At two o'clock in the afternoon of August 8, in the Bird's Nest conference room, the heads of various departments of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games gathered together to mobilize and confirm the work before the official performance. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, Zhang Ran couldn't sit still at all, stood in front of the conference room and said loudly: "The key to the success of the whole performance tonight lies in the implementation of the details, we don't have any greater expectations, just follow the final rehearsal process." As long as we can follow the process, we are the best in the world!" Zhang Ran paused and began to confirm: "Let's start to implement the details, all the directors must tell the actors to be smiling before going on stage, I have emphasized this issue many times, it is really very important." I don't want the camera to cut to anyone's face during the performance, he has a straight face! We are the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, not a military parade, and we must be smiling! The choreographer of "Dream Five Rings" has determined that the five rings of the stars must be aimed at the five rings of the image on the ground!"

"Implemented!"

"The choreographer of "Picture Scroll" confirmed that the position of the paper should be corrected!"

"Implemented!"

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After the meeting, Zhang Ran and the members of the director team just returned to the office, and he pulled Ma Wen aside and said: "The ignition must be guaranteed to be foolproof, the ignition ceremony of the previous Olympic Games has never been mistaken, and we will not have major problems in other links, the key is ignition, and there must be no mistakes!"

Ma Wen nodded and said, "Don't worry, I have personally confirmed it, and it will definitely succeed!"

Zhang Ran told again: "We must not make mistakes!"

Ma Wen said confidently: "There is no mistake! Don't talk about this, hurry up and think of something else!"

Zhang Ran looked up at the sky outside the window, and said with a solemn expression: "The humidity is very high today, but don't rain!"

At this time, the Beiping Weather Office was issuing instructions to the sub-command centers of Beiping and surrounding provinces and cities, and the operators began to wait in their respective operation areas.

At three o'clock sharp, two planes were carrying out the operation of reducing rain and spreading catalysts in the northwest and upper western areas of Beiping, respectively.

After hundreds of rockets were fired, the clouds drifting towards Beiping were dispersed, and the rain mainly occurred in Fangshan in the southwest and Miyun in the northeast. However, the clouds are only temporarily dispersed, and it may take several more operations over the next few hours to ensure that the nest does not experience rain throughout the opening performance.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the actors of each program group had put on their makeup and came to the waiting area to wait, and the choreographer began to make the final mobilization for the evening performance.

Zhao Hongwei, the choreographer of "Dream", said: "We have been rehearsing from July 15 last year to August 8 this year, do you know what day it is for?

Xie Nan, the choreographer of "Dream Five Rings", said loudly: "I have seen many flying performances of many teams in China, you are the best flyers, everyone can maintain the level of training! I hope that the expression of each of you can be on the huge camera tonight! Come on, everyone!"

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Liu Chun, the choreographer of "Silk Road", shouted with a loudspeaker: "Don't be nervous, everyone, the usual rehearsals are already very good." Everyone should show our best level and hand in a satisfactory answer to our parents and all friends who care about the Olympic Games!

In the waiting area above and below ground, 15,000 actors raised their arms and waved their arms, and the loud cheering sound was like a nuclear bomb exploding, making the entire bird's nest shake.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the show was about to start, but the workers in the center of the venue were still undergoing maintenance. Wang Ning, the head of the Olympic Games Operations Department, was so anxious that he was furious: "I don't want to hear other reasons, I just know that the live broadcast is going to be broadcast soon, and your work has not yet been completed! If the performance is affected because of this problem, you are the sinners of the entire nation!"

At half past five, at the entrance of the audience, the audience waiting for entry with tickets began to undergo the security check in an orderly manner and entered the Bird's Nest. The security check process was very meticulous and the progress was not fast, so that the waiting line of spectators was 100 meters long, but the spectators waited patiently.

"The bird's nest is so big!" Fang Yan, an 11-year-old girl, found her place under the guidance of volunteers, and she excitedly looked at everything around her. She came from the magic capital, and although her father and mother came together, the whole family only drew a ticket for the opening ceremony, and she could only enter alone, and her parents were waiting for her outside the bird's nest.

Zhang Zhengwu, an 80-year-old man, raised his head to look for the location of the torch tower in the bird's nest, but he scanned the entire bird's nest and found no shadow of the torch tower. Zhang Zhengwu, who came from Nanning, suffers from high blood pressure and diabetes, has been hospitalized, and asked the doctor for three weeks off to watch the Olympics. He's been a sports man all his life, and now that the Olympics are on his doorstep, he has to come and see them anyway.

In the audience, a girl from Shenzhen held up a one-meter-square banner embroidered with the words "Come on, China" on it, and as soon as she opened the banner, she immediately attracted the attention of reporters who were interviewing in the audience.

At 5:40, Dong Qing, Yang Lan and other five hosts appeared in the center of the bird's nest, and the mat performance officially began. There are a total of 28 programs rich in regional characteristics and ethnic customs, including "Qiang Putt" in the Wenshan earthquake-stricken area, "Cangzhou Golden Lion Welcomes the Olympic Games" in Hebei, "We Are All Family" in Taiwan, and "Yao Xiangjiang, the Capital of Equestrian Games" performed by the Xiangjiang Dance Troupe.

