venii-vidii-vicii:

Just here to repost some of my favorite Hardie Boys art I’ve made cuz my boys deserve to have RESPECT PUT ON THEIR NAME and also cuz the fanbase grew since I last posted anything and I wanna continue to spread my Titus/Glen propaganda

evendeadlmthehero:

Why are you guys mad that that Ariel is a women of colour? You should be mad that Li Shang isn’t part of the live-action version of Mulan, because they wanted Mulan to “not be reduced to a love interest”. Li Shang had a story too. His father died & he had to step up and become a leader at a young age. He had to make a decision to kill or not kill the person who saved his life. He risked his life, trusted Mulan and dressed up as a prostitute to cause a distraction instead of crying about masculinity. He was a role model to little boys. By Disney doing this, Li Shang is the one reduced to a love interest. You can’t claim to be a feminist & then oversee things like this.

kisaheart:

Okay, bro.  If Shang isn’t a bisexual icon, why did Disney replace him with a different love interest?  They didn’t do that with any of the other live action princess movies.

Whether Shang is canonically bi or not, Disney definitely felt threatened by the attention his sexuality got.  Clearly there must have been evidence of something if Disney felt the need to completely axe his character.

(via flower-love8876-deactivated2021)

“Mulan” was censored in Weibo (China’s social media platforms) after media discovered the film location was in XiJiang concentration camp

leedayoung-art:

Wrong Representation of Culture in the 2020 Mulan Film

I guess everyone knows that the live action remake of Mulan is a lot worse than the 1998 original, but as an East Asian person, I want to address how our culture is wrongly represented in this movie. I have not seen this movie and I will not, but I feel like this problem needs to be addressed.

1. The Concept of ‘qi(氣)’

In the movie, Mulan is born with the power of qi and she is special in that way, because normally, only men/warriors can harness qi. However, this is hugely inaccurate. Qi represents the vital energy inside a person, therefore is inside everyone. Qi is not a special power. Therefore, Mulan being born with this ‘power’ does not make sense at all. In addition, most men using qi as a power and Mulan being special as a woman born with that power is even less feminist than the original. This just implies that only women that are born powerful can be equally strong as men and that is not empowering at all.

(I mean wtf)

2. The Phoenix

In the 2020 adaptation, a Phoenix shows up. (And it is supposed to represent Mulan in a way) On the other hand, there is not such a thing as a Phoenix in Chinese (or Asian in general) culture. Disney just deleted Mushu the dragon because it was unrealistic and put in a Phoenix instead which is non-existent in Asian culture. (Though there is a birdlike creature similar to a Phoenix in Asian culture called 鳳凰 but those two represent different things. )

“ Some say the Phoenix is consumed by flame and emerges again.”

THAT QUOTE IS FROM THE MOVIE. WHEN THE CONCEPT OF A PHOENIX BEING REBORN THROUGH FIRE IS ONLY IN WESTERN MYTHOLOGY. THIS IS NOT FREAKIN HARRY POTTER.

3. Mulan Receiving the Sword

First, look at the scene.

The emperor does not directly give the sword to Mulan in the live action adaptation, unlike the animated movie. If the emperor gives a sword to another person indirectly , it means the emperor is ordering that person to kill themselves.

4. The Witch

Instead of the Huns, the Chinese army has to face a powerful witch. Later in the movie, the witch says that people treated her as an outcast because she was a powerful woman with magical powers. However, this does not make sense because ‘witches’ were not a thing in China in that time period. Actually, women with powers (mostly people who can bring spirits or tell the future) existed in China(and other countries including Korea and Japan), but they were not witches, more like shamans. Even though people did not see those women as all good and not dangerous at all, ‘witch hunts’ did not happen. (In fact, many common people sought help from them) Yeah so the witch does not make sense too.

Only western ppl killed witches get your facts right

(And that makeup was totally unnecessary)

There are a lot more, but these were just some of the most visible and the ones most relevant to the story. It’s funny that many of these info can be found by searching on the internet. This just emphasizes how much the people behind the camera were irresponsible about the culture they are supposed to represent in their movie.

blackcherrymerlot21-deactivated:

To all the people who say, “ I watched Mulan for Asian representation.”

This is the representation you want to give people of Asian descend. In a pandemic that happened because of this Asian country’s negligence. That has been seen physically and verbally abusing its citizens of African descend. That is literally committing genocide as you read this. That has been on the verge of colonizing all of Asian and Africa. That doesn’t even care for the well-being of it’s own culture and citizens. 

This is the representation you want to give your wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend, family, friends and CHILDREN?!!