![]() Upon arriving home to her proud family, Mulan trades in her armoury for the garb of the 'perfect daughter' and domestic life. She is praised and duly recognized for her bravery and sagacity. When the nefarious Shan-Yu threatens to overthrow the Emperor, again it is Mulan who saves the day. Our heroine rushes to the Emperor's palace to warn of the impeding danger to little avail. Mulan soon after discovers that the Hun army has survived. Although her life is spared, she is ordered to return home in disgrace. With the battalion shocked that 'he' is actually a 'she' (but perhaps more so that a woman was responsible for having saved their lives), Mulan is reprimanded severely. However her true gender identity is unmasked in the process. Under the command of Captain Li Shang, the small battalion braves and defeats Shan-Yu and his hideous Hun henchmen. Mulan undergoes gruelling drills to reconstruct her body as 'hard' and to reconfigure her psychical aspect in the frame of masculine fearlessness. In an act of filial devotion (and obligation) Mulan secretly takes his place in the army by disguising herself as a man knowing full well that such an act is punishable by death under military law.Īlthough Mulan looks the part of the male with her newly cropped hair and bulky armour, she must train in the art of performing the masculine - in order to be seen to possess it. Problems arise when her aged father is summoned to join the war against invading Huns. Based upon Chinese folklore, the film follows the escapades of a young girl called Fa Mulan. Mulan (1998) is one of the latest feature length animations to be released from Walt Disney Pictures.Mulan: Woman Warrior as Embodied Ambiguity Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacificĭirected by Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft.
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