Make a Movie 思

Character #366: 思 sī

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Make a Movie 思

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Make a Movie 思

KEYWORD:

Consider

Pinyin:

sī

Actor:

si-/s- Male

Set:

-Ø childhood home

Room within Set:

Outside the Entrance

Prop(s):

田 Brain -OR- Rice Field

心 Heart

Member Comments from 2019-mid-2020

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Ramona

My S- character standing in front of the entrance of my childhood home holding a Rubik's cube (田) in one hand and a beautiful red necklace in
shape of a heart (心 )in the other hand.
So, dear Ramona, what would you pick? The cube or the necklace? The necklace, right? Like any other typical girl!
So, dear S-, you CONSIDER me a typical girl.

MB Team

Here's the link to where Phil and Luke talked about this comment in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGOkHhpBYxQ&t=3765s

Della Fuller

Steve Martin stands at the entrance of my childhood home. He rings the doorbell and I come out, with an annoyed look on my face. Steve immediately gets down on one knee and takes out the ring box, again. I look away, and focus on the beautiful rice fields in the distance, rather than on Steve. With a pleading look on his face, he puts his right hand on his heart and begs me to reCONSIDER. I look at the ring and place my index finger on my mouth, giving it CONSIDERation, but I look at Steve, shake my head no, and give the ring box back.

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Comments 5

Annette Bicknell

January 4, 2022 8:09pm

Searching an image for 思 (to add to the sentences later) came up with Li Bai's poem 静夜思. Although I am unable to read the poem at the current level, these short types of poems I hope will be doable in the future, perhaps after the intermediate level?

Mandarin Blueprint

January 4, 2022 10:45pm

Hard to say as many poems use old or obscure meanings of characters, so once you've learned the characters you may also need to learn new meanings of them used in the specific context. Then, you'll need to analyze the entire meaning of each line and the layers therin. Just like with poems in your native language, there is often a depth to the meaning that requires a lot of thinking (or cliffnotes!) to decipher.

Annette Bicknell

January 5, 2022 7:39pm

I know about these things. Using obscure words is what other languages do too if the poetry is old, modern not so much. I have read plenty of poetry and even without in depth knowledge, reading poetry can still be enjoyable without the deepest philosophical context. Sure, you miss maybe an important part of the meaning that the author wanted you to understand, but you can take from it what you want and enjoy that. Poetry is often a reflection of present understanding and conventions when it was written and reading it with modern eyes, even with having read a good amount of philosophy, will always be different from when it was contemporary.

Nick Sims (戴燚）

January 3, 2021 5:13pm

Snoop Dogg (si-) is outside the entrance of my childhood home trying to solve a Rubik’s cube (田) but it’s taking his brain. He is having so much trouble that his heart (心) is beating very fast, very hard. So hard that he faints from the intensity! He thinks, maybe I should CONSIDER another less stressful game.

MB Team

January 12, 2021 3:02am

This is where Luke and Phil talked about your question in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e11zahyd7f4&t=5478s

Character #366: 思 sī

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Make a Movie 思

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