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Promotional material of Mulan Photo: @Disney's Twitter account Mulan
Disney released the first official trailer of his film Mulan live-action during half-time at the FIFA Women's World Cup finals on Sunday.
Almost at the same time, Disney China also released the trailer with Chinese subtitles on the social media platform Sina Weibo.
Disney's first Asian princess quickly enters China's social media trend lists.
Clbadical of the 90s
Adapted from an ancient Chinese story, the Disney animated film Mulan was screened for the first time in 1998. It tells the story of a young man woman claiming to be a man to perform the military service of his father and protect the country.
Two decades later, a live-action version is in preparation, directed by New Zealand director Niki Caro and starring Liu Yifei, Li Gong, Donnie Yen and Jet Li.
Although the beautiful Songs and the little Mushu dragon are an integral part of the original film, according to a report from USA Today, there will be no singing or small red dragons in the new Mulan .
"Mulan's journey must be accompanied by Mushu, his lucky cricket and his battle horse!" said netizen EliTe to Sina Weibo.
Another important character in the new trailer of Mulan is the matchmaker, portrayed by the Chinese-American actress Pei-Pei Cheng.
Cheng's is famous for his performances in many kungfu films, such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon . This is why many Chinese netizens feel that his role in the new film is not to teach Mulan good wife but how to kick the bad.
This is not the first time that the story of Mulan is adapted to a real action movie.
A Chinese production film starring actress Zhao Wei debuted in 2009, but only got a 6.2 / 10 on the Chinese press review site Douban. In addition, the dramas of the ancient past of China are quite common in the Chinese market.
Despite this, the reception of the trailer on Chinese social networks has been relatively positive.
However, some Internet users have reported historical inaccuracies in the trailer
such as the appearance of the Fujian tulou, a traditional building in Fujian Province, East China, which appears to be the residence of Mulan and his family, which may mean that Mulan is from Fujian Province. However, according to the original story, Mulan lived in northern China.
In addition, the original ballad was written at one time between the north and south of the dynasties (386-589), while the traditional caravan buildings first appeared during the Song Dynasty (960 -1279).
"The mistakes are pretty obvious to the Chinese public," commented netizen Zhuiju Xiaomaolv M on Sina Weibo. "Maybe Disney wants the Chinese princess to have a castle."
The Right Choice
In recent years, Hollywood has been accused of whitewashing characters in movies. For example, in the live adaptation of the Japanese anime Ghost in the Shell the main roles played by Scarlett Johansson were originally Japanese.
According to a BBC report, before Disney announced who would play Mulan, an online petition asking an Asian actress to play Mulan had collected more than 100,000 signatures before it closed on November 30, 2017. [19659004]Disney launched a global audition for Mulan to finally tackle the Chinese-American actress Liu Yifei, whom netizens considered a victory.
After the broadcast of the trailer, netizens hailed Liu's performance, saying that the actress is "the ideal actress" to play the role of Mulan.
while Chinese actress Gong Li will embody an evil witch.
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