Mulan - How to Build a Cinematic "Meh" | Anatomy Of A Failure
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Hot after the insult to audiences that was Artemis Fowl, Disney aka Emperor M is back with a new remake of yet another classic animated film, Mulan. And while it's not necessarily horrible or even bad (especially coming off of Gods of Egypt), it's not very good either-- it's just kinda pointlessly forgettable, a film nobody wants or needs, and definitely not worth 30 dollars. And so in today's Anatomy of a Failure, let's take a look at Mulan and compare it to some other similar films like Captain Marvel and Wonder Woman and How to Train Your Dragon to see what it does or doesn't do that prevents it from becoming more than just a vanilla cash grab. Here's how to build a cinematic meh.
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Mulan (2020)
When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Army to defend the country from Northern invaders, Hua Mulan, the eldest daughter of an honored warrior, steps in to take the place of her ailing father. Masquerading as a man, Hua Jun, she is tested every step of the way and must harness her inner-strength and embrace her true potential. It is an epic journey that will transform her into an honored warrior and earn her the respect of a grateful nation…and a proud father. “Mulan” features a watch Mulan full movie online free disney plus mulan 4k clip hd mulan ending mulan avalanche artemis fowl how to insult the audience why captain marvel failed where wonder woman worked everything wrong with mulan 2020 mulan 2020 rant bad movie mulan the movie nobody wants mulan official trailer video essay honest trailer anatomy of a failure gods of egypt a guide to building the ultimate trash studio movie charlie's angels how gender obsession can ruin a movie celebrated international cast that includes: Yifei Liu as Mulan; Donnie Yen as Commander Tung; Jason Scott Lee as Böri Khan; Yoson An as Cheng Honghui; with Gong Li as Xianniang and Jet Li as the Emperor. The film is directed by Niki Caro from a screenplay by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver and Elizabeth Martin & Lauren Hynek based on the narrative poem “The Ballad of Mulan.”
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Wonder Woman (2017)
An Amazon princess named Diana (Gal Gadot) lives an idyllic existence on an island occupied solely by female warriors, but her life changes forever after American pilot Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) crash-lands nearby. When he tells her that a massive war is engulfing the planet, she decides to travel with him to the outside world, hoping to use her powers to put an end to the conflict. Along the way, she becomes the legendary superheroine known as Wonder Woman. Directed by Patty Jenkins (Monster), this is the first solo feature film for the iconic DC Comics character.
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Captain Marvel (2019)
Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, a female Air Force pilot, Carol Danvers (Brie Larson), experiences a freak accident, leaving her with dynamic superpowers. After teaming up with a fellow superpower yielder, Nick Fury (Samuel.L Jackson), the two launch a scheme to stop a war that threatens Earth and its inhabitants.
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Charlie's Angels (2019)
Elena (Naomi Scott), a young engineer, unwittingly stumbles upon new government technology that could hold significant and dangerous ramifications for society. However, her discovery garners attention from the wrong sort of people, so it is up to two special operatives (Kristen Stewart and Ella Balinska) to mobilize, protecting Elena and the future of the planet in the process. Written and directed by Elizabeth Banks.
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Gods of Egypt (2016)
A young thief named Bek (Brenton Thwaites) enlists the help of the powerful Egyptian god Horus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) to overthrow the vicious deity Set (Gerard Butler), who has seized control of the land. Bek's true love has been captured, forcing the mortal rebel to fight back in order to free her and the people of Egypt from Set's tyrannical honest trailer gods of egypt cinemasins everything wrong with gods of egypt watch full movie hd 4k clip artemis fowl how to insult the audience Curse of La Llorona - Making the Worst Horror Film of All Time Watch Artemis Fowl full movie box office flop lone ranger how to build the biggest flop of all time anatomy of a failure gods of egypt movie review filmento tenet anatomy of a failure mulan bad movie rant gods of egypt all anubis scenes rule. This epic fantasy adventure was directed by Alex Proyas (The Crow), and co-stars Geoffrey Rush, Chadwick Boseman, and Courtney Eaton. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
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In the original, Mulan is a normal young woman who gets by with determination and her strengths. Now, she randomly has superpowers, and can't even fail. 😔
Yeah I'm kinda surprised he didn't bring that up.
of course she can't fail and have flaws. She is a depiction of a real life Brie Larson
@@umacalopsitaeumviolao Chinese Brie Larson
The privileged males were allowed to die in wars, while the oppressed wamen had to cook food 🙈
@Mr. Fo'head Yeah that's true
Disney: "That's a mighty nice childhood you got there; be a shame if something happened to it..."
What Matpat says everyday
What Matpat says everyday...
Uh it’s not supposed to be based on the animated movie, it’s supposed to be based on the poem
@@gezi5927 yet there are many, many beats taken from the 92 film, as pointed out in the video. It's still a remake.
Besides, nothing you said changes the OP's point.
Disney stole MatPat’s line
Disney: We can't have Mushu in the movie because dragons don't exist.
Also Disney: Mulan has the superpowers of Domino and there's a shape-shifting witch and a phoenix! Also the emperor is a fabric-bender!
Everything changed when the fabric benders attacked
@@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa4545 Japan actually made that one... it's called Kill la Kill.
She did not have Captain America powers. You're mixing you're universes.
@@jacoblaughbon3323 she's a super-solider
@@digthesechild-bearinghipsb2842 Not really. Her commander could've easily beat her ass, so I'm not sure where y'all get this tripe. She kicks a spear, then she's suddenly on Dragon Ball? Ever seen IP Man? I'm sure that's just too far fetched for you too. Or Once Upon a Time in China. Or House of Flying Daggers. The Great Wall. 47 Ronin. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon...etc...etc...etc. Of course, those are fine, since they had male leads.
Disney: "Do you guys believe a woman can be a powerful warrior?"
Audience: "Sure, why not?"
Disney: "Yeah, me neither. But what if she had magical chi powers?"
Audience: •_•
The ""Yeah, me neither" is golden LOL
Mulan can just kiss Wonder Woman shoes hihihi ...
Disney killed mcu and star wars and fox new mutants r ratings and stupid cuts just like dark phoenix the mouse is dead and mandalorian plus black widow are the last hits after that they are broke ...
Love the fact that chi is literally the ability to be able to control your breathing which is actually really harder than you think. Than turning the chi into magic. Good example is Atla’s chi blockers, they literally just stop your flow of blood in your circulation making you unable to bend/move.
Bruh moment be like
Mulan 2020 is ruined by the fact that she has magical chi powers. She starts off already a martial arts master even as a child just because she was born with these powers, which misses the point of the original. Instead of proving she can do anything, she already can and just pretends she can't to fit in.
In the original, Mulan was a teenage girl living in an extremely patriarchal society with clearly defined gender roles. She had to struggle to prove she could do anything a man could do, and the fact that she overcomes such adversity is what makes her a compelling character. And you might notice she does very little actual fighting in the original, but instead manages to save the day through craftiness, proving you don't need stereotypically masculine traits (i.e., brute strength, combat skills) to be a hero.
Nu-Mulan doesn't struggle with anything except hiding the fact that she has magic chi powers. She doesn't have to prove that she's just as capable as a man because she manages to outperform all of them without any practice or training thanks to trait she was born with and didn't have to develop or learn how to use. And instead of using her wits to save the day at the end, she just unleashes her inherent superpowers and uses brute force to sword fight all the bad guys.
And the fact that Nu-Mulan's abilities don't come from training or experience but instead from some magic power she was just born with has unfortunate implications. It's like saying, "Hey girls! You can do anything a man can do, as long as you have fictional superpowers that is!"
This is supposed to be empowering?
