The Dream Factory

The Dream Factory 1997

jiǎfāng fāng

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

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Vocabulary

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fàng xià to lay down; to put down; to let go of; to relinquish; to set aside; to lower (the blinds etc) HSK 2
dào chù everywhere HSK 2
qíng cordial; enthusiastic; passion; passionate; passionately HSK 2
gōng yuán park (for public recreation) HSK 2
ying to answer; to respond; to answer positively; to agree; to accept; to promise HSK 2
shì suitable; fitting; appropriate HSK 2
suí shí at any time; at all times; at the right time; whenever necessary HSK 2
hǎn to yell; to shout; to call out for (a person) HSK 2
awful; dreadful; fearful; formidable; frightful; scary; hideous; horrible; terrible; terribly HSK 2
tài yang sun; abbr. for 太阳穴 HSK 2
duō me how (wonderful etc); what (a great idea etc); however (difficult it may be etc); (in interrogative sentences) how (much etc); to what extent HSK 2
chéng achievement; performance records; grades HSK 2
chuī to blow; to play a wind instrument; to blast; to puff; to boast; to brag; to end in failure; to fall through HSK 2
qīng light; easy; gentle; soft; reckless; unimportant; frivolous; small in number; unstressed; neutral; to disparage HSK 2
qiáng wall HSK 2
liàng bright; clear; resonant; to shine; to show; to reveal HSK 2
jiāo tōng to be connected; traffic; transportation; communications; liaison HSK 2
téng (it) hurts; sore; to love dearly HSK 2
urgent; pressing; rapid; hurried; worried; to make (sb) anxious HSK 2
zhào gu to take care of; to show consideration; to attend to; to look after HSK 2
shēng all one's life; throughout one's life HSK 2
xiǎng to recall; to think of; to call to mind HSK 2
niǎo bird; "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196); (dialect) to pay attention to; (intensifier) damned; goddamn HSK 2
word; statement; speech; lyrics; a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty 宋朝 HSK 2
jiāo gěi to give; to deliver; to hand over HSK 2
jiè to lend; to borrow; by means of; to take (an opportunity) HSK 2
míng xīng star; celebrity HSK 2
xíng won't do; be out of the question; be no good; not work; not be capable HSK 2
xíng to hold (a meeting, ceremony etc) HSK 2
zěn me bàn what's to be done HSK 2
gòu not enough; insufficient; inadequate HSK 2
zán men we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to); (dialect) I or me; (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you; also pr. [zá men] HSK 2
chóng diǎn to recount (e.g. results of election); to re-evaluate HSK 2
suàn to plan; to intend; to calculate; plan; intention; calculation HSK 2
píng bottle; vase; pitcher; classifier for wine and liquids HSK 2
zěn me yàng how?; how about?; how was it?; how are things? HSK 2
fowl; chicken; (slang) prostitute HSK 2
shí zài really; actually; indeed; true; real; honest; dependable; (philosophy) reality HSK 2
liú to flow; to disseminate; to circulate or spread; to move or drift; to degenerate; to banish or send into exile; stream of water or sth resembling one; class, rate or grade HSK 2
jiē zhe to catch and hold on; to continue; to go on to do sth; to follow; to carry on; then; after that; subsequently; to proceed; to ensue; in turn; in one's turn HSK 2
xīn qíng mood; frame of mind HSK 2
wéi hello (when answering the phone) HSK 2
xué science; scientific knowledge; scientific; rational HSK 2
tīng shuō to hear (sth said); one hears (that); hearsay; listening and speaking HSK 2
tōng zhī to notify; to inform; notice; notification HSK 2
jiē street HSK 2
tuǐ leg HSK 2
xīn li chest; heart; mind HSK 2
to take; to get; to choose; to fetch HSK 2
zi day; a (calendar) date; days of one's life HSK 2