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I really appreciate you making this channel and deciding to go further with it. I love Chinese culture probably more than my own, I'm trying to take yours off barbecue between. You have no idea how much I love this video
Me: @1:20 typing @1:25 okay we're good. I feel like I just described the internet, but then there's those people that do it anyway or comment before finishing and never edit if wrong, but hey, I got Some of the internet 😉. Great video.
I almost want an animated update with all your notes. That would make a fortune. Disney won't, Star Wars proved their willingness to pass on big profit. Love that Necklace!!!
He’s a hot ass dude who probably couldn’t have pulled off the drag look without being recognised. Every Hun remembered him because he was gorgeous, no?
My favorite is her Shang commentary: “It is here where Shang takes off his robe top, to the benefit of ALL OF US.” “Shang is shirtless even when firing Mulan in the middle of the night. Amazing.” “You know what that means. #Shangisbi2020” “This scene is actually very offensive, I do have one huge grievance. WHY ISN’T SHANG IN DRAG!?” *fist slam*
The hair cutting scene is definitely something for western audiences, where it's generally seen to be feminine if you have long hair. I think you're absolutely right about accuracy vs heart though. It's obviously bad to be flagrantly wrong about the setting you're trying to appropriate for your story, but I'd rather someone put genuine care into a good story with mistakes than whatever Mulan 2020 was going for.
Well this movie got more right than the 2020 version anyway, so if nothing else, it’s decent. Also just a good empowerment story for the world to see, and a fun, looser film in general.
The end of "A girl worth fighting for" has them finding the doll. The "girl worth fighting for" turned out to be a dead child, and far too many people never realize that.
@@talimbeingaverythriftyghor5967 They were singing about "a girl worth fighting for"... the song presented it as "Hey, if I fight well, I could impress girls!". But then they found the dead little girl's doll, and now the girl worth fighting for is for justice, not impressing her. It's to get justice for the little girl.
@Hinori because my lecturer made my whole class change our usernames for a google classroom and my dumbass too lazy to make a new account since this is my main account. I will change it back to my username again after the semester ends tho so yeah... Here's my full name, internet.
So, I realized something about Crickey. He’s meant to be lucky, yet he’s the whole reason Mulan messed up with the Matchmaker. But if you think about it, if Mulan had done well and been married, she would’ve been absolutely miserable. Because Crickey messed it up, she went into battle, won the war, and got real happiness. A *very* lucky bug.
As a child watching this in the 90s, I had no idea that in the beginning Mulan was being set up for an arranged marriage. I literally thought she was just competing in an ancient Miss China beauty pageant 😂
You know, it's nice to hear someone say "it's fine to be historically innacurate as long as I'm having a good time." There's something about that line that just gives me some strange sense of warmth.
I can see it in my mind..."Ping, I could kiss you!" Then Mulan blushes and turns away,and then Shang puts a hand on her shoulder and laughs,"Don't worry,I'm not going to." To which Mulan turns back and breathes a sigh of relief,but with a tinge of disappointment.
Me being a basic white girl from rural Missouri who never went anywhere - Mulan was my all time favorite movie as a little kid. I loved the music, the story and the culture. It was my first real introduction to a completely different one. It's nice to know that it wasn't just a slap in the face to chinese culture.
Same lol. It was the only Disney Princess movie my mom ever let me watch. Actually it was the only non-Pixar Disney movie we ever owned. Besides The Jungle Book, for some reason. My mom doesn't even recall owning The Jungle Book but i swear we had it on VHS
@@ToastyNoneofyourbusinessooh really. I'm Hong Kong Chinese and Lion King was my childhood. Mulan too of course, but Lion King has a special place because I was younger then and remember buying a Lion King book at Toys R Us 😂
I mean, they were definitely more respectful than the 2020 crew. It even looked like that there were things that they were aware of that they just couldn’t do, whether it was for dramatic effect or comedic effect.
right! i really love that. a lot of the time ppl complain about 'political correctness' with old movies/media and say stuff like it was a product of its time, etc etc - thats true, but it also doesnt take more than a simple 'yeah we were wrong about this part, sorry'. we dont have to cancel all non 'pc' media but we can also acknowledge that even dated/old movies can be inaccurate or offensive.
I even like that he pointed out that they didn't use some things to make the story work or for dramatic/comedic effect because, well, it's art, it doesn't have to be accurate to portray real feelings and the cartoon never pretended to be historically accurate. And I love how open they are to learning new stuff and to CONSTRUCTIVE criticism
@@user-vs1it5yu8u especially because there's a line between inaccurate or offensive. like, there are things that original Mulan could've easily fixed and were probably a result of ignorance around Chinese culture, it's not like they're so harmful that we need to cancel the whole thing (at least from my perspective as a white person, and I know that I don't and can't speak for Chinese people).
Can we also talk about how the transition from "A Girl Worth Fighting For" to the scene of the ruined village where they find the little girl's doll, is an amazing way to show the soldiers transitioning from boys to men? Let me explain: through "A Girl Worth Fighting For", they're basically singing about how they're fighting for the potential of getting a girl, of getting a reward basically. But in the next scene, they get their actual girl worth fighting for; the little girl who was presumably killed in the attack. They are no longer fighting for a potential reward; they are fighting for the innocent lives that were lost there, and fighting so that no more civilians will have to die
Yeah. When I watched it as a child, that scene gave me exactly that feeling. When ShuanYu takes the doll, my child self said "ok, he's probably going to invade a village", but I didn't realize they would invade and kill every single villager they found there. When I saw the doll again, my child's heart broke into pieces with the thought of someone around my age being so brutally killed. I think this was one of the first movies that taught me how I should be wary of the world.
I feel that some of these inaccuracies are actually the animators and writers using shorthand to reach their audience better. For example, it’ll be far easier for the standard Western audience to understand “Now all of China knows you’re here!” Rather than “now all of the dynasty knows you’re here!” Sometimes, shorthand does absolutely need to win over accuracy.
Same for the hair cutting scene, again for a standard Western audience shorter hair is typically associated with masculinity so her cutting her hair makes it easier for people to understand what is going on even if from a historical standpoint it doesn't make sense. Of course the point of the video is mostly just to point out the inaccuracies so you know about them, I don't think she's trying to say that all of them are inherently flawed.
Yeah especially bc this movie is in English and they have American accents. It's fine to use the American terms for things if the movie isn't marketing itself on accuracy
So I hope this doesn't get buried. Because two of my animation professors worked on the original Mulan. Specifically in the special effects department. The intro sequence of the ink painting was originally going to be Chinese shadow puppetry briefly explaining the ballad and setting the scene. They were trying to figure out a way to make the puppets slowly come in and out of focus as they were "brought against" the rice paper and then taken back. Unfortunately, this research was costing too much, and they still had a lot of other effects to make, so the intro was switched to the one in the movie. Some other fun facts: All of the flags are 3D animated. My professor had a coworker run up and down the hallway with a giant flag to study how it moved. The cricket cage and comb are also 3D. Basically anything that looks like it would be a PAIN to animate by hand was done in 3D. This also includes the ever-famous "Hun Charge" scene. This movie was created primarily by the now defunct Orlando Studio in Florida. This studio would go on to make Lilo and Stitch.
I am also taking animation in school. Isn't it amazing to learn about your fave movies from the peeps who MADE them?! Plus they all like, know each other!
“I have to find the Avatar to restore my FACE!” Edit: it would be great if you continue reviewing other Chinese-inspired media for historical accuracy.
I think the Chinese stereotype(and larger Asian stereotype too) of "honor" is actually from us immigrant families. My grandparents grew up in China and immigrated into the US just before my father was born. "Honor" was sorta an emphasized thing, though we never _really_ said "honor" per se. As a kid I definitely explained things to my friends just as the "honor" thing since it conveyed 90% of what it needed to much easier than explaining that I'm terrified of dissapointing the legacy of my grandfather(who passed before I was born) and his success in America.
What I think he means is, for example, people from Isreal are Asian. Some people from Egypt are Asian. People from Iran are Asian. Most people from Turkey are Asian and on and on and on. But then there's people like you who just sum up all orientals as "Asians." While it's true they are Asians, it's dismissive of other Asian people. Also the idea that there's an east asian steroetype is also spurious. Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Laosian, cambodians and others all have different cultural norms and are not "all the same" like people seem to think. Try to be better people, thanks.
I think that honor is used so much when dealing with Asians because it's an easier concept to sell t o a Western audience than face. If you replaced honor with face most people wouldn't understand what you were talking about and would probably think that you're talking about their literal face and be seriously confused.
@@Riceball01 They might understand if you replace face with image? Like, you’ll ruin the family image or I need to fix my image. But honor sounds way less superficial to my western ears. Not that face is superficial....I mean at times it is but.
Mulan 2020: culturally and historically inaccurate because they didn't really bother to check Mulan 1998: culturally and historically inaccurate when necessary for good storytelling
@@jayc7171 Yeah... I wasn't asking you, I was asking the first commentar. And as for "her first video", no thannks, that woman just needed an excuse to rant on Disney or white people in general, just like her twitter account.
One thing I was laughing so hard while Mushu was getting the fireworks. In english as well as in german he says "Your worst nightmare." I Swedish he says "Jag är Batman" which is translated into "I'm Batman" and I just couldn't stop laughing because it took me by surprise and the knowledge that batman was called "Läderlappen" in Sweden instead of Batman.
"even though this movie is culturally inaccurate, that didnt stop me from enjoying it so much": me, a greek person, about Hercules... this makes me want to watch Hercules again and point out the inacuracies
@@monicaenns9967 I just googled it and the first result said that's not true. The door was left out on purpose. Sorry if that was a joke and I don't get it.
A nice fact is that after "A girl worth fighting for" they don't sing again in the whole movie, it's possible that this is meant to give the movie a more serious tone and atmosphere.
@@filippetrovic845 Just because it's not serious doesn't mean it can't pivot to a more serious tone for the sake of the story. Hence the person you replied to saying "more serious" instead of just "serious", there's a reason the more is there
On one hand, putting the chopsticks in the rice like that is horrifically offensive. On the other hand, Mulan is presented as the exact sort of socially-inept fuckup who'd casually do something like that.
I mean, did ancient chinese people really were that scrupulous even if they are among their family members and no guests were present? How much we know about their private life? Mulans family seems to be easy going enough people to not throw a tantrum over unproperly placed chopsticks.
@@steirqwe7956 once i got kicked because i ate with one hand on the table and you're supposed to have to. my mom is chinese and she didnt sign me up for tuition AT ALL but kicked me for not eating like that, so yes.
