Danny Boyle 's Olympic Trilogy dealt with historic , literary and pop culture references . Featured in the ceremony were representations of looms for manufacturing textiles and iron-making processes which played a key role in the revolution . Its title , ' Isles of Eden , ' was inspired by a line in Shakespeare 's ` ` The Tempest '' It contained many references to the celebrated William Blake poem ` ` Jerusalem '' But it 's not all that : There was also a reference to a famous weatherman blooper .
Danny Boyle 's Olympic Trilogy dealt with historic , literary and pop culture references . Its title , ' Isles of Eden , ' was inspired by a line in Shakespeare 's ` ` The Tempest '' It contained many references to the celebrated William Blake poem ` ` Jerusalem '' But it 's not all that : There was also a reference to a famous weatherman blooper .