One of the things I "like" about this version is that there are no songs. You know, because that makes it more faithful to the BALLAD (I.e, a musical). Not only that, there's a witch as well. A concept that's completely foreign to the Eastern audiences. They could've written her as a spirit or an oni, but instead is written as a bird witch that wants to be accepted by society. And this is supposed to be more realistic than the animated version..?
So is a Mulan 2020 episode in the works?
The newer model of Mulan might be closer to what China wants to show its audience.
Great review. To think they skipped out on all that actual empowerment just to avoid her being trained by a man. Thats the basis behind many of these "new" movies. Ghostbusters 2016 for example was suppose to be a passing of the torch. Instead Amy Pascal of Sony overruled Ivan Reichman because they couldn't have men as the ones who invented the tech. Women need to do everything on their own, with no help from men. In fact men must be seen as dumb or evil. Many recent movies have followed what comes down to a set of rules so as to be considered safe and progressive.
Wow Possum, that actually made sense. Filmento, and now you, were the last seals of disapproval I need not to watch this Disney cash-grab. 1998 Mulan is still one of my favourite Disney renaissance movies and I'm always hopeful that they won't f*ck it up, but alas...
And I thought you were just a raving drunk.
2020 Mulan in a nutshell
Men: “Women shouldn’t be allowed to be soldiers”
Mulan: “I want to be a soldier”
Men: “Understandable, have a nice day”
Nice
😆😆😆
But you have to have superpowers to do it
man you could make an better joke
The best one liner I've heard to describe this movie is, they turned Mulan into a Chinese Elsa.
This movie should've been called "Mehlan."
I'll let myself out.
No, come back 💜
@@jasmineaurora3144 Aww, if you insist!
@@csweezey18 nice to meet you, Satan 💜
@@jasmineaurora3144 Nice to meet you too, Jasmine. ;)
Every once in a while, a pleasant interaction arises on the internet. It's rare, but it's nice when it happens.
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I don't think making the movie almost like the cartoon one is bad. The problem is she is way too good of a fighter, she can fly and kill bunch of bad dudes. In the original, she is still a WOMAN. But she is damn smart. So she overcame the challenges by being smart. Like tying the weights together so that she can climb the tree, using the avalanche to defeat the army, using fireworks to kill the big boss, bath while others are sleeping, etc. Because before the start of the battle, she has never done any fighting, so do a lot of her friends at the camp. At the end of the camp, they are all just good enough. They are all super afraid at the start of the battle because this is their first time in a war, including Mulan.
the bath scene was in the original
My favorite part of the original Mulan was when she was sent home because she couldn’t keep up with the rest of the men. Instead of leaving she used the weights to climb the pole no one else could and get the arrow no one else could.
THAT is an empowered woman and for me as a six year old girl, that was what made me feel like I could do anything through perseverance and determination. The new version tells girls they can accomplish anything IF they have magic bullshit powers.
Exactly why didnt they even add that part 🤦♂️🤦♂️it is an inspiring scene
Exactly.
@@obukohwoogheneakpobo3011 because if that scene was in this movie she would have just toe jumped up to the top of the pole while spinning the weights over her head, and gracefully landed on the top.
Yes, that was such a wonderful part of the movie, I loved it! Particularly since she did it with BRAINS, overcoming her lack of brawn.
And the scene where Mulan’s friends join her to save the emperor. A squad of soldiers on a mission working together.
"Everything is easy" this is the reason why modern "female empowerment" movies fail. Women these days aren't allowed to fail, get hurt, or make mistakes with lasting consequences. It's getting really tiresome.
Senior Woodz - Absolutely.
The movie is like: You can be recognised as a woman only if you are born with special powers.
I think you're a little trapped in your bubble here - Mulan is a superhero because the movie was made to the specifications of the Chinese government, it's no different than Hero, from... Hero... which is based on Mulan anyway
That’s why “kill bill” is such an awesome movie. She needs to push through shit.
Aye!
You know you did it bad, when even the cheinese government didn't like your chinese propaganda.
*Smacks lips*
*Noice*
I mean, they are the Chinese Government, who do you think can outmatch them in giving out Chinese propaganda.
They must have watched it and thought,
"Not Enough, More Propaganda!!"
@@ubeia4857 dk i would think the actress being pro hong kong police is propaganda enough lmao
@@ubeia4857 Filmento just overlooked a bunch of stuff.
Yeah, he's critically and criticized it overall, but
he comes to the wrong conclusion and
makes objectively wrong claims that its
a Movie 'good enough' and that theres actually nothing wrong with it.
Thats wrong though?
Theres a lot objectively wrong here
and people pointed out that that the Film-Making
is beneath Amateur-Level. Things like Camera-Use
and many whole 'fields' of technic-stuff.
I'm sorry, but this time i have to call
out this CZcamsr to be quite uninformed
and uneducated about this.
@@slevinchannel7589 Wait wait, I think you got something wrong with my comment. The "they" I meant in the "They must have watched it and thought" is the Chinese Government, not Filmento.
My comment was all about the original comment above. It has nothing to do with Filmento's criticism of the movie, it also has nothing to do with me agreeing or not in his criticism nor it has anything to do with how the movie was made.
It was made purely in context of the original joke comment in which I added my own comedic take.
Also the lead actress face only have one emotion the entire movie.
Like lion king, cartoon always has more face expresion than real life
I THINK SHE CHOOSE TO NOT MAKE MUCH MOVEMENTS IN HER FACE AND RATHER USE EYES AS MANY ACTORS DO BUT SHE I THINK FAILED TO CHARGE THE SCENES SO SHE CAN USE HER EYES MORE RATHER THAN WHOLE FACE MOVERMENT
And it is slightly pissed off
@@warrior9326 but her eyes stayed the same in every scene too... :/
My new superhero had more emotion
"When the men started stripping off their clothes, my interest went from 20% to 120%"
-Filmento
no homo
I mean, who wouldn't?
@@semi_sen Nah, I’m more into the ladies.
filmento you trying to tell us something
@@dzunglong4034 Thanks
Another good title would have been “How to dishonor a franchise”.
That was excellent, JK
Mau Zangetsu why thank you 😁
You forgot dishonor to her cow.
Dishonor your name, Dishonor your father, Dishonor your family.🐲🐉
Dishonor to your Cashcow!
So she's the definition of a Mary Sue. The plot bends around her in unrealistic and uninteresting ways.
Rey from Star Wars, Captain Marvel and Mulan.....Disney is single-handedly trying to revive the Mary Sue market.
Wow, you used the term Mary Sue, you must know a lot about movie tropes.
Mary Sue is self insert. The film uses a lot of tropes used for it, like the plot bending around her, but she is too 'special' to be a Mary Sue imo
You know it’s bad when even my 10 year old sister who liked the emoji movie didn’t like it. This movie is boring to people who didn’t watch/enjoy the first movie and it’s absolutely insulting to people who did like it. A “meh” is far too generous for this complete pile of trash that is this movie
Filmento just overlooked a bunch of stuff.
Yeah, he's critically and criticized it overall, but
he comes to the wrong conclusion and
makes objectively wrong claims that its
a Movie 'good enough' and that theres actually nothing wrong with it.
Thats wrong though?
Theres a lot objectively wrong here
and people pointed out that that the Film-Making
is beneath Amateur-Level. Things like Camera-Use
and many whole 'fields' of technic-stuff.
...I'm sorry, but this time i have to call
out this CZcamsr to be quite uninformed
and uneducated about this.
...
@@slevinchannel7589 Eh, criticizing him for being "objectively wrong" would be much more poignant if you gave actual objective examples, instead of pointing out that it's wrong.
Disney: Let's remove the songs and Mushu so that it would seem "realistic"
Also Disney: speaks english, a witch, chi and a bird that did absolutely nothing other than being a waste of CGI
Edit: I didn't expect for this to have many likes. Thanks for the attention 🙂
Would you rather have the entirety of the movie subbed?
