MONA LISA IS LOST
I liked the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
I don’t know how the people on the banks of the Seine managed not to get bored between country and country, between boat and boat… How long did it take on average for a boat to pass the first point and arrive at the last? I’m concerned about the pace, not the contact with those parading. In the end, in a stadium you can’t see very closely or cheer very closely with the athletes.
Obviously the dances and songs from one point were played at all the points on the screens… I think.
I liked the mysterious bearer. I think that 8 out of 10 people in the world would say that those clothes are “French-like.” Did you get the idea from Assassin’s Creed, the video game? Great narrative elements: who is he, what does he do, where is he going…? It activated the minds of all the spectators: what will he do, what does he want…? It was a lot cheaper than creating a series of platforms and clothes and dancers and props and stage machinery to have a scene that represented this and that period or feature of French culture.
What respect they showed for books. As a native of a country that has already decided to embrace illiteracy, I am thrilled that there is another one, over there, on the other side of the sea, who really loves books and reading so much that he creates something like the superb building of his BnF. Now I understand where the gringos got their reading culture from.
Each story that the mysterious bearer allowed to be told was very efficient and I insist: much cheaper if they had tried to represent it as a dance and a stage set inside a stadium. Of course you can represent the BnN in a stage set… that will never do justice to the real building.
I think all the metalheads with their woke and anti-consumerist vibe missed Gojira. If you are anti-consumerist, then don’t watch the Olympics, what a capitalist thing… And what a violent, crude, bloodthirsty performance you missed… The decapitated Antoinette in every window chanting her execution, the makeup, the best gore… We all applaud it.
Dreamworks was there… We will have to investigate the details of that collaboration. Why didn’t they choose the Pink Panther and Inspector Clouseau? Why would anyone under thirty who hears those names immediately turn to look at the other person and ask: who and who, what are you talking about? Without a doubt the parents called their children to see the minions, and the children immediately understood what was happening: a robbery, that it was going to go wrong or that it was a joke… Again: efficiency.
And what happened to the Mona Lisa floating in the Seine?
No historical figure, except Coubertin. Neither Descartes, nor Napoleon, nor his Louises, nor Charles Martell, nor Joan of Arc, nor Cézanne, nor Flaubert, nor Proust, nor Verne…
Why?
Why is it about expressing that culture belongs to the people, not to individuals? That culture is all the objects, buildings, squares, fabrics, and manners that express a certain character and that are recognizable to those who are not part of that culture? Does that mean the Mona Lisa floating in the Seine, like a bottle carrying a message?
I don’t know. But the event was magnificent, exciting, and fun.
Woke? Today everything is woke. The disruptive thing would have been if it wasn’t woke.
