Gao, dressed in a black turtleneck sweater, intently listens to the dialogue between the actor playing the role of the Sixth Patriarch Huineng and the actress playing the Buddhist nun Wujinzang. He is patiently working to help these Peking Opera performers change their vocal techniques from the high-pitched and exaggerated (and virtually unintelligible) pronunciation used in that medium.
只見高行健聚精會神地聆聽擔綱飾演六祖慧能的吳興國，和主要女角飾無盡藏法師的蒲聖涓唸口白，耐心地幫習用小嗓的京劇演員改變發聲習慣。