@@steirqwe7956 my grandpa caned me when I was 8/9 because I put my chopsticks that way or put my index finger up while holding my chopsticks, or put my elbows on the table
Hello from Rwanda. Just an interesting note, but we have a story here about a girl called Ndabaga. It goes pretty much the same as Mulan. Her father is in the army and you could only leave if a son or brother came to relieve you. He only has a daughter, so she cuts off her breasts and learns to fight in order to take his place. She beats the men at everything and some of them become jealous. Eventually, one of them discovers that she is a girl and tells the king, who falls in love with her for her dedication to her father, marries her, and decrees that anyone who does not have a son to replace them can go home.
@David Van Loo What are you talking about?! So antifa is a bunch of racists? Everyone knows that. And I guess they will terrorize a sweet lady just because she is an aunt and her name just so happened to be Fa? Yep, sounds about right, expect it could be any old lady, or man as they like to beat up the weak as they are too weak themselves to actually fight an adult their own age.
@David Van Loo So Antifa believe in things like Religion, Equal rights, and poor people? Man, I wish they believe those things when they destroy black people's neighborhoods while praising the extremely Wealthy class like CELEBRITIES as the "oppessed minority" while actual poor brown people get screwed over by Antifa's actions. Or how chanting "F&#K Jesus" somehow helps the poor class, despite 90% of of the poor are hardcore Christians. P.S. I ain't white, before calling me "uncle Tom", Uncle Tom legitimately helped the poor and the black community more then Antifa as a whole. I'm so glad Antifa cared for minorities like us.... by.. ransacking our poor neighborhoods. Yep, that's shows you guys cared so much about us.
@@princeofdarkness4711 Yes, there are antifa who are religious. I'm pretty sure all antifa support equal rights, and most of them are poor. Most antifa gatherings are to protest fascist gatherings, and remain peaceful until fascists incite violence. I know quite a few antifa and I have never seen any of them say that being a celebrity makes someone oppressed, perhaps they have said that a member from an oppressed minority became a celebrity but that doesn't have the same meaning as what you're saying. What poor brown people are getting screwed over by antifa? Do you have a source for this? I agree chanting "fuck jesus" is unproductive, but many christians are in positions of power and use their influence to further fascist causes so there in likely a lot of resentment there (and no, I don't think all christians are fascists, or that all fascists are christians, just that those who are like to abuse their power). Do you have a source for the "90% of the poor are hardcore christians"? Antifa do care for minorities, so I'm not sure what your point is there.
It took me until right now to realize that having the guy soldiers dress up in drag at the end was a bit more than a "man in a dress" joke. Like, this is a movie about a person pretending to be a sex/gender they're not in order to play a hero role how did I not see that they are paralleling Mulan's story by having her friends break in as concubines and help save the day from a traditionally feminine role *face palm* I also love how Mulan has to train and learn to use her strengths and talents as opposed to just being wicked strong from the start. It plagues both male and female hero stories when the main character has no development and is just instantly good and the best at everything. Mulan became an even stronger "strong female character" to me as a little girl because she didn't naturally have a conan the barbarian level of physical strength in order for her to be a great warrior (in fact, she was appropriately the weakest one at the beginning and the only one Shang Li sent home for being such a wimp). She developed her skills with training and determination but what sets her apart is her wits. She did use "strength" and "discipline" to climb the pole like Shang Li said she would need to, but in the end it was her problem solving ability that got her to the top. She likely never would have been able to climb it with brute strength alone, but she didn't need to because physical power (traditionally masculine trait) isn't the only way you can excel. Before I thought the message of this movie was "girls can be just as good as guys if they try hard enough" but now im realizing a more appropriate theme is "Strength in femininity". Realizing this now, I see the true climax of the film being the moment when Mulan stops the sword with her fan. To me, this was "strength in femininity" symbolized.
Actually, it goes even deeper than that. The usual trivia fact that there are no songs in the movie after Girl Worth Fighting For? Only mostly true. There's actually a brief reprise of Be a Man during the scene where they infiltrate the palace, which can be read as implying that it *is* being a man to be willing to do something like that
@geministrial950 i m not sure if problem solving ability ("what lets her come out on top") must be seen as a female exclusiv trait. So strength in femininity may be a little too much, but it sure does send the message that girls can use wit and determination to achieve even better results. Brute strength is not the most important factor. Sure, the movie mainly wants to adress women with this message, but it basically appllies to anyone who may not have a physical advantage.
@@nickthequick2326 "Strength in femininity" means Mulan uses her abilities and talents to excel without forcing herself to be like a man or do things in the way they did. Nobody said problem-solving is a female-exclusive trait but the fact she did use innate abilities to accomplish her goals rather than trying to be like the boys, showed that she could be strong (not physical) and feminine at the same time, that femininity and strength are not mutually exclusive, because even though she was dressed like a man, she never was naturally masculine or wanted to be a man, it was due her circumstances. That's what it means the expression since a lot of movies and marketing always try to masculinize female characters to convey strength and competence, sort of "be more like men to be strong, smart, this or that..."
Hehe Mulan cutting her hair makes sense then, if people would assume Ping may have committed a crime they might think THATS why his father never mentioned having a son.
That's a good watsonian explaination. Although I don't think Mulan would have been able to come up with a plan like that at that point in the movie. I think she was just having anti-confucian moment
I don't know who this goth, salty, eloquent, Chinese lady, owner of supremely cute cat, advocate of women's rights and master of educated roasting is, but I love her.
Decided to watch this again today, and I just noticed that Mulan, Ling, Yao, Chien-Po, and Shang all have armor colour coordinated to the 5 element system
Oh my god, I'm a huge idiot. Everytime you talked about C-dramas, I thought, wow, China must really love naval history or something. It took until my second watch to realize it was C-drama, not sea drama.
Mulan isn't just the disney princess with the highest kill count; I believe she is also the only disney protagonist who directly kills the villain without the villain first transforming into a giant monster
@Javiera Maige Hercules didn't kill Hades; he punched him into a pit of souls, yeah, but that didn't kill him since, as the movie established right before: gods can't die. Hercules survived the same pit exactly because he became a god
@Javiera Maige I know; I was pointing out that since Hercules didn't kill Hades, Mulan is still the only Disney protagonist who has directly killed a villain without said villain first transforming into a giant monster
In Lady General Hua Mulan (1964), the soldiers refer to her as Brother Hua throughout the movie, but the General, who is simply referred to as General Li, does call her Hua Ping several times. When she is revealed to be a woman, the soldiers call her Sister Hua. She even ends with the poetic line she has from the ballad.
Can we just acknowledge ,and appreciate how she gave credit to the native people of the Americas for the cultivation of all peppers, squash, corn and many more fruits and vegetables. It’s funny how many people forget the indigenous people were the creators of so many amazing foods and cuisines:)
@@andreasgoebel1269 idiots were I live, but again most people were I live are either racist, sexist or homophobic, I heard someone once say that slavery in america didn't happen and that's just a myth.
You missed my favorite culturally correct thing in the movie!! When Mulan tells Shan Yu that she's the soldier that killed his men and "defeated" him, he didn't bat an eye or make a "But you're a girl!" comment. This has to do with the fact that women among Huns had higher status than their Chinese counterparts (although I'm not 100% sure that was the case during the time period Mulan is set in), seeing as female Huns could hunt and fight alongside the men. Fun fact: they were also allowed to choose their own husbands and divorce him fi they choose to. There were also records of clans being led by women leaders, so to Shan Yu Mulan is just another soldier. Disney may not have intentionally put that in as culturally accurate, but I still think it's a fun thing to know of.
Nomadic civilizations are natural conquerors. You move all the time, meet new people; potential dangers, and always have to be ready for an attack or defense. So obviously you would also teach women archery, horse riding and battle. It's really interesting!
@@kursad8725 It really is!! I don't think I ever thought of that fact, but yes, that would make a lot of sense as well. I love learning about this kind of stuff!
@@IDontKnow-pf6en I'm actually of Hebrew descent, so I'm going to say technically more white than Asian! But no worries! It's not the weirdest thing I've been asked on this app lol. And it is very fascinating!! It's not something from my culture, just something I thought was really cool and something I wanted too share with others.
I mean they have to move literally villages of people so saying things like "you're a girl, you cant ride that horse, you have to blablabla." Also, GAY LIONS
Another uploads praising Mulan 1998 while at same time roasting Mulan 2020? *_"A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one"_* Shirtless Shang is the only girls' fanservice in 1998 lol
Shang was also ahead of his time for being a an Asian male protagonist depicted as a sexually attractive heartthrob in an American movie. Something that is still rarely done 20 years later.
One thing I would change in Mulan (1998) is Mushu's ending. I think it would have really cemented his character development if the Ancestors offered him a guardianship position after Mulan's victory, but he chose to turn it down, because he found satisfaction in being Mulan's friend. That would show true humility on his part.
I think the hair cutting scene, while historically inaccurate, was (to me) an important thing story wise. That was a "point of no return" for her. If she had chickened out after that, not only would she have to explain to her family why her hair is short now, but every time she looked in a mirror she would be reminded of how she wasn't brave enough to save her father and she would blame herself for his (inevitable) death.
That's a REALLY good explanation... like the movie acknowledges the man buns but I always got confused by the fact that Mulan still cuts her hair until now
I really love this ! And we can go further and say that she did cut her hair knowing it wasn't something to be done as a sign of how she chose to disobey her family, her emperor and her general culture. She knew it wasn't right but did it anyway as a form of protestation.
@@nelda3265 It would have been more of a sign that she disowned her family according to Confucian tradition or in general, does not respect or love her parents (have filial piety). The scene is fantastic and dramatic with a great soundtrack but it's just such an American white girl thing to insert, oh I'm a Rebel, I'm going to cut my hair off after having a mental breakdown, not like the men had hair to their waists too and that's how they could make their buns 🙄
9:35 If memory serves me correctly, some nobles were permitted to have dragon symbols so long as they have 4 toes. The five toed dragons are for the emperor, the four toed ones for nobles, and three toed ones for anyone else permitted to have a dragon symbol. Since the imperial dragon has five toes, the ones with four or three toes are considered fake dragons. Mushu in this cartoon movie has four toes.
mulan 2020: historically inaccurate, supports police brutality, emotionless mulan 1998: also historically inaccurate, BUT it doesnt support police brutality AND is very emotional and like an actual good story
You mentioned Mulan's magic lipstick, but completely neglected the moment she just... wipes away an entire face of make-up with two swipes from her robe. I need me some make-up wipes that good
Mulan jokes aside, and at the risk of sounding like a commercial, try a microfiber makeup cloth. You only need water for it to work, and you wash it clean instead of throwing it out. Works better than you expect, trust.
