Millennium director

Mulan is the most special princess in Disney.

Other Disney princesses are all fair-skinned, beautiful, and soft. Whether it is Cinderella, Snow White, or the mermaid, they are all set to be submissive and gentle girls.

And their stories are very similar. The heroines of truth, goodness, and beauty are bullied or in trouble for various reasons, and are finally saved by the prince, and then live a shameless and happy life with the prince.

It is not that this kind of princess is not good, but this kind of princess meets the definition of the word "princess" in most people's minds.

But Mulan is not like this.

Mulan is special and unique.

First of all, Mulan is not a princess. She is just an ordinary girl from a civilian family.

Then her story is not at all different from the traditional princess story. Her story shows the definition of "Who says women are inferior to men" and "Women can hold up half the sky".

She disguised herself as a man to join the army on behalf of her father, and then fought on the battlefield. She eventually became a general who defeated the northern nomads. When she returned victorious, the emperor discovered her female body.

Of course, there is also love in Disney's Mulan story. One of Mulan's comrades fell in love with her and even thought that there was something wrong with his sexual orientation. When Mulan finally revealed her identity as a girl, she lived happily with him.

But this story is really not about princes and princesses!

This is why Disney is so persistent in this story, and even if Niki Caro messed up, she had to find a new director to shoot it.

Because in this era, in Hollywood, which is wrapped up in political correctness, the story of "Mulan" is too correct.

First of all, the skin color is correct. This is a movie that does not feature white people as the protagonists.

Then the feminist color shown in the movie is also very correct.

My goodness, Mulan could dress up as a man to join the army in feudal society, and her performance was no worse than that of men. She eventually became a general and defeated the enemy. Isn't this enough feminism?

Those North American feminist organizations, seeing such a movie, dare to say a bad word?

Wouldn't they immediately blow it up?

And as long as there are no feminist organizations to make trouble, or even let them support this movie, then "Mulan" has already won half of the European and American markets.

Yes, the current European and American film market is so fantastic.

Just like those game manufacturers are afraid of being labeled as "objectifying women", even the appearance of game characters must be reviewed and modified by feminist organizations before they are put online.

Faced with this fierce wave of boxing, the European and American markets are now really afraid of feminism.

At the same time, they are afraid of LGBT.

What a coincidence.

"Mulan" also caters to the LGBT market from a certain perspective!

Because in the story, the male protagonist did not know that Mulan was a woman at first, but after struggling hard, he was sure that he liked Mulan and cared about her.

Then when Mulan was secretly taking a bath by the lake, he accidentally discovered that she was a woman.

So this movie also stands on the side of "love has nothing to do with gender" to a certain extent.

It can be said that the buff of "Mulan" has been fully stacked. At least in the past few years from 2020 to 2022, it is absolutely immune to all poisons. Once it is released, there will be a bunch of totalitarian organizations to escort it.

How could Disney be willing to miss such a good thing!

So, Wu Yuan began the preparations for "Mulan".

The script has been made according to his requirements. While retaining the style of Disney's princess movies, it is also necessary to fully respect Chinese culture and integrate more Chinese culture.

This is actually a very contradictory requirement, because the European and American style "princess" itself is a part of European and American culture. If it is integrated into Chinese culture, it will become a four-faced monster, so how to grasp this degree is a big test for the screenwriter team.

For this reason, Wu Yuan also formed a large screenwriter team, with a total of four Chinese screenwriters and four Hollywood screenwriters, to study the script together.

At the same time, Wu Yuan was not idle. In August, in the hot summer, he took Liu Yifei to a large equestrian field in Yanjiao District.

This equestrian field is a high-end club for rich people to train in equestrianism, but it is also open to the public.

When Wu Yuan brought his wife here, there were already several celebrities in the circle waiting.

Although the script has not been fully completed, Wu Yuan has basically finalized the actors.

Cheng Long, Zhu Yilong, Hu Ge, Huang Xiaoming, and Zhang Hanyu will play the main roles of the army in the movie, including generals, the male protagonist who likes Mulan, comrades who travel with Mulan, and the leader of the northern nomadic people.

These five people will also become the war horse male group of "Mulan".

So they also have to follow Liu Yifei for equestrian training.

Although these male actors have more or less filmed horse riding scenes in their past filming careers, especially Huang Xiaoming, when he was filming "The Return of the Condor Heroes" and "The Yang Family Generals", he did a lot of panoramic horse riding scenes, and he really rode by himself.

But it has been many years since then. Now when actors in the industry are filming circus scenes, they basically don’t ride real horses anymore. They all ride electric fake horses. It has been a long time since we have seen full-view circus scenes with actors facing forward in TV dramas. They are all edited together with close-ups and back-views of horses.

So this kind of “restorative” training is necessary, and it takes a long time.

Wu Yuan signed a contract with the equestrian arena. Several leading actors will have to undergo 2 months of training here, and they must be able to charge on horseback.

Because in his imagination, "Mulan" must have a lot of circus and fighting scenes.

Is it still a big battle without riding horses to fight with the northern nomadic people?

And this is only the first step of training. After completing the equestrian training, these leading actors will have to undergo another 2 months of martial arts training to learn a bunch of battle formations designed by martial arts instructors!

Knives, guns, sticks, clubs, spears, all kinds of weapons must be practiced well before they can adapt to the rhythm of filming.

As I said, Mulan is a special princess. In her story, war and martial arts are the keynotes. Romance and love are just a seasoning. It is different from those princesses who have gone through a lot of hardships just to be with the prince.

"Director Wu, I finally waited for you two." Cheng Long, who greeted Wu Yuan at the entrance of the equestrian arena, walked up with a smile on his face and hugged Wu Yuan.

Cheng Long actually didn't need to undergo 2 months of equestrian training, and Wu Yuan didn't ask for it, because he was a general who had more literary roles and didn't have many scenes.

But Cheng Long still took the initiative to join in the fun, mainly to maintain his friendship with Wu Yuan. After all, Cheng Long has not been very good in recent years, and his market environment is very bad.

Wu Yuan also understood, and with a smile on his face, he walked into the equestrian field with Cheng Long's arm around his shoulder and chatted with him about his recent situation. (End of this chapter)