I did a search on Youtube

[mysterygirl]

for the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony.

And I found

 

[Madusa]

Strings!




That's good! Are they brothers or something?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

for the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony.

And I found

I found that yesterday and people were saying it's Cirque de Soleil performers. It's fantastic although there were people saying it's not Beijing at all, but that it's a show in Monaco. Anyway, here's probably what is a real clip

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TY705IfJIE8

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

for the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony.

And I found

someone says:

This is a footage of the Monaco Circus and ther performers are from Russia. You can also see Prince Albert in the audience.
Nothing to do with China 2008

 

[mysterygirl]

someone says:

This is a footage of the Monaco Circus and ther performers are from Russia. You can also see Prince Albert in the audience.
Nothing to do with China 2008

No, you're probably right. Still amazing though!

A Korean TV crew reportedly snuck into the rehearsals for the opening ceremony last week, filmed it and stuck it up on Youtube. Unsurprisingly, it's been taken down!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

No, you're probably right. Still amazing though!

A Korean TV crew reportedly snuck into the rehearsals for the opening ceremony last week, filmed it and stuck it up on Youtube. Unsurprisingly, it's been taken down!

Yes, I know. That's how I came across the clip you posted

I was going to post it yesterday but for some reason, thought there was something not quite right about it, in that why would the Chinese be using to rather athletic European men in their opening ceremony? Upon further investigation, I found out it wasn't.

 

[mysterygirl]

LOL you're more dedicated than I am then, I have to confess to not investigating further even though I did wonder at the (somewhat golden) European men.

I did find another clip that looked more realistic, but do you think I can find it again??

I liked yours, too. It looks like the stadium is alight at one point!

ETA : have you seen this one from North Korea?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

LOL you're more dedicated than I am then, I have to confess to not investigating further even though I did wonder at the (somewhat golden) European men.

I did find another clip that looked more realistic, but do you think I can find it again??

I liked yours, too.

Apparently the guys are Russian.

What did your other clip show?

 

[mysterygirl]

It was the one i just edited into my previous post - from North Korea, definitely not Opening Ceremony material, but I'd like to have seen it from beginning to end from further away, I bet it made fairly spectacular viewing as well.

Past my bed time Im afraid, g'night.

The Russian guys really did amaze me! I sat here the whole 6 1/2 minutes catching flies I think!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

05-08-2008, 13:26
Minnie_the_Minx

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt S
I'm hoping that the ceremony starts with the camera focused in on one person doing a kung fu form. And then pans out and out and out and finally you see that there are ONE MILLION kung fu artists, assembled into a giant, terrifying Chinese Olympic army.

Well, it'd look cool....

Matt


Yep, I'm thinking along the same lines If there's one thing that countries like Russia, China and Korea are good at, it's big displays