The commercial market abroad for serious Chinese movies is quite limited.
For example, in a serious Western movie, the good guys always seem to shoot better and faster than the bad guys.
The problem, of course, is that when the time comes to watch the serious movie, another frothy one will often seem more appealing.
As the letter to reviewers says, "now you can get serious about those home movies."
His motivation for making those earlier serious movies was simple: to be taken seriously.
He tried to do some serious movies but wasn't as successful.
They're serious movies, but funny about it; or maybe it's the other way around.
Of course, it's a serious movie, a deep movie but your performance was something amazing in itself.
To go to a serious, artistic movie and see our pop culture up on the screen was, in itself, a validation.
The serious movies are out there, in search of a culture.