As a descendant of the very tribes responsible for the cultivation of chilli peppers and vanilla I need to give you a wholehearted THANK YOU for giving my people the credit they deserve for doing so! You, in your eternal awesomeness, have my absolute heartfelt gratitude for doing so! ❤️
"Native Americans didn't spend thousands of years cultivating crops like chiles, chocolate, tomatoes, corn, potatoes or vanilla just for us to pretend they were there everywhere all along." Don't forget the most common example of this, pumpkins
Medieval European peasants clearly ate nothing but potatoes, being so poor and all. Yeah, it's easy to think that, considering the staple food it is today. It's hard to imagine Europe without potatoes. The introduction of the potato has probably saved Europe from countless famines (though it also caused some in Ireland). This is why people who cry "cultural appropriation" are idiots. They likely don't know what truly originated in their own country. They probably embrace many traditions and food stuffs that were imported anywhere from multi-millenias to less than a century ago.
@@KaptenN 2 things 1. The famine in Ireland wasn't caused solely by the collapse of the potato crop by blight. It's more accurately akin to a genocide than a famine, because England had been taking and shipping every other crop being grown and exporting them forcing the population to have nothing to eat. 2. "Muh cultural appropriation" Lol shut the hell up. Don't come onto my post and complain about cultural appropriation to a literal Native. Eating an introduced crop and making new dishes of your own of it isn't the same as literally stealing our cultural practices to feel trendy or spiritual, and our regalia as poorly made costumes. Talk to an actual minority about the problem before you make your judgement based on your hurt feelings, mayo. The only idiot here is you.
@@TheColeminator 1.) Shang gave Mulan “the look” when she was disguised as Ping 2.) Shang doesn’t need to be bisexual to make his enemies question their sexuality
@@Sjono Bru shang gave ping a look that said okay I'm impressed. Not okay wanna fuck. There is no romantic interest in the two until the end. What Shang and ping have is called a bromance. Shang isnt bisexual.
@@alidevine961 I never said I was upset I just see something that isnt right and I am correcting it. And this is DISNEY they dont like to have gay relationships in their movies these days they sure as heck wasn't going to make one back then during the DISNEY renaissance
As far as the yellow eyes are concerned, there's actually a explanation for this in the special features, at least as far as shan yu is concerned. They were originally to have shan yu be able to see through the eyes of his hawk/ falcon but ultimitley decided to drop that aspect.
This movie was made at a time where cultural accuracy wasn't as important as it is now and it STILL managed to be more accurate than the mess that is Mulan 2020
Cultural accuracy still isn't important unless it's a foreign culture. Western/European period dramas have somehow been getting LESS accurate over the decades.
seeing storyboard artists getting called out and them just nodding and going 'yes my fault, sorry' is so funny and very accurate. sometimes us board artists are just like that... Dumb
Honestly I straight up thought the Fa family was hella poor from that scene and that’s why they sent her to the matchmaker. To marry a rich guy so they can afford more than rice.
@@desireeloveros1055 I doubt she was poor. Look at how big her house is. And her jewelry. And her father being one of the praised (and well known) veterans of war. That's not guaranteed rich, but that's quite telling of their financial status
“Cements her reputation as the Disney Princess with the highest kill count.” Second place is Ariel. Her early attempts at communicating with humans did not go well.
To be fair, their matte liquid lipstick is indeed very, very lasting... Too much so, for my personal taste, because I don't enjoy spending 10 minutes trying to erase it 😅 it is very vibrant though and a friend of mine loves it 🤷
@@meryljoysarmiento9408 I dunno. That one came across as really sugarpop and one dimensional to me personally. My cheeks hurt watching Cinderella smile so much. The set design and costumes were definitely eyecandy though. The script just felt very by the numbers and kind of restrained, like they didn't want to take any risks which is a shame when there's so many strong Cinderella stories out there to pull inspiration from (Ever after, Enchanted, and the Princess Bride come to mind). Felt like a missed opportunity, but it definitely didn't fail on the epic scale that say the Mulan remake did.
Honestly the beauty and the beast one is my favorite. One of my main criticisms is they should have hired someone else to play Belle because Emma Watson is a good actor but they hired such strong talented people as the supporting cast so she was just okay in comparison to the rest of the cast.
@@jasminemercer9758 my problem with Emma Watson was how auto tuned her singing was, tbh. I’m sure it was some sound editing person and not Emma Watson herself but it still took away from her performance in the end.
During the story boarding for the "I'm taking my father's place" decision scene, the dragon was thin and stretched to a wave. I have no clue why they thickened and scrunched him up.
I personally want to know about her magic, makeup removing sleeves! I mean, the apple doesn't ruin her lipstick, but somehow she's able to wipe off all of her makeup with 2 swipes and the sleeves look clean? What sorcery is that?
Fun fact I bet you didn’t notice: Mulan is ambidextrous. In the beginning of the movie she uses her left hand to write but later when she uses a sword she uses her right hand
Yes, but maybe no. There's different types of ambidexterity. For instance, I can do many things with both hands (to a relative degree of equality), but I have a preference for my right hand for common tasks like writing, while when I actively participated in martial arts, I fought southpaw, medically I am considered "Right Dominant Ambidextrous", meaning i instinctively do many tasks with my right hand dominant (and in my specific case, despite being capable of either hand), while doing specific tasks with my left hand dominant. Given that Mulan displays the opposite inclination, writing left, and fighting standard, she is probably a "Left Dominant Ambidextrous". Both RDA and LDA are capable of being true ambidextrous, but neither require it. If you're RDA or LDA you don't necessarily have the ability to do everything ambi, but at a minimum do certain specific tasks with a preference opposite of your dominant side. So she could be a true ambi, or she could just fight standard and do everything else left handed, and be the bare minimum of an LDA.
I believe it’s referred to as cross dominant which is pretty common in people who write with their left hand! Both me and my older sister write with our left but do athletic things, like throwing, with our right!
This was very enjoyable, thank you. It’s good to hear from someone who is Chinese that reviewed both films. The 90s Mulan really hit emotionally. And yeh, Sang would have rocked the eyeliner.
About the Hun leader: I do think it's interesting how whenever Mulan reveals that she was the 'man' that took his army down in the Pass, he doesn't say, "You're a woman?" He just exclaims "The soldier from the mountains!" I've always liked that little comment because it shows that he didn't really care about whether she was a woman, he didn't doubt her ability to have been the soldier, he just acknowledges the fact that she's the one that took them down, and reacts accordingly. I may or may not have this fact right, but i believe I heard somewhere that the Huns actually valued womens' work, and often raised them to some leadership positions within their society, so to speak. I may be wrong though.
I'm so late to this vid, and your channel in general but I'm glad I found it now! Your humor is so good and the delivery omg, the joke about Shang looking down 15 degrees ending the movie so much faster really got me. ALSO you're stunning!
Respect to the Shan Yu for referring to Mulan as "the soldier from the mountains", especially because he would have to know that she is biologically female at that point.
The Huns actually had women along side them as soldiers so he wouldn’t have been surprised to see her at all. She would quite literally be just another soldier. I believe there’s even speculation or records or something that show women leading their own clans, being able to choose their husbands and divorce them if they wanted too. They gave women a lot more freedom? rights? something along those lines, then most people in that era
He doesn't care for Mulan's gender, he just wants revenge for getting his entire army destroyed and that means getting rid of her. Permanently. By killing her. To death.
“...but then, in this shot, *both* of these lions have smooth balls, so you know what? They’re gay. They’re gay lions. The palace is guarded by gay lions.” I love you.
imagine if he had said "if you were a girl id kiss you" and then found out mulan was a girl imagine if after that he'd had this nagging paranoia of "😳 shit did i do that??" "did i turn ping into a girl?" "no.... that's stupid." "😳 but, w-- what if----"
Favorite random historical fact about Mulan, the huns actually didn't think it was weird for woman to be in the military--in their culture, it wasn't uncommon, so Sheng Yu really wouldn't bat an eye at Mulan being the solider.
@@Vlad2319 It's the reason why the Romans hated the Picts, because Pictish women had as many rights as the men and were somehow the most capable warriors on the field. Guess it unsettled the fragile masculinity of the Roman soldiers, who's women were mostly meek and Submissive.
He really didn't. His surprise was that she revealed herself to be the solider from the mountains, not that she was a woman. He was gonna kill her either way lol
Chingis Khan (aka Genghis Khan)'s great granddaughter said she would only marry a man who could defeat her in combat. She was an undefeated wrestler. When she won, the would be suitor had to give her his horse.
7:58 I’m a white Australian who loves this movie. When I was little I used to watch my DVD of Mulan constantly. The really funny thing to me was that there was a special feature on the DVD that explained chopstick etiquette and most definitely highlighted just how much of a no-no sticking your chopsticks upright in your food. So, it was pretty funny noticing the rice bowl in this scene. Maybe the filmmakers should have watched the special features. 😂
I feel like maybe one of the reasons Mulan got away with hugging the emperor was because animators wanted people to like the emperor and see him as a stern but kindly elderly/grandfatherly figure. Also, in the second movie it's revealed he has 3 daughters that are (I'm guessing here) likely around Mulan's age. So maybe he sees this spunky girl with a good heart and thinks "Ah, I have a 4th daughter now." Which is both hilarious and kind of sweet.
considering how much of a big deal it would be for the emperor to bow to anyone, and how US audiences probably wouldn't understand that, I imagine the hug was to reinforce just how much Mulan was allowed to get away with after saving the entire country
@@ghostprince9247 Oh absolutely. It's merely speculation on the cultural deviation aspect of the scene, as Yao posed the question of "Is she allowed to do that?" As this is a cultural analysis video. It's all up for speculation and light hearted debate. But yeah, it was a heart warming moment.
It is interesting that at a time when researching all this was much more difficult (and people in general were less aware of respecting other cultures) most of the historical errors in the film are related to sacrifices made to make the narrative more interesting or limitations in the animation
PS. My book Iron Widow, a scifi reimagining of China's only female emperor Wu Zetian, is now available! ironwidow.com/
Yes, I'm wearing a pure silver Millennium Puzzle necklace.
Well, you understand you have to make a Yu-Gi-Oh video now, of course
I really appreciate you making this channel and deciding to go further with it. I love Chinese culture probably more than my own, I'm trying to take yours off barbecue between. You have no idea how much I love this video
Me: @1:20 typing @1:25 okay we're good. I feel like I just described the internet, but then there's those people that do it anyway or comment before finishing and never edit if wrong, but hey, I got Some of the internet 😉. Great video.
11:00 So does "face" in this context basically mean good representation or good public image?
I almost want an animated update with all your notes. That would make a fortune. Disney won't, Star Wars proved their willingness to pass on big profit. Love that Necklace!!!
"Why wasn't Shang in drag?"
He clearly didn't want to blow everyone else out of the water. Have you seen the guy?