@@AustinBrouillard i would not mind
@Martin Beck I mean, parasite exists.
@@AustinBrouillard Parasite exists and did really, really well.
@@MsIvalane don't forget Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto
Not to mention that Liu Yifei's acting is worst than subpar: she's the acting equivalent of a rock. Mainland Chinese audiences think she's one of the worst actresses, while Wuxia writer Louis Cha said something along the lines of "She's pretty, but because she's so deathly afraid of being ugly, she wouldn't dare make a facial expression" when one of his novels was being adapted into live-action and she was cast in it.
So she would have fit if Mulan was... Y'know, just your bog-standard demure Chinese housewife?
@Proud Biscuit Eater cmon, zhao wei is too old to be a mulan
Basically, Disney didn't even want to put in the effort to cast a decent actress. They just picked whatever Chinese actress they could find and didn't consider her acting skill. Apparently in China they rate Liu Yifei as one of the worst actresses in the country.
The movie is far way shittier than Filmento had the guts to say. He is probably too afraid and also because he loves stale moral clichés that he likes to classify as "character development", instead of pseudo-intellectual garbage.
I looked at her facial expression(or lack thereof) and I immediately thought of Kristen Stewart. 😂
Commander Shang in the original: "I'm only not killing you because your actions left me with a debt that requires me to let you live or suffer extreme dishonor, instead, I'll leave you without warm clothes on a snowy mountain, alone, as that is all the mercy I can give you after making a fool out of us all."
Commander in the remake: "Lol whatever, guess it's fine. You'll lead our march."
He's main reason to let her live was because she'd just saved his life hence why he says "A life for a life, My Debt is repaid"
Disney:we are for exclusivity and against racism
Also disney:filmed movie in concentration camp.
Exactly. Hard to support such a morally bankrupt company.
Consider, Disney has openly said, "we're not sure if we can continue filming in Georgia" based on the frequent lies told by the Biden Administration about the new law. Yet they saw no problem whatsoever filming next to an actual slave camp.
Yikes.
The original Mulan is a masterpiece.
Mulan 2020 is an insult and a disaster.
Thos movie is an insult to both the animated movie and the original poem this was supposed to be based upon
@LTNetjak The original Mulan was an epic story about an ordinary person who did something extraordinary: Save the country of China. And in the end, she brings honor not just her country and family, but to herself, vindicating her self-worth. Also, along the way, she meets friends and overcomes obstacles which make her stronger in the process.
Also, Mushu is awesome and Eddie Murphy is a treasure.
The remake basically strip all that away to tell a retelling that will be forgotten in a few days.
@LTNetjak exactly. The original is neatly written and ince the start shows Mulan's strenghts: from the chickens scene to she trying to fix the matchmaker disaster on the fly we know Mulan is a witty and dynamic character and she keep it like this until the very end but with the difference that not only she accepts it as qualities and not flaws but the people around her also do. One of my favorite parts in the palace battle is when her squad put the fabrics around the poles to climb exactly like she did at the camp, a quick callback very effective in showing how her impact goes beyond just "being a warrior, bringing honor".
Precisely, Mulan was always a role model to me, as she showed me that girls could be anything that they put their mind to, and not what mainstream society plans for them to be. This movie seems to preach, "Yes, you can succeed, but only if you have incredible superpowers!" 🤦🏻♀️
All of the remakes are insults! None of them have even come close to the originals!
Having been born & raised in Hawaii, I’m honestly SCARED to see how they’re gonna ruin ‘Lilo & Stitch’! I’m sure Lilo is gonna end up being a little white girl, instead of a brown skinned Hawaiian girl or mixed local girl like in the cartoon, & I’m almost positive Stitch is gonna be an utter monstrosity!
Your "meh" review is basically the highest rating for this movie on youtube.
Filmento forgot about the magical qi powers that erased most of the original story and dropped this from "meh" to "puke."
yeah that just nice version... what i think... cheap chinese moive with abit of big budget set.. which will be reused in other chinese movie... so what am i looking at?
@Oxnate honestly the Qi powers would be a good addition if everyone had some level of it. Like not even to the same amount as Mulan so that the protagonist can still remain special, but enough that everyone can easily do crazy martial arts. This film goes crazy on certain scenes like flip kicking an arrow, but since only a handful of people can actually do this stuff it gets wasted a lot of the time, and we just get generic action in it place.
If you want an amazing example of how to do this look at Into the Badlands. That show goes crazy with its martial arts to the point of ridiculousness, but since almost everyone can do these things not only does it ground the show a bit more, it allows them to fantastical fight scenes without it feeling like whiplash when people just start running up a wall.
Sean Chandler liked the movie.
@@campkira cheap chinese movie is better than this. dont fool yourself.
The reason the original Mulan works for me while this one doesn’t, is the animated Mulan feels like she has a personality, she doesn’t just already have a skill she genuinely has to work for it, the pay off of Mulan becoming a great warrior is amazing because we watch her grow and become strong as a normal person
The movie already failed when they didn't include the "Man out of you" song.
Lol. Heard it was sexist. 🤣🤣🤣🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
@@moyaleeful bruh 🤣💀💀💀💀
@@moyaleefulThere's a reason why context is important.
SPOILER: bad guy catches arrow while on a horse running full speed. Same Bad guy at the end sitting still suddenly can’t catch arrow and dies- Disappointing how many times the movie sets up rules then breaks them.
Dang Swoozie, it's a real problem if they got you going in on this movie too. Lol
The bad guy not catching that arrow could have something to do with falling 50 feet and shattering his back and a huge piece of lumber falling on him and shattering his ribs (is there anything not broken?)
when are we getting another video my guy?
He was distracted by the power of vagina.
@@moobiemaykker9639 yea no cuz he's still capable of shooting the arrow to the king (and almost got him but the king caught the arrow) before mulan strikes it back on him, which shows how much it doesn't make sense :')
Disney: We need Mulan to be more realistic.
Also Disney: *”BRING OUT THE FLYING HAWK WITCH!!!!”*
lololololol dedddddd
Not to mention the bs fighting moves like as if it's the matrix
Genuine question: Is that (and mulan having magic power) part of the original tale?
@@syrozzz No, she had Mushu to help her.
You should watch the pitch meeting for mulan. He makes a similar joke about getting rid of the talking dragon to make it more realistic, then proceeds to start talking about the witch
Old Mulan: Mushu bites a guy to get all the men out of the water.
New Mulan: go away
Guy: leaves
Fun Fact: My brother and my Cousins both said that this Movie is better than the original.
When they said that I just lost my faith
in humanity.
“Meh” is too much praise for this movie.
Every single aspect of this movie is worse than the original, even the FEMINIST part was better on the original, and it was so smart and perfectly merged to the plot, but because you have to THINK to understand why the first one is empowering, it had to be changed.
No kidding this is the first review I've seen that doesn't feel like it wants to see this movie burn in the depths of hell
@@tintinabello He just reviewed Gods of Egypt
@@Naxtor72 hmm I was trying to say it's the first *Mulan* review that doesn't feel too negative. My bad, lol
@@tintinabello That's what I mean, Gods broke him so much that Mulan seems good now.
Mulan gives the only message that being a regular person sucks. You have to be "The" chosen one who can do any things without even having any Special powers.
It's 3 female protagonists already that they infused with this sort of "chosen one" bullshit. Compared to Cap Marvel and Mulan, Rey is slightly better, but still 100% following this weird concept thanks to the last movie.
Apparently Disney REALLY wants all of us women to know that if we're not born special and perfect, we're worthless and hard work means nothing if your genes aren't already god-like lol
@@DeadKraken no one fights like Gaston,
Lol why would you want to be regular?? God is way better
Dumby
@@DeadKraken nerd
Man, they MURDERED Mulan's character arc in this. Because for some reason, they felt they had to make her a strong female protagonist in a different way than the original, they overshot the mark completely and made her completely flawless from the beginning. So she can't HAVE a character arc anymore. You can make strong females that are flawed, disney!
