Without a doubt, the current wave of Chinese-language martial arts films can be traced back to King Hu's Come Drink with Me. In earlier martial arts films, those of The Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery era, the martial arts fighting looked fake, and the pace was exceedingly slow. Audiences were bored.
毫無疑問，目前國產影片的武俠片熱潮，是從邵氏胡金銓導演的《大醉俠》所引發的，在這之前的國產武俠片，都不脫早年《火燒紅蓮寺》時代的老套，不但武俠動作失真，節奏也顯得緩慢，早為觀眾所厭煩。