He would have destroyed an entire generation's Heterosexuality
@@emperortenebrisemeraldwing8578 you say "would have" like it didn't already happen
@@emperortenebrisemeraldwing8578 Indeed
He’s a hot ass dude who probably couldn’t have pulled off the drag look without being recognised. Every Hun remembered him because he was gorgeous, no?
@@GuiSmith tru facts
The fact that she was so mad at the 2020 movie she created an entire channel hating on it.
Kudos honestly
We stan😌
Don't forget she had to edit it with a weak computer that took her hours of editing
literally the ONLY time i've ever subbed after ONE video, lmfao (or loved someone's FIRST EVER video so much X"D)
Sounds like what That Star Wars Girl did.
I'm here for it
My favorite is her Shang commentary:
“It is here where Shang takes off his robe top, to the benefit of ALL OF US.”
“Shang is shirtless even when firing Mulan in the middle of the night. Amazing.”
“You know what that means. #Shangisbi2020”
“This scene is actually very offensive, I do have one huge grievance. WHY ISN’T SHANG IN DRAG!?” *fist slam*
SHE’S RIGHT THOUGH- WHY ISN’T HE IN DRAG? #shangisbi2020
@@bobthebuilderday6leader i think it's to show he came to help last minute and had no preparation.
she's right and she should say it
Shang is the original Bi icon (bicon?)
@@Druzica18 bicorn?
The hair cutting scene is definitely something for western audiences, where it's generally seen to be feminine if you have long hair. I think you're absolutely right about accuracy vs heart though. It's obviously bad to be flagrantly wrong about the setting you're trying to appropriate for your story, but I'd rather someone put genuine care into a good story with mistakes than whatever Mulan 2020 was going for.
If it makes you feel better, interpret the hair cutting as burning the bridges behind her so she can’t go home again unless a miracle happens.
Well this movie got more right than the 2020 version anyway, so if nothing else, it’s decent. Also just a good empowerment story for the world to see, and a fun, looser film in general.
i thought cutting ur hair meant as a sign for moving on
@@alyssarasmussen1723 Absolutely could, that's the great thing about symbolism.
„Appropiate“ is such a wrong term. Lmao
The end of "A girl worth fighting for" has them finding the doll. The "girl worth fighting for" turned out to be a dead child, and far too many people never realize that.
I have seen this movie 1000 times and never ever thought of this.
Woah.
THANK YOU SOMEONE POINTED IT OUT
_please explain about this metaphor about this doll??_
_please explain about this metaphor about this doll??_
@@talimbeingaverythriftyghor5967 They were singing about "a girl worth fighting for"... the song presented it as "Hey, if I fight well, I could impress girls!". But then they found the dead little girl's doll, and now the girl worth fighting for is for justice, not impressing her. It's to get justice for the little girl.
"this cat painting was done by an actual emperor btw. what have you been doing with your life?"
well for starters, I'm not an emperor--
Again, what are you doing with your life? Lmao
@@just-trying-my-best-everyday learning cat anatomy now that you've spite me
@Hinori because my lecturer made my whole class change our usernames for a google classroom and my dumbass too lazy to make a new account since this is my main account. I will change it back to my username again after the semester ends tho so yeah... Here's my full name, internet.
Your name sure sounds like one tho!
@@Varoon2 thanks man, it sure does!
"They're gay. They're gay lions. The palace is guarded by gay lions."
This broke me HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Truly powerful and I appreciate it
Meh.
@Shonksu *Sexy jazz music plays*
Mulan was saying gay rights in 1998
@BitterOrange your username fits you better.
So, I realized something about Crickey. He’s meant to be lucky, yet he’s the whole reason Mulan messed up with the Matchmaker. But if you think about it, if Mulan had done well and been married, she would’ve been absolutely miserable. Because Crickey messed it up, she went into battle, won the war, and got real happiness. A *very* lucky bug.
Ah, a blessing in disguise
As a child watching this in the 90s, I had no idea that in the beginning Mulan was being set up for an arranged marriage. I literally thought she was just competing in an ancient Miss China beauty pageant 😂
LMAOO
SAMMEEEE
SAMEEEE
SAME HERE LOOOLLL
LMFAO SAME
You know, it's nice to hear someone say "it's fine to be historically innacurate as long as I'm having a good time." There's something about that line that just gives me some strange sense of warmth.
After an era of bad Nostalgia Critic/Cinema Sins criticism, hearing the actually sane appropriate criticism is truly a treat
Maybe its that common sense thats so heartwarming to you
As long as it's not inaccurate on something that really matters that could have bad consequences. Little nitpicky things, eh it's ok
I love my historical acurracy as much as I love my historical fantasy, we can enjoy both
Yes..
Especially the greatest showman
"ping, if you were a girl i'd kiss you"
this would have been everything if they'd put it in, i'm so sad now
I can see it in my mind..."Ping, I could kiss you!"
Then Mulan blushes and turns away,and then Shang puts a hand on her shoulder and laughs,"Don't worry,I'm not going to."
To which Mulan turns back and breathes a sigh of relief,but with a tinge of disappointment.
@@omnimonramone8459 that's a great idea for a fanfic tho xD
@@EyelinerAce Don't
It would have been amazing, but I can't help but feel it was too close to the reveal of Mulan's actual gender, maybe that was why it wasn't included.
@@RhamanaChan or Shang's sexuality 😏
Me being a basic white girl from rural Missouri who never went anywhere - Mulan was my all time favorite movie as a little kid. I loved the music, the story and the culture. It was my first real introduction to a completely different one. It's nice to know that it wasn't just a slap in the face to chinese culture.
Same lol. It was the only Disney Princess movie my mom ever let me watch. Actually it was the only non-Pixar Disney movie we ever owned. Besides The Jungle Book, for some reason. My mom doesn't even recall owning The Jungle Book but i swear we had it on VHS
@@JustBuyTheWaywardsRealms you should tell society that 😅
@@ToastyNoneofyourbusinessooh really. I'm Hong Kong Chinese and Lion King was my childhood. Mulan too of course, but Lion King has a special place because I was younger then and remember buying a Lion King book at Toys R Us 😂
@@mazzmj5809nothing wrong with enjoying simpler and more standard things
@@ToastyNoneofyourbusiness My mother almost succeeded in banning us from watching it because of the mystical ancestor shit
I love how honest the production team is as well. "I didn't put dishes in the middle. My fault." "IT WAS YOU". Severely underrated exchange there.
HELLO??? YUBEACE IN THE REAL?????
@@cas_sette_tape it me -_-
More emotion in that exchange than the entire remake
IT WAS YOU WHO DEPRIVED THEM OF DINNER
That was the best exchange! Sometimes mistakes happen, and it is nice to hear it from the production team
i love that the animator was like “that was my bad, sorry” that’s so nice
I mean, they were definitely more respectful than the 2020 crew. It even looked like that there were things that they were aware of that they just couldn’t do, whether it was for dramatic effect or comedic effect.
right! i really love that. a lot of the time ppl complain about 'political correctness' with old movies/media and say stuff like it was a product of its time, etc etc - thats true, but it also doesnt take more than a simple 'yeah we were wrong about this part, sorry'. we dont have to cancel all non 'pc' media but we can also acknowledge that even dated/old movies can be inaccurate or offensive.
Truee usually i would see ppl denying others critiques, the way they responded to the tweets were very nice and i respect them for that
I even like that he pointed out that they didn't use some things to make the story work or for dramatic/comedic effect because, well, it's art, it doesn't have to be accurate to portray real feelings and the cartoon never pretended to be historically accurate. And I love how open they are to learning new stuff and to CONSTRUCTIVE criticism
@@user-vs1it5yu8u especially because there's a line between inaccurate or offensive. like, there are things that original Mulan could've easily fixed and were probably a result of ignorance around Chinese culture, it's not like they're so harmful that we need to cancel the whole thing (at least from my perspective as a white person, and I know that I don't and can't speak for Chinese people).
Can we also talk about how the transition from "A Girl Worth Fighting For" to the scene of the ruined village where they find the little girl's doll, is an amazing way to show the soldiers transitioning from boys to men? Let me explain: through "A Girl Worth Fighting For", they're basically singing about how they're fighting for the potential of getting a girl, of getting a reward basically. But in the next scene, they get their actual girl worth fighting for; the little girl who was presumably killed in the attack. They are no longer fighting for a potential reward; they are fighting for the innocent lives that were lost there, and fighting so that no more civilians will have to die
Thats so true, it like tue moment they realized their responsibility
@@Mualskii Right, it's also the moment they realize that they're the only ones left to stop the huns!
Yeah. When I watched it as a child, that scene gave me exactly that feeling. When ShuanYu takes the doll, my child self said "ok, he's probably going to invade a village", but I didn't realize they would invade and kill every single villager they found there. When I saw the doll again, my child's heart broke into pieces with the thought of someone around my age being so brutally killed. I think this was one of the first movies that taught me how I should be wary of the world.
Don't do this, dont make me cry rn
This gave me chills
I feel that some of these inaccuracies are actually the animators and writers using shorthand to reach their audience better. For example, it’ll be far easier for the standard Western audience to understand “Now all of China knows you’re here!” Rather than “now all of the dynasty knows you’re here!”
Sometimes, shorthand does absolutely need to win over accuracy.
Same for the hair cutting scene, again for a standard Western audience shorter hair is typically associated with masculinity so her cutting her hair makes it easier for people to understand what is going on even if from a historical standpoint it doesn't make sense. Of course the point of the video is mostly just to point out the inaccuracies so you know about them, I don't think she's trying to say that all of them are inherently flawed.
Or you could say cutting the hair means burning the bridges behind her.
Yup. It’s a cartoon for kids. No need to nuke everything to be “real”. This story is based on a legend anyway.
Yeah especially bc this movie is in English and they have American accents. It's fine to use the American terms for things if the movie isn't marketing itself on accuracy
Same with the underwear. Yeah, I think we know nobody had heart underwear back then. That was clearly a joke.
So I hope this doesn't get buried. Because two of my animation professors worked on the original Mulan. Specifically in the special effects department. The intro sequence of the ink painting was originally going to be Chinese shadow puppetry briefly explaining the ballad and setting the scene. They were trying to figure out a way to make the puppets slowly come in and out of focus as they were "brought against" the rice paper and then taken back. Unfortunately, this research was costing too much, and they still had a lot of other effects to make, so the intro was switched to the one in the movie.
Some other fun facts:
All of the flags are 3D animated. My professor had a coworker run up and down the hallway with a giant flag to study how it moved.
The cricket cage and comb are also 3D. Basically anything that looks like it would be a PAIN to animate by hand was done in 3D. This also includes the ever-famous "Hun Charge" scene.
