Mulan (2020) - Chink War Movie

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Tryphaena said:
I read that they're not putting Mushu or singing into the movie because in the animated one, both things offended people in China and caused it to be thrown out of theaters early over there. That they're going to try and stay true to the source material with this one. Gotta get them Chinabux.
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Guess I'm not seeing it. Mushu was the best part of OG Mulan. That actually fucking sucks.
 
No music? So we won't get the best Disney song of all time?

 
They'll keep churning these out and making bank as long as autistic faggots keep shelling out their tugboat money to see them. It's the circle of life, grass is green, the sky is blue, speds spend money on trash.
 
The Pink Panther said:
Hell no. Lion King and Maleficent 2 are set for later this year, then Lady and the Tramp (on Disney+), then Mulan and Cruella (in similar vein to Maleficent), and they just pushed Little Mermaid into production. They aren't even close to being finished.
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So when can we expect live action remakes of The Rescuers? Or Moana?
 
purpleboy said:
This is like the inverse of Aladdin and B&B. While those two were frame by frame remakes that added basically nothing to the story, this seems like almost an entirely different movie that only shares the Mulan title because brand recognition
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What is B&B? I looked it up on google and still can’t figure it out.
 
I don't understand why they are pandering to the Chinese market with a movie about Chinese people when, if the the success of big fantastical action movies is anything to go by (like Jurassic World, Warcraft, and infamously Transformers) the Chinese market tends to gravitate towards films that don't have many Chinese people in them; they don't put much emphasis on the human aspect at all, really.

Also echoing my sentiment in the Disney fandom thread, but I'm really sick to death of movies that are advertised as super-serious and "realistic" when I'm specifically looking for escapism from my super-serious and "realistic" life. Bring on the color, break out the songs, give me some of that good stuff I don't see in my day-to-day life.
 
I'm excited for it tbh. Idgaf about the changes. Shang is an instant boner-killer when you hear BD Wong's voice irl anyway.


Disney is being careful because they don't want China to kill them. Its probably why they got Gong Li's royal cabinet to persuade her to play the villain. (Gong Li is basically the Meryl Streep of China alongside Maggie Cheung)
 
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Arachnophile said:
I don't understand why they are pandering to the Chinese market with a movie about Chinese people when, if the the success of big fantastical action movies is anything to go by (like Jurassic World, Warcraft, and infamously Transformers) the Chinese market tends to gravitate towards films that don't have many Chinese people in them; they don't put much emphasis on the human aspect at all, really.
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I think a lot of it is not so much about pleasing Chinese people as it is pleasing the Chinese government.

If you want to make a Chinese blockbuster, you need:
1. A white girl in a low-cut top who,
2. Gets soaking wet either from the rain or from falling in a body of water, that
3. Spends the whole movie running from a cartoon monster.

That's literally it.
 
Meh, original movie was about as Chinese as fortune cookies. The only thing it had going for it was that the direct-to-DVD sequel was an infinitely worse product that demonstrated everything wrong with Disney sequels:

Mulan basically did her best to Americanise China by throwing out traditional Chinese marriages.

So no hope whatsoever for this film. Let me know how many black people they manage to sneak into it.
 
JektheDumbass said:
Unpopular opinion: If they make it a more true to history version of the Hua Mulan story I will totally go see it. I don't see Disney doing that though.
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The story of Hua Mulan is a folklore in the form of a verse; there is no history.
 
Honestly this might be the first live action Disney adaptation I see because it seems like it barely has anything to do with the actual cartoon movie. I'm a big sinophile and a big budget movie about Chinese history and folklore that isn't complete fantasy shlock (Great Wall) or just Chi-com propaganda (any movie actually made in China) has me interested.
 
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