Mulan
Directed by Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook
When Imperial China calls one man from every family to defend the empire from invading Huns, a young woman disguises herself as a soldier to take her ailing father’s place. Facing ruthless invaders, brutal training, and the risk of execution if discovered, she must decide who she truly is—and what she’s willing to fight for. From TMDB
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Mulan grossed $22.8 million in its opening weekend, ranking second behind The X-Files. For its second weekend, it remained in the number two spot behind another Eddie Murphy film, Dr. Dolittle, collecting $17 million and outgrossing fourth place newcomer Out of Sight. It went on to gross $120 million in the United States and Canada combined, and $304 million worldwide, making it the second-highest grossing family film of the year, behind A Bug's Life, and the seventh-highest-grossing film of the year overall. While Mulan domestically out-grossed the two Disney animated films which had preceded it, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Hercules, its box office returns failed to match those of the…
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60 of 235 · most liked firstJust saw Mulan for the first time in years and realized that in the beginning of the movie, she wastes an entire sack of chicken feed on like a half dozen chickens in one morning. Absolutely irresponsible. She'd have bankrupted the family if that war hadn't started.
negative · AI labelView post →You've seen Aaron Blaise's animation—he was a big deal on Disney's Mulan, Beauty and the Beast and more. Behind his work is a whole creative philosophy. Blaise broke it down for us, and explained why his new film is the most rewarding he's ever done: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/aaron-blai...
neutral · AI labelView post →In the animated Mulan movie, Mulan keeps touching her hair because her voice actress, Ming Na-wen, had a tendency to do that too, and the animators threw it in.
neutral · AI labelView post →As a contrast, a movie like Mulan had their Happy Meal toys launch two days *before* the movie release date (Yes, this includes the special Szechuan sauce for the chicken mcnuggets)
neutral · AI labelView post →Disney includes Mulan under their Disney Princess branding. But I gotta ask, what the hell makes Mulan a princess. Nothing in the movie even hints at that. She’s not part of a royal family, and neither is the guy she falls in love with. I don’t get how Mulan is a princess.
negative · AI labelView post →Mulan is still my favorite Disney movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Gay books won’t make your kids gay. The 1998 Mulan animated movie will make your kids gay
neutral · AI labelView post →6 years ago today, Disney’s live-action ‘Mulan’ remake was released. The film ultimately became one of Disney’s most controversial live-action remakes.
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie: Mulan (1998) Language: Cantonese
neutral · AI labelView post →You ought to know Lynne Southerland, a film and animation veteran who has edited & produced several projects including An Extremely Goofy Movie, was the first Black female director of an animated film, Mulan 2, and recently created & executive produces Disney Jr’s Ariel series. #BlackHistoryMonth
neutral · AI labelView post →Mulan (1998) is an animated movie about a Chinese captain and how he discovers his bisexuality in the most overcomplicated way.
neutral · AI labelView post →"Little boys cant see themselves in it" back right the heck off with that crap, Ive been textbook cis white boy since birth and I was at the TV every day for cardcaptors and sailor moon. Mulan was my favorite Disney film, who are these myopic ghouls gatekeeping fun AND profit like a denial fetish 🙄
positive · AI labelView post →Found this weird advertisement in which Mulan returns home and... sells batteries and flashlights? The image actually depicts the 1939 movie adaptation of Mulan. So, it's a blockbuster cross-promotion.
neutral · AI labelView post →Not sure how I woke up with the Mulan soundtrack stuck in my head—a movie I haven't seen in 20 years
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Mulan with the boys and am struck by the fact that this is the only Disney movie that includes a massacre of an entire village, and also that Mulan is the only Disney princess who has canonically killed like fifty thousand men.
neutral · AI labelView post →You could say “well she’s not a princess and in a kinda dark, fucked up fraught movie” but that also covers Pocahontas and Mulan. Also I don’t really care because it’s a toy line, but this movie is bleak as hell.
