comment by stattotheblade (U7075064) posted Yesterday absolutely wonderful opening ceremony, i know i can only remember 3, but todays ceremony beats the other two by miles. The organization and timing was wonderful, the sheer scale exciting and the torch lighting astounding. After the (people may not like this) bore of Athens' ceremony, i was amazed and pleased to see such a spectacle. London, you now know what we've got to achieve, good luck
comment by hkbloke (U11302795) posted Yesterday london is stuffed.
no money and no original thought.
it's all going to end in tears.
伦敦完蛋了! 没钱没创意 我们将会在眼泪中收场
comment by deyowthree (U12922406) posted Yesterday Beautiful.. just that.. nothing else.. beautiful.. China did it very well indeed.. the best Opening Ceremony ever to happen on an Olympic... Well its understandable.. China is the richest country in terms of foreign reserves on planet earth.. They have 1,5 Trillion USDollars in reserves... Spending 50 billion on an olympic barely makes a dent on China's huge and fat savings piggy bank..
comment by sheffieldspike (U12920910) posted Yesterday What a amazing show Beijing has given us. It was simply breathtaking, beautifully choreographed and lavish visual display of fireworks, chinese history and culture. Hope London can match it in 2012
Amazing ceremony. Shame about the presenters ruining it by talking through half of it.
How is London going to top that? 令人惊叹的开幕式,解说员(他们本国的)太差糟蹋了 伦敦如何能超越?
Is this ceromony actually on untill 4 45? ridiculous if it is (抱怨时间太长)真的要到4:45结束吗?(当地时间),太离谱了
comment by kingFreddieHarris (U7381623) posted 15 Hours Ago
Breathtaking, easily the best OC ever!
惊人的,史上最好的开幕式
comment by Dark1 (U3585317) posted 14 Hours Ago
Will London 2012 look anything like this? Will culture will displayed?
2012年伦敦也会像这样展示文化吗?
(后面的跟帖好笑) comment by Chacor (U9441188) posted 14 Hours Ago
You mean London has culture?
你是说伦敦有文化?
comment by tru5tworthy (U2073914) posted 14 Hours Ago
We are watching from Australia, it's actually being shown here in Full Hi-Def, but alas no plasma to watch it on. But even on the old-skool TV it's absolutely amazing! 我们在澳洲收看的,虽然是高清媒体,但是没有plasma, 但是即使是看老式电视机仍然令人赞叹!
comment by rickyk10 (U8531822) posted 14 Hours Ago
Has the opening ceremony began yet? I can't work out what's happening through all the smog
(这位有点迷茫)开始了吗? 这么多烟雾我都蒙了
comment by TopTorres (U9598927) posted 14 Hours Ago
I think 2012 may be very embarassing for London when you compare it to this spectacular show! 我想相比这个壮观的开幕式,2012伦敦会觉得尴尬的。
comment by Steveo77 (U9884310) posted 14 Hours Ago
anyone who thinks the Olympics are boring really ought to be watching this!!
如果你觉得奥运会是乏味的,那你真应该看看这个!!
(这是位英国的爱国者) comment by MIXtheZyder (U11244581) posted 14 Hours Ago
I've just been watching it, & yes it is a great celebration of China & Chinese culture, & rightly so. So what happens when the games come to London in 4 years time. You can bet your life, that it will be a celebration of multi culture, & World harmony, with not 1 union flag in sight, let alone, Rule Britania,God save the Queen, or land of hope & glory!!..........
我正在看,的确这是一场中国和中国文化的盛会。 4年后在伦敦,你能确信我们会有一场多元文化、世界和谐的盛会,没有拉帮结派 bla bla bla
comment by Dark1 (U3585317) posted 14 Hours Ago
You mean London has culture? 你是说伦敦有文化? ----- Dunno. I was asking what London had to offer apart from fish and chips. 不知道。我是想问,伦敦除了炸鱼和薯条还有什么?
comment by SixerMixer (U9667579) posted 14 Hours Ago
Why have the kids come with backpacks? Cant their schools give them a day off??... atleast for the Olympics?
为什么孩子们还背着书包?学校就不能为了奥运给他们放一天假吗?(鸡蛋里挑骨头)
comment by supersubag (U7126766) posted 14 Hours Ago
We'll make this look like a children's party in 4 years time - we're GREAT Britain - you don't hear anyone calling it "Great China" - although they do have that Great Wall...
I don't know about you, but I'd be pretty freaked out by smiley fireworks...
不知道你们怎么认为,我是觉得笑脸烟花很诡异~~~~
comment by Sasuke_nffc (U3372540) posted 14 Hours Ago
Mike sent a text asking how we would compete with the chinese in 4 years time.
I don't think we have it in us. The Chinese seem extremely proud of this event and have pulled out all the stops.
All we'll do is waste money and employ unsuitable people to sort the ceremony out.
