Make a Movie 语

KEYWORD:

Language

Pinyin:

yǔ

Actor:

yu-  God

Set:

-Ø childhood home

Room within Set:

Bedroom or Living Room

Prop(s):

讠 Megaphone

五  Water Cooler

口  Mouth

Member Comments from 2019-mid-2020

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Deborah Driscoll

Johnny 5 is sitting on the heart shaped couch with a giant microphone in his hand. In trots the Unicorn (yu) so Johnny 5 decides to interview her. "What language do you speak?" "I speak Unicorn of course", she replies. "Unicorn??" he asks, "What kind of a language is that? That's not even a real language!" Indignant the unicorn walks off, muttering curses in her unicorn language.

MB Team

This is where Luke and Phil talked about your question in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KugS7ZxUyg4&t=1805s

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Tyson

In case this is a help to others...
To simplify things, I made a separate prop for 吾. It seems to show up as a component in 汉字 more often than 五 does. Apparently 吾 is a dated term that means "I" or "my" and the pinyin is "wú". I made a simple scene of Wolverine [wu-] busting into the kitchen of my childhood home, catching the mouth about to eat a "Take 5" [五] bar. Wolverine snatches it and says something like, "That's for me! Not you! Me!" That's for the sound.
For the further prop, I've picked a memorable policeman - a "5 - 0" [ 五-口 ;) ].

 

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