negative · AI labelView post →Perhaps the most notable detail about Mulan II's production was that Barry Cook, director of the first film, wrote a treatment involving Shan Yu and his Huns returning as ghosts and having the heroes going off to save China again. Many have argued this would've been better than the final film.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you saw my skeet last night where I accidentally attributed the song Colors of the Wind to the movie Mulan, 1) no you didn’t, and 2) I was very baked
neutral · AI labelView post →The levels to which Disney is damaging their brand. To blatantly turn Lilo and Stitch into colonial propaganda is unfathomable and unforgivable. Making politically-driven changes to Mulan, spiking the promo of Snow White after casting Gal Gadot and blaming Rachel Zegler for the movie tanking.
negative · AI labelView post →My son is finally moving away from wanting to watch Nightmare Before Christmas nonstop. We've moved on to Turning Red, Mulan, and Hercules. Hercules is my absolute favorite Disney film, so I'm glad he's enjoying it.
positive · AI labelView post →Let's go over the original Ballad of Mulan, and compare it, verse for verse, to the 1998 Disney animated film. Let me show you why that is the best adaptation, better than half a dozen Chinese versions that came before and after. youtu.be/ItQGmNcovdA
neutral · AI labelView post →Something I hadn't noticed until now. In the movie #Mulan, every important scene is treated like a musical, THAT IS UNTIL MULAN'S PLATOON REACH THE DESTROYED VILLAGE. One second they're singing "A girl worth fighting for", the next they fall silent, and NEVER SING AGAIN for the rest of the film.
neutral · AI labelView post →I want an R rated Mulan war movie where she's just dropping bodies
neutral · AI labelView post →There is literally NO reason to pit Huntr/X against Rey Skywalker or Captain Marvel. Mulan has its issues NOT because of "forced girl power" but because of how the film itself was executed and the controversies surrounding it.
neutral · AI labelView post →When they have the Disney princesses all together in their fancy dresses Mulan should be in her armor not her outfit from the end of the movie in this essay I will —
neutral · AI labelView post →Beauty and the Beast I'd guess is the supposedly gay character, IIRC? Mulan is probably "woke" because "no white people movie" and Rise because Rey exists at all and that made his dick shrink.
neutral · AI labelView post →“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”💧🌼🍃 -Walt Disney (the film Mulan)
neutral · AI labelView post →brb rewriting Mulan from the point where she discovers the Huns are still alive into a new movie where she realizes steppe society is more accepting of who she is anyway and decides to join them
neutral · AI labelView post →rewatched Mulan last night and UGH. mourning for current feature animation. that movie has so much flavor! packs an emotional punch, is consistently funny, GORGEOUSLY designed, and the stakes are extreme + relentless. (imagine actual life and death stakes in a d*sney film in today's day and age!!)
positive · AI labelView post →Do I know any transfemme creators who might be interested in contributing a transfemme reading to my Mulan movie? Like a couple minutes of video or audio
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s film! #Mulan
neutral · AI labelView post →The end of every animated kids movie since Mulan:
neutral · AI labelView post →i think part of what is making me scream is that i specifically studied queer film so like THIS IS MY FIELD. The paper that that started my gender journey WAS ON MULAN
neutral · AI labelView post →Mulan is the best Disney movie It is It just is
positive · AI labelView post →All subject to change often, but on average for how often they're in the top 5: TV Series: Nostalgic - Trigun Fun - Bob's Burgers Overall - Castlevania Season 2 Game: Nostalgic - FF8 Fun - Original RE4 Overall - Silent Hill 2 Film: Nostalgic - Mulan Fun - Fury Road Overall - Tarsem's The Fall
neutral · AI labelView post →As a transmasc chinese dude with a bisexual partner with a military lineage, for some reason the original animated Mulan movie resonates very deep with me .
positive · AI labelView post →At last! My article on the many failures (for now?) of the Mulan remake and the need to situate them within a longer history of Disney and China. www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
neutral · AI labelView post →When it comes to historical epics, I can’t find any evidence of any big budget historical film other than Disney’s live-action MULAN being made by a woman. Disney/Marvel has a better track record overall, with The Marvels, Eternals, Frozen 2, and Captain Marvel, but that’s 5 out of about 100.
