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What do you think of the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics?

你覺得東京奧運(yùn)會(huì)的開幕式怎么樣?

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Jamin, lives in The United States of America

Jamin，住在美國(guó)

You want my honest opinion?
It sucked.
Me watching the opening ceremony
Before I go on, let me begin by saying that I am aware that the Tokyo games were not held under ideal conditions. Obviously there is an ongoing pandemic, spectators were banned (which naturally makes things less exciting, but the decision is justified), and a lot of money was flushed down the toilet from delaying the games alone. Many developments have messed up Tokyo 2020 that were beyond Tokyo, Japan, or the Olympic committee’s control, so I don’t necessarily blame the organizers for that. Had there been no Covid, I’m sure we would have seen a lot better.

你想要我誠(chéng)實(shí)的看法嗎？那就是糟透了。
我在看開幕式
在我繼續(xù)之前，首先我得說，我本知道東京奧運(yùn)會(huì)不是在理想的條件下舉行的。顯然，目前大流行正持續(xù)，觀眾被禁止觀看（這自然會(huì)讓事情變得不那么激動(dòng)人心，但這個(gè)決定是有道理的），大量資金相當(dāng)于被沖進(jìn)廁所—僅僅因?yàn)橥七t了比賽東京2020年的許多事態(tài)發(fā)展都超出了東京、日本或奧林匹克委員會(huì)的控制范圍，因此我們不要為此責(zé)怪組織者。如果沒有新冠病毒，我相信我們會(huì)看到更好的結(jié)果。

But a show is a show, and Tokyo 2020 did promise to be the games that injects some much-needed positive energy into humanity, and to the lay spectator, there is no better way to do that than through the very ceremony that kicks the games off. Which I argue it didn’t do.
Also, I’m not sure if those who come across this answer will have already seen the opening ceremony. If you did, great. If you didn’t, so that you don’t have to watch the opening ceremony, because it didn’t shine.
The first thing that turned me off about the opening ceremony was that it was waaaay too depressing, especially the beginning parts. Understandably, the organizers may have felt that it was inappropriate to act festively, hence the scene with all the people exercising alone and the moment of silence (accompanied by what appears to be a mourning dancer, which made the environment even more eery).
But I swear, that was like 90% of the part of the opening ceremony before the parade of nations, which was usually longer in previous ceremonies I’ve seen. Where was the slightest dose of excitement or optimism that could make me feel better about the games or the future? I felt like I was watching a funeral than an actual prelude to a sporting event.
Again, I am not obxting to mourning the lives lost from Covid or the Munich attacks, but if we wanted a worldwide Covid-19 memorial, we’d get that, instead of the summer games or its opening ceremony. And regardless of the context in which an opening ceremony is held, its primary purpose should be to get spectators like me pumped up about what’s coming next.

但表演就是秀，2020年?yáng)|京奧運(yùn)會(huì)確實(shí)承諾會(huì)為人類注入一些急需的積極能量，對(duì)于非專業(yè)觀眾來說，沒有比通過開幕式更好的方式了。我認(rèn)為它沒有做到。
此外，我不確定那些看到這個(gè)答案的人是否已經(jīng)看過開幕式。如果你做到了，那太好了。如果你沒有，這樣你就不必觀看開幕式，因?yàn)樗鼪]有發(fā)光。
開幕式讓我感到厭煩的第一件事是它太令人沮喪了，尤其是開幕式的開始部分?？梢岳斫獾氖?，組織者可能覺得這樣的節(jié)日行為是不合適的，因此出現(xiàn)了所有人單獨(dú)鍛煉和默哀的場(chǎng)景（伴隨著一個(gè)似乎是哀悼舞者的東西，這使得環(huán)境更加怪異）。
但我發(fā)誓，在各國(guó)隊(duì)伍登場(chǎng)之前的開幕式上，90%的時(shí)間都是這樣，在我之前看過的開幕式上，這段時(shí)間通常更長(zhǎng)。哪怕是最輕微的興奮或樂觀情緒都能讓我對(duì)奧運(yùn)會(huì)或未來感覺更好？我覺得我是在看葬禮，而不是體育賽事的真正前奏。
我重申并不反對(duì)為因新冠肺炎或慕尼黑襲擊事件而失去的生命哀悼，但是如果我們想要一個(gè)全世界的疫情紀(jì)念館，我們會(huì)看到它，而不是夏季奧運(yùn)會(huì)或開幕式。不管開幕式是在什么樣的環(huán)境下舉行的，它的主要目的應(yīng)該是讓像我這樣的觀眾對(duì)接下來的賽事充滿信心。

