| Mulan Goes to Disney | |
Disney's latest animated movie, Mulan, is scheduled for release on Friday, June 19, 1998.
The movie is based on a well-known Chinese girl, Mulan, who is the heroine of a famous
Chinese poem written by an anonymous poet during the Northern and Southern Dynasties (AD 420-589).
We don't really know much more about Mulan besides the poem, thus it is essential to
read the poem if you want to know Mulan. So here are links for you.
The Poem
Stories about Mulan
Disney is famous for
changing any story they produce.
I guess Disney has many reasons to make changes. In this movie, one of important ones for Disney
to do that is they have to consider the taste of their viewers. The value of the Western is
quite different from that of the Eastern, so they may have to do some adjustment to make it
more appropriate for the Western viewers.
They may have done that adjustment while making the movie but never realized that since one's perception
and value is deeply rooted in one's culture. It is all natural. Thus it is likely this is a more
or less Westernized story. Also the Mulan story is an ancient tale, they may have to use their imagination
to make it a movie. To find it out, we have to see the film.
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