When lonely, the leading man of Vive L'Amour pretends a watermelon is a bowling ball. Huang Chien-ye believes that this shows that this generation of directors have a black humor and sense of the absurd that was lacking in the last generation.
《愛情萬歲》裡男主角李康生在寂聊時，拿西瓜當保齡球打，黃建業認為他們反而具有上一輩創作者沒有的黑色幽默和乖謬感。