Aya was stepping out of the French Academy which is very significant because she has been getting a lot of critics from reactionary people for her creative usage of the french language in her songs.
For the torch-bearer, the look was clearly from Assassin's creed but it was also a reference to Parkour because it was invented in the 1980s in France. The idea was to find new way to move in the city, in your environment. The movie "Banlieue 13" was a big classic in France and make parkour popular. We have quite a decent scene in Parkour with various and qualitative content and so it was also to highlight that ;)
Gojira!! :) my favorite metal band since '07. i'm so happy for them! the entire sequence, the metal + the opera & those visuals, so jaw-dropping & morbid! i loved it so much & couldn't stop watching it. i must say, i like that the opening ceremony artistically showed off Paris & wasn't all stuck inside one stadium. i approve of this approach.
Yesss, thanks for dropping their name, I forgot to edit it in! They were awesome and that whole chapter was a highlight in the ceremony! I completely agree, to me this showcased French culture in a more diverse, experimental way that reflects the contributions from people of all backgrounds, I loved it! 😊
Thank you so much for sharing your point of view with so much positivity and passion for the Olympic's ceremony! ♥ I loved the blue/white/red smoke cloud that opens the ceremony, the very successful passage of the Conciergerie with the projected blood effect, the choreography on the scaffolding of Notre-Dame, the animated short films to highlight French animation and the Assassin's creed reference as Ubisoft is a french company, the knight of the games who is followed by all the international flags, the performance of Céline Dion and the hot air balloon that flies away with the Olympic flame in reference to Henri Giffard. The Marseillaise sung from the roof of the Grand Palais was clearly timed to be right at the moment when the sunset hits the glass roof, so frustrating to see this incredible scene under a gray sky. I am convinced that this image would have made the front page everywhere if the sun had been there! 💙🤍♥ 💔 I think there were a lot of good ideas, but the execution wasn't always good enough (the torrential rain didn't help): - The golden stairs for Lady Gaga could have had a much better finish, at least they could have hidden the big black spotlights at the front with an additional piece of scenery and the scene would have had more impact at night with colored light effects like at the Moulin Rouge. - Many cameras didn't have the right angle to film the key moments, we feel that there was panic, because of the rain but not only... (examples: we barely see the orchestra that plays with Lady Gaga, the cameramen who film Aya Nakamura and Rim'K have very approximate movements) - The oldest Olympic winner waiting under the rain in a wheelchair, poor guy, it would have been class if a second person had held an umbrella for him. - Shows intersecting with the arrival of the teams in boats was a good idea on paper, but in reality we lost the thread, we watched a show then it cut for 5 minutes to film the boats, so the show had finished in the meantime off camera and so on. That's what gave this very messy impression I think. It was a gamble to film in Paris and not at the stadium, maybe there were too many constraints in the end? We had some very beautiful moments of emotion but quite a few missed opportunities too in my opinion. Let's see the closing ceremony now! Bisous de France 😊
For me, Athens 2004 🇬🇷 was the BEST ceremony of all, but I also like the London 2012 ceremony as well and I agree with you, 2012 was a beautiful time to be alive!!! 🇬🇧
Beijing is in another universe... No other country will have the capabilities to produce that level of live production so I am glad France decided to do their own thing and not compete... I liked the whole show...
Yeah, after Beijing stadium openings are really tough to be impressed by. It was the most technically impressive show by far, I'm glad France did their own thing!
Beijing was an authoritarian display of force and not much else. No soul, moral, no Olympic values, no humanism. It was expensive, discriminating and terrible for the planet. This is what you should not do in an Olympic ceremony.
It has nothing todo with capacity, France could totally do the same thing as Beijing, except... The Olympic game are ALWAYS a waste of money, it doesn't matter which country organize it, it has never ever been a good operation for the country and the people... So this time, France decided to make sur to change that and that's why for the first time in history, the games were in a city, not a stadium. Now keep in mind that a ceremony in the city is 100 time HARDER to do than in the stadium, it's simply not the same universe and France did that partially on the water which is even more difficult!
Great analysis, congrats Let's see with time, which Paris opening ceremony's images will be remained. I remember from London the queen, M. Beam, reference to the Beatles and Mac Cartney destroying Hey Jude. From Beijing, the first scene and the cauldron. In the end, it will be what we do with the images proposed, how far they are from our culture and does it influence and in which way. Paris might remain as "the unique" one.
