Opening ceremony of the winter Olympics

[winter]

I hereby nominate the Turin Winter Olympics for most far-out opening ceremony ever O_O

Honestly. The whole thing was apparently designed by Gabriella Pesucci, who did costume design for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Van Helsing.

That explains the Willy Wonka and Alice in Wonderland meets degenerate eighteenth-century ball meets Anne Rice meets Botticelli on LSD bits. I'm even willing to let the renaissance flag-twirling cheerleaders pass, because the hose looked good on these guys' legs.

I still want an explanation of why they assembled a Ferrari sports car on stage and then had it go crazy, bathing the stage in smoke from the engine and the smoked rubber. And why Willy Wonka took his clothes off and climbed onto a parade float on fire, with a motorcycle on top of it, as an army of Japanese men in full war paint did karate kata.

EDIT: I would like to note that I wrote this before Yoko Ono and Peter Gabriel appeared to sing "Imagine" together.

Also, Signor Pavarotti? The Phantom called. He wants his chandelier back.

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[winter]

The Polish commentator, who is famous for spouting drivel in any circumstances no matter what's actually happening on screen, was struck speechless around the time the faux-Japanese guys came running out.

I think they should put this thing on DVD sometime...

[littleshebear.livejournal.com]

"The sparks of passion." Sparks of passion? WTF is that all about? They were just dudes on roller-skates with flame-throwers strapped to their backs.