You know the Kitchen theme gives me a great idea, a movie about a woman who actually wants to be a great chef but is told her whole life she should never go in the kitchen because she needs to be an astronaut, but she's drawn to the kitchen and is forced by circumstances to make some amazing meals and realizes she has a talent and then... well so on and so forth...
1998: "be a man"
2020: "lol just have superpowers 4Head"
Ur profile fits perfectly. Crying, laughing and angry at the same time
no superpower no fuck
No Struggle = No Character
No Character = No Arc
No Arc = No Story
No Story = *NO MOVIE*
In the original, she struggled to try and save her father and become a warrior - in 'this'...she is born with special powers and therefore does not have to do any work at all to save her father, other than just turn up and be awesome.
Who wrote this? A liberal arts major drop out?
I think that's exactly who wrote this
Four people wrote the script for this
@@breannaperkins88 they had hands?
If you take a look at Chinese webnovels, you will see how well special powered and reincarnated characters can be written when done competently. Mulan is just checklist writing done by a committee.
Couldn't say it any better. The critical thinkers video absolutely destroys it. Mulan is literally Rey
Flimento: Mulan is the first big budget movie to go to streaming
Atrimis Fowl: Am I a Joke to You?
Flimento: Yes
It's still is.
I'm glad I read the whole thing. Because yes, yes it was. And not even a good joke either.
Look how they massacred my boy
Didn't the Lion King come out on streaming?
WOW DISNEY IS BOLD. They had Ming-Na Wen (the original voice actress for Mulan) to basically "lead" this new Mulan to the Emperor/audience and basically "make way" for her. The AUDACITY! At 5:00
Disney: "Women should be free to be whoever they choose to be!"
Uyghur woman in China: *has independent thought
Disney and CCP: "No, not you."
@@razorultra9202 u must be stupid
@@razorultra9202 Ughyur are a race of people in China who are being put into concentration camps by the Chinese government to give up their culture and lifestyle. Basically the concentration camps are "teaching" them how to be CCP approved Chinese citizen. Children are being separated from parents to be raised separately so that they forget their cultures and traditions and women are forced to abort their children.
Sick stuff by the communist party of China. And Disney filmed part of Mulan in those concentration camps area.
@@Monica-sf5eq What a great way of educating people. If only we had more teachers like you.
@@razorultra9202 A Turkic ethnic group that live mainly in Xinjiang. They are Muslim and share common ancestry with other Turkic speaking people. Dilraba Dumurat, Gul Nazar, Madina Memet are some famous Chinese actress of Uyghur descent. The Uyghur people varies in looks do to their mixing with the Tocharian an indo-european people. Uyghur once follow Tengrism the ancient religion of both Mongols and turks, later buddhism and during the 10th century when Islam arrive in China. The Uyghur adopted the religion. They were vital part in the Mongol empire. The ancient Mongol script was adopted from the ancient Uyghur script. The Uyghur also serve in the Tang dynasty but later defected to side with the Arabs in the battle of Talas.
Uyghur - correct
Ughyur - incorrect
Disney Before: We made your childhood
Disney Now: We destroy your childhood
The end of a cycle
Hipefully they just destroy it to make space for new childhood :D
You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain
I can't belive I saw the whole damn thing with my own eyes... It hurts y'all... It really hurts
@@huehoualee4730 Disney Plus ???
Adding to my previous comment, having just seen what I commented on this video, my fiance just added this little gem:
"I genuinely feel sorry for any woman that needs Disney to tell them they can be a real person."
There you have it folks.
There’s only one “Chosen One” Story I like and that’s Anakin Skywalker’s story.
I don’t like chosen one plots much because it conflicts with the concept of free-will as the main problem but I do like Anakin’s Chosen one story a bit more than the others because of how sick and twisted it is compared to everything else. It’s an INVERSION of the trope. Anakin is fated to kill off all the Sith and bring balance to the force but in order for him to do that, he himself has to become a Sith and kill himself along side palpatine.
It’s not just that he has to kill Sidious, he has to kill himself as well because he is the ultimate villain and hero of the story in a crazy fucked up way.
I like that because it’s so twisted, morbid, and something you would never expect for the main character whose “supposed” to be a hero but has to deliberately fall from grace to make it happen but it’s fascinating because of it.
Most chosen one plots have a happy ending with the hero doing something great and heroic, gets the girl, get married, and live a happily ever after, but for Anakin, he has to be desperate enough to become evil, lose everything he loves and become depressed, become a genocidal tyrant who has all the power he wants in the galaxy but nothing he needs, and do a whole a bunch of evil actions like mass murder instill the right moment for him to complete the prophecy where he and his master has to die by killing himself and sidious.
Imagine a prophecy where you have to kill yourself after doing evil things at the right time to be claimed the hero?
That’s crazy to me and I love it for it.
I really like dark and twisted versions of things
There is a lot objectively wrong here
and people pointed out that that the Film-Making
is beneath Amateur-Level. Things like Camera-Use
and many whole 'fields' of technic-stuff. I'm sorry, but this time i have to call
out this CZcamsr to be quite uninformed
and uneducated about this.
@@slevinchannel7589 LMAO All your doing is harassing filmento in his channel with your stupid insecure comments.
I'll take that Anakin example one step further: the prophecy said he would restore balance to the Force. Not destroy the Sith, not lead the Jedi to victory. Restore balance.
Now, I don't believe that the Jedi have to be destroyed for there to be balance -- nor do I think they have to be counterbalanced by the Sith, locked in this twisted cycle of mutual destruction. But. I do think that the Jedi Order had fallen out of balance, and that Anakin's destroying (and therefore restarting) it was also part of the prophecy. The Jedi were just so sure they were the good guys they never took a closer look at how that prophecy might play out for them.
The most powerful witch, able to transform into a bird, has the ability to shape shift, hypnotism, impeccable combat skills.
*Dies from one arrow*
Filmento just overlooked a bunch of stuff.
Yeah, he's critically and criticized it overall, but
he comes to the wrong conclusion and
makes objectively wrong claims that its
a Movie 'good enough' and that theres actually nothing wrong with it.
Thats wrong though?
Theres a lot objectively wrong here
and people pointed out that that the Film-Making
is beneath Amateur-Level. Things like Camera-Use
and many whole 'fields' of technic-stuff.
I'm sorry, but this time i have to call
out this CZcamsr to be quite uninformed
and uneducated about this.
@@slevinchannel7589 I kinda agree with you on this one. This movie is already bad but add the fact that this is filmed next to a concentration camp, it makes it worse
to be fair she was a bird in that form
Should have turned into bats.
To be fair, that doesn't grant durability; don't forget Achilles was one of the greatest warriors and died from an arrow to the heel.
Something I adore about the animated film: it is unapologetically a tale about a daughters love for her father. It's not about "girl power", Mulan actually grows as an individual. She was incompetent as a bachelorette and she was incompetent as a soldier too, but she knew she had to push through. She didn't do things because she's so stunning and brave, she literally felt that her old fathers life is more important than hers stemming from her belief that she is a failure.
Her father wakes up KNOWING she is going to be killed and he realized that his behavior was rash. When he sees his daughter again he is over the moon happy for her return. He realizes that "honor" is SECOND to his family, not first. We can see that because he starts of putting honor first.
