- Disney's live action Mulan finds it's star.
There's a new Mulan in their house.
(upbeat pop music)
Have you watched the Mulan from 1998?
And have you watched the latest Beauty
and Beast live action movie from Disney?
What do you think about them? Comment below.
What do you guys think of the new
Mulan movie, the new direction.
- You know what, I think it's great.
I don't think I've ever really seen much
of you know, a Chinese heroine.
A Chinese live action figure, in general.
So I'm very excited, like someone not a princess.
And the latest release of Wonder Woman earlier
this year really kinda carried the momentum forward.
I'm personally very excited, right, cause you
know for me I love action movies.
Growing up I really didn't resonate
with princesses or Barbies, right?
But you know fighting for a cause and just being tomboyish
and all that stuff, those things appeal to me.
So even right now I'm super-uber looking forward to it.
- And I think Disney, now this time,
I think they're going to the right direction.
I think this time they gone through
almost 1,000 people casting, right, audition.
- Yes so--
- To find the right person for the role, right?
- Yeah, so I think Disney's very serious
this time with defining, I think a few criteria.
You know, somebody Chinese. - Yeah Chinese, yes.
- Someone who speaks fluent English, someones who's got
martial arts experience, who's done some movies so--
- Cause Mulan is a warrior, is a fighter, right?
Is like a Wonder Woman, right.
Not superpower, but is a fighter.
- Yeah so she basically, she wanted to go
into the military and back then in China only
for men, military's only for men.
- Yeah, and because she doesn't want the father
to go, cause it's too dangerous.
So she pretended to be a man and go and won the battles.
- That's right.
- Imagine, it's a true story, as a woman
you gotta disguise yourself as a man
for years in the military, how tough that is.
And he did, and fought in the battle, right?
And Mulan's such a, I remember when I was little kid,
I learned the poem about the story, right?
And it was like, oh this interesting, cause most poems
at the time, when I was in school it's all about men.
And you have this woman power, this woman character.
So, I still remember, I don't remember any other poem,
but I still remember that particular poem, right?
So in this case, are they gonna still have
a new song, is that what they're thinking?
Cause the song was so iconic right, back then--
- From Coco Lee-- - From Coco Lee.
- And Christina Aguilera.
- Yeah so that was so iconic, are they gonna use
the song again, kinda like Beauty and the Beast?
- Yeah so there is a lot of hype right now,
I think from people reminiscing back to the 1998.
A lot of what people loved about the movie
was all about the sing-alongs, the songs right?
What Disney's really all about, right?
With the live action I really don't see them.
You know, it's not a Broadway, right?
I really don't see them going into that direction.
Even though a lot of people have expressed, it would be
great if they just break out into songs.
Me, personally, I'd rather not see that.
I'd rather it be like more serious, let's see
what Hollywood can do with the story.
And have it be, follow as much as possible
to the historical storyline and see how that plays out.
- They might play the song in the end credit, right?
- Possible.
- Or even as a background music, but not
actual sing-along, like a theater.
- It would be weird.
Imagine Mulan's fighting and singing song,
♪Fighting for my dad. ♪
That would be so weird.
- I don't know I watch a lot of Bollywood movies.
(laughing)
That's kind of what they do, right?
They're like talking something like that,
and then they turn and then--
- A bunch of dancers.
- And they're dancing right there, right?
And then all, the whole street, anyone that's
on the street, everybody can dance.
- Grandma, grandpa.
- Everybody can dance and doing their thing, right?
And everybody, and then suddenly change scenery.
Like, not on the street anymore.
And they go different country, I actually love that.
- But even Beauty and the Beast, the movie came out
last year there were, the beginning there were scenic.
- Yeah, I think it was a good movie.
I mean I watched it, in the theater.
- I loved the movie, yeah.
- I liked the movie, I still, I watch
the cartoon version many years ago.
But I still think, I know a lot of critics,
they don't like it, but you know critics are critics, right?
- But I think knowing Disney, they're probably trying
to do this Mulan movie just to tap
into the Chinese kind of market.
- Yeah, and they know need a Chinese
actress to do that, right? Otherwise.
- Yeah exactly, and I think for me, personally, I'm really
proud of Disney for going through the extent of auditioning
so many people and to set all those criterias.
Because there have been a lot of movie watchers that
have not been pleased, with some of
Caucasian actors being cast in Asian roles.
Probably like Matt Damon, you know
The Great Wall of China movie.
Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell, where her mom
was Japanese but she was Caucasian in the movie.
- It felt a little weird.
- It did it was--
- But she did a great job.
- She did.
- She did a great job, but it just, it's not the same.
But I mean Hollywood also want to take a safer route, right?
Or maybe if I cast a Chinese or a Japanese character as the
main leading actor and actress it's just too big of a risk.
- Yeah, that goes back to the actress, actually she is
already a top, a really top, top movie star in China.
- And she's a great actress and I've seen her other drama
movies and she's like-- - She is very very--
- She's a good person, for this role.
- And then she is not the typical kinda of--
- Princess.
- Yeah, and the Chinese girls in Caucasian peoples eyes,
the girls like this, is not typical like that.
She's actually very pretty as an Asian.
- [Dan] Has that traditional Chinese beauty, right?
- [Jenny] Yes.
- [Dan] Yeah, it's a little bit more like that.
Not the whole plastic surgery--
- [Jenny] No, no, no.
- And, or the drama she was in, very famous drama in China,
also it's about a character from many many years ago.
- Yes.
- So it's historic character too, right?
- Yes.
- So although fiction, but historic character.
- Yes.
- So that's good, so we looking forward to that movie.
Are you looking forward to that movie?
Comment below, let us know, maybe
you've watched that, the version 1998.
What is your expectation, are you scared?
Are you looking forward to that?
Do you want to hear a song, do you want the
song in the movie? Let us know.
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