The rise of blockbuster productions in the world of Chinese-language cinema has created the need for a special type of rare talent, whose services simply must be procured by any director in Taiwan, Hong Kong, or mainland China if they intend to film big scenes with hundreds of actors in them. The very name in Chinese for the position-assistant director for large-scale scenes-didn't even exist until the filming of Hero in 2003.
在大片蔚為風潮的華語電影業，有一種「稀有」人才，是中港台導演都要搶著「喬」檔期，才能開鏡的──那就是 2003 年《英雄》之後的一個全新職稱「大場面執行導演」。