Talk:Mulan (2020 film)/@comment-27373870-20180728212006/@comment-4889892-20180803181313

1. So if you like it, what's the big deal? Why does it need to be wuxia? I'll agree that the setting should be made more accurate and focus on one dynasty, but if the setting is historically accurate and the customs of the characters are accurate (they can do better with the matchmaker and stuff since there were matchmakers but that's not really how they worked, recreate the infiltration of the palace like a coup...). There was no real Bori Khan and to use someone real wouldn't work, since Mulan's story is not in the history anyways. The setting needs to be focused on but the rest is a fantasy. Expecting a wuxia film is like me watching a Chinese film and expecting it to be Western. If there was a film about a random colonial person or something, I'd expect the setting to be accurate, but that doesn't mean it has to expressed in a Western way. Disney is an American studio. It's an American adaptation. There's a lot of Chinese adaptations already and if it wasn't for the American one, many people around the world would never have heard of Mulan. Mulan has introduced me to the wonders of Chinese culture as I started researching it for my own fanfiction, and pretty much got obsessed with the Tang dynasty. If they never changed it in the first place, it seems you wouldn't have cared, having liked the original. This version only sounds better to you, but that doesn't mean there wasn't another way to make it better and still true to the original. That's what remakes are all about. You'd be happy that this time it truly reflected the Tang in essence, even though it wasn't a true wuxia.

Give me a list of historical inaccuracies if Mulan was based on the Tang and I'll be able to fix them I'm sure. A creative screenwriter should too.

2. Nothing can be done about that. I guess some people just like anti-heroes.

3. She lied about her identity. He can assume that she has the same personality and everything, but he had no way of knowing that for sure. She could be lying about that as well. Mulan now has to prove herself to him again, just like Ping once had to prove himself. When he realized she had China's best interest, it confirmed that she still had the same ways as Ping. You brought up Chen's official description and I brought up Shang's. Why are you arguing with it? I'm arguing based on what I'm told about Chen, he's cocky and he has a bullying streak. He sounds like an anti-hero. A good guy maybe, but still a jerk. I would say Mulan deserves a man better than him. It's Shang or nobody (which would be awesome, considering there's no man in the Ballad of Hua Mulan anyways).

5. Bori Khan must not be too powerful if he's a secondary villain. Unless, perhaps, he's working for the witch, which is the only way I can see the two as redeemable characters. Considering Bori Khan does have a backstory, I'm hoping that he sold himself to the witch or something. I guess Shanyu's connection to his falcon could have shamanistic forces behind it. Still, why is she the center of attention in China? What's so exciting about her?