The Dream Factory

The Dream Factory 1997

甲方乙方 jiǎfāng yǐfāng

Four friends come up with an unusual idea to make some money and have fun doing it. For a small fee, they will impersonate and act out any character role for their customers. In the course of executing this novel service, they encounter a whole spectrum of people in society, finding ways to genuinely help them boost their morale and overcome their fears, while gaining unusual and new insights into the human condition.

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4.44 Intermediate Director Feng Xiaogang IMDb 7.3

Cast

Ge You Ge You Yao Yuan Liu Bei Liu Bei Zhou Beiyan He Bing He Bing Liang Zi Feng Xiaogang Feng Xiaogang Qian Kang Ying Da Ying Da Patton Xu Fan Xu Fan Tang Lijun Yang Lixin Yang Lixin Technician Li Qi Li Qi Fat Cook Fu Biao Fu Biao Zhang Fugui Li Bin Li Bin Aunt Qi

Vocabulary

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要是 要是 yào shi (coll.) if Colloquialism HSK 3
血 血 xuè blood; colloquial pr. [xiě] Colloquialism HSK 3
管 筦 guǎn to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把 in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards Colloquialism HSK 3
美军 美軍 Měi jūn US army; US armed forces Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
村子 村子 cūn zi village Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
朝天 朝天 Cháo tiān Chaotian district of Guangyuan city, Sichuan Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
雨花台 雨花臺 Yǔ huā tái Yuhuatai district of Nanjing City 南京市 in Jiangsu 江蘇|江苏 Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
大马 大馬 Dà mǎ Malaysia Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
和龙 和龍 Hé lóng Helong, county-level city in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
美的 美的 Měi dí Midea (brand) Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
红酒 紅酒 hóng jiǔ red wine HSK 3
唐 唐 Táng Tang dynasty; Chinese ∼HSK 3
梁 梁 Liáng bridge; beam; rafters; surname ∼HSK 3
打死 打死 dǎ sǐ to kill; to beat to death ∼HSK 3
受气 受氣 shòu qì to be mistreated; to be bullied ∼HSK 3
康 康 Kāng peaceful, quiet; happy, healthy ∼HSK 3
艾 艾 Ài artemisia, mugwort; translit. ∼HSK 3
士 士 Shì scholar, gentleman; soldier ∼HSK 3
跳楼 跳樓 tiào lóu to jump from a building (to kill oneself); fig. to sell at a large discount (in advertising) ∼HSK 3
台词 臺詞 tái cí an actor's lines; dialogue; Taiwanese word ∼HSK 3
人心 人心 rén xīn popular feeling; the will of the people ∼HSK 3
事儿 事兒 shì r matter, affair ∼HSK 3
没准 沒準 méi zhǔn not sure; maybe ∼HSK 3
合着 合著 hé zhe (dialect) (implying sudden realization) so; after all ∼HSK 3
般配 般配 bān pèi to be well matched; to suit ∼HSK 3
秀 秀 xiù ear of grain; flowering, luxuriant; refined, elegant, graceful ∼HSK 3
恩 㤙 ēn kindness, mercy, charity ∼HSK 3
步步 步步 bù bù step by step; at every step ∼HSK 3
连长 連長 lián zhǎng company commander ∼HSK 3
拍电影 拍電影 pāi diàn yǐng to make a movie ∼HSK 3
爷 爺 yé father, grandfather ∼HSK 3
没法 沒法 méi fǎ at a loss; unable to do anything about it; to have no choice ∼HSK 3
时任 時任 shí rèn then (as in "the then chairman") ∼HSK 3
正化 正化 zhèng huà normalization; to normalize ∼HSK 3
放羊 放羊 fàng yáng to tend a flock of sheep; to let sheep out to pasture; fig. to throw off the reins; to leave sb alone; acting freely and irresponsibly ∼HSK 3
布防 佈防 bù fáng to lay out a defense ∼HSK 3
卫 衛 Wèi guard, protect, defend ∼HSK 3
时间不早了 時間不早了 shí jiān bù zǎo le it's getting late; time's getting on ∼HSK 3
养路费 養路費 yǎng lù fèi road maintenance tax (China) ∼HSK 3
抓走 抓走 zhuā zǒu to arrest ∼HSK 3
儿化 兒化 ér huà (Chinese phonetics) to rhotacize a syllable final; to apply r-coloring to the final of a syllable ∼HSK 3
人世间 人世間 rén shì jiān the secular world ∼HSK 3
有种 有種 yǒu zhǒng to have guts; to have courage; to be brave ∼HSK 3
皮儿 皮兒 pí r wrapper; cover ∼HSK 3
一般人 一般人 yī bān rén average person ∼HSK 3
出乱子 出亂子 chū luàn zi to go wrong; to get into trouble ∼HSK 3
性行 性行 xìng xíng sexual activity ∼HSK 3
整风 整風 zhěng fēng Rectification or Rectifying incorrect work styles, Maoist slogan; cf Rectification campaign 整風運動|整风运动, army purge of 1942-44 and anti-rightist purge of 1957 ∼HSK 3
一声 一聲 yī shēng first tone in Mandarin (high, level tone) ∼HSK 3
点儿 點兒 diǎn r a bit ∼HSK 3