[08.08.12 美国合众社] 开幕式采用女孩的声音，而不是面孔

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【标题】 Olympic opening uses girl's voice, not face 奥运开幕式采用女孩的声音，而不是面孔
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【声明】本文翻译仅限Anti-CNN使用，谢绝转载。
【备注】此篇译文原本是根据合众社的同标题报道翻译的，但是在翻译过程中，AP又重新修改了原文，由于发现时我已经翻译了大部分，因此我只好重新在网上搜索与AP第一稿相同的文章。结果在Yahoo 新闻上找到了由同一作者撰写的同标题第一稿报道。合众社第二稿报道请见http://ap.google.com/article/ALe ... SMEIbZ8tFAD92GMKG00。另外，在合众社网站上并未注明此文已经做了重大修改。

【原文】

Olympic opening uses girl's voice, not face

By CARA ANNA, Associated Press Writer Tue Aug 12, 7:25 PM ET

BEIJING - One little girl had the looks. The other had the voice. So in a last-minute move demanded by one of China's highest officials, the two were put together for the Olympic opening ceremony, with one lip-synching "Ode to the Motherland" over the other's singing.

The real singer, 7-year-old Yang Peiyi, with her chubby face and crooked baby teeth, wasn't good looking enough for the ceremony, its chief music director told state-owned Beijing Radio.

So the pigtailed Lin Miaoke, a veteran of television ads, mouthed the words with a pixie smile for a stadium of 91,000 and a worldwide TV audience. "I felt so beautiful in my red dress," the tiny 9-year-old told the China Daily newspaper.

Peiyi later told China Central Television that just having her voice used was an honor.

It was the latest example of the lengths the image-obsessed China is taking to create a perfect Summer Games.

In a brief phone interview with AP Television News on Tuesday night, the music director, Chen Qigang, said he spoke about the switch with Beijing Radio "to come out with the truth."

"The little girl is a magnificent singer," Chen said. "She doesn't deserve to be hidden." He said the ceremony's director, film director Zhang Yimou, knew of the change. He declined to speak further about it.

China has been eager to present a flawless Olympics face to the world, shooing thousands of migrant workers from the city and shutting down any sign of protest.

The country's quest for perfection apparently includes its children.

A member of China's Politburo asked for the last-minute change during a live rehearsal shortly before the ceremony, Chen said in the Beijing Radio interview, posted online Sunday night. He didn't name the official.

During the live rehearsal, the Politburo member said Miaoke's voice "must change," Chen said.

"We had to make that choice. It was fair both for Lin Miaoke and Yang Peiyi," Chen told Beijing Radio. "We combined the perfect voice and the perfect performance."

"The audience will understand that it's in the national interest," Chen added.

He said he felt a responsibility to explain to the country what happened but on Tuesday the link to the video on the Beijing Radio Web site no longer worked.

Miaoke's performance Friday night, like the ceremony itself, was an immediate hit. "Nine-year-old Lin Miaoke becomes instant star with patriotic song," the China Daily newspaper headline said.

Zhang, China's most famous film director, was asked at a post-ceremony news conference about the little girl who swung on wires high above the Bird's Nest National Stadium during the performance.

"She is a lovely girl and she sings well," Zhang said, according to a transcript posted on the Beijing organizing committee's web site.

The switch became a hot topic among Chinese and raced across the country's blogosphere.

"The organizers really messed up on this one," Luo Shaoyang, 34, a retail worker in Beijing, said Tuesday. "This is like a voiceover for a cartoon character. Why couldn't they pick a kid who is both cute and a good singer? This damages the reputation of both kids for their future, especially the one lip-synching. Now everyone knows she's a fraud, who cares if she's cute?"

Others disagreed.

"They want the best-looking people to represent the face of China. I don't blame the organizers for picking a prettier-looking kid over the not-so-pretty one," said Xia Xiaotao, 30, an engineer.

"It's the unfortunate reality that these sort of things turn political," said marketing worker Zhang Xinyi, 22.

It was not the first time an Olympics opening ceremony involved lip-synching.

At the 2006 Winter Games in Turin, Luciano Pavarotti's performance was prerecorded. The maestro who conducted the aria, Leone Magiera, said this year that the bitter cold made a live performance impossible for Pavarotti, who was in severe pain months before his cancer diagnosis. Pavarotti died in 2007 at age 71.

Also Tuesday, Beijing organizers confirmed that some of the opening ceremony's fireworks display — 29 gigantic footprints shown "walking" toward the National Stadium — featured prerecorded footage. The footage was provided to broadcasters "for convenience and theatrical effects," said Wang Wei, vice president of the Beijing Olympic organizing committee.

(NBC also has augmented its Olympic coverage in the past to set the right mood. That fire in the studio fireplace during the 2002 Salt Lake Games? It was just a video.)

Neither of the two little girls involved could be reached by The Associated Press on Tuesday, and it was not clear how the ceremony — or the controversy — might change their lives.

Peiyi is a first-grader at the Primary School affiliated to Peking University. Her tutor, Wang Liping, wrote in her blog that Peiyi is both cute and well-behaved, with a love for Peking opera.

"She doesn't like to show off. She's easygoing," Wang wrote. She and other school officials couldn't be reached Tuesday.

Miaoke, however, was a minor celebrity even before the opening ceremony. The third-grader appeared in a TV ad last year with China's biggest gold medal hope, hurdling champion Liu Xiang, and she was in an Olympics ad earlier this year, China Daily reported.

