"Last Supper" depiction at Olympics Opening Ceremony

That time Disney mocked the last supper:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKmw5KGAGgY7GP3RXLjXY_-MN_3_GjMqN&si=q0MC7dTBXmrZ8oil

(“It tells the story of the mythological creatures gathering for a festival to honor Bacchus, the god of wine riding his horned donkey, Jacchus; the bacchanal is disturbed by Zeus, who decides to have a little fun by throwing thunderbolts at the attendees.”)

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/The_Pastoral_Symphony

(I don’t think I’ve ever sat through Fantasia all the way through without napping off at least once anyone else)

Except that isn’t true. It’s a feeble attempt to rewrite what happened and pretend it wasn’t about Christianity. Like the kid who curses at a teacher under his breather and then pretends he didn’t when called out on it.

If you’re going to be edgy, own it.

(Not being a practising Christian that isn’t the aspect that bothers me most about this, but I still think we need to be honest about it.)

That may be her view after seeing the picture and associating it to the Last Supper.

That doesn't mean that was the intention of the director, choreographers and of the organising committee.

All of this would have been meticulously planned out over several years. There will be evidentiary material to prove so.

(Not being a practising Christian that isn’t the aspect that bothers me most about this, but I still think we need to be honest about it.)

Have to ask, do you reckon then that there was actually any intent to “mock Christianity”, or are people who claim to be offended, offended because it was drag? Like I know for you it’s the drag and at least you’re honest about it, but for me I didn’t even know ‘twas a meme in popular culture to pose like the Last Supper. A reproduction of the painting hung in my living room throughout my childhood and not once did it occur to me that it was, as some people are claiming “sacred among Christians”.

It had no more significance than being Leonardo DaVinci’s depiction of the Last Supper - famous because of all the meanings that people have drawn from it, like all the hidden clues and meanings, like claiming Mary Magdalene is one of the apostles, which wouldn’t have been out of place if that’s what the artistic director intended I guess 😂

I didn’t catch it because it was a fleeting moment, and for it to occur to anyone that the woman was meant to represent Jesus is a stretch, unless it had been explicitly explained already, cos according to the Gospels (three of them anyway) Jesus didn’t turn up until the room had been prepared, yet the woman was there before any of the ‘apostles’ arrived 🤔

So now it’s going to be all about satan, always something for these types to get upset about.

i hope they never watch Love Hate

I wouldn’t call it a parody, more like a homage or piggy backing of it. It’s an iconic image from a very famous artist which I doubt anyone wants to mock, and it lends itself well to using it a group setting.

Does this not show that it was more of the directors interpretation of 'Feast of Dionysus'?

No no please don’t close, it’s teaching ignorant easily offended snowflakes European history and culture

It’s also hilarious

They also had the Mona Lisa floating in the Seine, where is the outrage?!