But the visuals picked up a gear when the green and pleasant landscape-complete with chickens, goats and cows-gave way to the age of industry, with factory towers rising out of the earth and the greenery being paved over and flooded with a fiery river Thames of molten iron. There were some early cringe-worthy scenes of pre-industrial Britain: maypole dancers, thatched cottages, mustachioed beekeepers, and a hirsute Kenneth Branagh dressed up as British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel orating from Shakespeare’s The Tempest. It was a quirky and bizarre opening ceremony for London’s Olympic Games tonight, taking the form of a visually spectacular if at times uneven odyssey through British history and culture.
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