One more look - great Olympic games 2008 openning

Posted by bumeral

August 10, 2008

The opening ceremonies of major sporting events are often the portal lavish, exuberant, entertainers to come. A multidisciplinary show that, spurred by the anxiety of the stalls and global dimensions of the scene (stadiums not resist exhibits austere) end up becoming excessive. Boring. Devoured by the immediate competition (which actually interested) and sentenced to abstract television, this selection of moments that outgoing anyway quickly pass into oblivion, accompanied, of course, for the most laudatory adjectives. While you look, this is an effort that has no adequate compensation.

Something similar could be said of the presentation of the Olympic Games in Beijing. The contrasts, for example, between the dazzling visual explosion and a song meliflua, or between the sprint of air gymnast Li Ning and walk distracted by delegations, together with some sluggishness china gave a mixed assessment. A total that could be incorporated in the tradition of gender unchecked exceptions.

Perhaps, but before acquiescing this possibility, I would like to stress that China, perhaps as none of his predecessors, sent a resounding message not only about his identity, but on their abilities and powers of today.

In his case, with the polvareda that lifted the designation as the seat of power and its diffuse nature, subject to Western mythology, it was absolutely necessary. His letter should be categorical and very effective. And what was to spare.

The tour theme reviewed with pride culture China and their contributions to the world (those drums called fou, shocking resonance, the white paper of his invention, among other segments), and also projected into the future with appeals to international peace and care the environment.

But the most important thing was the language: those who moved multitudinarian choreography of color, which is spread by the stadium or Leviticus suddenly goes back to the circus tradition china and its prodigious precision, but also to illusionism.

The luxury apparel, the platoon of 14 thousand performers with its lights and harnesses, and to showcase technology (which folds flat, which opens to make way for a huge bubble that is now the globe and then Tingle for the duet singers) pointed to less ostentation that the climate of a different dimension, with its own laws, capable of causing the surprise of a magic pass. Or rather, a new imagination.

Therefore, no doubt, those responsible for this fiction, which was primarily responsible for the artistic filmmaker Zhang Yimou, were both zeal to maintain secrecy.

China wanted to tell the world that a par with his organizational skills, pride in a history that seeks to keep alive and technological development that puts on the table of the powerful girl, also has the most precious attribute of modernity: mastery of the image. And do not talk about a mere technical skill, but the resources to establish a narrative itself, ready to compete in the track symbolic.

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