In the 16th-century play “The Heroine Mulan Goes to War in Her Father’s Place,” she has bound feet. “Obviously, a lot of the international audience might not know the ballad, but for the ones who do, it’s nice.”Īfter the original poem, subsequent versions of the Mulan story added plotlines and details to flesh out the tale. “Any time there was an image from the ballad, I wanted to bring it to the film,” Caro said. On the big screen, she’s starred in silent movies (“Hua Mulan Joins the Army” from 1927) a gorgeous, full-color musical by the legendary Shaw Brothers (“Lady General Hua Mu-Lan,” 1964) a gritty, action-filled war epic (“Mulan: Rise of a Warrior,” from 2009, with Zhao Wei) - as well as a certain Disney animated movie, featuring a tiny red dragon.
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Over the centuries, she’s been celebrated in stage plays and operas, in musicals and TV series, in picture books and novels and young-adult fiction. In some, she’s a hardened army general in others, she has magical powers in yet others, she’s a crack shot with a bow. Long before fans criticized Disney for taking liberties with their beloved animated heroine, poets, writers, playwrights and filmmakers had been creating scores of wildly different versions of the legendary woman warrior.
No big musical numbers and soaring ballads? No Mushu, the wisecracking dragon, or Li Shang, the movie’s clearly conflicted love interest? No “Reflection”? Many felt that the filmmakers were being unfaithful to the Mulan legend - or at least to Disney’s own version of it.īut Mulan has always been the most adaptable of heroines.
When rumors of a live-action, nonmusical version of “ Mulan” began to trickle out a few years ago, many hard-core fans of the 1998 Disney original groused.
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