At 2 pm on August 8, in the Bird's Nest Conference Room, heads of various departments gathered together to mobilize and confirm the work before the official performance.

At this time, Zhang Ran couldn't sit still and stood in front of the conference room and shouted: "The key to success of the whole performance tonight is to implement the details. We don't have greater expectations. We just need to follow the final rehearsal process. As long as we can follow the process, we will be the best in the world!" Zhang Ran paused and began to confirm: "Next, we will start to implement the details. All directors of the sub-season must remind the actors to have a smile before they come on stage. This question has been emphasized many times, which is really important. I don't want the camera to cut on anyone's face during the performance. He has a stern face! We are the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, not a military parade, we must smile! The director of "Five Rings of Dreams", confirming that the five rings of stars must be aimed at the five rings of the ground!"

“It has been implemented!”

"The director of "Picture Scroll" must be placed in the correct position!"

“It has been implemented!”

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After the meeting, Zhang Ran and the director team members had just returned to the office. He pulled Ma Wen aside and reminded: "The ignition must be foolproof. There have never been any mistakes in the ignition ceremonies of previous Olympic Games. We will not have any major problems in other links. The key is to ignite the ignition, and we must not make mistakes!"

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

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

Ma Wen said confidently: "It is impossible to make a mistake! Don't talk about this, hurry up and think about something else!"

Zhang Ran looked up at the sky outside the window and said with a serious expression: "The weather is very humid today, so don't rain!"

At this moment, the Peking Weather Office was heading to Beiping. The command centers of the surrounding provinces and cities had issued practical guarantees for artificial rain removal, and the operators began to be on guard in their respective operation areas.

At exactly three o'clock, the two aircraft carried out rain-reducing catalyst operations for rainfall clouds in the northwest and upper western regions of Peking respectively; at the same time, each operating point began to launch rockets to intercept the clouds.

After hundreds of rockets were fired, the clouds floating towards Beiping were dispersed, and the rainfall mainly occurred in Fangshan in the southwest and Miyun areas in the northeast. However, the clouds were only temporarily dispersed, and multiple operations may be required in the next few hours to ensure that there will be no rainfall in the bird's nest during the entire opening ceremony.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the actors from each program team had already put on makeup and came to the waiting area. The director began to make a final mobilization for the evening performance.

Zhao Hongwei, the director of "Dream", said loudly: "We have been rehearsing from July 15 last year and have been rehearsing until August 8 this year. Do you know which day it is for? It's today!"

"Five Rings of Dreams" director Xie Nan shouted: "I have seen many flying performances of many domestic teams. You are the best flying, just keep your training level! I hope that each of you will have huge shots tonight! Come on, everyone!"

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Liu Chun, director of the "Silk Road", held the trumpet and shouted: "Don't be nervous, the usual rehearsal is already very good. Everyone should show our best level and give our parents and all friends who care about the Olympics a satisfactory answer! Come on, everyone!"

In the waiting area above and below, 15,000 actors waved their arms high, and the huge cheering sound was like a nuclear bomb exploding, causing the entire bird's nest to shake.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the performance was about to begin, but the workers in the center of the venue were still undergoing maintenance. The Olympic Operations Minister Wang Ning was anxious and furious about it: "I don't want to hear other reasons. I just know that the live broadcast will be soon. Your work has not been completed yet! If this problem affects the performance, you are the sinners of the entire nation!"

At half past five, at the entrance of the audience, the audience holding tickets waiting to enter began to undergo security checks in an orderly manner and enter the bird's nest. The security check procedures were very meticulous and the progress was not fast, which made the audience's waiting team reach a hundred meters, but the audience was waiting patiently.

"The bird's nest is so big!" The 11-year-old girl Fang Yan found her place under the leadership of volunteers. She looked at everything around her excitedly. She came from the Demon City. Although her father and mother came together, their family only received a ticket for the opening ceremony. She could only enter alone, and her parents were waiting for her outside the Bird's nest.

80-year-old Zhang Zhengwu looked up and looked for the location of the torch tower in the bird's nest. However, he scanned the entire bird's nest but found no sign of the torch tower. Zhang Zhengwu came from Nanning, suffers from hypertension and diabetes, and has been hospitalized. He specially asked doctors for three weeks off to watch the Olympics. He has been engaged in sports work all his life, and now the Olympics are held at his doorstep. No matter what, he has to come and see them.

In the audience, a girl from Shenzhen held up a banner that was one meter square, with the words "Come on China" embroidered with cloth. As soon as she opened the banner, she immediately attracted the attention of reporters 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 performance of the mattress officially began. The performance of the entire mattress has 28 programs with regional characteristics and ethnic style, including "Qiang Putter" in the Wenshan earthquake-stricken area, "Cangzhou Golden Lion Welcomes the Olympics" in Hebei, "We Are All A Family" in Taiwan, and "The Capital of Horse Movement Yao Xiangjiang" performed by the Xiangjiang Dance Troupe.

