When The opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics will take place on February 4, with the same man holding the reins at the Beijing Bird’s Nest Stadium 14 years earlier.
Responsibility for the opening ceremonies of the Winter Games has been given Zhang Yimoullewhich also hosted the opening ceremony of the Beijing Summer Olympics in 2008.
Zhang, 71, is one of China’s best-known film directors, the so-called fifth-generation lead character who Steven Spielberg has been praised as a “creative genius”.
In 2008, Zhang charmed the world with a spectacular and dramatic spectacle that praised China’s brilliant history and Chinese inventions such as paper, typography and compass.
At the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics in 2008, the colors glowed in the style of Zhang Yimou’s films.
One one of the most emotional moments was nine years old Lin Miaoken performance. The adorable little girl sang a well-known patriotic song Gechang Zuguo (Ode to the Motherland) when children representing fifty-six Chinese different nationalities carried the Chinese flag to the stadium.
However, Lin’s singing became a scandal, as after the opening it became clear that his voice was not heard in the stadium and on the television, but like a angel, the seven-year-old sang. Yang Peyi.
Originally, Yang had been selected to perform at the stadium as well, but a high-ranking member of the state leadership who followed the inaugural general rehearsals demanded that the girl be replaced. The decision maker thought Yang was too ugly to represent China because the girl’s teeth were a little protruding.
– It was a matter of national interest. The girl represented Chinese music and culture. He sang a red flag as he entered the stadium, so it was an extremely important and serious matter, the person in charge of the ceremony Chen Qigang said in a radio interview.
The raising of the flag of the People’s Republic of China to the Beijing Olympic Stadium portfolio was a moment whose choreography was considered until the Politburo of the Communist Party.
Of the year At the opening ceremony in 2008, attention was also drawn to what was not covered. The story of China jumped directly from the glorious past to the present and bright future of the country. The first decades of communist China, the President, were left behind Mao Zedongin time.
Admittedly, from the perspective of director Zhang, there seemed to be little to remember in Mao’s time. His father Zhang Bingjun had fought against the Communists during the Civil War of the 1940s, so the family was persecuted after the 1949 rise to power.
Persecution escalated during the Cultural Revolution that ravaged China in 1966-1976. After high school, Zhang Yimou had to abandon his dreams of graduate studies and, like millions of other urban youth, leave as a farm worker. He then worked in a cotton mill for years and raised money to buy his first camera of his own by selling his own blood.
The Cultural Revolution ended after Mao died in 1976. Two years later, the Beijing Film Academy reopened its doors, and with his spectacular photographs, Zhang managed to get himself a place to study despite his age.
Zhang became an international star in his films of the late 1980s and early 1990s Red field, Ju Dou – forbidden love and Red lantern thanks to. The main part of the feature films was picturesque Gong Liwith whom Zhang had an extramarital love affair.
The luminous Gong Li (left) was the female star in Zhang Yimou’s breakthrough films.
Ratio It ended with Gong in the mid-1990s, and Zhang began to expand his expression to international big-budget action adventures showcasing Chinese martial arts.
At the same time, Zhang himself got rich comfortably. In 2014, he had to pay a million-million fine for violating China’s one-child policy. BBC’s according to Zhang admitted that he and his 29-year-old actor spouse Chen Ting has two sons and a daughter.
In an interview with Chinese state television in January, Zhang described that the opening of the Winter Games will be more romantic than the 2008 Summer Olympics, according to the director, this reflects China’s new cultural self-confidence.
“As people live a happier, more confident, and more prosperous life, they begin to long for the romance of their lives. If we think about the time of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the heyday of the dynasty gave birth to a tremendous amount of romantic poetry,” Zhang painted.
Zhang Yimou carried the Olympic torch in Beijing on Wednesday.
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