everything wrong with mulan 2020 (a review) 🐉⚔️👄
2020 ж. 8 Қыр.
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hi everyone! long time no see. i had absolutely no intention to review this movie but after watching it i couldn't help myself. it completely loses the heart of the original animated mulan film but honestly, what did we expect? disney needs to stop ruining our childhoods with these live action adaptations.
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many of you expressed concern over my not addressing the controversy revolving mulan’s lead actress as well as not discussing the concentration camps in xinjiang (which is where the movie was filmed unbeknownst to myself). as i’m not familiar with many of the details surrounding these issues i felt it was not my place to speak on them, especially as far more qualified people have discussed it and i would hate to speak over them. i’ll include links to some articles below, but also feel free to comment more of them so we can all continue to learn. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/07/why-disneys-new-mulan-is-scandal/ www.flare.com/tv-movies/live-action-mulan-controversy-boycott/
What about the concentrations camps where Uighurs muslims are forced into?
as i said, i’m not an expert on this subject and as such i felt it was inappropriate for me to discuss it and potentially share misinformation.
Thanks for not throwing yourself at expressing an early opinion. These days opinions and cancellings, etc seem free accesories. Not everyone has the integrity to say "I don't know enough about this to talk or educate anyone about it", mad respect.
I wish you would’ve touched even a bit on the absolute atrocity that is the historical inaccuracy of the costumes, makeup, and culture, seeing as you’re a fashion channel. Mulan isn’t set in a specific dynasty (though it is usually in Northern Wei) but the costumes vary from all different dynasties. The color palette is horrendous and would never have been seen in Ancient China. They messed up the entire court life of China and made it like Versailles. The makeup is exaggerated and inaccurate, making them look like they are in the rococo era, but adding a slight hint of clown. The usage of tulou is confusing, as Mulan never had ANY adaptation with any connection to Fujian. The court officials are wearing the wrong dynasty clothing. Liu Yifei never voiced support for the CCP, she voiced support for the HKPD after Hong Kong protestors beat a mainland reporter up for disagreeing with them.
i was planning on doing a separate video discussing the costumes in depth but it would’ve taken a lot more time and research + it didn’t fit in with everything else i was “reviewing” in this video. also, this isn’t a fashion channel! i’ve made videos about actresses in the past (i just like clothes a lot 😅)
„I think Disney should learn that true feminism is not being afraid to have a woman as the villain“ EXACTLY
Aren't there female villains in Disney all the time ??
@@LittleStrawbirdy They're kind of dying out, honestly. I mean, when's the last time we had a Maleficent? Or an Ursula? Mother Gothel is the only one who comes close.
For sure!
True feminism is more about not being afraid to have a woman, who thinks for herself. Which is what they do, and NPCs hate it. Wonder Woman and Alita (liked by NPCs, both with superpowers) were told by men, what to believe, and then followed it religiously, as well as their original believe, which they never questioned.They are only extension of someone else's agenda. Disney's women (Mulan, Rey, Captain Marvel) meet their enemies, have discussion with them, understand each other's POV and are willing to change their mind. This makes them an active player, who can change things.
@@LittleStrawbirdy I can't remember the last time Disney had a female villain. The last one I can remember is Mother Gothel.
They literally took an already interesting female character who worked her ass to earn and gain respect and status and turned her into a Mary Sue
Mary Sue?
@@chantelles3641 A character who is created with no major flaws or who have "flaws" that make them inherently better than other characters.
@@chantelles3641 mary sue is the typical main character who is too perfect (doesn't have any type of flaws except for being clumsy) and they are very annoying pretty much because they are perfect without trying
Thanks everyone :-)
@@chantelles3641 - Basically Rey in Star Wars, Captain Marvel, Bella Swan, and a "Gary Stu" would be Superman, Neo, Luke Skywalker, Goku, Harry Potter. They're pretty much a perfect character who can do no wrong, and who all the other characters automatically like and root for. Usually it's the writer inserting themselves into an avatar and living vicariously through an imaginary version of themselves. Many people say that comicbooks are full of Gary Stus, bc it stems the nerdy writers attempts at fulfilling their fantasies. Aside from Harry, people also say Hermione is J.K. Rowling's "Mary Sue".
If belle can have dancing furniture, Mulan can have a dragon-lizard and cricket 😤
The dragon was offensive lol
@@animegirl8033 h o w?- and so is having a movie that's nothing like the animation when every other movie was exact
@@animegirl8033 how? Explain
@@victorianoskov1441 the only think that i could think about Mushu being a "offensive thing" is that he breath fire, the asian cuture and the european/american culture is different in that case, well, the representation of Mushu like a dragon would it be more like an asiatic dragon if he breath water, the concept of a fire breath, dinosaur with wings is from europa, but the dragons in the asian culture are inspired in lizards, they are long, with horns, no wings and are the deities of the water. Maybe is offensive not only for the fire breath, some people think that its offensive because the voice actor is a black man...idk
@@animegirl8033 bruh how?!?
I was so sad about Shang being removed. In another review video, they said the idea to remove him came from the metoo movement. The creators thought it was inappropriate to have Shang form a relationship with Mulan because he was her commander. Thus in their eyes an unbalance power dynamic and he could take advantage and such. Where they failed miserably. He never took advantage of her or treated her any different until her gender was revealed. Even then, he spared her life because he was in debt after her saving him. He cared about her but seemed like he didn't wanna admit it until towards the end. Hell, they didn't even form a relationship till AFTER the war was over and he wasn't her commander anymore. It was dumb to remove him, and now they suffer cause of that change 😤.
They could've made him equal in rang. They could start off as two soldiers who compete with each other. And then step by step become friends and help one another.
I also read somewhere that they removed him because it was speculated about him being bi? People thought he was attracted to “ping” Mulan in her male disguise and the homophobic Karen parents thought it was “inappropriate” to teach kids these things
@@Bbyyo- he is NOT bi. He appreciated ping for being a brave and resourceful soldier. After he found out ping was a girl, THEN he was attracted to her. I fries me when a man shows appreciation and friendship to another (supposed) man then everyone takes it and runs for the hills, making all kinds of ridiculous assumptions
Also Mulan was pretending to be a guy....Notice how Disney doesn't ever do LGBTQ+ relationships? Wow, Disney is transphobic and homophobic....when their trying to be more inclusive! Also I think Moana and Tiana are the ONLY BLACK princesses! Disney is so unoriginal as well ADAPTING STORIES, not WRITING ORIGINAL ones! Thanks for not making the world better Disney! Walt Disney's most famous quote is something like, "Anything is possible" but they don't add suppressed peoples in most of their stories! Sorry for this rant, it just needed to be said!
@@emiliereal1520 I agree that Disney should do better. Just wanted to add that Moana is a POC, but she’s not black. Tiana is the only black Disney princess.
Mulan 1998 : a trained soldier who does things men can do Mulan 2020 : a gifted Wonder Woman wins all the way for no reason
The art of kungfu is gifted not everyone can do it and is not easy, just like that Mulan was gifted with it and also she did train since a young age with her father's sword.
No she trained hard and had to hide this... way more realistic than in the animated one where she was just good all of a sudden
@Your Mom fr, what are these people talking about? The new one made no sense.
@@eisbar9962 Wttf are you talking about? The animated was the one who had to train hard for her abilities, the live action didn't train at all, seh was already good from the beggining and had superpowers
Yeah for me the first one shows how mulan trained extra hard to become the best and ended up respected by others. The part where she needs to climb a pole also shows where everyone started to get inspired by her and when all of the soldiers started working harder and became strong so it’s sad they took it off. (Also it seems so fkg hard to do so it’s 10 times mor impressive)
live action movies should be love letters to the original movies, but they’re just nostalgia traps.
this isn’t a remake
Online Profile That didn't change their point at all. Disney is giving us C-rate movies hoping nostalgia will make you too indifferent to notice how subpar it is
Feels like 101 Dalmations is the only one that got that message right. And it's actually the first [Disney] remake before remakes became the new trend.
Its like nostalgia is the only reason dumb guys watch these movies in droves
Agreed
When Mulan ran away to join the army in place of her father, Cartoon: no! My daughter! She’s gone! She could die! New movie: ugh! Here she goes again! I’m so pissed
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Someone mentioned in the original scene for that leaving home montage was fricking heartbreaking watching the dad run out and then tripping and dropping the clip. I personally agree, he probably cared less that she "did it again", he cared that his daughter was gonna be gone, that she might die! The baby girl he watched grow up! Meanwhile, the other guy literally cares more his armor than his own daughter! The final line of, "If I reveal her, she will be(in response to Mom saying that she will be killed if they don't go after her)", is so hard hitting. Meanwhile, "Mulan did this!", again, like he's angry his daughter was trying to save him! Gah, sorry about that, this is so angering to know about.
