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What the Chinese think of Mulan


1) Disney made a mockery of "Qi" - That's not how Qi works. A person isn't born with Qi. It needs to be acquired through many years of hard and challenging breathing techniques; and even with strong Qi one still needs to train fighting skills to be a great fighter. Qi itself doesn't magically transform you to a Mary Sue.

2) Chinese culture really hates Mary Sue - The Chinese culture values hard work and character development. The idea that a person is born with ability to excel at whatever she wants is distasteful in China.

3) Chinese, while they love fantasy movies too, don't like to mix fantasy with real history. The idea that there's a witch in one of the most treasured historical legendary story like Mulan really turned them off.

4) Finally, Chinese usually want strong and powerful villains in their movies. That's how they stay engaged with the story and plot development but this movie's villain is such a joke it immediately turned them off.

These are just the 4 reasons I was told why even in China they really hated this movie.

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This is review from a Chinese youtube movie channel¹ I use to follow. The review compares the movie with the old 1998 animated version, analyzing both ones from a Chinese perspective, and it's VERY interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZccG-wtt5FA

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¹ btw, I highly recommend the channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH_VqR5rFFhgjZmM31xA3Ag

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Lol, I enjoyed that review "And you fucked it up"

Thx for the link. Is he really from Mainland China or Hong Kong China? I'm just surprised the teacher took them to see a Disney Mulan instead of a Chinese made one at home.

One thing I would like to add is that she only truly became Captain Mulan when she shed all her ancient China armor in favor of plot armor. Too bad she didn't go further into Xena Warrior Princess territory. XD

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No idea, but I'd say his accent sounds like Hong Kong (from the differences I've caught watching HK movies vs mainland China movies 😄 )

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You're gonna like this link too:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1302352476465590272.html

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US corporations will waste trillions to try and infiltrate the Chinese market instead of developing the American economy. While they claim that it's socialism over here, they flock to China to capitalize off of their state-sponsored capitalism any day of the week.

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