Hahaha – AWESOME – I saw in the Yahoo Olympics blog Fourth-Place Medal that apparently some Opening Ceremony fireworks were faked! What?!? Noooo!! The hell you say …
If you watched the Opening Ceremony on Friday night, chances are you said something like, “no way that’s possible” at least once. It turns out you were right.
London’s Telegraph newspaper reports that some of the fireworks which appeared over Beijing during the television broadcast of the Olympic Opening Ceremony were actually computer generated. But — hold on — it’s not necessarily as bad as you think.
The faked fireworks were actually set-off at the stadium, but because of potential dangers in filming the display live from a helicopter, viewers at home were shown a pre-recorded, computer-generated shot. It sounds dishonest, but I’m not sure it’s such a terrible thing.
This is a country that has been planning for 6 years to “fake” it’s image for the world. They don’t want you to think of them as the Darfur supporting, Tibet and Taiwan opressors that President Bush apparently likes to appease. They want you to think “Hey – even though they eat chocolate covered scorpions and shit into holes in the ground, they’re not all that bad.”
Faking will just be par for the course for these 17 Olympic days.
Popularity: unranked [?]
