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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| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 阴阳怪气 陰陽怪氣 | eccentric; peculiar; mystifying | Idiom |
| 随机应变 隨機應變 | to change according to the situation (idiom); pragmatic | Idiom |
| 挺身而出 挺身而出 | to step forward bravely | Idiom |
| 此路不通 此路不通 | this road is blocked; fig. This method does not work.; Doing this is no good. | Xiehouyu |
| 热闹 熱鬧 | bustling with noise and excitement; lively | Xiehouyu |
| 来不及 來不及 | there's not enough time (to do sth); it's too late (to do sth) | Xiehouyu |
| 冷静 冷靜 | calm; cool-headed; dispassionate; (of a place) deserted; quiet | Xiehouyu |
| 案子 案子 | long table; counter; (coll.) case (criminal, medical etc); matter; project; job | Colloquialism |
| 问候 問候 | to give one's respects; to send a greeting; (fig.) (coll.) to make offensive reference to (somebody dear to the person to whom one is speaking) | Colloquialism |
| 老公 老公 | (coll.) husband | Colloquialism |
| 烧 燒 | to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head | Colloquialism |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 李 李 | Li (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 西方人 西方人 | Westerner; Occidental | Proper Noun |
| 魔爪 魔爪 | Monster (energy drink) | Proper Noun |
| 慕容 慕容 | a branch of the Xianbei nomadic people; two-character surname Murong | Proper Noun |
| 英国人 英國人 | British person; British people | Proper Noun |
| 锡克 錫克 | Sikh | Proper Noun |
| 南洋 南洋 | Southeast Asia; South seas | Proper Noun |
| 唐三藏 唐三藏 | Tang Sanzang | Proper Noun |
| 英军 英軍 | British army | Proper Noun |
| 西林 西林 | Xilin county in Baise, Guangxi; Xilin district of Yichun city, Heilongjiang | Proper Noun |
| 彼得 彼得 | Peter (name) | Proper Noun |
| 公馆 公館 | Gongguan or Kungkuan township in Miaoli county, northwest Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 没想到 沒想到 | didn't expect | |
| 郑 鄭 | the name of a state in the Zhou dynasty in the vicinity of present-day Xinzheng, a county-level city in Henan; surname Zheng; abbr. for Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan | |
| 导 導 | direct, guide, lead, conduct | |
| 侠 俠 | chivalrous person; knight-errant | |
| 什么人 什麼人 | what kind of person | |
| 长官 長官 | senior official; senior officer; commanding officer; sir (term of address for senior officer) | |
| 无处 無處 | nowhere | |
| 什么事 什麼事 | what matter | |
| 武 武 | military; martial, warlike | |
| 署 署 | public office | |
| 屁 屁 | break wind; fart; buttocks | |
| 厚报 厚報 | generous reward | |
| 徐 徐 | slowly, quietly, calmly; composed, dignified | |
| 可不 可不 | that's just the way it is; exactly! | |
| 雄 雄 | male of species; hero; manly | |
| 犯人 犯人 | convict; prisoner; criminal | |
| 降妖 降妖 | to subdue monsters | |
| 仙 仙 | immortal | |
| 沪 滬 | Shanghai; river near Shanghai | |
| 王八蛋 王八蛋 | bastard; son of a bitch | |
| 丰 豐 | abundant, lush, bountiful, plenty | |
| 不简单 不簡單 | not simple; rather complicated; remarkable; marvelous | |
| 责 責 | duty; responsibility; to reproach; to blame | |
| 贷 貸 | lend; borrow; pardon | |
| 江湖 江湖 | rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf.); ( |