Director, You Have to Master Both Art and Commerce

China joined the WTO, and Chinese entertainment entered the blockbuster era. The national director's Hero brought Chinese cinema to the world, but his next film, The Promise, was branded a disgrace. Then Hollywood movies swept through China's film market. Who could rise against the tide and save Chinese-language cinema? A screenwriter-director with memories of a later era was reborn into Beijing's film industry. Among his classmates were Liu Yifei, Luo Jin, Zhu Yawen… And so a visionary young director burst onto the scene, raising the ceiling of Chinese-language cinema single-handedly. Who says commercial films can't be artistic? Who says art films can't be entertaining?