Celine Dion / The Sequana Horse Riding / The Floating Cauldron and Gojira will be eternal memories and are equally iconic as well...✨️ The Drag show that got misinterpreted as the Last Supper would also remain but not for good reasons but as a reminder of humans and their ignorance.
The USA were second to last because they are the next ones to hold the Olympics, and France the last one because they are the ones holding the games. The metro didn’t have problems, breaking down while Zidane was carrying the torch was part of the ceremony, so the kids would take the torch and go through the catacombs, a Parisian land mark, before being carried on boat by the torch bearer.
The whole Nakamura show was a massive F YOU to those saying she disrespect the holy French Language. She gets out of the Academie Francaise (Guardian of language purity) and makes a medley with the song Formidable by Aznavour. The original song is a comical one where he mixes French and English as he can't properly speak English
To me it is a tie between Beijing and Paris. London was kind of flat to me. I really wonder what Paris would have been if there were no rain. I heard they had to cancel some of the things because of safety issue due to the rain.
You can't compare, France's ceremony was 10 times harder because it was outside in the city, not in a stadium, it's like comparing apples and orange...
Hoho surprise London is first! 🤪 I think people will choose one of the big three has their favorite based on their personal preference. Humor? London. Technical perfection? Beijing. Cultural uniqueness and originality? Paris
My only issue was the rhythmless can-can dancers. That was cringe. I hate the way people use the word "cringe," but that's the only word I could use. Other than that it was brilliantly done, especially in light of the fact that the sky was dropping buckets of water.
Beijing, apart from showing on each of the scenes that they were numerous and synchronized, emotionally they did not bring anything foreign viewers... it was a circus with its acrobats, excellent for pleasing children. Nothing more. It is normal, a dictatorship is a people that turns on itself. (In Barcelona the archer misses the target)
To this day we talk more about the so-called problems of the Olympics than the medals won today. The Internet antennas were burned today. Thank you for your nice reaction for inclusive modernity
I watched the opening ceremony at my grandparent's house and I told them about the 1972 Munich massacre of eleven Israeli athletes and coaches when we saw Israel on the screen.
#Olympics #openingceremony #Vibe 🇬🇷Athens 2004 : Modern Recreation of Ancient Olympic Games 🇨🇳Beijing 2008 : Feel like a Ceremony of an Emperor 🇬🇧London 2012 : Celebration of England"s 50 Years of Pop Culture 🇧🇷Rio 2016 : Testament of Brazil Strength despite the Disastrous Situation 🇯🇵Tokyo 2020 : Festival of Japanese Pop Culture
Thank you for your nice reaction at the moment in France there are 35% who make fun of drag queens in French literature by saying that they are the devil
That 1992 Barcelona flame lighting was glo-ri-ous! 🤩🤩🤩 Edit: not you and me crying at the Tokyo missed opportunities! 😭 Edit 2: Now, I need to rewatch Athens, Beijing and London to see if I agree with you!
As a French person I didn't like this ceremony, but for other reasons. For me a good ceremony should be done in a stadium because the audience is part of the atmosphere and especially because the scenographer has a much better command of the conditions of his show. Whereas here, the audience complained about not seeing anything or not much, logical, moreover the implementation was unnecessarily complicated and visibility reduced. Afterwards like everyone else I think that the director Thomas Jolly did not understand the stakes of an Olympic Games opening ceremony nor understood which audience this kind of event is aimed at. In my opinion he was not the right person to recruit for this show, there are many other directors in France who could have brought a radically different vision, unfortunately it is done and we can't wait until 2028 to see or see again a real ceremony perhaps more classic but once again in my opinion more beautiful.
I loved loved the opening ceremony, even though I'm not certain non-French people understood all the references. To me, it looked like a real celebration of French contribution to the Olympic Games, French history, pop culture, athletes and music! I got most of the hints and winks and they made me really happy! Ik, the far-right, cons. and cie didnt like the Fashion Runway tableau but that's mostly bec. they arent tuned it with this aspect of fashion and art history. Nothing outlandish was presented there, those "provocations" were decades old. Also, fundie xtians/trad cath shedding tears that the Olympic Game ceremony paid hommage to Anciant Greek deities are utterly unserious. The Olympic Games as an institution are older than Christ, older than Christian homophobia and older than the also Christian Transatlantic Trade and antiBlack racist pseudo-science.
