Olympic 2012 is London in a predicament?

Question

Unfortunately I was not impressed with the short section of entertainment via the British Stint of the end of Beijing Olympics.

Plus i hope in 2012 that we are not going to rely on celebrities rather than raw talent, inspiration, progressive artistic direction and so on when it comes to presenting 2012.

It ill be sad as a Londoner if we rely on the age old symbols of the bowler hat, phone box, red bus, umbrellas, celebrities etc which is rather relying on symbols...materialistic rather than looking into the spirit, culture and talent we have in this country.

I really hope they don't misdirect talent when it comes to 2012, there's an exceptional budget to provide for as we have to do better than Beijing according to the IOC. Can we afford it?

UK has so much talent can they acknowledge it?

Answer 1

Man how naive are you?

Answer 2

If Jimmy Page isn't talented and a national hero then I don't know who is.

He's the greatest guitarist the world has ever seen, be proud he's British!

Answer 3

London and the UK are loved the world over because we are considered leaders in the arts, music, fashion and general culture, (although i wonder why sometimes.)  we need the olympic ceremonies to be masterminded by creative people not stuffy suit wearers who sit on some commitee.

I fear the worst though, just look at the logo the idiots running the show so far have come up with.  its possibly the worst logo design in the history of branding.  it means nothing to anyone and bearly resembles the number 2012.

Answer 4

Since Britain has tonnes of international celebs, the Olympics would rock if London could get their biggest stars to turn up at the opening ceremony. Make them do a mass dance or football performance. Just imagine with Amy Winehouse, George Michael, Elton John, Posh n Becks, Borat, Harry Potter, Leona Lewis, Paul McCartney, Mr Bean, John Terry, Peter Crouch, David James, Oasis, Gemma Atkinson, Orlando Bloom, Arctic Monkeys, S Club 7, Robbie Williams, Michael Owen, Boyzone, Take That, Spice Girls, David Bowie, Westlife, Simon Cowell, Lewis Hamilton, Clive Owen, Theo Walcott, Cold Play, Daniel Craig, Nicole Kidman, Ricky Gervais, Wayne Rooney and Connie Talbot. The star power will be totally out of scale. That is how you raise the bar.

Answer 5

London is seen the world over as bowler hats, Carnaby St, phone boxes, punks, umbrellas  and double deckers, whats wrong with that! Jimmy Page is a "british" rock icon, and Boris the Mayor is the funniest thing I have ever seen at an olympics, suit unbuttoned, beer belly,, face flushed from sampling the rice wine?, He alone would be worth the ticket price, if you could throw in Eddie the Eagle and Alf Garnet( is he still alive?), and maybe Phil Tufnell trying to catch a cricket ball then all would good, the "Brits" truly do have the best sense of humour! Boris the Mayor! what a funny "bloke"! - the games are 4 years away, stop worrying for ***** sake!  I am an Aussie who lives and works in China, London will do just fine, as the Chinese did  

Answer 6

In my opinion, the Olympics should be about SPORT, yeah crazy I know!!!

Any opening or closing ceremony will try to be all things to all people - offending no one and pleasing everyone.  Consequently, it will be a bit cheesy and daft!  They will try to make sure that it is not too intellectually challenging either!

I think the Olympics should be about sport and NOT nationalistic medal tables and "empty" ceremonies that don't really reflect the culture - yeah crazy I know, I must be nutz!!!

It should not be a monument to political egos!

Answer 7

I fear that London's Olympics will be a big downer after Beijing.

I can imagine a tea lady going up and down the stadium aisles shouting "tea and crumpets guv'nor?"

Look at the London party at the Olympic switch over. It looked like an end of school term fete. And the singing line up of has-beens.

Answer 8

Don't altogether disagree with you and see where you are coming from. But do you think it is justified that the British RAF Red Arrows aerobatic team have been banned by Gordon Brown from being part of the opening ceremony apparently because our politically correct Authorities believe that it would be "too militaristic" to have the RAF involved because they bombed Germany in world War II? Also is it really right when our health service is so underfunded and money is so badly needed in so many areas to combat poverty to instead pour huge sums of money, like the Chinese did,  into the warm up section of a big show.