Analysis Of The Movie Mulan

In Mulan, the stereotype of an obedient women, good housewife, and beautiful women who are married off is presented. When I see the heroine of the movie she conforms to the Asian race appearance, she has the common sexual identity of heterosexual, she is able-bodied and young. Mulan goes against her Asian culture of how women are supposed to be, a terrible housewife, clumsy, and has a hard time being obedient. She tries to fit into the stereotype in order to appease her parents. When her father is drafted into the military, however, Mulan confronts the gender box. She cuts her hair short, joins the military, becomes a strong woman who is capable of fighting, develops a sense of independence, and learns how to follow her own beliefs as opposed

The idea of feminism has not always been common. The term “feminism” wasn’t introduced until the 1970s. This shows how society didn’t allow anything that had to due with everyone being equal because of the standards that society constructed. In all the versions of Mulan, I think that Disney’s Mulan was the most strict on her having Ancient China’s role of being a woman. This would be having kids, helping clean around the house and not working for money, but working for her husband and kids. In Disney’s Mulan, her family is more hard on her to be a lady and for her to be the proper role of a women. This is because they went to a “matchmaker” to find her husband, and after saving everyone several times, she was still looked down upon because she was a woman.

In 2009, Disney launched their first black princess ever in the movie “The Princess and the Frog”. The black princess, however, spends most of the movie as a frog. She was a poor princess and her mother worked for white people. This enforces the stereotypes that African-Americans are majority poor or part of the lower class. There was also a gender stereotype since the princess was still helpless alone and needed a man to help her launch her dream of opening up a restaurant. “While some critics and audiences may argue that disney made good on eliminating the most overt representations of sexism and racism in the princess and the frog, others may argue that the company likewise failed to counter Micheal claim that disney films and theme parks tender as a norman rockwell painting.” In this article Breaux concentrates on the representations of the historical crossing of race and gender in Disney's The Princess and the Frog and black women in animated film in the USA. It explains more on how Disney and Pixar studio executives and animators to use The Princess and the Frog to respond to its critics claims about the perpetuation of sexism and racism in its animated features. It has three important sections which explains how Disney attempted to answer criticism about the absence of African Americans and mothers in its films, the presence of physically over-sexualized and emotionally prince-dependent, and the representations of animated black women in the history of film and Disney's rewriting or sanitizing of African American history and denial of its and our nation's racist past. In Mulan (1998), she is struggling with the image that her family and society have established on her. She must be presentable as a bride to uphold her family honor. However, when her aging father is called upon to military service when the huns invade, Mulan takes it upon herself to act like a man and take her father’s place. Mulan is trying to make something of herself without obtaining male companionship. Mulan doesn’t adjust with traditional views of feminine behavior. Rather, she challenges these views. Mulan cares more about justifying her duty and saving her father than romantic connections. Mulan definitely had the greatest

Disney’s animated movie Mulan handles the topic of a female heroism. Throughout the 88 minutes of running time, Mulan suffers under the traditional gender roles and discrimination against females, but overcomes these obstacles to bring honor to her family. Disney’s Mulan tells the story of a young girl named Mulan who lives in Imperial China in the 15th century. Her country has been invaded by the Huns and the Emperor orders for one man from each family to serve for the Imperial Army.

Disney’s animated film Mulan captured the hearts of many of the corporation’s fan’s hearts when it first arrived in 1998. The film is based on one of China’s most beloved poems entitled “The Ballad of Mulan,” which tells a similar story of a young woman dressing up as a male in order to enlist in the army to protect her father. Disney’s Mulan focuses heavily on the individual struggle of main character to find out who she is and where she fits into society, which deviates away from the original storyline drastically. The differences are formed due to the large differences between the ancient Eastern culture that is trying to be portrayed and the Western ideals that Disney incorporated to make the movie more relatable for the modern Western viewers. While this movie is full of imagery that paints a picture of a strong female lead that conquers evil by being her “true self,” it also contains many gender stereotypes that stem from the culture of the ancient Chinese belief system. Upon examining the movie further, it becomes obvious that the importance of accepting and conforming to gender roles that Mulan represents is not only rooted in Chinese culture but also finds origin in the cultural views of the West.

Furthermore, compared to the modern Disney Hua Mulan story, the classic hero Joan of Arc is much more gritty, harsh and real. Although she went to war at the beckon and call of her God, her voluntary sacrifice for her country, and leadership skills in battle were much more real than Mulan’s, sudden accomplishments of insubordination. Not only that but the difference in how they went about dressing as men differed. For instance Mulan goes undercover as a man to replace her father in the war, but Joan of arc entered the war as a woman and dressed as a man out of personal preference showing that she is proud of who she is, unlike mulan who is unsure of who she is.