Firstly, completely agree about the French representation, I have family in France and grew up watching French media so this rang very authentic to me! Secondly, don’t get me started on the drag queen debacle!!!! The way you are saying 100% facts that these folks won’t even be able to handle! And if they find out openly queer culture even predates Christianity (see the island of Lesbos) what then?!?! 😤
I think U.S. came in second to last because they’re hosting the next Summer Olympics. I thought it was the worst Opening Ceremony I’ve ever seen. There were some nice moments (Celine Dion being a stand out) but, overall, it was very lackluster, disjointed, and… weird. I don’t think they did a good job of showing what France has contributed to the world and culture. Like why was Lady Gaga there?? They have AMAZING French artists that they could have highlighted. It also felt like something that would appeal to Europeans a lot more than it would to the rest of the world. I just don’t know if an Olympic Opening Ceremony that serves as a world stage is the best time to have a drag recreation of The Last Supper. I’m not someone who gets upset at religious imagery used in art but… again, it’s just not the right time and place for it. I will give certain aspects a pass since there was a downpour. I haven’t found many positive takes on the ceremony. Most people I’m hearing from seem to have hated it, at least in the U.S.. I agree that London and Beijing were the best ceremonies.
Good shout about the US team, I rewatched clips of old ceremonies and realised this after filming! And thanks for sharing your thoughts, I see now that it was very divisive, but perhaps it’ll be more greatly appreciated with time? We’ll see! 😅
Paris is a Leftist/Progressist/"sexually liberated" city and it has been for decades now. The ceremony represented that perfectly: it was an hommage to all Parisians from les Rives Droite et Gauche to the "inner" cities, to how they can come together and create beautiful art together. I'm sorry but not surprised, that people in the US were unable to appreciate the show but then again Trump is seen as valid political candidate over there, so that tracks. The French far-right also hated the show, that also tracks.
@@moustik31 But it’s the Olympic Opening Ceremony, a WORLD stage. This wasn’t a show just for Paris or just for France. They alienated and offended 2.4 billion people in the world. And please stop with your right-wing rhetoric. Liberals in U.S. are also majorly Christian and were also offended. So were other Christians across the world. I’m from NYC, a very liberal city. And most people were put off from it. I’m not sure if you’re under the belief that Christians are all white and right leaning. Most of America is Christian, right or left, black or white. Again, this was not the right time and place for that kind of display. And if this was any other religion being mocked, it wouldn’t be okay. We give people a free pass to mock Christianity, which is hypocritical. Imagine if it was Prophet Mohammed instead of Jesus.
@@signalfire15 TLDR. This was a ceremony to celebrate Paris, all of it it's anti-establishment rebellious roots included. People, who chose to "alienate" themselves bec. they cant stand to see diversity celebrated can make their own ceremonies. I'm not Parisian but even I know, they wont bow their heads and follow anybody else's lead on this: their city, their history, their rules. Edit: The "world" is invited to watch and celebrate, if they feel like it but if they dont? The party will still go on without them. As it has done before 2024 and will go on doing after 2024, unless the far-right put a stop to it, as they did in 1940 ofc. 🙃
I felt divided as a French gay man bc I dont vote Macron and I hated how he set gay ppl in danger. Hopefully ppl were intelligent but I read dangerous comments. Bc of Macron.
Aya was stepping out of the French Academy which is very significant because she has been getting a lot of critics from reactionary people for her creative usage of the french language in her songs.
For the torch-bearer, the look was clearly from Assassin's creed but it was also a reference to Parkour because it was invented in the 1980s in France. The idea was to find new way to move in the city, in your environment. The movie "Banlieue 13" was a big classic in France and make parkour popular. We have quite a decent scene in Parkour with various and qualitative content and so it was also to highlight that ;)
Et les Yamakasi !
It also reminds of Belphegor, le Fantome du Louvre and somewhat Le fantome de l'Opera (a proto- Yamakasi?)
