2008 Beijing Olympic opening ceremony

Hey, guys, what have u been up to lately?
Anyway, what do u think of the olympic opening ceremony？I'd like to know all of you's opinions...

Well. At the beginning I was very angry with the CCTV broadcast version of the Opening Ceremony only when I saw the NBC version did I really see a real and extravagant opening. So, if you only watched the CCTV version and wasn't satisfied with it, u'd better watch the NBC version again.

Here are some of the more glaring faults (This is what people said about it from other website)

1. CCTV version is a confused jumble of close and far shots, but the NBC version captured all the action from every possible angle providing the big picture in a muchmore complete and exciting way.

2. During the reading of the Analects, NBC provides a shot of the top of the bird’s nest where there is both English and Chinese translation, which shows a consideration for visitors from other countries and welcomes them. The version shown in China does not provide any shots of this and you cannot even hear what is being read!

3. Later there is a shot of children painting with watercolors and then the sequence is over, but in the NBC version there is a close up shot of the whole canvas, allowing the viewers to see that the black circle is actually the adorable smiling face of the sun, complete with two blushing red cheeks, so cute.

4. During the modern China section, the Chinese version jumps straight to the astronauts very suddenly, only after watching the NBC version do we see the picture of the universe and night sky from where the astronauts drop down. And after the Olympic theme song is finished, the 2008 faces are not captured well in the Chinese version, but the NBC version takes it all in and finally in a moving sequence shows close ups of all the different smiling faces of the children from all over the world.

5. Chinese people were really confused by the “footage of legs,” only afterwards did we discover that in front of the blank canvas were plates full of pigment so that each time a person walked across it created a rainbow effect. This was captured very well in the foreign version, but wasn’t captured in the CCTV version.

6.In the Chinese version, when the athletes entered the stadium you could not see the signs held up for each at all, only after watching the later version did we discover that each sign had 3 languages written on them (French, English, and Chinese) and were written with our traditional Chinese brushwork.