London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony got under way Friday (27/7/12) at exactly 20:00 local time. The bells mark the event at the Olympics began his 2012 London Olympics to cost 42 million dollars and is supported by 10,000 volunteers.
Claimed to be an Olympic bell chimes with the most harmonious sound in the world, the Whitechapel Bell Foundry made, in which the place of manufacture only a few miles from the stadium. The Foundry also created the Liberty Bell (1752) and Big Ben (1858). Bell’s Olympic Park will remain for 200 years, and after reaching the time it will be brought back to the Foundry.
British director Danny Boyle, fulfilling his promise to show the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony filled with shades of British and humor. In a moment, and 80,000 spectators witnessed more than one billion television viewers, are shown in British history is packed into a stunning show.
The women who wear the herding of animals on a beautiful grass surface with a cottage and a windmill, in the show “magical islands” the work of Boyle, Oscar winning director.
“This ceremony is an effort to show our own image as a country, where we were from and where we want to be,” Boyle said in a statement, as the Opening Ceremony Artistic Director, about his idea.
Queen Elizabeth II is also present at the Olympic Stadium. He received a warm welcome from the spectators who packed the place to hold the opening ceremony, which uses the funds of 42 million U.S. dollars, or nearly USD 400 billion and is supported by 10,000 crew.
After seven years of planning, four multievent Games officially kicked off this year. Large clumps of clouds around a track stadium that are closed and the bird voices heard in the speaker, before the children count down, and ultimately a giant bell rang promptly at 20:00, and decorated with the emergence of the giant balloons.
Formation Red Arrows jets flying and smoke red, white, and blue at 20:12 o’clock, and there is a party atmosphere in the stadium as a comedian and folk singer “heats” the audience.
Elgar songs later replaced techno music and then songs from the Sex Pistols, before the Tour de France champion, Bradley Wiggins, ring the large bell that was specially designed.
Boyle tried to show the British way of the past are very natural and green, before it turned into a rural area following a hectic Industrial Revolution. Do not forget, in this ceremony was shown moments of appreciation for the country that runs the UK National Health Service by placing a bed in the arena.
The famous actor, Kenneth Branagh; author of the Harry Potter novels, JK Rowling, and starring Mr Bean, Rowan Atkinson also plays a role in the ceremony which was cut 30 minutes duration. In fact, Mr Bean showing the action of silly, but inspiring, when using an umbrella to press the piano keys. More than 80 world leaders also took part in the ceremony, including First Lady Michelle Obama, who represented the United States. Celebrities also appear there, such as Angelina Jolie.
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