Character #317: 近 jìn
2 Lessons
Make a Movie 近
KEYWORD:
Nearby
Pinyin:
jìn
Actor:
ji- Female
Set:
-(e)n
Room within Set:
Bathroom or Backyard
Prop(s):
斤 (Food Scale)
辶 (Road -OR- Red Carpet)
Member Comments from 2019-mid-2020
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Natalia Kovalenko
Julia Roberts is in the bathroom of my -(e)n location, stepping on the scale (prop 1) to check her weight and realizing that there's no way she's going to fit into that ballgown (prop 2) she is having made for the Academy Awards. She's so embarrassed she doesn't even want to go outside. She is trying to find out if there's a weight loss clinic NEARBY where she can go for a few days.
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=5wsUguc5Gss&t=4298s
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Nick
Playing a hot/cold improv game with Ji actor in the back garden.
her task is to pick up the giant kitchen SCALE and place it on the ROAD that runs between the garden beds.
as she gets NEAR to the scale we clap and make noise more and more.
as she gets further away we are silent.
After many random incorrect moves, she picks up the SCALE.
We are all clapping to signal this is correct, and she is so NEAR to finishing her task.
She then moves the SCALEs NEARER and NEARER to the road, and we make more and more noise! Then she finally puts it down on the road and we all cheer!
Stephanie Arapian
Jenn is back at camp (-en) in a scavenger hunt. She's using her map to follow the Red Road around camp and only has one item left - the Food Scale. The last clue has lead her to the showers (-bathroom), and she knows it's NEARBY... somewhere. She just has to search through all the stalls to find it before anyone else. OR maybe the toilets, or the bushes, or the trees, or the utility shed. But she knows it's NEARBY!