"Double Flag Bearer" of Beijing Olympic Games: Why did Zhang Yimou put a little boy next to Yao Ming?

The flag bearer of the delegation is a symbol of a country and region.

202 1 Tokyo Olympic Games, Zhu Ting and Zhao Shuai were the double standard bearers of the China delegation.

We are all familiar with Zhu Ting, the absolute main force of China women's volleyball team, who led the women's volleyball team to win the championship in Rio Olympic Games. Zhao Shuai also won the Olympic Games in Rio. He set a record and achieved a zero breakthrough for male taekwondo athletes.

The double flag bearer is an unprecedented initiative at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. If we look at the opening ceremonies of previous Olympic Games, we will find that the precedent of "double flag bearer" was not initiated by the Tokyo Olympic Games, because at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, there was a "little chess player" Lin Hao next to the flag bearer Yao Ming.

This scene at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games was not originally planned by director Zhang Yimou. He made this decision out of "helplessness" and there were many mistakes on the scene that day.

One,

Some people call Zhang Yimou a "Buddhist". He can always present the elements of China in movies and tell the story of China well.

Therefore, in the 200 1 Olympic bid propaganda film, Zhang Yimou was selected as the director and directed "New Beijing, Great Olympics".

When Beijing won the right to host the 29th Olympic Games, at the closing ceremony of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Beijing will hold a cultural performance in Athens to announce the time for the Olympic Games to enter Beijing. This candidate fell on Zhang Yimou's shoulders.

Zhang Yimou arrived in Athens and met the general director of the "two styles" of the Athens Olympic Games. The other party told Zhang Yimou: "This is not so easy."

Then, the other party indicated the time given to Zhang Yimou: only six minutes. Six minutes is far from enough for Zhang Yimou, so BOCOG will communicate with BOCOG Athens and finally get eight minutes.

In a short period of eight minutes, if you want to perform a performance with China elements, even before the performance, you shouted the slogan "Let the whole world expect to be shocked", then you can naturally imagine the pressure from Zhang Yimou.

In the early morning of August 30th, 2004, Eight Minutes in China was released at the last minute. The performances planned by Zhang Yimou continued his previous styles: jasmine, martial arts, Beijing opera, red lanterns and so on.

The performance of "Eight Minutes in China" is remarkable, but it still attracts a wide range of discussions, among which there is a view that Zhang Yimou suffered from Waterloo in "Eight Minutes in China".

Some people think that Zhang Yimou has long been poor and famous by the "Qin" donkey, but there is no more. Some people think that Zhang Yimou's thinking space can't be bigger. How smart is his brain? It is better to find a way to ten thousand Qian Qian people together.

A large number of bad comments poured in, as if saying: Zhang Yimou is no longer fit to be the director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games.

These comments give some reference to the opening and closing ceremonies team, and the directors of the opening and closing ceremonies are also in the screening stage. Whether Zhang Yimou can achieve "three consecutive championships" is still an unknown answer.

On April 6th, 2006, 800 days before the Beijing Olympic Games, BOCOG finally decided Zhang Yimou as the general director of the opening and closing ceremonies through a large number of well-known directors at home and abroad.

People started talking about this appointment again, and the pressure on Zhang Yimou became heavier.

The opening ceremony of Beijing Olympic Games is a window, and its most important function is to show itself to the world.

China has a history of 5,000 years, and it is impossible to show all the history of 5,000 years in just two hours. Zhang Yimou's team can only choose the best from the best, purify the cultures of Han, Tang and Song at different time points, and show them through artistic processing.

This is a film that shows the deep-rooted history of China. On the other hand, in order to show China's modern spirit, the creative team has been collecting children's smiling faces from the beginning. Smiling faces are for the whole world to see the smiles of China people.

From ancient times to the present, these are all around the slogan "One World, One Dream" of the Beijing Olympic Games.

However, the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008 forced Zhang Yimou to consider adding "anti-seismic" elements to the opening ceremony.

