Smart Run and Wonderful Escape is a film directed by Sun Min and starring Wei Zongwan and Huang Hong. The film is a patriotic film praising the military and civilians' resistance to Japan. It tells the story of Jules helping the injured Eighth Route Army traffic police to transport oil bags with Japanese strategic offensive maps. The song "Play Cotton" is taken from the episode in the movie "Run Skillfully".
The film "Smart Run and Wonderful Escape" is an anti-Japanese movie, but it chose a completely different way of expression, and made the audience laugh with the wonderful interpretations of several comedians such as Huang Hong, Wei Zongwan and Zhao Liang. And the logic designed by the director is very clever. The director grasped the logic of many things happening at the same time and connected these logics naturally very skillfully. Let the audience not look too abrupt, giving people a very mobile feeling.
Appreciation of the song "Playing Cotton"
This song has a melody with the color of the times, revealing a pure and firm sense of happiness. But when combined with the film, it is seamless, and even feels that it is written for this film, which is not easy for a good song. In the film, the devil let Lao Yao play. At first, Lao Yao refused, shouting "cotton", then the teacher who took him to sing, and finally gradually got better and reached a climax.
The simplicity of the lyrics is true and simple in this scene, which is the sincere telling of the working people about their daily life. And it complements the situation of the three singers. All three people are cotton growers, trying to make half a catty of cotton into 828. The last sentence "getting married by quilt" also reveals the connotation of trying to get rid of the predicament. What is even more rare is that this song is sung by three national first-class actors, which is called a swan song.