Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024 Ceremonies

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Not sure what the best thread is for this kind of post, but I'm putting it here for now...

 

In the blur that was Paris 2024, I never realized how high Victor Le Masne set the bar with this song. It grew on me quickly after the reveal, but I never had much time to digest it until recently.

 

https://youtu.be/u_5E2uiVAHA?si=YobFuiQW6biRKumQ

 

Also, I was thinking about how creatively/artistically progressive Paris 2024 was tonight. I'm genuinely curious to see what its creative legacy will be in the coming years. 

Edited March 16, 2025 by Olympian1010

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Exactly a 1 year ago Olympics in Paris has offcialy started with Opening Ceremony, time passes so fast....

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Stuf that were cut due to the rain... or was not recorded 

 

https://www.lequipe.fr/Jo-2024-paris/Tous-sports/Actualites/Tableaux-realisation-tele-comment-la-pluie-a-bouleverse-la-ceremonie-d-ouverture-des-jo-de-paris-2024/1580680

 

Deepl translation

 

Spoiler

While Céline Dion brilliantly concluded the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games by singing on the Eiffel Tower despite the rain, several artists were unable to perform for safety reasons. "We had this huge dancing fresco, with musicians and dancers planned for almost every roof from City Hall to Châtelet. As some of them were too steep, we decided, because it was too dangerous and even though the artists were insured, not to go ahead with the sequence," recalls Thierry Reboul, the Paris 2024 ceremonies director.

 

It was a last-minute decision, one of around 40 that the creative director had to make. “It's not a decision you make in the morning. We had said that we wouldn't let the artists go up on the roofs if it rained too hard, we were waiting to see how heavy it would be, but the Météo France expert was confused,” he laughs today.

Another sequence was disrupted by the downpour, but not completely canceled, as it was filmed in the early afternoon and broadcast as a pre-recorded segment. For tableau 7, entitled “Sportsmanship,” five floating platforms had been installed on the Seine between the Invalides and Alma bridges with skateboarding and BMX ramps to celebrate urban sports. “We took advantage of the performers' rehearsal in the early afternoon to record the sequence and get it in the can,” recalls Thierry Reboul.

 

"To be honest, for four hours, it was chaos. It was the biggest show ever organized, and therefore never filmed before. And then the cameramen were also caught in a downpour." 

Then there are the scenes that viewers didn't see at all because they weren't filmed by the teams at OBS, the host broadcaster for the Games. This omission drew a lot of criticism, including from Thomas Jolly, artistic director of ceremonies for Paris 2024, the very next day. A year later, Reboul still hasn't gotten over it: "We stuck the OBS teams with a huge baby on their hands. We have to be honest and say that for four hours, it was chaos, it was the biggest show ever organized, so it was never filmed. And then the cameramen were also caught in torrential rain. "

As a result, he missed several minutes of the Patrouille de France show, during which the planes drew a heart in the Parisian sky. The acrobatics of the Paris firefighters on the Notre-Dame bridge were not filmed, and the performance of tightrope walker Nathan Paulin, who walked on a 350-meter-long strap about 30 meters above the Pont Neuf for half an hour, was reduced to a bare minimum. “I wasn't seen once walking on the line, and even worse, the acrobats below,” the highliner explained to us in December.

 

Paulin was only filmed when he loosened his strap to fetch one of the acrobats and bring her up with him, a feat that had never been done before. "The day before the ceremony, I stayed on the line from 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. and we did a series of rehearsals to show the OBS teams as much as possible, but it was a little too late. On the day of the event, there were boats to film, the weather wasn't good, so the drones didn't fly, and a lot of shots couldn't be filmed."