On the Limitations of Female Character Creation in Ang Lee's "Wedding Banquet"
Abstract
The movie The Wedding Banquet directed by Ang Lee has received a lot of attention and love since its first debut in Germany in 1993. The film has won many blockbuster awards such as the Golden Bear Award at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival and the 30th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards. These top awards have established the status of this film and its director Ang Lee in the international film industry, so it has also received different evaluations of the film from all walks of life. This article adopts the method of close reading of the text, through audio-visual language and plot interpretation, analyzes the female characters Gu Weiwei, Gao WeiTong's mother and the female-like character Simon in The Wedding Banquet, exploring the limitations of director Ang Lee's female character creation in this film, and analyzes the three aspects of the dwarfing of the narrative of the female image, the compromise of the female will, and the structural compression of the female space, and finally concludes that due to the influence of traditional oriental values and the director's own gender limitations, in The Wedding Banquet, director Ang Lee have great limitations in the female characters creation.
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