Mulan knows her crippled father will die in battle if he is conscripted into the army. However, Mulan ultimately brings honour to her family by demonstrating that she is “loyal, brave and true” – qualities engraved on her father’s sword. The only way she can honour her family is through marriage.Ī booming international movie market is transforming Hollywood
This masculine power has no place in a girl’s life. Mulan fails to embody these long-held virtues of an ideal Chinese girl, and her father exhorts Mulan to hide her special qi. ‘Know your place’Įarly in the new film, the village matchmaker tells 16-year-old Mulan (Liu Yifei) a good wife is “composed, graceful, polite” and “when a wife serves her husband, she must be silent, invisible.” In these retellings, Mulan had fully transformed into a defender of the state. Disney’s 1998 animation was the first major non-Chinese adaptation of the Mulan story. Similar themes were explored in Lady General Hua Mu-lan (1964) and Mulan: Rise of a Warrior (2009). In Mulan Joins the Army (1939), Mulan’s filial piety was emphasised as a service to the country. Chen Yunshang played Mulan in the 1939 film.
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