The Movie Emperor

The Movie Emperor 2024

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In an attempt to win back the public's interest, has-been Hong Kong film star Lau Wai-chi makes a comeback film with a major director. To prepare for his role as a peasant farmer in the 1960s, he travels to the mainland China countryside to experience rural life there, but his arrogance triggers a series of farces.

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4.06 Intermediate Director Ning Hao 🍅 100%

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Vocabulary

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Liú surname; kill, destroy ∼HSK 2
Lín forest, grove; surname ∼HSK 2
Chén exhibit, display; plead; a surname ∼HSK 2
jiē drop dead!; go to hell!; fuck you! (Cantonese) ∼HSK 2
this, thus, such; to lop off; emphatic particle ∼HSK 2
diàn yǐng jié film festival ∼HSK 2
píng děng inequality; unfairness ∼HSK 2
jīn wǎn tonight ∼HSK 2
zhǒng that kind of ∼HSK 2
fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though ∼HSK 2
xiǎng xiàng to imagine; to envision; imagination ∼HSK 2
xiǎo dào bypath; trail; bribery as a means of achieving a goal; minor arts (Confucian reference to agriculture, medicine, divination, and other professions unworthy of a gentleman) ∼HSK 2
shén me shí hou when?; at what time? ∼HSK 2
biàn one time (all the way through); once through ∼HSK 2
change; easy ∼HSK 2
děi kàn (it) depends on... ∼HSK 2
sān tiáo three of a kind (poker) ∼HSK 2
a line of verse; a sentence ∼HSK 2
dìng yào must ∼HSK 2
piàn chǎng filming location; film set ∼HSK 2
admit, take, receive, accept ∼HSK 2
yàng different; distinctive; unlike ∼HSK 2
jiǎng dào to preach; a sermon ∼HSK 2
zhī dào le OK!; Got it! ∼HSK 2
yào dào major road; thoroughfare; main road ∼HSK 2
shāng xué yuàn business school; university of business studies ∼HSK 2
bǎi wàn million ∼HSK 2
zhù to jam; to choke; to clutch; also pr. [qia3 zhu4] ∼HSK 2
hái zi men children ∼HSK 2
yǒu quán to have the right to; to be entitled to; to have authority; powerful ∼HSK 2
měi every time ∼HSK 2
kào biān to keep to the side; to pull over; move aside! ∼HSK 2
shēn to get up; to leave; to set forth ∼HSK 2
yán words, speech; speak, say ∼HSK 2
jiǎo běn script; screenplay; scenario; libretto; (computing) script ∼HSK 2
zhǐ 一: one; a, an; alone · 只: only, just, simply ∼HSK 2
tīng bu dǒng unable to make sense of what one is hearing ∼HSK 2
zāng huà profanity; obscene language; speaking rudely ∼HSK 2
Fáng surname Fang ∼HSK 2
diàn píng accumulator; battery (for storing electricity) ∼HSK 2
huà xiàng portrait; to do a portrait of sb ∼HSK 2
zhōu not satisfactory; thoughtless; inconsiderate ∼HSK 2
fàng shēng to set free a captive animal (in some cases, as an act of Buddhist mercy) ∼HSK 2
jiàn large; bulky; big-ticket item ∼HSK 2
must not; may not; not to be allowed; cannot ∼HSK 2
zhēn shēn the real body (of Buddha or a God); true effigy ∼HSK 2
jiāng huì auxiliary verb introducing future action: may (be able to); will (cause); should (enable); going to ∼HSK 2
tiáo four of a kind; quads (poker) ∼HSK 2
unexpectedly; unawareness; unpreparedness ∼HSK 2
dào xiè to express thanks ∼HSK 2