Chapter 609: Symposium

When the Olympic Organizing Committee asked him to report to the Politburo, Zhang Ran knew that he should be directing the opening ceremony. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

But even so, when Zhang Ran really heard that he was directing the opening ceremony, the blood in his body instantly rushed to the top of his head, and his heart beat wildly at several times the usual speed.

Han Lixun and Shen Wei showed bright smiles and applauded, while Cai Guoqiang, Ma Wen, and Zhang Jigang also began to applaud and congratulate Zhang Ran.

Zhang Ran has already conquered everyone with his ability, and it is also expected that he will direct the opening ceremony.

Zhang Yimou is very disappointed, starting from 2000 as the chief director of the Olympic bid TV promotional film, to now, he has participated in the Olympic work for 7 years. In his opinion, directing the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games is the greatest honor, but now he has completely lost the opportunity. However, he still stood up gracefully, stretched out his hand with a smile, and said sincerely: "Congratulations, Zhang Ran!"

Zhang Ran shook Zhang Yimou's hand vigorously, and said earnestly: "Thank you, we will work together next!"

The two hands clasped tightly and then parted.

Zhang Ran thought that the plan had passed the central review, the candidate to direct the opening ceremony had been decided, and then the whole work should enter the fast lane, but it turned out that Zhang Ran was still too naïve.

After listening to the report, the central authorities gave instructions calling for further pooling of wisdom and combining the wisdom of experts and the masses. In order to implement the spirit of the Central Committee, on March 24, the Olympic Organizing Committee held a symposium on "The Opening Ceremony of the Beiping Olympic Games that I am looking forward to" to listen to the opinions and suggestions of representatives from all walks of life in the capital on holding the opening ceremony.

The symposium was held at 9 a.m. in the Olympic Building, Zhang Ran presided over the meeting, and Liu Qi, Zhang Heping and other heavyweights were present. The forum invited 14 people from all walks of life in the capital, ranging from social elites to ordinary people.

After the symposium began, Liu Qi, on behalf of the Olympic Organizing Committee, expressed his heartfelt thanks to the representatives of the masses from all walks of life attending the symposium, and hoped that everyone would actively make suggestions and suggestions around the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.

Next, Zhang Ran, the chief director, should speak, he didn't like to talk nonsense, and said directly: "As the chief director of the opening ceremony, I hope to get three suggestions from you, first, what do you want to see, second, what do you want to see, and third, what do you think you want to show foreigners." Now that I've said that, I would like to invite you to share your views!"

In Zhang Ran's view, this kind of forum is purely formalism, and if we want to listen to the opinions of the masses and post problems on the Internet, what opinions are not? If we do not want to spread them widely, we can set up an internal forum and issue a password for permissions. Doing such a formalized thing as a symposium is a complete waste of time and extremely inefficient.

But there is no way, the symposium was requested by the leadership, and even Liu Qi was present, what else could Zhang Ran say. The reason why he put forward three requirements is that he hopes that everyone will take dry goods directly, say what they want to see, and what they don't want to see, and don't waste time crookedly.

The first to speak was a brother: "After I received the invitation to participate in this event, I solicited the opinions and suggestions of more than 200 passengers on the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games within four days. During the consultation process, I deeply felt the heartfelt happiness brought by the Olympic Games. A foreigner said that the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games should let more people around the world know about China. The elder brother raised the soft transcript in his hand and said, "This is a record I made, and I want to give the collected suggestions to Director Zhang Ran!"

Seeing Zhang Ran nodding at himself, his brother hurriedly walked up to Zhang Ran with a soft transcript and handed the notebook to him.

The soft copy is obviously very light, but when Zhang Ran took it, he felt very heavy, and the thin soft copy carried the ardent hopes of countless audiences. He shook his brother's hand vigorously: "Thank you, thank you! I will definitely take a good look when I go back!"

The next speaker was a male college student, who brewed his emotions, cleared his throat, and said with emotion: "Our country has come out of thousands of years of feudal rule, from the Yellow Turban Army to Li Zicheng to Hong Xiuquan, these uprisings have challenged feudal rule again and again. And our Chinese civilization has been advanced in this kind of historical progress. Because we yearn for freedom! We are united......"

Zhang Ran could see that the student was very well prepared, but the effect of speaking was almost like a poetry recitation. Brother, this is a symposium, not a CCTV poetry conference, do you want to make it so emotional? If anyone dares to speak in such a tone when the students in Zhang Ran's class speak, he will definitely go up and slap me in the face!

thought that this boy would be speechless enough, but when the experts appeared on the stage, Zhang Ran found that the boy was so cute, it was simply a clear stream of the whole symposium.

A professor at the University of Physical Education danced and said: "The foreign God of Genesis did not give anything, he hoped that there would be light, and if there was a wind, there would be a wind, but he took Adam's rib to make Eve, while our Pangu regarded his eyes as the sun and the moon, and his body as the heavens, the earth, the mountains and rivers, which is a kind of dedication, a kind of distinction between high and low......

Zhang Ran only felt a gust of cold wind blowing, bringing up a few rolls of dead leaves. Big brother, is it okay to talk about the key points?

The professor was very engaged and continued to say excitedly: "...... It is necessary to use international language to tell about China's traditional sports culture, China's understanding of the Olympic spirit and the world's diverse cultures, and form the main venue to interact with the audience. It is necessary to expound the core concept of the Beijing Olympic Games in the international common language!"

After saying this, a director of folk literature teaching and research got up to speak, he was not speaking, but reading the "folk essay", from the historical, philosophical, cultural, social influence and other aspects of the drum culture such as "majestic gongs and drums" and "Ansai waist drum", he spoke for ten minutes, and finally put forward a request, hoping to explain China's drum culture.