The other thing I found wanting in the opening ceremony was the amount of “Japan” in it. Call me a stereotypical views of what Japan is like, but I don’t think I am the only one in this planet who expected the ceremony to be full of Nintendo and anime.
That was probably the plan from the beginning, if Tokyo’s spoiler in Rio five years ago was anything to go by.
But maybe the pandemic induced a change in plans, and I didn’t see much of that showcased in the opening ceremony. I did see some traditional dancing and stuff, which is commendable, but I found it anticlimactic and hard to relate with.
And I wasn't sure what John Legend and a bunch of other non-Japanese singers were doing in a Japanese opening ceremony.
I suppose the intention was to foster this image of “global solidarity” (something the Olympic business desperately needs as a corner of the world loses its marbles), but I found the “Imagine” song bit to stand out a lot more than did anything in the ceremony that demonstrates what Japan is, when it should have been the other way around.
There was one part of the opening ceremony that reportedly amazed some folks, and that was the part where drones were lighted up to form a globe image.
I bet the people in charge of directing the Beijing winter games are taking notes right now, because it’s very likely that they had planned to fly drones in their opening ceremony too. This is because China produces a shit ton of drones, and recently they’ve been trying to incorporate colored drones into everything they display to the masses — from spring festival galas to party anniversaries — in order to demonstrate their newfound technological superiority.

我發(fā)現(xiàn)開幕式上缺少的另一件事是“日本元素”的數(shù)量。你可以認(rèn)為我對(duì)日本有成見，但我不認(rèn)為我是這個(gè)星球上唯一一個(gè)期待這個(gè)儀式充滿任天堂和動(dòng)漫的人。
如果說五年前東京在里約的破壞性事件值得借鑒的話，那可能從一開始就是這個(gè)計(jì)劃。
但也許大流行導(dǎo)致了計(jì)劃的改變，而我在開幕式上沒有看到太多的變化。我確實(shí)看過一些傳統(tǒng)舞蹈之類的東西，這是值得稱贊的，但我發(fā)現(xiàn)它令人掃興，很難與之聯(lián)系起來。
我不確定 John Legend和其他一些非日本歌手在日本的開幕式上做了什么。
我想這是為了樹立“全球團(tuán)結(jié)”的形象（在世界一角失去理智的時(shí)候，奧林匹克事業(yè)迫切需要這種形象），但我發(fā)現(xiàn)“想象”這首歌比儀式上的任何一首歌都要突出得多，它證明了日本是什么樣的，而它本應(yīng)該是相反的。
據(jù)報(bào)道，開幕式有一個(gè)部分讓一些人感到驚訝，那就是無人機(jī)點(diǎn)亮形成全球圖像的部分。
我敢打賭，北京冬奧會(huì)的負(fù)責(zé)人現(xiàn)在正在做記錄，因?yàn)樗麄兒芸赡芤灿?jì)劃在開幕式上駕駛無人機(jī)。這是因?yàn)橹袊?guó)生產(chǎn)了大量無人機(jī)，最近他們一直在嘗試將彩色無人機(jī)融入他們向大眾展示的所有東西中：從春節(jié)晚會(huì)到黨的周年紀(jì)念日—以展示他們新發(fā)現(xiàn)的技術(shù)優(yōu)勢(shì)。

If you have seen a lot of these drone shows — as I have — then there isn’t much about the Tokyo drone display that should stick out. Whereas some are calling this the highlight of the opening ceremony, my knee-jerk reaction to the drone footage was “meh, if they really wanted to impress, they should have filled the entire skies of Greater Tokyo with a record number of drones and formed a huge image or message that Guinness can write into the books, but perhaps that would destroy the budget, so we’re left with this spectacle.”
At the time of writing, I am rewatching parts of the opening ceremony to make sure I didn’t miss anything; if I did, I’ll add more to this answer. But at this juncture, I have no reason to believe that I will fondly remember the Tokyo opening ceremony, let alone the Tokyo games, years from now. It’s definitely in the rock bottom of my list of best opening ceremonies that I’ve seen in my lifetime (five in total), but then again, given the circumstances, I don’t think the folks who put this ceremony together want their audience to look back at this. They had one job, and that was to organize some kind of show before the games officially began.
When the ceremony was being aired live, many viewers couldn’t stand it anymore and “fled” to the full video of the first Beijing Olympic opening ceremony, which they watched instead while trashing the Tokyo ceremony in the comments section.
Now you could argue that ’08 was a different place and time, but when you encounter a hamstrung opening ceremony like the one seen from Tokyo, it’s hard not to recall a time when the opening ceremony didn't seem like a funeral.
On the bright side, a major concern with the Olympics is that it costs more than it’s worth, so if there is one thing Tokyo can teach the world, it’s how not to spend too much on an opening ceremony that only lasts for an evening. And assuming perceptions of the games are proportional to how the world is doing as a whole, and global decoupling is the zeitgeist of our time, then it might get worse from here.

