The film I have been studying is my all-time favorite movie, Meet the Parents. Meet the Parents is similar to Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, which came out in 2014. It’s also another Ben Stiller film. The budget for Night at the Museum was 127 million and made 17 Million on opening day. Which is much more then Meet the Parents budget of 55 Million and an opening of 28 Million. Meet the Parents is about a family that has many mishaps trying to prepare for the wedding of their daughter. Whereas Night at the Museum is an adventure film guiding Ben Stiller the (night guard of the museum) to make sure all animals and people are safe. Two very different films with two different budgets but our both ultimately made for all individuals to be able to see a clean, humorous, never before seen topic in cinematography before.
According to Jim Herzfeld, the movie was intended to have Jim Carey (Greg Focker) and Stephen Spielberg to direct the film a week before the film was to begin filming (Herzfeld and Hamburg). Then Ben Stiller was casted because he wanted to work with Robert De Niro signed on as Dad (Herzfeld and Hamburg). On youtube they show a clip of the film where Greg Focker says grace at the dinner table and ends up breaking the urn of Jack’s (DAD) mother. According to youtube they have a movie clip of Greg sharing grace and a comment underneath the film “Those actors should win a metal for keeping a straight face while listening to him pray.” I have to agree with the comment that this is one of the funniest scenes in the movie and every time I see the clip I break out in laughter.
The single element in Meet the Parents is the word “trust.” Greg learns about the “circle of trust” at the fitting for suits for the weddings. Greg is caught off guard and learns from there that he shouldn’t lie to Dad or it will have consequences. Like, being out of the circle of trust.Being out of the circle of trust means he won’t be able to marry his beautiful girlfriend. So instead of telling the truth Greg learns to lie better. In the end of the movie Jack puts Greg under a lie detector test at the airport where Greg confesses to all his lying.
Herzefeld, Jim, and John Hamburg. “WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL? De Niro as the Future Father-in-Law from Hell.” EVSCOhost, 18 Aug. 2000, web.b.ebscohost.com.resources.ltcc.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=3&sid=0a13abfc-cf62-4238-9afc-b50e28095d29%40pdc-v-sessmgr02&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=3450424&db=a9h.
movieclips. “Meet the Parents (1/10) Movie CLIP – Greg Says Grace (2000)