Olympic Opening Ceremony, London 2012
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I thought it was great
I don't think that any other country in the world would do their Olympic ceremony tongue in cheek!
I remember after the Chinese one and there's was 'we are the biggest oldest country in the world and we are about to be the most powerful again' and I thought ours was going to be embarrassing, but they just did it like 'we are quite good at stuff and quite funny'
It was nice to see something like that after the Jubilee and the Royal Wedding which I personally don't disagree with but I don't care about it either....the Olympics one was a bit more about people
I don't think that any other country in the world would do their Olympic ceremony tongue in cheek!
I remember after the Chinese one and there's was 'we are the biggest oldest country in the world and we are about to be the most powerful again' and I thought ours was going to be embarrassing, but they just did it like 'we are quite good at stuff and quite funny'
It was nice to see something like that after the Jubilee and the Royal Wedding which I personally don't disagree with but I don't care about it either....the Olympics one was a bit more about people
I thought it was great
I don't think that any other country in the world would do their Olympic ceremony tongue in cheek!
I remember after the Chinese one and there's was 'we are the biggest oldest country in the world and we are about to be the most powerful again' and I thought ours was going to be embarrassing, but they just did it like 'we are quite good at stuff and quite funny'
It was nice to see something like that after the Jubilee and the Royal Wedding which I personally don't disagree with but I don't care about it either....the Olympics one was a bit more about people
I don't think that any other country in the world would do their Olympic ceremony tongue in cheek!
I remember after the Chinese one and there's was 'we are the biggest oldest country in the world and we are about to be the most powerful again' and I thought ours was going to be embarrassing, but they just did it like 'we are quite good at stuff and quite funny'
It was nice to see something like that after the Jubilee and the Royal Wedding which I personally don't disagree with but I don't care about it either....the Olympics one was a bit more about people
Badger Kitten
oof
That was amazing, I was crying with pride and homesickness. I miss London so much. I hope you all have a brilliant Olympics. And are not too inconvenienced by transport woes.
Shreddy
Truth Through Character
Which is, by design, the very point of every Olympics opening ceremony: to present the host country.
Which Boyle brilliantly, historically pulled off.
And he changed the game re: present-day "Olympic Opening Ceremonies". Notice there were no Cirque du Soleil-stylee dancers flying around on cables (the apex of which came with the Beijing Olympic opening ceremonies...80 million dollars worth of 'dancers' flying around on cables...
)Boyle had none of that. People flying around on cables are not Britain. Boyle gave the world Britain.
Good on ye Danny, and your cast of thousands, and your very proud British vision.
I'm watching it again for the third time on my pvr
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Yuck
I also think this is brilliant. Fancy coming up with stuff like that 'this guy died in a hospital, his family must be sick to the stomach watching the olympics celebrating the same hospital which killed their son'
I write and a lot of the time the top journalists piss me off because they write crap but with that one it's like something I could never come up with
Boyle's comment about coe: "Seb has protected us from any kind of interference. We've been allowed to express ourselves".
Instinctively I shudder about any govervmment led creativity, never mind the Tories, but on this occasion hats off to Coe for letting Boyle get on with it. It was certainly not any kind of advert for Camborne's faltering grand vision.
Instinctively I shudder about any govervmment led creativity, never mind the Tories, but on this occasion hats off to Coe for letting Boyle get on with it. It was certainly not any kind of advert for Camborne's faltering grand vision.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
21m
Rob Harris RT
My girlfriend is at her mums and I've had two days of drinking and eating at expensive restauraunts so I think everything is brilliant 
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Ta.
21m@RobHarris
RT@rogermosey: Thanks to the huge popular response, we're going to re-run the Olympic Opening Ceremony on BBC1 on afternoon of Sat 18 Aug
will have to watch on the phone then
wayward bob
i ate all your bees
i understand your revulsion at the sentiment, it's a new one on me i have to say. but fuckit, it made loads of people happy, gave people who don't often get it a sense of pride in *the people of* our country, and very possibly seared the value of the nhs into a few more minds: nationally and internationally
eta: from minnie's link
I'm now gleaning what the 'foreigners' thought.
First up, the New York Times. They seem to have a good measure.
Random quote:
"...the thing that is most British about the British is their anarchic spirit and their ability to laugh at themselves. It is hard to imagine, for instance, the Chinese including, as the British did, a clip of the comic actor Rowan Atkinson inserted into the opening scene from “Chariots of Fire,” shoving the other runners out of the way (and ending with a rude noise paying tribute to British lavatorial humor)."
First up, the New York Times. They seem to have a good measure.
Random quote:
"...the thing that is most British about the British is their anarchic spirit and their ability to laugh at themselves. It is hard to imagine, for instance, the Chinese including, as the British did, a clip of the comic actor Rowan Atkinson inserted into the opening scene from “Chariots of Fire,” shoving the other runners out of the way (and ending with a rude noise paying tribute to British lavatorial humor)."
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Indeed. Still makes me shudder though.i understand your revulsion at the sentiment, it's a new one on me i have to say. but fuckit, it made loads of people happy, gave people who don't often get it a sense of pride in *the people of* our country, and very possibly seared the value of the nhs into a few more minds: nationally and internationally
eta: from minnie's link
wayward bob
i ate all your bees
how so?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
national pride makes me queasy, esp when I find myself feeling it.
It's not right!
wayward bob
i ate all your bees
but the nation is the people, no? we appear to be in a bad way when it comes to our ruling classes but never rule out the possibility of a revolution 
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
but the nation is the people, no? we appear to be in a bad way when it comes to our ruling classes but never rule out the possibility of a revolution
ein riech! Ein Volk!
wayward bob
i ate all your bees
fuck knows this is why i don't post in p&p 
free spirit
more tea vicar?
it's better than that.
He had one, just one, person flying around on a cable, but they were riding a bike with wings coming out of the final segement with the winged angels on bikes bit riding around the stadium and apparently one of them ascending to heaven or something at the end, but in an ET stylee.
I reckon Danny Boyle deliberately put this in as an indication that yes we can do this, we just chose not to.
It hasn't made me jingoistic though. It's possible to like it and not start pulling up the flags.
I think Danny Boyle is a total success of government led creativity! At least half of his films are government funded and they just seem to give him the money and let him do his thing, I don't think any private companies would invest that much money and just let the director get on with it...
If the Olympics wasn't government funded it would be Nike or something and Danny Boyle wouldn't be able to do that show it would have to involve trainers and football shirts.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Indeed. I liked it very much.
free spirit
more tea vicar?
but I think where Danny Boyle got it right here is that this was much more a history of the people of Britain than anything about Britains imperial history, so sufferagettes, jarrow marchers, Windrush, NHS, 60s hippy stuff, punk, rave, pop etc etc.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
You are talking nonsense again@OU: "Yeah, and that carnival thing in Brixton, Splash is it? Celebrating their identity? Mugs. I hate localism" etc etc.
