Paris Olympics opening ceremony full of movie elements 2024 hot

On the evening of July 26, China time, the 2024 Paris Olympics kicked off smoothly.

The entire opening ceremony was full of all kinds of wild ideas and flashes of the spirit of the times, and also ran through the cultural achievements of the host country from ancient times to the present.

From the Lumière brothers who invented movies and projectors to the revolutionary “New Wave”, they were all born in this land. So it is no surprise that movie elements are everywhere in the opening ceremony.

The naughty Minions not only stole the “Mona Lisa” from the Louvre, but also organized the Olympic Games themselves.

The scene of three young people chasing and playing on the stairs was jokingly called a plagiarism of “Burning Winter” by many domestic netizens.

The tongue-in-cheek animated scene of a balloon flying over a moon with a “one eye” is a nod to film pioneer Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon.

After the mysterious parkourer broke into the Musee d’Orsay, in Paris Olympics opening ceremonya,  train suddenly broke through the curtain and rushed in. This scene is from the Lumière brothers’ “The Arrival of a Train in a Station”.

The bird’s-eye view of the Paris street scene at the beginning of the opening ceremony was obviously a tribute to a famous scene in Playtime by French comedy master Jacques Tati.

This dialogue-free film, produced in 1967, depicts the bizarre experiences of provincials in the modern metropolis of Paris with its colorful images and melodious sounds.

Paris Olympics, ten outstanding women in history are shown in golden statues. Alice Guy, one of them, was a pioneer of film art, just like Lumière and Méliès. A few months after the Lumière brothers screened the first film in history at the Grand Café in Paris, Guy completed the film “The Cabbage Fairy”. Today, it is recognized as the first fictional work in film history.

Thomas Joly, the director of the opening ceremony, had previously revealed that the opening ceremony would pay tribute to the classic work “The Lovers at the Pont Neuf” directed by Leo Carax. However, after watching the entire opening ceremony, it seemed that there was no relevant content. However, in the scene where a group of young people held up colorful flags and paraded around Paris, the bridge they passed by was indeed the most famous bridge in Paris, the Pont Neuf.

The female knight rode a white horse to the scene and completed the handover ceremony of the five-ring flag. The image of this female knight is easily reminiscent of the hero Joan of Arc. In the history of film, the story of Joan of Arc has been adapted into the screen many times. The female knight at the opening ceremony can be said to be exactly the same as the image of the protagonist in the 1999 film “Joan of Arc” directed by French director Luc Besson.

Worthy of being the capital of film, the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics is full of film elements。

Paris is a romantic city, and no matter how many imaginative displays there are, it is not too much. We are a factory that makes manual transport vehicles in Baoding, Hebei, China. I am an ordinary salesperson inside, but I cannot stop the enthusiasm for the Olympics and the reverie brought to us by the media.

The dramatic opening ceremony will take place along six kilometres of the Seine, starting at the Austerlitz bridge and ending at the Trocadero, with its gardens, fountains and palaces framed by the Eiffel Tower.  Mutual understanding is the original intention of the Olympics. Hope for Paris Olympic victory.