In 1980 the authors Wu Nien-chen and Hsiao Yeh were signed up, and they set their sights on improving the movie industry, in the conviction that "with movies this bad, it should be possible to make them a little better."
民國六十九年，中影先後延攬作家吳念真、小野「入閣」。就憑著「片子很難看，可以做得更好一點」的信念，他們正式和當時頹靡不振的電影業卯上了。