There is a famous Brazilian saying that everything is as good as it gets at the end of the line, and if it doesn't get there, it must not get there. So, with less than two minutes to go, the clock is ticking on the end of preparations for the Rio Olympics, and does that mean that as good as it gets, a visual feast will be presented to the world.
The time difference between Rio and Beijing is eleven hours, and at this point, 7 a.m. Beijing time on Aug. 6 is close to 8 p.m. Rio time on Aug. 5, and night has completely enveloped this very beautiful city.
Many years ago, a Brazilian poet wrote this line, the world during the day there is no Brazil, at night Brazil is the world, this is simply a foreseeable poet for many years after this night in Rio specifically written lines.
The venue for the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics is Rio's landmark, the Maracana Stadium, where the sound of revelry seems to have begun in the distance. The stadium is a legend in its own right, with Brazil's 1-2 loss to Uruguay in the 1950 World Cup final documenting the country's pain, and Pele scoring his thousandth career goal in the stadium documenting Brazil's love of soccer. So what kind of memory will this stadium leave for Brazil and the world tonight? The crowd inside the stadium seems to be starting to look forward to wondering and cheering. When this stadium was built, it had a capacity of 155,000 people, and up to 170,000 or 180,000 people have been in to watch the games. When the 2014 World Cup was held, the seating capacity was reduced to eighty-two thousand at the request of FIFA for safety reasons. And today, the number of people in the arena to watch the opening ceremony will be more than 60,000, and of course tonight, the world will see three billion people walk into this stadium through the live broadcast.
Someone once asked King Pele which was your most beautiful goal. Pele replied, "The next one. Tonight, is it the next goal the Brazilian scores? Will it be a world wave?
What kind of city will Rio be when seen from the air? If many Olympic venues are not delivered on schedule, Rio is a huge stadium that was completed long ago. People here play sports 24 hours a day, and before entering the Maracana Stadium, Rioans give you a song, "That Embrace," to represent Rio's welcome to you.
The camera has taken us inside the Marikana Stadium, where the Brazilians have a knack for turning something into something magical, where a matchbox, a small piece of paper, may be artistic and playful. The prologue show you see now is inspired by a square of paper, showing Brazil, India, Africa, Portugal, different colors and patterns. There are about 250 of them, and even in the middle of the dance, they inflate themselves and turn into drums that can be beaten to support the countdown.
It's the first time Brazil, and indeed South America, has hosted the Olympics, and it's the second time in two years that Brazil has hosted the world's biggest game, following the 2014 World Cup. It is the third time the entire southern hemisphere has hosted the Summer Olympics, the first two being Melbourne and Sydney.
The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games directing team, there are three main creative directors, including the director of the film "City of God" Mélorez, which is the third time to direct the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games after Zhang Yimou in Beijing in 2008, and the director of the 2012 London Olympics "Slumdog Millionaire", apparently the film director completed the Olympic Games opening ceremony directing a hat trick.
The Brazilian city has gone through four failed Olympic bids for different reasons since the 1930s before finally succeeding in the fifth. I think the Brazilians will really like the number five, because they are five-star Brazil, and what kind of future will they walk into under the light of the five rings?
World sport has entered Rio time, a time when creative squares have been transformed into beatable drums that express Brazilian enthusiasm. Yes, the passion of Brazilians is one of the key elements that the directorate of this opening ceremony especially wants to present to the world.
Brazil, which is illuminated by the five rings, is also the world's fifth-largest country in terms of land area, and has the fifth-largest population. A huge icon appeared at this time, with fireworks striking the word Rio, reminding people vaguely of the night the 2008 Beijing Olympics opened. This icon is a reinvention of the Brazilian people, in the past is upside down an anti-war icon, the Brazilian people put it right and plus the leaves, the Brazilian people believe that the current era of peace not only need to be no war, but also need to the protection of nature, environmental protection is also the theme of the opening ceremony.
