主题：【原创】印度崛起：神话与现实 -- 晨枫

comment by hizento (U8679012)

posted 7 Hours Ago

Hundreds of malunirished men look like they been dragged off the streets bea

ting at old dirty drums. The performance lack coordination, flamboyant and e

scapacism, there were long delays between shows, there is no "wow" factor, s

ome of the ideas are not original, ie the firework display, the children pai

nting a cloth (remember Manchester 2002?), the use of projectors highlightin

g the country's history. Would have been a OK event 40 years ago. Definately

no Beijing.

comment by hizento (U8679012)

posted 7 Hours Ago

The crowd look a bit bored as well, some resting their chins on their elbow,

not animated like you would expect from what should be a country's comming

out party. The stadium doesnt look full. I'm shocked they spent billions on

this show.

comment by just_another_person (U14634017)

posted 7 Hours Ago

I think you need to stop comparing it to Beijing over and over again. Apprec

iate the effort put in by the performers & workers, despite the earlier disa

ppointment by the CWG developers. I think the stadium looks absolutely spect

acular and the performance was brilliant. good job to sincere workers, and s

hame to the corrupt politicians that disgraced the country. however, i think

you need start appreciating the ceremony as opposed to FINDING the negative

s at this point. Come on, the athletes themselves are saying that the villag

e is great!

comment by ACT INDIA (U14634047)

posted 7 Hours Ago

India,the Aspiring World No.1 Nation Puts in Awesome & Colossal Display at C

ommon Wealth Games Opening Ceremony!

More Enthralling than Fifa Cup !

A FEATHER IN THE CAP & A CROWNING GLORY FOR INDIA!

comment by craigwoods (U14634234)

posted 5 Hours Ago

Wow! The rising superpower, India! What an amazing show! Absolutely marvelou

s. I feel it is at par or may be even better than the Beijing Olympics. Keep

it up India.

comment by hizento (U8679012)

posted 5 Hours Ago

I thought the speech was very long and boring. The second half of the show d

id picked up, the highlight for me was the yoga and the figure elavated from

the platform. It is colourful with lots of dancing, very chaotic. It doesnt

have the slick presentation of the Olympics or the artistic, grandeur and t

echnical difficulties seen in Beijing 2008. In the end it was a carnival atm

osphere. For me Delhi 2010 ceremony promote India as place for travel destin

ation rather than a nation on the verge of becomming a superpower.

comment by ruchikas (U14634258)

posted 5 Hours Ago

Sorry to say, Mr Edwards of BBC.... our ambition is much different from Chin

a's.

We are the biggest democracy and they the biggest "non-democracy"....

Our ambition is every bit democratic and that's the reason the world did see

the negativism in the Indian media and Delhiites... But no one could say a

word against the Chinese government.

For all the rampant development and the social cost and everything else that

was wrong in China, the world only saw the good side, not so for Delhi. smi

ley

Living, Rising, Marching, Winnning.

Jai democracy! smiley

comment by hizento (U8679012)

posted 4 Hours Ago

Jai, the problem is Delhi shows not the good but what has gone wrong with In

dia's democracy. People in India is poorer than China despite having 65 year

s of democracy. In India true democracy only exist for the 10 percent of peo

ple in the upper caste system, but then again just because a country calls t

hemselves democracy does does not automatically means better living conditio

n and also just because a country is a communist one party government doesnt

mean it is like North Korea or former Soviet Russia.

comment by Rickydavie (U2341331)

posted 4 Hours Ago

Brilliant!!!! I want to go to India. I think the Olympics should take note o

n how India has presented itself. It is important to win but it is more impo

rtant to be part of the event.

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comment by Gav (U11986696)

posted 4 Hours Ago

@Hizento

I wonder if you have ever been to india or know anything about it. I have li

ved their for many years - worked with Indians. Gentleman commented above is

absolutely right - the way Indian media went after the event is the proof o

f democracy at work - something you would never see in China. Point you made

about more poor in India than China - fact remains all we know is through m

edia. And media in China is only allowed to show what communists want world

to see - whereas India is a different story. Take my word - next 3-4 decades

will be India's - as manufacturing picks up India is on way to grab its sha

re of world's wealth - as it did 4 centuries ago..

