When the Olympic Organizing Committee asked him to report to the Politburo, Zhang Ran knew that the opening ceremony should be directed by himself.

But even so, when Zhang Ran really heard the opening ceremony directed by himself, his blood rushed to the top of his head instantly, and his heart was beating wildly at a speed of several times.

Han Lixun, Chen Wei and the others showed bright smiles and applauded; Cai Guoqiang, Ma Wen, and Zhang Jigang also began to applaud and congratulate Zhang Ran.

Zhang Ran had already conquered everyone by his ability, and the opening ceremony directed by him was also popular.

Zhang Yimou was very disappointed. He started as the director of the Olympic TV promotional film in 2000. He has been involved in the Olympic Games 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 sincerely said: "Congratulations, Zhang Ran!"

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

The two hands clasped tightly and then separated.

Zhang Ran thought that the plan had passed the central review and the candidates for directing the opening ceremony were also decided, and the whole work should enter the fast lane; however, the facts proved that Zhang Ran was still too naive.

After listening to the report, the Central Committee gave instructions, requiring further brainstorming to combine 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 Peking Olympics I look 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 the Olympic Building at 9 a.m. Zhang Ran presided over the meeting, and heavyweights such as Liu Qi and Zhang Heping were present. The symposium invited 14 people from all walks of life in the capital, including social elites and ordinary people.

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

Next, the director Zhang Ran, the chief director, said. He doesn't like to talk nonsense and said directly: "As the chief director of the opening ceremony, I hope to get three suggestions from everyone. First, what do you want to see; second, what do you don't want to see; third, what do you think you want to see for foreigners. I'm finished, please tell me your opinions!"

In Zhang Ran's view, such symposiums are purely formalism. If you want to listen to the opinions of the masses and post the questions on the Internet, what opinions are there? If you don't want to spread widely, you can set up an internal forum and send a password. It is a waste of time and extremely inefficient.

But there is no way. The symposium was requested by the leaders. Even Liu Qi was present, so what else could Zhang Ran say. The reason why he made three requests was that everyone wanted to directly take advantage of the real things, say what they wanted to see, and say what they didn’t want to see, and don’t waste time.

The first person to speak was a brother: "After receiving the invitation to participate in this event, I collected more than 200 passengers' opinions and suggestions on the opening ceremony of the Olympics within four days. During the consultation process, I deeply felt the sincere happiness that the Olympics brought to everyone. A foreigner said that the opening ceremony of the Olympics should let more people around the world understand China." The brother raised the soft copy in his hand and said: "This is the record I made, and I want to hand over the collected suggestions to director Zhang Ran!"

Seeing Zhang Ran nodding at him, the brother quickly walked to Zhang Ran with the soft copy and handed the notebook to him.

The soft copy was obviously very light, but when Zhang Ran took it, he felt very heavy. The thin soft copy carries the eager hope of countless audiences. He shook his brother's hand hard: "Thank you everyone, thank you! I will definitely take a good look after you go back!"

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

Zhang Ran could see that the student was prepared very seriously, but the effect of his speech was like a poetry recitation. Brother, this is a symposium, not a CCTV poetry conference. Should he be so passionate? If anyone dared to speak in this way when the student in Zhang Ran’s class spoke, he would definitely slap him and talk to me!

I thought this boy was speechless, but when the experts made a debut, Zhang Ran realized that the boy was so cute, it was simply a stream of the entire symposium.

A professor at the University of Sports said with joy: "The foreign God did not give anything in Genesis. He hoped that there would be light, and hoped that there would be wind, and he used Adam's ribs to be Eve; but our Pangu regarded his eyes as the sun and the moon, and his body as heaven, earth, mountains and rivers. This is a kind of dedication, and this is a distinction between high and low..."

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

The professor was very devoted and continued to say excitedly: "...We should use international language to talk about Chinese traditional sports culture, talk about China's understanding of the Olympic spirit and the multicultural culture of the world, and form the main venue to interact with the audience. We should use international common language to explain the core concept of the Beijing Olympics!"

After this guy finished speaking, a director of folk literature teaching and research came up to speak. He was not speaking, but reading "folk papers". He elaborated on drum cultures such as "magic gongs, drums, and waist drums" from the perspectives of history, philosophy, culture, and social influence. He spoke for ten minutes and finally put forward a request, hoping to explain China's drum culture.

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

Zhang Ran thought that this person didn't speak long, but he didn't expect that he would start with Pangu Kaitian, and then start telling the story of Yan Emperor and Huang Emperor and their relationship. Originally, each person had a five-minute speech time, but this guy had been talking for fifteen minutes. Zhang Ran was very impressed. He was not prepared and was like this. If he was ready, would he have to talk until tomorrow night?

