The Movie Emperor 2024
红毯先生
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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Vocabulary
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| 争先恐后 爭先恐後 | striving to be first and fearing to be last (idiom); outdoing one another | Idiom |
| 自以为是 自以為是 | to believe oneself infallible (idiom); to be opinionated | Idiom |
| 不定 不定 | indefinite; indeterminate; (botany) adventitious | Xiehouyu |
| 冤枉 冤枉 | to accuse wrongly; to treat unjustly; injustice; wronged; not worthwhile | Xiehouyu |
| 不理 不理 | to refuse to acknowledge; to pay no attention to; to take no notice of; to ignore | Xiehouyu |
| 闺女 閨女 | maiden; unmarried woman; (coll.) daughter | Colloquialism |
| 成天 成天 | (coll.) all day long; all the time | Colloquialism |
| 揍 揍 | to hit; to beat (sb); (coll.) to smash (sth) | Colloquialism |
| 家伙 傢伙 | household dish, implement or furniture; domestic animal; (coll.) guy; chap; weapon | Colloquialism |
| 双赢 雙贏 | profitable to both sides; a win-win situation | |
| 网民 網民 | web user; netizen | |
| 磋商 磋商 | to consult; to discuss seriously; to negotiate; to confer; negotiations; consultations | |
| 股民 股民 | stock investor; share trader | |
| 告状 告狀 | to tell on sb; to complain (to a teacher, a superior etc); to bring a lawsuit | |
| 屯 屯 | to station (soldiers); to store up; village | |
| 发酵 發酵 | to ferment; (fig.) (of trends, emotions or repercussions etc) to bubble away; to simmer; to develop | |
| 命题 命題 | proposition (logic, math.); to assign an essay topic | |
| 私事 私事 | personal matters | |
| 爽快 爽快 | refreshed; rejuvenated; frank and straightforward | |
| 替身 替身 | stand-in; substitute; body double; stuntman; scapegoat; fall guy; to stand in for sb else | |
| 致富 致富 | to become rich | |
| 粗鲁 粗魯 | coarse; crude (in one's manner); boorish | |
| 诚挚 誠摯 | sincere; cordial | |
| 去处 去處 | place; destination | |
| 重播 重播 | to replay; to rerun; (agriculture) to reseed; to oversow | |
| 更正 更正 | to correct; to make a correction | |
| 拍戏 拍戲 | to shoot a movie | |
| 交接 交接 | (of two things) to come into contact; to meet; to hand over to; to take over from; to associate with; to have friendly relations with; to have sexual intercourse | |
| 带队 帶隊 | to lead a team; to lead a group; group leader; (tourism) tour guide | |
| 好在 好在 | luckily; fortunately | |
| 得体 得體 | appropriate to the occasion; fitting | |
| 亲情 親情 | affection; family love; love, esp. within a married couple or between parents and children | |
| 落下 落下 | to fall; to drop; to land (of projectile) | |
| 当日 當日 | on that day | |
| 吓唬 嚇唬 | to scare; to frighten | |
| 嚷 嚷 | to shout; to bellow; to make a big deal of sth; to make a fuss about sth | |
| 体面 體面 | dignity; prestige; face; honorable; creditable; (of sb's appearance) presentable; respectable | |
| 敬业 敬業 | dedicated to one's work | |
| 混淆 混淆 | to obscure; to confuse; to mix up; to blur; to mislead | |
| 搁 擱 | to place; to put aside; to shelve | |
| 争端 爭端 | dispute; controversy; conflict | |
| 凳子 凳子 | stool; small seat | |
| 输送 輸送 | to transport; to convey; to deliver | |
| 郑重 鄭重 | serious; solemn; earnest; conscientious | |
| 讲解 講解 | to explain | |
| 掰 掰 | to break off or break open sth with one's hands; (fig.) to break off (a relationship) | |
| 傲慢 傲慢 | arrogant; haughty | |
| 驱动 驅動 | to drive; to propel; drive (vehicle wheel); drive mechanism (tape or disk); device driver (computing software) | |
| 前台 前臺 | stage; proscenium; foreground in politics etc (sometimes derog.); front desk; reception desk; (computing) front-end; foreground | |
| 看中 看中 | to have a preference for; to fancy; to choose after consideration; to settle on |