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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWatching the Olympic Games Opening....AWESOME!
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Best Ive ever seen. Not only showed and acted the words they included the entire city throughout.
Rain only added to the show.
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After the opening speeches this could not come at a better time
its like a change of attitudes overall.
The Imagine rendition was incredible. The rain added to the beauty.
The light show at the Eiffel Tower
WOW
Passing the torch from old to new
.perfect
Then
Celine.
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bahboo
(16,718 posts)hedda_foil
(16,459 posts)AllyCat
(16,738 posts)The athletes must be having a ball!!
AZSkiffyGeek
(12,231 posts)The whole Assassin's Creed guy running the torch through all the historical landmarks, the aerial gymnastics around the Notre Dame, the metal band playing w/ the decapitated Marie Antoinettes...
MiHale
(10,429 posts)electric_blue68
(16,723 posts)maveric
(16,583 posts)Best opening ceremonies Ive ever seen.
Srkdqltr
(7,159 posts)Srkdqltr
(7,159 posts)Srkdqltr
(7,159 posts)In the rain. OMG
electric_blue68
(16,723 posts)(maybe tonight bc we did talk politics when we were oitside)
Bc I'm taking the day off for The Opening Ceremonies!
logme
(28 posts)I did not watch the whole thing but the end of the ceremony with the laser show on the Eiffel Tower was realy nice ( better than the one for bastille day ) & the olympic cauldron lifting off cought me off guard and was stunningly beautiful despite the rain.
Some aspect of the ceremony I cought were not exactly my cup of tea ( very eurovision-like and will probably be critized as overly "woke" by many) . However some ideas / tableau were actually amusing weird or beautiful and although I do live in paris I will never get tired of some of the shots of the city especially the ones from the sky along the river. This city is really freaking beautiful !
Between the singing beheaded marie antoinette , the Nazgul d'arc ( as someone nicknamed the metal horse on the river ) or the phantom of the opera doing parkour on the roofs of paris I will definitly check some video recap tommorow as there was clearly some entertaining moments.
A ccouple of pics of the cauldron here ( afp)
electric_blue68
(16,723 posts)I got there around ?4:30. So watched till 6p.
Then we went out and came back around 7:20p and watched the rest in recap.
So wonderful! One of the best I've ever seen.