Anyway, have we got anything worth telling the world about? As far as I can see at the moment, all that happens in Britain is that kids kill each other.
It's a sorry state of affairs that I hope changes before 2012.
Well done China.....this is absolutely spectacularly beautiful...
Don't they normally go Greece - Afghanistan? Why are they continuing on alphabetically from Greece?
难道希腊之后不应该是阿富汗吗? 为啥他们从希腊开始按字母顺序入场? (附,希腊greece, 几内亚Guinea, 哈哈,这位老兄以为是从G开始,H, I ,J,K......)
comment by Dark1 (U3585317) posted 14 Hours Ago
Bagpipes!
That's some British culture for you.
风笛! 英国元素!(英国人很兴奋吧?)
comment by Martin Squirtle (U10746386) posted 14 Hours Ago
Wow that was mint. No wonder it took so long to prepare. What an opening ceremony.
哇塞太棒了,怪不得花这么长时间准备,多么棒啊
comment by Reddevil1288 (U8682524) posted 14 Hours Ago
Those bagpipe players must be chuffing hot in all that fur. They must have higher endurances levels than 99% of the athletes theyre playing entrance music for.
风笛演奏者裹在毛皮里一定热坏了,他们一定比99%的入场运动员吗更有耐力。
comment by twoseat (U8431670) posted 16 Hours Ago
I’ve heard that for the UK ceremony we’re going to have 10,000 Chavs shouting "Come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough" in perfect harmony.
comment by xlancer (U12922539) posted Yesterday great opening and the chinese people have every right to feel proud but i think that athens, barcelona and moscow were the top 3 opening ceremonies ever.Dont think that todays show was in any way so original as those 3! still best wishes for a great olympiad!
comment by lazy_olympian (U12922570) posted Yesterday That was an amazing ceromony! truly thoughtful but the commentators were so dire! Huw kept on spoiling the surprise, Hazel talked without really saying anything and as for the other one-the cheap political and historical shots were unfair-not least because many conutries dont exactly have a picture perfect human rights record (ahem!)
As for 2012-I really hope they can top it-but I have a suspician they will dress up retired newsreaders in big ben costumes!
So the Olympics start soon, followed afterwards by the Paralympics. The phrases "didn't they all do well" and "it's not the winning, but the taking part that matters" will be used many, many times during the Paralympics. I mean, who seriously watches it? I would watch it if they added a few events, such as midget boxing, blind javelin and wheelchair high dive
在后面有人跟他的帖子 I would watch the blind javelin if you were one of the field judges 如果你在现场做裁判的话,我倒是很想看看这个盲人标枪比赛
I feel like a child at Christmas at the moment! I'm so excited!... 我现在的感觉,就象小孩子过圣诞节。我太兴奋了。。。 One thing guaranteed is a fantastic fireworks display ......they invented them after all 有一件事情可以肯定,焰火一定很精彩。。。毕竟是他们发明了焰火啊 Wow! Huw Edwards is making me laugh a little with his commentary though. Hee. How are we going to beat this? Chas & Dave and lots of urchin children dressed in rags singing songs from Oliver followed by Pearly Kings & Queens?
Fantastic ceremony both in design and execution. Perhaps London should think the unthinkable for our go in 2012. Make our opening ceremony a world event, not a national one. Include the big movements and ideas from across the world and across all cultures. Resist the temptation to focus on our own national identity and history (not that there is anything wrong with it)Surpise the world
comment by Brundle Fly (U1720058) posted Yesterday
after seeing that london might as well stop planning and give up now. i heard they are planning on having david beckham come in on a london bus.NICE!
看完后我觉得伦敦应该现在就停止和放弃!我听说他们打算让贝克汉姆在伦敦巴士上表演。囧!
