Be Somebody 2021
扬名立万
During the Republican era, a group of frustrated people from the movie industry is invited in a luxurious mansion to make a movie out of a gruesome case that has recently rattled the city of Shanghai, in the hopes that it would turn into a huge sensation and make them famous. However, they never expected that the murderer would be in their midst and that the truth behind the case would be far more bizarre than their fictional movie plot.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 丢人现眼 丟人現眼 | to make an exhibition of oneself; to be a disgrace | Xiehouyu |
| 臭 臭 | stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition) | Xiehouyu |
| 一路 一路 | the whole journey; all the way; going the same way; going in the same direction; of the same kind | Xiehouyu |
| 老骨头 老骨頭 | weary old body (colloquial term, used jocularly or irreverently) | Colloquialism |
| 胡子 鬍子 | beard; mustache or whiskers; facial hair; (coll.) bandit | Colloquialism |
| 熊 熊 | bear; (coll.) to scold; to rebuke; (coll.) weak; incapable | Colloquialism |
| 蝶 蜨 | butterfly | |
| 辉 輝 | brightness, luster, brilliance | |
| 尸 屍 | corpse; to impersonate the dead; to preside; KangXi radical 44 | |
| 魔 魔 | demon | |
| 舍 捨 | to give up; to abandon; to give alms | |
| 兆 兆 | omen; million; mega; also trillion. China = million; Japan and Taiwan = trillion | |
| 烂片 爛片 | dud movie | |
| 莉 莉 | white jasmine | |
| 滩 灘 | bank, a sandbar, shoal; rapids | |
| 杀人犯 殺人犯 | murderer; homicide | |
| 么 麼 | interrogative particle (variant of 嘛) | |
| 呐 吶 | modal particle | |
| 込 込 | crowd into, go into | |
| 廓 廓 | broad, wide, open, empty; to expand | |
| 伏 伏 | crouch, crawl, lie hidden, conceal | |
| 师妹 師妹 | younger sister disciple | |
| 痕 痕 | scar; mark; trace | |
| 太监 太監 | court eunuch; palace eunuch | |
| 有劲 有勁 | vigorous; energetic; interesting; amusing | |
| 法币 法幣 | fiat currency; fabi, fiat currency issued by the, in use 1935-1948 | |
| 人命 人命 | human life | |
| 巴掌 巴掌 | palm of the hand; classifier: slap | |
| 睢 睢 | gaze at, stare at; uninhibited | |
| 切碎 切碎 | to chop | |
| 泼脏水 潑髒水 | (fig.) to sling mud at; to smear; to slander | |
| 真迹 真跡 | authentic (painting or calligraphy); genuine work (of famous artist) | |
| 闲心 閑心 | leisurely mood; relaxed frame of mind | |
| 威亚 威亞 | (loanword) stunt wires | |
| 军政 軍政 | army and government | |
| 他杀 他殺 | homicide (law) | |
| 风尘 風塵 | windblown dust; hardships of travel; vicissitudes of life; prostitution | |
| 议长 議長 | chairman (of a legislative assembly); speaker | |
| 淞 淞 | name of a river in Jiangsu | |
| 总司令 總司令 | commander-in-chief; top military commander for a country or theater of operations | |
| 业者 業者 | dealer; trader; person or company engaged in some industry or trade | |
| 传入 傳入 | to import; transmitted inwards; afferent | |
| 举步维艰 舉步維艱 | to make progress only with great difficulty (idiom) | |
| 拜 拜 | bow, worship | |
| 夕 夕 | evening, night, dusk; slanted | |
| 卜 卜 | fortune telling; prophesy | |
| 凤 鳳 | male phoenix; symbol of joy | |
| 缘 緣 | karmic affinity | |
| 栅 柵 | fence; palisade; grid | |
| 擂 擂 | rub, grind; grind with a mortar and pestle; triturate |