Nothing imbues the essence of Chinese Culture better than the scroll--it rolls open bit by bit, like the ancient Chinese wisdom: A real touch of beauty can hardly be an extravaganza, but a careless, yet mysterious encounter. What has revealed on the canvas is a stunning picture at its best, but the exhilaration of the moment you see the dreamed beauty captured by the picture can be breathtaking, exulted, and tasteful. That’s way Chinese Art always looks simple, and elegant, and sometimes, remote.
That’s what the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies strives to achieve. If one of the moment, you are touched by the beauty, or the awe, the color and the fireworks, the thunderous drum or the extramundane nature of the background of Kungfu, bravo!
The scroll unfold in the center of National Stadium, as extensive as a football field. After a few moment’s aerobic-like dancing, the rueful light shot from the top of the venue shifted and the image ascended to be suspended in the air. The picture reveals itself to be a scribbled outline of rolling mountains and the sun hanging on the right. An abstract picture with unutterable Orientation taste, leaving much the blank for your imagination, that’s what China had for the world for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games.
The Olympic Ceremonies have tried to compass the five millenniums civilization into a few dances. In other words, they imparted a profound topic that worth decades of study in UC Berkeley to a Sports Fan in front of TV in an hour! No wonder it’s so compounding.
But art is a universal language that should transcend time and spaces, cultures and backgrounds. Like the spirit of Olympia, it’s a legacy for the whole human beings, not a particular nation, nor a particular culture.
The problem is it seems that the director of the ceremonies, Zhang Yi Mou, seemed disagree. His logic is "The more traditional and ethnic, the more global." As a movie director who had won numerous awards for his specialties in setting exotic and photogenic scenes, he is obsessed with traditional settings and effects. Individuals are nothing to him, they're uniformed to emerge into a larger picture to shock the audience and strike awe.
Notwithstanding all the thrills the show had brought to the audiencelack , the young people find it "over-Chinesenized". It's more of a grand royal ceremony paying tribute to gods than a modern international event. Critics of the sourt bubbled on to the internet blogs the next day, immediately after the show. Zhang had snatched to Olympic to his own benefit, but we're expecting a more open and cosmopolitan China.
That’s what the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies strives to achieve. If one of the moment, you are touched by the beauty, or the awe, the color and the fireworks, the thunderous drum or the extramundane nature of the background of Kungfu, bravo!
The scroll unfold in the center of National Stadium, as extensive as a football field. After a few moment’s aerobic-like dancing, the rueful light shot from the top of the venue shifted and the image ascended to be suspended in the air. The picture reveals itself to be a scribbled outline of rolling mountains and the sun hanging on the right. An abstract picture with unutterable Orientation taste, leaving much the blank for your imagination, that’s what China had for the world for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games.
The Olympic Ceremonies have tried to compass the five millenniums civilization into a few dances. In other words, they imparted a profound topic that worth decades of study in UC Berkeley to a Sports Fan in front of TV in an hour! No wonder it’s so compounding.
But art is a universal language that should transcend time and spaces, cultures and backgrounds. Like the spirit of Olympia, it’s a legacy for the whole human beings, not a particular nation, nor a particular culture.
The problem is it seems that the director of the ceremonies, Zhang Yi Mou, seemed disagree. His logic is "The more traditional and ethnic, the more global." As a movie director who had won numerous awards for his specialties in setting exotic and photogenic scenes, he is obsessed with traditional settings and effects. Individuals are nothing to him, they're uniformed to emerge into a larger picture to shock the audience and strike awe.
Notwithstanding all the thrills the show had brought to the audiencelack , the young people find it "over-Chinesenized". It's more of a grand royal ceremony paying tribute to gods than a modern international event. Critics of the sourt bubbled on to the internet blogs the next day, immediately after the show. Zhang had snatched to Olympic to his own benefit, but we're expecting a more open and cosmopolitan China.
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