Now, Strong said, he avoids even some PG-13 movies. "You never know what's going to come up on that screen, and once you see something, you can't get it out of your head. Ever." He thought a moment, then asked: "What's the name of that film?" I don't know what I expected him to say, but I was surprised when he said, " 'Wedding Crashers.' "

In high school, a friend persuaded him to sneak into the movie, and the nudity, as well as Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson's general attitude toward women, shook him. After that, when he saw a girl, his first thoughts would be about whether she was attractive; he felt himself moving through the world essentially casting or rejecting its inhabitants as possible extras in "Wedding Crashers." You could argue that this was only the harmless awakening of a teenage male mind. But Strong didn't see it this way. In fact, he feels so uneasy about this stretch of his life that later, when he began dating his future wife, he made a point of discussing it with her. ("I had changed," he explained, "but I wanted anything like that to be open between us.") "In the L.D.S. church," he told me, "a really strong message is that everyone's a child of God — that they're a sacred individual. They're born into this world clean and pure and beautiful." "Wedding Crashers" altered his vision. He spent some time looking at the world through "Wedding Crashers"-colored glasses, and it was not only disrespectful of other people, he felt, but it also deprived him of experiencing them in a more genuine way. Why couldn't films subconsciously encourage us to use the eyes that God gave us instead? "To view people through that window puts a positive, beautiful spin on your life," he said.





hahahahaha, really kid? yeah, those movies probably influence us negatively, but you gotta use your own mind, buddy. walkin' around judging people based on looks? I'll say this - I see a lot of overweight people, especially those 30+ years old. I don't think of them as fat but rather cogs stuck in the family-and-job machine with some laziness thrown in. doesnt' take much to eat right and exercise, but it's not exactly fun either for most people.