When she’s back it is worse He’s happy to see the gifts but in the animation he throws it aside, not caring about them becuase his kid is more important
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@@finland4ever55 sorry auto correct
I have to disagree with having more characters use "Chi". No, they should not even include it the way they did. Because that's not really Chi in this movie. It's like the director or screenwriters watched Naruto and then told themselves "Well, Chi is also Asian stuff so we will use it the same way as Chakra in Naruto, it will be fine."
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Exactly! Chi/Qi isn't even a superpower in Chinese culture. It's literally another part of your body. So making Chi such a big deal in this movie is like saying to someone "Oh, you can breathe! What an epic superpower that nobody else has!"
@@nataliamidzio well, it's kinda what happened in jjba first part
@@nataliamidzio exactly,, chi is supposed to be the life force of living things, not a superpower to be harnessed,, and take note **all living things** not just men
even with chackra you trained that to be good with it, but idk they went full on superpower/hero with "chi", might as well not have it at that point
I actually have a big problem with qi being introduced in this movie. In the animated movie, Mulan was a regular person, like me and you, who took it upon herself to gather the strength and courage to do something extraordinary. That’s the lesson I learnt as a kid, « a single grain of rice can tip the scale », which meant me too, if I only worked up the courage to. But with qi, which is essentially a superpower, Mulan is already great and powerful and above us regular folks, and the only obstacle is that she has to « show her true self ». So, in my opinion, the whole lesson of the original movie has been lost :/
I AGREE SO WHOLEHEARTEDLY. These are my exact thoughts and its so frustrating.
Yooooo sameeee, the way that they made her just a regular girl with extraordinary determination to a girl who’s just an exception to the rule and ~special~ was kinda annoying. Old mulan challenged the status quo while this mulan was put above it by default
completely agree! they missed the point entirely
Yes! What was so empowering about Mulan is that DESPITE having all of the odds against her she works HARD and gets through challenges thrown at her!
even the original legend was about a fairly normal and (slightly above since she managed to defeat her own father in a fight) average woman. That strength she has was exerted through the years of war and being in the army, not in a lone-warrior fashion
"they don't understand what made Mulan special to us." That should sum up almost every life action they made the past few years.
Concordo! I agree!
not really. the ones like Aladdin and the beauty and the beast were really good
Cinderella turned out pretty good, as did The Jungle Book! 💙 💚 I can watch both films and still get the nostalgia that came from the originals. 😊
i thought aladdin was actually really good. i feel like i was the only one
They were all really good in my opinion: Jungle book, Lion king, Cinderella, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast (I just didn't like the dress Emma wore as Belle during the ballroom dance scene it was horrible and looked nothing like the original).
THE FACT THAT THEY HAD THE AUDACITY TO SPEAK SOME LINES FROM THE SONG 😃.
FR LIKE EVERY OTHER DISNEY LIVE ACTION REMAKE HAD THE SONGS BUT WHY NOT IN MULAN JFIFKCKDIDI
@@gglovesgorillazmj7784 IT'S EMBARRASSING
@@gglovesgorillazmj7784 IT’S SO DISGRACEFUL
I hate this live action. they just gave her powers and threw in some fighting and magic, i loved the original mulan so much more. end of story
They added words like “chi” “ancestor” “honour” to make it seem Asian because the director was white and knew nothing about the legend
I mean the live action is based off the original legend soooo...
@@animegirl8033 someone made a video of all the cultural inaccuracies to the original legend
I love your pfp lol
i loved how they showed her actually having to train and improve in the animated one. it just felt really wrong when she basically had superpowers.
One thing that *really* bugged me was how Mulan's father in the remake was or at least seemed pretty happy to accept the emperor's gifts because he added the line "you have brought great honor to the family" when in the original the father threw the gifts on the ground and says "the greatest gift of honor is having you for a daughter" which is *WAY* more powerful and emotional
Cartoon dad seems so deep and loving and real
omg you're so right! what a wasted opportunity...
Yes!!!! I cried with the cartoon scenes with the dad! When he yells “Mulaaaan!!!” And falls to the floor, when he tells her that the flower that blooms in adversity is the most beautiful, and that last line you mentioned, i cry every time i see them in the cartoon. And then the movie is like “yieii finally, you did something good”
Keep in mind Fa Zhou in the '98 version was absolutely devastated when his little girl had run off to her almost certain death in order to protect him he truly believed that he would never see her again which was why he was so happy and relieved when Mulan came back he thought he lost his daughter forever
It shows growth in the dad as well. In the beginning, it seemed like all he cared about was honor. He became disappointed when Mulan failed her etiquette lessons because she didn't reach his expectations and felt she had dishonored the family. But going through not having his daughter with him for months at a time and even being afraid that she may possibly die , thought him that honor is not what matters. Him being with his daughter and loving her is what truly matters in the end. That's why that scene where they show us that the father doesn't care about the gifts is so powerful! Because we can see him more as a father to mulan and see how his perspective has changed. We can see his growth even if we didn't see him go through it. I just can't believe they destroyed this idea and image. It is so disappointing. Edit: as someone pointed out, her dad wasn't disappointed in her or think she had dishonored the family, he was simply sad about seeing Mulan sad. Which actually shows even more the great and loving character of her father, something that the live action missed completely :(
the problem with qi in this film is that that's not how qi works in real life, it's not some sort of special power. every single person has qi in them, qi does not descriminate. it's used mainly in medicine and martial arts. qi is the same in everyone, it's how the person channels and uses their qi that makes them powerful, and the person should be praised for their techniques not the qi itself.
qi is an excuse to shoe horn the typical chinese wire team crap. Apparently gravity works different in china.
“In real life” if you believe in it. Furthermore, qi might not work like that on paper but on Chinese Tv it is often portrayed as some sort of magic. So I guess, it’s not a problem that’s only related to Mulan
There’s absolutely no scientific evidence for Qi. At all. I mean, I get that people believe in it and all, but saying “ how it works in real life” assumes that it’s a proven, without question reality that we all experience.
@@rebeccaaliberti5053 yeah i know it's often upplayed in TV, but the logic is still the same and mulan did it wrong, and by real life i mean real life chinese culture its not just something made up for modern tv yk
@@j.r.r5863 even if it was not proven it's still a well defined concept that follows certain rules in chinese culture which is what i described above, and mulan just took the name and made it something else
"If you need a character to explain what's going on, something is wrong with the script." Something the writers of "Frozen 2" really needed to remember. Almost everything the characters said was an explanation of some sort.
YES THAT. I had the same issue with moana, there were literally parts where everything was explained.
@@pantsupurinsu_1329 I think that Disney has become outdated.
@@orangeslash1667 i agree, i dont enjoy it anymore and it kinda makes me sad, because i still enjoy the old movies, the storytelling was on a complete different level then
@@pantsupurinsu_1329 The good news is that 2d animation is still alive in Europe and Japan. Going slightly off topic of all the franchises in the Super Smash Bros roster only two franchises had an American company be involved at some point when making the games. That being Metroid and Punch Out.
@@orangeslash1667 Y’all are BLESSED to still have the original 2d animation! I would love for Disney to make AT LEAST one more Disney Princess movie in the 2d animation 😕
I hated the witch element all together. I felt like she was just too supernatural and powerful nothing would have felt like a genuine win. I didn't care for the sister, and honestly I didn't like how they switched up the parents. They never seemed disappointed, or resented their daughter they were trying to get her married but not like she was an item just culturally normal. Plus it made the mom seem almost mean in this movie. I hated Mulan as a character because they made it seem like they're aren't drawbacks to her being a girl and there are no physical limitations. Mulan wasn't athletic or had a knack for fighting. She was a girl doing the right thing and wanted to save her father. She put doing the right thing above everything else. Which the original paid off time and time again. This movie just pisses on that. It's like well she's a damn superhero at this point it's almost selfish if she don't do something. Also it makes me mad because women do have to work hard and train to not only beat the boys but be better in instances. She just magically can do everything and I'm like how is this relatable???
@@animegirl8033 The problem here is that Mulan 2020 also screwed up the original ballad: as Mulan was an ordinary mortal in that poem. Mulan's original ballad: normal woman who takes her dad's armor to save him from the draft, spends 10 years in the military, becomes a general, war ends, she returns home to her normal life, and her comrades learn her secret after the fact. Mulan '98: normal woman who takes her dad's armor to save him from the draft, trains to become a skilled soldier, war ends, she returns home to her normal life: the changes here are the fact that the war doesn't last 10 years, and that she's outed *before* the war ends. Mulan 2020: woman who is Qi-sensitive (read: Force-sensitive!) from birth takes her dad's armor to save him from the draft, doesn't need training b/c already skilled, war ends and she starts to return to her normal life--except the emperor's envoy requests that she return to the military as a soldier b/c she's a BADASS. While Mulan 2020 left out Mushu, Cricket (as an actual insect), and the songs from the 1998 adaption, it's actually less-faithful to the ballad than said Mulan '98.