Now, welcome the 1976 Olympic fencing champion Mr. Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, and Brazil's Acting President Temore to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, as well as the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon. Next is the required action, the singing of the Brazilian national anthem and the raising of the Brazilian flag. The Brazilian national anthem will be sung by Brazilian national treasure Paulo Rinho, who is over 70 years old this year, and who will sing the anthem by playing the guitar, an important characteristic of his is his gentleness. Protecting the flag are ten Brazilian sports champions and 50 youth sports champions, and the flag-raisers are Rio's characteristic environmental police.
The green color of the Brazilian flag reflects the vastness of its land, the yellow color reflects the immense resources it contains, and the blue color is the starry sky at the time of independence in 1822, with their national motto of order and progress in the center.
However, the continent did not begin with the country of Brazil, and under the constant pounding of the sea, time began on this continent. It was a sleepy land, but not silent. Water, air, land, so that life began, although the original owner may only be microorganisms, it does not think, do not speak, but still the owner. Reptilian insects have played the role of masters of the land for much longer, and now giant bird-eating spiders, and giant centipedes, have come into the opening ceremony as model restorations.
Life is always a slow walk forward, one step at a time, and time never freezes. The Amazon rainforest is the biggest garden in the world, and of course the Brazilian thinks he is now the biggest garden in the world himself. The Amazon rainforest is slowly taking shape, and now includes two and a half million species of insects, ten thousand species of plants, two thousand species of birds, and it will cover an area of seven million square kilometers, sixty percent of which is in Brazil.
Now hundreds of rubber bands are slowly rising, like water, like waterfalls, like reflections of the rainforest, and at the same time providing a very beautiful curtain for this opening ceremony, the rainforest formed, which is the lungs of the world.
In this segment just now, the director of the opening ceremony made a point of reminding the commentators of the various national TV stations to make sure they learn to shut up and let everyone hear the beautiful Brazilian butterflies and musical birds in the rainforest. Now we see the native people, the Indians, played by more than 60 actors, appearing in the middle of the rainforest. The Indians who lived on this land at that time were not farmers, they did not do farm work, they were naked and gathered cassava and tree fruit for food. They were naked and gathered cassava and tree fruits for food, but what they were willing to do was to fish and hunt for aquatic products. Unfortunately, there was no writing, so their lives on the land were not recorded. The stage now shows how they lived in those days with their tugging of rubber bands and constant weaving.
There are still close to 900,000 Indians in Brazil, belonging to more than 300 tribes, with more than two hundred and seventy languages appearing in a single ****, and they are one of the first and earliest owners of this continent. A typeface like Man actually shows the scene of the native Indians living on this land. This is the shape of their roof.
The opening ceremony of this Olympics emphasized not so much high technology as high creativity. This past period has also expressed some of that high creativity. Three likenesses of the houses where the Indians lived in the beginning appeared on the stage. Hidden in the distance, there seemed to be an unusual sound. The history of Brazil began on April 22, 1500, when Portuguese navigators came to the South American continent, to Brazil. The name of his leader was Pedro Cabral. In fact, the Portuguese navigator at that time was going to India, but by mistake, came to this piece of land, the ship passed through the ground, showing traces of such a characteristic of Portuguese tiles.
This is a land that makes them feel completely strange, the name of Brazil is charcoal, Portuguese charcoal means that they initially saw in this piece of land of the Brazilian wood of the charcoal like color, and later became the name of the country, the history of Brazil began to appear, so far 516 years.
The two sides sized each other up, the Indians looking more curiously at the distant visitor, who seemed a bit fearful, yes, you do not own this land. However soon the voyagers found the land too rich, not only did they have brazilwood, they welcomed sugarcane and soon the land became the largest producer of sugarcane in the world, but where was the labor to be found? By this time, they felt they couldn't rely solely on Indians who weren't farming, and the rainforest began to show signs of some sort of collapse. Distant black slaves began to push their way into this strange continent after a long journey by ship from Africa.