After more than an hour of cushion performance, five hosts came back on the stage and began to teach the audience how to use the big gift bag on their seats. Each audience member had a cloth bag on his seat. In addition to the program list, there was also a small Olympic flag, a small flashlight, a flash stick, and a Fuwa-shaped clapper. When the performance officially began, these small objects would be lit, slapped, and waved in the hands of tens of thousands of viewers, creating a happy and beautiful atmosphere.

At this time, the maintenance work of the large floor screen was finally completed.

Wang Ning, who had been squeezing his heart, finally breathed a sigh of relief. 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 podium in the northwest corner of the rostrum. Zhang Jigang had already put on his headset and sat in the position of the commander-in-chief. He was the commander-in-chief of the entire first half, and he was dispatched for the entire first half.

The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games is particularly complicated, involving tens of thousands of people to dispatch, and many performances are also particularly complicated, such as singing and singing, such as movable type. The performance relies entirely on command to direct actors to do movements. One, two, three, two, three, four, and two, three, four. It is impossible to use a loudspeaker to shout like you usually shoot movies. You need to communicate with each other through a strict command system. Therefore, the 14,000 actors in the entire performance and many on-site staff have headsets, which may be the largest headset group in the world.

The core of the entire command system is the director team. During the performance, anyone must listen to the director team's command. The code name of the director team is Huanghe. In the first half, Zhang Jigang gave the order on behalf of the Yellow River, and in the second half, Chen Weiya gave the order on behalf of the Yellow River, and the entire performance was regulated by the two of them.

At 7:50 pm, Chief No. 1 and President Rogge of the International Olympic Committee entered the bird's nest, and the entire scene suddenly heard a shocking cheer. Then, VIPs from all over the world also entered the bird's nest, preparing to witness the opening of the century-long event of the Peking Olympics.

At Zhang Ran’s home in Beijing, Zhang Jingchu and Zhang Ran’s parents sat in front of the TV and were excited to wait for the start of the performance. As the family members of the director, Zhang Jingchu and others were qualified to buy a ticket for the opening ceremony, and the location was relatively good. However, because they could only buy one, Zhang Jingchu wanted someone of Zhang Ran’s parents to go, and Zhang Ran’s parents asked Zhang Jingchu to go. In the end, they didn’t go and watched TV together at home.

In Peking, Hengdian, and at various film and television bases, Zhang Ran's students were excited and sat in front of the TV waiting 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 waiting for the performance to begin. Although Liu Yifei gritted her teeth with hatred for her master, she still couldn't help but want to see what the performance he had worked hard for three years would look like.

In the studio of CCTV News Channel, hosts Zhang Quanling and Ning Hao talked around the opening ceremony.

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

Ning Hao thought for a while and said with a smile: "I think so. If you think the Athens Olympics, the middle of the venue is full of sea water. The Aegean civilization is expressed through water. Our Chinese civilization will not lose to Greece. We may also dig out a symbol. We are the Great River civilization and the Yellow River civilization. We may dig from these aspects. Teacher Zhang Ran is a film director. This performance will definitely be the same as his movies. It will be very good. There will be no situation where the audience is asleep. They will definitely use sound, light and electricity to the extreme, and will use high technology a lot. The whole performance can be said to be a blockbuster movie!"

In a corner of the bird's nest, NB's hosts Bob Custer and Mante Raul face the camera and introduce the opening ceremony.

After ripping a lot of politics, Bob Custer said: "I think we're going to see a perfect show, and given the scale of China and the emphasis on the Olympics, I think it's going to be a massive show."

Mante Raul also agreed: "The entire opening ceremony has 15,000 actors, 11,000 athletes, and a budget of 300 million US dollars, which is ten times that of the Athens Olympics! These were 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 getting nearly endless resources!"

Zhang Ran didn't hear this, otherwise he would definitely curse, "Go to your uncle's $300 million and your uncle's endless resources!" But there is no way, many foreign media are like this. If they don't criticize China, they will feel uncomfortable."

On the Internet, countless netizens waited for the performance to start, while leaving messages on Weibo, Post Bar, Tianya and other communities, expressing their inner excitement and joy.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

"I have already collected snacks, just wait for the show to start. The national flag and Olympic flag that we used last time when the flames were welcomed will be used again tonight. Prepare to wave it while eating snacks!"

"I have been stocking up for three days of food and snacks, and I plan to not go downstairs in the next three days!"

"My husband went to Peking for an interview and watched the opening ceremony rehearsal. He sent me a message: I am worthy of being Zhang Ran, I was stunned and instantly killed any previous Olympic Games! After reading the text message, I began to get excited and look forward to the opening ceremony!"

At the same time, the entire world, whether in Asia, Europe, America, or Oceania, hundreds of millions of viewers were waiting in front of TVs and computers, waiting for the start of the Olympic ceremony.

At 7:58, the lights of the bird's nest went out, and the performance officially began amid the audience's deafening cheers.
Chapter completed!