During this period, the high-intensity work made Li Xiaole feel a little unable to hold on. The only news that made him excited was that the Los Angeles Lakers finally defeated the Celtics 4-3 and won the NBA championship. Yes, his appearance changed history... Perhaps it was inspired by his words, perhaps it was the Celtics underestimation. In short, Kobe won the first championship after leaving O'Neal a year ahead of schedule, and he fulfilled his promise, "The championship is mine."

In the 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, shouted in his microphone: "Stop! The 268th rehearsal is over~~!" He smiled and raised his hands, clapping his hands, announcing that the last rehearsal was perfectly passed. More than 15,000 actors who had already overdrawn their physical strength and energy on the scene were hoarse and howling and cheering, with excitement and expectation in their voices.

As soon as the director team was exhausted, Li Xiaole and Zhang Yimou went down spontaneously to shake hands one by one, and said to everyone in front of them: "Fortunately, keep cheering on August 8th." The two of them also refused their request for autographs and photo together.

Zhang Xiaojian and the young people from the martial arts and sports school came up, and everyone came over and wanted to hug Director Li and Director Zhang tightly. They felt excited when they saw the performance just now. Even if they were just a small person among the more than 15,000 people, they would feel the sense of accomplishment that was full of their chests.

Moreover, unlike the previous performances of the opening ceremony of the provinces and cities, those who are intriguing and making money every day and do not treat extras as humans, the large crew formed by Li Xiaole and Zhang Yimou always gives people a strong family atmosphere. Everyone feels that they are part of the performance, not just a matter of intercourse.

Everyone wants to say to everyone they know: "This opening ceremony was performed by my buddies. Go and watch it. It's so awesome that you will regret it if you don't watch it."

Even Wang Chaoge, who initially disliked Li Xiaole for making the opening ceremony too extravagant and wasted, after several previews, was completely immersed in the grand artistic conception created by the opening ceremony...

In the evening, this huge crew held a simple finishing. In the square next to the Bird's Nest, Li Xiaole gathered all the crew together to hold a large-scale barbecue event here. This is Li Xiaole's tradition. He personally prefers this kind of street-based method, which makes him look much more intimate.

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

Since everyone still has a performance task, everyone stipulated that they could only drink beer, but because this period was so lucky that everyone could relax and the atmosphere was extremely lively. Many people couldn't help but sing while eating. If it weren't for the regulations, Li Xiaole would probably be overcrowded.

"Director Zhang, why don't you drink some?" Seeing Zhang Yimou lowering his head and thinking silently, Li Xiaole couldn't help asking him.

"No, I'm thinking about how we should change it later, and the effect will be 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. If there is any mistake at that time, it will be troublesome. After all, the techniques we adopt are too complicated..."

Li Xiaole also nodded as he heard this. On this point, he and Zhang Yimou had the same idea. The more new technologies they adopted mean the greater the difficulty, the greater the possibility of them facing failure. For the director team, they cannot fail at all. They cannot accept that as soon as the opening ceremony ended, foreign media were booing.

"Luo Fang and Wuxian are separated by a layer of paper. We are both hanging on the edge?" Zhang Yimou couldn't help but sigh to Li Xiaole. The closer the performance of the opening ceremony, the more he felt the huge pressure that he could not breathe.

Li Xiaole also felt the same way and smiled self-deprecatingly: "Do your best. If we really perform a boo, we will not be able to leave the door in China in the future. Someone will definitely smash the windows at home, and someone will rush to slap us when going out."

You should know that Zhao Wei, who plays Xiaoyanzi, was so popular back then. In the end, he was just wearing a wrong dress because he filmed a magazine and was thrown into feces. So the more famous a person is, the higher the expectations of the people, and everyone is holding back their mouths to watch a good performance.

"Director Li, why did you think of using ancient charm of poetry as the theme of this performance, rather than the previous historical scroll?" Zhang Yimou suddenly looked at Li Xiaole with some complicated expression and asked. This time, Li Xiaole completely subverted his creativity. Although the show has not changed much, the inner artistic conception of the performance has been completely different.

"Director Zhang, can you tell me why you don't think you should use the ancient charm of 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 mind. He still wanted to use the magnificent human sea tactics as his living, while he himself liked to create a distant artistic conception of the scene, with two styles one being the most rigid and the other being the most soft.