So we have a beautiful subtextual tale of a daughter and fathers love for each other witch is then thrown away in favor of girl power. Very underwhelming way to reimagine the tale is what 2020 Mulan has been
Something I personally really like about the original is that it explores gender struggles very tastefully. As a guy, there are elements that spoke to me as well. It didn't only highlight the absurdly restricting societal expectations put on women, but also men. The fact that even an old an limping man felt the need to prove his manhood through fighting (or rather dying) for his country, highlights societal expectations put on men. To me, the way men, who have been trying to act tough so far, had to disguise as very feminine women at the end to infiltrate the palace, is also a subtle jab at ideals of manhood. Ultimately, it had a lot more than "girl power" going on, which made the story more relatable. And the parts that are "girl power" are completely earned and not bestowed onto her due to magic.
A young woman who loves and respects the most important man in her life?
Oh my God, the internalised misogyny!!
Mickey the Maniac I like the eloquence if you’re assessment. It’s true that men are exclusively expected to serve and go to war for their country. It’s true that both sexes have faced different hardships that culminate in instances where obviously too old and too injured for war father is expected to enlist and the daughter is expected to be a good wife.
I like that it isn’t overt “girl power” as in the whole women can do anything nonsense that is the only thing producers feel they can allow a woman character to have. You’re right, her strength is earned. It’s an amazing film because it’s earned, almost everyone relates to making sacrifices to make a goal happen. That’s visceral and human. No one can relate to “girl power” because it’s just a platitude. There’s nothing earned and nothing gained and a huge meh to watch in a movie
Goth Mog your comment is as sad as it is witty. I hope in my lifetime I can see (good) men and fathers celebrated and beloved the way they should.
@@queenofsiam1183 thank you, my lady, and that wish is mutual.
As a survivor of an intensely toxic family full of abusive, violent and manipulative women and simping men, and the son of a mostly decent man, I love seeing good fathers in stories. The "evil abusive dad" is one of the most infuriating and overused cliches in fiction, to my chagrin.
I cried way too much for my age when watching the third how to train your dragon movie, got me right in the feels with that ending...
holy crap that comparison at 15:10 to 15:33 is gold. The animation is way more epic. The music; the long, panning shot of the massive army, their roars are more powerful even from a greater distance, the angles used are so much more dynamic. what the frig! wow! good call with that one.
And then note that it's Mulan's actions that cause the avalanche in the original compared to the other soldier's actions that cause the avalanche in the remake.
Still hate how she took off her armor she can still be a strong woman and wear armor at the same time
Her long flowing hair looks oh so pretty. And it makes a great handle for the opponent in a fight! Functional and beautiful~✨✨
Why would she need it when she has the best armor of all time? Plot Armor!
Anna Banana ahhhh beat me to it
everyone knows the only effective armour is the metal bra
Ironic since it's exactly the wrappings she used to bind her breasts that literally saved her from a shuriken by acting as armor.
The movie itself shows a scene where her pretending to be male flatout saved her life and then immediately plays it off as a bad thing.
"average", "meh", "adequate"
This is the highest praise I've heard for this film so far.
The equivalent of your woman telling you that your idea for a day out is -fine-... Alarm bells immediately go off. You do NOT want your 200 million dollar baby qualified as "adequate", lol.
Reminds me of the time they said Captain Marvel was an average, by the numbers Marvel action movie and that's a triumph somehow.
Lolno.
calling a movie "meh" is a far worse punishment in the long run. a really, REALLY BAD movie may be remembered as a telltale of how to not make a movie, or stays in our mind as a "it's so bad it'a good" movie.
a "meh" movie will just be forgotten and if you ask me, this thing deserves to be forgotten, while bringing down those production money down with it.
yeah that just nice version... what i think... cheap chinese moive with abit of big budget set.. which will be reused in other chinese movie... so what am i looking at?
But it's actually true. It truly is a 'meh'. But everyone treats it like the frickin resurrection of Adolf Hitler.
I am still confused, the catapult can aim perfectly at the soldiers, however when aiming at Mulan it missed by a mile. She even get to looked at the fiery rock flying far far over her like a meteor.
10:04 "this is actually a problem that wasn't explored in the original movie" cuz she wasn't constantly trying to hide her entire body from them the whole time, and not only that but they actually did the shower scene, where one of the guys did a cannonball right next to mulan
Yeah, his point was that the live action movie had a chance to explore something new. But didn't.
"Overall Mulan does come off as a very competent film"
Hoo boy did we even watch the same movie? The writing, editing, and acting was anything but "competent"
Yea... he really took it easy. The movie was bs, and he says that the witch character was good, but it’s stupid. She gives her life because she is so blindly stupid I mean imagine killing ur self because a girl was in the army. Omg. So epic. Also she turns into a bird, except she can also turn into hundreds (why didn’t she just do that and use one of her birds to take the arrow?) and she has supa powas because she has big boi chi. Very epic.
@@drixcek9782 The best part is that she THREATENED the villain in a previous scene, mentioning she could kill him before he could even begin to react.
Apparently she couldn't do that to stop the guy from firing a normal bow.
God this movie was one of the most incompetent movies I've ever seen , the story clearly contradicts itself , the acting is distractingly bad , the CG and lighting is Last Airbender bad in spots , the editing is jarring and the movie comes off as if it was written by a angry teen girl
@@AzureRoxe they also show before the bow scene that mulan basically can avoid being hit by arrows with ease ... All the sudden she can't lmao
I don't blame the actors whatsoever. It's all the clowns behind the scenes who made this movie a disaster.
*There is no 2020 Mulan Movie in Ba Sing Se*
Here we are _safe,_ here we are _free_
Duchi
But then the Fire Nation attacked
Ha....good one.
The Lion King (2019) got in.
@@segastars9802 then its now called Na Sing Se
Yeah, otherwise they'd call it Nah Sing Se.
"Meh" would imply that there is anything at all good about it. There is not a single thing that Mulan gets right. The story was screwed up, the editing is all over the place, none of the characters were memorable and the agenda was pushed so much into the viewer's face, it's fused with their sinuses. Plus the main lead is as horrible an actor as she is a person.
There is literally zero character development in 2020 Mulan. She doesn’t have to struggle to achieve her goals, she doesn’t have to work hard to become a good fighter. She already has flawless skills thanks to conveniently having magical powers that allow her to kick all the butt she wants with zero effort or struggle. She starts at point A and ends at point A. She also has no personality to speak of besides her powers. You could cast a magical cardboard box in her place and you would get the same viewing experience.
The 1998 Mulan will always be one of my favorite Disney characters ever. She was interesting, likeable, and had funny/awkward moments. She started out at a significant disadvantage compared to the men in camp, and there were several moments of failure before she worked her way to success. One of the most inspiring parts of the movie is when you see her sitting on the top of the pole as the sun rises, because you’ve just seen how much she struggled previously and how much work she had to put in to prove herself.
So basically, take away everything good from the 1998 version and you get this movie. “Meh” is probably being generous.
Disney to Mulan:
"Somehow I'll
Make a mess
Out of youuuuu"
@RICHEL 18 [f.u.с.к мe] ТАР 0N МY РIC if yall have a problem with Richel pls do just press report rather than making loads of replies. Ty
Haha
Let's get down to business! To destroy Mulan!
Make a Chinese Jedi to defeat the Khan!
It's the worst remake I've witnessed yet, and you can bet before it's through
You'll have found Disney's new Mary Sue!
Yet another story of a Chosen One.
Uninspired and boring. Not an ounce of fun.
Actors thanking concentration camps, giving praise where it's not due
I don't like Disney's new Mary Sue!
- Tonberry Queen
Thats is what my ex girlfriensd said to me too
@@Grubnar underrated as fuck
Rey: “I’m the best Mary Sue!”
Mulan: “Hold my Chi!”
I'll give Daisy Ridley this: She had expression and could emote and tried her best with what she was given.
The actress who played Mulan was just staring blank face the entire film. Her delivery was also very flat.
