That said, apparently Japan went whole hog: a massive proportion of the orchestrations at this year's opening ceremony seem to have been from games, rather than just the occasional piece. It really does become a bit of an equalizer for those working in score and classical music of various mediums. When money is no object and viewers from the entire world are your target audience, all that matters is selling the tone of grandeur and pageantry and high, noble emotion. I couldn't even attempt to recall how many times in the last twenty years worth of opening ceremonies that I've heard some niche piece of music from a game, or anime, or non-blockbuster film, that I otherwise would never expect to hear in a mainstream context. Click to expand.That's not altogether surprising: the Olympics are so high profile and have such a unrestricted budget, that the organizers are essentially able to turn out the entire contents of every database of licensed music in existence in search of appropriately majestic orchestrations.
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