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Am I the only one watching the Olympics opening ceremonies? Because WTF am I watching? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/television@lemmy.world

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First it starts with a comedy video which turns into this weird creepy thing about kids running through the Paris sewers, encountering an alligator, then getting rowed out and into the Seine by a ghost and it cuts to reality and all the nations are going down the river on boats past a bunch of water jets because they're not doing this in a stadium.

This looks awful and ridiculous. Compare this to the spectacle of London 2012.

Now they're doing some weird old Hollywood movie musical style musical number with Lady Gaga and she's on a staircase, which is... somewhere in Paris?

I am so fucking confused.

Edit: They just cut to Macron and he looks as confused as I am.

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[–] Gsus4@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTXyXuqfBLA

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, what's going on with the parkour? I don't get any of this. It's totally unfocused apart from anything else.

[–] Gsus4@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's just french things...parkour is originally french...so...profit.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Okay, but why this Assassin's Creed/ghost dude?

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think it’s the Phantom from The Phantom of the Opera, a famous piece of French literature and adapted to many other formats since its original publication, but I haven’t been able to confirm that’s who it’s supposed to be

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -5 points 2 years ago

I guess that makes sense, but they might have gone with a more recognizable look. Like a regular mask that a lady might pull off...

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

Ubisoft is French, so the Assassin’s Creed’s reference makes sense

[–] Gsus4@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

He's carrying the torch to light the Olympic "bonfire"...I guess...but I don't know the relation to anything mystical that they may be hinting at with Assassin's creed...c'est une surprise :3

[–] Don_Dickle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

When I first learned how to do parkour I thought it should be an Olympic sport. Just set up some type of street and obstacles and get scored on how well you handle it plus how fast you go thru it.