@.Animegirl. Did the legend Mulan have Captain Marvel superpowers? Even the Chinese directed movie and drama have mulan being a normal girl crossdressing to save her dad. Sure she learned martial arts in some adaptations but she isn't some magical entity. That removes the whole purpose of the story! That Mulan was just an ordinary girl doing extraordinary things...not because she was special but because it was right.
I dislike how inconsistent they made the abilities of everyone. For example the emperor who looks old enough to be Mulans grandpa can catch an arrow while tied up but the witch who tears through soldiers like wet paper can't.
Apparently witches like that didn’t even exist in Chinese lore and they wouldn’t have been outcasts for being witches.
Disney: "Dragons aren't real and we want realism, so no Mushu" Also Disney: "Let's add in a witch, a phoenix that serves no purpose whatsoever, and make Mulan into a superhero part of Cirque du Soleil"
OMFG right?! i was complaining to my bf at all of the moments that were unrealistic when they offed Mushu and the singing. Literally the first 5 minutes with that Qi move when she was 8... And no music, "because ppl don't sing while going to war," except THEY DID. God, this movie kills me
I see where they wete going for. They didnt want mushu because he was a conedic character and this isnt a comedy. However, i think they could have introduced singing and more interesting characters while maintaining the same theme
Mushu wasn´t removed bc it isn´t real, but bc of how offensive is the way Disney managed that character like comedy to chinese people
Its also pretty obvious that they didn't want a black guy voicing a comedic dragon.
Actually, a phoenix and the witch is part of Chinese culture.
What’s really sad is that this film had SO much POTENTIAL and completely missed the ball.
THEY FUCKED IT UP!
No... It never had potential. It was doomed to fail the moment they decided to remake the gorgeous original.
I actually had hope for this live action too-
Pierre Begley yeah haha...some things just don’t need to be touched
disney will disown it for sure cuz this is clearly a flop
Sooooo basically they removed everything we liked about Mulan the animated version and decided hey let's add magic powers
Yep.
except the magic powers arent actually magic powers
And added magic powers that we don’t like
Idk my mom hates both films either way (not saying she doesn’t think that Disney animators are talented). But still, I have absolutely no clue what the chi “powers” had to do with anything
as a Mulan fan and a Chinese, I still prefer the animated one more.
My problem with this movie is Mulan screams, "I'm not like other girls". She chases chickens, climbs roofs, knows martial arts, and has a powerful 'qi' - she's definitely not like other girls. It's a bad case of mary sue. The old Mulan actively wanted to be a good daughter and future wife; and she effortlessly failed to do those things because she lacked those skills. Old Mulan builds her character over time, but in the movie she just comes off uninteresting and bland. Disney completely butchered the relationship between Mulan and her friends. Dialogue was really awkwardly delivered and show no real relationship between her and the men. Some of the characters can speak perfect english, I don't know why they had to speak with a fake asian accent. Stop whitewashing asian movies, and just let asians be asian.
I keep writing this and now I'm laughing because I see you've got this idea too. I thought we left this idea dead in my high school years where it belonged. Dead. Ugh thank you. THIS. Someone please kill "I'm not like other girls" dead. Yeah I'm not like other girls either. I limp when I walk. SOOOOOO INTERESTING OOOOH. Unfortunately this was written for an Asian (Chinese) audience like that stupid The Great Wall and most of Asia is not receiving this well. Good. I'm glad. This is what this movie DESERVES for doing this. Good. Work with the Chinese government. That doesn't mean actual Chinese citizens will like you.
Jamie The staff were all white too, the directors and all that
@Ari Jappendi Even western countries culture have been taken by christianity. I grew up with christianity, but I am very curious about other cultures, and the natural religion in my own country, before christianity came. The whole world need to treasure their national culture more; in my opinion, diversity for the sake of diversity is not nessicarily a good thing. America is a very 'young' country; their only 'past' is christianity. Except for the Indians; they have a very beautiful ancient culture, and I hope at least some of it remains. But the rest of the world, they had their own beliefs before christianity, their own tradition and culture. And much of it have been lost unfortunately. I think it have happened some hundreds of years slower in for example asian countries, and other places on earth. Cultures which deserve to be preserved; also in western/scandinavian countries. But the 'modern' american culture does creep into most countries eventually. But it is not americans 'fault' that other cultures are lost; it is the people who choose to abandon their own traditions in favour of something else. They are doing that of their own free will.
I agree and disagree. The first point is definitely accurate for me lol, its annoying to see "im not like other girls" bullshit while the original Mulan portrays otherwise. And Mulan is not a warrior princess that is gifted with martial arts since baby or some shit then had to hide it because "women shouldnt be stronger than men" altough i understand that they probably trying to adjust to the timeline. (Because during that era, women arent allowed to fight and should larn household chores instead). However its still ridiculious because there are no flying lady bird or phoenix flying around then 😑. And the second point, its not actually white washing because they are not replacing the asians with caucasian actors & actresses. As for the accent, i think its istill understandable because their target market is international level therefore they pick people who speak clear english. Im sure it will be the same for the live action of snow white.
@@HereIAm247 christianity is not an american thing the furst Christians came during the days of jesus in the middle east but yes it is America's main religion
Disney: *removes Reflection, Mushu, Shang, and sassy grandma* Everyone: *something’s wrong-*
I havent watch Mulan yet and I know theres no Mushu..but no Shang too? Not gonna watch it then😂
@@ladyalphecca There is no singing either. It ain't a Disney remake film of the classic without the singing.
@@TheWarmachine375 nooooooooo...I really love "I'll make a man out of you" song
@@ladyalphecca Same. There is no Mulan singing "Reflection" and the Chinese Imperial Army singing "A Girl Worth Fighting For" or Mulan and the girls singing "Bring Honor to Us All."
@@TheWarmachine375 No reflection too? They've gone too far
the whole movie me and my brother were like “so they’ll include a which but not mushu.” 😂
Mushu was offensive to Chinese culture. They would offend their culture by putting a talking dragon in the legend.
@@animegirl8033 any the Phoenix they added wasn’t Chinese culture eithwr
@@animegirl8033 i don’t think people in china really care that much about dragons anymore
@@animegirl8033 r u chinese????
@@animegirl8033 Are you chinese? I’m gonna guess not because of the way you worded the sentence, personally I don’t find him that offensive (maybe not even at all).
What pissed me off the most, though, was that Mulan didn't cut her hair in the armor scene. That was the best moment in the film because she as she cut her hair, she also cut away the beliefs that she had grown up with, that she had to be the perfect bride to honor her family. Her cutting her hair was a metaphor for removing toxic beliefs that women live with and the fact that they didn't have that scene pissed me off. And also the fact that she was portrayed as perfect because she had chi. Disney basically took a powerful feminist icon who stands for the basic views of feminism that you should be true to yourself no matter what and turned her into a Mary Sue.
In ancient Chinese belief, your body was a gift given to you by your parents. To cut any part of it off was to spit in their parents face, which is why both men and woman have long hair. They cut it out to be more historically accurate
I heard that they cut that scene out because of "authenticity" cus back then, every part of your body was considered your parent's so no one was allowed to cut their hair because it would be treated as a criminal offense. except for chidren because their parents would do it for them, and monks. And even if you get your parent's permission no one would know and you would still be punished.
The cutting the hair part in the 1998 movie actually made a lot of drama in China cause you're not supposed to cut your hair in ancient China. The act of cutting your hair is shameful because they are given by your parents. If you cut your hair/don't take care of it for no good reason, then you'll be ostracized and treated as a crazy person. People do get haircuts, but they don't throw it away, they keep it in a fancy box.
@@lilyorsman1427 yeah but if you are going to be more historically accurate hen do it when it matters more/with stronger points, why have the chi be like a superpower?.
@@val-et8qs I think they also cut off the hair of criminals or something.
It’s funny that you mention that this movie shows off how beautiful China is, where a fair portion of the movie was filmed in New Zealand.
oof
On the fighting scenes i thought how much the landscape looked like the battle scenes from lord of the rings. Accidentally accurate
Better New Zealand than a stone's throw away from an active concentration camp...
@@Lin-rh6qs this movie did both
Lol
Ignoring my dislike of how un-disney this film is, I hate the new powers Mulan has. In the animated film, she was totally unprepared for the war. She really struggled to keep up because she was starting from nothing. But she worked hard, and she was smart. That's what I loved about her. She was determined to prove herself, and to fight for her country. Just like you said in the video, there are no stakes during the training. You don't get the huge payoff as she earns the respect of the soldiers. Also I miss her -cow- horse
Honestly, after The Little Mermaid (Because, let's be honest, I have a stupid amount of hope for it) they should stop remakes entirely and work on new content. Thankfully, they are working on a new movie that focuses on a girl in Columbia who is powerless in a family of people who do have powers.
