This article uses the intertextual point of view to discuss the film adaptation of The Sandwich Man. The movie incorporated themes of foreign forces and social changes which were not mention in the original literature, in order to complement the original concept of the movie project, and to express the overall attention to the work of Chun-Ming Huang as well as to echo the other two short films in this movie. The theme of this movie was originated from the local literature which criticizes the realist traditions in the 1970s; the nostalgia atmosphere was different from the post-modernization trend in the 1980s. The director's deep interests in the human's natural expression were presented in the delicacy of the daily lives through the movie that weren't easy to be expressed in the novel. As the median changes, the movie created a metaphor for itself, and awakens the connection between the old film and this article.