Love your débriefing
I think like u
Thanks , merci
And bisous from France❤
Merci beaucoup! ☺️
Gojira!! :) my favorite metal band since '07. i'm so happy for them! the entire sequence, the metal + the opera & those visuals, so jaw-dropping & morbid! i loved it so much & couldn't stop watching it. i must say, i like that the opening ceremony artistically showed off Paris & wasn't all stuck inside one stadium. i approve of this approach.
Yesss, thanks for dropping their name, I forgot to edit it in! They were awesome and that whole chapter was a highlight in the ceremony! I completely agree, to me this showcased French culture in a more diverse, experimental way that reflects the contributions from people of all backgrounds, I loved it! 😊
Thank you so much for sharing your point of view with so much positivity and passion for the Olympic's ceremony!
♥ I loved the blue/white/red smoke cloud that opens the ceremony, the very successful passage of the Conciergerie with the projected blood effect, the choreography on the scaffolding of Notre-Dame, the animated short films to highlight French animation and the Assassin's creed reference as Ubisoft is a french company, the knight of the games who is followed by all the international flags, the performance of Céline Dion and the hot air balloon that flies away with the Olympic flame in reference to Henri Giffard.
The Marseillaise sung from the roof of the Grand Palais was clearly timed to be right at the moment when the sunset hits the glass roof, so frustrating to see this incredible scene under a gray sky. I am convinced that this image would have made the front page everywhere if the sun had been there! 💙🤍♥
💔 I think there were a lot of good ideas, but the execution wasn't always good enough (the torrential rain didn't help):
- The golden stairs for Lady Gaga could have had a much better finish, at least they could have hidden the big black spotlights at the front with an additional piece of scenery and the scene would have had more impact at night with colored light effects like at the Moulin Rouge.
- Many cameras didn't have the right angle to film the key moments, we feel that there was panic, because of the rain but not only... (examples: we barely see the orchestra that plays with Lady Gaga, the cameramen who film Aya Nakamura and Rim'K have very approximate movements)
- The oldest Olympic winner waiting under the rain in a wheelchair, poor guy, it would have been class if a second person had held an umbrella for him.
- Shows intersecting with the arrival of the teams in boats was a good idea on paper, but in reality we lost the thread, we watched a show then it cut for 5 minutes to film the boats, so the show had finished in the meantime off camera and so on. That's what gave this very messy impression I think.
It was a gamble to film in Paris and not at the stadium, maybe there were too many constraints in the end? We had some very beautiful moments of emotion but quite a few missed opportunities too in my opinion. Let's see the closing ceremony now!
Bisous de France 😊
I love this breakdown, thank you for sharing! 🥰
For me, Athens 2004 🇬🇷 was the BEST ceremony of all, but I also like the London 2012 ceremony as well and I agree with you, 2012 was a beautiful time to be alive!!! 🇬🇧
Beijing is in another universe... No other country will have the capabilities to produce that level of live production so I am glad France decided to do their own thing and not compete... I liked the whole show...
ccp bot
Yeah, after Beijing stadium openings are really tough to be impressed by. It was the most technically impressive show by far, I'm glad France did their own thing!
Beijing was an authoritarian display of force and not much else. No soul, moral, no Olympic values, no humanism. It was expensive, discriminating and terrible for the planet.
This is what you should not do in an Olympic ceremony.
because China is trying to impress/influence countries some other nations don t have to
It has nothing todo with capacity, France could totally do the same thing as Beijing, except... The Olympic game are ALWAYS a waste of money, it doesn't matter which country organize it, it has never ever been a good operation for the country and the people... So this time, France decided to make sur to change that and that's why for the first time in history, the games were in a city, not a stadium.
Now keep in mind that a ceremony in the city is 100 time HARDER to do than in the stadium, it's simply not the same universe and France did that partially on the water which is even more difficult!
Great analysis, congrats
Let's see with time, which Paris opening ceremony's images will be remained. I remember from London the queen, M. Beam, reference to the Beatles and Mac Cartney destroying Hey Jude. From Beijing, the first scene and the cauldron. In the end, it will be what we do with the images proposed, how far they are from our culture and does it influence and in which way. Paris might remain as "the unique" one.