At least Rey was pretty likable and Daisy Ridley is a good actress. This is just bad all across the board.
No Rey is still the biggest Mary Sue.
@@aguywithalotofopinions412 I disagree with the "likeable" part, but yeah.
With Rey and especially Daisy there was an attempt.
Goku is the best Mary Sue, don't @ me
Disney: makes another unnecessary remake as a cash grab
Me: "they can't keep getting away with this!!... they can't keep getting away!!
...
There is a lot objectively wrong here
and people pointed out that that the Film-Making
is beneath Amateur-Level. Things like Camera-Use
and many whole 'fields' of technic-stuff.
I'm sorry, but this time i have to call
out this CZcamsr to be quite uninformed
and uneducated about this...
You must’ve forgotten that one really long scene in the original where Mulan was taking a bath in a lake and trying to avoid being seen by her soldier freinds while naked.
yop he sure did
I predicted the witch story and her sacrificing herself after the first trailer, no joke. Should have screencapped my post. Its so Disney it hurts. Also, you see, even not explaining why they didn't like women led to the movie getting banned in China, so well, Disney tried to cash in but failed.
@@VeritasOmniaVincit176 lmao
@@VeritasOmniaVincit176 The extras of the movie were taken from Chinese Concentration Camps, and Disney thanked them publicly so it drew the world's attention to China's concentration camps that are doing re-education, sterilization, etc. So China went and basically banned all talk about the movie and the details surrounding it.
D R oh, you better bring all of your wrinkled and huddled masses... of clothes... because there is going to be a _LOT_ of irony.
@@TankHunter678 really?! Where did you find this info?
@@user-jo9pm8fd8g Here's the original article from Reuters covering it: www.reuters.com/article/us-film-mulan-china-exclusive/exclusive-china-bars-media-coverage-of-disneys-mulan-after-xinjiang-backlash-sources-idUSKBN2611FP
"can we be friends?"
Mulan: "I'm not your friend. Leave me alone."
*Understandable have a great day*
To be fair I would assume my fellow comrade want some quick wang in the lake, so I would be empathic to and just go..........
Filip Malý If that was the excuse Mulan used in that scene this movie would be slightly more enjoyable.
I weirdly wanted the actors to speak Mandarin
Filmento just overlooked a bunch of stuff.
Yeah, he's critically and criticized it overall, but
he comes to the wrong conclusion and
makes objectively wrong claims that its
a Movie 'good enough' and that theres actually nothing wrong with it.
Thats wrong though?
There is a lot objectively wrong here
and people pointed out that that the Film-Making
is beneath Amateur-Level. Things like Camera-Use
and many whole 'fields' of technic-stuff.
I'm sorry, but this time i have to call
out this CZcamsr to be quite uninformed
and uneducated about this.
im learning so much about story telling/writing, keep going!!
and thanks for these amazing videos!!!
They have reversed most of the values and ideas the original Mulan depicted:
- comradeship has been replaced, current Mulan is just an IndEpEndent, StrOnK and BrAvE wOmaN
- her strongest trait was her brain and she always outsmarted her opponents, she was physically the weakest of the band (and it's alright, it's called a FLAW), not a goddess with super cheat powers
- she struggled during the various exercises given during the training, not in this movie since again she's flawless and invincible
I have only those in mind because the last time I watched the original movie was many years ago, but I'm confident that we can find many more. Anyways, it's way too kind to call it "Meh", it is objectively one of the worst remakes ever made by humanity! AND WHERE IS MUSHU?
@@diegogatjens3023 A movie about the origin story of Mushu would be neat.
Yeah, they basically made that beautifully flawed, human character into a generic Mary Sue
I mean as soon as I realised Mushu was that god damn Phoenix that followed her sometimes I hated the movie even more also the cricket ffs
@@obukohwoogheneakpobo3011 Couldn't they at least kept it a dragon?
I would've loved the movie a bit more to listen to Eddie Murphy again.
1998: I'll make a man out of you.
2020: I'll take 30 bucks out of you.
8:20 freaking love the exposition
the ending of how to train your dragon 3 left me crying in the shower for 2 hours.
The main problem with all these so called "Women empowerment" movies is that their message is not the a woman can be anything, its that a woman can be everything. A woman can be the smartest, fastest, strongest and basically perfect in every way usually just because she is a woman. She doesn't have to train, she doesn't have to study, she has no flaws, unless that flaw is like this Mulan in that she isn't showing how great she really is, and everyone else around her is just there to clap and be in awe of her. That's not only a wrong message to send its actually a very dangerous one.
hello every movie ever from now on
Hence why every one of these movies has a Mary Sue main character.
Honestly? YES. Good point-it puts a really high standard of “you are only a good example of a woman IF you are perfect, and flawless.”
Too much pressure LOL. Give me female protagonists who means well and works hard but fails in so many ways.
So.. basically she's Jesus 😅
It's also sad that their idea of an empowered woman is one that beats men at being men, essentially saying that the only way a woman can be empowered is by trying to be like a man , as if men are superior. Seems like veiled mysoginy
The more I've seen of Disney, the more I'm convinced that the South Park portrayal of Disney execs is the most accurate.
The House of Mouse always wins.
Comedy is based in truth to an extent...
I knew mickey wasnt just a mascott!
Disney: we are kid friendly
Also disney: 8:25
I was expecting your analysis of this movie, awesome!
10:03 except the “shower scene” concept WAS explored in the original film. There was a scene where all the guys were bathing and told Mulan to join them, not knowing her true gender.
I was going to write that.
"There's a couple things I know they're bound to notice." - Mushu
i was hesitant to see this already due to the actors vs HK protests thing, so i did what everyone would do and pirated the film
this was the first time i thanked covid for derailing this sht show of a movie
lol did the same. I was already pretty mad about the issues surrounding the making of the film, and pirated it to see how bad it was.
@@7thTreasure It's like watching a trainwreck. A boring trainwreck.
Pros and cons of pirating Mulan 2020
Save yourself $30 ✔
Dont support movie where the cast and directors don't support Hong Kong, yet support Muslim 're-education' camps ✔
Have a hell of a time laughing at what corporate Disney thinks passes for worthy cinema ✔
No khans
@@frostyflames7864 definitely no cons at all.
@Francis Clark also replacing Mushu the dragon and Removing the pet Cricket... And like so much removed and not much adding especially Shang the general , the one that sang I'll make a man out of you ... Like goddamn .... WHY ?!??!
seeing how u diss all the movies with such persuasive facts is really satisfying. I cant even say no because it really does make sense
Mulan looks like a Chinese movie dubbed into English
Exactly. Their voices are so stiff.
@@sgcl10658
There is a lot objectively wrong here
and people pointed out that that the Film-Making
is beneath Amateur-Level. Things like Camera-Use
and many whole 'fields' of technic-stuff... I'm sorry, but this time i have to call
out this CZcamsr to be quite uninformed
and uneducated about this.
"Her whole life the witch was rejected because she cast spells and cursed families and drank baby blood." (So unfair!)
Yeah who would have thought "being yourself" has concequences
Not to mention the fact she just has practical superpowers really undermines her character arc her original counterpart dealt with by eventually becoming better at fighting through practice and training.
This is off-topic, but I like your username lol
honestly, that username makes me proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free
Every Disney Princess has to have superpowers now. Because being normal is for suckers.
Same thing with Star Wars. What is this bizarre backwards understanding of how to write a power fantasy character? These are the type of stuff reserved for fanfics, not big budget movies. Do they honestly not understand how to write a relatable but strong power fantasy lead? It is extremely puzzling. Ironically, these movies appear more sexist to me, because it tells me that the people in charge are unable to sympathize with a woman in any way. That's the only explanation I have for such big budget movies to have unrelatable main leads.
