Make a Movie 长

Ch actor fishing (my ang2 has a pond. but could just as easily be kitchen sink etc).

He's fishing with his HOOK. but rather than fish he catches a LONG icicle. He starts to pull it out, it keeps coming! it's too LONG. He has to cut it with a RAZOR BLADE.

Charlie Chaplin is in the kitchen in -en set preparing a great dinner. It takes a long (cháng) time that feels like forever (cháng) to cook the type of meal he plans to serve. He uses a hook (乚) to place an icicle (冫) at the centre of the food display, then uses a calligraphy paint brush (一) to write the menu. Once done, he carries everything into the living room for everyone to eat. There is growing (zhǎng) admiration for Charlie Chaplin’s cooking and presentation skills and everyone has an increased (zhǎng) appetite whenever he cooks.

Setting is my primary school: I’ve decided to incorporate both characters as it works in this “movie”.

Charlie Chaplin (ch) is smoking a LONG cigarette 一 as he enters the school hall. He hangs his bowler hat on the large hook 乚 to his left & settles down to watch an awfully LONG performance of Frozen just as the Elsa character is showing off her ice powers for the first time, shooting LONG daggers of ice out. Meanwhile Josiah Bartlet (zh) is in the classroom, putting out his cigarette 一 hanging his coat on the hook 乚 and closing the door to the noise of Elsa’s ice display冫 He is planning a LONG nap because his pupils are all at the show.

I was confused about the pronunciation of this one in compounds, and so checked the Dong dictionary. It says "zhǎng" has the meaning of "long" while "cháng" has the meaning of "forever; always; constantly". No doubt you guys are aware of this, or else know it differently, so I wondered why you've gone for a mixed pronunciation/meaning.

I made a compound scene as well.

Chad is in the kitchen of my -ang set, the floors of which are covered in ice. Having just regained his balance, he hears Jeffrey yell from the bathroom around the corner "Chad, get in here, you won't believe how big this is!"

Immediately Chad looks at his ice-covered path, and using one of those trick movie shots where the camera moves toward the foreground while zooming out with the lens, the 8 foot journey stretches much LONGer, to hundreds of feet.

Chad knows he can't walk on ice, so in an action montage he grabs what he has near him- a giant hook (乚 ), a machete ( 一 ), and an icicle ( 冫). He ties them together in a way that resembles the character 长, twists them up on his back, and they start spinning like a fan, rocketing him forward.

Or so he thinks. It's not a real fan, so he moves very slowly. After a LONG time, he finally makes it to the bathroom, where Jeffrey is sitting next to a long-nosed Pinocchio (my prop for this character), whose nose has GROWN so LONG it has stuck through the wall and into the kitchen. Jeffrey looks up, and asks "What took you so LONG? His nose won't stop GROWing!"