Goose stepping Imperial Guards is not really in the Olympic spirit 鹅步前行的帝国护卫队不能算是符合奥运精神吧 If the Chinese athletes have put as much effort into their preparations as the organisers have for the opening ceremony then they're going to clean up on the medals. Still, as long as the yanks don't win everything I don't mind 如果中国的运动员在准备比赛的时候所付出的辛苦,和组织者为开幕式付出的一样,他们可以拿下所有的奖牌的 当然,只要不是美国佬拿下所有的奖牌,我不介意 are they actually painting that? 他们真的正在那个卷轴上画画么? I can't wait to see what we do in four years, fall back on the Red Arrows and the brass bands I guess... (yawn) 我等不及看我们四年后会怎么搞了,我猜又是红箭表演队和铜管乐团。
we could have that girl and her dog Gin 我们可以让那个女孩子和她那只叫金的狗上场(这个是说英国选秀节目Britain Got Talent中的选手Kate还有她的狗)
and probably Sarah bleedin Brightman again. At least we'll be able to guarantee rain 很可能还有莎拉,他妈的布莱曼。。。至少我们可以确定,那时候一定会下雨 London might be better off admitting now that they can't beat this - and deliberately do something more low key and cheaper. 伦敦最好现在就承认他们胜不过这个--顺便去做点更低调和更省钱的事情 They'll probably have one of the birds from Hollyoaks on: "Erm, this Olympic.....thingy......its erm, open. Buy my new music single, out on Monday." You just know its gonna be celebrity overload. 他们搞不好还会找来Hollyoak(英国肥皂具)里面的女孩子,那帮女孩子十有八九会这样 “恩,现在,是奥林匹克。。。实际上。。。它,恩,开幕了。请买我的新单曲吧,下个礼拜一就上市了。” 到时候肯定是名流泛滥 LMAO...The 2012 Big Brother winner will probably light the tourch as well 笑翻了。。。2012Big Brother(英国电视节目)的赢家也将有机会点燃火炬
There is no way we can achieve anything like this. How many people in London would be prepared to give up their free time for nothing for over a year? 我们不可能实现这个的,伦敦有多少人会放弃他们的自由时间,没有任何好处,在一年的时间里面准备这个。 Get a load of Poles in to do it for half the cost......... 可以找一堆波兰人,花费还可以减半
The stadium probably won't be ready a year before the start let alone them start rehearsing then 主体育中心大概无法在开幕式之前一年完成,更别说开幕式彩排了 Let the Poles finish the stadium and then get the Chinese to do the opening ceremony. We can haggle over the price 让波兰人来盖体育中心,找中国人来弄开幕仪式,我们可以和他们杀价
I have no idea how London will get close to topping today's ceremony. It's absolutely fantastic. 我完全想不出来伦敦怎么样才能超过今天的开幕式,它简直是太棒了。 And the call centre for tickets will be based.....in India. Hi, my name is Susan. How can I help you with your enquiry for Olympic tickets today, sir? 售票中心将被设立在。。。印度 嗨,我的名字是苏珊,你想买奥运门票,我可以帮什么忙呢,先生?
True enough. And the opening ceremony will probably include obese people from around the British Isles . . . disguised as Teletubbies 确实,开幕式到时候很可能还包括来自英伦三岛的胖子们。。。全部装扮成天线宝宝 A parade of teenage mothers with prams and an 'ASBO' group with ankle tags 还有未成年妈妈推着婴儿车的游行队伍,以及脚踝上拴着识别标签的反社会行为者们
Wait, we get the 30th games too? oooh, pressure 等等,我们要办第三十届奥运会?恩,压力啊
I can imagine our crowd booing each team that comes out and keep chanting 'Engurland' 我可以想像,到时候(2012年)人们对出来的每支队伍喝倒彩,同时不断的高呼“英国”
oh god we so will won't we! its going to be a disaster in 2012 哦,天啊 我们确实是会这样的,不是么! 到2012年的时候,那会是场大灾难
comment by disapointed (U6790509) posted Yesterday
It was a great opening ceremony but too long.
Brilliant creativity and spectacular fireworks, but you expect that from China.
London 2012 does have a hard act to follow and I would suggest to them not to make it so epic but more light-hearted and fun. Maybe with a 'Carry on' type theme.
Where China had a very traditional show, London should go with an MTV type presentation.
Looking forward to the events now, come on team GB.
Where China had a very traditional show, London should go with an MTV type presentation.
Don't worry mate they have no option anyway, England have NO tradition, none compared to Athens or China anyway.
They wouldn't exactly be spoilt for choice for a 'historical' theme, probably they'd start with somebody reading Shakespeare or sth like that and take it from there lol
WOW!!!!!What a great spectacle!A showcase of Chinese culture cleverly and excellently put together. By the way,what is BRITISH CULTURE?Pubs,binge drinking,girl bands,being rubbish at sport....and or those most loveable creatures known as chavs....perhaps? 哇塞!!!!!太壮观了!非常聪明地把中国文化很好地集中展示了! 另外,什么是英国文化? 酒吧,烂醉,女子乐队(难道指辣妹?)糟糕的体育....? 或者是那些著名的“可爱”生物 比如chavs。。。。?
comment by happyharryhampton (U12849325) posted Yesterday
For cultural references to draw upon for an opening ceremony China does have a bit of an advantage. When most of Western Europe was basically peopled by savages, China had already embarked upon a civilised culture that had refinements that weren't to be seen here for a couple of thousand years. It is the oldest continuous culture on Earth and though surpassed technologically by us for a few centuries has in the space of a couple of generations cought us up and will in the latter part of the 21st Century be the most powerful economy in the World. One can only but marvel at the sheer arrogance and brutal economic power displayed in this Olympic opening ceremony. It was truly Olympic. What government in the West apart from probably the USA could muster such economic power to put on such a spectacle as we have witnessed today? It was both awe-inspiring and frightening. They wanted to send out a message to us and boy didn't they?