@@Mick0Mania The New Message of female empowerment is: "If you're one of 2 super powered women, you're golden and can do everything! If you're not, you're Mulan's little sister (original ballad: Older Sister, Younger Brother) and should be happy if you get married and have children!"
You can have awesome OP characters, but they have to be written well. They still need to have stuff they struggle with, or are in massive internal Turmoil, or having major side characters that do that.
One Punch Man.
Hellsing's Alucard, the self admitted monster and just so damn charismatic.
Warhammer's Gotrek from the Gotrek and Felix series,,,
This reminds me of why I could enjoy the Broadway play for Lion King. I'd already seen the movie so even though the play was pretty and all of that, I always knew what was around the corner
There is a lot objectively wrong here
and people pointed out that that the Film-Making
is beneath Amateur-Level.
I'm sorry, but this time i have to call
out this CZcamsr to be quite uninformed
and uneducated about this.
Man that back and forth between the “bad guys charge down the mountain” scenes feels like the only point that needs to be made in order to show that this remake missed the mark... I mean there are definitely more but that one feels like the quickest and easiest
...
There is a lot objectively wrong here
and people pointed out that that the Film-Making
is beneath Amateur-Level. Things like Camera-Use
and many whole 'fields' of technic-stuff...
I'm sorry, but this time i have to call
out this CZcamsr to be quite uninformed
and uneducated about this.
@@slevinchannel7589 Filmento is a writer, he focuses on STORY elements. Not camera technical stuff. If you want a review of that, go see a different channel. Like point out what is wrong with Filmento's criticism with STORY. You shouldn't care about the fact that he doesn't point out camera flaws or whatever because that's not what the video is about. That's like criticizing a romance movie for not having any action.
The range of expressions in her face is really astonishing...
A truly competitor between captain Marvel and Kristen Stewart.
why disney... WHYYYY? what is this trend of pseudo-stoic inexpresive ladies?
is because a happy woman is sexy or something?
why a jolly woman is a sin nowadays?
At least she had more meotion
They have this new thing called "chi" the more you have of it the stronger you are, mulan has a lot of it, why? Because we need a bs Deus ex machina/mcguffin that gives the mc a justification for being better than every other man despite being a woman. The original mulan was inferior to the other men, in the beginning, but over time she grew smarter stronger alongside her felow soliders gaining there respect and giving the viewers emotional atachment to them. But this mulan has none of the original because her achivements dont feel earned
Exactly. I am disappointed this wasn't mentioned in the video. Once you give the protagonist magical powers, it becomes much less interesting watching to see if she will fail or succeed when confronted with challenging tasks.
@@jrd33 Right? Even Harry Potter would have died without his friends and he was the Chosen One.
@@misspriss2482 Rowling made the smart choice of making Harry Potter not all that good at magic, at least most of the time. He had to use his wits and rely on his friends because he couldn't solve all his problems just by being the world's most powerful wizard.
They basically swap the Force out and replace it with Chi lol
It goes deeper than that. The original Mulan wasn't even that much worse than the men. The men thought they were better and pushed Mulan around, but they were just as weak and incompetent. Mulan's success gave them a wake up call and taught them humility. Only then could they work to improve themselves.
Your editing is absolutely hilarious. I was watching this on my Xbox but I had to come to my phone to comment
This is honestly the nicest and "least" accurate reviews ive seen on CZcams. I say least because this video says it's mediocre when it's abominable and I'm shocked you haven't destroyed it
This was another boring and soulless Disney remake of a great animated film. Who could had foreseen this??
Yeah, same as Lion King or The Beast and The Beauty.
Come on, the trailer for Mulan was good '-', at least it gave me some hype to see the movie.
Now, except Lion King, they did well in other remakes. Aladdin was very enjoyable. The Beauty And The Beast were a ctrl+c ctrl+v from the original, so it could only be good. And Mogli wasn't that bad...
I actually thought beauty and the beast was ok
they all just fucking bell.. in differnt verisoin.. more star war..
It’s not a remake of the animated film, it’s a remake of the poem that inspired the animated film
Disney: Ruins another franchise by remaking it
Fans: How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?
I mean fans still make them money because they watch the new remakes. The lion king remake made 1.6b...
@@arnold3768 Yeah they watch it with the hope that is good. Money also comes from more mainstream audiences and not particularly from Disney fans. They are basing their profits on nostalgia. The reception after the movie is out is almost always negative.
@@kriskappakeepo3991 ikr, that's the biggest problem here. As long as it's profitable, these remakes will keep going :D
@@arnold3768 We need to boycott them, at least until they start making some changes.
@@kriskappakeepo3991 absolutely. I personally stopped caring about Disney releases a long time ago, except when it comes to mcu films xd. I now have lots of cool anime to watch instead.
sorry to bust your bubble, but the answer tot he question: "why were there hystoricaly (nearly) no female warriors?" is easely answered:
1) Women can get pregnant. This is important for the survival of the tribe, city state, country,... And so are too VALUABLE to risk on the field of battle.
2) women can get pregnant and are thereafter for 3-6 months unable to fight as efficiently
3) women are, on average, less fysical capable (strenght, reactionspeed,....) as men.
Do i need to continue?
Granted there are always exceptions and i don't mean to say women can't fight, just that in history, most rules didn't see the use or didn't want to take the risk.
Bruh, you know these "female empowerment" movies don't use facts and logic.
Thank you! Thats exactly the point. A village could have 90% of their male population die and still bounce back up in a couple generations. If 90% of females died, then they were wiped out.
Women have been extremely precious throughout history, and thats partly why they’ve been kept away from conflict and competitive environments from the world. Things only changed because our society has evolved so much there’s ways to circumvent this dangers now. Its not sexism.
@@Jefstito Glad to know not alone in this.
Yeah genius, THAT should be established in the bloody movie. When I see a movie, I don't research ancient China, no matter how obvious it is
There are also arbitrary cultural norms and laws though. Feet binding in order to achieve tiny feet -- said to be desirable but in actuality arbitrary and grotesque. In Japan, people who were tanners and butchers were considered to be foul and impure. They were stigmatized and came to comprise their own social caste apart from the rest of society, the Eta. To be around Eta was disgusting and one needed to bathe afterward.
I don't agree that being breeding slaves was a main reason for women not fighting, though. Civilized societies like China and late medieval Europe existed in a state of Malthusian population dynamics. Their populations would be pressed up against the carrying capacity of the land so that, on net, no additions to the population could be made. Many of the lower class peoples were impoverished and starving as a matter of course. It was unavoidable.
Far from causing women to be valued HIGHLY, these dynamics had the opposite effect. Women were regarded as having low value, as their breeding ability was of less use than the industrial capacity of Man. In China, the boat people, who spent their whole lives on boats because they were so poor, would tether their boy children to the boats so as not to lose them, but they would not tether the girls. The girls were worthless. A liability. They would not earn as much as boys, and earning capacity outweighed breeding potential.
That women get pregnant is definitely a reason why they tended to be dissuaded from many skilled professions. People won't want to invest as much in teaching them to do difficult things if there's a high chance they'll get pregnant and put all that tutelage to waste.
Other reasons are that mixed-sex work environments bring up the risk of fraternization, especially if they have to sleep together like in an army camp or the hull of a ship or something. And women just aren't as ambitious as men -- testosterone correlates with ambition. They also have less upper body strength which would be a major handicap in many historical lines of work, as most labor relied on muscle power back then.
7:50
Emperor: Rey shields!
Emperor when betrayed: How did this happen, I'm smarter than this
Are we not gonna talk about how in the original she didn't start as awesome but had to work harder then anyone else to be and in this one well she's just awesome for no reasons
It's like if you showed up to your first session of D&D and the DM was like "Let's go ahead and skip right to level 20 everybody so you can just do fun spells and dope monk shit". The reason leveling up is awesome is because you worked hard, thought creatively, and survived combat with the skills you already had. Working your way up to casting your first fireball as a little squishy wizard is a feeling no man should be allowed to deprive another of.
