金融时报：中国获奥运开幕式金牌(图)

北京奥运会开幕式

　　本届奥运会最无悬念的胜利，在上周五得到确认：中国摘得开幕式竞赛的“金牌”，想必把有史以来任何奥运会开幕式拿来比较都是如此。

　　从来没有一个国家能够赶上中国在奥运开幕式上投入的精力、人力、协同、独创性，以及(不得不提的)财力，也许将来也一定赶不上。曾几何时，奥运开幕式只是一场大型运动会之前的小表演，而如今它已成为一场巨大的表演和盛况。

　　经过4小时令人震撼(即便似乎有点没完没了)的表演与仪式，中国国家主席胡锦涛正式宣布第29届奥运会开幕。

　　然后，夜色中的“鸟巢”最终落入——更准确地说是升至——纯粹的矫揉造作：已从体操运动员转行成为商人的李宁，在吊车的帮助下升至“鸟巢”顶部，接着以飞人姿势绕场一周，最后点燃主火炬。这个特技看上去用的过多了。

　　除此之外，首场胜利属于开幕式的导演张艺谋。人们对奥运开幕式的期望提高，至少可追溯到

　　其主题采用传统的题材：具有中国特色的民族主义。但张艺谋以空前的场面演绎了这一切，他巧妙地利用“鸟巢”体育馆的设计来达到表演效果，还拥有预算方面的自由。中国媒体所提的5000万英镑预算，似乎严重低估了实际开支。这场表演由2008名鼓手开场，此后的表演气势更为恢宏。

　　相比之下，4年后伦敦奥运的开幕式会不可避免地看上去像是业余演出，而明智的伦敦人则不会希望有人会想跟北京奥运比排场。毕竟，5000万英镑能够买到不少新的公共汽车。

　　The most certain victory of the Olympic Games was duly ratified on Friday when China won the gold medal in the opening ceremony competition – presumably for all time.

　　No country ever has – or surely will – match the Chinese in the effort, human power, synchronicity, ingenuity and, it has to be said, money they were willing to put into what was once a little show to start a big sporting event. Now it is an enormous show and a gigantic event.

　　And after an awesome if seemingly interminable four hours of performance and ceremonial, President Hu Jintao of China formally declared the games of the 29th Olympiad open.

　　Then the evening finally descended – or rather ascended – into pure kitsch when the gymnast-turned-businessman Li Ning was winched up to roof level to complete a lap of vertigo and light the flame. It seemed like one trick too many.

　　Otherwise the first triumph belonged to the evening's auteur Zhang Yimou. Inflation of expectations at opening ceremonies began at least with the Disneyfication of the games at Los Angeles in 1984. Last night it reached its apex with a show of astounding ambition.

　　The theme was along traditional lines: nationalism with Chinese characteristics. But Zhang executed it all with unprecedented panache – cunningly using the design of the Bird's Nest stadium for his purposes – and budgetary freedom. The £50m mentioned in the Chinese media seemed like a gross underestimate. This was a show that began with 2,008 drummers, and then got more ambitious.

　　London four years hence will inevitably seem like amateur dramatics in comparison and sensible Londoners would hope that no one would even try to match it. Fifty million could buy quite a few new buses.

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