Celine Dion / The Sequana Horse Riding / The Floating Cauldron and Gojira will be eternal memories and are equally iconic as well...✨️
The Drag show that got misinterpreted as the Last Supper would also remain but not for good reasons but as a reminder of humans and their ignorance.
The USA were second to last because they are the next ones to hold the Olympics, and France the last one because they are the ones holding the games.
The metro didn’t have problems, breaking down while Zidane was carrying the torch was part of the ceremony, so the kids would take the torch and go through the catacombs, a Parisian land mark, before being carried on boat by the torch bearer.
The whole Nakamura show was a massive F YOU to those saying she disrespect the holy French Language.
She gets out of the Academie Francaise (Guardian of language purity) and makes a medley with the song Formidable by Aznavour. The original song is a comical one where he mixes French and English as he can't properly speak English
Of course an English girl would put london 1st,
To me this (Paris) was the best ceremony ever made
To me it is a tie between Beijing and Paris. London was kind of flat to me. I really wonder what Paris would have been if there were no rain. I heard they had to cancel some of the things because of safety issue due to the rain.
Hey cut me some slack, I already declared my bias! 🤭🤗
You can't compare, France's ceremony was 10 times harder because it was outside in the city, not in a stadium, it's like comparing apples and orange...
Hoho surprise London is first! 🤪
I think people will choose one of the big three has their favorite based on their personal preference. Humor? London. Technical perfection? Beijing. Cultural uniqueness and originality? Paris
Hahaha, I warned you about my bias! 🤭 But I agree with your assessment! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
My only issue was the rhythmless can-can dancers. That was cringe. I hate the way people use the word "cringe," but that's the only word I could use. Other than that it was brilliantly done, especially in light of the fact that the sky was dropping buckets of water.
The Can Can that Couldn’t Couldn’t 😭 (sorry, I’ve been waiting to use that joke! 🤭)
@@JeannesMovieChats 🤣🤣🤣
It works! 💯💯💯
@@JeannesMovieChatsThey took lot of risks because they were close to the border . Furthermore as it was raining they could glimpse!
Beijing, apart from showing on each of the scenes that they were numerous and synchronized, emotionally they did not bring anything foreign viewers...
it was a circus with its acrobats, excellent for pleasing children. Nothing more.
It is normal, a dictatorship is a people that turns on itself.
(In Barcelona the archer misses the target)
To this day we talk more about the so-called problems of the Olympics than the medals won today. The Internet antennas were burned today. Thank you for your nice reaction for inclusive modernity
I watched the opening ceremony at my grandparent's house and I told them about the 1972 Munich massacre of eleven Israeli athletes and coaches when we saw Israel on the screen.
#Olympics
#openingceremony
#Vibe
🇬🇷Athens 2004 : Modern Recreation of Ancient Olympic Games
🇨🇳Beijing 2008 : Feel like a Ceremony of an Emperor
🇬🇧London 2012 : Celebration of England"s 50 Years of Pop Culture
🇧🇷Rio 2016 : Testament of Brazil Strength despite the Disastrous Situation
🇯🇵Tokyo 2020 : Festival of Japanese Pop Culture
Thank you for your nice reaction at the moment in France there are 35% who make fun of drag queens in French literature by saying that they are the devil
That 1992 Barcelona flame lighting was glo-ri-ous!
🤩🤩🤩
Edit: not you and me crying at the Tokyo missed opportunities!
😭
Edit 2: Now, I need to rewatch Athens, Beijing and London to see if I agree with you!
Tokyo broke my heart, it could have been so glorious! And have fun rewatching them, I always do when the Olympics come up! 👏🏾😊
As a French person I didn't like this ceremony, but for other reasons.
For me a good ceremony should be done in a stadium because the audience is part of the atmosphere and especially because the scenographer has a much better command of the conditions of his show.
Whereas here, the audience complained about not seeing anything or not much, logical, moreover the implementation was unnecessarily complicated and visibility reduced.
Afterwards like everyone else I think that the director Thomas Jolly did not understand the stakes of an Olympic Games opening ceremony nor understood which audience this kind of event is aimed at.
In my opinion he was not the right person to recruit for this show, there are many other directors in France who could have brought a radically different vision, unfortunately it is done and we can't wait until 2028 to see or see again a real ceremony perhaps more classic but once again in my opinion more beautiful.