They just completely lost the point, and it's completely cringy because of it.
No one with a brain is saying this Mulan is awesome. She's lame regardless of how they try to portray her. This shitty feminism crap has to end. Bring back real herione, damn it.
I can not agree that the witch characters was a good addition, as a idea it’s cool, but it the movie she makes no sense why she work with the bad guy when she is way more powerfull?? She can literally change appearance why not make her the bad guy and have a big reveal it was witch all along? Also her “redemption” at the end is almost pathetic
It wouldn't be a modern disney movie if they did it that way
They didn't want to make her the villain because she's a woman, and women can only be victims and heroines nowadays.
ErebosGR I hate like that’s the feminism for corporations like Disney. Also in differenct video about the movie someone mention how this new Mulan supposed to be new feminist icon, yet thos film portreys feminity as something lesser than masculinity Mulan is only badass cause she happend to be born with super powers making her more “masculine’ like strong ect. Because women are only worth being a heroes when the become men. Like in the orginal one she was still tomboyish yet they somehow ballance her feminnin and musculon side (ps. sorry for my english 😂)
@@Karaetify her brains were her greatest strength!
Not only was the witch stronger but the bad guy treats her like shit why is she helping him again??
I believe this is a fantastic, empowering movie and it’s a very charitable action from the studio to put it in its streaming platforms. Since my country doesn’t have Disney+ yet, Mickey kindly accepted my first born child as the payment for a future 48h rent of Mulan + the directors cut of Star Wars 9 where the entire movie is a single shot of an actual mystery box labeled “mystery box”. Eternal gratitude
While a lot of people hate this movie, I thought it was a good film.
Maybe I say all this because I wasn’t born in the time when the original was released, but while I’ve seen that one, this one was still a good watch for me
I'm trying to imagine the lessons this film espouses in an office atmosphere.
"Nah, she doesn't need help. If she can't keep up without help she's obviously not dedicated enough - you either are or you aren't after all. Let's just hire a more dedicated employee."
There is a lot objectively wrong here
and people pointed out that that the Film-Making
is beneath Amateur-Level. Things like Camera-Use
and many whole 'fields' of technic-stuff.
As a woman should I feel inspired by all these movies with an independent strong woman as a lead? Because I'm incredibly bored. The message of those movies are basically "women good men bad". That is not realistic. Reality is more complex than that and people are not black or white. We have our strengths and weaknesses, virtues and flaws, emotions, etc. Both women and men. There is no excuse to have such bland and basic characters
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Good thing for you there's plenty of older movies with female leads that display female empowerment through great story telling.. And they don't feel forced.
I wish Hollywood would realize that they don't need to make their females lead perfect, because no one is perfect guy or women, we all have our faults..
When they make their characters perfect it makes it impossible for us as an audience to empathize with them.
Courage Under Fire is a good movie about a strong woman in a military role traditionally reserved for men.
@@sjbrooksy45 @Александра Шелехова I'll give them a watch! thanks
Your take on this seems also bland and generic. What fails in some movies now it’s not that “women good men bad”, it’s that, in order to showcase female empowerment, they sacrifice proper character development, resorting on making female characters Mary Sues and one dimensional.
the songs? gone
mushu? gone
struggling during training, which shows character flaws but adds a sense of reliability because no one's perfect? gone
a brave girl who uses her wits to outsmart her enemy? not even here.
a shlocky, mediocre fantasy flick that stars a boring mary sue? yep, it's all here. my childhood has been dishonored.
Dishonor on their cow.
That’s because it’s not based on the animated movie, it’s based on the original poem
I'm Sorry for Being Kind that’s why I said based
Not having songs was a plus, tho.
Along with your cow.
There's a dead simple explanation of why movies like that happen so often. When a movie starts with a passionate artist wanting to tell a story, it's not necessary good but it's likely to be unique and therefore entertaining. When a movie starts with a company looking to capitalize on some intellectual property they own, it's going to be very band most of the time.
Had no idea ancient China had fully working showers 🚿 in the barracks.
Disney is basically Shang Tsung from Mortal Kombat. If there's a soul, they'll take it out.
You mean Shang Tsung?
Aldo Meylano Your soul is mine.
@@darekbaird "Your cash and nostalgia are mine!"
Except, after decades, Shang Tsung is still likeable.
It HAS begun!!!!.........,to suck
I find it hilarious that there was no Mushu "for realism", all the while having a WITCH that can morph into multiple animals, and a damn phoenix. Realistic indeed.
That part really bothers did they ever explain why they changed their mind without telling anyone and instead of going realistic they went full on superhero paranormal?
@@diegogatjens3023 skinwalker is a term specific to Navajo so if they do exist it's not in China. And if you believe in witches but not the cutout ancestor spirits idk
@@diegogatjens3023 no dude Skinwalker is a specific Navajo thing they aren't just shapeshifting witches that's one element of what they are and they're personal to the Navajo. It's not a general term a witch that changes shape it's not comparable.
If you take enough drugs, a phoenix, witch, talking dragon etc etc can all become real to you... So I am guessing the writers for this movie took a lot of drugs but not enough to have a real talking dragon...
I dunno
Another thing is dragons in chinese culture are more connected with masculine ideas. So by having a male ancestors in a dragons body not only endorse but actively support her being herself, encouraging her to find creative solutions to her problems for herself would have been a pretty powerful narrative device.
Excellent analysis. Nicely done.
I love your take on this. Really shows it a new angle.
When you said the battle ended in a deus ex machina snowfall, I was ready to say "How dare you! That was not an ex machina, it was mulan's high point in the army, where she uses her wits to save their lives and win an unwinnable fight!"
Then I remembered, it was like that in the original. In this garbage, it was really an ex machina.
This is about the nicest possible way to say that a movie sucks.
This movie sucks.
Anybody who spent $30 on this film got completely robbed of their hard-earned cash. Disney ought to be ashamed of themselves!
Where's YourMovieSucksDotOrg ?
Should have listened to Angry Joe
@Robot Rock real Mulan fans *don't watch this garbagefest at all
very few people paid for this
@@rocketsmall4547 From what I have heard about it, I wouldn't even watch this movie for FREE...
"She's physically unlike everyone else, it's a problem that wasn't explored in the original movie" that's false, there's a whole scene with Mulan bathing naked in the lake and the other soldiers coming in and jumping naked in the water as well.
Was wondering how no one picked that up
Also when the general enters the medical tent and discovers Mulan is a woman and nearly executes her, also when Mulan struggles physically at the beginning and has to try even harder than the other soldiers
@@hareecionelson5875 yeah in the animated movie she does not have super powers, she has cleverness at best so she does have to work harder to be on the level. But nooo let's pretend an everage woman are as strong as an average man.
My headcanon - the witch pretends to die in the end, but in truth she'd actually morphed into the Emperor before Mulan arrived (she can be whole flocks of birds, don't tell me she can't be a hawk and a man at the same time). Mulan saves the "Emperor" and the witch goes on to rule China with a woman as her most famous general. Gradually, Mulan gets closer and closer to the Witch Emperor emotionally, with the witch trying to use Mulan to accomplish her own ends, even as Mulan pushes back and convinces her to do things that are better for the country. Eventually, they fall so in love that the Witch reveals herself to Mulan. Mulan has to grapple with the idea that the Emperor she has been serving so faithfully, the man she's fallen in love with, has actually been the enemy all along. Etc. Etc. and it becomes a sapphic love story for the ages.
Wait, what? A Uyghur Concentration Camp is not a "cool, flashy location"? Since when?
saying east TURKestan is a concentration camp?