I have a small hope for princess and the frog, they can't mess that up. Right?
@@bi_cycle It's better off as a Broadway show in my opinion. And if they cast Dr Failicer poorly, I don't want it.
Amanda Lynn YESSS IM EXCITED FOR THAT ONE
@@amandalynn4979 wait they're really doing that? Since when? When Disney first started doing the remakes, I have to admit I was excited. Excited to see these animations come to life but really the only decent ones have been Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast. Can they stop?
I found the narrative that "we cut off Li Shang because this is a story about a woman, she needs no man, she can't fall in love with her superior" by Disney as absolute trash. Mulan and Li Shang weren't living a love story during the war🙄 they were both fighting to keep their land safe from invaders. Li Shang never abused his power to hurt her. In fact, he let her go alive( albiet, by cruelly abandoning her) when he found out her secret. The only time he approached her slightly romantically is _after_ the war, and he visited her house, meeting her family. He gave her full credit and trusted her judgement despite living in a time period where misogyny was the "norm." You can make it a story about female strength without cutting off a male character, because it always was one.
in top of all other problems - remember that they filmed it right in front of re-education camps were people were tortured and thanked them later✨✨✨✨
Yeah. Despicable.
wow omg
*tf, they're heartless-*
I know.. its sad how exmuslim are kiIIed because they leave their cult😔
@@skyskyight90 um excuse me "cult"?? Hope you're talking about the Ouïghours that are killed for BEING muslim instead of encouraging it. Cuz thinking that Islam is a cult is just being like the ones who torture them "out of it" in the camps.
"she doesnt have a personality outside of being afraid of spiders" me af
I don't think that's a good thing...
Honestly same
What the hell just I was reading this she was saying it at the same time 😂
Lmfao same
That’s not really a good thing.
Mulan's father in the animated version: Oh no.....my only daughter took my armor and left....she left and it's my fault, she left and might die because of ME!! Oh God, why!? Mulan's father in the live action version: Well shit, Mulan took my armor. Fuck.........well at least we got her sister. How the hell did they ruin this scene? Legitimately one of the most heartbreaking scenes in a Disney animated movie, especially if you're a father yourself, and they fucked it up completely.
I'm just here to say "aye nice name". I used to use AzureRoze as my username for a few things...I mostly just like seeing someone else throwing azure in their names
YES, that scene makes me cry every time. This looks ridiculous.
I agree like if i were a father i'd cry my lungs out if my daughter did that shit for my sake but in the live action went *"but the sister"*
LOL
I think we need to understand chinese culture and philosophy in order to understand why they changed so much things. I heard that chinese people hated the animation because they disrespected their culture and philosophy. It was too west oriented philosophy. Chinese philosophy is different from western’s. In the ancient China, they privileged honour and wealth before anything else. And disobedience was a dishonour and an absolute humiliation for the whole family, even of it was for a noble reason. It was worst than death. I think if Mulan really existed, she would have been executed by the emperor even if she saved him because she was a woman, lied to everyone and dishonored her whole family. Making her as an exemple for chinese people to not follow in order to keep some authority over the people. It’s sad but I think this is how ancien China’s politic worked. So I don’t really mind these changes as long as it respects China’s history and accuracy. :) This Mulan may wanted to be more realistic than the animated one and be more true to the real Mulan story.
One of the small aspects I love about the animated version is that the main villain seems to be the only person in the film that didn't care the Mulan was a girl. He saw her as a powerful warrior and threat and fought her accordingly.
My mom told me this when we watched the new Mulan: She said that she came from a small, poor village. As a kid/teen she HAD to bring many buckets of water up from the bottom of a hill to the top. Sure it wasn’t a mountain, but the hill was steep and the mountain and this path way. So yeah I just wanted to say that to show how bad they made the I lll make a man out of you scenes.
I hated from the beginning (watching the trailer) that this Mulan had a totally different personality which nobody could identify with. The animation one was smart, but clumsy and VULNERABLE. She wasn't a super hero. She went through a process that required courage, ability and discipline. She won the battles thanks to the combination of her intelligence and strength that she got in the army. The actress looks so cold and bland, like she's a robot, not a person. And I don't understand why swapping characters, changing their names and personalities. What's the point? Nostalgic fans won't like it, new audiences won't care...So it makes absolutely no sense.
At some point she "explains" to her sister how she has no expression on her face so maybe that was a trait the director wanted her to have? Can't see why that'd be a choice for this movie, though.
@@miaferrari958 terrible trait to have and give to a main character if you ask me lol
The only time she showed true emotion was when she got excited and when she shook hands with her love interest
original mulan earned her strength by working hard and doing her best. this mulan was just given power bc magic. original mulan inspired young children to believe that it doesnt matter how you were born, your choices and hard work will get you where you want to go as long as you keep at it and dont give up. the new mulan says that unless you are born with some kind of power you dont really matter
So true!! I dozed off and also I forgot which part of the movie I dozed of to LOL
I think they removed her relatability. In the original she wasn’t born with some kind of superhuman ability that she had to hide in order to pretend to be as weak as everyone else. She had to train hard and go through awkward situations and moments in order to become a good soldier. In this new movie, she was more like a superhero. She just wasn’t relatable. I think the songs would’ve been amazing. I mean, imagine the choreography of “Make a Man Out if You” in a live version. There was also something rushed about it and at the same time slow. The attempts at humor were corny and flat most of the time, and also came across as awkward( sometimes bizarre). I don’t know, I think this movie had a lot of potential. It also could have shown a relationship based on mutual respect and a real sense of equality, but it just kind of was very weird there too. All in all, it didn’t really deliver for me.
YES. it’s not a super hero movie
Faith I agree with you! I think that, and maybe this is just me, Disney is afraid of showing “weakness” in their female characters, but I think it’s so good and healthy to show that it’s okay to not have it together from the beginning to children. That we aren’t born perfect ( girls or boys). That our natural talents aren’t fully developed at birth and that others can be acquired through hard work and determination even if they don’t come naturally at first. That’s what made the original so inspiring to me as a little girl. Here was a young Mulan who had everything against her but by sheer conviction and perseverance she led an army and saved an empire. Now she’s been reduced to a Marvel character who was born a with super powerful Qi. Another issue I have with this movie is with the witch character. The antagonist role is split between her and the leader of the enemy army, but her ultimate redemption in the end kind of makes her role unnecessary. To me, her character would have added more to the story if she had actually been an awesome villain. That scene where Mulan and the witch are standing across from one another on the rooftop would’ve been mind blowing if she had been fully evil because ( to me) these two women represent the two possible responses to the double standard oppressing women within this culture: You could respond with bitterness and revenge ( like the witch, dressed in black all angry and ready to kill) or you could respond with hope, and strength like Mulan in her red flowing dress, ready to defend her home and her kingdom with honor. But by making her good in the end it kind of made her character just fall apart. By splitting the antagonist role between her and the leader of the Huns and then having her turn good so easily at the end they failed to create a strong enemy for the movie. In the original version Shan Yu was so obviously the central evil figure. In this one I feel like his character was very much neglected by the addition of the witch and so lazily put together that he kind of just fell to the background of the movie to the point that you kind of forget him and the army at times. Disney needs to know that a woman being portrayed as evil, and corrupted is not a bad thing either. That a powerful, vengeful female villain is fine too, and that this would’ve justified the character of the witch more than some weird out-of-nowhere redemption story that just kind of made this character useless and only ended up taking away from the development of the central evil figure. Another thing is that you don’t need to make the male characters weak in order to make the female characters look strong. ( I noticed this in Frozen II as well when they just kind of kick Chistof to the curb). In Mulan they failed to show men using Qi. If they had actually done this we would’ve seen the double standard more clearly between how this ability is perceived and developed in men and women. Instead we’re kind of left to feel like she’s the only one in the army ( and in everyday life) that has this very strong, out of this world Qi that has never been seen before ( or for a long time). It’s very messy. I would personally love to see a Disney movie that has a very strong couple where both the man and woman are well developed, vulnerable, strong, and intelligent. Imagine the impact it would have in the way children see love if a healthy relationship based on mutual admiration, trust, and respect was shown to them at a young age? This was something that could have been done with this movie. Imagine if they had left the role of Shang alone( I don’t really understand why he had to be made a soldier of a love interest was going to be part of the movie anyway) , and they had shown a strong woman and a strong man hold each other up and admire one another deeply in a spirit of true equality where neither one of them feels threatened by the other’s strength or talent but actually is built up and encouraged by what they see in the other. Man! It could’ve been an amazing movie. They really missed a great opportunity to hit audiences hard with this one.
