The Great Magician

The Great Magician 2011

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In the years after the Revolution, China broken up into fiefdoms held by warlords, who are busy fighting each other. One warlord has imprisoned a girl and wants her to be his seventh wife, but he's too honorable to force her. The local revolutionaries wants to kill him and bring back the republic. But when a stranger returns from abroad with mastery of magic to recover the girl he loved, who is tricking whom and who will win at the end?

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5.03 Advanced Director Derek Yee IMDb 5.9

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Vocabulary

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zhòng to hit the target; (fig.) to hit the nail on the head ∼HSK 1
zǎo diǎn breakfast ∼HSK 1
rén those on our side; ourselves; one's own people; one of us ∼HSK 1
kuài diǎn to do sth more quickly; Hurry up!; Get a move on! ∼HSK 1
gēn zhe to follow after; immediately afterwards ∼HSK 1
zuò hǎo to sit properly; to sit up straight ∼HSK 1
hǎo not at all...; how very... ∼HSK 1
jiàn le to have disappeared; to be missing; nowhere to be found ∼HSK 1
xiào to laugh heartily; a belly laugh ∼HSK 1
huán gěi to return sth to sb ∼HSK 1
zài together ∼HSK 1
rén lit. that person; fig. the person you have been looking for; Mr Right; the girl of one's dreams ∼HSK 1
xiǎng yào to want to; to feel like; to fancy; to care for sb; desirous of ∼HSK 1
hái hǎo not bad; tolerable; fortunately ∼HSK 1
huì huì (posing a question: whether sb, something) can or cannot?; is able to or not ∼HSK 1
huài le shoot!; gosh!; oh, no!; (suffix) to the utmost ∼HSK 1
bāo piào to vouch for; to guarantee ∼HSK 1
yào qián to charge; to demand payment ∼HSK 1
yǒu qián well-off; wealthy ∼HSK 1
shāng jiā merchant; business; enterprise ∼HSK 1
Hàn Chinese people; Chinese language ∼HSK 1
huà zhōng yǒu huà one's words carry an implicit meaning ∼HSK 1
huā qián to spend money ∼HSK 1
shí cross road; cross-shaped; crucifix; the character ten ∼HSK 1
gēng 37th year G1 of the 60-year cycle, e.g. 1960 or 2020 ∼HSK 1
tài hòu Empress Dowager ∼HSK 1
yǒu diǎn a little ∼HSK 1
zhè tiān this day ∼HSK 1
kàn kàn to have a look ∼HSK 1
nán lǎo shào men, women, young and old; all kinds of people; people of all ages ∼HSK 1
hǎo lai to get better; to improve; to get well ∼HSK 1
lǎo shào the old and the young ∼HSK 1
guǒ fruit; result ∼HSK 1
mén zi door; doorman (old); hanger-on of an aristocrat; social influence; pull; classifier for relatives, marriages etc ∼HSK 1
xiǎo little brother; I, your little brother (humble) ∼HSK 1
zhè xià this time ∼HSK 1
chair, seat ∼HSK 1
chà diǎn méi almost; nearly; (i.e. same as) ∼HSK 1
tiān shū imperial edict; heavenly book (superstition); obscure or illegible writing; double dutch ∼HSK 1
you and I; everyone; all of us (in society); we (people in general) ∼HSK 1
wài rén outsider; foreigner; stranger ∼HSK 1
gāo rén very able person ∼HSK 1
cannot; should not; must not ∼HSK 1
dōng jiā master (i.e. employer); landlord; boss ∼HSK 1
mǎi xià to purchase (sth expensive, e.g. a house); to acquire (a company, a copyright etc) ∼HSK 1
shuō bu chū unable to say ∼HSK 1
xià to be not less than (a certain quantity, amount etc) ∼HSK 1
first; first time; once; (math.) linear (of degree one) ∼HSK 1
duì zhe gàn to adopt confrontational posture; to meet head-on; to compete ∼HSK 1
zài wài outer; excluded ∼HSK 1