London Olympics: “an opening ceremony for the 99 percent”

[kpete]

London Olympics: “an opening ceremony for the 99 percent”


Opening Ceremony London 2012: Did director take shot at US on health care?

The director of the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Games created a production for the 99 percent,
it seems. For an Olympic movement that hates controversy, that is unusual.



“One of the reasons we put the NHS in the show is that everyone is aware of how important the NHS is to everybody in this country,” he said at a press conference earlier in the day. ”One of the core values of our society is that it doesn’t matter who you are, you will get treated the same in terms of health care.”



[...] Is that political? That is in the eye of the beholder.

But it is hard to escape at least some small sense of advocacy in Boyle’s second act, particularly after a cigar-chomping elite let loose the gluttony of unchecked industry on the idyllic English countryside in the first act. This was, it seemed, an opening ceremony for the 99 percent.

more:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Olympics/2012/0728/Opening-Ceremony-London-2012-Did-director-take-shot-at-US-on-health-care
http://underthemountainbunker.com/2012/07/28/london-olympics-an-opening-ceremony-for-the-99-percent/

[applegrove]

1. I missed that part. Darn.

[jberryhill]

2. After the dark tribute to industrial capitalism...

...I had wondered, "What comes next, social democracy?"

[Lifelong Protester]

3. I am sorry I missed the first hour

but have read enough, and seen enough photos (and the video of the tribute to the victims of terrorism that NBC supposedly did not play) to catch a real theme, and a tribute to the 99% working class.

What I saw, I loved.

[Zorra]

4. Wrong. This is totally not possible.

Occupy is dead, and has had absolutely no effect on anything.

Signed,
The Anti-Social Justice Movement

[Avalux]

5. All I could think were two things.....

that some GOP voters in this country didn't 'get' the NHS part, and the ones who did got pissed off. Precisely why Romney dissed Britain, to keep his base happy.