For everything that was possibly cringey about Old Mulan (Mushu etc) at least it had heart It was an actual quality Disney movie they made for the sake of making a good movie and not just trying to "tap the Chinese market"
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And there was one Asian writer on that screenplay (Rita Hsiao)
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I dunno, I don't think Kung Fu Panda was perfect (it was another all white team) but everyone remembers how it was a surprise huge hit in China At a time when everyone expected a "DreamWorks martial arts cartoon" to be a culturally offensive embarrassing flop
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And the explanation is just that it had heart, they cared It was clearly made by people who'd watched a lot of Hong Kong kung fu movies and knew all the tropes but also had their own, specific story they wanted to tell with them, one they actually cared about
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And it was still very recognizably a "DreamWorks film", with the standard goofy DreamWorks humor, if toned down slightly from something like a Shrek sequel And that's what the Chinese audience responded to - not somehow being fooled it was a Chinese movie
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An American movie made in a genre where America is the market leader - CGI cartoon children's comedies - but one that shows interest in and respect for Chinese culture
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This thing where Disney is trying to incompetently ape everyone else's style of movie to sell their own movies - Aladdin trying to be an ersatz Bollywood dance musical, Mulan trying to be a wuxia epic - is not gonna work out
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They already reached the nadir of this concept with the "live-action Lion King", where they tried to shoot it like an actual nature documentary, in the face of all reason
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This explains a lot.
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I could have SWORN there was a Chinese director attached at some point which was the only thing that gave me non-zero hopes.
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