As mentioned before, the mainland movie market still revolves around big-name directors, a single popular and box-office-friendly director can prop up a whole company. And in Adrian's eyes, there are currently only two people in the mainland film industry who qualify, one is Feng Xiaogang, while the other, naturally, is Zhang Yimou, who has even more experience than Feng.
Though over the past decade he had made many profound films, he was sharp enough to transition when commercialization arrived—whether the transition was stimulated, or there was a demand from the management, or even if his transition wasn't very successful, it at least had a significant impact on the mainland movie market. For this alone, despite various issues that might afflict him, he was still worthy of some admiration.
