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KEYWORD:

Silver

Pinyin:

yín

Actor:

yi-/y- Female

Set:

-(e)n

Room within Set:

Hallway/Lobby or Kitchen

Prop(s):

钅(Gold Bar -OR- Metallica)

艮 (Crowbar -OR- Sledgehammer)

Member Comments from 2019-mid-2020

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Dom Thomson

Ivanka Trump is standing in the kitchen with a GOLD BAR gleaming on the counter next to her.

The police storm in and demand she return the gold she stole. "Ivanka! Give us back that gold!"

Ivanka panics and grabs a BASEBALL BAT. She whacks the gold bar and it transforms into SILVER.

"Err... This isn't gold... It's silver!"

Director's Commentary:
This scene as the advantage of being simple and a bit ridiculous. I think it'll stick because I find it quite funny.

That said, I generally try to avoid using magic if I can. If something is to randomly transform or appear out of thin air, it's tricky to remember what randomly appeared or what something transformed into. If there's no vaguely sensible causation, it could have been anything...

I think this one might work as gold is related to Ivanka and the gold and silver are related to each other. If the meaning was bread and the gold randomly transformed into bread, it would be a poor scene.

MB Team

Here's the link to where Phil & Luke talked about this comment in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-W2Q6u0F2Y&t=3912s

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Petteri Nakamura

My "yi" actress walks into the Kitchen of my "-en" set and takes out a Gold Bar and a Crowbar. She draws down an alchemy circle, learned from Fullmetal Alchemist and places the items on the circle. She then proceeds to touch both sides of the circle with her hands and to her great delight there is a sudden flash of light and the Gold Bar and the Crowbar turn into a hunk of silver. Then her expression sours as she realizes that the hunk of silver is nowhere near as valuable as the Gold was..

MB Team

This is where Luke & Phil talked about your question in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5zhOpkinYI&t=3402s

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