What is the main idea of the movie MULAN?
That sexism is ignorant and many women can just as easily, if not better, do the same things that men can do. Like in Mulan, she joined the army disguised as a male because women are not thought to make good fighters. Or maybe it was a cultural issue china has because I remember something about honor? I don't know. Good luck and hope I pushed you in the right direction.
Writing a thesis statement for the movie Mulan.?
Here's one, and something that has always bothered me: Eddie Murphy should not has done the voice for the little dragon. The story takes place in China not Africa. They should have gotten a Chinese person to do it. Come to think of it, Donnie Osmond's voice didn't work too well either for the guy she liked. Or you could just make it about rising above the odds.
Why did Mulan choose Ping as her name in the Disney movie?
Well from watching the movie it seems like she chose it because Mushu suggested "Ling", but as she points out, there's already a guy named Ling, and so she went with something similar.According to the Disney Wiki (Mulan) there's some punny wordplay happening as well, though that's more a script thing than why Mulan herself chose the name."When Mulan masquerades as a man, her name is a pun in Chinese. Her first name is "Ping" (瓶), meaning pot, and her surname (placed first using Chinese naming conventions) means Flower (花). Together they make "Flowerpot", a Chinese term meaning an effeminate man. According to Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches by Maurice Baring, "Ping" in Chinese means soldier-man, and if you wish to express your contempt for a man there is no word in the whole of the Chinese language which expresses it so fully and so emphatically as the word Ping."
In what century or decade is the movie Mulan set it?
Mulan's origins most likely arose as a merger between the Tuoba (Toba) clan of the Xianbei culture and the Han Chinese. The Tuoba, whom originated from the far northeast, managed to conquer and rule northern China during the Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 386-534) despite being vastly outnumbered. Although some of the military aspects of Xianbei culture remained, the new rulers began adopted Chinese customs to maintain control over their subjects. Just as society became a blend of two cultures, Mulan is both a dutiful Chinese daughter and an accomplished soldier. Obviously, the exact time and place in China where Mulan is set in an imaginary dynasty in an imaginary part of China, based on real customs and lands. Artistically, the film is influenced by artwork from the Han and Tang Dynasties. Judging from the technology and costumes, Disney's Mulan would be set much later than the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Question of mulan movie?
Reference made by Mushu- my eyes can see straight through your armor. Mulan knew that meant.why reference to that was made ? And the Huns say how many people does it take to deliver a message ? One then shoots.why,for the pleasure.? And lastly how did Li Shang and the Council Member know mulan was a woman ?after all she was covered in bandage wraps and had no boobs showing or shaped at all so how?
What do Mongolians think of Disney's Mulan?
Hahahaha, I was actually asked this question by one of my roommates when I was in the States. And I answered: “Oh it was a cool cartoon. Why do you ask?”A key piece of information is that up until that point, I never realized that the bad guys were supposed to be the Huns. Now this was very surprising to me, because:Most Mongolians do agree that the Huns were our ancestors. And we like it.You’d notice quickly from our rituals, and the general way people carry themselves around that Mongolians are, by and large, very proud people.Due to historical reasons, children grow up hearing “bad things” about China and its people. Of course you know that children are very impressionable. I grew up that way, and was only able to change my thinking when I was on the outside looking in.When you couple these facts, it becomes very obvious that a Mongolian boy watching a cartoon about his own warrior ancestors getting beat by a Chinese girl should leave some mark in his memory. But no, it wasn’t there.My working theory as to why is that when it was shown on TV here, the translation was somehow wrong. I went around and asked my family, and a few friends about what they remember about Mulan. They all said things along the lines of: “A girl steals her father’s uniform. She defeats the enemies. Oh and there was a dragon.”Notice how they all just say enemies? Yep, they don’t realize the bad guys were the Huns either! Ha, so the answer to your question is that they all think it was a good cartoon because no one realizes it was their own great, great grandpa who was getting toyed around by a Chinese girl.
The Disney movie Mulan is based on a Chinese folk tale, but many of the things portrayed are evocative of Japanese culture. Did Disney miss the mark or is there a significant amount of influence between the two cultures?
Disney didn't miss the mark. Or, if they did, it was intentional.Disney has always been about creating palatable pieces of art for the widest possible audience. In the case of Mulan, this has manifested itself in the form of utilizing aspects of Asian culture from most of the Orient. In this way, little Korean kids can look at the film and say “That's me!” And so can little Vietnamese kids, and little Chinese kids.It's efficient for Disney, and we got a few good jokes out of it, so no harm.As for the influence of the cultures, I am no anthropologist, but these countries that are adjacent to one another, to my knowledge, have at least tangentially similar values and cultures due to cultural osmosis through the millennia.