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6 hours ago, Olympics2028 said:

Yea, okay, so Gamesbids' forum is like the small town where everyone sits on the front porch all day long and likes to gossip whenever a stranger drives by.

I guess that makes you the crazy homeless guy wandering the streets shouting to himself that everyone tries to ignore and closes their shutters when you walk by.

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I generally don't like pre-filmed segments during live events, but if a stadium has really large screens (which didn't exist years ago, such as during LA's last Olympics) that project clear images to the in-house audience, I guess that's okay.

In 2012, however, some major segments were pre-taped, which made the opening ceremonies too much like a TV variety show. 

 

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On 8/10/2024 at 1:19 PM, Sir Rols said:

I guess that makes you the crazy homeless guy wandering the streets shouting to himself that everyone tries to ignore and closes their shutters when you walk by.

Speaking of homeless, the early publicity about the 2028 games is that since LA has such a large homeless population, the next summer Olympics should somehow symbolize that, including during an opening ceremony.

Homeless people can be wheeled into the stadium, in front of the IOC, the 2028 OOC and other spectators, and they can be shown doing back flips and wheelies on little carts. A good time will be had by all.

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31 minutes ago, Olympics2028 said:

I generally don't like pre-filmed segments during live events, but if a stadium has really large screens (which didn't exist years ago, such as during LA's last Olympics) that project clear images to the in-house audience, I guess that's okay.

In 2012, however, some major segments were pre-taped, which made the opening ceremonies too much like a TV variety show. 

 

Why isn't Snoop totally exhausted from travel? He opened the Men's Breaking finals on the last day of the Olympics and then immediately flew to LA to perform at the beach stage? With him being in Paris as a NBC commentator, I assumed he'd stay to perform for the closing ceremony because that would make sense, logistically, but what??? This makes no sense. They really should hire me to make the logistics flow better (please)

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Moving on to LA - I hope the organising committee will appoint a Hollywood director for the opening ceremony. There is no shortage of talents in Hollywood to create and reset the benchmark of Olympic opening ceremony.

Some names to consider:

  • Damien Chazelle will be my first choice - he would be a great artistic director for the LA 28 opening ceremony. He has a great sense of spectacle, musicality and choreography as evidenced in his movie La La Land and Babylon. Partnered with his usual music score composer Justin Hurwitz. 
  • Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All At Once). Might be a too left of the field but could turn out a unique and unexpected plot.
  • Wes Anderson - enough said. Probably will be the most whimsical and Instagramable ceremony in history.
  • Steven Spielberg - maybe a little too predictable. Will be a safe pair of hand.
  • Guillermo del Toro - could be a quite dark and metaphorical ceremony. Could be the most magical

I really hope they will start making smart decisions for LA rather than the torrent of bizarre decision makings we witnessed in Paris.

 

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Watching this opening scene in La La Land again, I can totally imagine something like this in the opening sequence for LA OC. A continuous choreography from outside the Coliseum to inside, with a smashing soundtrack and slick camera work. It totally gets me excited thinking about what LA are capable of if they are determined to find the best talents to produce it.

 

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My only wish of LA28 OC it not have any east coast cliche anything from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln should’t feature in the OC. 
We already know the story of American foundation. I want to know the LA/California foundation 

My suggestion it should start in Nueva España era up to the present 

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I'm open to whatever theme, I just hope for something brilliantly executed, with some proper wow moments, and probably a little less bizarre (not that I mind bizarre) than we saw from Paris.

Whether I have the appetite for a big All American celebration could largely rest on what happens in a few months' time. :( But something tells me if the orange fash is back in the White House (and opening the Games) the LA organisers themselves might be wary of doing anything too nationalistic.

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I actually feel there’s no need to rehash history lessons in OC anymore. Just give us a celebration of what LA the city is about - the multi culturalism, the energy and the sunny exposition! 

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17 minutes ago, kevzz said:

I actually feel there’s no need to rehash history lessons in OC anymore. Just give us a celebration of what LA the city is about - the multi culturalism, the energy and the sunny exposition! 

But that's for the first-timers -- the new folks who hopefully will become Olympic converts.  And even for the choir, reviewing past Olympics always brings out something new.  

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9 hours ago, kevzz said:

Damien Chazelle will be my first choice - he would be a great artistic director for the LA 28 opening ceremony. He has a great sense of spectacle, musicality and choreography as evidenced in his movie La La Land and Babylon. Partnered with his usual music score composer Justin Hurwitz. 

as sabrina carpenter says "please please please"

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Some British guy produced the handover. After 2012 I admit I'm nervous when I think of what his fellow Londoner like Danny Boyle will do.

However, some of the best people in the movie industry are based in the UK, and some of the best movies produced over the past 30-40 years have been made there, not in LA. Personally, I don't trust today's Hollywood types to do a good ceremony.

The person who did 1984 was a TV/movie producer, but he was old school. The guy who did 1996 was also from LA and the entertainment industry. Compared with the 2024 French guy, he too was relatively old school, but not enough in a good way.  

This was done in 2016. Since so much of it was pure graphics or totally arranged overlays instead of live-action camera shots it seemed like more of a commercial. And inserting a politician into it turned me off.

BTW, LA's mayor last night imho looked somehow a bit more fitting than Paris's mayor did. 

 

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Based off of the content produced by the LA28 so far, I get a sense that the ceremony will be more about the diversity, creativity, and vibrance of life in Los Angeles rather than a jingoistic celebration of "America". LA84 did that, Atlanta'96 focused more on showcasing the South, and Salt Lake City in 2002 focused a lot on America's pioneer spirit. I think LA28 will go for a more "America's Playground" vibe. I expect it to be bright, bold, and fun. 

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I'm pissed off of the L.A. handover. So much potential wasted terribly.

But then reading some statements of the heads of the L.A. 2028 about wanting to bring a longer Super Bowl halftime spectacle and being super "boring" and "tacky", then... 

Anyway if for Copa America 2024 they offered us THIS, i can expect the worst:

 

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Games were moved forward to avoid clash with the 2028-29 NFL season with LA 2028 being completely in July for the first time since Paris 1924. They'll be time for SoFi to be reconfigured into an NFL stadium for the Chargers/Rams 

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14 hours ago, Roger87 said:

But then reading some statements of the heads of the L.A. 2028 about wanting to bring a longer Super Bowl halftime spectacl

you cant just say this and NOT give sources

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I'm really looking forward to the LA2028 Olympic ceremonies, especially seeing how American artists define and share their culture. Culture has so many definitions, and it’s constantly evolving. If they choose to present the USA in an expanded Super Bowl halftime show format, with celebrities and bands, that's valid. However, there’s also a risk that this approach might lose some of the originality and grandeur that traditional opening ceremonies are known for. It’ll be interesting to see how they balance that - if that is the approach they choose to follow. 

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My fear with bringing in film directors is making the ceremony a made-for-tv event. I get that 99% of the audience watches it on a tv, but the experience is for the athletes and folks in the stadium.

I will continue to say the 2-stadium approach needs to go away! Keep it all in the Coliseum! You can build advanced staging to bring the outstanding theatrics there!

The handover was a let down and I just hope the same people aren’t in charge of the big day. 

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1 hour ago, Anthony said:

Keep it all in the Coliseum! You can build advanced staging to bring the outstanding theatrics there!

agree on using one stadium rather than two, but the Coliseum retrofit to add an above-ground track is already costing the OCOG enough money as it is, do we really want to add to their expenses by adding the necessary theatrical infrastructure to host a post-2000 opening ceremony? the stadium doesn't even have a roof.

instead of focusing on the Coliseum the focus should instead be on keeping it entirely within SoFi.

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