Talk:Mulan (2020 film)/@comment-31200270-20190630155818/@comment-39134813-20190701165956

Well Disney executives have been wanting a Mulan live-action for the longest time, so I think it's more of them who want it to be more historical and true. And I agree. The original Mulan got boycotted in 1998 in China, and also received criticism for how much it strayed away from the original tale of Mulan, such as the addition of Mushu and the Cricket. Maybe being closer to history will be better, as it'll still have the Disney aspects of the Mulan film, but it'll also try to be a bit more respectful to the original tale, which could do loads for Disney in China if they don't boycott it again. Many fans of the original Mulan movie will likely watch the movie anyway, so it's really China that Disney needs to worry about the most to please. Hopefully the political stuff happening between China and the US won't affect Mulan's release.

Mulan has always been the only actual Disney Princess film that made sense to be made into a live-action. The other princess films have something important to its story that rely on fantasy, such as fairy godmother's, witches, true-love's kiss, genies, magical hair, magical powers, Ursula and her powers, beast transformations, frog transformations, and personified volcanoes and islands.

Mulan does have Mushu and the Cricket, but they weren't actually that important to the story. You could remove them and the core idea of Mulan going to war for her father and battling the enemy would still be there. The only important thing Mushu did was the rocket thing towards the end, but there could easily be other ways to resolve a fight like that even with the removal of Mushu, as what was important was that the enemy died, rather than how they died.

I guess there is Pocahontas too if you remove the talking animals, but that is really going to be a disaster of a live-action film whether or not they stay true to the Disney version or use the version based on history, as both will be a downfall because of the sides that people would take on the stance.