Slavery had been practiced in Brazil for nearly 400 years, and not only were they good laborers and oddly immune to the tropics, but they still possessed a double bondage, not physically free, and their existence as slaves created wealth for the land and the colonizers. However, they would eventually become the later owners of the land. The land began to appear more where people passed through, and Brazil has always been a great agricultural country, with sugarcane, rubber, tobacco, coffee, they provided mankind with a constant flow of products from the land. Later on, the number of black Africans who came to the land even exceeded the number of indigenous people. In the last time slavery was constantly under fire from the world, but it led to even greater changes in the land, until in 1888, 25 years after the abolition of slavery in the United States, slavery was also abolished in Brazil. Blacks from Africa finally became the true owners of the land, but the land was not made of one color.
The music we hear seems to have a West Asian flavor, and they came from the Arab world, they may have been Lebanese or Syrians, and they all came initially with chests because they were good at trade, and soon made trade a popular business in the land. At the same time they were willing to pass on information, and that for a land that was too vast for information to be passed on whether it was gossip or tidbits of information that could lead people from far away to each other, and they played an important role in facilitating the passing on of information.
Asians first came to this piece of land is actually close to two hundred years ago, is from Macao to the Chinese Hubei tea farmers, they planted tea here, and even for the Brazilian Portuguese left the Chinese is patient such a good word, and now the Brazilian Portuguese in good business still he means to deal with the Chinese. Later, they hoped that the Qing government would emigrate to Brazil, but the Qing government did not agree, and in 1908, the first batch of Japanese immigrants, consisting of more than seven hundred and eighty people and more than one hundred families, came to Brazil, and now, after more than one hundred years, the Japanese immigrants and their descendants have exceeded one million, and they are heading for two million, which has become one of the largest countries where Japanese live outside of Japan, in Brazil. Many of them grow and sell vegetables here, and vegetable farming is a profession for many. When the heat in such a process, Europeans such as Italians and Germans also arrived one after another, and up to now, the Italian immigrants are the largest in Brazil outside the country of Italy.
The rainforest was occupied by more and more land, they created the world's first production of sugar cane, the world's first production of coffee, a sweet and a bitter too much like the history of this country, but if the integration of the good, or sweet, like today's Brazil, the land presented not only the state of farming, what is not today's diversity of Brazilian skin color. It's been said that in the city of Rio, the difference in skin color that you see in an hour, you wouldn't see in a year in any other city. It depends on the city, there may be cities where you won't see so many skin tones for three years. There are more than 160 word descriptions of skin color in the Portuguese language.
Agriculture is what the country was founded on, but with more people they slowly built cities, and now Brazil is close to 80% urban. The actors on stage now are showing the growth of cities using the art form of parkour, which is extremely popular with young Brazilians. Please note that the image we see is completely three-dimensional, but it is a visual effect on the flat surface of the Maracan? Stadium. Nowadays, these young people can be seen on the streets, beaches and favelas of Brazil. In fact, parkour was invented by a French army officer more than a hundred years ago as a way to fight against pressure and danger, and it is the original origin of parkour.
We now see a large set in the stadium, which will be very familiar to anyone who comes to Rio, because the city was built between the mountains and the sea, and many of the buildings are built along the mountains, turning them into a three-dimensional situation. In Rio there are two million people living in more than seven hundred favelas, most of which present the appearance of the stage backdrop we now see this look.
Now we see parkour incorporating elements of rock climbing, which was made an official sport of the 2020 Olympics before the opening ceremony of this year's Games, and has clearly found a way to show off its sporting talents outside of soccer.
Brazil's favelas are actually unplanned communities, where any Brazilian builds a house on a piece of land, and if no one comes to you within five years and says the land is mine, well, the house is yours. And so that was a big contributor to the formation of many favelas. Maybe if we change the word "poverty" to "equality", it would more accurately reflect the character of Rio's favelas. It's the birthplace of much art, and many sports and arts celebrities have come out of Rio's favelas.
Now we hear the background music his name is called "Architecture", white boxes keep moving, people are building their own homes at the same time, in fact, is slowly forming a kind of isolation, tangible and intangible walls are always growing quietly. What kind of power is there to demolish such walls? Let people and people really closer? People build walls, but also people should slowly learn to tear it down, otherwise you can not see anything. Are airplanes a way of tearing down walls? We now see an airplane appearing in the field, 14BAS, this is a Brazilian Dumont test flight model in 1906, we may all think that it was the American Wright Brothers who invented the airplane in 1903, but the Brazilians think, no, it was the Brazilians who invented it because this test flight in 1906 was a public test flight and he donated all the information to the world, whereas the Wright Brothers' test flights were not public, who knows whether he used power or not. Who knows if he used a power unit? Dumont was later printed on Brazilian banknotes. Now the plane takes off, flying out of Rio's landmark Maracana stadium, and begins to take on the look of a silent Hollywood movie that takes us on a guided tour of the city.