ALSO YOU LITTERALLY HAVE TO PAY THIRTY FRICKEN DOLLARS TO WATCH THIS MOVIE ON DISNEY PLUS. AND IT WASNT EVEN THAT GOOD
Agree, it didn't deliver to me..
this is the "captain marvel effect". for a strong female character to exist, they think she has to be flawless and unstoppable. show characters messing up and learning from mistakes. its boring to watch characters do stuff perfectly
I completely agree on the Qi or "chi" as I pronunced it in my language. The problem with this concept is that on the new movie it doesn't show the effort Mulan had to make to improve her fighting. I was really upset that they didn't follow the original animated movie where she was actually kicked out of the army because she didn't know how to fight. She had to make a super effort to be a great soldier and she was super capable! This effort is not reflected in the movie, and this doesn't make any sense since she was NEVER trained as the other men! That really upsets me because we all identify with the original Mulan, where she had to fight for her dreams instead of being a good fighter without a process, without training or any effort at all. :(
The animated Mulan was actually relatable. She wasn’t born knowing how to fight, she didn’t have powers, she was normal when she started. But in the live action she’s an ultimate Mary Sue.
Disney: let's not add Mushu Cause we want to trigger people more Mushu: ALRIGHT THAT'S IT DISHONOUR, DISHONOUR ON YOUR WHOLE FAMILY DISHONOUR ON YOU
DISHONOUR ON YOUR COW
@@moonlight_sonata2004 you beat me to it!😂😂
Take note of this (Cricket: Pulls out pen and paper)
@@Maezing1 important message to the KING!?
Mushu was offensive to Chinese culture so they removed it.
disney: removes mushu, the beautiful songs and the powerful hair scene "we're making a realistic movie on Chinese culture" also disney: includes a shape-shifting witch who can turn into an Eagle and mulan having superpowers "I mean we wanted to make money k"
Nowadays I really hate it when people use the word "realistic" to describe a movie or something. There is nothing realistic about the way Mulan is set up in this film, or in how any of the characters really develop. Things happen for the sake of happening and I hate it. btw uhhhh watch treasure planet, genuinely has some of the most realistic interactions I've ever seen
I’m fine with the hair scene, since nobody cut their hair. Otherwise, they did a lot of odd stuff.
Hayeon yess treasure planet is so underrated
I didn't mind taking the hair cutting scene out because regardless of gender cutting hair back then would be considered extremely disgraceful and would mark her as a convict so it would basically blow her cover... like instantly
Everyone who worked on the film was white lol so apparently they got a bunch of things wrong (phoenix don't rise from the ashes in Chinese lore, witches aren't really a thing, the makeup was off).
As an ethnic Chinese, I must say I am surprised that you caught that issue of the grandma being replaced by the sister and how that no longer gives Mulan a sense of pressure to be the perfect daughter. Exactly! Usually in a Chinese family, when there is only one girl, that girl bears the sole responsibility of marrying off to a good husband to bring material wealth in the form of dowries and bring honour to the family (while the boy is under even greater responsibility to "carry on the family line"). Hence Mulan was under great pressure as the only child and daughter, a critical element missing once there is a sister as a "backup". Kudos for pointing that out!
@D Lu yes I am aware that in one of the early version of the story, Mulan actually has two siblings, both a younger sister and younger brother. But I am simply writing in the context of the Disnified version of Mulan, and comparing the animated to the 2020 version as this video is all about. Sure, the 2020 version does try to be a tad closer to the more traditional versions of the story, but doing so in this case ended up taking out an element which would have contributed to the rather flat character portrayed in the 2020 version. If they bothered to fully flash out the pressure she would have felt to marry before her sister, then yes, that would be a good improvement. But to be honest, it will not exactly be believable unless the two actresses change their roles. Brutal, but may actually be closer to fact. lol
@D Lu Yeah but for what it seems they didn't have a scene saying "we both must carry the burden, please don't mess up"
As an ethnic Chinese daughter, I’d say your explanation is bullshit.
Yeah. That's why it is okay for Mulan to be a spinster
i feel like the 2020 film had WAY less emotion and humor as the 1998 film and mushu is gone,shang is gone, the FRICKING grandma is gone, and xiu has NO personality except the fear of spiders. and the 'my butt's on fire meme' just got kicked in the face. and the pheonix was just a filler. yo ling and chein-po, was like the comedy relief, and their removal hurt. the witch felt off, and the redemtion ark was just shoved in the fan's faces.
Did you want an offensive dragon in the movie
@@animegirl8033 rude...
I’m still mad that this wasn’t a musical 😤
@@animegirl8033 ok and?
sameeee
pfft
@@animegirl8033 ??
@@animegirl8033 Why are you so desperate to run to every comment-
I honestly believe that giving superpowers to Mulan was the most stupid thing they could do. What's the lesson then? If she has to do absolutely nothing to success?
Just like how Disney made Captain Marvel
@S3LL-27 Wong Sin Hei That's exactly what I'm talking about. They didn't give her a real chi, they directly gave her superpowers under de excuse of "Chi".
M.H. Are you talking about Midichlorians? If so, they are actually a good addition to Star Wars since they explain some things like plot armor.
@@fissilepear7805 no like Rey
YES! Instead of teaching girls that whoever tries hard enough and perseveres can succeed, it’s just that whoever is talented will succeed and whoever isn’t will just follow the social norms (like her sister that for some reason was added?).
Disney: *Removes Mushu, reflection, fancy grandma, and Shang* Everyone: That's it, horrible job.
It is!
It looks so pretty! But where's the characters?!!
so many characters and personalities were missing. how do you replace mushu with a cgi pheonix man. 2020 mulans character development was so lackluster too :(
Don’t you think everyone only hates it cuz it’s different from the original?
@@user-ox3lr8eq5s yes..I am expecting this movie to be "amazing"... I watched it-its a total garbage
6:30 Mulan's father running into the yard calling her name made me tear up. 2020 Mulan did nothing for me
The thing that I hated the most was how they changed the relationship between her and her Dad. In the original, that relationship was established as very strong early on which is why Mulan was so overprotective of him and why she decided to go in his place. That beautiful scene after she screwed up with the matchmaker where he talks about the blossoms and makes her feel better is one of the best scenes because it establishes how much they love one another. Then again later in the film when she comes home and finds him in the same place waiting for her and she offers the gifts. And it never fails to make me sob buckets when he tosses them aside to hug her and reveal that “the greatest gift and honor is having you for a daughter.” It’s such a beautiful callback and they completely ruined it in the remake. By removing the core of why Mulan decides to go to war in the first place, it makes her feel incredibly hollow as a character.
Disney like: **NO SHANG** Women can't fall in love with their superior officer, that's a power imbalance. **No MUSHU** Sassy, funny dragon played by black guy isn't culturally sensitive **No Cricket, No Grandma, No Singing** We want this movie to have a more gritty and realistic tone. Also Disney: Let's turn Mulan completely boring and remove any of the character development she had in the original. Let's take away the inner resolve and creativity she showed in the first movie, and give her have superpowers instead. So basically Disney took everything fun out of the original in order to avoid offending people, and instead gave us something so bland and heartless everyone was offended by the fact that they took a beloved character and threw it in the trash.
100%
a realistic tone? dude. disney is dumb. little girls, boys or nonbinary children do not want to watch a movie without anything fun and without music or humour. this isnt a history documentary. now im scared what the little mermaid live action will be like because all disney live action movies have never been that good and ive never enjoyed.
I agree with all of you. I swear Disney is just running out of ideas and is recreating all their old movies
The visuals were nice tho. Honestly i think if this movie followed the original then it would’ve been hugley successful
@@non5025 yeah but like imagine if disney just gave up on making the l8ve action and basically ironically make a documentary complete with memes and the budget of the film is like 50 dollars or sth and it become a blockbuster that everyone loves.
"We should be teaching children there's nothing wrong with being girly." YES!!!!!!!!
Only boys are allowed to be girly. Only girls are allowed to be masculine.
I totally agree, growing up in america I was always looked down and made fun of for being quote on quote "girly" now I dont act girly anymore but I still like the most cute and girly things
Brian McHaney I don’t understand where you were going with this comment
@@noriii According to Feminism, ideas of masculinity and femininity are social constructs forced upon men and women by the patriarchy in order to keep women down. Therefore, in order to achieve equality, men must be reconditioned to be more feminine and women must be reconditioned to be more masculine. Then, the genders are just one blob and anyone can choose to be anything! ... except people who choose traditional gender roles. They cannot be what they want, because what they want is oppressive.
Brian McHaney this comment never mentioned feminism. It’s clear you wanted to have an internet fight with someone
I think that "QI" was a mistake, it takes away the essence of the film, because the lesson that the film gives you is that even if you are a normal girl, the important thing is family and love and that sometimes you have to sacrifice for the good of those we love, even if it is something out of your reach, but if we add this concept of QI, now she becomes a super athletic girl without fear and all the challenges that her situation imposes on her would be useless and all the courage and honor that she wanted to show his father that she would win it without effort. Edit: It's just a personal opinion.