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, still a treat on so many levels. Volver, Penelope Cruz at the top of her game. Mulan, I didn't remember how gorgeous this was. The Black Clover movie was fun even though you know what to expect from this kind of movie.
positive · AI labelView post →The most bigoted thing about the live action Mulan Disney movie is that they shot part of it in Xinjiang The second most bigoted thing is wasting Gong Li’s time for having her in a mid movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Honest Q. Is Mulan the only Disney Original Animated Film that centers war? I'm talking classic Disney (i.e. not Pixar)
neutral · AI labelView post →I haven't seen Mulan 2 but in my experience it's rarely a good sign when they have to bundle the sequel in with the first movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Speaking of Mulan (animated), one of the best movies. Ever. Swear to god, that movie is damn perfection.
positive · AI labelView post →Now I'm having ptsd to when they turned Mulan into a wuxia movie and they tried to have a scientific explanation for why characters in wuxia movies can fly
neutral · AI labelView post →Disney movies I didn't know about until they were already out. That dragon movie that isn't Mulan The one about the gay fish boy Who the fuck is Bruno? Sequel to that movie with The Rock Inside Out but with elements? idfk I thought the rabbit movie already had a sequel? Girl is pan- I mean beaver
neutral · AI labelView post →"hc Mulan as trans takes away the point of the movie" damn didn't realize hcing had that kinda power, can I hc you touching grass and getting bitches
neutral · AI labelView post →My mother took me to see Mulan in theatres and they played a trailer for a movie where a shark breaks the aquarium (or something) and the people are stuck with the shark When my class took a field trip to the aquarium years later they had to drag me crying and screaming through the sharks lmfao
neutral · AI labelView post →“We can’t have a girl power movie.” Says the company that made Mulan💀
neutral · AI labelView post →10 Favorite Animated Features Kiki's Delivery Service Tekkonkinkreet Magnetic Rose Nausicaa Cardcaptors: The Movie Millennium Actress Ultraman: Rising The Prince of Egypt Mulan Transformers One
neutral · AI labelView post →My theory is that since they moved to 3D Disney wants all their movies to have The Disney look. Gone are the days of Hercules and Mulan taking inspiration from the culture the movie is set in, the public must know it's a Disney film on first glance. It's become their brand look. Pixar doesn't count
neutral · AI labelView post →Is Mulan the most woke Disney movie?
neutral · AI labelView post →#WrongDisneySong #MusicChallenge Movie: Mulan Song: “Gonna Fly Now” by Bill Conti youtu.be/_YYmfM2TfUA?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Mulan 1998 Love that movie.
positive · AI labelView post →20 of your favorite Disney films. One film per day for 20 days, in order no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just gifs. Day 9: Mulan #FilmSky #DisneyFilmChallenge
neutral · AI labelView post →I wonder why execs always push for the chosen one subversion when it comes to remaking IPs? Like Mulan having magic powers in her live action movie It’s almost like execs in the entertainment industry relate more to that trope than the idea of hard work and skill being the source of their success
neutral · AI labelView post →#TBBChat I really love the movie Brave. I identified a lot with characters like Merida and especially Mulan as a kid. Being dysphoric (with no language for it) in a Fundie house was very difficult, and the idea of choosing your own destiny beyond what was rigidly expected of you resonated with me.
neutral · AI labelView post →OMG MY CABIN IS READY AND I GOT A MULAN ONE!!!!!!!!! Omg look at this beautiful art im losing it??????? and storyboards from the actual film?????
neutral · AI labelView post →Don’t know why, but I fucking love “I’ll Make a Man Out of You” from Mulan…as well as Reflection from that same movie (the version by Lea Salonga).
neutral · AI labelView post →Went 2-1 in tonight’s Disney #Lorcana weekly play movie theme night using pure 🔴⚪️ Mulan and pulled these lovelies out of the prize packs!
neutral · AI labelView post →Mulan Name the gayest film you've ever seen
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