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Contents 1 Trivia? 2 Controversy 3 Chirp...chirp...chirp 4 Chinese culture 5 Amount of Films 6 Songs & Soundtrack 7 Xioungnu-Huns 8 GOOFS SECTION 9 What if... 10 Cast 11 "Fact"

[edit] Trivia?

I'm not sure if this is a real reference or not, but the scene where Mushu delivers the false note to Chi Fu via panda was a little remniscient of "lion king"...with the whole, "Who are you?" "Excuse me? I think the question is, who are YOU?"

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Shouldn't the legend of Mulan be discussed before the movie based on that legend?

See Hua Mulan for an article on the legend. --b. Touch 04:50, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Controversy

There's quite a few controversies in this film. One of them is where Mulan in the scenes where she wants people to call her "Ping", goes to pond where guys go to the pond to have fun as they don't have on any clothes. --PJ Pete

[edit] Chirp...chirp...chirp

Why doesn't the article mention the Cricket? I'd insert him if I knew where to... --Wack'd About Wiki 22:38, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chinese culture

Anybody want to address the accuracy of Mulan to Chinese culture? (Not the legend, but culture in general) For example, rumors are that some things were more Japanese based than Chinese based. Anybody want to comment?

Some american viewers complained that Mulan's dress and hairstyle looks more japanese than chinese. But a Disney source suggested that the styles are accrute to the time Mulan story took place. So... Hermansaksono 09:08, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

I also think that Mulan looks more Japanese than Chinese. Heck, she even looks like Yumi Ishiyama from Code Lyoko with her hair sliced short. --User:Angie Y.

The reason someone mistakes that Mulan looked Japanese was simple. The existing Japanese traditional clothes and hair style were copied from Chinese Tang Dynasty which would be about a couple of centuries after Mulan. The military armor, the weaponaries, the helmets and the clothes are very authentically chinese. Centralk 19:04, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

NO, that's how Chinese dressed back then.

[edit] Amount of Films

Uh, there's more than one film called Mulan, it said here on the Internet Movie Database [1]. --PJ Pete

[edit] Songs & Soundtrack

Why is it that there is a Songs section and a Soundtrack section, the songs section just has four songs from the Soundtrack. I removed the songs section but kept the Soundtrack one. Cbrown1023 22:22, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Xioungnu-Huns

In the section called "Goofs" the first sentences say:

"The primary villains of the film are Huns, depicted here as an invasion force from the north. In reality, the Huns never attacked China--the Mongols did."

That isn't true, both Qin and Han dinasty fought them and specially during the 2th century BC the huns attacked and sacked the northern regions of China, before the great campaigns of Wu-Di and his succesors wich could defeat theirs in the steppe. So that sentence must be changed.

-Fco —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.55.144.187 (talk • contribs).

Done. Thanks. --Nlu (talk) 23:13, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GOOFS SECTION

In the 'Goofs' section it is noted that Mulan does not start bleeding until after the avalanche, however this could be explained because she is wearing armour and the blood took a while to soak through the thick material therefore not counting as an error.

Secondly, the section also comments on Chien-Po "defying the laws of physics" and Shan Yu's eyes being a colour that is "impossible" in reality. I was wondering if these actually count as errors since Disney rarely complies to natural laws or reality? If they do then should not all impossibilities be mentioned e.g. the ability of a cricket to write Chinese? --Chess 77 22:53, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

I was thinking the same thing. I removed those two; they're simply artistic license, nothing more. BioTube 00:23, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What if...

Say, what if Disney can make a sequel to Mulan called "MUSHU", where it takes place in the same place, but THIS TIME... it stars more mostly Mushu than Mulan? In it, the villain would be a two headed more comic Chinese Black Dragon, Hong and Kong, who say to the skull of Shan-Yu, that he (or they) is the "MAIN" villain. This sequel possibly would have more comedy, and more songs, which no Hun can sing alongS. The Emperor should appear, but even though the person who provided the voice of him died before I put these words here, I think his voice would be an archive sound, same sound as from the previous appearances. And, I should say, that since Eddie Murphy has voiced Mushu in his first appearance, and haven't even did a reprise, I don't want Mark Mosesly to voice him in "MUSHU". I don't wanna be mean, but Mark's good, but Eddie's BETTER! The sequel will begin in a puppet theater, with a broadwayeqe song, including a medley of songs from the previous Mulan movies, and story. Mulan would appear in "MUSHU", just not as much as Mushu, I think it is confirmed that Mulan's SPOKEN voice would be provided by Ming-Na, and SUNG by Lea, Shang's SPOKEN by Wong, and SUNG by Osmond. Plus, it would have the return of the 3 Chinese Princesses who "wants to be like the other girls". Shan-Yu will not appear in "MUSHU" (excluding the skull), like he never did in Mulan II at all (not even the skull), due to plot reasons in the first movie. Disney never even thought about that idea, is that true? I'd like to see it come. If ANY of you who are viewing the discussions can contact the Disney Company, themselves, you can try and ask them about the idea, what you might think, alright?

[edit] Cast

I added a cast section since there wasn't one. Hope it was okay Small5th 05:49, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Umm...I appreciate to whoever added all this cast information, but isn't it a bit too much, considering none of the other Disney movies in wikipedia has all these countries, and the country that this movie most relevent to (China) isn't even included? What do you guys think? Small5th 22:37, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

I completely agree. 71.99.132.202 03:30, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Fact"

From the article:

It is the only Disney animated feature aside of Pocahontas to be based on fact.

Hua Mulan is a legend, and not a (for certain) fact. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.20.238.31 (talk) 07:42, 24 January 2007 (UTC).

Okay seriously...I don't think Hercules is a fact...unless there are such things as "half-gods" on this earth...and I agree I don't think Mulan was a fact either! Small5th 03:47, 26 January 2007 (UTC)