I loved loved the opening ceremony, even though I'm not certain non-French people understood all the references. To me, it looked like a real celebration of French contribution to the Olympic Games, French history, pop culture, athletes and music! I got most of the hints and winks and they made me really happy!
Ik, the far-right, cons. and cie didnt like the Fashion Runway tableau but that's mostly bec. they arent tuned it with this aspect of fashion and art history. Nothing outlandish was presented there, those "provocations" were decades old. Also, fundie xtians/trad cath shedding tears that the Olympic Game ceremony paid hommage to Anciant Greek deities are utterly unserious.
The Olympic Games as an institution are older than Christ, older than Christian homophobia and older than the also Christian Transatlantic Trade and antiBlack racist pseudo-science.
Firstly, completely agree about the French representation, I have family in France and grew up watching French media so this rang very authentic to me! Secondly, don’t get me started on the drag queen debacle!!!! The way you are saying 100% facts that these folks won’t even be able to handle! And if they find out openly queer culture even predates Christianity (see the island of Lesbos) what then?!?! 😤
celine saved it a bit.
London #1 ? ok you are british, the only reason.
Celine Dion saved the Opening Ceremonies!
I think U.S. came in second to last because they’re hosting the next Summer Olympics.
I thought it was the worst Opening Ceremony I’ve ever seen. There were some nice moments (Celine Dion being a stand out) but, overall, it was very lackluster, disjointed, and… weird. I don’t think they did a good job of showing what France has contributed to the world and culture. Like why was Lady Gaga there?? They have AMAZING French artists that they could have highlighted. It also felt like something that would appeal to Europeans a lot more than it would to the rest of the world. I just don’t know if an Olympic Opening Ceremony that serves as a world stage is the best time to have a drag recreation of The Last Supper. I’m not someone who gets upset at religious imagery used in art but… again, it’s just not the right time and place for it. I will give certain aspects a pass since there was a downpour. I haven’t found many positive takes on the ceremony. Most people I’m hearing from seem to have hated it, at least in the U.S..
I agree that London and Beijing were the best ceremonies.
Good shout about the US team, I rewatched clips of old ceremonies and realised this after filming! And thanks for sharing your thoughts, I see now that it was very divisive, but perhaps it’ll be more greatly appreciated with time? We’ll see! 😅
Paris is a Leftist/Progressist/"sexually liberated" city and it has been for decades now. The ceremony represented that perfectly: it was an hommage to all Parisians from les Rives Droite et Gauche to the "inner" cities, to how they can come together and create beautiful art together.
I'm sorry but not surprised, that people in the US were unable to appreciate the show but then again Trump is seen as valid political candidate over there, so that tracks. The French far-right also hated the show, that also tracks.
@@moustik31 But it’s the Olympic Opening Ceremony, a WORLD stage. This wasn’t a show just for Paris or just for France. They alienated and offended 2.4 billion people in the world. And please stop with your right-wing rhetoric. Liberals in U.S. are also majorly Christian and were also offended. So were other Christians across the world. I’m from NYC, a very liberal city. And most people were put off from it. I’m not sure if you’re under the belief that Christians are all white and right leaning. Most of America is Christian, right or left, black or white. Again, this was not the right time and place for that kind of display. And if this was any other religion being mocked, it wouldn’t be okay. We give people a free pass to mock Christianity, which is hypocritical. Imagine if it was Prophet Mohammed instead of Jesus.
@@signalfire15 TLDR. This was a ceremony to celebrate Paris, all of it it's anti-establishment rebellious roots included. People, who chose to "alienate" themselves bec. they cant stand to see diversity celebrated can make their own ceremonies. I'm not Parisian but even I know, they wont bow their heads and follow anybody else's lead on this: their city, their history, their rules.
Edit: The "world" is invited to watch and celebrate, if they feel like it but if they dont? The party will still go on without them. As it has done before 2024 and will go on doing after 2024, unless the far-right put a stop to it, as they did in 1940 ofc.
🙃
@@moustik31 TLDR. You’re disrespectful. Goodbye.
I felt divided as a French gay man bc I dont vote Macron and I hated how he set gay ppl in danger. Hopefully ppl were intelligent but I read dangerous comments. Bc of Macron.