The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics has been panned as a rain-soaked mess, plagued by terrible audio, bizarre acts and a woke ‘Last Supper’ parody that has left Christians fuming. The Mailhas more.
Hundreds of thousands of spectators watched 6,800 athletes, covered in plastic ponchos, attempted to keep spirits high as they travelled down the river Seine in a huge flotilla of 85 boats.
Performances from Lady Gaga and approximately 3,000 dancers, acrobats and actors were hard to hear over the sound of rain, with viewers slamming it as “the worst Olympic opening ceremony in memory”.
Gaffes with country names, the mounting of the Olympic flag and bizarre scenes, such as a headless Marie Antoinette singing, peppered the display last night as sport begins in earnest this morning.
But among the various artistic tableaus, named after French values such as freedom, fraternity and equality, it was the Last Supper-style performance in ‘festivité’ – or party – scene which caused the most controversy.
Complete with models, dancers, fashion icons and drag queens from the host nation, the performance took place on a bridge over the capital’s river around a table, which also doubled as a catwalk.
At the centre was a woman in front of DJ equipment with a golden halo-style crown, surrounded by several drag queens and dozens of dancers and performers. …
What have men in dresses mocking Christians at a fake last supper got to do with the Olympics?
Why has every European and US "event" become a predictable platform to mainline minority fetishes into the lives of a bemused majority?
Although also hampered by hard-to-hear music, many young people… took to social media to praise the tableau, which aimed to echo the atmosphere of a nightclub and featured dancing and lip-syncing on the soaking-wet stage.
But others were less impressed, accusing organisers of creating a “woke” parody of the Last Supper – a painting by Leonardo da Vinci depicting Jesus’s last meal with his disciples.
Tesla and SpaceX owner Elon Musk… wrote on X – formerly Twitter – that the performance was “extremely disrespectful to Christians”.
He added: “Christianity has become toothless.” …
As the long line of boats filled with athletes made its way down the Seine, an embarrassing moment saw South Korea labelled North Korea by the announcers. …
Social media users were critical of the ceremony, with one writing: “France is doing good but it’s getting nowhere near the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony.”
Another used a picture of Rishi Sunak on a podium read: “Stop the boats” to describe how they felt about the water-bound parade.
— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) July 27, 2024
Stop Press 2: Gareth Roberts has written a savage review of the opening ceremony for the Spectator, that includes the following gem:
It was all very decadent, yes, but not in the way it thinks it was. Because this wasn’t French at all, but a display of American cultural imperialism, the goading and the power display of wokeness, establishing the new sacred – transgenderism, multiculturalism – and repudiating and mocking the old. Daring you to object. Director Thomas Jolly apparently said beforehand of his opus, ‘I wanted everyone to feel represented’. This is a telling remark. Because ‘everyone’ doesn’t actually mean everyone, it means only the narcissistic elements of newly sacralised minorities. Nobody else exists.
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