真杀十五个人
“Even if one really killed 15 people,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
不看 不看
“[Orthopedics Section 2] No, I refuse.”
真杀十五个人
“Even if one really killed 15 people,”
抓过去也就枪毙一回
“he can only be shot once if caught.”
“Even if I really did murder fifteen people, they can still only execute me once.”
Reflects a mindset of hardened criminals common in Chinese film and folklore: since a person only has one life to lose, committing capital crimes leads to a reckless attitude of 'too many debts to worry about' and defiant disregard for consequences.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
hypothetically carrying out an extreme action (even if one actually did...)
Commonly used in colloquial speech to pose an extreme hypothetical situation, typically followed by utter disregard for the consequences or fatalistic resignation.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I slayed another 10 men with fierce appearances.”
“Kill them all. Spare no one.”
“killing dozens of women. (Zhou Zhiqin, Peiqiong Manor)”
“committed such inhuman massacres...”
“Killing 1 is the same as killing 5.”
“and killed countless men.”