Independent and unconventional by her community’s standards, Fa Mulan leaves home disguised as a man to enlist in the ... adaptation of the centuries-old poem than an update of the animated ...

Sponsor Message Many novelists, playwrights and filmmakers have already tackled the ancient folk legend of Hua Mulan, a warrior who famously disguised herself as a man and fought valiantly in the ...

Part of the reason director Niki Caro chose to change Shang was because of the unfortunate implications of Mulan getting together ... calling her “little man.” On the defensive and thirsting ...

Mom (Rosalind Chao) is afraid she’ll be labeled a witch, and her dad (Tzi Ma) reminds of her place in an old ... one man from every family will be conscripted into the Imperial Army. Mulan ...

While the original poem doesn’t describe her father as old or ailing ... as with the original ballad, Mulan enlists in the army, disguised as a man, in the place of her fatherCourtesy Disney ...

YEN: I - my daughter's 16 years old. So when she was a baby, the best thing that a child can watch out of all the Disney animation, one of her favorite, obviously, was "Mulan." And I watched it ...

You know what happens next. Mulan takes her father’s old armor and the family’s legacy sword, disguises herself as a man and enlists in the army. Cue the obligatory training sequences ...

There is no Disney film I think about now, as a 37-year-old gay man, with more affection, gratitude, and respect than Mulan. Disney awakened my imagination and empathy. All those movies ask you to ...

But the retelling most familiar to Americans is just over two decades old, and therefore ... “The Ballad of Mulan,” a poem about a woman who pretends to be a man to take her ailing father ...

As shown by the movie's first few scenes, Mulan was all set to be married off to a nice man as she was dressed in traditional garb and set up for a meeting with a matchmaker. This was true of ...

To fight, Mulan must disguise herself as a man. Her actions reflect the view that ... Mulan goes off to war because her father is too old to ably fight and she has no brother to contribute to ...

The animated version portrayed Mulan as a novice (before that hummable boot-camp sequence makes a “man” out of her ... back and just returning to her old life, and we thought that that ...