Agree, it feels like it's destroying the sequel of all that hardwork in the original animation.
The animated Mulan was actually relatable. She wasn’t born knowing how to fight, she didn’t have powers, she was normal when she started. But in the live action, she’s an ultimate Mary Sue.
I remember the advice I heard when it came to villains was that they typically reflect the hero. Your idea of the witch posing as Bori Khan would have been _such_ a welcome and the sole clever thing about this remake.
*2020 Mulan Live-action Adaptation in a Nutshell:* DISHONOR! Dishonor on you! Dishonor on your family! Dishonor on your cow!
😂😂😂
Cash-cow*
😂😂😂😂😂
HAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
This made my day!
I think this movie just showed Disney that they should not remake movies. (I cant believe I got 2.8k likes Tysm GOD bless)
Aladdin and the lion king were pretty good
@@kiwisfrommommy They were good visual-wise (Unpopular opinion: I think that most Disney remakes beats the originals in this particular field). The stories, however..... But I liked Aladdin too.
ig its who they choose to make them like i bet if they got someone who truly loves the film so much and even studies it. I mean for Frozen they did research on Norway and added some elements to the movie. Couldn't they have done that for Mulan? If they make face characters at Disney Parks study the characters and their mannerisms couldn't the ones who made the movie done the same. That's all I'm saying. Still the only live action remakes I liked are Cinderella and Aladdin everything else doesn't have that disney touch.
This is not remake it's only make a bold of the points of mulan, in other words mulan is a woman who safe the dinasty of china and being a worrior amongs the man
@@kiwisfrommommy Lion king was good because it was the 95 version but updated graphics. Zero changes
mulan is my favorite disney princess and i was really looking forward to watch the live action movie but well... imma just pretend it never happened lol
The animated Mulan was actually relatable. She wasn’t born knowing how to fight, she didn’t have powers, she was normal when she started. But in the live action, she’s an ultimate Mary Sue.
Basically, they made her into a Mary Sue character, stripping away what makes Mulan a likeable and relatable character, and just giving her unbeatable powers that made her essentially unstoppable.
Mulan's dad: "My armor! It's gone!" Mulan's mom: "Who would do such a thing?!?" My husband: "I- Is she serious? Or is the mom that dumb?"
To be fair, Mulan's mom might be thinking there was a thief who snuck in the night and stole the armor and sword.
“Who would do such a thing” It’s sacred
It's not either, the film was just that bad. Disney really butchered this live action.
Why? Do you really think the first thought that came to her mind was that "Mulan stole it to join the army"?
@@lny4170 her super chi powered daughter who is also already proficient in fighting and about who she has to remind her husband "she is a daughter, not a son"? Maybe I wouldn't automatically assume she ran off with the armor. But I also wouldn't be like "WHO??????"
Part of the thing with qi too is the fact that in the animated film Mulan’s strength was her intelligence. She didn’t climb the pole using brute force, she “cheated” it by realizing she could use the weights to work for her. She didn’t charge recklessly into battle, she used her brain and aimed at the mountain to cause an avalanche. Basically there are different kinds of strengths
Didn't she do the same - showing intelligence when she tricked the enemy army into thinking there were reinforcements coming from behind and had them shoot themselves to defeat by hitting the ice/snow?
@@eatcheesekobe She literally magically appeared behind enemy lines in the matter of seconds while being far away and survived by sheer luck, not to mention that she was kicking weapons left and right as if that won't actually slice her leg.
@@eatcheesekobe but that's the only time in the remake when she uses her head and even then that tactic didn't make sense because she somehow flanked BEHIND enemy lines WITHOUT anyone seeing her and in the original movie she always uses her head even when fighting Sha Yu, in the remake she doesn't use her brain, it's all strength, areobics and Qi powers
Agree, because the real strength comes without effort..
I always assumed the pole test was intended to be "cheated" that way.
The scene of Mulan deciding to leave in place of her father in 1998 ALONE is proof that it's so much better than the remake.
The absence of Mushu really irked me. One thing I love about the animation is the love that Mushu developes for Mulan. It would have been great to see this in a live action as well
I was disappointed. The supporting characters were bland and had no personalities and that disappointed me. It also wasn't as dark as the cartoon, so the stakes were lower because the villains seemed less threatening. Thank you for making this video! You spoke my mind. The witch made the main Bori Kong way less threatening.
The cartoon movie was dark? How 🤔 ❓
@@Wolfy39565 An example is the scene after singing the "Girl Worth Fighting For". It was so abrupt and dark compared to hoe they were just joyously singing seconds before.
@@user-gn6jc2yn9c oh wow. 😳
Cassie Stoddard when the dad died at the massacre of the village and they found his helmet - that seriously scared me when I was younger
@@Flora-ix3os makes perfect sense 👌
Disney needs to learn that feminist characters aren’t impossibly strong ~girlbosses~, but realistically flawed women. Time and again they try to push “feminism” by making the protagonist nearly perfect (they did it with this and with beauty and the beast and maybe Cinderella, though I haven’t watched that in years) when really they’re just emphasizing the sentiment that women have to be perfect to be acceptable
YES!!! I also do not like it when they try to make it seem like she can't be married if she is for empowering women. That is a bunch of CRAP!
Cinderella was good and her personality wasn't that far off from the animated movie, I think that and Maleficent are the only good live-actions
yes!! and also teaching young girls that girlyness=weakness is really harmful
That’s why I prefer flawed characters like Korra and Captain Marvel. Characters like Wonder Woman are too perfect and flawless for my taste. Shame they made Mulan into a Wonder Woman.
Lindsey Ellis has a great video about Disney girl bosses and what a mistake they are
Whats crazy is that they already have the best blue print and story in the world in the animated movies. All they had to do was improve upon it. Unbelievable.
The Circular village that mulan is shown to live in is actually a traditional Hakka village which was so striking that Disney included something that represents a culture that not many knows about (I’m Hakka)
Should have given Disney: - An Apple for Serenity - A Pendant for Balance - Beads of Jade for Beauty And - A Cricket just for Luck and even Disney can't blow it
Hahahaha! That should be regular ritual for live remakes they are clearly planning to make in the future!
Beads of jade... are freaking expensive! 😂
Ok, who wants to send them the same package every time they announce a new movie? Because this should happen. :-)
@@Sonneratia_Polaris Phantom Turtleneck...
too late for that😔😔
The reason I loved Mulan in the original is because she started off being unconfident and insecure when she she first joined the army but through hard work she grew confident and strong. In this one she starts of confident and strong- there’s no arc. In the original I think she inspired a lot of young girls that even if your not very confident you can become strong.
She has always been clumsy aswell, but then, live action Mulan made her special. like bitch???
@@jackwilkins7972 true!! Her only "clumsy" moment was her perfectly catching all of the cups and the teapot only to trip and fall. Like, that isn't clumsiness if you can be that skillful, it's just a misstep.
Well said👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 It is about a girl who grows up to be a strong woman, who does not care about what society wants or expects from her and how strong she is at the end.
That's exactly why she's my favorite Disney princess alongside Tiana
I love Mulan’s journey because she succeeds only when she stops trying to live up to expectations of either gender. The “strongest” woman was beautiful, serene and poised, the “strongest” man was unkempt, forceful and arrogant. The soldiers and Mulan failed to climb the pole when they relied only on brute strength. Mulan had to use balance and patience to successfully climb it. Same thing at the mountain, when the regiment thought the only way to fight was strength against strength, like the arm-wrestling competitions. And again when the palace doors were barred and they tried to force them open. Not only did Mulan use the climbing technique, but she also used beauty and the female invisibility that Mushu had previously commented upon to fool the guards. Mulan’s strength was combining the lessons taught to her as a woman and those taught to her as a man. She was never going to excel at either gender, but she could definitely excel at just being Mulan.
To be honest, I was just waiting for some random soldier to say "who are you again' and she would just turn around and said " I am Mulan Palpatine... Oh sorry Mulan skywalker".
BAHAAHAHA
moral of story disney should stop ruining orignals
The cartoon Mulan was a changed version of the legend. The 2020 Mulan was based off the original legend.
@@animegirl8033 n i never said legend did i frankly dont care of the crap of the movie in 2020 i was talking about orignal disney movie thus the orignal a strong potrayal of sacrifies and courage ...
i wanna know who the target demographic for this remake was anyways, kids aren't typically interested in live action movies and they changed way too many things for it to cater to the people who grew up watching the animated film 🤔
They wanted to please the Chinese audience, but I think it'll backfire.
@Eternal Snow China is Disney's biggest market. It's partially why they removed the singing
@@carolinesa91 as a chinese (not from china but i'm from an asian country), the only thing that appeased to me was the set design and scenery. i'm not too sure about what other chinese people might think but where i come from, we make fun of the fact of the idea of qi, because the stunts, wire work and accompanying cgi are so so so bad
@@lakia-chan yes, it'll backfire and in the end is not going to please anybody. 😅
@Eternal Snow Money, the same reason behind any of Disney's decisions nowadays.
