It also highlights the utter hypocrisy of how both the Yuan and Qing are "foreign invaders", yet the CCP is perfectly happy to claim the areas conquered by those dynasties as "ancient Chinese lands".
Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Sep 18th 2020 at 11:26:04 AM
We learn from history that we do not learn from historySo the remake, in addition to removing Mushu, Li Shang, and Shan Yu, replacing the latter with a villain even more one-note, also removes the titular characters arc via making her a chosen hero blessed with what is basically The Force in the form of Chi, doesn't really give enough focus on her family and why she wants to bring honor to them and herself, and in the end, basically has her agreeing to uphold the status quo and all that. Not to mention that the film was shot in a controversial location and also bungles a whole lot of essential Chinese myths and the like.
.......................................Who. Wrote. This?
It really depend of which era it came from. Remember the poem go through a ton of version and changed base on which era/ dynasty it set in. Emperor just the most common use title for the ruler for the majority of Chinese.
Edited by BattleRaizer on Sep 20th 2020 at 5:27:49 PM
E.T technically is a Isekai movieMulan's liege in the original poem was described as both the kehian (Chinese transliteration of "kha(ga)n" and as the tianzi (Chinese title for emperors, seemingly not Han-exclusive). English also gives the title of "emperor" to rulers of the empire of Northern Wei. The fact that both terms were in the same poem merely suggests that Mulan's ruler was simply an emperor of nomadic ethnicity.
Most? Very unlikely. Aside from the provinces with natively high Mongolian subpopulations, there doesn't seem to have been broad efforts at demographic admixture from the Mongolian conquerers with the native Hans, who were seen as a racial underclass.
Edited by AlleyOop on Sep 20th 2020 at 6:36:46 AM
Btw, apparently, two of the writers were the same ones who did the screenplay for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes................Man, what happened to them to go from that to this?
Also, not only is the villain such a blatant misogynist (really gotta hammer home that girl power.....while removing the original's genuine example of it), but they removed or simplified important scenes like the one where Mulan leaves her family to join the army along with removing her development into a true warrior, instead, replacing it with Chi. Heck, even the phoenix in the movie bears little resemblance to actual Chinese mythological depictions of it. And the witch in the film is persecuted for having magic, when those kinds of characters in Chinese mythology are revered as nobles.
..........................Somebody actually fricken wrote this. And got paid for it.
Edited by LDragon2 on Sep 20th 2020 at 4:08:25 AM
Who researched this. Like all of this stuff makes it come off as a weird mix of Western and eastern beliefs which would be okay I guess if they were going for Making a fantasy style setting like that but they specially stated it was meant to be more authentic to China . How did things go so wrong.
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."
I hear that Disney had a costume designer who was western, take a trip to a European museum about Chinese culture with plundered artifacts to get a feel for Mulan's aesthetic.
That would explain so much.
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"
So they thought western audiences were stupid but they alienated the Chinese demographic they wanted to pander to? And most western people also realized that the movie was inaccurate.
HA!
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"You could say the stupidity of everything involved in this movies was over 9000.
Edited by windleopard on Sep 20th 2020 at 9:20:31 AM

AAH! Now that makes more sense, thanks.
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"