Although Hou Hsiao-hsien's Daughter of the Nile and Goodbye South, Goodbye reference teen movies and gangster films, and Tsai Ming-liang is an avowed fan of musicals, both directors are fundamentally opposed to commercialism in film. They see genre as simply a means for filmmakers to expound upon their ideas, and have little interest in the market potential of genre film.
雖然侯孝賢的《尼羅河女兒》與《南國再見，南國》有著青春片及幫派片的色彩，蔡明亮更是不折不扣的歌舞片愛好者，但他們基本上反對類型片的商業取向，只把「類型」當作闡述個人創作意念的手段，而不重視影片類型的市場潛力。