Christ it's so much MORE pro-military than OG Mulan Mulan's dad openly tells her that "qi is only to be wielded by warriors" She has fucking magic superpowers that can only be used for supersoldier action scenes and nothing else It explicitly ends with her staying in the army
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Awful Just fucking awful The original, ancient Ballad of Mulan, for all that it disappoints people looking for a feminist message, didn't buy into that garbage She comes home and she puts her armor away and puts on a dress because, thank the gods, the war is over
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NOT a good look to make a paean to supersoldiers finding that their true destiny is and always has been slaughtering hundreds of people in an orgy of glorious, beautiful violence In cooperation with an authoritarian state *using your film shoot* to justify concentration camps
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It's one of those "holy shit" moments when you watch the cartoon as an adult and you realize the avalanche scene -- the equivalent of Mulan unleashing a WMD, a strategic bombing -- *kills most of the Chinese army too* She's so terrified and out of options she slaughters EVERYONE
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The equivalent of the 1938 Yellow River flood when the Chinese army bombed their own dams and drowned a million of their own people and condemned millions more to starvation that winter by destroying a province's worth of farmland, to stop the Japanese advance
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And the live-action just takes the air out of that completely Mulan starting the avalanche gives her a little cat smile of triumph rather than a look of adrenaline-fueled panic and rage The oddly small Chinese regiment all heroically and improbably survive the aftermath
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It's amazing that in 1998 these people making a kids' movie seriously thought through the pitfalls of making a movie whose implicit message is "War is a great way to become a hero and transcend repressive gender roles" and felt like they were obligated to subvert it
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And these dopes making a "mature, realistic" remake of that movie in 2020 totally just dropped the ball on that War is awesome, only warriors can "wield qi" or whatever, if someone in your life wants to join the Marines you're an asshole if you try to talk them out of it
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Yes! It’s a total gut punch
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Someone explained how taking away the oddball guys as sympathetic and major supporting characters made the story into a Total Conformity Zone, and that was just chilling to realize.
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There's a little bit of it left in the movie, the one babyfaced loser in the regiment Mulan's friends adopt ("Cricket"), but it's not given nearly as much time as in the cartoon
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