#the live action mulan

[artist-issues]

You. Stop scrolling. Go watch Mulan. It’s so good. Go watch it. Go now.

[stydixa]

MULAN (1998) Dir. Tony Bancroft & Barry Cook

[kat-rose-griffith]

No one:

The opening scene of the Netflix atla show:

(I wouldn’t be so nitpicky but they said they had to cut stuff for time… but it feels like the first 20 minutes could’ve been cut)

[ginger-grimm]

DISNEY PRINCESSES & ONCE UPON A TIME LIVE ACTION

Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White Jessy Schram & Dania Ramirez as Ella (Cinderalla) Sarah Bolger as Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) JoAnna Garcia Swisher as Ariel Emilie de Ravin as Belle Karen David as Jasmine Jamie Chung as Mulan Mekia Cox as Tiana Alexandra Metz & Meegan Warner as Rapunzel Amy Manson as Merida Georgina Haig as Elsa Elizabeth Lail as Anna

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[vvalliu]

[gatorsnot]

my brother has been learning about chinese history in school and he's learned about china being conquered by the mongols and i shit you not he said "the ONE thing mulan 2 got right"

[meltingangels]

Never going to watch the ATLA live action but I have a thing to say.

Yes, I get the appeal of showing the attack on the Air Temple.

And I know they couldn't show it in the cartoon because it is ultimately a kids show.

But to me, the effect of quietly seeing the aftermath in the OG show, is amazing. It's haunting.

To me, it's like the battle aftermath you see in Disney's animated Mulan.

[yen-sids-tournament]

Mulan: Animated (1998) v Live Action (2020)

You do not have to see both to vote, but it might have been helpful.

Feel free to share opinions or explanations with comments/tags/rbs

[yeahthatsinteresting]

[narcissusneverknewme]

they wouldn't let me write the live action Disney adaptions because I would have had the best Ping you have ever seen. He and Shang would have had chemistry that took your breath away. They would be Yearning. the audience would be Yearning. it would be electric and terrifying and by marika would Mulan/Ping be hot. Shang is obsessed, the audience is obsessed. there would be hardly be a person in the attendance that doesn't Get where Shang is coming from. who wouldn't rend their clothes and scream to the heavens over Mulan/Ping. she takes no prisoners.

and yes, Shang kisses him in the snow as he cradles Ping's injured, dying body.

and yes, from the opening scene to the rolling credits he's going slowly mad.

and the first time you see Mulan she's dressed in the most feminine, floaty, light-colored dressy robes, with bone white makeup and painted lips and you fall in love with her. and there's something underneath, too. and it's so intriguing.

and then she shows up as Ping, and it takes a while to get used to, and it's kind of funny and awkward. but then it looks better and better to you. and soon you find you can hardly bear it when the camera turns away from him for even a second. and Ping isn't awkward to be around at all, he's stunning and brave and resilient and determined to be kind and you're desperately in love with him and you decide he looks incredible in the warriors' robes, actually. and his smile makes you want to kiss him. it makes Shang want to scream. and to kiss him.

and then comes the last leg. and she's got the gender-neutral robes, the "neutral" stage makeup. the loose updo. and you've never been as attracted to anyone in your life as Shang is to her. and you get it. you really, really get it. and wow the way the cuff of her sleeves and the silhouette of her robes make your heart clench. and the way her posture, her gait, make a new kind of sense. you can feel this is It. this is The Costume. you're obsessed and Shang is obsessed.

And then in the end, she's wearing pretty soft-colored robes and it makes you think for a moment that she looks like she did at the beginning. but then actually something makes her strength visible too. is it the cut of the costume? her posture? the framing of the shots? Yes it is. and you know, when Shang shows up, You know he can see it too. and he doesn't want to stop looking any more than you do. and he isn't going to even when you do.

every kid that ever watched my Mulan would recall it as Formative, like y'alls Danny Phantom but on the sickest steroids ever invented. She'd be irresistible. and so very gender.

[ishxallxgood]

Steven John Ward (LA!Mihawk) has Cameo now so I requested that he do "I'll make a man out of you" a la Mihawk to Zoro...

MAN DID HE DELIVER

I legit squealed and laughed out loud when he said "Zoro" (even though I should have been expecting it, but still it hit just right) I can't stop giggling

Link to Cameo

[artist-issues]

tune in next week to hear me obnoxiously and redundantly say every obvious but wonderful thing about Mulan

[dearabsolutelynoone]

aurora cinderella belle

jasmine mulan ariel

[its-cosmerely-an-obsesh-wound]

So I’ve been thinking a lot about the chasm scene from WoR, can you imagine if they lived in our world and Kaladin was sharing his experience in the military and mentioned “bootcamp” and then Shallan is all like:

[scorpion-flower]

The weird thing about Rachel Zegler playing Snow White, isn't her not being white. It's her talking as if she hates the older thing.

Also, someone please tell her (and Gal Gadot who also missed the memo) that falling in love doesn't make you any less of a powerful woman. Mulan fell in love, Tiana fell in love, Esmeralda fell in love. And they are feminist icons.

[manny-jacinto]

everyone is so pissed about the httyd live action remake but consider this: live action dragon makes my brain go awwwwwwww