Danny Boyle’s £27 million opening ceremony has caused a stir in the media. With Beijing’s spectacular ceremony what we have to live up to, is it really fair to compare? China spent £63 million+ on their four hour ceremony. With less than half the budget that China had, Danny Boyle doesn’t have as much to work with. The media have recently described it as “Looking like the opening title of Eastenders”. The ceremony is meant to show the quirky side of Britain.
Boyle recently had to defend his idea to use live animals in the show, writing to Peta to assure them they wouldn’t be killed after the performance.
Let’s face it, whatever happens I think we can be assured it will be quirky - in the way that Britain always is. And if Boyle’s adaptation of Frankenstein is anything to go on, we need not fear because that was visually amazing.
By Lucy Allen
