But then in the last act's scene of rout and desertion, when Wu Hsing-kuo executed a brilliant backwards somersault off a 20-foot high platform, one foreign critic exclaimed: "That leap burst the bounds of traditional Peking opera!"
然而，在最後一幕亂軍叛離中，吳興國由一個由廿呎高台翻躍而下的「折腰」絕技，卻被一位外國劇評家贊道：「這一躍，躍過了傳統國劇的界限！」