HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.
I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.
Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.
People in misery is what most important in art.
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!
Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.