Although it is said that the real origin of all Mulan stories in name should be Chinese folk tales, in fact, everyone knows that this "Mulan" is actually a remake of Disney's 1998 version, and the story basically follows the 1998 version of the story. String.
Mulan couldn’t get a blind date at home, just happened to be attacked by the Huns army, the emperor urgently recruited troops, and every family had to send a male. Grandpa has no eldest son, Mulan has no eldest brother, and his father, who has made great military achievements but has a serious leg injury, plans to go out again. Mulan loves her father. So women disguised themselves as men.
After a series of absurd things in the barracks, Mulan finally used her wisdom to cause an avalanche to defeat the Huns, but her identity was also exposed and she was "expelled".
Next, Shan Yu went to the imperial city to assassinate the emperor in a desperate attempt. Mulan rushed to save the emperor. He was 12 times and rewarded hundreds of thousands of strong people. The Khan asked what he wanted. home.
In the end, it is gratifying to congratulate Coca-Cola, and Mulan has won glory for the family and returned home.
You should have noticed when I described the story itself. I actually based it on the story of the animation. Obviously, the movie version has made a huge change in order to meet the situation in recent years: adding self-awareness to Mulan.
So we saw a highlight moment of female awakening. Mulan took off the armor on her shoulders, untied her hair, and let it go back to the battlefield.
Compared with the girl who cut her hair before the animated version, this independent female figure is obviously more...
...it doesn't make sense.
Because this is going to war! Shouldn't that face of hair make her own face first? And throwing the armor and getting a hair on it?
This moment has also become an extremely obvious dividing point for the whole film. Before this, although it was not as good as the animation, it was not a big problem, but from then on, the whole story became Mary Su.
An extremely unsuccessful setting in the film is to add a so-called ability to Mulan. The Chinese dubbed version I watched said it was vitality.
The best feminist blockbuster I've seen in recent years is "Mystery Superstar." Compare it with Aamir Khan's other well-known hit, "Wrestle, Dad," and you'll find that the progress on feminism is one of the best. place.
In Wrestling Dad, the girls are always shrouded in the shadow of patriarchy. Because of their wrestling talents, the two girls can gain glory under the guidance of their father, and finally get the "choose their own ideas" in their father's mouth. the right to marry a man".
Leaving aside the permission of patriarchy, the premise of feminism it talks about is that this woman does have something stronger than others.
In the film, the little cousin who is a harlequin is tossed and ravaged by two female wrestlers, which is to show that they are stronger than men as women.
This is the biggest flaw in the film's theme. Do weak women deserve to be unequal?
But this problem has been completely corrected in "Mysterious Superstar". The little girl in the film is willful and irritable, and the audience scolds this as a hammer for women's rights while watching. As a result, the end of the film tells you that the real mysterious superstar is her mother.
Her life's efforts may not be able to make much change for her own situation, but she used all her efforts to prop up a willful space for her daughter.
The creators succeeded in taking the theme one step further: You may not have the power to really change everything, but every bit of your hard work will not be in vain.
Then, who would have thought that an American A-level blockbuster, directed by a female director, turned out to have the same theme as an Indian film five or six years ago, or even worse than another Indian film four or five years ago, you Are you saying Americans are screwed?
In this film, Mulan's expression for this passage is that the fairy godmother played by Gong Li was once rejected because of her abilities. Later, she was suspected of being PUA by Chanyu, and I believe that only Chanyu can help her.
She found that Mulan, who had the same ability as herself, didn't seem to accept her fate, so she also PUA Mulan. As a result, Mulan still did not accept her fate. Instead, she persuaded her. She finally realized that she could actually pursue herself as freely as Mulan.
In the end, the fruit of the character's arc transformation is to be shot dead by an arrow in Mulan's arms (we pretend for the time being that we don't know how powerful she used to be).
To be honest, what I say now is actually helping the film to explain some things. In the original film, this part is more vague, there are more useless lines, and the key points are hardly mentioned. This makes me very strange, why? She is also a female director, how can the completion of this female awakening line be so low.