如果你像我一樣看過很多這樣的無人機(jī)表演，那么東京的無人機(jī)表演應(yīng)該不會(huì)太引人注目。盡管有人稱這是開幕式的亮點(diǎn)，我對(duì)無人機(jī)表演下意識(shí)的反應(yīng)是：“嗯，如果他們真的想給人留下深刻印象，他們應(yīng)該用創(chuàng)紀(jì)錄的無人機(jī)數(shù)量填滿大東京的整個(gè)天空，并形成一個(gè)巨大的圖像或信息，可以將其寫進(jìn)吉尼斯，但這可能會(huì)破壞預(yù)算，所以我們就剩下這個(gè)奇觀了。”
在撰寫本文時(shí)，我正在重新觀看開幕式的部分內(nèi)容，以確保我沒有錯(cuò)過任何東西；如果我這樣做了，我會(huì)補(bǔ)充更多的答案。但在這個(gè)時(shí)刻，我沒有理由相信幾年后我會(huì)懷念的東京開幕式，更不用說東京奧運(yùn)會(huì)了。這絕對(duì)是我有生以來見過的最差的開幕式之一（總共五場(chǎng)），但考慮到目前的情況，我認(rèn)為舉辦這個(gè)開幕式的人不希望他們的觀眾回頭看這個(gè)。他們只有一份工作，那就是在奧運(yùn)會(huì)正式開始之前組織一些表演。
當(dāng)開幕式現(xiàn)場(chǎng)直播時(shí)，許多觀眾再也受不了了，于是“逃”到了第一屆北京奧運(yùn)會(huì)開幕式的完整視頻中，他們?cè)谠u(píng)論部分對(duì)東京開幕式進(jìn)行了詆毀。
但當(dāng)你遇到一個(gè)像在東京看到的那樣糟糕的開幕式時(shí)，現(xiàn)在你可以說08年是一個(gè)不同的地方和時(shí)間，很難不回憶起東京開幕式看起來不像葬禮的時(shí)候。
從好的方面來看，人們對(duì)奧運(yùn)會(huì)的一個(gè)主要擔(dān)憂是它的成本超過了它的價(jià)值，因此，如果說東京能教給世界一件事，那就是如何在一個(gè)只持續(xù)一個(gè)晚上的開幕式上不要花費(fèi)太多

Colleen McCloskey, Rugby Photographer, From Youth to Internationals
I liked it. It was all about the athletes, who were so happy to be there.
Some of the production numbers were cerebral. But the technology was cool, especially the drone Earth hanging in the sky.

我喜歡它。這一切都是為了運(yùn)動(dòng)員們，他們很高興來到這里。
有些全體演員都參加演出的特別節(jié)目是理性的。但這項(xiàng)技術(shù)很酷，尤其是懸掛在空中的無人機(jī)“地球”。

Stephen Colbourne, former Simulation and Database Software at Singer Simulation
I was expecting a lot more from the opening ceremony, and as Japan is a high tech country, I was really looking forward to this from years in advance.
As the world is in the middle of the Covid crisis, it needed something to enjoy and be amazed by, instead we got an apparently low budget, depressing display.
The drones were the highlight to me and they really were not that great. I was expecting 100 foot tall robotic Suma wrestlers, or Godzilla like robots battling each other. Lasers and futuristic fireworks. I am sure the Thai’s could have put on a great display for 1/1000th cost.
I really would like to know what was originally planned before someone decided that the world should be depressed and under whelmed, and come away feeling dissapointed over what could have been. I am hoping the closing ceremony is more to my liking.

我對(duì)開幕式抱有更高的期望，由于日本是一個(gè)高科技國(guó)家，我真的很期待這一天的到來。
當(dāng)全球處于危機(jī)之中，它需要一些享受和驚奇的東西，相反，我們看到了一個(gè)明顯低預(yù)算，令人沮喪的開幕式。
在我看來，無人機(jī)是亮點(diǎn)，它們真的沒有那么棒。我期待著100英尺高的機(jī)器人蘇馬摔跤手，或者像哥斯拉一樣的機(jī)器人互相搏斗—激光和未來煙火。我相信泰國(guó)人只花千分之一的錢就能好好展示一番。
我真的很想知道，在有人決定這個(gè)世界應(yīng)該感到壓抑和沮喪之前，最初的計(jì)劃是什么，然后對(duì)原本可能發(fā)生的事情感到失望。我希望閉幕式更合我的意。