Under the background of the superb special effects and beautiful music of Disney animation, this film draws on some techniques of Chinese painting, combining fiction and reality, combining fine brushwork and ink, with a long artistic conception, and the oriental charm of this film seems to have passed through this heroine who has been sung for thousands of years. History, presented in an American, relaxed and optimistic way, on the land she once fought, brought to the people living in this land an unprecedented American interpretation of women.
While enjoying the shock and pleasure brought by Hollywood movies telling classic Chinese stories, the impact of the traditional concept of women's understanding triggered by the cartoon "Mulan" is more worthy of the audience's reflection.
Under the influence of two thousand years of traditional Confucian culture, the image of women in the minds of Chinese people should be the young lady of Xiaojiabiyu, the weak and weak woman. In a patriarchal society like China, the status of women can be summarized in one sentence: Women are always attached to men. Then the emergence of Mulan naturally has an epoch-making tragic color and a far-reaching monumental commemorative significance. The profound impact has become a strong proof of the unsatisfactory test of feminism later. This is particularly obvious in the American interpretation. In the film "Mulan", Mulan took on the role of the army bravely, disguised as a woman, and rushed to the front line for her father. This reflects the filial piety promoted by China, but it also reflects the analysis from the perspective of feminism. The consciousness of women. Women’s liberation and free development are not only social issues, but also women’s own issues, requiring self-awareness and self-development. As a member of society, Hua Mulan consciously takes up arms to defend her home and country. It is precisely her act of consciously awakening her social subject status in her consciousness as the subject of creative practice. Fighting the enemy courageously, with the wisdom and bravery of women, finally "the general died in a hundred battles, and the strong men returned in ten years."
The Hollywood film "Mulan" is based on the classic Chinese traditional story, boldly imagined, combined with reality and fiction, and has a degree of relaxation. There is no lack of American humor in the narration of Chinese stories, and at the same time bold adaptations, which change the traditional Chinese "three obediences and four virtues" to women's restraints. In the film, there are even subversive "beauties save heroes" and "save China". Interpretation. The statement "Saved China" is obviously too exaggerated, but naturally Westerners will not go to make a cartoon specifically to verify how much Hua Mulan has done in history, as long as this woman is portrayed as a hero. . The heroine in the hearts of Westerners was brave enough to save the chief Li Xiang-her future husband. In the past, lovers eventually became family members, and they were often heroes to save the beauty. Women played the role of the weak, and they needed the protection of the strong. However, in the film "Mulan", "the lover finally gets married" has become an anti-traditional model of "women saving men", and one rescue is twice. Strong men are not as good as women. This is exactly what feminists would like to see.
After analyzing the feminist elements in the film "Mulan", there is one thing that needs attention-the destination. In the film, after the triumphant Mulan and Li Xiang's lover finally became married, Mulan wrote in the folk song "Mulan Ci" in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, "I would like to ride a thousand miles and send my children back to my hometown". The next one is a daughter after all, and she still wants a destination and a home. On this issue, the Eastern and Western cultures are surprisingly similar. This seems to convey something, and it is also a topic that feminists try to avoid. Women still need men and love. Putting aside the radicalism of Western feminists and the traditional Chinese male chauvinism, it may be simpler to explain it with traditional Chinese Taoist concepts: mutual generation and mutual restraint, and Yin and Yang complement each other.
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