The author of “Hero” or “brides and concubines” had already designed that of the 2008 Games. Despite the epidemic, about 3,000 extras should participate in this inauguration on February 4th.
Le Monde with AFP
bis repetitive. The Chinese director Zhang Yimou, who had staged the spectacular opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, will be again in the controllers of the same ceremony at the winter Olympics in the Chinese capital in February, announced the organizers Friday.
m. Zhang, 71, promised a “totally innovative” inauguration, while granting that the pandemic context and low temperatures would prevent the outstanding dimension of the 2008 show and its 15,000 participants.
“Being simple, as in martial art films, it’s like the sword of a master,” said the director at the New China News Agency in an interview published on Friday night. “It looks like a simple knife shot, but with fatal power.”
The author of Chinese classics like “the red sorghum” or “maries and concubines” and martial arts films like “Hero” or “The secrets of flying daggers” promised nearly 3,000 participants at the ceremony .
References to the Chinese New Year
Other index distilled by Mr. Zhang: The ignition of the Olympic flame will follow a “bold idea” integrating the concepts of “environmental protection and low carbon emissions”. “I am very nervous. I think it’s completely innovative and people will be surprised,” he added.
Elements of the Chinese New Year, which falls on the February 1, three days before the ceremony, will also be present in the show, entrusted the director to the CGTN public television channel.
At the 2008 ceremony, 2,008 musicians hit ancient Chinese drums perfectly in rhythm, and thousands of other participants – fans of martial arts, dancers, opera singers, acrobats and trapezists – paraded in Sumptuous costumes.
The show highlighted the history of China and its civilization and had to be the symbol of its return in force on the international scene. “It’s different now,” said Zhang in New China. The image of the Chinese, and the rise of our national status, everything is totally different now. “
“With the pandemic, the world needs a new and strengthened vision, that is, people around the world come together to deal with difficulties and consider a bright future,” A-T -The added.