On the morning of September 5, in front of Building 1 of Beiyuan Conference Center in Beiping, many people gathered. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Zhang Ran, Zhang Yimou, Zhang Jigang and other Olympic creative teams are all here, and today the creative team will report the opening ceremony plan to the leading group of the Olympic Organizing Committee for the first time.

The creative team was very confident in their plan and was very relaxed, and everyone was joking about it.

Zhang Jigang looked at Zhang Ran and said with a smile: "Zhang Ran, you can do it, you have become the dean, shouldn't you have a treat?"

Cai Guoqiang also said: "Yes, Dean Xiao Zhang, you will be the east tonight!"

Zhang Ran said speechlessly: "What kind of dean am I? Have you heard of the dean of 12 students? Our Asian Film Academy sounds very bluffing, but it is actually a training class. There are a lot of deans like me near Nortel, drop a billboard and kill ten, eight of which are deans!"

Zhang Heping smiled: "That's different, who can invite Scorsese and Murdoch to the other deans?"

Spielberg's appearance at the opening ceremony was not unusual, he was the artistic advisor of the opening ceremony, participated in the discussion of the creative group, and I particularly liked Zhang Ran, but Murdoch's is different, this is the world's newspaper tycoon, and no one expected his appearance.

Zhang Ran did not explain in detail that Murdoch came mainly for MySpace China, and Murdoch valued this project very much, believing that it was a key point for News Corp to gain a foothold in China. He smiled and said: "Okay, I'll have a treat, but not today, after today's meeting, I will rush to Tangshan to make final preparations for the movie." ”

Soon, the leaders of the leading group of the Olympic Organizing Committee came, and everyone entered the conference room and began the official content of the meeting.

The first task is to summarize and report on the work of Zhang Heping, the head of the work department, in the summary, Zhang Heping spoke highly of the work of Zhang Ran and Zhang Yimou, the two chief directors, and believed that they played a key role in the promotion of the entire program.

After Zhang Heping summarized, Zhang Ran began to report on the plan. He plugged in the USB flash drive, prepared to demonstrate the animation, came to the projection screen, and said calmly: "Leaders, let me give a brief introduction to the entire program! The opening ceremony is expected to be three and a half hours, divided into three parts. The pre-performance ceremony part lasts about 10 minutes, including the welcome ceremony, the national flag entry, the national flag raising, the national anthem is played, etc., the cultural performance part lasts about an hour, and the post-performance ceremony part includes the athletes' entrance ceremony, the speech of the President of the Olympic Organizing Committee, the announcement of the opening of the Olympic Games by the President of the People's Republic of China, and the ignition ceremony.

The pre-performance ritual part begins with a countdown, which is a traditional display item. The countdown to our opening ceremony is different from all previous countdowns, and it is combined with theatrical performances.

At 7:58 a.m., a light came from the sky, and the image of a sundial lit up on the edge of the stadium bowl, and then the sundial reflected a light to a corner of the stadium. In the stadium is 2008, divided into two rectangular arrays. There are LEDs on the top of the thread, and it glows when you tap the thread. When the light reflected by the sundial hits the stadium, the reels light up from one corner and then sweep the field. When the clock was almost 59 minutes, all the bands stopped playing and waited quietly. At 59 minutes, the musicians begin to hit the strings, playing the Chinese characters 60 in one row, the Arabic numeral 60 in the row, then 50, 40, and finally 10, 9, 8, 7 ......"

At the same time as Zhang Ran explained, the animation of the song began to be played on the screen, this animation is Previz made by heaven, and it is a 3D story version made entirely according to the movie lens, and the whole effect is very good.

The conference room was silent, and all the leaders present were shocked. Everyone has only one feeling, and if the opening ceremony can achieve this effect, it will definitely shock the whole world.

Three months ago, Zhang Ran said in an interview with Larry King, the national mouth of the United States, that the opening ceremony would be unheard of and unseen, and some leaders felt that Zhang Ran was too young and frivolous and full of words, but at this moment, everyone felt that if this effect was true, it would really be unheard of and unseen.

And the next part did not disappoint, especially the picture scroll. When a scroll lit up on the dark screen, and then slowly opened, the leaders present were all moved, knowing that we have a splendid civilization of 5,000 years, but it is really shocking to be able to express it in such a poetic and artistic way.

Zhang Ran's program is divided into four chapters, the first chapter is "Picture Scroll", which shows the origin of Chinese culture through a picture scroll; the second part reflects China's splendid culture through words; the third part, through the day of ordinary Chinese, shows the style of contemporary China, the integration of urban and rural areas is the theme of this part; and the fourth part shows the communication between China and the world through the Silk Road and the rising earth.

In the proposal, the creativity of the song and the picture scroll has been unanimously praised and is considered to be a huge highlight, while the third chapter, which shows contemporary China, is relatively thin, and neither the creativity nor the form of expression is novel.

Cai Fuchao pointed out: "I think we should refine the elements and symbols of contemporary China and modern Chinese life and express them artistically, rather than saying that a rural child and a city building here are too concrete, a little too real, as if artistic expression is slightly insufficient!"

A leader next to him added, "It's too life-like!"

Cai Fuchao nodded and continued: "I think the third chapter is the weakest in the whole plan, and the others are very good, especially the song and the picture scroll, which are too shocking." The third chapter is too inferior in comparison. I think so, IMHO!"

