The Wedding Banquet (1993) - Fairies, Drunken Revelry & an Acid Wash Denim Tank Top

That Aged Well

That Aged Well Podcast

Performing Arts, Film Reviews, Arts, Tv & Film

4.8 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Happy April, everyone…That Aged Well is ringing in the spring by talking about wedding movies all month. And what better film to kick it off with than Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet? Now, did this movie having a soon-to-be-released remake have something to do with this scheduling as well?? Who can say? But, even without the remake, enjoy this modern classic from the 90s!

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0:00.0	So I was recently in LaGuardia Airport.
0:03.0	The number one of our three airports, I have to say.
0:06.5	With a bullet.
0:07.2	The top New York City airport, who knew?
0:09.8	Yeah.
0:10.0	Coming in with a shocking victory, LaGuardia.
0:12.6	The only thing that makes me want to travel is the idea that I get to go to the LaGuardia Airport.
0:19.3	The only thing.
0:20.6	All right.
0:21.0	So I was at the airport.
0:22.5	I saw like a group of school kids clearly like in New York on a like on a school trip
0:27.6	together.
0:28.6	Ethnically and racially diverse group of kids.
0:31.3	Okay.
0:31.5	Right?
0:32.0	And there was a teenage boy like 15 or so wearing a maga hat, red maga hat and I was like I was like no I'm
0:40.4	I'm seeing it wrong and he was talking to his friend like cheerfully and she was a woman of color
0:45.1	okay so I was like okay maybe maybe the kids are wearing them ironically yeah is that possible
0:50.7	and then I had a separate thought where I was like like, I'm so glad that the fascists are now
0:58.1	being identified by red hats. Yeah. Because they used to be identified back in the 30s by black
1:05.0	shirts. Oh. And everything I own is black. That's true. I would be fucked.
1:11.8	We would have to do it.
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