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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够 夠 gòu enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out Colloquialism HSK 2
猫 貓 māo cat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (coll.) modem Colloquialism HSK 2
挺 挺 tǐng straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns Colloquialism HSK 2
拉 拉 lā to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels Colloquialism HSK 2
加里 加里 Jiā lǐ Gary (name) Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
巴黎 巴黎 Bā lí Paris, capital of France Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
太平天国 太平天國 Tài píng Tiān guó Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1851-1864) Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
卡拉 卡拉 Kǎ lā Kara, city in northern Togo; Cara, Karla etc (name) Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
五角大楼 五角大樓 Wǔ jiǎo Dà lóu the Pentagon Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
意大利 意大利 Yì dà lì Italy Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
黄河 黃河 Huáng Hé Yellow River or Huang He Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
老街 老街 Lǎo jiē Lao Cai, Vietnam; Laokai or Laukkai, Burma (Myanmar) Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
外交部 外交部 Wài jiāo bù Ministry of Foreign Affairs; foreign office; Dept. of State Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
挺好 挺好 tǐng hǎo very good HSK 2
见过 見過 jiànguò seen HSK 2
巴 巴 Bā greatly desire, anxiously hope ∼HSK 2
尼 尼 ní Buddhist nun; transliteration ∼HSK 2
吗啡 嗎啡 mǎ fēi morphine (loanword) ∼HSK 2
林 林 Lín forest, grove; surname ∼HSK 2
街上 街上 jiē shang on the street; in town ∼HSK 2
斯 斯 Sī this, thus, such; to lop off; emphatic particle ∼HSK 2
那咱 那咱 nà zan at that time (old) ∼HSK 2
借给 借給 jiè gěi to lend to sb ∼HSK 2
看不懂 看不懂 kàn bu dǒng unable to make sense of what one is looking at ∼HSK 2
头盔 頭盔 tóu kuī helmet ∼HSK 2
让开 讓開 ràng kāi to get out of the way; to step aside ∼HSK 2
意中人 意中人 yì zhōng rén sweetheart; one's true love; the person of one's thoughts ∼HSK 2
实 實 shí real, true; honest, sincere ∼HSK 2
一句 一句 yī jù a line of verse; a sentence ∼HSK 2
套房 套房 tào fáng small room opening off another; inner room; suite; apartment; flat; (Tw) room with private bathroom ∼HSK 2
什么时候 什麼時候 shén me shí hou when?; at what time? ∼HSK 2
成真 成真 chéng zhēn to come true ∼HSK 2
得看 得看 děi kàn (it) depends on... ∼HSK 2
写信 寫信 xiě xìn to write a letter ∼HSK 2
夫 夫 fū man, male adult, husband; those ∼HSK 2
嘴里 嘴裡 zuǐ lǐ mouth; in the mouth; on one's lips; speech; words ∼HSK 2
装成 裝成 zhuāng chéng to pretend ∼HSK 2
男孩 男孩 nán hái boy ∼HSK 2
司 司 Sī take charge of, control, manage; officer ∼HSK 2
务 務 wù affairs, business; must, should ∼HSK 2
妓院 妓院 jì yuàn brothel; whorehouse ∼HSK 2
没问题 沒問題 méi wèn tí no problem ∼HSK 2
说了算 說了算 shuō le suàn to have the final say; to be the one in charge ∼HSK 2
夫子 夫子 fū zǐ Master (old form of address for teachers, scholars); (used sarcastically) pedant ∼HSK 2
昵称 暱稱 nì chēng nickname; diminutive; term of endearment; to nickname ∼HSK 2
战 戰 zhàn war, fighting, battle ∼HSK 2
由着 由著 yóu zhe let (one) have his way; as (one) pleases; at (one's) will ∼HSK 2
喝酒 喝酒 hē jiǔ to drink (alcohol) ∼HSK 2
了知 了知 liǎo zhī (Buddhism) to fully understand; to understand completely ∼HSK 2
往外 往外 wǎng wài out; outbound; departing ∼HSK 2