01 The opening ceremony drama continues: the official Olympic video is deleted, and the Paris Olympic Organizing Committee apologizes......
As soon as the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games was unveiled, it caused huge controversy around the world.
The four-hour opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games featured a number of famous scenes, with media reports claiming that bold artistic expressions, subversive visuals and diverse cultural elements sparked an enthusiastic response from diverse audiences.
In all fairness, there are indeed many highlights of the Paris Olympics, many of which have indeed subverted the habits of the traditional Olympic opening ceremony, and the innovation is well deserved.
For example, the scene of the opening ceremony was not in the traditional stadium, but on the Seine River in Paris, France, which was also the first time in the history of the modern Olympic Games to hold the opening ceremony in an open urban space; The design of the cauldron is also unusual, it is actually a hot air balloon.
The entry of the athletes is not a queue, but a creative boat entry. More than 10,000 athletes, artists, and others sailed from the east bank of the Seine to the west bank, from the Île Saint-Louis to the Pont Neuf, from the Louvre to the Eiffel Tower, and so on.
The theme of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics was also innovative, "Love and Common Humanity". Behind the scenes, there are many content creators (including novelists and TV drama screenwriters) who have worked hard to design 12 art scenes and turn this idea into reality.
For example, the mash-up performance of the Guillotine Queen and the Death Metal Band was rated as a romantic and grand theatrical ceremony, and those who don't know will not think that this is the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, but more like a theater performance.
In addition, it is also interspersed with well-known film and television IPs such as Minions, and the movie elements are also full. In the opening short film, a traffic jam pays homage to France director Jacques · Tati's fourth feature film, Playtime. The most famous "Two Men and One Woman" library fragment is a tribute to the representative work of the France New Wave, "Ancestors and Zhan". There are scenes of tributes to "Journey to the Moon" and "The Little Prince" in the transition animation, and there are even Minion IPs.
It was this linkage that many people learned that the Minions were also France. The animation company for the Despicable Me and Minion series France is Illumination Mac Guff, headquartered in Paris, France.
Celine · Dion, a singer who is well-known to Chinese audiences with a song "My Heart is Eternal", also France sang "Ode to Love" by Aidit · Piaf at the opening ceremony.
Because there are many unexpected elements, integrating art, environmental protection, humanities, history, and innovation, this Paris Olympics has also been rated as the "most creative" by netizens. Thomas Jolly, artistic director of the opening ceremony and France actor and theatre ·director, said he wanted the opening ceremony to showcase the diversity of France: "To show the richness and diversity of France history, which is influenced and inspired by the diverse cultures of the past, and which is itself a source of inspiration." ”
But at the same time, because the gameplay concept is too open and trendy, the opening ceremony is too naked and even the details of the edge have been scolded by many people.
For example, Lady Gaga's blockbuster tattoos, the bewitching solo dance of the bearded big brothers, the ambiguous threesome in the library, and the almost naked Bacchus painted all over the body, etc., are also the most silent times for many countries to comment.
In the process of the athletes' march, music, dance and other theatrical performances along the Seine River were also criticized for "dancing unevenly" and "looking busy but not knowing what they were busy with" because the actors did not walk in unison.
If there is one of the most controversial performances, and one that has caused dissatisfaction among many religious people, is a performance in which drag queens and transgender dancers imitate Leonardo da ·'s famous painting "The Last Supper". At the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, artistic director and planner Thomas · Joli restored this scene, but the twelve disciples were all interpreted by drag queens, transgender dancers and models, and a singer painted blue to play the Greece god of wine Dionysus, etc., made many Christians dissatisfied and questioned "blasphemy".
Because of too much controversy, the official Olympic account deleted the video of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, and the United States technology company C Spire announced that it would withdraw all its advertisements during the Olympics because it was dissatisfied with the content of the opening ceremony. The speech at the Paris Olympics was also forced by public pressure, and he apologized and said that he had no intention of expressing disrespect.
In just a few days, there have been several famous scenes, and it is difficult to find a second country except France to this extent.