What's even more speechless is that even considering my explanation that I helped him perfect, you'll find that the storyline between the two is more like a mutant than a woman.
In fact, these are two X-Men. At the beginning of the film, I forgot to give you the Marvel book LOGO.
If you want to talk about it normally, you should take Xianniang as Chanyu's military adviser. A weak girl, born like duckweed, has been arrested in her family, and has no support in the troubled times. She can only live in Chanyu. Because of her, she went to the trophies to pick up books to read, and finally she learned more and more, and her status in the army gradually improved.
Later, in the war, she met Mulan (of course, an ordinary person) in the opposite camp. After the big avalanche, she survived. How did she talk to Mulan? In order to fight against Mulan, she said that Shanyu was going to assassinate the emperor. You can't save the emperor. , you absolutely can't save her, women have no role in war.
Mulan said Fuck off, then rode to the palace to rescue the driver, and finally succeeded in becoming a big hero. The fairy looked at Mulan in the cheering crowd, Mulan also found her, looked at her, and then everyone showed off their facial acting skills.
Or if she wants to be bloody, she will finally let her mess around. Whether it is to help Mulan or help Shanyu, it all makes sense. Anyway, if you don't have any combat power, you can die relatively smoothly, and then it can be used as a catalyst for Mulan's further awakening.
very beautiful~
In fact, the whole second half of the story seems to be in a word, that is Mary Sue, pure Mary Sue.
The film turns the mysterious factor that originally helped Mulan, the Mushu dragon, into a colorful phoenix, which can actually be regarded as a kind of Mary Suhua.
Originally, Mushulong was a fool who was reckless, did not have a position in the family, and was eager to prove himself as a clown (emphasis: the clown). gain status in the shrine.
So it even did not hesitate to fabricate military orders to let this team face Shanyu's army, which is tantamount to sending death.
In the animated version, for Mulan's avalanche behavior, the author made a lot of foreshadowing of Mulan's intelligence. As soon as Mulan appeared on the stage, he made a cheat sheet in his hand, and then used "dangling carrots" to feed the chickens, even on the way to a blind date, Can help the old man who plays chess to point out the hand of God.
Moreover, in the animated version, after Li Xiang's team found out that the enemy's army was pressing down on the territory, they already thought that their own side would die, and the slogan was "death beautifully", and they planned to shoot Shanyu with the last artillery.
At this moment, everyone no longer had hope of victory, so naturally they gave up thinking about tactics. At this time, Mulan saw the snow on the cliff with a reflection, and she had a clever idea, and then she came up with the later tactics.
Moreover, when Mulan fired the cannon, it was Shan Yu, who was sprinting from the front.
But in this film, it is the incomparable Hua Mulan who discovers new tactics that no one has discovered after awakening - I don't know if this catapult smashing the shield is a tribute to Yaobai.
Then the enemy acted like Mulan was no longer on the battlefield, and let her pick up a few helmets to complete the entire avalanche tactic.
Then the soldiers on our side...really okay, Donnie Yen said that the enemy was wiped out without checking.
Moreover, we found that Chan Yu also changed from a dead man who was desperate after defeat to a black belly who sacrificed the army to withstand the army. In fact, he just wanted to find another way to report his personal grievances.
All the personal charm can only be exuded by Mary Su Hua Mulan.
The final imperial city drama was the ultimate in Mary Sue.
Here, we must first introduce a knowledge to some friends who are not very good in history. We generally regard the behavior of generals who are fighting outside bringing troops into the palace as treason.
In the animation, Li Xiang's troops were summoned to the palace by the award. During the celebration ceremony, Shan Yu suddenly appeared from the roof, went directly to the emperor, and entered the inner palace, which was very reasonable.
In this film, we see that Shan Yu has sneaked in with the dead soldiers, but he has to think about going to war with the guarding regular army. In fact, he used another strategy to deceive the emperor out of the palace.
