(Chienkuo is Taipei's best boys 'school and presumably the first choice of boys cramming for the joint high school entrance exam.) The feeling of humiliation the scene imparted colored his screenplay adaptation of The Loser, The Hero, which dared to criticize cram schools and Taiwan's exam-hell educational system.
《國四英雄傳》是台灣電影對補習班、升學主義，乃至總體教育制度，最率直和大膽的一次批評。