02 The Olympic oolong continues, and the most broken defense is actually the Korea
In addition to the opening ceremony, the Paris Olympics are also full of oolongs.
After the gold medal list on the first day was released, the medal list on the spot mismarked the Korea flag as the Chinese flag, and the name of Korea's first gold medalist Wu Shangxu was also mistaken. Recently, the flag of South Africa was marked Korea.
In fact, as early as the opening ceremony, when athletes from various countries entered the arena, the two hosts in charge of broadcasting in French and English actually misreported Korea's name "Republic of Korea" as "Democratic People's Republic of Korea".
Although the IOC issued a statement on its official website in a timely manner apologizing for mispronouncing Korea's name at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the apology does not mean that the oolong has disappeared, but has become more and more intense. From the misreading of the country's name to the missing footage and the blurring of the national flag, Korea people have expressed their indignation and loss through social platforms, believing that this is disrespectful to Korea and a tarnished of the Olympic spirit. Therefore, there are also sharp comments from netizens, "France people are angry with Koreans every day." ”
Of course, the Paris Olympics are not just "targeted" at Korea, for example, during a certain game, in the national anthem before the start of the national anthem, the national anthem of South Sudan accidentally became the national anthem of Sudan. The South Sudanese fans in the stadium suddenly booed, and the technicians realized the mistake and quickly pressed the pause button to stop the play. In addition, in many events, the score of the game is also delayed on the record screen on the spot, and the specific score has to be recorded by the commentator in real time, which is not less criticized.
Compared with these, the most absurd scene is the Olympic five-ring flag. At the flag-raising ceremony before the opening of the Olympic Games, the five-ring flag, which symbolizes the Olympic spirit, was misguided.
It has only been a few days since the opening ceremony, and there have been several low-level mistakes in Paris, and it can be said that these low-level mistakes have already been drowned in saliva if they were put in China.
03 The most relaxed Olympics is also the most polarized Olympics
Some people say that the Paris Olympic Organizing Committee came out to apologize, which just proves the greatest relaxation.
After all, you are not even afraid to apologize, and you are even less afraid to make mistakes.
For example, the day before the opening, when media reporters went to the venue where the wrestling event was held, they found that the venue was still under construction; Cancellation of the installation of air conditioning in the Olympic Village during the hottest weather; The poor food in the restaurant in the Olympic Village was complained about by United Kingdom, and it was even rumored that the Paris security plan had been stolen, and it was once rumored that the event would be postponed......
But in fact, the seemingly "shabby and unreliable" Paris Olympics has contributed a lot of money and efforts behind it.
The construction of the Olympic Village took seven years and cost 2.2 billion euros, making it the most expensive of the Olympic Games in Paris. The France government also spent 1.4 billion euros (11 billion yuan) to clean up the Seine, held an outdoor opening ceremony on the banks of the Seine in Paris, and used the Seine as a race field.
Someone has calculated that the Paris Olympics also made a lot of money. So far, 8.8 million tickets have been sold for the Paris Olympics, and it is estimated that more than 10 million tickets were sold before the closing ceremony, breaking the previous record of 8.3 million tickets for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Ticket revenue is expected to exceed 1.1 billion euros, which is higher than the ticket revenue of about 1 billion euros for the London Olympics, plus advertising revenue from other sponsors, which is not "poor" as everyone thinks.
However, even so, Paris faces serious overspending: the total cost of the Paris Olympics will be as high as 11.8 billion euros, far exceeding the original budget of 6.6 billion euros, due to the increase in necessary investments in security and infrastructure.
This is actually very similar to the fragmented perception of the Olympic Games: on the one hand, there is a local tyrant throwing money, and on the other hand, there are details that are cut to the extreme. There is also the most polarized Olympic Games in history, and those who like it are praised as creative, open and free, and relaxed, and those who don't like it are criticized for being bad and not serious about management.
In fact, both voices have a rational side, reality is the best lesson, in the final analysis, the next time United States Los Angeles to host the Olympics, just take the best and throw away the dross.