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Hua Mulan (Chinese: 花木蘭) is a legendary Chinese folk heroine from the Northern and Southern dynasties era (4th to 6th century CE) of Chinese history.Scholars generally consider Mulan to be a fictional character.
"The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all," the Emperor of China waxed poetic in Disney's 1998 animated classic, Mulan. Originally set to open in theaters early ...
In an earlier story draft for Mulan II written by Barry Cook, Shan Yu was originally intended to return with his army and haunt Northern China, prompting the Emperor to send Mulan and Shang there to deal with the Huns. The finale would have involved Shan Yu's ghost army fighting against Mulan and her allies, including the Fa family ancestors.
Re-watching “Mulan” through a modern-day lens and acknowledging this is a specifically American interpretation of a Chinese story actually left me feeling even more inspired as an adult than I ...
Mulan is a 1998 American animated musical coming-of-age [3] action-adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation for Walt Disney Pictures.Based on the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan, the film was directed by Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft and produced by Pam Coats, from a screenplay by Rita Hsiao, Chris Sanders, Philip LaZebnik, and the writing team of Raymond Singer and Eugenia Bostwick ...
This Lunar New Year, read an excerpt of upcoming novel "The Night Ends with Fire" by K. X. Song, a retelling of "Mulan" with a sea dragon spirit, perfect for the Year of the Dragon.
Mushu is not mentioned in the Chinese legend about Hua Mulan or the Ballad of Hua Mulan, on which the film is based. [11] [12] [13] He was created specifically for the animated film, [14] [15] although most of its writers considered him to be obligatory and protested his inclusion. [16]
Mulan was originally conceived as an animated short in 1994, in which a miserable Chinese girl elopes to the West to be with a British prince. [2] While developing a series of treatments based on traditional stories and folk tales, children's book author Robert D. San Souci discovered the Ballad of Mulan, an ancient Chinese poem about Hua Mulan – a Chinese woman who replaces her ailing ...