This movie was created primarily by the now defunct Orlando Studio in Florida. This studio would go on to make Lilo and Stitch.
That's sick!
amazing! Makes sense that studio made these two films
I am also taking animation in school. Isn't it amazing to learn about your fave movies from the peeps who MADE them?! Plus they all like, know each other!
Oh yeah I saw a talk from a professor on that.
The moment you realize those guys got paid to run down a hall waving flags for research, you know they are living the life! LOL XD
As a fellow Asian-parent-haver, hearing "why didn't she come back with a boyfriend?" is something every atom of my being can relate to.
No comment?
For me it's more of the neighbours or distant relatives, "HEY DO YOU HAVE A BOYFRIEND YET", "ARE YOU GONNA GET MARRIED"
"Asian-parent-haver" Lmaooo
Latino parents do that too. Also the "When are you going to have a baby?" So annoying.
pretty much every phone call with my mom 😂
“I have to find the Avatar to restore my FACE!”
Edit: it would be great if you continue reviewing other Chinese-inspired media for historical accuracy.
YAAASSSS i would love to see her take on avatar or crouching tiger, hidden dragon :)
Yes! I’d love to see more from her!
Franzi Wall Same!
I would legit watch every' video twice
Mulan 👏 two 👏✨
I think the Chinese stereotype(and larger Asian stereotype too) of "honor" is actually from us immigrant families. My grandparents grew up in China and immigrated into the US just before my father was born. "Honor" was sorta an emphasized thing, though we never _really_ said "honor" per se. As a kid I definitely explained things to my friends just as the "honor" thing since it conveyed 90% of what it needed to much easier than explaining that I'm terrified of dissapointing the legacy of my grandfather(who passed before I was born) and his success in America.
there are no Asian stereotype. there is east Asian stereotype. don't mistake east asia for entire Asia.
@@mishterkhalid3117?
@@mishterkhalid3117 so you`ve never heard of the Asian parents stereotype, huh
What I think he means is, for example, people from Isreal are Asian. Some people from Egypt are Asian. People from Iran are Asian. Most people from Turkey are Asian and on and on and on.
But then there's people like you who just sum up all orientals as "Asians."
While it's true they are Asians, it's dismissive of other Asian people.
Also the idea that there's an east asian steroetype is also spurious. Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Laosian, cambodians and others all have different cultural norms and are not "all the same" like people seem to think.
Try to be better people, thanks.
@@Simrealismisrael is not a real country
FINALLY A ZUKO REFERENCE THAT HAS TO DO WITH CARTOONS ABOUT ASIANS OVERUSING HONOR
RIGHT
I think that honor is used so much when dealing with Asians because it's an easier concept to sell t o a Western audience than face. If you replaced honor with face most people wouldn't understand what you were talking about and would probably think that you're talking about their literal face and be seriously confused.
@@Riceball01 true that, true that.
@@Riceball01 They might understand if you replace face with image? Like, you’ll ruin the family image or I need to fix my image. But honor sounds way less superficial to my western ears. Not that face is superficial....I mean at times it is but.
@@Riceball01 "to save face" is a western phrase though
Mulan 2020: culturally and historically inaccurate because they didn't really bother to check
Mulan 1998: culturally and historically inaccurate when necessary for good storytelling
and the fact that OG mulan wasn't supposed to be accurate and wasn't mark3eting on it
...and also with the Huns. And many of the little details were off. But most of the important stuff was pretty accurate.
How it be
What makes you think "they" didn't bother to check? And who is "they?" The CCP?
@@jayc7171 Yeah... I wasn't asking you, I was asking the first commentar. And as for "her first video", no thannks, that woman just needed an excuse to rant on Disney or white people in general, just like her twitter account.
Shen: who are you
Mulan: my name is gay
Shen: *spends the training shirtless
Oh. My. Goodness.
IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!
You mean Shang?
Now if you put it that way...
@@Contrarian-v7p oh yeah my bad
it's interesting with Shang possibly being gay because he is also played by BD Wong
One thing I was laughing so hard while Mushu was getting the fireworks. In english as well as in german he says "Your worst nightmare." I Swedish he says "Jag är Batman" which is translated into "I'm Batman" and I just couldn't stop laughing because it took me by surprise and the knowledge that batman was called "Läderlappen" in Sweden instead of Batman.
Oh, that’s hilarious!!! 😂😂😂😂
LMFAOOOO
"even though this movie is culturally inaccurate, that didnt stop me from enjoying it so much": me, a greek person, about Hercules... this makes me want to watch Hercules again and point out the inacuracies
Do it I would watch
Please do it
Hercules is… painful… to get through
Me to, I love Disney's Hercules but even I agree it got some issues.
Same but with Coco
Mulan 2020: "We left out the hair-cutting scene for accuracy"."
Also Mulan 2020: " Haha we have a witch take it or take it"
Right????
I think I'll leave it.... 😶
Wait really? Lol glad I didn't waste time on that dumpster fire. They cut my boy Shan Yu, but have room for a witch?
Mulan 1998: "We have a couple inaccurate things, most notably the hair cutting scene, but we swear you'll like the movie anyway"
We left out the hair cutting scene for accuracy, but that’d be the only thing accurate whatsoever in the whole freaking movie.
There's something really delightful about this artist being like "ya i forgot to storyboard in food my bad"
One of the most relatable things I've ever read.
Same energy with, "Fuck I was gonna shade that but I forgot"
And that night time 40's diner painting with no door, and the implications of it. But no, artist Hopper said he just forgot the door
@@monicaenns9967 I just googled it and the first result said that's not true. The door was left out on purpose. Sorry if that was a joke and I don't get it.
Ah nuts, I liked that story
A nice fact is that after "A girl worth fighting for" they don't sing again in the whole movie, it's possible that this is meant to give the movie a more serious tone and atmosphere.
What? The movie couldnt be anymore less serious. Its a comedy show.
@@filippetrovic845 Just because it's not serious doesn't mean it can't pivot to a more serious tone for the sake of the story. Hence the person you replied to saying "more serious" instead of just "serious", there's a reason the more is there
@filippetrovic845 there is comedy but there's also a lot of death. They're not mutually exclusive
"Why isn't Shang in drag?"
*slams table* FINALLY someone's asking the real questions
This
true
PERIOD.
Bonus points if he confronted the emperor still in drag
I'm gonna draw it
On one hand, putting the chopsticks in the rice like that is horrifically offensive. On the other hand, Mulan is presented as the exact sort of socially-inept fuckup who'd casually do something like that.
and with Mushu's breakfast doubly so
Sad but true
I mean, did ancient chinese people really were that scrupulous even if they are among their family members and no guests were present? How much we know about their private life? Mulans family seems to be easy going enough people to not throw a tantrum over unproperly placed chopsticks.
@@steirqwe7956 once i got kicked because i ate with one hand on the table and you're supposed to have to.
my mom is chinese and she didnt sign me up for tuition AT ALL but kicked me for not eating like that, so yes.
@@steirqwe7956 my grandpa caned me when I was 8/9 because I put my chopsticks that way or put my index finger up while holding my chopsticks, or put my elbows on the table
Soldier: who is the leader of the huns?
Shan-Yu: I yam
This deserves much more attention
@@cramerfloro5936 I completely agree 😂
PUNZZZZZ
I can't stop laughing at the thought of people having ptsd like flashbacks to yam vendors when hearing the bad guys name.
Damn it! You're making me choke on my grape😂
Hello from Rwanda. Just an interesting note, but we have a story here about a girl called Ndabaga. It goes pretty much the same as Mulan. Her father is in the army and you could only leave if a son or brother came to relieve you. He only has a daughter, so she cuts off her breasts and learns to fight in order to take his place. She beats the men at everything and some of them become jealous. Eventually, one of them discovers that she is a girl and tells the king, who falls in love with her for her dedication to her father, marries her, and decrees that anyone who does not have a son to replace them can go home.
@@boboboy8189can you give me her name please?
very girlbossy, cutting off her breasts /s
She amputated her breasts and didn’t bleed out? that’s a feat in and of itself wow 😭
Cut off her breasts? That’s badass
@@kennedy78She gave herself top surgery, what a badass
when she was like: "Auntie Fa"
and then she realized: "ANTIFA"
加加油吧 omg
She hates fire.
One might say, she's AntiFire.
@@marekwygnany924 was that a PhilosophyTube reference!?!?
@David Van Loo What are you talking about?! So antifa is a bunch of racists? Everyone knows that. And I guess they will terrorize a sweet lady just because she is an aunt and her name just so happened to be Fa? Yep, sounds about right, expect it could be any old lady, or man as they like to beat up the weak as they are too weak themselves to actually fight an adult their own age.
@David Van Loo So Antifa believe in things like Religion, Equal rights, and poor people? Man, I wish they believe those things when they destroy black people's neighborhoods while praising the extremely Wealthy class like CELEBRITIES as the "oppessed minority" while actual poor brown people get screwed over by Antifa's actions. Or how chanting "F&#K Jesus" somehow helps the poor class, despite 90% of of the poor are hardcore Christians. P.S. I ain't white, before calling me "uncle Tom", Uncle Tom legitimately helped the poor and the black community more then Antifa as a whole.
I'm so glad Antifa cared for minorities like us.... by.. ransacking our poor neighborhoods.
Yep, that's shows you guys cared so much about us.
@@princeofdarkness4711 Yes, there are antifa who are religious. I'm pretty sure all antifa support equal rights, and most of them are poor. Most antifa gatherings are to protest fascist gatherings, and remain peaceful until fascists incite violence.
I know quite a few antifa and I have never seen any of them say that being a celebrity makes someone oppressed, perhaps they have said that a member from an oppressed minority became a celebrity but that doesn't have the same meaning as what you're saying. What poor brown people are getting screwed over by antifa? Do you have a source for this?
I agree chanting "fuck jesus" is unproductive, but many christians are in positions of power and use their influence to further fascist causes so there in likely a lot of resentment there (and no, I don't think all christians are fascists, or that all fascists are christians, just that those who are like to abuse their power). Do you have a source for the "90% of the poor are hardcore christians"?
Antifa do care for minorities, so I'm not sure what your point is there.
Mulan, the Disney princess with the highest kill count. I stan.
PLEASE XIRAN IS SO QUOTABLE 😭😭😭 THIS LINE SENT ME
lol
Omg same I stan as well, she killed an entire army with one cannon
There’s not a lot of competition
@@_iyakin I'm pretty sure she got that information from Film Theory if I remember that episode right.
The only reason Shang is not in Drag is because the animators knew he’d be too powerful if we saw him that way. They were protecting us.
I don't want to be protected. I want Drag Shang. I'm willing to face the consequences head-on.
