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Highly Overrated But Still Good

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

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The first act of Mulan is decent enough to get the viewer interested, the second act is where it starts to pick up. The second act is by far the best part of the film. However, once we get to the third act, it all falls apart and becomes a boring mess. Still, great music and Eddie Murphy's voice talents are charming.

Mulan was a fun, exciting movie with great visuals, great characters, great music, and a great story. While the story was perhaps a bit generic, it was still very well done, and it had a great deal of funny moments. At times, the story got considerably dark. Shan Yu is really underrated as a villain. Some of his scenes and lines are downright terrifying, and they add brilliantly to the atmosphere of the movie.

Mulan Worldview Analysis In the Disney movie Mulan, the hero is in fact named Fa Mulan. Her goal at first is to give her family honor by being able to be matched with a good husband. When that plan doesn't work out, she then comes back home to find out her father is having to be sent off to war to fight the Hun army. Her goal then shifts to taking her father's place in the army by disguising herself as a boy and bringing her family honor in that way. That fact that she is a woman in the army disguising herself as a man is her character flaw because it eventually leads to her "apparent defeat." The apparent defeat happens after fighting the Huns and the main adversary, Shan Yu. She is discovered as being a woman after being injured in battle and is left there for dead by her love interest, and the general, Li Shang. After you think all is lost, her and her guardian from the ancestors named Mushu, discover that the Huns are planning to attack the emperor of China. She rushes down to China, as a woman now, and is faced with the final confrontation with Shan Yu and after an intense battle, she defeats him. The revelation of the hero is that even though she is a woman, she is just as tough as any other man in the army. The whole country sees that as well and bows down to her in the end. In conclusion, the moral of this movie is that women are just as strong as men and possibly even stronger. A woman can do anything a man can do and this movie teaches equality of the sexes. The movie gave a lot of supporting evidence to prove the moral of the story. At first, when she goes off to war disguised as a guy, she is stumbling around and can't fight very well. After training though she becomes one of the best warriors in their group and even saves Li Shang from his down death. She also defeats the Hun's leader Shan Yu and saves China which proves a woman can do anything a man can do. I agree with this message and I wouldn't do anything different, I think they prove that point very well. Also, I believe this movie ultimately celebrates goodness in the end because Mulan realizes women are just as powerful as men and she is liberated. Another way this movie celebrates goodness is she is the hero and defeats the evil Huns who are killing people. In this movie, I don't believe Christianity is expressed very much, if at all. I think this movie depicts more Chinese traditions and religions through the use of praying to ancestors, several mentions of meditation, and defending family honor. The ancestors, though, are the main thing I want to focus on as an example. Not only do they pray to the ancestors for help and guidance, but we also see the ancestors come to life. They actually also end up sending a guardian named Mushu to go and protect Mulan. I think this is saying that the way we should live and the human condition is that we should look to our ancestors for help and guidance. The movie is saying our ancestors will ultimately be there to protect us even when they have passed on to the afterlife. This does not agree with the Bible because the Bible says that Jesus is ultimately the one who can save and guide us through our life by praying to him alone. The redemption revealed in this movie is that Mulan finally gets to be comfortable in her own skin. She fights with the guys as her true self and gets to be liberated in the fact that she is just a tough as the guys. I think it completely departs from biblical truth because biblical redemption is accepting Jesus as your Lord and Savior and being baptized to be born again. Even though this is true, I think this movie's message is a positive element of this movie. This movie is empowering to women and a good lesson to teach little girls that they don't have to feel less than any man. It is also positive to have the message to have people feel comfortable in their own skin. I think some negative elements of this movie are the sexism that is portrayed in the movie and the religion depicted not being Christian. If you think about it, if she was a woman who couldn't fight at all and hid as a boy in the military only to get caught, she would have died for sure. Despite this, in conclusion, I believe you can recommend this movie to all ages because it is a very funny and quality Disney movie.

The famous movie of historical Asian history, Mulan, directed by Tony Bancroft, is a movie of a woman named Mulan taking the place of her father in war. Being a woman automatically disqualifies her as a soldier, and throughout the movie it is obvious that women are not looked at the same way that men are. Mulan's plot demotes women but its protagonist rejects this assumption to conclude that women can do whatever a man is able. In the beginning of the movie, Mulan, the main character, is continuously put down because of her female being. The movie begins with Mulan practicing to impress a match maker that will match her with her future husband. When her professional stylist is getting her ready for the big event; the stylist implies that Mulan is a sexual object. Throughout their song the stylist says, "Boys will go to war for you if you're pretty, obedient, and have a tiny waist. You should demonstrate dignity, be poised and be silent." The stylist is implying that the only way a woman should be appealing is by obtaining these qualities. Personally, being a woman myself, this portrait of woman-expectancy that reveals the sexism that is present in this movie, makes me question what young boys take away from this particular section of this movie. To add on, when Mulan steps up to go into war for her father, she is still looked down on for doing the impossible. Her ancestors say, "Mulan's father, forever shall be shamed because a woman is taking her place in war." Mulan is willingly taking the place of her injured father. This act is noble if a man were to do it; however, this movie suggests that it is shameful for a woman to perform the same honorable act. When Mulan is preparing to face the other soldiers, her male horse laughs in her face for trying to act as male. Animals are treated as less than humans and the way that the horse demotes Mulan portrays women as being even less than an animal; proving the sexism further. In the song that plays when the men are getting ready for war, Li Shang, the captain of the troops, says "Did they send me daughters, when I asked for sons?" Li Shang is downgrading women without realizing that Mulan is in his presence. A great amount of sexism goes on throughout the plot of this movie coming in the form of humans and even animals. Even though Mulan faces an enormous amount of unbelievable sexism, she proves that she can do whatever a man is able to do. When going through training, she comes in last and lags behind the other soldiers. However, as time goes on, she trains hard enough to become first in the races and training practices. Also, when in battle, Mulan is first in line with all the men behind her. She selflessly goes head first into the opposing army's soldiers in order to swiftly beat them in battle. Mulan uses logical alternatives to excel farther than the men in her troops and on the opposing army. Though, scientifically, Mulan is not physically matched to the male soldiers, she substitutes her smart antics to fly high. Mulan's plot degrades women, however the main character changes this thought, helping women to realize that they can match anything that a man is capable of. I think that this movie begins with a large amount of demotion towards women but there is a satisfying ending to this assumption. Mulan proves that women are capable of more than being a trophy wife, and this is proved every day in the twenty first century. Women are CEOs and military lieutenants, which manifests their ultimate capability. Women are powerful and can do anything that they put their mind to. And if every woman realized this, sexism would not exist.