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foolip -

Request for backup! I've been editing away at the wikipedia article about Zhang Yimou's upcoming
movie. However, I'm not too sure about everything that I've written. Please help me verify/fix
these things:

Is the pinying for the character 尽 jin3 or jin4? I've guessed for jin4 on no grounds at all.

What is the literal translation? 满城尽戴黄金甲
满城 Mancheng, an old city
尽 to the utmost
戴 to wear
黄金甲 golden armor
My best shot was "cover Mancheng with golden armor", but... I'm not sure.

The thing about 黄金甲 as a colloquialism for sandstorm was in a podcast from chinesepod.com.
Is the way I've written it true? I have never heard it used as I'm in Sweden, but how about you
people in China?



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skylee -

AFAIK, 滿城 means the whole city. Literally 滿城盡戴黃金甲 means everyone in the city is
in golden armour. But I could be wrong.










Quest -

张艺谋还在拍戏，奥运快到了，真怕他给中国人丢脸。










Gary Soup -

The working English title is "The City of Golden Armor" according to dianying.com.


Quote:

This is said to be loosely based on Cao Yu's play Thunderstorm which has several adaptions over
the time including one the early Bruce Lee played a role, but set in an emperor's court.
Thunderstorm is a Shakespearean drama of love, sex, incest, scandal, revenge and death, spiced
with the class war in 1930's China. The titles comes from a poem written by the leader of a
peasant uprising in the late Tang Dynasty, but is only chosen for its splendor while the poem has
little to do with the story. Budget 360M yuan (US$44M). The 'Zhang's new lady' as the tabloids
like to say has been revealed as Li Man, a student in Central Drama Academy of Beijing.

Li Man













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