Why the hell is it in french first. someone remind them we in britain!
It might something to do with the official languages of the Olympic Committee are French, English and then the native language of the host city.
I must say that compared to 2008 the London opening ceremony was a bit of a disappointment. Remember the 2008 drummers and their glowing drumsticks?
might be something to do with the budget?? what exactly were you expecting?
i thought it was excellent, much more impressed than I though it would be!
For the Olympics, something more spectacular than that. Compare it to the Beijing 2008 (which is a natural thing to do) and you can see how poorly executed the London one was. We have so much culture and history to draw upon that it could have been amazing and on a much grander scale.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOijH0xinTE
It seems like we put on a panto and Beijing put on a Cirque du Soleil show.
It's the Olympics and we have spent so many billions already on it that we could have put on a better show than that.
disagree... not to be difficult, i just do
i have just watched the beijing opening again and it was very good at the time but i think the London one was more inventive... china has a vast resource of people (and fireworks) and it was just typically 'chinese'.. lots of people in rows doing things in time etc... not really that different from any other olympic ceremony
the London 2012 Opening was completely different.. very inventive and humourous and Danny Boyle used his film direction superbly to mix with the live action... LED units in the audience to display different effects (did China have that... noop!) was also good so instead of wasted space and a sea of flash bulbs the whole stadium was utilised. olympic rings that were forged from molten steel and then raised into the air above the stadium, ancient england being transformed into the industrial revolution and then into the modern era and the invention of the interwebs, mr bean with the london philharmonic orchestra dreaming about chariots of fire, clouds that rained, a sky diving monarch, the flame being delivered by speedboat via being under a tower bridge with fireworks on it.. the most amazing and beautiful lighting ceremony with an incredible couldron... great music all the way through (granted... he should have left out paul mccartney)
so i am going to ask you again... just what were you expecting?