@@coregano alright then,But'll youll Have to suffer the Consequences
My mouth would be drooling way more if i saw him in drag like damn mulan and shang are hooo AHWOOGA :’)))
AHAHAAAHHHHHH
@@coregano no thank you. This movie already fills me with so much bi panic I think I would explode if I saw drag Shang.
It took me until right now to realize that having the guy soldiers dress up in drag at the end was a bit more than a "man in a dress" joke. Like, this is a movie about a person pretending to be a sex/gender they're not in order to play a hero role how did I not see that they are paralleling Mulan's story by having her friends break in as concubines and help save the day from a traditionally feminine role *face palm*
I also love how Mulan has to train and learn to use her strengths and talents as opposed to just being wicked strong from the start. It plagues both male and female hero stories when the main character has no development and is just instantly good and the best at everything. Mulan became an even stronger "strong female character" to me as a little girl because she didn't naturally have a conan the barbarian level of physical strength in order for her to be a great warrior (in fact, she was appropriately the weakest one at the beginning and the only one Shang Li sent home for being such a wimp). She developed her skills with training and determination but what sets her apart is her wits. She did use "strength" and "discipline" to climb the pole like Shang Li said she would need to, but in the end it was her problem solving ability that got her to the top. She likely never would have been able to climb it with brute strength alone, but she didn't need to because physical power (traditionally masculine trait) isn't the only way you can excel.
Before I thought the message of this movie was "girls can be just as good as guys if they try hard enough" but now im realizing a more appropriate theme is "Strength in femininity". Realizing this now, I see the true climax of the film being the moment when Mulan stops the sword with her fan. To me, this was "strength in femininity" symbolized.
Actually, it goes even deeper than that. The usual trivia fact that there are no songs in the movie after Girl Worth Fighting For? Only mostly true. There's actually a brief reprise of Be a Man during the scene where they infiltrate the palace, which can be read as implying that it *is* being a man to be willing to do something like that
"Strength in femininity" seriously?
Mulan just showed that with enough wits and bravery, she could outmatch brute strength.
@@tarnw3301That doesnt cancel what they said tho?
@geministrial950 i m not sure if problem solving ability ("what lets her come out on top") must be seen as a female exclusiv trait. So strength in femininity may be a little too much, but it sure does send the message that girls can use wit and determination to achieve even better results. Brute strength is not the most important factor. Sure, the movie mainly wants to adress women with this message, but it basically appllies to anyone who may not have a physical advantage.
@@nickthequick2326 "Strength in femininity" means Mulan uses her abilities and talents to excel without forcing herself to be like a man or do things in the way they did. Nobody said problem-solving is a female-exclusive trait but the fact she did use innate abilities to accomplish her goals rather than trying to be like the boys, showed that she could be strong (not physical) and feminine at the same time, that femininity and strength are not mutually exclusive, because even though she was dressed like a man, she never was naturally masculine or wanted to be a man, it was due her circumstances. That's what it means the expression since a lot of movies and marketing always try to masculinize female characters to convey strength and competence, sort of "be more like men to be strong, smart, this or that..."
the return of the queen with mic and CAT
Precious kitty.
i wouldn't say she's a queen
She's an _empress_
@@anhthiensaigon P E R I O D
Aunty, sounds cooler personally. But, you do you family.
GURL I WATCH YO VIDS
“And cements her reputation as the Disney Princess with the highest kill count”
lmaooo I’m weak
The girl really has over 1k kills y'all 😂
And she's proud of it
That's SO TRUE 😂
I mean they fucked around and found out
Her official count is 1,995 confirmed kills
Hehe Mulan cutting her hair makes sense then, if people would assume Ping may have committed a crime they might think THATS why his father never mentioned having a son.
That’s a great headcanon actually.
i second @Project Anomaly
Huh, that actually makes sense
That's a good watsonian explaination. Although I don't think Mulan would have been able to come up with a plan like that at that point in the movie. I think she was just having anti-confucian moment
@@AbsolXGuardian
I think her hair was simply too long to tie into a sturdy top knot. So she had to cut it a bit.
The fact that you had actual animators who worked on this film contact you is absolutely incredible. Congrats!
“Lets hire someone who speaks mandarin to write a letter for the cricket scene!!”
“but I have this takeout menu...”
well... i mean,,, they were trying to cut costs. sooooo
I honestly think that added to the hilarity. Because they at leats made an effort in other moments that letter stands out horrifically.
It was in the 90s so…still wrong tho
@@countryboyiloveu420 right ….because translators didn’t exist 25 years ago
As a Chinese person I expect to see this. But, the jokes getting old yes. The BFI sword from Mulan 2020 is a new one though, that was hilarious! WTF
Also, if chubby was considered attractive; then that would mean that Yao is the most attractive in the drag scene.
What about Chen Po?
Chen Po erasure
Chubby was considered attractive in women during this era, not sure about men
@@iwatchyoutube3511 but he was dressed as a women
@@mosharrofsarker9247 oh right 😅
I don't know who this goth, salty, eloquent, Chinese lady, owner of supremely cute cat, advocate of women's rights and master of educated roasting is, but I love her.
Accurate
👏🏼
Gong Li lookalike and I swear she can step on me
"educated roasting" 😂 love that
Decided to watch this again today, and I just noticed that Mulan, Ling, Yao, Chien-Po, and Shang all have armor colour coordinated to the 5 element system
Oh my god, I'm a huge idiot. Everytime you talked about C-dramas, I thought, wow, China must really love naval history or something. It took until my second watch to realize it was C-drama, not sea drama.
Haha
😂😂hahahaha
Same actually 🙈😂
I did not realise that until reading this comment XD
I thought it was sea drama too LOL
Mulan isn't just the disney princess with the highest kill count; I believe she is also the only disney protagonist who directly kills the villain without the villain first transforming into a giant monster
Well, I mean, he probably already transformed before the movie began. Those eyes aren't exactly normal.
@one point zero She is considered one of the Disney Princesses though
@Javiera Maige Hercules didn't kill Hades; he punched him into a pit of souls, yeah, but that didn't kill him since, as the movie established right before: gods can't die. Hercules survived the same pit exactly because he became a god
@Javiera Maige I know; I was pointing out that since Hercules didn't kill Hades, Mulan is still the only Disney protagonist who has directly killed a villain without said villain first transforming into a giant monster
@@dweebteambuilderjones7627 Yellow eyes might be a symptom of some diseases.
“Bisexual Legend Li Shang” 😂😂😂😂 Instant subscription
lmao i did the same
Mood
Well it's true
In Lady General Hua Mulan (1964), the soldiers refer to her as Brother Hua throughout the movie, but the General, who is simply referred to as General Li, does call her Hua Ping several times. When she is revealed to be a woman, the soldiers call her Sister Hua. She even ends with the poetic line she has from the ballad.
Can we just acknowledge ,and appreciate how she gave credit to the native people of the Americas for the cultivation of all peppers, squash, corn and many more fruits and vegetables. It’s funny how many people forget the indigenous people were the creators of so many amazing foods and cuisines:)
I will be ever grateful for potatoes.
quite ironically many "traditional" european foods are prepared using many ingredients from America
I know right, I'm tired of people saying "oh corn was in the europeans they had corn and gave it to the world" like no
@@oddydraws4807 who said that? i mean like... ever?
@@andreasgoebel1269 idiots were I live, but again most people were I live are either racist, sexist or homophobic, I heard someone once say that slavery in america didn't happen and that's just a myth.
You missed my favorite culturally correct thing in the movie!! When Mulan tells Shan Yu that she's the soldier that killed his men and "defeated" him, he didn't bat an eye or make a "But you're a girl!" comment. This has to do with the fact that women among Huns had higher status than their Chinese counterparts (although I'm not 100% sure that was the case during the time period Mulan is set in), seeing as female Huns could hunt and fight alongside the men. Fun fact: they were also allowed to choose their own husbands and divorce him fi they choose to. There were also records of clans being led by women leaders, so to Shan Yu Mulan is just another soldier. Disney may not have intentionally put that in as culturally accurate, but I still think it's a fun thing to know of.
Nomadic civilizations are natural conquerors. You move all the time, meet new people; potential dangers, and always have to be ready for an attack or defense. So obviously you would also teach women archery, horse riding and battle. It's really interesting!
@@kursad8725 It really is!! I don't think I ever thought of that fact, but yes, that would make a lot of sense as well. I love learning about this kind of stuff!
not to be weird, but are u Asian or white? just curious if this is ur heritage too, not judging either way. just find it fascinating.
@@IDontKnow-pf6en I'm actually of Hebrew descent, so I'm going to say technically more white than Asian! But no worries! It's not the weirdest thing I've been asked on this app lol. And it is very fascinating!! It's not something from my culture, just something I thought was really cool and something I wanted too share with others.
I mean they have to move literally villages of people so saying things like "you're a girl, you cant ride that horse, you have to blablabla." Also, GAY LIONS
Another uploads praising Mulan 1998 while at same time roasting Mulan 2020?
*_"A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one"_*
Shirtless Shang is the only girls' fanservice in 1998 lol
Shang 😍
Why would you think Shang fanservice was only directed to girls?
I loved it and like read my name
Shang was also ahead of his time for being a an Asian male protagonist depicted as a sexually attractive heartthrob in an American movie. Something that is still rarely done 20 years later.
I watched mulan 2009 yesterday it was really good and sad at the same time, somebody lost a head too
One thing I would change in Mulan (1998) is Mushu's ending. I think it would have really cemented his character development if the Ancestors offered him a guardianship position after Mulan's victory, but he chose to turn it down, because he found satisfaction in being Mulan's friend. That would show true humility on his part.
Would parallel Mulan's own ending as well
I think the hair cutting scene, while historically inaccurate, was (to me) an important thing story wise. That was a "point of no return" for her. If she had chickened out after that, not only would she have to explain to her family why her hair is short now, but every time she looked in a mirror she would be reminded of how she wasn't brave enough to save her father and she would blame herself for his (inevitable) death.
That's a REALLY good explanation... like the movie acknowledges the man buns but I always got confused by the fact that Mulan still cuts her hair until now
I really love this ! And we can go further and say that she did cut her hair knowing it wasn't something to be done as a sign of how she chose to disobey her family, her emperor and her general culture.
She knew it wasn't right but did it anyway as a form of protestation.
@@nelda3265 It would have been more of a sign that she disowned her family according to Confucian tradition or in general, does not respect or love her parents (have filial piety). The scene is fantastic and dramatic with a great soundtrack but it's just such an American white girl thing to insert, oh I'm a Rebel, I'm going to cut my hair off after having a mental breakdown, not like the men had hair to their waists too and that's how they could make their buns 🙄
Wow you explained that really well
@@thedeliveryboy1123 she cuts her hair so that she appears more like a man physically, cutting her hair draws less attention to herself
When the bad guy encounters Mulan and sees that she is a woman, he doesnt make a comment like "oh a woman", instead he fights her without hesitation.
