During this time, Li Xiaole felt a little unsupported by the high-intensity work, and the only news that made him feel excited was that the Los Angeles Lakers finally defeated the Celtics with a score of 4-3 to win the NBA championship, yes, his appearance changed history...... Maybe it was inspired by his words, or maybe it was the Celtics' light opponent, in short, Kobe Bryant won his first championship since leaving O'Neal a year early, and he fulfilled his promise that "the championship is mine." ”

After high-intensity work, finally, the time came to the last Friday of July, as Li Xiaole, who was watching the rehearsal on the rostrum of the Bird's Nest, held a microphone and shouted: "Stop!" The 268th rehearsal is over~~! He smiled and raised his hands and clapped his hands, announcing that the last rehearsal had passed perfectly, and the more than 15,000 actors who had already exhausted their physical strength and spirit on the scene were all hoarse and howling and cheering, and their voices were excited and expectant.

As soon as it was over, when the director team was tired and paralyzed, Li Xiaole and Zhang Yimou automatically and spontaneously went down to shake hands with all the actors one by one, and said to everyone in front of them: "Fortunately, continue to work August 8th." The request for an autograph and photo by the two was also refused.

Zhang Xiaojian's young people from the martial arts sports school all hugged him, everyone came over and couldn't wait to hug Director Li and Director Zhang tightly, the performance just now, they all felt surging when they saw it, even if they were just a small person among more than 15,000 people, they would feel a sense of accomplishment in their chests.

And unlike the previous opening ceremony performances in various provinces and cities, those who intrigue and think about what to make money every day, and don't treat the extras as people, the big crew formed by Li Xiaole and Zhang Yimou always gives people a strong family atmosphere, and everyone feels that they are part of the performance, not just a bad thing.

Everyone can't wait to say to everyone they know: "This opening ceremony is performed by buddies, go and see it, it's so awesome that you will regret it in your life if you don't watch it." ”

Even Wang Chaoge, who disliked Li Xiaole for making the opening ceremony too extravagant and wasteful at the beginning, has been completely immersed in the grand artistic conception created by the opening ceremony after several rehearsals......

In the evening, this huge crew held a simple finale, in the square next to the Bird's Nest, Li Xiaole gathered all the crew together, and held a large-scale barbecue here, which is Li Xiaole's tradition, he personally usually prefers this street way, which will be much more affectionate.

The stars of the performance team who came to participate in the opening ceremony, Li Lianjie, Li Ning, Liu Huan, and Ha Ji Won, who trained with Li Lianjie, and Scarlett also came to join in the excitement.

Since everyone still has performance tasks, everyone has stipulated that they can only drink beer, but because this time is really fortunate, everyone is easy to relax, the atmosphere is extremely lively, many people can't help but sing loudly while eating, if it weren't for the regulations that are not allowed to toast, it is estimated that Li Xiaole's side would have been overcrowded.

"Director Zhang, why don't you drink some?" Seeing Zhang Yimou bowing his head and pondering, silent, Li Xiaole couldn't help but ask him.

"No, I'm thinking about how we should change it in the later stage to make it better......" Zhang Yimou sighed, and said with a worried expression: "We must prepare all the details, I'm worried that we have nothing to worry about, and if something goes wrong at that time, it will be troublesome, after all, the techniques we take are too complicated......

Li Xiaole also nodded when he listened, on this point, he and Zhang Yimou had the same idea, the more new techniques they adopted, the more difficult it is, the greater the possibility of them facing failure, for the director team, they can't fail at all, they can't accept that as soon as the opening ceremony ends, the foreign media booed.

"Luo Fang Baishi and the stench are separated by a layer of paper, and the two of us are hanging on the side?" Zhang Yimou couldn't help but sigh to Li Xiaole, the closer he got to the performance of the opening ceremony, the more he felt the huge pressure that overwhelmed him.

Li Xiaole also felt the same way, and also laughed self-deprecatingly: "Do your best, if we really perform a boo, we won't be able to go out at all in China in the future, someone will definitely smash the window at home, and someone will definitely slap us when we go out." ”

You must know that Zhao Wei, who played Xiaoyanzi, was so popular back then, and he was only splashed with feces because he wore the wrong clothes for a magazine, so the more famous people are, the higher the people's expectations, and everyone is holding back their strength to watch a good performance.

"Director Li, why did you think of using the ancient rhyme of poetry and music as the theme of this performance, instead of the previous historical picture." Zhang Yimou suddenly looked at Li Xiaole with a complicated expression and asked, this time Li Xiaole completely subverted his creativity, although the show has not changed much, but the internal artistic conception of the performance is completely different.

