Hi, "In American movie(s), all the heroes, at the beginning, they look like a 'bad guy'. (They have?) terrible things coming, (and later) they look like a hero. And finally, they all survived. (In) China, if you (had a movie with) heroes, all the hero(s) (would) die." To a native English speaker, he is quite understandable, and I think his English is impressive! However, I will now rewrite those sentences in more standard English, with more explanation, so that you can understand exactly the point he is trying to make when comparing the "optimism" of American movies with the "pessimism" of Chinese movies. <<In typical American movies, the main characters, at the beginning, look like failures, like "losers". Terrible things are always happening in their lives. But as the movie progresses, they do some good things, and by the end of the movie, they look like heroes. They look like people we can admire, like people we wouldwant to imitate. And the other point I would like to make, is that in American movies, the main characters always survive. They are still alive at the end of the movie. In China, if you had a movie with heroes, with likeable people who do good things, somewhere in the movie they would be killed. The heroes will not survive until the end of the movie, so when you leave the movie theater, you don't leave with such good, happy feelings as you do when you watch an American movie. Instead, you think to yourself, "Why would I want to be a hero myself? I'll just end up dead.>>