Saturday, July 16, 2005
Irony of Wedding Crashers
The new movie, Wedding Crashers, starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, is about two guys who have honed to an artform the crashing of weddings, with fake names and occupations, to meet and screw women.
If you read this movie's critiques and promos, you would expect the plot to be one continuous romp by two "sleazebags" who prey on single, female wedding attendees so caught up in the emotions of getting married that they easily fall for any romantic come-on from the single men attending the same wedding.
In fact, Darragh Worland wrote a piece on FoxNews.com [CLICK], called "It's Venus vs. Mars for Singles at Weddings," that, in general, makes guys seem like such callous, caniving, sexual predators and women totally innocent, naive victims. Get real! This is the usual socialized nonsense to which we've all grown accustomed to hearing. Too bad it's false. Why, then, does it refuse to die? Because people have this unexplained need to perpetuate the stereotypes of male and female behavior, which I dispel in The Man's No-Nonsense Guide to Women: How to Succeed in Romance on Planet Earth. If you haven't read it, you ought to.
Without spoiling it completely for people who have yet to see this fun movie, I will tell you that it cleverly and ironically shows that men and women are equally skilled as schemers and equally vulnerable in and desirous of love. I highly recommend Wedding Crashers.
If you read this movie's critiques and promos, you would expect the plot to be one continuous romp by two "sleazebags" who prey on single, female wedding attendees so caught up in the emotions of getting married that they easily fall for any romantic come-on from the single men attending the same wedding.
In fact, Darragh Worland wrote a piece on FoxNews.com [CLICK], called "It's Venus vs. Mars for Singles at Weddings," that, in general, makes guys seem like such callous, caniving, sexual predators and women totally innocent, naive victims. Get real! This is the usual socialized nonsense to which we've all grown accustomed to hearing. Too bad it's false. Why, then, does it refuse to die? Because people have this unexplained need to perpetuate the stereotypes of male and female behavior, which I dispel in The Man's No-Nonsense Guide to Women: How to Succeed in Romance on Planet Earth. If you haven't read it, you ought to.
Without spoiling it completely for people who have yet to see this fun movie, I will tell you that it cleverly and ironically shows that men and women are equally skilled as schemers and equally vulnerable in and desirous of love. I highly recommend Wedding Crashers.




