HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.
Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.
Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.
The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.
I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.
Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough!