As early as April, Zhang Yimou called Jiang Changsheng and invited him to join the preparatory project team for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games.

Jiang Changsheng originally promised to join the group to help after the hidden shooting, but Liu Xiaoli had an accident and was delayed for more than a month.

So after he returned to Yanjing, Zhang Yimou's calls continued, and in the past two days, he has been calling several times a day, urging him to come over early to help.

Zhang Yimou hung two positions for Jiang Changsheng, one is the assistant director, and the other is the music and art director, and the leaders of the Yanjing Olympic Organizing Committee also agreed to this position.

After all, Jiang Changsheng is also the director who won the Cannes Palme d'Or and Best Director awards, and his achievements in music are also obvious to all.

Seeing Jiang Changsheng looking at him, Liu Xiaoli said with a smile: "You go and get busy, I am recovering well now, the sensation of my legs and feet has been completely restored, and I will be able to walk on the ground after a while." ”

Jiang Changsheng said: "I'll give you a massage when I come back at night, you have a good rest, and after recuperating your body, continue to shine on the stage." ”

Liu Xiaoli glanced at Jiang Changsheng in surprise: "Do you still agree with me to continue dancing?" I thought that after an accident, you would let me quit the stage and have a good rest. ”

Jiang Changsheng winked at Liu Xiaoli: "I know your personality and your hobbies, even if you are injured this time, you still want to return to the stage to dance, after all, we are confidants." ”

Then he said: "Your injury this time is also hot news all over the world, if you want to make a comeback, I will find you a grand stage."

The opening ceremony of the Yenching Olympics, what do you think of this stage? ”

When Liu Xiaoli heard Jiang Changsheng's words, she was a little incredulous, and her voice trembled: "Can I still participate in the performance at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games?" ”

Jiang Changsheng nodded: "Your dance career came back from the closing ceremony of the Asian Olympic Games, which itself is linked to the Olympic Games, and now that you have suffered such a serious injury, if you can appear on the Olympic stage again, this is also a demonstration of the Olympic spirit."

Take care of your injuries, and I'll help you qualify for the opening ceremony of the Olympics. ”

Jiang Changsheng said this, which also gave Liu Xiaoli a motivation.

If Liu Xiaoli had not been injured, she would have been very qualified to perform at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, after all, she danced the traditional dance of China, and she was very famous internationally.

He is one of the representatives of Chinese dance culture, similar to Lang Lang in the piano world.

It's just that now that she is injured, the director team will question whether Liu Xiaoli can return to the stage.

You must know that many programs of the Yenching Olympics, especially dance, have to be finalized and trained very early.

If Jiang Changsheng didn't help, by the time Liu Xiaoli recovered, the quota for the show would have been set a long time ago, and she would definitely not be able to perform at the opening ceremony.

Seeing that Liu Xiaoli may participate in the opening ceremony performance, Zeng Li and Zhang Zilin also looked at Jiang Changsheng, and the meaning was self-evident.

Who wouldn't want to participate in the Olympics?

Jiang Changsheng said with a smile: "At most, you can be a torchbearer, or show your face in songs and promotional videos, the opening ceremony performance is not appropriate." ”

Liu Xiaoli's program, Jiang Changsheng already had the idea that when the Olympic rings were raised, he appeared in the posture of a flying dancer and performed a short period of time.

With Liu Xiaoli's dancing style and fame, she can add luster to the program of the Olympic rings.

In short, we strive to make the overall effect of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games better, after all, this is a major event of national concern.

And like Zeng Li and Zhang Zilin, they are not suitable to appear at the opening ceremony, Jiang Changsheng will not force people, and he does not have so much energy.

Jiang Changsheng explained a few more words to Concubine Liu Yili, and carefully told Concubine Liu Yifei about the matters that need to be paid attention to in Liu Xiaoli's maintenance.

The more Liu Yifei listened, the redder her face became, and finally nodded to indicate that she knew.

After eating, Jiang Changsheng took a car to the Yanjing Beiyuan Conference Building.

This is the base camp of the director team of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Yenching Olympic Games, and their usual work is carried out here.

Jiang Changsheng came to the door, brushed his face directly and walked in, and the young lady at the front desk instantly turned red when she saw Jiang Changsheng.

"Hello Mr. Jiang! Your side, please, Director Zhang, they have a meeting in the multi-functional conference room! ”

The young lady showed good professionalism, even if she was very excited to see her idol, she still led the way in front of her duty.

Coming to the door of the conference room, the young lady knocked on the door.

The conference room, which was originally very noisy, was quiet for a moment, and Zhang Yimou's voice came out.

"Please come in!"

The young lady opened the door, Jiang Changsheng thanked her, and then walked in.

In the conference room was an oval-shaped conference table, a circle full of people, and Zhang Yimou sat in the middle of the long side of it.

Next to him, there are two assistant directors Chen Weiya and Zhang Jigang.

Seeing Jiang Changsheng come in, Zhang Yimou's sad face was overjoyed, and he immediately stood up.

"Immortality! You're finally here, and it's just in time. ”

Then, Zhang Yimou began to introduce: "Everyone, this is Jiang Changsheng, everyone should know each other, I won't introduce it."

Changsheng, this is a member of our creative group, Fan Yue, Wang Chaoge, this is ......"

Zhang Yimou began to introduce the main members of the director team one by one, all of whom are big names in various fields.

However, everyone's mood was very low, there was no smile on their faces, and when they greeted Jiang Changsheng, they also forced out a smile.

Among them, there are acquaintances, such as director Cheng Xiaodong, who is responsible for the action design of the opening and closing ceremonies, who has cooperated, and there are also cattle people who have heard of it in previous lives, such as Cai Guoqiang, the chief designer of fireworks at the Yanjing Olympics.

and Cheng Danqing, a painter who always looks like a hanger.

Jiang Changsheng greeted everyone politely, and said to Zhang Yimou: "You guys have a meeting first, I'll sit down and listen first." ”

Zhang Yimou nodded in agreement and began to continue the content of the meeting that had been interrupted earlier.

Jiang Changsheng listened to a few words, and finally understood why Zhang Yimou urged him to kill him in a serial manner.

It turned out that when the director team reported the creative plan to the above some time ago, the general direction of their plan was rejected.

Zhang Yimou's original plan was to take the four major inventions as the main line and use the four major inventions throughout the opening ceremony.

After reading the above, I directly rejected it, indicating that Chinese culture is broad and profound, and it is not something that can be summarized by one of the four major inventions.

Jiang Changsheng also felt that the above point of view was reasonable, and when it came to Huaguo, it seemed to be the four great inventions, which was actually a kind of laziness or prejudice.

This kind of negation is tantamount to a bolt from the blue for Zhang Yimou's team, they began to prepare in April last year, which lasted more than a year, and the creativity basically revolved around the four major inventions.

Now that this creative plan has been rejected, it means that everything has to be reversed and restarted.

It's just that there isn't enough time.

Don't look at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in August next year, but the Bird's Nest will be completely completed before February next year, and the construction of the Bird's Nest will be implemented in conjunction with the overall plan of the opening ceremony.

In other words, the programmatic framework for the opening ceremony must be finalized by the end of this year at the latest.

There is only half a year left, and it is indeed very rushed.

Zhang Yimou cooperated with Jiang Changsheng at the closing ceremony of the Asian Ceremony, and admired Jiang Changsheng's whimsy, so he often communicated with Jiang Changsheng about the preparations for the opening ceremony of Yanjing.

Jiang Changsheng would also make some suggestions to him, and even inadvertently said the idea of footprints last year, which Zhang Yimou thought was very good and immediately adopted it.

So when he encountered a problem this time, Zhang Yi wanted to ask Jiang Changsheng for help.

At the end of the meeting, the atmosphere became more and more depressing, Zhang Jigang and Fan Yue believed that the reason why the officials denied the four major inventions was because their work report some time ago was not clear.

They asked Zhang Yimou to go to the leaders again to fight for it and explain the creativity of the four major inventions more thoroughly.

Zhang Yimou spoke very well: "I think the above heard it very clearly, they did not make a mistake in judgment, and the content we prepared was the four major inventions."

No matter what you say, these four great inventions cannot be changed.

You can't blame the leadership team for this, and their opinions are not wrong.

And the elaboration of this plan is also provided by us. ”

There is a camera in the conference room, which is to make a documentary about the preparation of the opening ceremony, and there is also the person in charge of the coordination of the opening ceremony project on the spot, Zhang Yimou understands the national situation.

Jiang Changsheng also understands, but some members of the director team don't understand, and some of them work abroad all the year round and are more opposed to the system, so everyone has been repeatedly arguing about the issue of the four major inventions.

Especially Cheng Danqing, while smoking, scolded the three-character scripture.

Jiang Changsheng couldn't stand it anymore, and finally coughed, got up and walked directly to the front of the display board, he said: "Don't worry about the four great inventions.

Everyone is nothing more than disgusted with losses, and they feel that they have worked hard for more than a year before, and it is a pity that many of the program ideas they came up with did not pass.

If it's because of this, then just find a new main line, take the four major inventions as the elements of the performance, and integrate them into it.

According to the opinion of the leadership, to show our country's culture in the form of a chronicle, then in the form of a picture scroll. ”

Jiang Changsheng picked up a paintbrush and drew a scroll of ancient China on the exhibition board, and then continued: "We presented the performance of the entire opening ceremony in the form of a scroll.

As the scroll unfolds, the timeline also begins to progress, from ancient times to modern times, we can choose images that represent Chinese culture at will and display them in the scroll. ”

The scene was silent, and everyone listened quietly to Jiang Changsheng's story.

"Moreover, the scroll itself is made of paper, including papermaking, and there is a fireworks show at the opening ceremony, which is also the result of the invention of gunpowder, and printing and the compass can also be displayed on the scroll in the form of a program.

In this way, aren't your so-called four great inventions preserved in disguise?

Also, the opening ceremony started with fireworks consisting of 29 footprints and walking into the bird's nest.

And our picture scroll is on the ground, and when the time comes, more than 10,000 athletes from all over the world will walk on this picture scroll and leave their footprints on the picture scroll.

The combination of athletes' footprints, combined with our technical means, allows for an instant painting on site.

This is a picture scroll completed by all the athletes of the Yenching Olympics, and it is also in line with the theme of the Yenching Olympics with the same world and the same dream. ”

After Jiang Changsheng finished speaking, he threw the pen and sat back in style.

Only then did everyone come back to their senses, and Cheng Danqing directly came to the quintessence of the country: "Lying in Nima, this Nima cow!" Made, Lao Tzu is still a painter, how could he not think of this idea! ”

Zhang Yimou hugged Jiang Changsheng excitedly: "I know!" Or do you have an idea, and it is the right thing to invite you in.

From the closing ceremony of the Asian Classics, to the footprint creativity, to the current picture scroll!

This position of chief director should be done by you! ”

Jiang Changsheng immediately waved his hand: "Don't, it's better for you to come!" ”

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