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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dǎng party; association; club; society HSK 6
suàn shì considered to be; at last HSK 6
jiào a nap; a sleep HSK 6
duì army; armed forces; troops; force; unit HSK 6
hàn regret; to regret; to be sorry that HSK 6
shuō shí huà to speak the truth; truth to tell; frankly HSK 6
texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up HSK 6
yǔn to permit; to allow HSK 6
yīng xióng hero HSK 6
zhāo to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess HSK 6
mìng life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc HSK 6
duì ranks; troops; queue; line; procession HSK 6
secondary; auxiliary; deputy; assistant; vice-; abbr. for 副词 adverb; classifier for pairs, sets of things & facial expressions HSK 6
sharp; favorable; advantage; benefit; profit; interest; to do good to; to benefit HSK 6
quán authority; power; right; (literary) to weigh; expedient; temporary HSK 6
fàn zuì to commit a crime; crime; offense HSK 6
shá dialectal equivalent of 什么; also pr. [shà] HSK 6
special; unique; distinguished; especially; unusual; very; abbr. for 斯, tex HSK 6
yǒu guān to have sth to do with; to relate to; related to; to concern; concerning HSK 6
tóng like; same; similar; together; alike; with HSK 6
as; as if; such as HSK 6
(onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat HSK 6
(of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by HSK 6
and; to give; together with HSK 6
nìng rather die than submit (idiom) Idiom ∼HSK 5
cǎi bīn fēn all the colors in profusion (idiom); a garish display Idiom ∼HSK 5
广 shén tōng guǎng (idiom) to possess great magical power; to possess remarkable abilities Idiom ∼HSK 5
hún dàn scoundrel; bastard; hoodlum; wretch Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
chòu stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition) Xiehouyu HSK 5
méi (coll.) not a chance; no way; hopeless Colloquialism ∼HSK 5
luò tuo camel (CL:,,); (coll.) blockhead; ninny Colloquialism ∼HSK 5
gǎo bu hǎo (coll.) maybe; perhaps Colloquialism ∼HSK 5
yǒu (coll.) promising; likely to turn out well Colloquialism ∼HSK 5
bài to attend a religious service; (coll.) week; (coll.) Sunday Colloquialism HSK 5
shōu shi to put in order; to tidy up; to pack; to repair; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb Colloquialism HSK 5
to estimate; to reckon; (coll.) to suppose Colloquialism HSK 5
miǎo second (unit of time); arc second (angular measurement unit); (coll.) instantly Colloquialism HSK 5
Yáo handsome, elegant; surname ∼HSK 5
yàn wild goose ∼HSK 5
jiù maternal uncle ∼HSK 5
jūn lord, sir ∼HSK 5
jiǎ fāng party A (in a contract) (cf., party B) ∼HSK 5
fāng party B (in a contract) (cf., party A) ∼HSK 5
kill; die violent death ∼HSK 5
gōng zhàn to seize control of (an enemy position); (fig.) to take by storm; to gain (awards, control of a market etc) ∼HSK 5
huā pén flower pot ∼HSK 5
Jiǎn letter, invitation; choose ∼HSK 5
péng awning, covering; sail; boat ∼HSK 5
kǒu qín harmonica ∼HSK 5
bīng lín ice cream ∼HSK 5