This is Rio's cathedral, very modern, built in '76, with a capacity of 20,000 people. This is the arch bridge of Lapa, Portuguese style, built around 175 years, started as a water supply, now it's a bar area. We now see that this is the Museum of Tomorrow, very much characterized by Brazilian architecture, knowing that the building of the United Nations also had Brazilian architects involved, how would Dumont feel looking at his country and the city of Rio a hundred years later. This is one of the two most famous mountains in Rio, the Bread Mountain, and next we will see the Monte Cristo, which in 2007 received the honor of being one of the 7 New Wonders of the World. In Rio, there are more than sixty beaches, two of them are the most famous, one is Copacabana Beach and one is Ipanema Beach, beaches are almost an important part of life in Rio. Nostalgia and saying good things about my hometown looks like an emotion that all the country's people share***. When the plane is about to enter the Ipanema beach, it is important to know that on this beach, to give inspiration to the creators to create the support, "Ipanema girl" like China's "jasmine" sung all over the world, creator Ruobin's grandson and his grandfather have won a Grammy Award.
Brazil's most famous international model, Gisele Bündchen, who was the world's highest-paid model last year, transformed the Maracana into the world's biggest catwalk. Gisele Bundchen played a handful of the Ipanema girl, the same girl who inspired the creator in the first place and gave the world its famous song. Unfortunately, there was one passage that wasn't there just now, and that was the little beach by the sea being run by the city authorities, and then the episode where beauty saves the young man looked like it was taken out.
Now it's a minuet in the favela, and the song is the happy-go-lucky rap that characterizes Brazilian funk music, which got its start in the eighties. Brazilian pop music is not a follower of world pop music, it is a leader. Justin, Michael Jack and many famous bands have drawn heavily on Brazilian music. This is the singer Suareth of Seventy-Nine, a singer born in the favela, who has had an ill-fated life, with two car accidents that have left her mobility impaired and in a wheelchair, but who always sings with an optimistic voice. The creator of Ipanema Girls once said that there are only three countries in the world where pop music is great, Cuba, the United States and Brazil, the rest is just a passing fad, which is a bit of a big statement, but one with plenty of confidence. Rio's kids are so willing to skateboard that in seventy-six Rio built the first public ****ing place exclusively for skateboarding, it seems that Rio people will be very professional when they play, look at the last few days like skateboarding, rock climbing, surfing are included in the official program of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, is it possible for us to have a square dance?
Tonight the world's largest nightclub Maracana nightclub just brought you the song let life take me away, once again show the optimism of not complaining and not worrying.
This is a combination of war dance and rap, war dance is a Brazilian combination of art and dance and martial arts expression.
One of the two singers has been named by Rolling Stone Music Magazine as one of the ten new artists you must know, which we've begun to recognize today. The next passage is more like a stubble dance, as the term is commonly used by young Chinese, with both sides competing, competing, competing against each other.
The Malakatu dance is an iconic folk dance, a combination of ancient Indian and Indian tunes.
The next such dance ensemble known locally as the Red Monkeys, in fact, the Red Monkeys do not really exist, it is a virtual character. In the northeast of Brazil sometimes when the carnival, will be such an image to cheer, you know, in this dance troupe in the head and from the Chinese dance volunteers it, they are more like in the competition in the confrontation, in fact, the director of this section is also hoping that through their competition and confrontation in the end, of course, will be towards the fusion of hello.
