[ SECRET POST #3415 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3415 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

This is what I really didn't like about the movie... in the original story, it was all about doing it for the sake of her family and fighting for her father's sake. Her characterization of "doing it because this is who I am" is very American and very modern. It's shitting in the face of the entire point of the original story. What's the point of even setting it in ancient China when the heroine is acting like a modern American?

[(Anonymous)]

For one, I think Mulan certainly was still motivated by protecting her father, she just ultimately wanted something more besides that. Protecting her father would've probably been "enough" but what is really motivating her is being a soldier.

But for another I find this argument that ANY sense of wanting to be true to yourself is "modern and American". I guarantee plenty of ancient Chinese girls wanted to be more than what society demanded of them. A few probably pushed the boundaries, too.

And lastly, what do you mean by original story, it's a myth, there are loads of versions and no single original one. And Chinese myth is full of people going outside the boundaries and doing crazy stuff. I find it to be pseudo-orientalism to pretend all East Asians only care about ~honor~ and never have a single selfish thought.