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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (70235)	8/20/2008 7:43:57 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) of 74559

I thought the "fake" aspects of the opening ceremony were trivial and amusing, but I did fine the synchronized tai-chi routine vaguely unsettling. Turns out they were channelling the North Koreans... China's Olympic ceremony features sacrifices bloomberg.com Filmmaker Zhang Yimou, the ceremony's director, insisted in an interview with local media that suffering and sacrifice were required to pull off the Aug. 8 opening, which involved wrangling nearly 15,000 cast and crew. Only North Korea could have done it better, he said. ****** He told the popular Guangzhou weekly newspaper Southern Weekend that only communist North Korea could have done a better job getting thousands of performers to move in perfect unison. "North Korea is No. 1 in the world when it comes to uniformity. They are uniform beyond belief! These kind of traditional synchronized movements result in a sense of beauty. We Chinese are able to achieve this as well. Through hard training and strict discipline," he said. Pyongyang's annual mass games feature 100,000 people moving in lockstep.

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