Great opening at Olymic games in Beijing 2008

Posted by bumeral

August 8, 2008

The flags of 204 countries and the flame burning in the cauldron greet the start of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, in which China opens a new Silk Road. This time not only to connect with the West, including six centuries ago, but to share the world on an equal footing and showing power at all levels. Narrative | Images: Parade | Ceremony

China shocked at the ceremony as she hopes to do well in medallero, with the goal of removing the first since the United States. The exhibition of the opening ceremony at the stadium ‘of Bird Nest’ was so full of art and ingenuity. And brimming with power. A disturbing perfection.

The Western leaders, all led by U.S. president George Bush, shared the stage with the ‘Mandarin’ Hu Xintao. With his mouth open, but not to protest the lack of civil liberties, or by repression in Tibet or the Chinese activities in Darfur. A colossal staging seemed to warn, between lyrical and oníricas choreography and lighting, that this country of 1,300 million people obedient is capable of doing jump banking world.

Perhaps viewers missed its meetings to Steven Spielberg, who resigned from the artistic collaboration of the event in the videos. Within the ‘Nest’, aesthetics and emotion trepanation senses of the 80,000 attendees. And inflame the tens of thousands of Chinese who followed the event at the gates of the stadium, shooting with their cameras, shouting and applauding as the inside.

The staging was simply perfect. The artistic director Zhang Yimou did not need encouragement from Hollywood to display a special talent in the story of an epic, ‘Beautiful Olympics’, which spread in two acts the brilliance of culture china, its delicacy and its findings in visual arts, music and theater, connecting its current inhabitants with nature and with the collective effort to achieve their goals.

The representation was closed for 50 minutes with a prodigious epilogue entitled ‘Dream’. China does not sleep: wanders by the globe, what dominates. That was one of the pictures of the ceremony: Chinese walking on the planet, at every point in the blue field. Conclusion: The world is yours, or can be if it were proposed.

The strength of the country’s population starred in the fable china. Yes, the ceremony threw the luxuries of technology, some technical means of utmost precision. But after the lights and special effects, men. Countless. Since the prologómenos, when 2,008 people dressed in costumes of the old China played in unison the enormous percussion instrument called ‘Band Fou’, until one of the last scenes, in which thousands of children smiles appeared on the gigantic table, the spectacle exhibited thousands of people handed over to offer martial precision and in unison.

The ritual of the athletes returned to sports minds. The flag - which weighs the banner, David Cal! - The participants perpetuated their attitude in these festive events, the leaders applauded and greeted with the logic emotion of the occasion and for one hour and 50 minutes. Not lasted less after the final exclusion of Brunei Darussalam, emirate that did not want to register their athletes despite the insistence of the International Olympic Committee, which issued its public note to rectify the number of states present at the Games. There are now 204.

The ignition of the torch

The most sacred moment, the lighting of the torch that illumine the Games, came after four hours of partying. Eight relay at the stadium increased the ’suspense’ over who would be the national hero who, torch in hand, met with the rite was born in the Berlin Games, in the minds of the classical period Hitler. A Chinese sports idol, Li Ning, triple gold in artistic gymnastics in Los Angeles, which opened the path to Olympic success in China. Today is buoyant supplier of sportswear (her signature dresses, among others, the Spanish Olympic team).

Known the penultimate secret, the Tracer was the final flight of the hero, suspended in the stadium. With a career in the air, marking the strides so elegant, surrounded the stadium until you reach the sacred fire, which ignited without delay, in the latest example of technical perfection of an overwhelming night.

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