And in the scene, Mulan actually reinforces this idea, that being a woman is like being useless. Men are seen as intelligent, strong, powerful and the primary actors in life, while women are just accompanying them: they are portrayed as weak and insignificant.
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One of the messages in the movie though is that femininity is the binary opposite of masculinity. It seems like she goes through similar stages. This also makes us think about coming out, and accepting homosexuality. Mulan is confused with this idea of a dual self: when she looks at herself in the mirror, it doesn’t align with her internal feelings.
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Butler argues that gender is performed and that it is performative, it is acted through a series of imitations.
She sees marriage as a play, so not as something she truly wants and respects, she looks further than only becoming a wife. The lyrics suggest the struggle of the character to be accepted for who she truly is. The film was released in 1998, which was the third wave of feminism, and explains the primary message of the movie: you can be a girl and a hero. There are different meanings to that song. This kindly suggests a disruption is coming soon and that she is not going to accomplish her role as a ‘perfect bride’. The scene ends with Mulan singing “Must I pretend that I am someone else for all time? When will my reflection show who I am inside?”. It will be interesting to see if the new film decides to play up the LGBTQ aspects of the relationship or if the film will leave the idea as subtext only.The following shot is her reflection on numerous mirrors, she removed her makeup, she is accepting herself step by step, and the shot highlights her rejection of normative gender roles in the Chinese society: she wants to choose who she wants to be. Yoson An will play Chen Honghui, a fellow soldier who will fulfill the love interest role. Donnie Yen will play Commander Tung, the leader of Mulan's regiment of soldiers. Rather than seeing Mulan fall for her commanding officer, the character that was Li Shang has been split in half.
A few things have been changed up for the remake. Now, Mulan is set for the live-action adaptation treatment from Disney. It may not be much, but considering how few LGBTQ characters were out there, it was embraced by many. The film doesn't actually present it in quite that way, but it's not difficult to make such connections. Even Li Shang has to come to terms with the fact that he discovers he has feelings for Mulan, somebody that he, until recently, believed was a man. While the audience knows the truth, the relationship looks like one man having feelings for another. Mulan takes on the guise of a male character and then proceeds to have feelings for her commanding officer Li Shang. As Ming-Na Wen says, there was never any specific intention to make Mulan a gay story, and yet, that's exactly what happened. Mulan lifted them up, inspired them, and left a lifetime impact. It was never the intention to imply that Mulan was gay, but the mere image of her changing into a boy was enough of a representation to young boys and girls of LBGTQ. That was part of Mulan's folklore in China.
She had to dress up and impersonate a man in order to do that. Mulan's story was about a loving girl whose filial duties to protect and save her father gave her the courage to take his place in the army.
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