Thousands of years ago in ancient China‚ there lived a beautiful and smart young woman named Mulan. She lived with her parents‚ her grandparents‚ and her dog named little brother. Mulan’s father had once been a great warrior‚ but his leg had been injured in battle. As an only child‚ Mulan felt responsible for keeping the family honor.One day‚ a man arrived with terrible news from the Emperor. The Huns‚ China’s enemy‚ had attacked. The Emperor had ordered that one member from each family‚ man or
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Mulan “There is room enough for everyone” “You will never bring your family honor!” Mulan receives this comment from the matchmaker when she goes into town. Not a lot of people have faith in Mulan. She is different from all of the other woman in her country. She just likes to have fun and not care what anyone says about her. She is not your typical girly-girl‚ she likes to get down and dirty when she needs to be. None of the women or men agrees with this and it becomes a bigger problem than
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Orientalism Stereotypes found in Mulan Orientalism stereotypes have influenced us in believing that it is true. In the movie Mulan that we had watched in class‚ we had found quite a few stereotypes that were exaggerated in the movie. The songs they had played were catchy and memorable but they provided some examples of stereotypes in the film. Also another part of the film mentioned another stereotype where women in China were looked down upon by the men. Another major stereotype was when the movie
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Marisa Hoosac Word Count: 1503 Mulan-Chinese Tradition Introduction to World Religion T/T 9:30 As I sat down to watch one of my favorite childhood movies‚ Mulan‚ as a critic representing Chinese religion‚ I expected to see many changes that Disney may have made to the traditions to make it more understandable for children‚ but I shockingly found that Disney stayed true to many Chinese traditions. Something that stood out to me while watching this movie was the theme
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Disneyfiying Confucious’ Filial Piety as seen in Disney’s Mulan (1998) Filial Piety in the Ballad of Mulan compared to Disney’s version The legend of Mulan‚ the Chinese woman warrior‚ was first presented in an annonomous poem called “the Ballad of Mulan” which dated back the 6th sentury Tang Dynansty. The poem was written in five segments; each one represents Mulan’s origin‚ experience in the battlefield‚ and also sense of obedience to her family. The legend lives on as it is passed from one generation
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their gender and while we are living in a Patriarchy society which means that men are the one dominate on the two sexes and the movie mulan gives a general idea about how it is working. In the movie we saw that the women had only one jobs only that they had to be good for their husbands and that was said at the beginning of the movie when they sang a song saying that mulan should work her best to bring honor to the family and to her father by the ways that the society requires her to be and the way that
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Throughout this book I always thought how similar Jade Moon’s character and story are to the Disney Movie‚ Mulan. Jade Moon and Mulan have been secluded to the real world only knowing the boundaries of her country home and farm in China. Their fathers and grandfathers raised them and they only had “nushi” the housekeeper to be their example of a woman. Jade Moon and Mulan are very curious girls who want to see the world and experience all the things life has to offer. Everyone including their own
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modern times. Mulan used to show how women should act but the altered Disney version shows that women are as just as good as men. Robin hood has been changed from being a thief to showing how he can be a revolutionary leader. The Ballad of Mulan has inspired many Chinese women to defy traditional gender roles. In the last five years the traditional Chinese poem has been published in various versions of children’s books. In that time frame the story has changed a little. In the movie‚ Mulan takes her
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The 1998 disney movie “Mulan” is a film that despite encouraging the empowerment of individual women‚ is not free from common gender stereotypes. The gender roles within this film are very different and have set duties and personality traits that they must live up too. For example‚ the males are seen as astute‚ muscular‚ brave and dominant whilst women are portrayed as weak‚ feeble‚ insignificant and soft compared to their male counterparts. For example‚ in the first song “Honour to us All”‚ the
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Behind Disney The documentary “Mickey Mouse Monopoly” written by Chyng Sun and directed by Miguel Picker‚ discusses the truth behind Disney and the message it gives to young children. Disney portrays a lot of racism in their movies by correlating black or dark animals as being evil and always up to no good. This teaches little kids that people of color are monstrous and bad people when really they ’re not. It ’s not common to see an African American or Latino as an actual person in Disney as they
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