Her father, Lin Hui, told China Daily he learned Miaoke would be "singing" only 15 minutes before the opening ceremony began.

Lin "still cannot believe his daughter has become an international singing sensation," the report said.

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奥运开幕式采用女孩的声音，而不是面孔

北京（合众社） - 一个小女孩拥有长相。另一个拥有声音。

所以最后时刻，应中国一位高层领导之要求，为了奥运会开幕式，这两个女孩被合二为一，一个女孩用口型去对另外一个女孩演唱的《歌唱祖国》。

真正的演唱者 - 七岁的杨沛宜 - 长着胖乎乎的脸和一口歪歪扭扭的婴儿牙，被认为出现在开幕式上不够漂亮，开幕式的音乐总监告诉国营北京电台。

所以扎着羊角辫，并经常拍电视广告的林妙可，在91，000名现场观众和全世界的电视观众面前带着精灵一般的微笑对口型演唱。“我穿着红裙子感觉特别漂亮，”这位9岁的小女孩告诉《中国日报》。

沛宜后来对中国中央电视台说，开幕式上有自己的声音已经觉得很自豪了。

这件事是非常注重形象的中国不惜手段来呈现一个完美夏季奥运会的最新例子。

音乐总监陈其钢在星期二晚与合众社电视新闻频道短暂的电话采访中说他想北京电台透露替换一事是为了“出来讲出真相”。

“这个小女孩歌唱的很棒，”陈说。“她不应该被埋没。”他说开幕式的导演-电影导演张艺谋-也知道这一变更。他拒绝就此事发表进一步评论。

中国非常急切的要向世界呈现一个完美的奥运面孔，把数千民工赶出北京并压制任何抗议的苗头。

很明显，这个国家对完美的追求使孩子也不能置身其外。

在开幕式前的一次现场彩排中，中国政治局的一位成员要求在最后时刻作此变更，陈在和北京电台的采访中透露，采访的内容在星期天被贴在网上。他没有透露这位官员的名字。在现场彩排时，这位政治局成员说妙可的声音“一定要换”，陈说。


“我们必须如是选择。这对林妙可和杨沛宜来说都是公平的，”陈告诉北京广播电台。“我们把完美的声音和完美的表演结合在一起。”

“观众会理解的，因为这是为了国家利益。”陈又说。

他说他感到自己有责任向国人解释发生的一切，但是周二北京广播电台上的视频连接已经不工作了。

妙可在周五的表演，和开幕式本身一样，立即取得了成功。“九岁的林妙可以爱国歌曲一举成名”，《中国日报》的头条如是说。

张（艺谋），中国最著名的电影导演，在开幕式后举行的新闻发布会上被问及那个在表演中吊在绳索上在鸟巢国家体育馆上空游荡的小女孩。

据发表在北京奥组委网站上的采访记录，张说，“她很可爱，而且歌唱的也好。“

这个变更是否道德，或者对两个女孩是否公平，在中国人中成为一个热门话题，充满了中国的互联网。

“组织者这次太糗了，”34岁的罗绍刚（音译），一位北京的零售商星期二说。“这就像为卡通人物配音一样。他们为什么不挑一个又可爱歌唱的又好的孩子？这毁掉了两个孩子未来的名声，特别是那个假唱的。现在每个人都知道她是假的，她可不可爱又有什么关系？”

有人不同意。

“他们想找最好看的人来代表中国的形象。我不责备组织者找一个漂亮的孩子来替换那个不怎么漂亮的，”30岁的工程师夏小涛（音译）说。

“这种事情被政治化是个不幸的现实。”22岁的市场工作者张欣怡（音译）说。

这不是在奥运开幕式上的第一宗假唱时间。

在2006年都灵冬奥会上，卢恰奥·帕瓦罗蒂的演出是预先录制好的。这位担任咏叹调指挥的大音乐家Leone Magiera今年透露说由于帕瓦罗蒂患了重感冒，现场演出是不可能的。帕瓦罗蒂在被诊断出有癌症前的几个月身体遭受巨大痛苦。帕瓦罗蒂在2007年去世，享年71岁。

在周二，北京组织者还确认开幕式的有些焰火展示 - 迈步“走向”国家体育馆的29个脚印 - 用的是事先录好的镜头。北京奥组委副主任王伟（音译）说，提供这个（预先录好的）镜头给转播商是为了“方便和戏剧效果”。

（在过去，NBC也曾经更改它的奥运会报道以营造预想的气氛。那个2002年盐湖城奥运会期间转播室壁炉里的火焰？它只不过是一段视频而已。）

周二，合众社无法联系两个小女孩其中的任何一个，同时，开幕式或者这段争议将如何改变她们的生活也不得而知。

沛宜是北京大学附小一年级学生。他的老师王丽萍（音译）在她的博客里说沛宜非常可爱，很听话，而且热爱京剧。

“她不喜欢炫耀。她很随和，”王写道。周二，她以及校方其他成员也无法联系到。

而妙可，在开幕式前已经是小有名气了。《中国日报》报道，这个三年级学生在去年和中国夺取金牌呼声最高的跨栏冠军刘翔同时出现在一个电视广告里，而且今年早些时候，她还出现在另一个奥运广告片中。

她的父亲林辉（音译）告诉《中国日报》说，他在开幕式开始15分钟前才得知妙可要在开幕式上“演唱”。

报道说，林辉“仍然不敢相信他的女孩已经成了国际人气歌手。”

[ 本帖最后由 ltbriar 于 2008-8-14 10:45 编辑 ]