Disney’s “Mulan” Drops Teaser Trailer
After all the hype and anticipation for the new Disney live-action movie, Mulan <花木蘭>, dropped its first official teaser trailer this week, letting fans get a glimpse of Crystal Liu (劉亦菲) as she takes on the character of Fa Mulan.
Although not a lot of details were actually shown in the short trailer, the clip showed Mulan being forced into an arranged match-making session by Cheng Peipei (鄭佩佩). Wearing traditional Chinese clothing and pale-faced makeup, Crystal was being taught the various qualities of a good wife – quiet, composed, graceful, and disciplined.
Unable to abide by these traditional qualities, Mulan instead decides to dress up as a male to join the army in place of her elderly father. Showing off her fighting skills and sword-wielding abilities in the trailer, Crystal surprised fans with her new tough-girl look.
Besides Crystal as the titular character, the movie boasts an impressive cast, including Donnie Yen (甄子丹) as the commander general, Jet Li (李連杰) as the emperor, and Gong Li (鞏俐) as the evil witch.
Although there is much excitement surrounding the new movie, some fans in China were not very thrilled about how the cast speaks English despite this being a movie about China. Some also noticed that historical details were inaccurate, especially the fact that Mulan, who is actually from Northern China, somehow ends up living in Southern China in the movie.
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This article is written by Su for JayneStars.com.
The picture on the left is showing homage to the cartoon, and possibly historical accuracy for that era makeup style (unlike current cdrama who basically just do makeup to current trend/whatever make the cast look beautiful!). The trailer is a lot better than I expected, the fighting choreography is very good, LYF did known for her dance/graceful yet experienced fighting scenes, and they manage to make LYF look down to earth, instead of her usual fairy pretty face that everyone know of her.
Disney changed the locale to south China and the time period to the Tang Dynasty. The left picture reflects exaggerated makeup of Tang aristocrat ladies.
This is a Disney movie, of course the cast speak in English. You don’t hear Aladdin speaking in Arabic either do you ?
@prettysup1 Exactly! I honestly don’t know what people are expecting from a Disney movie – it’s for international audience! If they want to hear Chinese, wait for the dubbed version.
I’m looking forward to see the veterans in the movie more than LYF lol.
@prettysup1 Chinese thinks they superior and everyone needs to bow to them lol.
why would hollywood film a film in chinese when it could have been done in china. don’t know what people are complaining about. they film a variety of english speaking shows where the story originated in another country speaking a different language
I am interested in the veterans, too. All over my Facebook, my non-Asian friends were posting the trailer for Mulan. There is a lot of excitement for it.
i am so looking forward to this.