LEAKED: Video of Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony Rehearsal

***UPDATED FRIDAY 8/08/08: OPENING CEREMONY VIDEO***

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A Korean film crew gained access to the Bird's Nest Olympic Stadium yesterday to rehearse the Korean national broadcast of the Olympic Games. While the cameramen were inside, they secretly filmed a rehearsal of the opening ceremony, also being rehearsed at the Bird's Nest. This video has been banned on the Chinese news site Sina.com and has been taken off YouTube in mainland China.

The Korean news report claims that the ceremony has been prepared for over 3 years and China has spent over $300,000,000 on, what according to the Korean station, is the most "magnificent, brilliant and mysterious" ceremony in Olympic history. The report claims the video features over 10,000 performers -- kung-fu fighters, trapeze artists and traditional Chinese dancers -- using the "most modern of laser technology" to execute the 10-second Olympic countdown. The only mystery still left for the opening is how the Olympic torch will arrive to the Bird's Nest and who will be the final torch bearer.

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Comments

[bodo]

The peasants are happy to be brought into Beijing for the spectacular, for the neighboring cities are being deprived of water to supply the crowds in Beijing.

[PlantGod72]

How very........well orchestrated, and Chinese. Masses of "participants" marching to the direction of their leader.

The whole Olympics has a sad and gloomy aura to it this year.

[londonrainbow]

Phay co lay chay, yong wang puang hang ban wi guang, ........................ what the hell is that????????????

I will ask MCSTRAIN

[DontSpinMeBro]

These athletes from around the world have worked all their lives for this moment. You will see the finest in amateur athletic competition.
PLEASE don't let your cynicism about the "money" and "politics" take away from the "ATHLETES".
In spite of what money and politics do, they can never trump the wonder the athletes bring us all.

[stepintothelight]

Yes .... I love watching a bunch of doped up jocks getting their 15 minutes. Hope they get as many of those medals as they can. The Pawnbroker will give them a better deal with quantity. They will need the cash when they come back to the real world and have to survive like the rest of us who don't "play games" for a living.

[knowhelpnow]

Who approved the Olympics in Beijing with it's pollution problems?
What about the athletics is no one concerned about them?
I'm not all that impressed with their opening ceremonies, though I hope people can see them though the pollution.

[shengirl]

I don't plan on watching a daggone thing from this Olympics. I'm also trashing this week's Newsweek, which is about 80% Olympics coverage, as soon as I read the non- Olympic parts of it. Out of respect for the millions of cats they killed to "clean up the city", the homes destroyed, the people put in jail, the censorship, not to mention Tibet. They can count me out. It's going to be a bigger farce than it already is.

[venicesurfer]

great, now china is gonna invade south korea and slaughter its people over this.

looks amazing though.

[Opinionater]

Would look better without the coal smoke, just like downwind in America.

[johnnygoodwud]

it's all greek to me

[Diogenis]

Malaka!

[AmandaBC]

It brings the word "tacky" to unprecedented heights...

And most Americans still buy that China is a "communist" country... More like one Hitler and Mussolini would be extremely proud of. As the latter said, "Fascism is the merger of the state with the corporate powers." Yep, that's a great definition of today's China...

[shengirl]

also of America for the last 8 years...

[MagisterLudi]

If you're banned then stay banned. And what is this with neurotic preoccupation with fascism. Is this the only history class you took at night school? Ah, the precious enthusiasms of semi-educated.

[AmandaBC]

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[AmandaBC]

"And what is this with neurotic preoccupation with fascism."

LOL.

From the guy who sees Mu_slims behind every corner, threatening to steal his lunch... Now that's WAY beyond neurosis. Don't forget to renew your triple-K membership...

[poco767b]

Amid the toxic haze, algae blooms, the forced labor, oppression and censorship. Greatest Games Ever?

[darthdarcy]

Free Tibet, Stop Murdering Buddhists...!

[Paul]

Looks like 1936 in Berlin.

The Olympics and the Chinese Capitalist/Communists. A perfect match.

[GoodScout]

Or a 1984 Macintosh commercial.

[AmandaBC]

Capitalist/Communists = National Socialists

But then again at least 60-70% of Americans still buy that China is actually a Communist country...

[bodo]

Too bad 101-year old Leni Riefenstahl died last year, or she could make the movie. Resemblance to Hitler's 1936 Olympics is no coincidence.

[helonias]

the most "magnificent, brilliant and mysterious" ceremony in Olympic history in the most polluted conditions athlete will face in Olympic history

[poco767b]

Send in the slaves.

[stepintothelight]

I heard that they will be shipping in a few million peasants a few days before to breathe in all the polluted air. They will then ship them back out to the remote areas away from the Beijing Potemkin village. Now that is a country that works. The Olympics are a big doping joke at this point!!!