Character #291: 外 wài
2 Lessons
Make a Movie 外
KEYWORD:
Outside
Pinyin:
wài
Actor:
wu- (Fictional Character)
Set:
-ai
Room within Set:
Bathroom or Backyard
Prop(s):
夕 (Nightcap -OR- Eyemask)
卜 (Magic Wand)
Member Comments from 2019-mid-2020
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Alex Sumray
Woody is in my ai set bathroom.
He's sleeping soundly with his eye mask on when he hears a faint call.
He looks out the window and sees Jessie outside calling him.
'Come on Woody, come out here.'
He smiles at her... before quickly shutting the blind and restoring his sleeping mask.
Jessie, annoyed, gets magic wand and magics him outside.
He falls from the air to the ground, landing right in a muddy puddle.
'Wai'd you do that!'
Della Fuller
Woody is OUTSIDE in the backyard of my "ai" location, with an owl and a magic wand. All he has ever wanted is to be like Harry Potter and learn to be a wizard at Hogwarts. With a hopeful expression he holds his Harry Potter book close to him, points the magic wand at the owl and says, "Take me to Hogwarts," but he remains OUTSIDE, even after numerous tries. His shoulders slump and he dejectedly drops the magic wand.
Deborah Driscoll
Winnie the Pooh enters the bathroom of my ai set, he sees a bat 夕 and a tortoise ( prop for 卜 as tortoise shells were used for fortune telling ) He looks puzzled and says “Hmmm shouldn’t you two live outside?” So he picks them both up and throws them out of the bathroom window! Faintly the tortoise can be heard saying “I’m outside!!!” as he falls air before hitting the outside ground below. (Of course he survives, dusts himself off and lives happily outside forever after !)
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=UVWf4XJkJ2o&t=3381s
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Will Raley
1. Wolverine at -ai’s bathroom.
2. The bathroom is very dark and he cannot see anything... (but actually Wolverine has just forgot that he has his 夕 (Eyemask) stuck on his face.)
3. Wolverine really wants to get OUTSIDE in the daylight now but can’t see anything.
4. Wolverine uses his卜 (Magic Wand) and blast the bathroom to bits to make an opening so he can get OUTSIDE.
5. He gets OUTSIDE and takes the 夕 (Eyemask) off finally realising that was the problem. He feels so good to be OUTSIDE again.
Cameon Holt
It is dark and the middle of the night when Winnie the Pooh (wu-) hears some thumping, crashing and odd squeaking noises coming from the the downstairs bathroom at my Aunt Sheila’s house in Old Lyme (-ai). He goes into the bathroom and sees an exhausted and frantic bat 夕 flying around the bathroom and banging into the walls. “What are you doing here!? Bats are supposed to live OUTSIDE!” Winnie is afraid that if he goes near the bat he will get the dreaded rabies, so he uses his magic wand 卜and commands the window to open. Once the night air rushes in, the bat gratefully flies OUTSIDE into the night.
Luke Eberhard
Wolverine lies in the shade of a the 'Hotel in Thailand' resting with an eye mask on. Until Deadpool (a character I'm inserting) calls out to him 'Yo Wolvie! Come play 'OUTSIDE' in the sun!' Wolverine flips the bird in response while resting. Then Deadpool pulls out a magic wand saying; 'Now that's no fun, I may as well make you.' Deadpool yells a pulling spell "Accio!" which pulls Wolverine off his bed and into the outside pool which wakes him up fully and really "Pised Off" at Deadpool. They both play aggressive OUTSIDE in the pool while the sun is bright.
Chris Lewis
Wonder woman is in the bathroom of the ai set and takes her mask off feeling weird because she doesn't know where she is, she pulls a magic wand out and waves it and suddenly she's in the backyard of the same set, outside. Wow! I love this wand, it teleports me outside.