Today, I went to see Hua Mulan with my friends, and went home to review the cartoon by the way. I liked this animation very much back then, but because of my young age, many of the details actually seem to be unintelligible, and I saw the dubbing in Chinese. Some of the meanings were not fully understood. This time I checked the gaps. At the beginning, as the ink painting outlines the Great Wall, the memories that have been in the dust for a long time gradually appear and become clear. When she saw Mulan decide to join the army for her father, cut her hair in the ancestral hall, and the music, she felt a little moist in her eyes. To be honest, the music really adds a lot to this animation. Not only does the melody sound nice, it also promotes the plot or exaggerates the mood every time it sounds. The lack of music in the film version is really a huge failure. The fight in the barracks is still so funny, and the palace rescue is still lively like a Chinese New Year. Hua Mulan looks handsome as well, nowhere higher than Liu Tianxian's CP in the movie.
It’s easier to see where the problem lies after watching the animation and comparing it with the movie. It is true that the Eastern imagination as a foreigner will not be completely based on historical facts, and the plot of the animation is also unreasonable and even exaggerated, but you will not have a strong sense of disobedience. Because animation is animation after all, unreasonable and exaggerated, it is originally part of animation. How could the real Mulan take the patron saint of the family to the battlefield. However, the audience's subconscious requirements and expectations of the movie, regardless of the authenticity and rationality of the plot, are far from the animation. The effect in the animation becomes a live-action movie, which seems a lot weird. For example, the patron saint of the movie Mulan, the colorful phoenix hovering over her head, I feel a special drama. And creating an avalanche to destroy the enemy is not so reliable, although it is in accordance with the settings in the animation. Of course, the entanglement of these plots in the film may also be caused by boring age. If that is the case, the above criticism can be ignored.
Revisiting the animated Mulan, the biggest gain is to realize the value of Mulan from the psychological level. For example, at the "Tongxiao Pass", the Musu brought by Mulan accidentally fired a cannon, which caused the team's traces to be exposed, and the gunpowder was fired until only the last one was left. If it were me, facing such a situation, I would definitely fall into deep self-blame. However, Mulan not only did not blame herself, on the contrary, she went too far, grabbing the last cannon and shooting at the snow-capped mountains. This move is entirely a gambling, and a bet on the entire team's net worth and lives. Fortunately, she won the bet. If you don't have a strong enough ego, you can't do this under tremendous pressure. And this kind of powerful self is exactly what I dream of.
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