Make a Movie 步

KEYWORD:

A Step

Pinyin:

bù

Actor:

bu- (Fictional Character)

Set:

-Ø Childhood Home

Room within Set:

Bathroom or Backyard

Prop(s):

 止

 少 (Jack Nicholson -OR- Streetsweeper. NOTE: When written on the bottom the 3rd stroke is omitted. Perhaps make it a one-armed streetsweeper.)

Notes:

“A Step" as in a step you take while walking or a step in a progression.

Member Comments from 2019-mid-2020

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Georg Lohrer

Bart Simpson needs to use the bathroom in my childhood home. It's really urgent. But the door is locked and there's this stop-sign in front of the door. Why? And a broom is nearby. He needs to tidy up? What? He takes the broom, makes a STEP forward and now he can open the door. STEP by STEP he now cleans up his way to the bowl.

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Della Fuller

Beast is in the backyard of my childhood home. He is playing "Mother May I" with my three sisters and I. I am the mother, and every time that Beast asks if he can take a STEP I put on a big smile, say "No!" and hold up a big stop sign.

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Petteri Nakamura

I have been waiting to see how the bottom of this character will be handled in the course. This is a funny character because the Japanese, and the old Chinese version too, does include the penultimate stroke. 歩.
I would love to know what they were looking to gain simplifying it by leaving out one stroke

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Abigail

That's so perfect because my prop for 少 is Dick Van Dyke and he sings a song called 'Step in Time' :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I-b_GJ4ltk

MB Team

This is where Luke & Phil talked about your question in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5zhOpkinYI&t=2882s

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Chad Ressler

Location: Childhood Home (Backyard)
Actor: Black Mask (Jet Li's character from the movie Black Mask)
Props: Stop Sign and Matt Damon from Good Will Hunting
I'm in the backyard with the Black Mask and Matt Damon as they are rehearsing for the new action movie they are starring in. They are doing a scene where they have to walk step by step in unison, but Matt Damon is carrying a stop sign and he has his broom so he is much slower. They keep having to redo the scene because Matt Damon keeps missing several steps since he is not as fast as the Black Mask.

Mandarin Blueprint

Here's the link to where Phil & Luke talked about this comment in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast: https://youtu.be/F7fyD0xLDdw?t=1997

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