A line in The Wedding Banquet, "5000 years of Chinese sexual repression" was played up by the British Critic Tony Rayns, attracting the attention of people in and outside the film industry.
《喜宴》劇中一句台詞「中國五千年性壓抑的結果」，也被英國影評人湯尼．雷恩提出來大作文章，引起「內行看門道、外行看熱鬧」的宣傳效果。