Liu Qi also put forward his own views: "The impact of the four great inventions on the world cannot be lost, this is the contribution of Chinese culture to mankind, this cannot be without! You look at where and through what form it is expressed, whether it is in the form of literature and art, or in other ways, it is to let everyone know about the four great inventions, which can also lay the foundation for us to continue to develop an innovative country in the future." ”

Zhang Ran agreed to the four major inventions, the opening ceremony of the theatrical performance on the sense of national superiority, is to show how awesome I am, the four great inventions are the influence of ancient Chinese civilization is relatively large, it should indeed be.

However, to Zhang Ran's surprise, despite the rave reviews for the song, some leaders still raised objections: "The song is really good, but this song is the same as the negative one, and the song is the same as the negative one, and the song is negative, this implication is not good!"

A leader echoed: "It's really a problem, it's not good to use a reins, let's start with a reins, that doesn't mean that the Olympics will be given as soon as they open, you can see if you can change the instrument, it's best not to use the reins!"

The whole creative team was stunned, is this Nima on it? This is too associative, right?

Zhang Ran saw that everyone else didn't speak, so he had to stand up: "The reason why we use the reeds is that we need an instrument that looks like a drum, but is not a drum." It must be masked, so that the drum surface can shine, and it is either ineffective with other instruments, or it has a living heritage, and it cannot be changed!"

The leader who put forward the point of view insisted: "There are so many ancient Chinese musical instruments, since you can find the thread, then it is possible to find a more suitable instrument, you can look for it!"

Zhang Ran felt that the egg hurt very much, and Zhen Nima was the leader with a mouth, and he broke his leg below. Obviously, there is a good plan that is not needed, but you have to change it blindly, how can there be such a thing!

After the report, Zhang Ran had no time to complain, and set off directly to Tangshan to make final preparations for the start of the movie. The film will hold a press conference on September 15th, which is only ten days away, and there are many things that he needs to deal with personally.

In addition to Zhang Jingchu, there were also students in Zhang Ran's class. It is also a rare experience for them to let them run around in this kind of drama. The other students are all excited to join the film crew for the first time, and they are all very excited; only Yang Mite is depressed, the old lady can be the number one CCTV woman, and now she is running the show, this is too miserable, right?

Yang Fan felt particularly aggrieved and pestered Zhang Ran to ask for a role: "Teacher Zhang, you said that I am also a highly anticipated newcomer now, why can't I be a pure trick, why don't you have to arrange two lines for me?"

Zhang Ran took Yang Mi's hand off his arm and asked, "Do you know how to speak Tangshan?

Yang Mi said eloquently: "Is there no Beiping person in Tangshan? Can't I play the Beiping person in Tangshan?"

Zhang Ran said very seriously: "All the actors in the whole scene of the movie have Tangshan accents, and a Beiping accent suddenly appears, which looks abrupt and will destroy the atmosphere of the movie." In this way, I will arrange a character for you who has no lines, but can show your face!"

Yang Mi immediately said: "There must be a close-up!"

Zhang Ran said angrily: "You still dare to pick fat and thin, and then make trouble for me to let you play the corpse!"

In Zhang Ran's view, accent is part of the character's soul, and this must be done well. If the actor's accent is wrong, the audience can easily play it. Zhang Ran went to watch Wu Yusen's movie "Red Cliff", Tony Leung and Takeshi Kaneshiro's accents were not to mention, the most terrible thing was Zhang Zhen and Zhao Wei, who obviously played brother and sister, but as a result, a Taibend cavity and a Beiping dialect, can this Nima be a brother and sister who grew up together?

On the contrary, this situation is relatively rare in American movies, if the movie involves accent problems, before the movie starts, the crew will take several months of training, and will ask the accent director to correct the actor's accent, and when the filming officially starts, the accent director will also correct the actor's accent on the spot.

The accents of actors in domestic film and television works often make people play, but in fact, the crew doesn't pay attention to it, and the actors don't bother to work hard. However, Zhang Ran is not used to this problem, and his requirement for all the movie actors in this play is that the accent must meet the standard. Wang Luodan and Ji Chen went to Tangshan in May to experience life, and children like Song Zhuer wanted to go to school, so they also found a special teacher to train for an hour every night to practice Tangshan dialect.

Zhang Ran is not from Tangshan, and he can't hear what they are saying, but after arriving at the crew, he specially invited a few local old people in Tangshan to check how Wang Luodan spoke in Tangshan. It wasn't until everyone said that Wang Luodan's accent was okay that he was completely relieved.

There are a lot of scenes in the play "Tangshan Earthquake", and there are a lot of extras needed, and they need a Tangshan accent, so they definitely can't be found in other places. On September 11, the crew openly recruited extras on location in Nanhu Park. Thousands of people came to sign up, far beyond everyone's imagination.

Zhang Ran saw an old man with a four or five-year-old granddaughter to sign up, so he asked, "Uncle, do you think this place has any feeling back then?"

The old man pointed to the platform across the street with some excitement and said, "I saw that No. 10 stop sign? Back then, I often took this train, from the starting point of Tangshan Railway Station to the end of Guye Station, the fare was 4 cents and 2 cents. ”

Hearing the old man say this, Zhang Ran nodded with satisfaction, Huo Tingxiao and they did a solid job.

It was September 15th. Zhang Ran got up early in the morning, and after washing, he stood in front of the window and took a deep breath, this play has been in preparation for a whole year, and now it is finally about to start!