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When I woke up, the Olympic flame was being passed from Paris to Los Angeles. The closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics dominated the search, with "the closing ceremony was too abstract" and "the Monkey King descended from the sky" becoming the keywords.

The long-awaited closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics finally revealed its answer. Director Thomas Joly exerted his dramatic creativity to a great extent, presenting a closing ceremony that showed the characteristics of a dramatic director and his personal style.

Fantastic! A golden traveler from outer space descends from the sky

Different from Zhang Yimou's style, director Thomas Joly introduced the five rings in a dystopian, science fiction archaeological story, with the protagonist "Golden Traveler" being a figure covered in gold.

Golden Traveler at the closing ceremony. Image source: Migu Video

The setting of "Golden Traveler" is: In the future, human civilization disappears, and alien civilizations come to Earth to conduct archaeology, looking for human civilization and the Olympics. What will happen?

The CCTV commentator mentioned that the inspiration came from the Voyager launched in 1977. The probe flew into the universe, carrying a special gold-plated record called "Sounds of the Earth" - on which were recorded various audio and video information about humans: greetings to "astronauts" in 60 languages ​​(including Chinese Mandarin, Wu, Minnan, and Cantonese), 35 sounds of nature, 27 classical music pieces (including China's "High Mountains and Flowing Water"), and 115 photos.

Gold-plated record "Sounds of the Earth".

If human civilization disappears in the future, Voyager will preserve the evidence of human existence, and Golden Voyager will come to Earth to dig up archaeological sites and discover our civilization. Under the leadership of Golden Voyager, a group of people in white strange costumes dug up circles in various continents, and finally formed five rings.

The golden man and the many people in white clothes are the result of the "Bastille spirit" during the French Revolution. As a military castle, the Bastille was once a symbol of the French monarchy's dictatorship. On July 14, 1789, the Bastille was occupied by the people, which represented the people's liberation and victory. July 14 also became the French National Day. According to relevant media reports, this character pays tribute to France's historical heritage (including the Bastille spirit), and at the same time, creatures in science fiction literature and video games also inspired the image.

Image source: International Olympic Committee official Weibo

This dystopian story may be trying to tell us that humans will disappear, and the Olympics will disappear too, but the human spirit and the Olympic spirit will be immortal. Just like Coubertin persuaded everyone to re-host the ancient Olympic Games more than 100 years ago, the human Olympic Games will reappear in the alien world.

The overall lighting on the stage was dim and mysterious, and the story was abstract and novel, which made many netizens exclaim that they couldn't understand it and were shocked: "It is suspected that the scene of "Dark Fairy Tale: Wukong" was leaked in advance" and "It is an insult to my Monkey King", while some netizens gave thumbs up: It is too beautiful.

This Olympics was both old-school and new-fashioned - the 1970s Queen song "We Are the Champions" was played, and 62-year-old Tom Cruise flew down from the sky and brought the Olympic rings from Paris to the hills of Hollywood; at the same time, the opening ceremony had a novel stage art style and was of extraordinary significance.

This is another impressive Olympic Games after the 2008 Beijing Olympics. See you in 2028!

(Source: Chao News)

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