Just because you're evil and a bad racist caricature doesn't mean you can't believe a woman could kick ass
@@reddest-x I think at this point he just didn't care who it was, he just wanted the throne
In the movies the bad guys are upset when they suffer defeat by a woman. This movie villian treats her like a worthy opponent
@@mark12strang58 Shan Yu male feminist confirmed
He is a politically correct villain.
Maybe they did the live action this bad so that people never complain again about the animated one :/
Lololol this is the conspiracy theory I'm willing to back 😂
I can get behind this theory. It makes a lot of sense, honestly.
"Yes my preciouses! Watch the 98 version! Mwahahaha!"
That‘s some 4D-chess I could actually expect from Disney
They paid a steep price for the sake of pettiness, in that case!
9:35 If memory serves me correctly, some nobles were permitted to have dragon symbols so long as they have 4 toes. The five toed dragons are for the emperor, the four toed ones for nobles, and three toed ones for anyone else permitted to have a dragon symbol. Since the imperial dragon has five toes, the ones with four or three toes are considered fake dragons. Mushu in this cartoon movie has four toes.
“The palace is guarded by gay lions.”
Best quote of 2020.
Truly iconic
That sounds like Sweden.
“Both of these lions have smooth balls”
SCARIER THAN THE UNDERTAKER WE ARE MEETING OUR MATCHMAKER
I also want to have my home guarded by gay lions
mulan 2020: historically inaccurate, supports police brutality, emotionless
mulan 1998: also historically inaccurate, BUT it doesnt support police brutality AND is very emotional and like an actual good story
The 1998 was wayy better though it was a lil bit historically inaccurate after all everyone makes mistakes.
Proof that good storytelling will always stomp over realism. Very inspiring.
In other words, the 1998 has its flaws, but it's still enjoyable (unlike the 2020 version)
Good songs too
Stop the police brutality nonsense.
"through the whole thing Shang refuses to stop being shirtless and we're all eternally grateful for that" --- that killed me 😂
"at one point after Mulan defeats Shang during sparring Shang gives Mulan that same look Nala gives Simba" IM WHEEZING
"the palace is guarded by gay lions"
welp, that's it. im ded
It's true... Thank you Jesus!
@@dumpsterDeity I found that absolutely hilarious as well!
@@dumpsterDeity Gay lions >>>>>
The opening of Mulan, the ink painting, inspired me to try that style. I still love to draw like that. Clouds especially
It is absolutely beautiful every time I see it.
You mentioned Mulan's magic lipstick, but completely neglected the moment she just... wipes away an entire face of make-up with two swipes from her robe. I need me some make-up wipes that good
Same, like I don't wear a lot of makeup but when I do, its so tedious to remove it so I really need mulans sleeve to wipe her makeup off.
@@spacetofu5306 I'd say matte lipstick however it was shiny asf like gloss
Ikr animated make up is just magic
Mulan jokes aside, and at the risk of sounding like a commercial, try a microfiber makeup cloth. You only need water for it to work, and you wash it clean instead of throwing it out. Works better than you expect, trust.
Don’t forget how the makeup doesn’t stain her sleeve. At all.
This youtuber origin story is hilarious: youtuber by force.
And we STAN. Hard.
She didn’t choose that youtuber life. That youtuber life chose her
hehe 1000th upvote
oh man, not relevent to your brilliant comment but i teared up a lil at your profile pic
😂😂😂
As a descendant of the very tribes responsible for the cultivation of chilli peppers and vanilla I need to give you a wholehearted THANK YOU for giving my people the credit they deserve for doing so! You, in your eternal awesomeness, have my absolute heartfelt gratitude for doing so! ❤️
I agree. It’s also important to aknowledge potatoes too.
@@hepteropterix What? Ny nation has adoptert potatoes as a national vegetable. It’s hard to believe it hasn’t always been there.
@@MissCaraMint ireland??
@@salomew-l3897 Norway
@@MissCaraMint oo i didnt know!! thats very neat 😌😌
"But no, adults are not allowed to cut their hair by asking for their parents permission..."
I was honestly wondering that.
Sounds like Confucius was a child hater.
"Native Americans didn't spend thousands of years cultivating crops like chiles, chocolate, tomatoes, corn, potatoes or vanilla just for us to pretend they were there everywhere all along."
Don't forget the most common example of this, pumpkins
The most common example is in my eyes potatoes , you can spot them oftentimes in medieval european settings.
Medieval European peasants clearly ate nothing but potatoes, being so poor and all. Yeah, it's easy to think that, considering the staple food it is today. It's hard to imagine Europe without potatoes. The introduction of the potato has probably saved Europe from countless famines (though it also caused some in Ireland).
This is why people who cry "cultural appropriation" are idiots. They likely don't know what truly originated in their own country. They probably embrace many traditions and food stuffs that were imported anywhere from multi-millenias to less than a century ago.
@@jalifritz8033 that misconception is partially because for much of Europe they were still basically in the Middle Ages until the 1800s
@@KaptenN 2 things
1. The famine in Ireland wasn't caused solely by the collapse of the potato crop by blight. It's more accurately akin to a genocide than a famine, because England had been taking and shipping every other crop being grown and exporting them forcing the population to have nothing to eat.
2. "Muh cultural appropriation"
Lol shut the hell up. Don't come onto my post and complain about cultural appropriation to a literal Native. Eating an introduced crop and making new dishes of your own of it isn't the same as literally stealing our cultural practices to feel trendy or spiritual, and our regalia as poorly made costumes. Talk to an actual minority about the problem before you make your judgement based on your hurt feelings, mayo. The only idiot here is you.
Medieval times it should have been bread... As a history buff bread was critical.
YAMS killed me 🤣
Epic animations
Gotta respect Asians for their love of yams. Americans only know to put sugar and marshmallows on them.
Me toooo idk what I expected but "YAMS" wasnt it 🤣🤣
China is under attack from the YAMS! How could they betray them like that?
I laughed so loud at that i startled my cat
“Why isn’t Shang in drag?”
Because the enemy forces would fall for him no matter what he wears. He’s a bisexual legend for a reason
Li Shang isnt bisexual
@@TheColeminator
1.) Shang gave Mulan “the look” when she was disguised as Ping
2.) Shang doesn’t need to be bisexual to make his enemies question their sexuality
@@Sjono Bru shang gave ping a look that said okay I'm impressed. Not okay wanna fuck. There is no romantic interest in the two until the end. What Shang and ping have is called a bromance. Shang isnt bisexual.
@@TheColeminator I mean is his sexuality ever explicitly stated or confirmed? Also we’re all just joking. No need to be so upset over it.
@@alidevine961 I never said I was upset I just see something that isnt right and I am correcting it. And this is DISNEY they dont like to have gay relationships in their movies these days they sure as heck wasn't going to make one back then during the DISNEY renaissance
As far as the yellow eyes are concerned, there's actually a explanation for this in the special features, at least as far as shan yu is concerned. They were originally to have shan yu be able to see through the eyes of his hawk/ falcon but ultimitley decided to drop that aspect.
Yo I am obsessed with this woman's voice. The tone, the timbre, the range...
Also sometimes they randomly sound like zuko lol
@@calamity2383 genderbend zuko??
Same ✨
My theatre teacher would love her
She’s great at casual chat.
This movie was made at a time where cultural accuracy wasn't as important as it is now and it STILL managed to be more accurate than the mess that is Mulan 2020
Yea, What the hell is up with mulan 2020? I know 2020 already was a disaster but They didnt need to make it MORE of a disaster lol
Cultural accuracy still isn't important unless it's a foreign culture. Western/European period dramas have somehow been getting LESS accurate over the decades.
2020 isn’t as bad as people think.
@zaliapoo dessine draws Year.
And I don’t share the pessimism others have and never will.
and they made an effort to have the two leads voiced by asian actors (Ming Na and B.D. Wong)
seeing storyboard artists getting called out and them just nodding and going 'yes my fault, sorry' is so funny and very accurate. sometimes us board artists are just like that... Dumb
I mean yall must be burnt out constantly I can totally understand
san????!
thats kind of wholesome tbh, theyre just like yeah that was me sorry instead of going nOOOooo id NEVEVRVEVGRHR
Honestly I straight up thought the Fa family was hella poor from that scene and that’s why they sent her to the matchmaker. To marry a rich guy so they can afford more than rice.
@@desireeloveros1055 I doubt she was poor. Look at how big her house is. And her jewelry. And her father being one of the praised (and well known) veterans of war. That's not guaranteed rich, but that's quite telling of their financial status
26:33 Fr! I can’t hear the phrase “let’s get down to business” without IMMEDIATELY SAYING “to defeat the Huns”
To defeat *ch ch* the Huns!! You have to make the ch sound
“Cements her reputation as the Disney Princess with the highest kill count.”
Second place is Ariel. Her early attempts at communicating with humans did not go well.
I can see that!
Huh
Well it's not her fault Ursula took her voice away as a human lol. Plus she got Eric to trust her
Wait I don’t get it do you mind explaining?
@@mrblue1833 Pretty sure the suggestion is she drowned them accidentally.
I got an ad for Maybelline after you said "Oh my God, Mulan, what brand are you using?" So... maybe it's Maybelline?
I always thought Mulan's brand of makeup was the kind you put on your face. :P
@@gavinandersson3625 Woah that's a good guess man big brain
LMFAOO bro the timing is perfect
To be fair, their matte liquid lipstick is indeed very, very lasting... Too much so, for my personal taste, because I don't enjoy spending 10 minutes trying to erase it 😅 it is very vibrant though and a friend of mine loves it 🤷
@@katerynasirko1832 use an oil or cream cleanser like Pond’s! 😂
Let's be honest, EVERY live action remake has basically been a pale imitation shitshow cash grab compared to it's corresponding animated feature.
the Cinderella 2015 live action was quite nice tho, and it didn't copy-paste the original animated film
@@meryljoysarmiento9408 I dunno. That one came across as really sugarpop and one dimensional to me personally. My cheeks hurt watching Cinderella smile so much. The set design and costumes were definitely eyecandy though. The script just felt very by the numbers and kind of restrained, like they didn't want to take any risks which is a shame when there's so many strong Cinderella stories out there to pull inspiration from (Ever after, Enchanted, and the Princess Bride come to mind). Felt like a missed opportunity, but it definitely didn't fail on the epic scale that say the Mulan remake did.
