Technical triumph showed Danny Boyle's great capacity for spectacle but was marred by strange shifts in toneWatching Danny Boyle's £27m spectacular, I was reminded of an old rhyme about a famous director of Hollywood epics. It ran "Cecil B DeMille rather against his will, Was persuaded to leave Moses out of the Wars of the Roses." In other words, in trying to give us a potted, panoramic vision of Britain past, pre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10PM on July 27, 2012