My pettiness with Disney's LA Mulan

[Anonymous]

So they released Mulan teaser and I'm officially sad.

Mulan is my favorite disney movie so I was really looking forward to the live action version OF IT! We got Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, etc. No singing (it's so iconic and they removed it! It's not like Cinderella where the singing is not a pull to the story), no Shang, no Mushu (rumor says it's going to be a phoenix), witch female villain? :(

It's like some generic Chinese film but they're all speaking in English. I mean if they wanted some accurate retelling couldn't they have made another film about it? I'd rather watch an accurate retelling with people actually talking in Chinese and also made by the Chinese oh wait there's already one:

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On the plus side though the teaser does look nice I guess. And the actress is really cute! But still it's not going to be the Mulan I grew up with. I'm feeling petty af.

[Guanfei]

They just wanted to make a woke version of it.

No Mushu because the original Mushu was dubbed by Eddie Murphy, and today it would be considered racist.
No Shang because Shang was a good soldier and a good commander, who helped Mulan with the other guys. And that version of Mulan just want to show a Mulan who is a strong independent woman who don't need no man.
And the villain would be labelled as racist too since it show a bad cliché of a mongolian badguy.

They just wanted to make a movie to show a strong woman while avoiding any possibility of something being seen as offensive.

[LMNOP123]

Makes sense. I thought that might also be a huge possibility of why they changed it so much.

[CoffeeWC]

Live action movies are often inaccurate and deviate from their animated counterparts. I don't know why it has to be this way, but it sucks.

[myTake Owner]

I know like even with Beauty and the Beast it's not an exact copy. I actually don't mind that. It's hard to have 100% accuracy. I'm more miffed because of the songs and the unnecessary changes in characters. I mean this is the only LA so far that they removed majority of the main cast and exchanged it with something else

[DollySummers]

Cuz they wanted it to be still kid friendly. But at the same time more mature to bring the older crowd in. Which annoys me too cuz musicals are for adults to. Plus they could’ve made Mushu bigger in the action version. I don’t see how Mushu, and the cricket were cut. I am glad they cut the hair cut out. But did they really need to use Japanese instead of Chinese.

[RobLovesDemi1234]

Don't worry about it. Most remakes or real life versions of movies nowadays suck. Look what they did to ghostbusters when they remade that crap. And look at the remake of hellboy. And if that ain't bad enough look at the god aweful movie aladdin that came out recently. I would rather stick hot flaming polks what were in a fireplace that watch that god aweful disaster a second time. The only reason that movie had any viewers whatsoever was because of will smith. He saved disney's ass. And dont even get my started on how god forsakenly aweful beauty and the beast live action movie was. I've come to a point where I'm not expecting remakes or live action movies to be good. And we all know the upcoming star wars 9 is going to be complete crap. I just hope come November when nerdcon is in town i won't be out in public to suffer that illfate

[Kiran_Yagami]

Of course they weren't going to make Mulan like the cartoon. The cartoon had a gendered theme song, and Disney is "woke" now.

"Did they send me daughters when I asked for sons?"
"I'll make a man out of you."

Yea, Disney is not a company of giving the fans what they want. They're a company of dictating to the fans what they should want and then telling you you're a racist when you don't agree to it. But all of the live action Disney is shit anyways, so I'm not worried. This is how far Disney has slumped, they have to remake old shit instead of coming up with something new.

[leahzrc]

I wish that these live actions would be the exact same from the cartoons. I think that the Lion King will be the only good one because its the exact same story/music and the actors werent casted because of skin color. Like aladdin was horrid, I like naomi scott but she didn't fit the role and the male actor wasn't talented and will smith honestly butchered his role. Who cares if they are the exact same? Its cool to see a movie transform from cartoon to real life.

