你覺得東京奧運會的開幕式怎麼樣?_風聞

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評論原創翻譯：

Jamin, lives in The United States of America

Jamin，住在美國

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.

你想要我誠實的看法嗎？那就是糟透了。

我在看開幕式

在我繼續之前，首先我得説，我本知道東京奧運會不是在理想的條件下舉行的。顯然，目前大流行正持續，觀眾被禁止觀看（這自然會讓事情變得不那麼激動人心，但這個決定是有道理的），大量資金相當於被衝進廁所—僅僅因為推遲了比賽東京2020年的許多事態發展都超出了東京、日本或奧林匹克委員會的控制範圍，因此我們不要為此責怪組織者。如果沒有新冠病毒，我相信我們會看到更好的結果。

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年東京奧運會確實承諾會為人類注入一些急需的積極能量，對於非專業觀眾來説，沒有比通過開幕式更好的方式了。我認為它沒有做到。

此外，我不確定那些看到這個答案的人是否已經看過開幕式。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，因為它沒有發光。

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。可以理解的是，組織者可能覺得這樣的節日行為是不合適的，因此出現了所有人單獨鍛鍊和默哀的場景（伴隨着一個似乎是哀悼舞者的東西，這使得環境更加怪異）。

但我發誓，在各國隊伍登場之前的開幕式上，90%的時間都是這樣，在我之前看過的開幕式上，這段時間通常更長。哪怕是最輕微的興奮或樂觀情緒都能讓我對奧運會或未來感覺更好？我覺得我是在看葬禮，而不是體育賽事的真正前奏。

我重申並不反對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全世界的疫情紀念館，我們會看到它，而不是夏季奧運會或開幕式。不管開幕式是在什麼樣的環境下舉行的，它的主要目的應該是讓像我這樣的觀眾對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.

我發現開幕式上缺少的另一件事是“日本元素”的數量。你可以認為我對日本有成見，但我不認為我是這個星球上唯一一個期待這個儀式充滿任天堂和動漫的人。

如果説五年前東京在里約的破壞性事件值得借鑑的話，那可能從一開始就是這個計劃。

但也許大流行導致了計劃的改變，而我在開幕式上沒有看到太多的變化。我確實看過一些傳統舞蹈之類的東西，這是值得稱讚的，但我發現它令人掃興，很難與之聯繫起來。

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麼。

我想這是為了樹立“全球團結”的形象（在世界一角失去理智的時候，奧林匹克事業迫切需要這種形象），但我發現“想象”這首歌比儀式上的任何一首歌都要突出得多，它證明了日本是什麼樣的，而它本應該是相反的。

據報道，開幕式有一個部分讓一些人感到驚訝，那就是無人機點亮形成全球圖像的部分。

我敢打賭，北京冬奧會的負責人現在正在做記錄，因為他們很可能也計劃在開幕式上駕駛無人機。這是因為中國生產了大量無人機，最近他們一直在嘗試將彩色無人機融入他們向大眾展示的所有東西中：從春節晚會到黨的週年紀念日—以展示他們新發現的技術優勢。

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表演，那麼東京的無人機表演應該不會太引人注目。儘管有人稱這是開幕式的亮點，我對無人機表演下意識的反應是：“嗯，如果他們真的想給人留下深刻印象，他們應該用創紀錄的無人機數量填滿大東京的整個天空，並形成一個巨大的圖像或信息，可以將其寫進吉尼斯，但這可能會破壞預算，所以我們就剩下這個奇觀了。”

在撰寫本文時，我正在重新觀看開幕式的部分內容，以確保我沒有錯過任何東西；如果我這樣做了，我會補充更多的答案。但在這個時刻，我沒有理由相信幾年後我會懷念的東京開幕式，更不用説東京奧運會了。這絕對是我有生以來見過的最差的開幕式之一（總共五場），但考慮到目前的情況，我認為舉辦這個開幕式的人不希望他們的觀眾回頭看這個。他們只有一份工作，那就是在奧運會正式開始之前組織一些表演。

當開幕式現場直播時，許多觀眾再也受不了了，於是“逃”到了第一屆北京奧運會開幕式的完整視頻中，他們在評論部分對東京開幕式進行了詆譭。

但當你遇到一個像在東京看到的那樣糟糕的開幕式時，現在你可以説08年是一個不同的地方和時間，很難不回憶起東京開幕式看起來不像葬禮的時候。

從好的方面來看，人們對奧運會的一個主要擔憂是它的成本超過了它的價值，因此，如果説東京能教給世界一件事，那就是如何在一個只持續一個晚上的開幕式上不要花費太多

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。這一切都是為了運動員們，他們很高興來到這裏。

有些全體演員都參加演出的特別節目是理性的。但這項技術很酷，尤其是懸掛在空中的無人機“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.

我對開幕式抱有更高的期望，由於日本是一個高科技國家，我真的很期待這一天的到來。

當全球處於危機之中，它需要一些享受和驚奇的東西，相反，我們看到了一個明顯低預算，令人沮喪的開幕式。

在我看來，無人機是亮點，它們真的沒有那麼棒。我期待着100英尺高的機器人蘇馬摔跤手，或者像哥斯拉一樣的機器人互相搏鬥—激光和未來煙火。我相信泰國人只花千分之一的錢就能好好展示一番。

我真的很想知道，在有人決定這個世界應該感到壓抑和沮喪之前，最初的計劃是什麼，然後對原本可能發生的事情感到失望。我希望閉幕式更合我的意。