After more than an hour of mat performances, the five hosts returned to the stage and began to teach the audience how to use the gift bags on their seats. In addition to the program list, there is also a small Olympic flag, a small flashlight, a flash stick, and a Fuwa-shaped clapping device, and when the performance officially begins, these small objects will be lit, clapped and waved in the hands of tens of thousands of spectators, which can create a happy and beautiful atmosphere.

By this time, the overhaul of the large screen on the ground was finally completed.

Wang Ning, who had been holding his heart all the time, finally breathed a sigh of relief, and it was only an hour before the official performance.

Zhang Ran didn't know about this situation, at this moment he and the members of the director team were already sitting on the command platform in the northwest corner of the rostrum. Zhang Jigang has put on a headset and sat in the position of commander-in-chief, he is the commander-in-chief of the entire first half of the performance, and the entire first half of the performance is scheduled by him.

The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games is particularly complicated, involving tens of thousands of people scheduling, and many performances are also particularly complicated, such as striking and singing, such as movable type, and the performance completely relies on passwords to direct the actors to do the action, one, two, three, four, two, three, four, it is impossible to shout with a loudspeaker like usual filming, and it is necessary to communicate with each other through a strict command system. As a result, the entire show's 14,000 performers and many on-site staff have headsets for everyone, which is probably the largest headset group in the world.

The core of the entire command system is the director group, and anyone must listen to the command of the director group during the performance, and the core conductor of the director group is codenamed Huang He, the first half of the command is issued by Zhang Jigang on behalf of the Yellow River, and the second half Chen Weiya gives the command on behalf of the Yellow River, and the whole performance is controlled by the two of them.

At 7:50 p.m., the No. 1 leader and IOC President Rogge entered the Bird's Nest, and the whole scene immediately resounded with earth-shattering cheers; immediately afterward, VIPs from all over the world also entered the Bird's Nest, ready to witness the opening of the Beiping Olympic Games, a grand event of the century.

At Zhang Ran's house in Beiping, Zhang Jingchu and Zhang Ran's parents sat in front of the TV, waiting for the start of the performance with excitement. As the family members of the chief director, Zhang Jingchu is eligible to buy a ticket for the opening ceremony, and the location is relatively good. However, because she could only buy one, Zhang Jingchu wanted one of Zhang Ran's parents to go, and Zhang Ran's parents asked Zhang Jingchu to go, but in the end, they didn't go, and watched TV at home collectively.

In Beiping, in Hengdian, and in various film and television bases, Zhang Ran's students sat in front of the TV with excitement and waited for the performance that their teachers had worked hard for more than three years.

At the station of the crew of "The Legend of Chunli" in Xiangjiang, Liu Yifei and Liu Xiaoli also sat in front of the TV and waited for the performance to start. Although Liu Yifei gritted her teeth with hatred for her master, she still couldn't help but want to see what his performance would be like after three years of hard work.

In the studio of the CCTV news channel, the host Zhang Quanling and Ning Hao chatted around the opening ceremony.

Zhang Quanling looked at Ning Hao and asked, "You are very familiar with Zhang Ran, and you are also a film director, what do you think the whole opening ceremony will be?"

Ning Hao thought for a while and said with a smile: "I think so, you think so, you think about the Athens Olympics, the middle of the venue is full of seawater, and the kind of civilization in the Aegean Sea is expressed through water, our Chinese civilization will not lose to Greece, and we may also dig out a symbol, we are a big river civilization, it is the Yellow River civilization, and we may excavate from these aspects." Mr. Zhang Ran is a film director, this performance will definitely be the same as his movie, it will be very good-looking, there will be no audience falling asleep, it will definitely use sound and light to the extreme, and will use a lot of high technology, the whole performance can be said to be a blockbuster!"

In a corner of the Bird's Nest, NBC hosts Bob Custer and Mante Lauer face the camera as they introduce the opening ceremony.

After all the political rambling, Bob Custer said: "I think we're going to see a perfect show, and given the size of China and the importance it places on the Olympics, I think it's going to be a big show." ”

Mante Raul agrees: "The opening ceremony had 15,000 actors, 11,000 athletes, and a budget of $300 million, which is ten times the size of the Athens Olympics! All of this was handed over to Zhang Ran, China's hottest director, three years ago! We will see what kind of work an artist will present to us after receiving almost infinite resources!"

Zhang Ran didn't hear this, otherwise he would definitely scold, go to your uncle's 300 million US dollars, go to your uncle's infinite resources! But there is no way, many foreign media are like this, if they don't hack China, they will feel uncomfortable.

On the Internet, countless netizens waited for the performance to start, and left messages on Weibo, Tieba, Tianya and other communities, telling their inner excitement and joy.

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"I've already stocked up on snacks, just waiting for the show to start, the national flag and the Olympic flag from the last time we welcomed the flame will be used again tonight, ready to wave and nibble on snacks again!"

"I've been stocking up on food, vegetables and snacks for three days, and I plan not to go downstairs for the next three days!"

"My husband went to Peking for an interview, and I watched the rehearsal of the opening ceremony. He sent me a message: "It's Zhang Ran, I'm stupid, I've beaten any previous Olympic Games in seconds!" After reading the text message, my heart began to get excited, looking forward to the opening ceremony!"

At the same time, hundreds of millions of viewers around the world, whether in Asia, Europe, the Americas, or Oceania, are waiting for the Olympic Games to begin.

At 7:58 a.m., the lights of the Bird's Nest went out, and the performance officially began to the deafening cheers of the audience.