"Because the ancient charm of poetry is so literary and artistic." Zhang Yimou said without hesitation: "None of these things can express the true soul of our nation, and the momentum of our China's prosperity now is a bit inconsistent with what the superiors ask us." After Zhang Yimou decided to perform a 3D screen, he decided to arrange a large-scale Terracotta Warriors and Horses performance. That scene was enough to impact everyone's senses~~

He really wanted to express a strong rise attitude of "those who offend me will be punished even if they are far away", which is also the effect that 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 encouraging.

Zhang Yimou is from Shaanxi, admires Qin Feng and advocates the Legalist ideas. This is vividly displayed in his screenwriter "Hero", but in the end, this mighty and majestic performance was rejected by director Li Xiaole, the chief director.

"Who stipulates that we must use ten thousand people to show an aggressive attitude and show that we Kong Wu is powerful? I think these are not the foundation of our Chinese culture. Do you think our ancient Chinese people really advocated the slogan of the Olympics like the West, "higher, faster, and stronger"?" Li Xiaole looked at Zhang Yimou and asked.

Zhang Yimou was stunned when he heard this. He had considered what performances could truly represent the culture of China, but this country had given him too many appearances in the past, so he could only capture the style of Qin Feng and Han Wu from it to express it.

"Then Director Li, what do you think? What do you think the root of our China lies?" Zhang Yimou asked rebelliously.

"I'm not sure." Li Xiaole shook his head and sighed: "But I saw that now our generation has completely looked down on the culture of their own country, and even misinterpreted their own culture. They like to advocate "I would rather let the world down" Cao Cao, thinking that Confucius, Laozi and other ancient sages are feudal superstitions, and Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are all cultural dregs that lead people to fools...

But what I saw was not like this for our ancestors…”

Li Xiaole said that he couldn't help but look up at the starry sky: "Director Zhang, you know, although I am not a historical expert and have not done any research, from the poems, Buddhist scriptures, and articles left by our ancestors, I feel that the people at that time had elegant and romantic thinking, far better than us now. I always feel that our ancestors were not as ignorant as our textbooks and other countries in the world think... I always feel that their culture is beyond all the Western cultural thoughts we worship in modern times...

But now, when we talk about the past, we are only obsessed with the so-called four great inventions. In ancient times, our GDP reached half of the entire world. Our general once chased the Huns to the north of Mobei and sealed the wolf's servant...

I wonder if these are really important...? Has our nation been dependent on this external, technology, money, and force...?"

Zhang Yimou lowered his head and was stunned for a long time before shook his head and said, "I understand what Director Li said, but you can't ask them to understand the concept of culture in a 50-minute performance. Just like our understanding of many foreign concepts, we are very superficial. This is not our ultimate goal. This goal is too big and cannot be completed. You must always remember that no literary performance can interpret such complex and accurate cultural and historical knowledge.

We show the specific things such as technology, money, and force, which are the style of a great power."

"No!!" Li Xiaole took advantage of the drunkenness and stood up and raised his glass to face the night wind and said, "The style of a great country is not a national thing, it is political. What we want to express this time is the romantic and elegant nature of our culture. Only a nation is confident can there be romantic and elegant things. If he is always immersed in strength and big, my family is richer than you and stronger than you... In fact, what he reveals is the form of inferiority and fragility~~

The so-called inability to express it is because our technical strength is not enough, but now we have enough technology and investment. Even if we only show the little essence we have left behind in the past 5,000 years, that is enough~~!

We not only want to show the opening ceremony to people all over the world, but also to show our muscles, but also to our own Chinese people~~! I want to show the once beautiful culture in our hearts, the culture that our ancestors have left to us, but we have forgotten, and use our all our efforts to describe it, let everyone see it, let them discover the beauty of our country's culture, and touch the most precious part of our nation. This is the meaning of our directors to take on the opening ceremony~”

Zhang Yimou looked at Li Xiaole deeply, noticed the spirit and passion in Li Xiaole's eyes. He couldn't help but be moved by his persistent feelings. He slapped the table and nodded fiercely: "It makes sense." As he said that, he raised his glass with beer and filled his glass with his glass, raised it to Li Xiaole, and said aloud:

"Director Lee, I wish our opening ceremony a smooth success."
Chapter completed!