Saturday, 28 July 2012

BBC News - Opening Ceremony review: Palace coup provides Danny Boyle's master stroke

BBC News - Opening Ceremony review: Palace coup provides Danny Boyle's master stroke: "In the end, the most dramatic coup of all happened not in the stadium but at Buckingham Palace.

Enter Daniel Craig, greeted by corgis and flunkies, ushered along lushly carpeted corridors into an inner sanctum.

The whole world will have been thinking the same thing. She hasn't. Surely not. She won't. She did.

"Good evening, Mr Bond," purred the Queen, who had somehow been persuaded to play herself in London 2012's opening ceremony. For that remarkable coup alone, Danny Boyle deserves some sort of gong.

Boyle's task as master of ceremonies behind the scenes at the Olympic Stadium was not to match Beijing, and certainly not to outdo it, but to put clear blue water between the mass participation spectacle of four years ago and our own effort"
Olympic opening ceremony

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