"Director Zhang, can you tell me, why do you think you shouldn't use poetry and music to sit on the theme of this opening ceremony?" Li Xiaole knew that Zhang Yimou had always had this question in his heart, he still wanted to live with the magnificent crowd tactics, and he himself liked to create a far-reaching artistic conception of the scene, one of the two styles was rigid and the other was soft.

"Because the poetry and music are too literary." Zhang Yimou said without hesitation: "These things can't show the true soul of our nation, and they can't show the vigor of our China's current prosperity, which is somewhat out of tune with the higher-level leaders asking us." "Originally, after Zhang Yimou decided to carry out the 3D screen, he decided to choreograph a large-scale terracotta performance, which was enough to shock everyone's senses~~

He very much wants to express a strong rise posture of "those who commit crimes against me will be punished even if they are far away", which is also the effect that the senior leaders hope to show, after all, China really lacks a stage to show the rise of the country, and this kind of performance will be very uplifting.

Zhang Yimou is a native of Shaanxi, admires Qin Feng, and advocates the ideas of Legalism, which is vividly shown in his screenwriter's "Hero", but in the end, this majestic and majestic performance was rejected by Li Xiaole, the chief director.

"Who said that we must use 10,000 people to put on an aggressive posture and show that we are powerful? I don't think these are the fundamentals of our Chinese culture, do you think that our ancient Chinese people really admired the Olympic slogan of 'higher, faster, stronger' like the West? Li Xiaole looked at Zhang Yimou and asked.

Zhang Yimou was suddenly stunned when he heard this, he had also considered what kind of performance could truly represent the culture of the country of China, but this country had given him too much appearance in the past, and he could only grasp the style of Qin Feng and Han Wu to express it.

"What do you think, Director Li? What do you think are the roots of our China? Zhang Yimou asked rhetorically.

"I'm not sure." Li Xiaole shook his head and sighed: "But I see that now our generation has completely looked down on the culture of their own country, and even misinterpreted their own culture......

But what I see is that our ancestors are not like this......"

Li Xiaole said that he couldn't help but look up at the starry sky: "Director Zhang, you know the way, although I am not an expert in history, and I have not done any research, but I read between the lines of the poems, Buddhist scriptures, and articles left by our ancestors, I feel that the people's ideological realm at that time was elegant and romantic, far better than we are now, and I always feel that our ancestors are not so ignorant as our textbooks and those other countries in the world think...... I always felt that their culture was beyond all the Western cultural ideas that we worship in modern times......

But now, when we talk about the past, we are only obsessed with the so-called four great inventions, the so-called ancient GDP of our country reached half of the entire world, and our general once chased the Xiongnu to Mobei and sealed the wolf Juxu......

I wonder if this really matters......? Is our nation dependent on this external skill, money, and force to this day......? ”

Zhang Yimou lowered his head thoughtfully, and was stunned for a long time before shaking his head and said: "I understand what Director Li said, but you can't expect them to understand the concept of culture in a 50-minute performance, just like many of our concepts of foreign countries, our understanding is also very superficial." This is not our ultimate goal, this goal is too big to achieve, and you must always remember that no theatrical performance can interpret such a complex and accurate cultural and historical knowledge.

We show the concrete things of skill, money, and force, which is the demeanor of a great power. ”

"No!!" Li Xiaole took advantage of the wine, and was also arrogant, stood up and raised his glass to the night breeze and said: "The demeanor of a great country is not a national thing, it is political, what we want to express this time is the romance and elegance of our culture, only a nation is confident, there will be romantic and elegant things, if he is forever immersed in being strong and big, my family is richer than you, more fierce than you...... In fact, what is revealed is the form of inferiority complex and vulnerability~~

The so-called can't be expressed, it's because our technical strength is not enough, but now we have enough skills and investment, even if it is just to show that we have really left a little bit of essence in the past 5,000 years, it is enough~~!

We must not only show the opening ceremony to the people of the whole world, show muscles, but also show our own Chinese ~~! I want to do our best to depict the once beautiful culture in our hearts, the culture that our ancestors left us but we have forgotten, so that everyone can see it, let them discover the beauty of our national culture, and touch the most precious place of our nation, this is the meaning of us as directors to take over this opening ceremony~"

Zhang Yimou looked at Li Xiaole deeply, noticed the radiance in Li Xiaole's eyes, and the surging pride, and couldn't help but be moved by his persistent feelings, he also slapped the table and nodded fiercely: "It makes sense." As he spoke, he raised his glass full of beer with beer, raised it to Li Xiaole, and said loudly:

"Director Li, I wish us all the best for this opening ceremony."

"I wish the opening ceremony all the best." Li Xiaole also had a cup with him, and in the next seven days, the Beijing Olympics will open......