After watching the live-action version, I can only say that it sucks. So I went to watch the animated version, and found out that the live-action version is not only bad, but also lazy! The script is almost the same as the animated version, and many of the settings and details are exactly the same. Even the adaptations are too lazy to adapt. The few adaptations are still very bad.
Mulan's white-faced Huawei makeup is in the animation, but the animation is super nice, and the live-action version is really indescribable, like a dead person... The key is the Huawei logo, it's so eye-catching!
Meeting the matchmaker, even the design of pouring the tea, is all in the animation. The cricket in the animation is gone, and a little bug is brought in to make Mulan break the teapot and make a fool of himself. Such details are not changed, how lazy!
Even after Mulan left, she left a headgear at home, the same as in the animation. The key is that the style of the headgear is exactly the same as in the animation! It's all a magnolia flower on it.
The magnolia tree is also in the animation. The key is the animation version. The magnolia tree is at home, and their family often sits under the tree. My father also compared Mulan to a flower, saying that she is the flower that blooms late. Although it blooms late, it will bloom better than all flowers! The live-action version of the magnolia tree is by the stream in the military camp, and such a magnolia tree grows abruptly by the stream, which is too deliberate!
The black eagle that the witch turned into is also in the animation! But in other people's animations, it's just an eagle, not a witch, and not that powerful. In the live-action version, the witch is so awesome that she was shot dead with one arrow! And she had always been Mulan's enemy before, but suddenly she turned against her because of women's rights? She is so powerful in witchcraft that an arrow that can be flung away with a wave of her sleeve, just let it hit her like that? It's okay to shoot a lot of arrows on others, so a witch is so awesome, and she will die with one arrow...
A comrade-in-arms in the barracks hid a portrait of a beautiful woman. Everyone passed it around, and it was also in the animation, and there was a short fantasy design in the animation. The comrade-in-arms flirted with the beauty.
When everyone talked about the woman they liked, Mulan said that the person she liked was wise and humorous, which is also in the animation! The live-action version is almost exactly the same as in the animation!
Even the stupid use of fire bombs to create avalanches is in the animation! Although they are also riding horses in the avalanche in the animation, they almost fell. And it was Mulan who saw that her comrades had used rocks to hide the snow, and she saw that the terrain was unfavorable for the enemy, and it was relatively easy for us to escape.
You say you believe in Hua Ping (military), why don't you believe in Hua Mulan, this line is also in the animation version! In the live-action version, almost every word remains unchanged, and the name changed from Huaping in the animated version to Huajun in the live-action version!
climb mountains. The live-action training is to let them all climb the mountain, but this design is so stupid that it is completely useless in the back! In the animated version, it is to climb a high stake. That stake is very meaningful, the general shoots the arrow on the top, and asks them to climb up with a discus of discipline in one hand and a discus of courage in the other to take the arrow down. They have been training, but they have never been able to take it down. They were finally able to climb up and remove the arrow. And when he finally saved the emperor, he also used this trick,
Kidnapping the emperor, and the emperor sending swords, etc., are all the same as the animation version, but the animation version sends the sword of the leader of the enemy army after killing the enemy army! And what about the real sword? Is it reforging an identical sword? What's the point of that?
There are too many details and designs, and almost all of them are copied without any changes. Even the overall layout and direction of the script are the same. First, the enemy attacked, the emperor called people to form an army, and then recruited troops. Mulan goes to see the matchmaker and then goes to join the army. Then the barracks trained, the enemy attacked, and Mulan created an avalanche. Mulan was found to be a woman, and then Mulan found out that the enemy army went to the palace to assassinate again, and then a group of people stopped the assassination, the emperor commended, but Mulan wanted to go back to her hometown... Everything is exactly the same!
The point is, there are many modernized and westernized adaptations in the animation version, and it will look very smart when made into an animation, but if it is copied and made into a live-action version, it will look embarrassing, and it is very low-level and fake! The live-action version just wants to be lazy and doesn't even change the script. It won't be so similar if it is shot according to the same script. This is completely based on the comparison of the animation version of the finished film! The key is not to innovate a little, some rare changes are still getting worse and worse, and that inexplicable narration is enough! On the contrary, the essence of many details of the animated version has been completely abandoned.
In the animated version, Mulan wanted to hide her real self, because after seeing the matchmaker's failure, she felt sad when she saw her family members, and felt that she was causing trouble for her family. As a result, in the live-action version, it became her parents who taught her to hide herself. This is the same as when your parents insisted on telling you that Ultraman is fake, Superman is fake, and fairy tales are fake. What's the difference? Some truths are for you to discover and explore for yourself, not to be ruthlessly exposed by your parents! Such debunking is a childhood nightmare and a psychological shadow for a lifetime!
In the animation, after seeing the matchmaker, Mulan saw that her family was unhappy. She ran to the ancestral tablet and wiped off half of the makeup on her face. The confrontation, then wiped it all away, and decided to hide the real self from then on. The half-face makeup picture and the reflection of the tablet, there are many faces of Mulan, it is really classic.
And on that night of lightning, thunder and wind and rain, Mulan's mood was just like the weather. Family, looking at herself reflected in the rain, she completed the decision that everyone has been chanting for thousands of years, and joined the army for her father! Her inner unease and anxiety, pain and struggle, although across the screen, but we can all feel it!
After she made her decision, the exciting music started, she resolutely ran to the ancestral tablet, paid the last incense, went to her parents' room to see her parents one last time, and at the same time stole her father's edict to join the army, picked up her father's sword, Cut off your long hair, put on armor, ride a fast horse, and resolutely leave home in the rainy night! This series of actions made the blood boil!
At the beginning of the animation, Mulan didn't know how to be a man. When she arrived at the military camp, she made a lot of jokes, and then from those comrades in the army, she superficially imitated spit, greeted people or beat people. And when the general asked her name at first, she hadn't made up her mind yet and hesitated for a long time. This is the normal reaction when faced with the reality of being caught off guard after the impulsive decision to join the army for his father. In the live-action version, Mulan knew how to pretend to be a man from the beginning, and she chose a name from the beginning. For Mulan, who had never experienced this, it was too inconsistent.
In the animated version, there are emotional ups and downs, and the plot progresses. We follow Mulan's loss, determination, laziness, training, bravery, etc., and our emotions have been hanged by Mulan. In the live-action version, it seems that everyone has read the script and rushed through the scene in a hurry. There is no emotional foreshadowing and progression, and there is no inner struggle and growth. Everything seems to be dealing with it.
Hey, before I watched the animated version, I just thought that the filming of this film was so bad that it couldn't even compare to many domestic junk costume idol dramas. But after watching the animated version, you will find that this film is not only bad, but also lazy! The script is almost exactly the same as the animated version, and many details and designs are copied from the animated version. Just like this, the filming is still sloppy, hey, it really hits Disney's signboard!
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