[myTake Owner]

Hahaha that is my thinking as well it's a live action of the cartoon! Add some trinkets but if you change the whole thing it's no longer the same ;_;

I grew to accept Aladdin since my sister kept replaying it at home. I'm still weirded out by their costumes. I did like how they changed the little things like giving Jasmine a voice and completing the intro and ending with Genie. Jafar is the complete zero for me. He lost his menace

[leahzrc]

I feel like new jasmine can't sing in the pretty princess way that I would have hoped and will smith's songs all sounded like fresh prince of bel air

[myTake Owner]

HAHA. Actually. Well Naomi doesn't have that high singing voice we usually have especially if we're so used to Jasmine og Lea Salonga. That crystal clear voice is very wow. Didn't watch Prince of Bel-air so I can't relate lol

[leahzrc]

I meant that his songs are rapped so it isn't easy to sing along to the them

[myTake Owner]

Aaah makes sense. Rap is hard to sing :/

[GraveDoll]

must be the only human who has no love for disney period.

even as a little girl i just find the movies boring AF. Now i did like th live stories they use to do like

the scary ones. Those were more realistic.

[LMNOP123]

No it’s okay I get it. I’ll still see it, I’ll probably still like it. I’m only very disappointed that it’s not going to be a live action version of the animated one. Like they did with Beauty and the Beast. Mulan is my favourite too.

[Izumiblu]

I dislike the live action Disney films tbh. So this doesn’t change anything for me

[myTake Owner]

Hahaha I'm just a big fan of live actions. Even with anime shows.. though those are mostly misses.

[name_is_eric]

Mulan seems too Asian in that trailer and that is just wrong, they should at least adapt her as black.

#GetWoke #WrongRace #Diversity #Multiculturalism

[myTake Owner]

=)) change the actress every 3 seconds more like #Multiculturalism

[SpiderManFan2002]

Mulan was an actual historical figure. So no, they could not have. I don't recall any recent Disney remake where they cast a black girl for the lead role as historical. ;)

[myTake Owner]

@SpiderManFan2002 Mulan is actually from a ballad. No historical evidence supports she is real.

[SpiderManFan2002]

Still, many people believe it is a true story.

[myTake Owner]

@SpiderManFan2002 Lol and so what if people believe it to be true doesn't make it true regardless X)

[Goodgirl120]

I will watch Mulan. I won’t watch the Little Mermaid.

[myTake Owner]

Yeah the teaser has some promise. Will have to wait for full trailer though because sometimes their accent makes it sound awkward.

The little mermaid I shall wait for their trailer and see. I'm gonna be petty again if they didn't lush up her hair!

[AngelLily]

Ya I hate that there not doing the Disney version of Mulan too.

[NatashaJ]

I am not even going to bother to watch this anyway lol

[Anonymous]

Oh for the love of god, get over it!

If you don’t like the one that’s gonna be released then go and watch the original one.

[GD360]

Lol.. why you anonymous, your right. But it's so much easier to be mad at Disney tryin to hussle us out of our money

[myTake Owner]

Get over my opinion as well. I am free to dislike things without having to watch the original I love :)

[Rawkstar26]

Yeah, Kinda sucks. And she looks nothing like how Mulan should look or act..

[myTake Owner]

I think they made her stiffer than usual. Though since it's a teaser I'd do another round later haha. Haven't watched her other films to know her skills

[MyQuietLife]

I can’t wait to watch Mulan 🙌🏼👍

[Anonymous]

I mean, you could like, just continue watching the old one instead.

[myTake Owner]

I mean, I never said I couldn't, cartoon and LA totally different vibe.

[gorman24]

It still may turn out to be an amazing movie

[myTake Owner]

Well yeah based from teaser it does show promise have to wait for full trailer to have a bit more to work on

[MySunnyLife]

I love Mulan. My favorite Disney movie

[yourfavperson]

found another baby crying over here!

[myTake Owner]

And I found the cool one!

[yourfavperson]

take a nap😚

[myTake Owner]

I'm fine thanks X)

[Asianguy123]

Cool. Thank you for showing me

[myTake Owner]

Cool. No problem