Mulan, another Disney princess film, was released in 1998 during a wave of feminism. At first glance, Mulan seems like a feminist film encouraging individual empowerment of women. However, the film is not free of the traditional stereotypes. Disney does try to get rid of the stereotypical “Damsel in distress” story, but, upon watching the movie a couple more times, one can see that it isn’t as feminist as it first appeared. Mulan strengthens a binary understanding of gender stereotypes the privilege men over women.

The the stereotypical belief people have about women is proved otherwise though this film. We see from instances like the women being brave and strong amidst wars and not giving in inspite of the police demanding them to surrender that they were as bold as

When we typically think of a cross-gender performance we often don’t look towards animated G-rated movies, however, the Walt Disney film Mulan produced in 1998 and directed by Tony Bancroft and Berry Cook, is a perfect example of a cross-gender performance. Mulan was one of the first examples in a Disney film, of a cross-gender performance and gender coded behaviors. Based off of the fifth-century Chinese poem “the Ballad of Mu-lan” the animated film takes place in China during the Han Dynasty, after the Huns have invaded China. Mulan is a young woman who decides to disguise herself as a man so that she can go to war instead of her elderly father. With no visual reference to base the character off of, Mark Hann, the primary animator on the team, struggled with creating a character that was an “outcast tomboy”. Primarily the struggle was to create this image of a lovable outcast without referring to the disjunction of her manly

Throughout centuries there have been stories, or myth, told among the people of this world. A lot of those stories include women. Women are usually viewed as weak, unintelligent, and insignificant back in the late ages. There are some men who wrote myths that even hate women all together, such as Hesiod. In all of the myths there seems to be a goddess of great paramount to the myth somewhere in the story. So, even those women were looked down upon and viewed unequal to man they played a great role in the importance to the hero. That being said, women or goddess are just as important as men in each of these stories and they play important roles in each of the myths.

In the beginning of the movie, Mulan’s father volunteer himself to join the Chinese army because he was the only male in is family, Mulan runs to the person who is recruiting her father to beg him to let her father out of it because he is disable because of the previous battles and that if she had to she would take his place. Before she even finishes her sentence the man recruiting her father said “Silence! You would do well to teach your daughter to hold her tongue in a man’s presence”. This is an example of how women are seen as submissive to males and how they are males are superior to them. When Mulan’s father volunteer to go join the Chinese

Mulan tells the captivating story of a young woman who wants to protect her elderly father from serving in the military. To do this, she pretends to be a man and takes his place. There she proves that she can compete with the men, and keep up with the best of them. However, even though Mulan is a story about a confident, brave woman, it also shows viewers that being a man is superior to being a woman and that men are able to do things that woman can’t.

Beginning at a very young age in our lives, the film industry influences the way in which each individual interprets the actions that are taken by a character in a film. The constant portrayal of what characteristics would best fit with defining what it is to be a hero, seem to focus mainly on masculine traits. The desirable traits that are illustrated in the majority of the films are being independent, strong, and most importantly a male. However, the film Maleficent (2014), contradicts this idea. This film tells the story of Maleficent (Angelina Jolie), a young woman that has been fooled into believing in true love. When the person she believed was her true love, removes her most precious weapon she is left with great agony and a thirst for

She might not be the most feminine, she doesn 't wear a big poofy dress. No corset or high heels, but her natural beauty is what separates her from the rest. Mulan doesn 't need a man to stop her from pursuing her goals and accomplishments. She knows how to fight, be strong, and push through tragic times in her life. Her mind set shows that you don 't need to worry about being perfect and that you should just be yourself. Throughout the movie her main goal isn 't to fall in love which is one my most favorite points in the story that you do not need a prince to make you happy. And she also demonstrated that women can be strong and fight even though people expect them to be damsels. I also love how she carries herself with confidence, beauty, and modesty. Mulan is a strong, intelligent, independent woman. She aims to bring honor to her family and, more importantly, to find out who she truly is. She uses intelligence and persistence to succeed in the army and save her country. She does not rely on beauty or status to get her places.

Over the years, mainstream media, such as television shows or movies have become very popular. It is something that many people turn to for entertainment and is something that is constantly developing. However, what many people disregard or accidentally look past when enjoying these plot twisting, mesmerizing and incredible creations is the hidden and indirect messages. The film Mulan, which was produced in 1998, may seem like a movie that simply demonstrates a young Chinese women going to war for her father’s sake and coming home as a successful female hero, when in fact, it portrays much more. Underneath the storyline and general message of the movie, Mulan constructs the identities of young, Chinese, middle class women as always needing to be in a heterosexual relationship. This normalizes heterosexuality, race and gender roles.