Second,

In May 2008 12, a major earthquake occurred in Wenchuan, and it was more than two months before the Beijing Olympic Games. However, in the face of sports events, disasters can affect the hearts of Chinese children more. If one side is in trouble, all sides will support it. For a time, the whole country went to Wenchuan.

After the rescue work was completed, the Wenchuan aftershock basically stopped. At this time, all walks of life sent a voice to Zhang Yimou: We should add an "earthquake" element to the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games.

Zhang Yimou adopted this suggestion. First, he thought of a plan to arrange a performance from the disaster area. However, the disaster area has just experienced such a big event, and it is almost not in the mood for any cultural performances, so the original performance plan was soon abandoned.

Due to the failure of the performance, Zhang Yimou thought of a more "lazy" way. The team discussed with IOC President Rogge: I hope he can express his views on the Wenchuan earthquake and himself in his speech at the opening ceremony.

Jacques rogge made a good excuse and refused. He said, "This is inappropriate. We can't passively accept this information. Everyone is here for the Olympics. "

Both schemes were rejected. At that time, Zhang Yimou was like a defeated general on the battlefield, but he still didn't give up. After further discussion, the director group decided to let Yao Ming, the flag bearer, take a child from the disaster area to the rostrum.

The question now is which child? After screening, they chose Lin Hao.

Lin Hao is an earthquake hero. In 2008, he was only 9 years old and in the second grade. When the Wenchuan earthquake happened, Lin Hao was in school. When the earthquake happened, the house collapsed and some students ran out. Lin Hao and the students who didn't run out were crushed in the ruins.

Lin Hao is the monitor of this class. In a crisis, he showed a calm side. He comforted his classmates first, and then organized everyone to sing, which calmed their panic.

More importantly, Lin Hao successfully escaped from the ruins and cooperated with rescuers to rescue his classmates from the ruins. After the disaster, Lin Hao won the title of "Young Hero for Earthquake Relief".

Team Zhang Yimou selected Lin Hao and immediately took him to the Bird's Nest to attend the opening ceremony.

Third,

After all the arrangements were made, two key mistakes appeared.

The first mistake was that he didn't inform Yao Ming, and Yao Ming didn't even know the existence of the event. The second mistake is that the four team leaders did not receive the notice!

On the evening of August 8, 2008, the China team entered the stadium, but when Zhang Yimou was in charge of the whole scene, he didn't see Lin Hao.

Zhang Yimou was dumbfounded when he saw this in the operations room. He immediately asked in the headset, "What's going on? What about Lin Hao? "

Not long after, Zhang Yimou received news that the assistant director was stopped by the team leader when he went up with his children, thinking that there were parents taking their children into the venue.

What a big mistake this is! Zhang Yimou said decisively, "Pull in and rush in."

Then, the assistant director trotted along with the panda and brought the panda to Yao Ming's side. But by this time, Yao Ming had reached the position of the rostrum, and the effect that Zhang Yimou wanted no longer existed.

He originally imagined that when Yao Ming reached the podium, he would lift it up and carry Lin Hao on his shoulders, which meant that "a giant and a child in China stood in the earthquake-stricken area, and this is our next generation".

Yao Ming was shocked when he saw a little boy standing beside him, but Yao Ming smiled at Jeremy Lin. After a while, Yao Ming seemed to understand. He shouldered Jeremy Lin waving to the audience all over the world.

Then, the athletes of the back team pulled Lin Hao one by one and carried him on their shoulders. After the opening ceremony, Lin Hao said, "I also became a torch."

This scene didn't achieve the desired effect of Zhang Yimou, but the opening ceremony ended successfully. In these two hours, the scene was magnificent, including the shocking effect of the combination of movable type printing and high technology, the drum shaped like a bronze tripod, and the 15 second that shocked the world: Li Ning raised the torch and lit the main torch with gunpowder.

However, when talking about this flaw after the meeting, Zhang Yimou lamented: It can be better, it can be better.