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“When we watch Emily in Paris or [the film] Amélie we know it’s not
quite the real Paris – we’re going to play with all those cliches, but
we’re also going to challenge them,” said Thomas Jolly, the young
director who has created the show. “Paris is also its vibrant youth,
different cultures rubbing shoulders in the streets.”

He envisioned the show as a giant performance in 12 acts, culminating
at the Trocadero in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, where 100 heads of
state will watch.

France was impressed by the humour of the late queen’s apparent
parachute from a plane with James Bond during London’s opening
ceremony in 2012, and one priority for the Paris show is to provide
its own form of tongue-in-cheek and inventiveness, to disprove any
stereotype of French haughty seriousness.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/25/paris-prepares-for-olympics-opening-ceremony-spectacle-along-river-seine