The next expert was modest: "I didn't make any detailed preparations, just a few casual words." ”

Zhang Ran thought that this speech was not long, but he didn't expect him to start with Pangu Kaitian, and then start to tell the story of Emperor Yan and Emperor Huangdi, and their relationship with each other. Originally, each person was given five minutes to speak, but this one spoke for 15 minutes. Zhang Ran admired it very much in his heart, he was not prepared for this, if he was ready, would he not be going to talk about it until tomorrow night?

At the beginning, Zhang Ran listened very carefully and made notes, but when he heard that he was too lazy to record, these experts were not here to give opinions, but purely to show off the culture. I am studying XX, it is very esoteric, it is very cultural.

Connotation your sister, can you not talk so much nonsense, and you will die if you talk about the key points directly?

Zhang Ran knew that this kind of symposium was boring, but the experts who came this time were even more boring than he imagined, and the classic lines of Supreme Treasure were circling in his mind: "This guy is okay to talk about his mother-in-law and mother-in-law and mother chattering crookedly, as if there is a fly all day long, buzzing ...... Sorry, not one, it's a bunch of flies surrounding you, buzz...... Fly into your ears, help...... So, I'm getting a knife in my hand. The whole world is silent!"

The symposium lasted until 11 o'clock and finally ended. Zhang Ran felt that his head was about to explode, and it was stuffed with all kinds of messy things by the experts present. Your sister, hearing other people's speeches asking for money, listening to these experts is terrible!

Back at the operation center where the creative team is located, Zhang Ran lay down directly on the sofa, as if he was in shock.

Cai Guoqiang saw that Zhang Ran looked like a frosted eggplant, and asked with a smile: "Why is this like this? Is it so tiring to hold a symposium?"

Zhang Ran turned over when he heard this, and began to complain: "Lao Cai, you don't know, I finally realized what it means to be a strong auditory rape today, I really feel that I have been ravaged by those experts for two hours, it is simply inhumane, if it weren't for Secretary Liu, I would have wanted to leave!"

Everyone burst into laughter, this is too exaggerated, isn't it?

Zhang Heping shook his head with a smile and said, "Zhang Ran, your mouth is too damaged!"

Zhang Ran complained bitterly and said: "What I said is the truth, there is an expert who opened the world from Pangu to the founding of New China, and tossed for more than ten minutes, but he said everything specifically, and then he said that I finished speaking, I couldn't wait to go up and beat that thing up!"

Chen Weiya, who has organized many large-scale events, deeply agrees: "The older and higher the speakers of this kind of symposium, the more empty and tasteless the speech, on the contrary, the speeches of young people are often more targeted. ”

Zhang Ran said speechlessly: "I don't even know why I want to engage in such an activity, it's pure formalism and a complete waste of time." If you have time to listen to these experts' nonsense, why don't we all talk more and see if there are any new tricks!"

Zhang Heping saw that Zhang Ran was getting more and more outrageous, so he hurriedly reminded: "Zhang Ran, don't talk nonsense." The central authorities' policy is to pool their wisdom and combine the wisdom of experts with the masses.

Zhang Ran is very helpless, in fact, many things in China are often good policies, but when it comes to the following, it will be out of shape. This time is the same, the central authorities are certainly right to ask for the opinions of experts and the masses to be heard, but we must not listen for the sake of listening, let alone listen blindly!

Zhang Ran pursed his lips and said: "It's okay to listen to the opinions of experts and the masses, I think we have done the opposite, listening to the opinions of experts should be like this, we have a good idea, let relevant experts participate, such as dance, such as art, through the participation of experts, to make the show more brilliant." Now we have a symposium for experts to make suggestions, and it has become a love of calligraphy for those who say calligraphy, love painting for painting, and love porcelain for porcelain, which is not helpful to us, but a waste of time!"

Zhang Heping knew that Zhang Ran was right, but some things were not a matter of right or wrong, but must be done.

If Zhang Ran's method had been followed and experts had been invited to directly participate in the creation, it would have been impossible for the media to publicly report these things to the content of the opening ceremony. If the media do not report on it, then how will the central authorities know that the Olympic Organizing Committee has not implemented the guidelines of the central authorities? If the central leaders see that they are carrying out the guidelines, they will know that the people below are implementing the guidelines, and then the leaders will be relieved.

Zhang Heping looked at Zhang Ran and said, "Zhang Ran, I know you don't like formalized things, and I don't like them either." But when you sit in the position of chief director, sometimes you have to compromise and think about the big picture. ”

Zhang Ran smiled bitterly: "I understand what you said, I'm just complaining!"

Zhang Heping smiled and said, "There will be a symposium tomorrow afternoon, and ...... will be invited."

Without waiting for Zhang Heping to finish speaking, Zhang Ran shouted directly: "I have a stomachache tomorrow, let Jigang go instead of me!"

At six o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Ran was eating a working meal in the office when his mobile phone suddenly rang. It was Ding Sheng's call. After Zhang Ran answered the phone, he asked lazily, "Ding Sheng, is there something wrong?"

Ding Sheng's voice was a little excited: "Director, "Redemption" has a very good box office, and the reviews from all walks of life are relatively good, so the Film Association is preparing to hold an academic seminar on the 27th, and several of our main creators will communicate with experts and scholars in the industry. I would like to invite you to join this seminar as well!"

Hearing that he was invited to participate in the seminar, the hairs on Zhang Ran's back stood up: "I'm not available, don't look for me!"