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Some Opening Ceremony fireworks were faked

By Chris Chase

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.

The Opening Ceremony is, at its core, just one big performance. And isn't it accepted that some things might not be

legit at a performance? The final torch bearer wasn't actually running around the top of the stadium, does the fact

that everyone could figure that out make it any less impressive? It might have been unnecessarily deceptive, but the

firework-faking isn't really that big of a deal. But, if I found out that the lighted-drum thing wasn't on the up and up,

then we'll have problems, China.

Photo via Getty Images

저 머언 옛날 미소의 우주여행 전쟁시절에 소련이 우주유영을 신문에 발표하고 그 후 이것이 조작이었음을

미국이밝혀낸 적이 있다. 베이징 올림픽 개막식의 거대한 불꽃놀이 장관의 일부가 실제가 아닌 조작이라고

런던의 텔레그라프지가 보도했고 또 인정했다고 한다. 기 촬영한 필림을 컴퓨터로 쏴 올렸다 한다. 성화 주자

역시 지붕위를 달린 것이 아니라고 한다. 그러면서 결론이 '뭐 그게 그렇게 나뿐 거짓밀인가"" 뭐 그렇게

조작할필요가 있었나"로 끝맺고 있다.