The crux of the movie is actually Mushu changing the order Li Shang gets telling them they have to deploy to the front immediately even though that's a terrible idea, because he wants to give Mulan the opportunity for a medal (Thus inadvertently saving China)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
It does confirm that Mulan's fears about her father were exaggerated, like they can't be the only family in this situation and she's been grouped with everyone else who sent someone who was fat or old or otherwise would've been judged unfit to serve in peacetime
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
George Lucas voice: "Mushu really is the key to all this"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
That's also why Li Shang fast tracks Mulan's discharge ("Pack up, go home, you're through"), not because she's that much more unfit than the other fuckups in her class but because Mushu has gotten her caught cheating multiple times
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
One of those things where he's decided it'd be easier to wash her out now than court-martial her at some point down the line
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Disney Mulan wasn't my favorite movie but, I can't believe I'm saying this, I'm kind of sad the new one has no Mushu In the general sense that Mulan seems to now be a supersoldier from the very beginning rather than starting as the loser protagonist of a boot camp comedy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Eh, probably inevitable result of a shift to a conventional heroic drama.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @Nymphomachy and
Ironically this is the complaint in China about the new Mulan, that they *have* plenty of conventional heroic Mulan movies and what they were interested in was the Disney movie version
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Honestly I would have been pretty happy if they just went full Android Karenina and made it a weird steampunk Mulan
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I've mentioned that if you translate the title of "Steel Magnolias" into Chinese it becomes "Iron Mulan" and sounds like some kind of anime
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
I will say, as a straight ashkenazi dude, it is absolutely non negotiable that Captain Shang must be an absolute dish. He needs to be a total hunk, both in-universe and to the audience.
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