【龙腾网】你觉得东京奥运会的开幕式怎么样?

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

你觉得东京奥运会的开幕式怎么样?

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Jamin, lives in The United States of America

Jamin，住在美国

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.

你想要我诚实的看法吗？那就是糟透了。
我在看开幕式
在我继续之前，首先我得说，我本知道东京奥运会不是在理想的条件下举行的。显然，目前大流行正持续，观众被禁止观看（这自然会让事情变得不那么激动人心，但这个决定是有道理的），大量资金相当于被冲进厕所—仅仅因为推迟了比赛东京2020年的许多事态发展都超出了东京、日本或奥林匹克委员会的控制范围，因此我们不要为此责怪组织者。如果没有新冠病毒，我相信我们会看到更好的结果。

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年东京奥运会确实承诺会为人类注入一些急需的积极能量，对于非专业观众来说，没有比通过开幕式更好的方式了。我认为它没有做到。
此外，我不确定那些看到这个答案的人是否已经看过开幕式。如果你做到了，那太好了。如果你没有，这样你就不必观看开幕式，因为它没有发光。
开幕式让我感到厌烦的第一件事是它太令人沮丧了，尤其是开幕式的开始部分。可以理解的是，组织者可能觉得这样的节日行为是不合适的，因此出现了所有人单独锻炼和默哀的场景（伴随着一个似乎是哀悼舞者的东西，这使得环境更加怪异）。
但我发誓，在各国队伍登场之前的开幕式上，90%的时间都是这样，在我之前看过的开幕式上，这段时间通常更长。哪怕是最轻微的兴奋或乐观情绪都能让我对奥运会或未来感觉更好？我觉得我是在看葬礼，而不是体育赛事的真正前奏。
我重申并不反对为因新冠肺炎或慕尼黑袭击事件而失去的生命哀悼，但是如果我们想要一个全世界的疫情纪念馆，我们会看到它，而不是夏季奥运会或开幕式。不管开幕式是在什么样的环境下举行的，它的主要目的应该是让像我这样的观众对接下来的赛事充满信心。

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.

我发现开幕式上缺少的另一件事是“日本元素”的数量。你可以认为我对日本有成见，但我不认为我是这个星球上唯一一个期待这个仪式充满任天堂和动漫的人。
如果说五年前东京在里约的破坏性事件值得借鉴的话，那可能从一开始就是这个计划。
但也许大流行导致了计划的改变，而我在开幕式上没有看到太多的变化。我确实看过一些传统舞蹈之类的东西，这是值得称赞的，但我发现它令人扫兴，很难与之联系起来。
我不确定 John Legend和其他一些非日本歌手在日本的开幕式上做了什么。
我想这是为了树立“全球团结”的形象（在世界一角失去理智的时候，奥林匹克事业迫切需要这种形象），但我发现“想象”这首歌比仪式上的任何一首歌都要突出得多，它证明了日本是什么样的，而它本应该是相反的。
据报道，开幕式有一个部分让一些人感到惊讶，那就是无人机点亮形成全球图像的部分。
我敢打赌，北京冬奥会的负责人现在正在做记录，因为他们很可能也计划在开幕式上驾驶无人机。这是因为中国生产了大量无人机，最近他们一直在尝试将彩色无人机融入他们向大众展示的所有东西中：从春节晚会到党的周年纪念日—以展示他们新发现的技术优势。

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.

如果你像我一样看过很多这样的无人机表演，那么东京的无人机表演应该不会太引人注目。尽管有人称这是开幕式的亮点，我对无人机表演下意识的反应是：“嗯，如果他们真的想给人留下深刻印象，他们应该用创纪录的无人机数量填满大东京的整个天空，并形成一个巨大的图像或信息，可以将其写进吉尼斯，但这可能会破坏预算，所以我们就剩下这个奇观了。”
在撰写本文时，我正在重新观看开幕式的部分内容，以确保我没有错过任何东西；如果我这样做了，我会补充更多的答案。但在这个时刻，我没有理由相信几年后我会怀念的东京开幕式，更不用说东京奥运会了。这绝对是我有生以来见过的最差的开幕式之一（总共五场），但考虑到目前的情况，我认为举办这个开幕式的人不希望他们的观众回头看这个。他们只有一份工作，那就是在奥运会正式开始之前组织一些表演。
当开幕式现场直播时，许多观众再也受不了了，于是“逃”到了第一届北京奥运会开幕式的完整视频中，他们在评论部分对东京开幕式进行了诋毁。
但当你遇到一个像在东京看到的那样糟糕的开幕式时，现在你可以说08年是一个不同的地方和时间，很难不回忆起东京开幕式看起来不像葬礼的时候。
从好的方面来看，人们对奥运会的一个主要担忧是它的成本超过了它的价值，因此，如果说东京能教给世界一件事，那就是如何在一个只持续一个晚上的开幕式上不要花费太多

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.

我喜欢它。这一切都是为了运动员们，他们很高兴来到这里。
有些全体演员都参加演出的特别节目是理性的。但这项技术很酷，尤其是悬挂在空中的无人机“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.

我对开幕式抱有更高的期望，由于日本是一个高科技国家，我真的很期待这一天的到来。
当全球处于危机之中，它需要一些享受和惊奇的东西，相反，我们看到了一个明显低预算，令人沮丧的开幕式。
在我看来，无人机是亮点，它们真的没有那么棒。我期待着100英尺高的机器人苏马摔跤手，或者像哥斯拉一样的机器人互相搏斗—激光和未来烟火。我相信泰国人只花千分之一的钱就能好好展示一番。
我真的很想知道，在有人决定这个世界应该感到压抑和沮丧之前，最初的计划是什么，然后对原本可能发生的事情感到失望。我希望闭幕式更合我的意。