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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| 过分 過分 | excessive; undue; overly | |
| 负担 負擔 | to bear (an expense, a responsibility etc); burden | |
| 折 折 | to snap; to break (a stick, a bone etc); (bound form) to sustain a loss (in business) | |
| 统一 統一 | to unify; to integrate; unified; integrated | |
| 稳 穩 | settled; steady; stable | |
| 教训 教訓 | to provide guidance; to lecture sb; to upbraid; a talking-to; a bitter lesson | |
| 激烈 激烈 | (of competition or fighting) intense; fierce; (of pain) acute; (of an expression of opinion) impassioned; vehement; (of a course of action) drastic; extreme | |
| 圆 圓 | circle; round; circular; spherical; (of the moon) full; unit of Chinese currency (yuan); tactful; to make consistent and whole (the narrative of a dream or a lie) | |
| 造型 造型 | to model; to shape; appearance; style; design; form; pose | |
| 在乎 在乎 | to care about; equivalent of 在于 | |
| 质量 質量 | quality; (physics) mass | |
| 摸 摸 | to feel with the hand; to touch; to stroke; to grope; to steal; to abstract | |
| 新鲜 新鮮 | fresh (experience, food etc); freshness; novel; uncommon | |
| 镜头 鏡頭 | camera lens; camera shot (in a movie etc); scene | |
| 似的 似的 | seems as if; rather like; Taiwan pr. [sì de] | |
| 细节 細節 | details; particulars | |
| 背景 背景 | background; backdrop; context; (fig.) powerful backer | |
| 神秘 神秘 | mysterious; mystery | |
| 思考 思考 | to reflect on; to ponder over | |
| 微笑 微笑 | smile; to smile | |
| 闹 鬧 | noisy; cacophonous; to make noise; to disturb; to vent (feelings); to fall ill; to have an attack (of sickness); to go in (for some activity); to joke | |
| 女士 女士 | lady; madam; Miss; Ms | |
| 避免 避免 | to avert; to prevent; to avoid; to refrain from | |
| 措施 措施 | measure; step | |
| 卷 卷 | to roll up; roll; classifier for small rolled things (wad of paper money, movie reel etc) | |
| 材料 材料 | (raw) material; data; (fig.) person who has the potential to do the job | |
| 美女 美女 | beautiful woman | |
| 刺激 刺激 | to provoke; to irritate; to upset; to stimulate; to excite; irritant | |
| 编 編 | to weave; to plait; to organize; to group; to arrange; to edit; to compile; to write; to compose; to fabricate; to make up | |
| 摆 擺 | to arrange; to exhibit; to move to and fro; a pendulum | |
| 人家 人家 | household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be | |
| 替 替 | to substitute for; to take the place of; to replace; for; on behalf of; to stand in for | |
| 究竟 究竟 | to go to the bottom of a matter; after all; when all is said and done; (in an interrogative sentence) finally; outcome; result | |
| 戴 戴 | to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc); to respect; to bear; to support | |
| 怀疑 懷疑 | to doubt (sth); to be skeptical of; to have one's doubts; to harbor suspicions; to suspect that | |
| 切 切 | to cut; to slice; to carve; (math) tangential | |
| 距离 距離 | distance; to be apart from | |
| 手里 手裡 | in hand; (a situation is) in sb's hands | |
| 彻底 徹底 | thorough; thoroughly; complete | |
| 角色 角色 | role; character in a novel; persona; also pr. [jiǎo sè] | |
| 货 貨 | goods; money; commodity | |
| 既然 既然 | since; as; this being the case | |
| 顶 頂 | apex; crown of the head; top; roof; most; to carry on the head; to push to the top; to go against; to replace; to substitute; to be subjected to (an aerial bombing, hailstorm etc); (slang) to "bump" a forum thread to raise its profile; classifier for headwear, hats, veils etc | |
| 抽 抽 | to draw out; to pull out from in between; to remove part of the whole; (of certain plants) to sprout or bud; to whip or thrash | |
| 秘密 秘密 | secret; private; confidential; clandestine; a secret | |
| 圈 圈 | to confine; to lock up; to pen in | |
| 著名 著名 | famous; noted; well-known; celebrated | |
| 否则 否則 | otherwise; if not; or (else) | |
| 身份 身份 | identity; aspect of one's identity (i.e. sth that one is – mayor, father, permanent resident etc); role; capacity (as in "in his capacity as a ..." 以…份); status (social, legal etc); position; rank | |
| 醒 醒 | to wake up; to be awake; to become aware; to sober up; to come to |