London 2012 olympics opening ceremony is here, finally, after the announcement that was held in 2005, London was picked as the city to host the 2012 olympics with pride. Of course soon after they was thinking about the london 2012 olympics opening ceremony, how they should do it, because it is their third time this time around, and for that they are the first city ever to be able to held the biggest and most grandest sports event on this planet, the olympics.
So it was Oscar winner Danny Boyle who was soon being picked to direct and take control of the London 2012 olympics opening ceremony, it was his idea indeed to be incorporated both Queen Elizabeth II, as well as actor Rowan Atkinson aka television’s Mr. Bean. And there wasn’t a whole lot else in the British canon that Boyle left out, either, in front of a crowd of 80,000 and an international television audience of an estimated 4 billion.
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WOW!!! An estimated of 4 billion television audience watched the Oscar winner Danny Boyle’s London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, which lasted 3 hours and 46 minutes.
The production cost an estimated of $41 million.
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British luminaries such as Paul McCartney, J.K. Rowling and Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, appeared.
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| London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony - Prince William and Kate |
Boyle’s vision, $41 million performance told the history of Britain’s rise through the industrial revolution to the technological age, and incorporated elements of literature, music and, almost as an afterthought, sports.
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Former Beatle Paul McCartney sang, while "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling read from "Peter Pan" and, well, don't forget the Queen? She was introduced first in a video that showed her being escorted from Buckingham Palace by James Bond played by Daniel Craig who also parachuting to the stadium with a bit of camera trickery.
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| London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony - Bond and Queen Elizabeth |
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| London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony - Bond and Queen Elizabeth |
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| London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony - Bond and Queen Elizabeth |
"Each time we have done it," said Sebastian Coe, chairman of the London organizing committee, "the world has faced turbulence and trouble. And each time the games have been a triumph." He was so sure that this London 2012 olympics opening ceremony will went through smoothly and it did.
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In the weeks leading up to the opening, British tabloids were at full-force projecting various aspects of Boyle’s creation, which met a social media resistance, the movement to "#savethesurprise."
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The greatest mystery was of who would light the Olympic cauldron. Sir Steven Redgrave was a leading candidate, as was Roger Bannister, the first man to run a mile under four minutes. In a twist, Redgrave, a five-time rowing gold medalist, carried the torch into the stadium, but passed it off to seven young athletes, who represented the future of Britain. They each lit a copper rose petal at the center of the stadium, which grew to a circle made up of petals representing each country. Those, then, lifted up to form one giant flame.
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Muhammad Ali, who lit the cauldron at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, this time in this London 2012 olympics opening ceremony was one of nine bearers of the Olympic flag, before speeches from Coe and International Olympic Committee President Jacque Rogge.
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It was certainly a "go big" production, which it almost needed to be after the dazzling ceremony in Beijing at the 2008 Olympics. So in this London 2012 olympics opening ceremony they came out with The Olympic bell, which was rung by recent Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins, was made by the same foundry responsible for the Liberty Bell and Big Ben and will reside in the park for 200 years before it is returned to the foundry for a tune-up.
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With a history like Britain’s, 200 years isn’t too early to begin planning, we all know that for sure.
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By the time the Parade of Nations began at 10:20 p.m. local time, observers had already watched Olympic rings be carried into space by balloons, a pastoral farm scene deconstructed into a Dickensian industrial wasteland, a screen of pixels in the audience portraying the Union Jack as the British flag was hoisted as well as children doing flips on trampolines disguised as hospital beds. That bit in this London 2012 olympics opening ceremony could still honored the National Health Service and a popular children’s hospital.
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As for Mr. Bean played by Rowan Atkinson, his role came during a performance of "Chariots of Fire" by the London Symphony Orchestra. As Bean, aided the effort by playing one note on the keyboard, he slipped into a coma of boredom. He thumbed an iPhone, blew his nose and, fittingly, ended the number with a flatulent noise, the brits sure loved him in this London 2012 olympics opening ceremony, clearly because of his away time from the television for a while.
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But the real unanswered question in this London 2012 olympics opening ceremony is "What must the Queen have been thinking?" Not during Mr. Bean’s emission, but during the rock and roll party that featured music from The Doors, Queen and a live performance from the Arctic Monkeys?
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Before the performance began, Boyle reminded the crowd that the performance was a "warm-up act for the athletes."
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