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http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/28/richard-williams-olympic-opening-ceremony?intcmp=239<snip>
For four years, following Beijing was thought to be the most thankless task in show business. Danny Boyle made it happen. He made the stadium seem bigger than it is, as big as the world. He gave a party, full of jokes and warmth and noise and drama, and he got the Olympics started.
Comedian Sue Perkins wondered what Mitt Romney would make of it all, tweeting: "Gay kisssing, multicultural romance AND a 'socialist' health care system bet Romney's having an embolism right now."
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brilliant show, well done danny and team, what he has celebrated about his country cameron tris to destroy, the only thing mising was cameron and clegg in the flames burning as a symbol of warped humanity amid the rings of togetherness
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For a great laugh read this and all the comments (Original Post)
malaise
Jul 2012
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chalky
(3,297 posts)1. My favorite comment..
"Lots of it was amazing. Lots of it was bonkers. And a whole bit in the middle said 'stop trying to privatise the NHS'.
Can we have one of these every year?"
malaise
(269,239 posts)2. That was absolutely fabulous
I loved it
malaise
(269,239 posts)3. Here come the reviews
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/27/olympic-opening-ceremony-review
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Danny Boyle has just made the biggest, maddest, weirdest, most heartfelt and lovable dream sequence in British cinema history. Heaven knows, hopes were not high after our sheepish "handover" performance in Beijing in 2008; we thought we would never match the Chinese and many of us were getting ready to excuse the anticipated cockups and catastrophes as proof of our supposedly superior democratic tolerance.
But Boyle's opening ceremony was the equal of Beijing and more.
He had the spectacle chiefly, an inspired vision of the five Olympic rings being forged by the workers of the industrial revolution.
But he also had jokes and laughs; he had narrative, of a cheerfully loopy kind, with some anarchic fun, and cheeky comic turns from Daniel Craig, Rowan Atkinson and the Queen. Sometimes it looked like a 21st-century version of an Elizabethan pageant. Sometimes it looked like a seaside summer special on amyl nitrate. But it always looked great.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)4. I love that review--thanks
:cheers:
malaise
(269,239 posts)5. Another nice one
mia
(8,363 posts)6. Thanks. Enjoyed the video highlights too.