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On April 21, the first meeting of the creative team of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games will be held in the conference room on the third floor of the Olympic Building.

At this moment, there were already seven or eight people sitting in the conference room, chatting enthusiastically. When Zhang Ran pushed the door in, they all turned their heads to look over, and when they saw that it was Zhang Ran who came in, they turned their heads back and continued the topic just now, as if they didn't see Zhang Ran at all.

They are all members of the same team, and Zhang Ran is still their head, they obviously saw it, but they pretended not to see it, which is obviously slapping Zhang Ran in the face.

Zhang Ran frowned, and he didn't have the idea of saying hello in the past, he must have been bored in the past, so he found a place to pull the chair out, sat down with a big sword, and drank slowly with a teacup.

In addition to Zhang Jigang, Chen Weiya, Yu Jianping and Lu Jiankang, the other Zhang Ran did not know each other, and they should be members of Zhang Jigang and Chen Weiya's team. Zhang Jigang and Chen Weiya are the directors of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Paralympic Games, respectively, and they should form their own teams to be responsible for the work of the Paralympic Games while participating in the creative ideas of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games.

Just then, someone pushed the door open and entered. Everyone in the conference room turned to see a middle-aged man with short hair and a young woman.

Many people present didn't know who came, but Zhang Ran knew that this was the pyrotechnic master Cai Yuqiang and the visual artist Ma Wen, he was quite strange, who invited the two of them?

Cai Yuqiang and Ma Wen both live in New York, and most of the people present do not know each other, only Zhang Ran is more familiar, but they have no intersection with each other. Cai Wenqiang's status in the art circle is extremely high, and he is a senior, so it is impossible to take the initiative to come over to make friends with Zhang Ran, so he and Ma Wen found a place, pulled out a chair and sat down, and chatted quietly.

As soon as Cai and Ma Wen sat down, the door was pushed open again.

As soon as Zhang Ran looked at the person, he immediately smiled, it was Han Lixun, and immediately beckoned: "Old Han, here!"

Han Lixun laughed, walked quickly to Zhang Ran's side, pulled out a chair and sat down: "Zhang Ran, you still have this habit, you arrive early every time you have a meeting!"

Zhang Ran smiled and waved his hand: "No, no, I didn't arrive early!"

Han Lixun suddenly realized that something seemed wrong, Zhang Ran was the chief director, why was he sitting here alone, and there was no one talking to him. He turned his head and saw that Cai Yuqiang and Ma Wen were bowing their heads and talking, while Zhang Jigang and Chen Weiya didn't look at each other, as if they and Zhang Ran didn't exist.

It was not the first time Han Lixun had participated in a large-scale performance, and he immediately understood that Zhang Ran was too young, and Zhang Jigang and Chen Weiya were the head of the General Political Song and Dance Troupe, and the other was the deputy head of the National Song and Dance Troupe, and their prestige and status in the circle were not comparable to Zhang Ran. But Zhang Ran became the chief director and became their superior, so they were naturally unconvinced.

This is the first time Han Lixun has encountered such a thing, if it were someone else, Han Lixun would be worried that this person would not be able to sit firmly in the position of chief director, but he has great confidence in Zhang Ran. When he joined Zhang Ran's bidding team, he also felt that Zhang Ran was too young and was very skeptical of his level, but he soon found out that Zhang Ran was an extremely powerful person, and when the bidding was completed, he was convinced by Zhang Ran.

Look down on Zhang Ran, hehe, you will know how wrong you are!

Han Lixun smiled at Zhang Ran: "Now they don't understand, but they will understand later." ”

After a few minutes, Zhang Yimou came with his team members, in addition to Wang Chaoge and Fan Yue, who were known as the Iron Triangle with Zhang Yimou, there was also a middle-aged man with glasses who was quite face-to-face.

Zhang Yimou saw the situation in the conference room clearly, greeted Zhang Ran with a smile, and said, "Zhang Ran, you came so early!" and then introduced: "This is Gao Xinsheng, who is responsible for the work of writing." ”

Zhang Ran shook hands with Gao Xinsheng, and then introduced to Zhang Yimou: "This is Han Lixun, who has served as the chief designer of stage art and plastic arts in many large-scale cultural and sports activities and theatrical performances, and is a very powerful artist!"

Zhang Yimou said very politely: "I have admired the name for a long time!"

After a brief chat with Zhang Ran, Zhang Yimou went straight to Cai Guoqiang, and neither he nor Zhang Ran mentioned the matter of "Golden Armor", as if it had not happened. Zhang Yimou knew that Zhang Ran couldn't be blamed, and Zhang Ran was not aiming at Zhang Yimou, so everyone was avoiding this matter.

Zhang Ran learned through the dialogue between Zhang Yimou and Cai Guoqiang that the reason why Cai Guoqiang appeared here was Zhang Yimou's invitation. Zhang Ran was a little surprised, Zhang Yimou is the kind of artist who is not good at interpersonal communication and is a little withdrawn, but he didn't expect to invite Cai Guoqiang and them to join, it seems that Lao Mouzi is really working hard to do a good job in the opening ceremony.

Zhang Heping was the last to enter the venue, he was the head of the work department of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games, and he was the head of Zhang Ran and Zhang Yimou. He glanced around, saw that everyone had arrived, sat down in the middle, knocked on the table, and said, "Comrades, let's have a meeting!"

Everyone held down the conversation, and their eyes focused on Zhang Heping's body.

"Today is the first meeting of our creative team, and the work of the opening ceremony is mainly in charge of Youmou and Zhang Ran, and I will beat the side drum to serve everyone!" Zhang Heping opened the folder on the desktop, took a look, and said, " The reason why I will talk about it today is mainly because there are two things to inform you, the first is that the owner of the Bird's Nest hopes that we will provide construction needs as soon as possible, whether to dig a pit, how deep to dig, how deep to bury the pipeline, and what to do, we must put it forward as soon as possible, otherwise it will delay the completion of the Bird's Nest, which requires us to come up with a plan as soon as possible, at least to come up with a general direction.

