Character #289: 名 míng
2 Lessons
Make a Movie 名
KEYWORD:
Name
Pinyin:
míng
Actor:
mi- (Female)
Set:
-(e)ng
Room within Set:
Kitchen or Hallway
Prop(s):
夕 (Nightcap -OR- Eye Mask)
口 (Mouth)
Member Comments from 2019-mid-2020
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Della Fuller
Michelle Obama is in the front lobby of my "eng" set with an owl on her shoulder. She has sunglasses on, and is trying to keep a low profile. The Rolling Stones mouth is being his usual annoying self, asking her, "What's your NAME? What's your NAME?" Michelle nods at the owl and he flies over to the mouth, picking it up and depositing it in the large garbage can nearby.
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=gTyzKONer7o&t=3450s
Dom Thomson
Margot Robbie is in the dining hall of my old college.
Everyone is eating dinner and the ROLLING STONES MOUTH burps up an OWL. It rolls across the table kinda disgustingly.
Margot Robbie picks up the owl and asks 'G'day little fella, what's your NAME?'
The owl replies in a formal, British accent: 'My NAME is Margot."
'Margot! That's my NAME too!'
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Level 21
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- My Girlfriend Can Really Eat!
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- Three Meals a Day
Level 24
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Gavin Meakin
Mum (my mi- actor) is in the lobby of my -(e)ng set, where a floating pair of Rolling Stones lips (口) is singing "Say my Name" by Destiny's Child. Mum says to the lips, "Well tell me your name so I can say your name," but the lips ignore her and keep singing the song. Getting fed up with the lips and its refusal to share its name, mum covers it with an eye mask (夕) and says "I will call you Ming".
Luke Eberhard
"Marilyn Munroe" is in the kitchen of an "English Household." There she's called out by the other crew members (off screen) to introduce the guest; a "Rathtar (Star Wars VII)" which rolls in and removes it's "Eye Mask" in front of camera looking very confused. Munroe immediately jumps to attention and introduces the guest, carefully pointing out the Rathtar's 'NAME-tag' before the off screen director calls 'CUT!!!'
Jeff Bryant
Mary is wearing a night-time eye mask, then the harry potter howler mouth comes up and kisses her. Surprised, she wipes her mouth and slaps it, "I don't even know your NAME!"
Jonathan Glazier
Meryl Streep (MI) is sitting rather nervously in the kitchen of my eNGlish home. A wolf (top element) is trying to make a NAME (KW) for himself as a chef, he is “preparing” the rolling stones (bottom element) for the cooking pot.