People love under dog stories. The fact that she had to train her MIND and BODY and became one of the best warriors to rival ANYONE was what made her nit only endearing but inspiring. This current movie just gave her "chi". They essentially turned a relatable & tangible human into a semi super hero😒
I wouldn't be mad at the 'chi' if she had actually needed to train it, or if she achieved in some way or form instead of 'here, you are born powerful'
@@lelnel6242 Right!!
every critic is on point, you really nailed down what i couldn’t word before, thank you!
Mulan 2 was so good to watch as a kid because it still stuck with its message on Mulan being truthful to herself and her duty. Her relationship with Shang had so many layers that it was hard to watch this movie take him and along with yao, ling, and chien. We grew with these characters and saw how amazing they all were separately then Disney decided to take that all away for failed marketing
"Mulan 2 is the best direct-to-video sequel Disney has ever made" CINDERELLA 3 WOULD LIKE A WORD WITH YOU
Also the lion king 2
Peter Pan Return to Neverland.
Pocahontas 2 says hey
B*tch please Lion King 1 1/2 is the only sequel that matters.
Laura Doria Lion king 1 1/2 says gtfo x
Okay but- Mulan had more chemistry with the witch than her actual love interest in this.
Lol okay so I'm not the only one who thought this😂
Disney just can't help but make the Mulan story kinda gay, can they? They took out the Li Shang romance to avoid the implication that this guy had the hots for what he thought was another guy, but instead, they gave us the some sweet sapphic subtext. Wish it was in a better movie, but what can ya do.
Because the woman who plays the witch (gong li) is a superior actress
Please no...please stop turning everything weird
@@passingby1350 no
No cuz I totally agree and the fact that they said there would be none of the great songs from the animated movie literally was a stab in the heart
I adore this channel. It feels like a 2020 reprise of magazines but better 😪
Political issue aside. This movie is just so terrible😭 if they removed mushu to make it more relatable, then why add a Witch in it? The witch doesnt have any purpose in the movie. And Mulan is not an average girl, she ready has a superpower. Unlike the original story, Mulan was a common girl who worked hard to earn her power. The script is so dull. The actress is REALLY bad at acting. She managed to make the funny scene boring. Ah so many wrong thing in this movie.
The Dragon thing must be out of respect for the Chinese. I've read that the Chinese didn't like Mushu's comedic portrayal, since Dragons are considered sacred beings in Chinese culture, and they should be treated reverently.
Tanjirou Kamado thank you to comment that!🐉🐲
The original movie : you need to work hard to earn it The new movie : hard work can't beat talent
r u indonesian 🙈
@@tanjiroukamado5766 I'm a Chinese and most people I know love Mushu, not sure if people from other places in China are ok with it or not tho Besides, from my personal understanding, dragon used to resemble the Chinese emperor, but we don't have emperors now so it's only a mythical creature everybody adores during festivals
Also: why do remakes always portray women as these perfect characters, who do not need any learning and are just born to do everything right? Where is the feminism in that? A true woman knows she’s not perfect and works towards her goals. No one is born knowing everything
Because giving females a flaw of any kind is sexist.
i was amazed about the parallel you made about the witch and mulan. it made soo much more sense than what the movie did
I hadn't watched the original in years and when watching Mulan (2020) I thought I just forgot stuff. I was like "I don't really remember there being a which, must've forgotten."
honestly, Disney should just ask us, the public, to write the scripts cause I swear y'all have the best ideas everrrrr.
until the public says they want mushu as an airplane cat, Mulan as an owl, and everybody wearing tutu and ballerina shoes to war
@@thestrangeandstupidone8116 LMAOOO
@@thestrangeandstupidone8116 ummm I would pay to watch that
@@thestrangeandstupidone8116 or then people would suggest either making shang gay, or mulan lesbian 👄👁👄
No that would be the worst idea 👁️👄👁️
they really had the inhumane audacity to film it in the same place uighurs are being imprisoned in concentration camps
AND they thanked the people in charge in the credits
Izza Khalid omg really? I haven’t watched the movie but that’s just bad... Edit: I’m Muslim
Poor uighurs! CCP are criminals!
Dont' forget CCP has killed at least few hundred or thousands, (no known number released) of Hong Kongers. Including one known case of a girl who was gang raped by HongKong/CCP police and had to get an abortion. Some 10,000 - 30,000 Hong Kongers had been arrested and many murdered. Many underage girls were raped. Many sent to concentration camps. And the actress and the actor both support the HK police killing Hong Kongers.
@@IhateCCP :( it’s just really sad - and what’s worse is that we can’t do anything about it - esp since the world powers are staying pretty much silent too
Lovely review , thank you! But what impressed me most was in your preamble you showed a really mature and well balanced attitude towards your subject, and more importantly, your own opinion. Incredibly rare on KZhead, and a credit to you, well done! 🙏✌️
I came to this channel for the fashion commentary, but man, this was a solid film critique! i welcome this kind of change!
I cringed when she removed her armor on her way to the BATTLEFIELD
I cringed the entire movie
Now truthfully that could be dumb she could have gotten herself killed at the moment she showed up...
I watched the first 20 minutes and skipped to the end...
I facepalmed hard at that part. And she untied her hair too like why would you make yourself easy to grab and obstruct your vision before entering the battlefield???
@@bbyingji because of "chi" aka I'm a super hero now.
So I’ll admit I haven’t seen the movie (I hate the Disney remake trend and there’s too many controversies surrounding this movie to warrant a watch), so take my views with a grain of salt. But going off of the other live action movies they really fail to understand why these characters resonate deeply with people, other than a surface level analysis. The animated Mulan wasn’t Arya Stark. She didn’t have a rejection of feminine ideals and she wasn’t born a warrior princess, she just saw things differently from others. Her biggest strength and resource was her mind and thinking outside the box. That’s how she retrieved the arrow, caused the avalanche, broke into the palace, and defeated Shan Yu. Also speaking of Shan Yu, he’s quite an underrated villain. During the final confrontation where Mulan reveals that she caused the avalanche, he doesn’t go into a misogynist rant of “oh no I was bested by a GIRL?!”. He called her a soldier then proceeded to try and kill her. To me that’s more of an interesting character than lady bird
Shan Yu reacted that way since in the Hun Army (and civilization) females were highly respected and seen as great leaders in fighting and other things. Which proves old Disney actually did care about their characters back then, whereas now they're just trying to make a quick buck and ruining all kinds of things
just watch it secretly and then say you didn't watch it
Thank you for pointing out Shan Yu's acknowledgement 😲 I never thought about that but it makes me have even more respect for the original!
@jackie nope Mulan was feminine in a way but not *hyperfeminine* she was just acting like an average girl. An example is when Mulan says "just because i look like a man doesn't mean I have to smell like one" when she's about to shower. Another would be when she was legit crushing on Shang the whole time
jackie that’s not exactly the point. In China back when Mulan took place, females weren’t really meant to do anything the men could. And Mulan only ever disguised herself as a guy to get into the army. She embraced her femininity, just not a hyper sense of it
No joke me and my mum were waiting for reflection when watching the new film. When the backing track came on, me and my mum started singing at the top of our voices while my sister just sat there xD
I agree with everything you've said. You highlighted all the issues I had with this remake. Thank you!
Disney: "Special thanks to the Chinese government" Enough said.
Live Action Mulan: 歡迎到美麗的中國
Especially the interment camps they thanked. SICK
Fr. Disgusting.
Arthur... Best comment... YUP
This is an All-American movie right? I mean It wouldn't be suck if there was ONE Chinese writer involved. And the spirit of loyalty(to family 和帝王家) and filial piety that tampered with ancient Chinese culture turned into a made-up gas，Chi 气？? even the Chinese didn't know what it was. The arrogant American indeed, only if they could read some books Rather than a head full of childish political cynicism🙄 爷都笑了，求美国人民多读点书再出来丢人，不会拍不想拍就别拍电影，球球了
As a Chinese, this movie was trash, I'm not saying that the actors are trash, just the movie production and a bunch of other things *TRASH* EDIT: Liu YiFei (Mu Lan) was a good actor, but in this movie, she was too stiff and didn't show any emotions. She used to be so beautiful and has unique features, but her face in this movie is ruined. I don't know why.
Indeed. As a movie it failed so hard
@Matt Lol!
Well, Mulan's actress supported police brutality in Hong Kong... Yikes.
Hmmmmm. *_insert a CCP censorship joke here_* Wait a sec, who's knocking at my door?
The actress too. She's too stiff.