Games and battles are traditional forms of entertainment in Brazil, an ancient custom handed down from the European forefathers, such as fireworks, marcato, or ballroom dancing, but it's full of passion, and then there are 1,500 people who come into the center of the field to dance and sing the songs of the tropical countries, and the more than 60,000 spectators, as well as three billion spectators around the world. No, there were over 60,000 people there, and three billion people around the world, so if you're still lying down or sitting down watching TV at this point, do you stand up? Jump up? It seemed to fit in better with the Maracan? nightclub. In the center was an electronic DJ band leading the dance.
Brazil's famous actor-host, now shouting to the whole world.
Stop the strife, let us seek common ground; stop the war, let us dance together! For the revelry has begun.
Come and dance your way into this tropical country. This song expresses love for the natural beauty of Brazil's Samba Carnival culture.
Are you still sitting? It's more appropriate to stand up in the morning of Jingxiu, so you should answer the host's call to dance!
Maracana nightclub, reached a climax. This pattern is the ripples of the waves, in the 2014 World Cup soccer ball on the design of the situation can be seen.
There is a favela just a few hundred meters next to the Maracana stadium, and yes, there are people with high incomes and people with low incomes at the head of the city. But with sports, with art, with samba, they have a new equality, rich or poor, dancing for the year.
The lyrics of the tropical country continue in the scene even after the music stops, and the Brazilians make sure to drive the enthusiasm of the whole scene with a kind of close interaction. The Brazilians don't need to be driven, they can dance from start to finish in the hot hour without any sign of physical exhaustion, with both enthusiasm and physical reserves, what a great audience.
What awaits us after the party? Conversation.
What a feast for the eyes, it's exquisite, isn't it?
Yes, it was perfect.
And do you know what's been happening lately?
What do you you mean by that?
I have a message for you.
Is it good news? Or is it bad news.
Where are the trees? Where's the forest?
We all live in forests of steel and concrete, and the first chart is carbon emissions, a thermographic map of global carbon emissions.
The second chart, Global Warming, shows a model of the average monthly change in temperature on the planet over this past world. The temperature data for the past fourteen months has been frequently extreme, which has never been observed in the past 800,000 years.
The third graphic caption shows the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet, the picture shows the melting of the polar ice caps and glaciers on Greenland Island over the last forty years, one of the consequences of this is that the sea level will rise, what will happen to mankind if the sea level rises?
Amsterdam, a city with a lot of reclamation, will also be backfilled with seawater after sea levels rise. Dubai, the city of gold, the water will slowly spread over the city. Florida's fate is the same, no one in the human race is left alone. Shanghai, even Shanghai will disappear. Lagos, it's the same, tragedy is happening everywhere. What about Rio, where the Olympic Games are being held? With the sea slowly approaching the main stadium, Maracana Stadium, is this really a tragic future?
After the revelry comes loneliness? Is revelry and self-absorption the cause of human tragedy? In Brazilian music, which is always so joyful, can poetry be sentimental?
One of the two reciters of the poems is the Brazilian national treasure, the heroine of Central Station, and the other is the British actress Judi Dench. Also the older sister who played MI6 in James Bond. Music from the movie Central Station. The site informs you, ladies and gentlemen, that the Olympic athletes will also be planting native Brazilian trees here, twelve thousand seeds will be sown in this soil, and the forests planted by the athletes will leave a valuable legacy for Rio. The seeds of these native Brazilian trees will be planted in the Park of Silence in the Deodoro Olympic Park, where the 11,000 seeds, made up of 207 varieties, will symbolize the 11,000 athletes from 207 nationalities and delegations, an important legacy for Rio after the Olympic Games. All the athletes will come with seeds, a unique feature of the Rio Olympic opening ceremony.
It is a symbol reinvented by the Brazilians, which used to be a reverse of the familiar anti-war symbol, and the Brazilians believe that peace now requires not only the fight against war but also the preservation of nature and the home.
The most important moment came. Athletes from all countries have come from all corners of the globe to use this moment they've been waiting for all their lives to bring us together to begin the pinnacle of the XXXI Olympic Games, the Athletes' Entrance Ceremony.
The smiling faces of Brazilians in the distance are ready to welcome you to Rio, and many of the languages spoken during today's ceremony are first French, because it's the official language of the Olympics, followed by Portuguese then English, alternating between the three languages