God the main thing I remember thinking about new Mulan isn't even any of the weird cultural stuff It's just... not a good movie It's so BORING
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Just let the actors act And if you can't, then let them OVERact Cripes for a movie in this genre going too small is absolutely fatal compared to going too big
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I don't even care about the other stuff The most insulting thing to Chinese people about this movie is it portrays Chinese people as unable to act
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It's the whole thing about making Asians into robotic emotionless drones - this ugly stereotype they somehow tumbled headfirst into while trying to be respectful Nobody in this movie has *feelings*, they just have honor
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i'm probably mangling this quote, but somebody asked neon yang what historical research they did for their wuxia novels and they were like, lol, historical research? i based this on the shitty tv shows i watched all morning when i was ten.
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this is maybe a bad program if you're a white dude writing about other cultures (see below), but extremely good and we need more of it if you're nothttps://acoup.blog/2020/12/04/collections-that-dothraki-horde-part-i-barbarian-couture/ …
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