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PostPosted: 08/07/08 9:13 pm    ::: Gritty Renegade Now Directs China’s Close-Up Reply Reply with quote

By DAVID BARBOZA
Published: August 7, 2008
BEIJING — For much of the past quarter century, the Chinese director Zhang Yimou made films that showcased his country’s struggle against poverty, war and political misrule to the outside world — films that Chinese, for the most part, never saw.

Time and again, Mr. Zhang’s terse, gritty epics were banned by government censors for portraying China’s ugly side. When he won an award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994, the authorities stopped him from attending. Up for an Oscar one year, officials lobbied to have his film withdrawn from the competition.

But when the Olympics kick off Friday at China’s new National Stadium, with President Hu Jintao of China, President Bush and other world leaders in attendance and perhaps one billion people watching live on television, Mr. Zhang will preside over the opening ceremonies.

Nearly two years in the making, his spectacle is intended to present China’s new face to the world with stagecraft and pyrotechnics that organizers boast have no equal in the history of the Games.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/sports/olympics/08guru.html



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PostPosted: 08/08/08 2:24 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Zhang Yimou... is he the director that did Curse of the Golden Flower and House of the Flying Daggers? I know he's a really famous movie director but I always get confused on his actual films.
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kage wrote:
Zhang Yimou... is he the director that did Curse of the Golden Flower and House of the Flying Daggers? I know he's a really famous movie director but I always get confused on his actual films.


yes, to both. i'm really getting pumped about the ceremony. "today" show said folks' jaws will drop in the first hour.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0955443/



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PostPosted: 08/08/08 7:08 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Opening ceremony is live online via Caracol, and it is amazing thus far:

http://www.justin.tv/anfoctv2


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p_d_swanson wrote:
Opening ceremony is live online via Caracol, and it is amazing thus far:

http://www.justin.tv/anfoctv2


thanks for the heads up!



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PostPosted: 08/08/08 7:16 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Can't believe you guys don't get this shown live. It continues to amaze me how much is tape-delayed in the US.

Whatever hour of the day or night this was taking place it would've been live on BBC1.


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PostPosted: 08/08/08 7:17 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

omigod, i'm welling up already.



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PostPosted: 08/08/08 7:28 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Richyyy wrote:
Can't believe you guys don't get this shown live. It continues to amaze me how much is tape-delayed in the US.

Hell, at this very moment, NBC's Today Show has Lauer, Vieira and Costas outside the stadium informing America how much they're going to enjoy tuning in this evening to watch the replay ("But I don't want to give too much away!")...


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PostPosted: 08/08/08 7:43 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

p_d_swanson wrote:
Richyyy wrote:
Can't believe you guys don't get this shown live. It continues to amaze me how much is tape-delayed in the US.

Hell, at this very moment, NBC's Today Show has Lauer, Vieira and Costas outside the stadium informing America how much they're going to enjoy tuning in this evening to watch the replay ("But I don't want to give too much away!")...


Unreal. Just wouldn't even be contemplated here. There'll be plenty of highlights shows and repeats in prime-time for people who can't watch stuff live due to work, but absolutely everything as big as this is live as a matter of course. Same with all the showpiece sporting events.

As media gets more and more integrated, and larger and larger proportions of the population get used to watching things online, the US broadcasters are going to have to change that attitude. Arguably visual media is already far enough along that they should have already.


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PostPosted: 08/08/08 7:47 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

they're gonna have to give up that tape delay as we get even more "global" because the live streaming will eventually upstage any of this time manipulation.

but watching this, it's just as the "today" folks said - not only the spectacle, but the precision within the spectacle. i'm blown away. i thought greece was pretty impressive.



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PostPosted: 08/08/08 7:54 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

NBC's preview (with some helpful background information) is available here...


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PostPosted: 08/08/08 7:57 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

I figure it would be better if I just waited until tonight to watch it on TV. Laughing

Not sure if I can help myself though... Mad


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PostPosted: 08/08/08 8:01 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

p_d_swanson wrote:
Opening ceremony is live online via Caracol, and it is amazing thus far:

http://www.justin.tv/anfoctv2


any other options besides above? i'm getting a message to enter an access code...not to mention an annoying flashing box...



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PostPosted: 08/08/08 8:05 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

nickv1025 wrote:
I figure it would be better if I just waited until tonight to watch it on TV. Laughing

Not sure if I can help myself though... Mad


even if you picked it up now, nick, you'd still be awed by what you've already missed. it's breathtaking.

this particular site is slowing down considerably, now that more people are glomming on. but boy, was that tasty!



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PostPosted: 08/08/08 8:06 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

jersey_stupka wrote:
p_d_swanson wrote:
Opening ceremony is live online via Caracol, and it is amazing thus far:

http://www.justin.tv/anfoctv2


any other options besides above? i'm getting a message to enter an access code...not to mention an annoying flashing box...


Could try here: http://www.justin.tv/mstv3

Or any of the options listed in the first post on this thread: http://www.myp2pforum.eu/watch-beijing-2008-live/24893-august-8th-opening-ceremony.html


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PostPosted: 08/08/08 8:11 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Sarah Brightman singing in Mandarin!

First up: Greece...


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PostPosted: 08/08/08 8:59 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Hmph... I'm here at work and can't stream anything. But reading everyone's commentary is making me excited when I get to watch tonight.


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PostPosted: 08/08/08 12:31 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

BTW, from what my sister told me (she's in Shanghai so watched it live), they announce countries by strokes in the character name.

For example, America is Mei Guo, which has 9 strokes in Chinese... So they're after the 8 strokes and before the 10 strokes. Laughing Which is an interesting way of doing it although I'd wager that means you won't know who the last country is given that trying to figure out the largest number of strokes for a country could be... difficult. Heh.
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PostPosted: 08/08/08 1:09 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

That is interesting. I watched a bit of the Parade of Nations this morning on the CBC (Canadian Channel) and wondered how they were doing the order.



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