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comment by Rickydavie (U2341331)

posted 4 Hours Ago

Than you for your comment

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comment by ebrill (U14634299)

posted 4 Hours Ago

Brilliant India, but again things are spoilt by the inane chattering of the

commentators when we are perfectly able to see what is happening but are una

ble to enjoy the colourful music because of their constant superfluous chatt

er so much so they drowned out the supposed cheers that heralded the entry o

f the Welsh sports team, also the constant switching to speak to contestants

which didn't contribute anything to the ceremony that we were watching but

was both fatuous & irritating steam

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comment by hizento (U8679012)

posted 4 Hours Ago

Gav, have you ever been to China? Indian media depend on what you read but I

bet there is Indian media that is highly critical of western media reportin

g on the negative new. I have witnessed opression in the name of democracy.

Chinese media and governments never denied negative news it is just that the

re is on balance more postive than negative. The Chinese PM visited Greece t

oday, while spporting the EU and its currency he explicited said, like in al

l previous government report, that China's per capita income is 1/8th of Gre

ece and his coountry is still a developing country. I would never expect Ind

ia PM to say anything like that except beating his chest about being the nex

t superpower. This is stypical of India's over confident, exaggeration and c

orruption and because they claim they are a democracy everyone are free to t

ell lies. What I do know is many Chinese cities on the east coast citizens a

re well fed, has high standard of living, free to say and do anything they w

ant, can marry who they want. I cant saythe same for even the richest Indian

city. What I see are gelaming skyscrapers, wide road and luxury cars in Sha

nghai but all I see in New Delhi are slums and poor whose only pocessions ar

e the rags on their backs.

感觉比自己想象的要好些，但也仅此而已。主要是北京奥运把我的欣赏水平提高到了一个太高的高度，以至于一般的大型表演已经无法激发起我的感叹。所以对印度的开幕式也有些兴趣索然。感觉就是“还可以”。然后就什么都没有了。不过或许对印度人而言，这或许已经是他们的最高水平的表现了。

那个原先说的神乎其神的大气球没觉得有什么神奇之处，就是个大的投影布，而且投上去的人影还不是很清晰。前面的十几分钟就是鼓乐表演，搬出了不同的鼓，敲出不同的节奏，初听还不错，可是10几分钟的敲就有点审美疲劳了，换点不好吗？怎么敲个没完啊。鼓手也是而且左一堆，右一堆的，开始还以为会摆个莲花或者别的什么特殊造型来吸引眼球。可是什么也没有，就那么散乱的分布在中央表演台的四周，越看越觉得不像是世界上最大民主国家盛大运动会的开幕式，反而更像非洲某一部落的庆贺仪式，连服饰都像。

镜头里还出现一个小孩在敲鼓，长得很可爱，而且镜头感很强，有时候仿佛知道镜头在拍他，会很灿烂的对着镜头一笑，然后更努力地打鼓。不过我总觉得这里有些猫腻，这孩子的手势和放出来的鼓点总觉得有些不是很合拍，而且这东一撮，西一扎得人堆，又拿着不同的鼓，怎么能敲击出如此一致的鼓点呢？会不会是预先录好的现在不过是摆摆手势？我如此邪恶的想。

至于那四周随风摇曳的气人，就不多说了。我住的这地方，一般新开张的食店，卖轮胎的或者卖车的都会玩这一招，放几个气人晃啊晃的招揽客户，怎么这堂堂最大民主国家如此没有创意，竟把这一俗招搬办到了开幕式上。这个也太没有水准了。凑数也不时这么凑的！

如果给评分，给个5分吧，算勉强及格，对印度兄弟而言，这已经算很不错了，估计再高的要求他们也做不到了。

又看了点剩下的，有了个疑问，怎么运动员进场后都不见了，中间都是些表演者，运动员都去哪儿了？