Olympic ceremony’s ‘Last Supper’ sketch never meant to disrespect, says Paris 2024.

https://www.reuters.com/sports/olympics/paris-2024-apologises-any-offence-caused-by-last-supper-sketch-2024-07-28/

by BalticsFox

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  5. For the people without reading comprehension : the scene was meant to represent a pagan feast to the gods of the Olympus. Because you know, OLYMPIC games.

  6. i watched it to see what all the fuss was about and I don’t see how this is supposed to be disrespectful? It’s kinda weird with the blue guy in the middle yes, but it just feels like an homage to a very famous painting.

  7. I am not even christian but I am so fed up with this constant woke promotion everywhere. There was not even any aesthetics into it. One dude even had his fucking balls out..

  9. People have too boring and easy life’s if they spent this much energy being offended by this.

  10. Everything has to be some joke or inversion or some mockery. Just make a beautiful show that inspires greatness and celebrates the human spirit. Overweight ladies with beards aint that.

  11. >Thomas Jolly, the artistic director behind the flamboyant opening ceremony, said the scene had not been inspired by “The Last Supper” and depicted a pagan feast linked to the gods of Olympus.

    >”What bothers people isn’t that we’re reproducing this painting,” Bardin continued, “what bothers people is that queer people are reproducing it.”

    So which is it? Do you deny reproducing the painting or proud of doing it in the name of diversity?

    These people remind me of the holocaust denier that denies the holocaust and then praises it in one sentence.

    Oh and after deliberately insulting half of Europe they have the audacity to claim inclusivity and tolerance. Next step, to accuse the right of flaming the culture wars.

  12. What a joke this ceremony was. Bunch of weirdos dissrespecting normal people.

  13. It doesn’t, and wouldn’t disrespect, if people weren’t so touchy, fragile, mentally weak. I’ve found the “outrage” hillarious in an of itself. So manufactured, so voluntary, and all of that based on literally nothing, some meaningless satire. Fucking idiots.

  14. I didn’t even got it’s a take on the last supper. And recently I even put together a 1000 pieces puzzle of Leonardo’s masterpiece.

  15. > “What bothers people isn’t that we’re reproducing this painting,” Bardin continued, “what bothers people is that queer people are reproducing it.”

    Yeah fuck off please and thank you. People recreated it, in an artistic way. How they identify is literally irrelevant

  16. You being very sensitive and easily offendable doesn’t mean it was disrespectful, or a mockery, or an attack, that’s your reading and your interpreation because you are a stuck up privileged snowflake. The lack of culture and open mindedness here is astounding, some of you would very much like us to go back to the middle-ages.

    I actually thought it was pretty neat.

  18. Christians playing victim once again yet have a massive track record of human rights violations and child abuse.

  19. Isn’t it a different painting that they are representing?

  21. >Thomas Jolly, the artistic director behind the flamboyant opening ceremony, said the scene had not been inspired by “The Last Supper” and depicted a pagan feast linked to the gods of Olympus.

    So they weren’t even alluding to the last supper, cool outrage over nothing

  22. Hot take, christians are just as sensitive as muslims.

  23. I particularly like the bit in the bible with the unclothed blue dude on the table.

  24. All feelings aside, this is just incompetent. A global event of such scale should be mindful and very very careful when considering interpreting touchy religious subjects, yet they didn’t. If they had no intention to deliberately disrespect, then they simply had a very incompetent production process. This isn’t Eurovision (where this is expected), and this isn’t an event for a local/regional audience (that could possibly understand it).

    I didn’t mind the imagery that much, but generally it was just distasteful and rather vulgar. Thankfully it ended fast and the ceremony culminated with an incredible final performance and light show.

  25. People really need a reality check and stop hurting their feelings over every fucking thing. Holy fuck 2024 world would not survive even a week in early 2000’s

  26. The amount of conspiracy theories I saw about the Olympics and satanism makes me want to call Dan Brown and make him write a new book about it.

    I even thought for a second that they might have gone a bit too far with this, but then I saw that the people being offended by this performance also thought the beheaded act was also act of satanism, and had no idea about history or culture.

    What really fascinates me is that of all the Christian elements they could have used to provoke and “mock” the religion, they choose one of the most controversial paintings by a gay author that was reenacted so many times already and I don’t remember it being a problem before.

    Let’s be real here, you are not offended by what was recreated, it’s who recreated it was the problem.

    What sucks the most is that so many other amazing aspects of the opening ceremony are being completely ignored and nobody is talking about them.

    So, for anyone who watched and enjoyed the show, what was your favourite part?

  27. I did not watch the opening ceremony, but not sure what the last supper has to do with the Olympics.

  28. If people across the entire world watched that scene and were offended, then I would consider that a failure by the creative team. If they have to issue a statement explaining the meaning of a clearly controversial scene, that’s a failure. The purpose of the Olympics is unity, not division.

  29. Everybody who gets assmad because of that needs therapy. Fuck those people.

  30. I think this choice was very bad taste and I’m surprised that they didn’t think of it through.

    It would have been much better to a do a more inclusive societal scene with all aspects of the French society : Muslim girl with a hijab, Jew with a kippa, nun, gay couple etc. With Marianne in the center

  31. I wasn’t offended by it. It was just shit.

    Both the London 2012 opening and the 2008 Beijing games opening were miles better.

  33. Well the video from the official youtube channel has now been deleted and at least 1 advertizer has pulled out…

    [aol.com](http://aol.com)

    # US tech company pulls Olympics ads after opening ceremony ‘mockery of the Last Supper’US tech company pulls Olympics ads after opening ceremony ‘mockery of the Last Supper’

    Hit them where it hurts..in the wallet…

  34. Shittiest Olympic opening ceremony, didn’t even got to see this live, switched the channel way before.

  35. The people who call marginalized people fragile are offended because they thought a painting was being mocked.

    Did I get it right?

  36. Viewership must be plummeting lol. I feel bad for the athletes. I wonder if advertisers and other 3rd parties have a case for a lawsuit?

  37. Because it’s NOT “Last Supper”, which btw never happened and is merely a painting.

    It’s Dionysus’ Feast.

  38. And honestly… who cares if it did.

    I, for one, am sick of goddists getting their panties in a wad over magical sky fairies and our disbelief in their nonsense.

  39. I’m finding this claim quite difficult to believe

  40. Why should the organisers apologise to a bunch of fundamentalist loonies who deliberately misinterpreted the meaning of the piece just so they could play the victim for their culture war agenda?

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