Honestly the beauty and the beast one is my favorite. One of my main criticisms is they should have hired someone else to play Belle because Emma Watson is a good actor but they hired such strong talented people as the supporting cast so she was just okay in comparison to the rest of the cast.
The Addams Family wasn’t too bad-
@@jasminemercer9758 my problem with Emma Watson was how auto tuned her singing was, tbh. I’m sure it was some sound editing person and not Emma Watson herself but it still took away from her performance in the end.
During the story boarding for the "I'm taking my father's place" decision scene, the dragon was thin and stretched to a wave.
I have no clue why they thickened and scrunched him up.
"Bisexual legend, Li Shang" is my favourite character description ever
How does this not have any replies, even an ikr
@@firewingy ikr
@@firewingy ikr
@@firewingy ikr
@@firewingy ikr
"The Apple didn't ruin her lipstick!" Thank you, I've been stressed about that for 20 years.
💀
I personally want to know about her magic, makeup removing sleeves! I mean, the apple doesn't ruin her lipstick, but somehow she's able to wipe off all of her makeup with 2 swipes and the sleeves look clean? What sorcery is that?
@@sarahotto6006 🤣 FOR REEEAL!
@@sarahotto6006 And no smearing!? I'm sure there are people out there that would give their right foot to be able to do that
😂
Fun fact I bet you didn’t notice: Mulan is ambidextrous. In the beginning of the movie she uses her left hand to write but later when she uses a sword she uses her right hand
Yes, but maybe no. There's different types of ambidexterity. For instance, I can do many things with both hands (to a relative degree of equality), but I have a preference for my right hand for common tasks like writing, while when I actively participated in martial arts, I fought southpaw, medically I am considered "Right Dominant Ambidextrous", meaning i instinctively do many tasks with my right hand dominant (and in my specific case, despite being capable of either hand), while doing specific tasks with my left hand dominant. Given that Mulan displays the opposite inclination, writing left, and fighting standard, she is probably a "Left Dominant Ambidextrous".
Both RDA and LDA are capable of being true ambidextrous, but neither require it. If you're RDA or LDA you don't necessarily have the ability to do everything ambi, but at a minimum do certain specific tasks with a preference opposite of your dominant side. So she could be a true ambi, or she could just fight standard and do everything else left handed, and be the bare minimum of an LDA.
@@ThisIsAigle So basically you wrote that whole essay to dispute a simple comment like this, but ended up confirming it? Okay.
@@ghost_cities And you wrote that reply to display your lack of reading comprehension. *slow clap*
i didnt notice she held the sword with her right hand, i only noticed her writing witth her left
I believe it’s referred to as cross dominant which is pretty common in people who write with their left hand! Both me and my older sister write with our left but do athletic things, like throwing, with our right!
This was very enjoyable, thank you. It’s good to hear from someone who is Chinese that reviewed both films.
The 90s Mulan really hit emotionally.
And yeh, Sang would have rocked the eyeliner.
About the Hun leader: I do think it's interesting how whenever Mulan reveals that she was the 'man' that took his army down in the Pass, he doesn't say, "You're a woman?" He just exclaims "The soldier from the mountains!" I've always liked that little comment because it shows that he didn't really care about whether she was a woman, he didn't doubt her ability to have been the soldier, he just acknowledges the fact that she's the one that took them down, and reacts accordingly. I may or may not have this fact right, but i believe I heard somewhere that the Huns actually valued womens' work, and often raised them to some leadership positions within their society, so to speak. I may be wrong though.
this is why he was one of my favourite Disney villains
Thats it, we need a movie about the Huns and their deeds
we had chinese movies, we had japanese games, we need to knoe more wbout other parts of asia
@@elcatrinc1996 I'd watch it. It sounds super cool!
Wow people are really interested in our history. Thanks.
In historical sense hun tribes women could hold equal rank to men and some of guns most brilliant military commanders where women
"All of the Huns with distinctive character designs turn out to be alive" lol
Sort of like, spot the protagonist in an anime.
Dress outrageous, live forever!
@@maxgrozema1093 Or have an out outragious hairstyle with either three colors or a spikey hairstyle with some kind of headgear.
She didn’t choose the TH-camr life. The TH-camr life chose her
The TH-cam life
Poor girl
Bless her soul
@@Myusername499 Considering she got 164k subscribers off of 3 videos is *insane*
The hero we never knew we needed and don't deserve.
Legit 😂
I'm so late to this vid, and your channel in general but I'm glad I found it now! Your humor is so good and the delivery omg, the joke about Shang looking down 15 degrees ending the movie so much faster really got me. ALSO you're stunning!
Respect to the Shan Yu for referring to Mulan as "the soldier from the mountains", especially because he would have to know that she is biologically female at that point.
The Huns actually had women along side them as soldiers so he wouldn’t have been surprised to see her at all. She would quite literally be just another soldier. I believe there’s even speculation or records or something that show women leading their own clans, being able to choose their husbands and divorce them if they wanted too. They gave women a lot more freedom? rights? something along those lines, then most people in that era
@@jeonglix5603 Wow that's very interesting! Thanks for sharing, that would make a lot more sense :)
Yeah statistically Mulan probably killed at least one female hun soldier.
He doesn't care for Mulan's gender, he just wants revenge for getting his entire army destroyed and that means getting rid of her. Permanently. By killing her. To death.
@@jeffreygao3956 lmao
"All the Huns with distinctive character designs have survived."
I guess the rest were NPCs.
^^
My nose exhaled
“...but then, in this shot, *both* of these lions have smooth balls, so you know what? They’re gay. They’re gay lions. The palace is guarded by gay lions.”
I love you.
Bless the gay lions
@@Angel12068 lol 😂
It’s called a pride for a reason I guess.
@@dustinarmstrongthisisafake8248 you, i like you
two gay lions in a temple 0 feet apart cause there so gay
Just read Iron Widow! Such a good book, so excited for the next one!!!
you’re telling me we could have had the line “i would kiss you right now” AND WE DONT?!???! SUEING
fax
tiem for boycott!
We got roBbeD
imagine if he had said "if you were a girl id kiss you"
and then found out mulan was a girl
imagine if after that he'd had this nagging paranoia of "😳 shit did i do that??"
"did i turn ping into a girl?"
"no.... that's stupid."
"😳 but, w-- what if----"
@@mjamin9124 ... go on
Favorite random historical fact about Mulan, the huns actually didn't think it was weird for woman to be in the military--in their culture, it wasn't uncommon, so Sheng Yu really wouldn't bat an eye at Mulan being the solider.
People tend to forget that for most bands of war mongering people have a habit of very strong women
@@Vlad2319 It's the reason why the Romans hated the Picts, because Pictish women had as many rights as the men and were somehow the most capable warriors on the field. Guess it unsettled the fragile masculinity of the Roman soldiers, who's women were mostly meek and Submissive.
He really didn't. His surprise was that she revealed herself to be the solider from the mountains, not that she was a woman. He was gonna kill her either way lol
@@feralmagick7177 "my sword doesn't discriminate who it stabs, so why should I?"
Chingis Khan (aka Genghis Khan)'s great granddaughter said she would only marry a man who could defeat her in combat. She was an undefeated wrestler. When she won, the would be suitor had to give her his horse.
"Crickets are considered to be lucky in China, and to some people, delicious."
Ad: *FOOD PANDA*
For me it was a supermarket, so still on point, I think.
I got pringles
I thought the same lmao
@@michelleterra _F O O D P A N D A_
I got a ginger ad 😂
Didn't know creators could influence ad selection
I got dentil ads
7:58 I’m a white Australian who loves this movie. When I was little I used to watch my DVD of Mulan constantly. The really funny thing to me was that there was a special feature on the DVD that explained chopstick etiquette and most definitely highlighted just how much of a no-no sticking your chopsticks upright in your food. So, it was pretty funny noticing the rice bowl in this scene. Maybe the filmmakers should have watched the special features. 😂
You could argue that the scar was a visual pun of “losing face” for Zuko.
Honor is also more universal
I feel like maybe one of the reasons Mulan got away with hugging the emperor was because animators wanted people to like the emperor and see him as a stern but kindly elderly/grandfatherly figure. Also, in the second movie it's revealed he has 3 daughters that are (I'm guessing here) likely around Mulan's age. So maybe he sees this spunky girl with a good heart and thinks "Ah, I have a 4th daughter now." Which is both hilarious and kind of sweet.
The problem is I don't think hugging was a real thing in ancient china.
considering how much of a big deal it would be for the emperor to bow to anyone, and how US audiences probably wouldn't understand that, I imagine the hug was to reinforce just how much Mulan was allowed to get away with after saving the entire country
I mean, it’s history fantasy sooo, I think it’s quite a cute and wholesome momment
@@ghostprince9247 Oh absolutely. It's merely speculation on the cultural deviation aspect of the scene, as Yao posed the question of "Is she allowed to do that?" As this is a cultural analysis video. It's all up for speculation and light hearted debate. But yeah, it was a heart warming moment.
Shang a bi legend?
Shang almost having a line where he says he wanted to kiss Ping
GAY LIONS?!
Why was Mulan the gayest-straight Disney movie?
Because it is literally about not following gender stereotypes?
I like how two songs explores stereotypes about both genders.
It’s just god’s plan
though he did maried mulan so it would make him bi
Wait what makes Shang bisexual?
think u mean biest
It is interesting that at a time when researching all this was much more difficult (and people in general were less aware of respecting other cultures) most of the historical errors in the film are related to sacrifices made to make the narrative more interesting or limitations in the animation
It's funny to hear so many people looking for "historical errors" in myths and legends. That makes no sense. It's a STORY, not a documentary.
The 2020 movie wasn't just missing heart it was missing all the vital organs, a skeleton and skin.
All it had was two greedy little hands to grab that Disney premiere $$
Its basically just pulsating intestine, spewing out shit
I’m taking an Anatomy and Physiology class this semester, and that made me grin
And a soul
But hey it got drinking game potential
It had a skin, stuffed with crap, to make it look even worse.
Historical Chinese makeup: made of rice powder, non toxic, safe
Historical European makeup: lead oxide and arsenic
Also historical China :Drinks mercury to gain immortality
@@woko1009 oh, lol, I forgot about that😂
Though at least they discovered gunpowder that way...
@@walterl322 True that in cruel irony
@@woko1009 yeah... 😂
On behalf of the western world, how dare you...
...forget that we also used radium for a nice glow
“She goes on to sing Reflection. Also known as that one song that awakens something in every queer kid” I HAVE NEVER FELT SO CALLED OUT IN MY LIFE--
Can I ask what you pfp is?
@@mynamese1103 I think it's Adora, the main character from She-ra, in front of the versandrogynous pride flag.
@@whytho9108 the what flag?
FR-
@Kiki Candy Cat what does it mean is what I'm asking