According to Ku Huai-chun, who teaches in National Taiwan University's foreign languages department, has been a Peking opera buff since childhood and is also a keen fan of Shakespeare, Wu Hsing-kuo's prince spends a lot of time expressing angst and frustration and comes over as too monotonous.
像任教於台灣大學外文系，從小看國劇長大、本身又是莎劇迷的辜懷群就表示，吳興國飾演的王子，花了許多時間表達同樣的憂心如焚、一籌莫展，不免過於單調。