Character #293: 死 sǐ
2 Lessons
Make a Movie 死
KEYWORD:
To Die
Pinyin:
sǐ
Actor:
si-/s- (Male)
Set:
-Ø Childhood Home
Room within Set:
Bedroom or Living Room
Prop(s):
歹 (Wicked Witch of The West)
匕 (Ladle)
Member Comments from 2019-mid-2020
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Della Fuller
Steve Martin is sitting in the livingroom of my childhood home. The Wicked Witch of the West is stirring a potion with her ladle, cackling away. Steve seems paralyzed, unable to move, and his eyes are wide with fear. Finally, the witch scoops up a ladle full of her noxious potion and brings it over to Steve. "Time to DIE" she giggles, and pours it into his mouth. Steve coughs, twitches a little, and then DIES, slumping over sideways onto the couch.
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=3595s
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Teodor Ruokolainen
At the end of my scene after my actor kills the Wicked Witch of the West with a ladle I imagine a bunch of munchkins running around singing Ding Dong the Witch is Dead. Made me laugh quite a bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPIdRJlzERo
Anjulee
😆 a great way to end the scene.
Francislainy Campos
Stephen Hawking is dead in my bedroom. He's been killed by a wicked person using a broken spoon.
Tina Clark
The EAGLE MUPPET (歹) has DIED. My friend Sam digs him a grave in the floor of my childhood bedroom using an ANCIENT SPOON (匕) and we give him a funeral.
Jonathan Glazier
Seal (s) is in the living room of my childhood home, there’s a giant stags head (the left component) mounted freshly on the wall. Seal is stirring a big stew pot with a ladle (right component). As his dinner guests make the connection, Seal smirks and says in his smooth leathery tones, "It was his time to DID (KW)."