brappy!

Friday found us loaded onto a bus and headed to the China National Film Museum, somewhere out beyond the Fourth Ring Road. It's a humongous museum and almost monumental, but about half of the interior is a multiplex and IMAX theatre. I took a lot of photos of the more interesting parts of the interior.

 A major issue with the museum was the lack of English descriptions and I was able to pass through some sections rather quickly. A lot of the descriptions were also full of state ideology, so they could be tedious.

One particularly enjoyable area was the production floor and the pre-digital special effects area. It was interesting to see how some were done - the set-up were rather complicated in many cases.

The entire museum gave me a weird feeling, particularly when I went to the coffee shop, which didn't have coffee. Part of it was that it was deserted and lonely, except for some old people coming to watch the (heavily censored) Pirates of the Carribean on the IMAX screen (second largest in Asia).

 Following is a video I put on youtube of me whining while in the coffee shop...