Talk:Mulan (2020 film)/@comment-27373870-20180728212006/@comment-27373870-20180812021535

The whole lizard thing is stupid not only because it's offensive to Chinese culture but also it doesn't fit in the movie:

- It's offensive to Chinese culture because animals in Chinese folk tales don't usually communicate like the way Mushu does. Those "talking" animals are not normal animals, they are spirit animals, (animals that live for centuries, practicing magical arts), they have magical powers, they usually transform into humans, they can talk, yes, but in human form, not animal form. Most of spirits animal are evil (not all of them, but most of them), they love to eat human flesh. Do you know Legend of the White Snake? Bai Suzhen (the white snake) and Xiaoqing (the green snake) in this story are spirits animals. If Mushu is a lizard spirit, that would be ridiculous, he still has to transform into human form to communicate to Mulan and to everyone else, he still can use his magical power to defeat the Huns, the movie would become a mess.

(Some chinese folk tales may have talking animals, but they are usually short stories for children, not legends like Mulan.)

- Talking animals just don't fit in this kind of movie, as I said, the new Mulan needs to be a wuxia film, because it's the best genre of movie to express the story of Mulan and ancient chinese culture. Even when the new Mulan is not a wuxia film, talking animals are still unacceptable, It's hard for talking animals to fit in live action films. Imagine Belle's horse (Philippe) comes back from the castle and screaming "Oh my god, Belle, your father was prisoned by a hideous beast, get on my back, I'll take you to him" or the wolf pack chasing Belle and shout "Stop, stop you lil b!tch so we can eat you, you and your horse look yummy." (and the horse screams, "leave us alone you savage"), you'll understand why Mulan live action would be a joke if it included talking animals.

Shang is bisexual is an interesting theory, I do like it, but it has never been officially confirmed by Disney, so we better keep this beautiful theory for ourselves and stop acting like a child.

About the songs, I understand, you guys love broadway musical, you think broadway musical numbers can fit in all of kind of movies, all of kind of cultures but it's actually can't. Having broadway musical number in ancient chinese culture movies is like... having chinese folk music in Beauty and the Beast, it doesn't seem right.

Honestly, I do love Mulan live-action with songs, but as a performance of a character in the movie like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQbZ7GVzN60, not musical numbers like the animated one. (House of Flying Daggers, you should check out this movie ASAP, it's exactly the genre of film that Mulan live action should be).

Luckily, Mulan live-action shares the same exec. producer with House of Flying Daggers (Bill Kong, he's the greatest film maker in China), so I don't think it's gonna be included a lot of magic like Alice in Wonderland, if it is, well, we'll have another Mulan disaster and Bill Kong needs to meet the doctor then.

No, it's not Niki's nor Disney's fault, It's yours for being crying babies, hating this movie without seeing it. And Disney doesn't explain because this controversy is not a big deal to them, you guys are no better than those people who complained about Beauty and the Beast live action, (saying it's too familiar to the animated one and they don't need it). did Disney care about them? No, then why should they care about you?

Not every live action remakes has same goals, these are 2 goals for Mulan:

1- Deliver a great chinese story to the new generation.

2- Fix the animated Mulan's mistakes to be more cultural authenticity and to be a better Mulan.