The best thing about Old Mulan was just totally crushing that gung-ho soldier spirit into the dirt with the ruins of the sacked village at the end of "A Girl Worth Fighting For" NuLan turns this scene into a perfunctory afterthought and is in the end gung-ho as fuckhttps://twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1337932361686781952 …
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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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I wanna say that in the cartoon, because they don't actually show people dying onscreen if they can avoid it, the specific reason the Chinese army keeps shrinking from scene to scene is left unclear, we just know that after the avalanche it's just Mulan and her friends
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