When I saw this, I was still thinking. An action movie specially looked for Jet Li, but there was no martial arts scene. It was really a hero at night. As a result, Jet Li picked up the cloth on both sides and danced as if it were a mess.
I looked stupid on the spot, this still needs help?
Ah still needed, anyway, in order for our Mulan to save him, he still has to be caught.
In fact, at this time, you should use your brain more and think of an idea: "This is the rope that the fairy has cast mana, and you can't break free." Isn't it over? Then, because Hua Mulan had similar mana to Xianniang, or because Xianniang gave her the mana before she died, she was able to open it, just a few words, just didn't say anything.
So we saw the invincible fairy godmother and the invincible dog emperor one to die and the other to watch, so that Hua Mulan and Shanyu, who could be directly stabbed to death by an arrow, had a fateful confrontation.
In fact, when Mulan's family sword fell into the furnace in this section, I thought the film was going to talk in another direction, that is, in fact, these things in the family are burdens on Mulan's shoulders. Abandoned, she can truly be herself.
As a result, I gave her a special punch at the end, and then praised her for her filial piety--Isn't this reflected when she joined the army for her father at the beginning of the film, do you say it to the end?
If there is no such meaning, then the last paragraph will really only succeed, Mulan is brave and unparalleled without a sword and can defeat Shanyu with weapons.
Chan Yu has also been further weakened. In the previous step, the unparalleled assassin who could only be killed by "I am your nightmare in the dark night" fireworks has become a complete waste of chicken, and such an excellent shape was wasted.
Exactly, we've come to this point.
The characters in this film are really excellent. Just like I said when I commented on Aladdin, Disney's makeup and hair team art team is so good, they can really make these live actors behave in the same way. And in the case of showing a feeling of an animated character.
In this film, these characters really feel like they came out of the animation. The art of the scene, the scenery (it seems to be shot with the Tangcheng of the Demon Cat?) There is no problem with photography and music. In general A-level commercial blockbusters are top-notch.
But the ability of the directors, screenwriters, and editors of these core creators is really not good, and the level of completion is really inferior to the efforts of other practitioners in the entire industrial system.
Speaking of which, I thought of one more thing.
In the animation, Jackie Chan dubbed Li Xiang and Hua Mulan secretly in love. In fact, it was Mulan who had a crush on him at first. After all, he is excellent and handsome, and Mulan's school-age women can understand this.
But in this film, because of concerns about sexual harassment in the workplace, the emotional scene was moved to a soldier, and because of Mulan's image of an independent woman, the emotion was completely the soldier's single arrow to her.
- Doesn't this look more workplace sexual harassment? The effect of that person's performance is clearly a gay colleague! It looks too hairy, okay?
Keep watching, just watch, watch hard, just watch, watch it all the time, what are you looking at? Or is it really set to be gay?
I really would rather delete the emotional drama completely, and don't make such a relationship out of disgusting people, okay?
In fact, it was originally a movie I watched last night, and I planned to write it at that time, but I decided to re-watch the animated version today before writing.
I still think the animated version is the first in Disney's 2D animation.
In fact, many people are talking about cultural appropriation, smearing this and slandering that, and there are also in that movie, but it is better than this one, so those issues are not that important.
First of all, this one is not good-looking, and secondly, any problems will be picked out and sprayed specially.
I think the biggest problem is still in the core creator. There is no problem with the overall appearance of this film. It’s not like many bad films that firstly don’t have any cinematic feel, or the photography is too rubbish or the scene is too hengdian.
This film doesn't have any of these problems. Saying it's an internet university would be a fucking bullshit.
However, the completion of the core content is really too low. The story itself is still a step backward compared to more than 20 years ago. The war is not good, the martial arts is not good, the theme is too weak and very backward, so the final impression will naturally not be good.
Well, it's probably the last Hollywood blockbuster this year, let's watch and cherish it.
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