And, it was actually really ahead of its time. Looking back at it, Mulan brought up a lot of discussion about gender identity and gender roles. From songs like reflection: "Who is that girl I see staring straight back at me?" "Why is my reflection someone I don't know?" "When will my reflection show who I am inside?" to, of course, Make a Man Out of You, which illustrates everything a man "should be", which is contrasted by the fact that Mulan, a woman, proved to be all of these things. The movie helped show how useless, and constraining gender roles are, and that people don't always fit into a certain category. I say this movie is ahead of its time because it brings up issues that are just now, over 15 years later, being brought to the forefront of everyone's mind with the new wave of feminists and activists for gender equality. So, yeah. It's still one of my favorite Disney movies.
Great post. Yeah I agree, Mulan is definitely one of the best Disney movies, and I daresay it's underrated in terms of what it brought to us back then. Sure, everyone liked it, but not that many people bring up its undertones. At least back then they didn't much.
Still is one of my favorite Disney movies, alongside Hamle-I mean The Lion King and Lilo and Stitch. Not counting Pixar stuff right now.
In my head Pixar and Disney are two entirely separate things. And as far as I'm concerned they are, which is why it aggravates me when people say that Planes is Pixar, or that anything by Disney with cg animation is Pixar. My favorite Disney movie is The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Mulan's one of the better ones as well. is it weird that when I try and think of Disney movies I go through all of the kh worlds