At the beginning, Zhang Ran listened very seriously and made records, but he was too lazy to record after hearing it. These experts were not here to give opinions, but to show off their culture. I am studying xx, which is very profound and has very cultural connotations.

I have a connotation of your sister, can you stop talking so much nonsense? Just talking about the key points will make you die?

Zhang Ran had known that such a symposium was boring, but the experts who came this time were even more boring than he thought. The classic lines of Supreme Treasure in his mind were hovering: "This guy just talked about his mother-in-law and mother's chattering all day long, just like a fly all day long, buzz... Sorry, not one, but a bunch of fly around you, buzz... Fly into your ears, help... So, I raised my knife in my hand. Wow! The whole world is quiet!"

The symposium was finally over at 11 o'clock. Zhang Ran felt that his head was about to explode, and the experts present were stuffed with all kinds of messy things. You sister, it was so terrible to hear other people's speeches asking for money, and listening to these experts being careless!

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

Seeing Zhang Ran and frying eggplant, Cai Guoqiang asked with a smile: "Why is this look? Will it be so tired to hold a discussion?"

Zhang Ran turned around and began to complain: "Old Cai, you don't know. Today I finally realized what it means to rape him. I really felt that I had been ravaged by those experts for two hours. It was simply inhumane. If Secretary Liu hadn't been there, I would have decided to leave!"

Everyone burst into laughter. This is too exaggerated, right? Hearing a rapist is coming!

Zhang Heping smiled and shook his head, "Zhang Ran, your mouth is too damaged!"

Zhang Ran complained and said, "What I said is true. An expert talked about from Pangu to the founding of New China. He struggled for more than ten minutes. As a result, he said everything in detail, and then he finished it with one sentence. I wanted to go up and beat that guy up!"

Chen Weiya has held many large-scale events and has a deep impression of this: "The older the symposium, the higher the position, the more empty the speech of the speakers, on the contrary, the speech of young people is often more targeted."

Zhang Ran said speechlessly: "I don't know why I want to do such an activity. It's purely formalism and a waste of time. If you have time to listen to these experts' nonsense, it's better for us to talk more about it and see if there are any new tricks!"

Seeing that Zhang Heping was getting more and more outrageous when he saw Zhang Ran talking, he quickly reminded him: "Zhang Ran, don't talk nonsense. The central government's policy is to gather ideas and combine the wisdom of experts and the masses. This matter cannot be paid at all!"

Zhang Ran was helpless. In fact, many things in China often have good policies, but they will be distorted when they are below. This is the same. The central government requires listening to the opinions of experts and the masses. This is definitely right, but you can't listen for the sake of listening, let alone listen blindly!

Zhang Ran curled his lips and said, "It's okay to listen to the opinions of experts and the masses. I think we are wrong. Listening to the opinions of experts should do this. We have a good idea to let relevant experts participate, such as dancers, arts, and through the participation of experts, the program will be more outstanding. Now we have a seminar and ask experts to give suggestions. This has become a person who loves calligraphy and calligraphy, paintings and porcelain, which is not helpful to us, and it is a waste of time!"

Zhang Heping knew that Zhang Ran was right, but some things were not right or wrong, but had to be done.

If Zhang Ran’s method is used to invite experts to directly participate in the creation, the media will not be able to report these things publicly to the content of the opening ceremony. If the media does not report, how can the central government know whether the Olympic Organizing Committee has implemented the Central Committee’s policies? When holding a symposium, the media will report it extensively. When the central leaders look at it, they will know that the people below are implementing this policy, so that the leaders will feel at ease.

Zhang Heping looked at Zhang Ran and said, "Zhang Ran, I know you don't like formal things, and I don't like them either. But when you sit in the position of director, sometimes you have to compromise and consider the overall situation."

Zhang Ran smiled bitterly and said, "I understand what you said, I just complained!"

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

Before Zhang Heping could finish speaking, Zhang Ran shouted directly: "I will have stomachache tomorrow, let Jigang go on my behalf!"

At six o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Ran was having a working meal in the office, and his cell phone suddenly rang. It was Ding Sheng's phone number. After Zhang Ran answered the phone, he asked lazily: "Ding Sheng, is there anything wrong?"

Ding Sheng's voice was a little excited: "Director, "Reden" has a good box office and has good reviews from all walks of life, so the Filmmakers Association is preparing to hold an academic seminar on the 27th. Several of our main creators will communicate with experts and scholars in the industry. I would like to invite you to participate in this seminar too!"

Hearing the invitation to attend the seminar, the hairs behind Zhang Ran stood up: "I'm not available, don't look for me!"
Chapter completed!