Bro I was so sad they got rid of Mushu and Shang, they were such important characters crucial in Mulan’s development as a character wtf
i love this video bc it's a good criticism of how they butchered a disney animated film! i feel like disney live-action films get so much hate for no reason but this was really atrocious
Ikr
In the old Disney, Mulan is funny, quirky, you like her immediatly. In the new Disney, she's so boring, you don't want to be friend with her, i haven't watched the movie but by the scenes you showed she didn't smile even once, she has no expressions, she seems sad the whole time. Old Mulan is my favorite Disney princess because she's so friendly.
Maybe Disney has this weird ideology that the main female protagonists of the story must be devoid of all emotion to show how ‘’’powerful’’’ they are (and fEMiNiSm!i!)..like Captain Marvel
@@MissLaraAshcroft Exactly ! 🙄 That's so annoying...
Sorry, but that's based on the actual story. Would you expect a funny, quirky, clumsy girl in a camp full of men? Of course, Disney only adapted that because it's still a children's show. Do you realise how unrealistic it was? Mulan 2020, is going to be more serious because that was the circumstances and it's not a children's show- a character doesn't have to set for the audience to laugh at
@@resqxe_1422 even tho they removed fun things it's still not realistic
@@resqxe_1422 Think about the burned village scene. That was such a serious scene or when Mulans parents noticed that she left to protect her father.
This new Mulan movie is basically saying “In a world of princesses, be a soldier” and it tells women what to do/be in order to be considered a shero or boss or strong. She’s a “pick-me” girl! A Mary Sue!!! True feminism is saying you can be whatever and whoever you want to be. The 98 Mulan was just an ordinary girl who through her wits and determination, did extraordinary things. Which I as an asian American who struggled with my asian and American identities related so much to. This 2020 Mulan was born with powers, was so much better than everyone else already, which gave me the message that I either had to be one way or another to be good, if I wasn’t already born with powers, then I’ll just be like her sister who has no personality, no nothing and is destined to a life of being matched and married and live as a house wife. Disney thinks they can just throw us a powerful woman and call it feminism and women’s empowerment. No. That’s now that feminism and women’s empowerment is. That’s straight up tone deaf sexism and we ain’t here for that shit
No, no ,no. It's even worst, because this Mulan has superpowers. And it has nothing to do with the "in a world of princesses be a warrior", because yoi can't be a warrior without super powers, acording to this version of Mulan. So basicallh is just telling you, you're a failure.
agreed and i'm a dude i like my women strong and can kick my ass but also has their own struggles and faults that makes them human
I wish they showed the struggle she went through like the first movie It was amazing seeing how much she grew instead of “Hey I’m powerful this is a piece of cake”
I think Disney missed major parts to what a strong woman is.
THIS!!!
Here are some fixes I came up with: Starting off with the opening, we see a young Mulan who has to watch her father being practically dragged into her home after being severely wounded in battle but still being praised as a hero by all in the town, and a feast is held in his honor for his bravery. However, in the next scene, we see Mulan looking at her father who has an empty look in his eyes as he stares out at the festivities, uncaring before seeing her. He asks why she wasn't with the others and she says she wants to be with him to which he gives a small smile and beckons her over and sits her on his lap before telling her the story of the Fenghuang (the Chinese Phoenix) and how she represents integrity, virtue, knowledge, and grace. Mulan then asks if she has those qualities to which her father replies that she is still young but one day she will and this makes Mulan smile and she makes a promise to her father that she will make him proud by becoming like the Fenghuang to which he replies he knows she will. The years go by and Mulan has grown into a young woman of marriageable age and tries to live by the promise she made to her father all those years ago but ends being rather lacking in comparison to the other girls her age in her village and is known to be awkward and clumsy but extremely intelligent. We then come to the matchmaker scene, where instead of her sister being frightened by a spider, Mulan notices a spider crawling on top of the matchmaker's head which she tries to warn her about but is silenced, this eventually leads to Mulan being deemed unmarriable by the matchmaker and this breaks her heart as she feels she has broken her father's heart who tries to console her. That's when the imperial soldiers come to announce that a man from every house will be forced to fight, but Mulan remembering the time her father had fought in the war and it left him disabled and mentally broken she runs up to the recruiter and tries to beg for her father's life but she is turned away and heartbroken by her father telling her she had disgraced him. Everything mostly happens the same way except a longer buildup to her donning the armor after reciting the famous poem after seeing two ducks of opposite sexes running side-by-side. Eventually, she reaches the camp where she continually falls behind the men due to her lacking in physical strength and on the verge of being sent home, she finally passes the test by using her brain rather than her brawn and begins to excel by finding alternate ways to compete with the men which eventually earns their respect. As for the witch, she is no longer a witch but a bird spirit who had been forcibly bound to the Rouran leader in order to give him an advantage over the Chinese army. However, she despises him for keeping her hostage by keeping her robes away from her which prevents her from being free so in an attempt to break away from him she uses Mulan as a puppet to kill him by feeding her information in her sleep.
Holy- Someone needs to make a book like this. The idea is so amazing jwhdhedhed
@@trugillojohnbalian8753 Thank you.
I like how they make the places so accurate, the forbidden city looke sooo accurate! But adding the witch...not so thrilled about that because the witch was no where in the real Mulan story in China nor in the movie but the witch was a great character
I hated the witch part too. It wasn't feminist. The whole plot boiled down to: Yeah, men would have just accepted a girl with open arms. All she had to do was convince them she is strong and honest. Which is bullshit. First, because the witch was much stronger than Mulan and all she got was rejection. And second, because Mulan lied to them and somehow they just believed her. She wasn't honest. If strength and a few male friends could solve women's problems, feminism wouldn't even need to exist. The problem would have been solved long ago. The world never lacked strong women or a few understanding men.
Exactly
This really just reinforces the fact that the original mulan is such a masterpiece
I'm honestly curious. What do you think made the original disney Mulan more feminist than the remake? Can you elaborate on that?
@@chew7656 The original shows how unnatural patriarchy is. Mulan tries her best to fit in, but it is just too absurdly demanding for her to manage. Then, when she goes to the army, she is again trying to fit in as the other gender, and while it has its difficulties she manages it. Basically, patriarchy is so twisted that a woman could easier become a man than fit all its requirements. Second, she is not so easily forgiven, let alone accepted, after she is discovered. Patriarchy isn't broken just because of one moment. The friends she has bonded with have found a feminine part of themselves (they don't find it too humiliating to dress as women to enter the palace) and they are ready to follow her after she is proven right by the kidnapping of the emperor, but not everyone else is again. Third, there isn't a counter-Mulan, the "bad feminist who hates men" bullshit, in that one. Forth, everything Mulan achieves she achieves with dedication and hard work. She isn't magically stronger than the men. In fact, in the beginning, she is physically weaker. Almost gets thrown out. But then she proves that she has a different way of doing things, a way to think out of the box, that can make up for it. Physically, with lots of training she catches up with the others. Mentally, she can still have a fuller picture of the world (they as men are cut from everything feminine by the patriarchal society) and this now places her above them. In the new Mulan, physical strength is everything. A woman with superpowers just has more of it than the ordinary men.
@@rainbow2401990 I wholeheartedly agree, nicely said.
Mulan 2020 is like Death Note of Netflix. Everything is wrong.
OMG AHAHAHAHAHAH FOR REAL
Or The Last Airbender by M. Night Shyamalan.
@@justanotherkaeyasimp7182 🤣🤣🤣
@@BituinA oh i haven't watched it yet. What is it about ? Thank you.
Yes
I really like the ideas you proposed to put in the film, I think that they are really good ideas.
My first time watching the movie, me and my friends shipped the witch and Mulan. When she was dying, we all yelled "KISS HER NOW! DO IT"
Everything wrong with Mulan 2020: the fact that it exists
fuck yeah!
It's like a Netflix live action, but it's made by Disney!
Ikr, wouldn't be half bad if they didn't completely change the entire fricken plot
Another thing that bothered me about this was the fact that they made Mulan a southern Chinese woman when in fact she was a northern mongolic nomad (according to the earliest forms of Mulan's legend). She knew how to ride a horse and use a bow and arrow because she was a nomad; all nomadic women did. Yet in the movie they made her have some power that only men are supposed to have, which completely takes the female empowerment aspect away.
Interesting fact
She was also part of hun Turks (Teoman (Toman) yet nobody cares about that
@@havuclukek7563 May I ask in what version? I have only studied the earliest folk ballads and tales.
It also sucks they made her from southern China just because the aesthetic looks cool
@@emmak2971 The story of Hua Mulan was set in the Southern and Northern Dynasties period. Mulan’s family was born in the North, and served the Northern Wei dynasty founded by the Tuoba clan of Xianbei, who were Turco-Mongol people. The Northern Wei had introduced a reform which led to the adoption of Han customs and the Chinese governing model. And yes, there were many Han citizens, but that didn’t change the fact that the imperial family was Xianbei, not ethnic Chinese. (Not the version you asked for but the place)
Beautiful review. Thank you, you said everything I've felt the whole time I watched the live-action.