The Movie Mulan - 1471 Words

Mulan is a feature-length, animated film, released for distribution by Walt Disney Studios in 1998. Mulan was the ninth film released during the renaissance period of Disney film-making. Mulan was an adaptation of an age-old Chinese ballad detailing the life of a Chinese girl who chooses to assume the male gender in order to save her father from having to be conscripted into the Chinese Army. For the most part, Mulan was well received by the theatre going public, garnering over three hundred million dollars in box office receipts. The reception of the movie in China, home country of the ballad upon which Mulan was based, was exceedingly below expectations. According to Frank Langfitt, of The Baltimore Sun â€Å"But when Disney s version closed†¦show more content†¦Before a person can begin to analyze the movie, it is important for him or her to understand the process by which Disney turns a piece of local folklore into a movie. In their article, Cultural deformations and re formulations: a case study of Disney’s Mulan in English and Chinese, Mingwu Xu and Chuanmao Tian discuss the changes made to the ballad of Mulan in order for it to be more appealing to a local and global market. The four main elements that encompass a standard Disney adaptation of a story are; an element of individualism, a sense of good and evil, romance, and the addition of a sidekick. (p. 184) In order to be able to ensure these components fit with the storyline Xu and Tian point out, transculturation involves both organizational routines and experimentation through which the foreign culture is decontextualised, essentialised, recontextualised, domesticated and sometimes unversalised. †¦ The more contextualized they are, the more believable they will be; in Americanising a story, it has to be essentialised and stripped of its context, with its core elements identified. Then the story is reconfigured and recontextualised (p. 185). This helps a person to understand why it is necessary for changes to be made to the original story, but it does not allow for carte-blanche in making essential modifications to the primary version. Now that it is understood why changes are made, it is now time to determine if the changes wereShow MoreRelatedMovie Review Of Mulan 761 Words   |  4 PagesTyra Banks Mrs. Shields ENGL 101-38 17 September 2017 Film Review: Mulan An animated Disney movie called Mulan, was directed by Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook in 1998. The moral of the story is that women can be just the same as men can. I support the general meaning of the movie. I believe men that and women should be treated equally and that women should not be seen as weak or frail. Women are more than just wives or slaves and can-do jobs that have traditionally been set-aside for men. 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