In Film in Taiwan: Politics, Economics and Aesthetics, Lu Fei-yi, an associate professor in the department of Radio and Television at National Chengchih University, explains that although romantic dramas and kungfu films reaped great profits for the industry in the 1960s, these films soon "lost their charm" as they grew shamelessly derivative.
政治大學廣播電視系副教授盧非易在《台灣電影：政治、經濟、美學》一書中分析，雖然愛情文藝片、功夫片在六○年代曾讓台灣電影獲利頗豐，但「文藝與武打類型，經過一再的自我複製，已經失去了魅力。」