited him to eat shark fin, which his wife and children had not been able to eat for many years. Yes, he hopes that his family can share this precious bowl of shark fin with him. Award Record Time Award Recipient Notes 1993 Golden Bear Award for Best Feature Film "The Wedding Banquet" at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival Awarded for Best Picture "The Wedding Banquet" at the 30th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards in 1993 Awarded for "The Wedding Banquet" at the 30th Taiwan Film Festival in 1993 Ang Lee won the Best Director Award at the Golden Horse Awards in 1993. Lang Xiong won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 30th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards in 1993. Gui Yalei won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 30th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards in 1993. Best Original Screenplay Award Ang Lee and Feng Guangyuan won Best Editing Award at the 30th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards in 1993 Ang Lee was nominated for the Director Award at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival in 1993 Ang Lee won the Golden Car from the International Association of Italian Film Critics in 1993 "The Wedding Banquet" won the Best Film of the Year award at the 66th Academy Awards in 1994. "The Wedding Banquet" was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 51st U.S. Golden Globe Awards in 1994.

< p> Nomination Release Information Release Information Release Country Release Date United States August 4, 1993 United Kingdom September 24, 1993 France October 6, 1993 Film Review

This film is Ang Lee's first international film The work of the altar. The biggest feature of the film is that it uses the unique Chinese family ethics and moderate concepts to deal with the homosexual issue, so that this social problem that troubles almost all families can be solved in a comic way in the film. This approach and concept of viewing homosexuality are Eastern, and similar views can even be found in Chinese classical novels. But this story takes place in New York, the most prosperous and modern city, where classics and modernity meet, where old and new ideas conflict and then become inclusive. In the narrated story, Ang Lee conveyed the confusion, helplessness and tolerance of a traditional Chinese family facing the modern concepts of modern society. Of course, the success of "The Wedding Banquet" is also due to the competent acting skills of several of its actors. In particular, Ang Lee's two veterans Lang Xiong and Gui Yalei, their natural and steady performances almost overshadowed several handsome men and beauties. Stills

As a director who likes to explore ethical issues, Ang Lee's film continues the creator's understanding of ethical and moral conflicts in a multicultural context and the complex interpersonal emotional entanglements caused by them. of attention. The layout of the first half of the film may make people feel that the gunpowder it has buried is enough to blow up an ethical system that has imprisoned individuals for thousands of years. There are many interesting question marks throughout. But what Ang Lee showed in the face of such complicated issues was not his ideological sharpness to affirm or subvert any moral values, but his calm narrative ability. Ang Lee's excellence lies in his ability to skillfully weave these many clues, unfold the story layer by layer, and push the climax of the dramatic conflict. At the same time, he also meticulously portrays various characters and expresses many values ??and emotions. The cracks are carefully balanced in the name of a universal "love". This characteristic of narrative style was once again vividly reflected in "Sense and Sensibility" directed by him. (Sina review)?