There is also a matter of budget, since the beginning of the previous year, the country has proposed to be frugal to hold the Olympics, the Bird's Nest's initial budget was 4 billion, and now it has been slimmed down to 2.37 billion, and the original design of the Bird's Nest can be opened sliding roof has now been cut down. The total cost of the opening and closing ceremonies in Athens was 81 million euros, which was 900 million yuan according to the exchange rate, setting a record for the cost of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games. The Beiping Olympic Organizing Committee promised that our cost would not be higher than that of Athens, and the final national budget was 800 million yuan, which must be completed within this budget. We can't say that the leadership money is not enough, my idea is too good, you can add another 200 million to me, it is impossible. The budget is set by the State Council, and if you want to increase the budget, you have to find the top leader. ”

Everyone present was stunned, not that 800 million is too little, this number is not much less than Greece, considering that the cost of Chinese labor is extremely cheap, 800 million should be enough. It's just that everyone didn't expect the country to kill this, originally everyone thought that the opening ceremony was the country's façade work, it must be calling for wind and rain and doing whatever you want, as long as you get the show right, it doesn't matter how much money it costs.

Zhang Ran was not surprised, he had watched the documentary of the Olympic Games and knew that the budget problem had always been a headache for Zhang Yimou, and sometimes he had to talk to the manufacturer in person for tens of thousands of yuan.

Many people see that the opening ceremony of the Beiping Olympics is more gorgeous, the formation is very large, and they feel that the cost must be high, especially after the opening ceremony of the London Olympics, many people know that they came out to bring the rhythm, saying that the opening ceremony of the Beiping Olympics was extravagant and wasteful, and that the opening ceremony of the London Olympics cost less than one of three hundredth of Beiping, and then patted their heads to come up with a data, and the opening ceremony of the Beiping Olympics cost 15 billion.

It's actually a good thing that the black government is justified and well-founded, but this kind of brainless black, the data that can be obtained by patting the head, is really a bit of a show lower limit. 15 billion US dollars, you can lay gold bricks on the ground of the bird's nest.

Zhang Ran believes that when the 2016 Rio Olympics arrive, these people will definitely say that the cost of Rio is one-half of that of Beiping, and criticize the extravagance and waste of the Beiping Olympics as a face-saving project.

In fact, according to the data released by the National Audit Office in 09, the four ceremonies of the Peking Olympics and the Paralympic Games cost a total of 830 million. The budget is still over, and as for who went to talk to the supreme chief in the end, Zhang Ran didn't know.

After Zhang Heping finished speaking, he glanced at Zhang Ran, and then his eyes fell on Zhang Yimou's face, and he said with a smile: "Yimou, you and Zhang Ran are both chief directors, you are older, you come first, talk about your thoughts on the opening ceremony!"

Zhang Yimou was not polite, and said directly: "Then I will talk about it first, other countries must be happy to open the Olympic Games, but there is no strong psychology, that is, I want to seize this opportunity to show our nation's thousands of years of culture and achievements, some countries feel that the Olympic Games are just a world-class games, there are huge business opportunities, can take this opportunity to improve the influence of the family, by the way to express their own country's culture." But we are holding back our strength, rolling up our sleeves and going to do a big job, as if we want to vent our breath, so that the world can get to know China well, and this mentality is different from any country. If it doesn't get it right, it will definitely be scolded by the whole country. A few days ago, I talked to Zhang Ran about this, and we both felt that the opening ceremony could only take the first, not the second, and to take the second was a failure, and the audience could not accept it, and they would feel that we had failed their expectations, so we had to create a transcendent and unprecedented Olympic opening ceremony.

Our biggest opponent right now is the opening ceremony in Athens, and I personally love the opening ceremony of the Athens Olympics. One of the clever aspects of the opening ceremony of the Athens Olympics was that water was used as a stage. They took the traditional stage art to the extreme, employing huge hoisting in the space. It's too hard to surpass. We must find such a symbolic symbol, not to explain it, and everyone will see it, China! Without such a symbol, it would be difficult for us to surpass Athens. Our top priority is to find this, and if we can't settle on this, we won't be able to move at all!"

Zhang Yimou paused and continued: "In addition, I think that our whole performance should have an action, or a performance throughout, and we should complete a performance art on the spot, so that we can distinguish ourselves from other galas. ”

Everyone present nodded, their eyes showed admiration, a plan is worthy of a plan, the idea of completing a performance art on the scene is too good, and it is really right to let him be the chief director.

Zhang Ran also felt that Zhang Yimou's idea was very good, he knew that in the end, the director team came to the painting according to this composition, starting from the theatrical performance, the actors in the ancient part painted the mountains, rivers, the sun and the moon, the children in the modern part dyed green and smiling faces, and finally the footprints of athletes from 204 countries around the world stepped out of the colorful earth, forming a concise and bright children's painting, which is the world's largest performance art, which makes "the same world, the same dream" to the most simple and easy-to-understand embodiment.

Chen Weiya was very dissatisfied with Zhang Ran, his eyes flashed, and he said with a smile: "Zhang Ran, what do you think of Yimou's idea?" You are also the chief director, I believe you also have the same excellent ideas, talk about your ideas!"

Everyone's eyes were focused on Zhang Ran, especially those who were dissatisfied with Zhang Ran smiled, Zhang Yimou, who is also the chief director, showed his skills and won everyone's respect, if Zhang Ran can't come up with the same excellent ideas, he can only be swept away, and no one will take him to heart in the future.