Mulan attempts to warn Shang, but she is ignored once again. However, she discovers that Shan-Yu and his five generals have survived and are heading towards the Imperial City.
Mulan is left behind by the army and prepares to return home. She is spared death, the punishment for a woman joining the army, as Shang’s way of repaying the debt from Mulan rescuing him during the previous battle. She sustains an injury from Shan-Yu, which in the end reveals her true gender. Despite the unit being outnumbered, Mulan is able to defeat the Huns by using her intelligence and crushing the hun in an avalanche by way of a rocket. Even though this role suits Mulan much better, she is still forced to hide her gender.Īfter the Chinese Army, led by Shang’s father General Li, has been completely destroyed by the Huns, Shang leads Mulan and the other soldiers to stop them. Though Mulan fails the army training at first, she uses her intelligence and becomes the first soldier to solve a puzzle set by Li Shang, her unit’s commanding officer.Īfterward, she rapidly progresses to become one of the best soldiers in the unit. Mulan decides to go in his place posing as a man, cutting her long hair with a sword, stealing her father’s armor and riding away on her horse, Khan, so she will keep her father from risking his life. Despite her protests, her father says that he will go in spite of his age and old war wounds. Shortly after, the Chinese Emperor’s counselor, Chi-Fu, arrives in her village to announce that the deadly Huns, led by Shan Yu, have invaded China and that one man in every family must serve in the war. Due to her clumsiness, however, this meeting turns out to be a disaster and the matchmaker predicts that Mulan may have the look of a bride but will never bring honour to her family. She meets the matchmaker to find her future husband. At first, Mulan tries to fit in with the expecations of a young Chinese girl of that time. Mulan is a 16-year-old girl with dark brown eyes and straight, black long hair and the only child of Fa Zhou, a former war veteran, and Fa Li. So they didn’t focus on the relationship between Mulan and Captain Li Shang, but rather on Mulan’s bravery and strength. However, director Tony Bancroft, who was inspired by his own daughters, wanted Mulan to be a different, unique kind of Disney heroine – a strong and independent woman whose fate did not depend on a man. Disney had originally conceived Mulan as a repressed young Chinese woman who eventually escapes to Europe to be with a British prince.
Intrigued by Hua Mulan’s story, San Souci suggested the poem to Disney the studio commissioned San Souci himself to write the film’s treatment and story. The only child of an ageing war veteran, Mulan flouts both tradition and the law by disguising herself as a man to enlist in the army in place of her weak father. San Souci and is based on the legendary Chinese warrior Hua Mulan from the poem „Ballad of Mulan“. She became the eighth Disney princess and the first who was not born royal or married to a prince and, moreover, the first of Asian descent. Anyone who has seen Disney Pictures animated films Mulan (1998) or Mulan II (2004) or the live-action remake Mulan (2020) knows that Disney has created a very special female character with Mulan.
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