Jesus, when I jokingly tweeting the opening ceremonies should involve Mary Poppins, I didn't expect them to actually do it. LIFE SHOULD NOT EMULATE MY TWEETS.
-1 star for not being as good as the 1996 Olympics no matter how hard they try. Its also funny how Mary Poppins and James Bond would not be very famous if not for American movie studios.
Danny Boyle's portrayal of British history is pretty much how I was taught it in America. Industrial revolution, world wars, socialist healthcare with wasteful dancing doctors, The Beatles, Mary Poppins, 100 ft Voldemort, David Bowie, Queen, Mr. Bean and lots of floating giant rings, probably with magic powers.
As has been pointed out elswhere, Danny Boyle just put on an opening ceremony that involved a celebration of socialist ideas and policies while the UK is being run by a conservative government. (I know it's a coalition, but really).
If we're comparing it to Atlanta, it'd be like if they snuck in "A Salute to William Tecumseh Sherman" into the opening ceremonies in 1996.
Imagine if Chicago hosted the summer games, and 15 minutes of the opening ceremony was dedicated to the Three Stooges pretending to cheat against Carl Lewis in a race.
every olympic opening ceremony is the answer to "what if you gave a community theater coordinator 300 million dollars and told them to put on a play, with the only proviso being that they had to spend all of the money as quickly as possible?"
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