have you ever impulsively made a video criticizing a movie and it blows up so much you're basically obligated to become a legit youtuber that's me that happened with my review of mulan NUMBER_TOKEN and since so many of you asked for my thoughts on mulan NUMBER_TOKEN the original cartoon here it is to start off full disclaimer i love the cartoon it's one of my favorite movies and also it never marketed itself on authenticity and like the NUMBER_TOKEN movie which like put up authenticity as a shield to justify filming near muslim concentration camps in xinjiang it was just oh like the NUMBER_TOKEN movie tried to act like it was doing chinese people a gigantic favor by making it uh so authentic and like accurate to the original ballot but it was actually none of that it was just like a bunch of pandering toward the chinese government which no one likes so this video is not meant to diminish the value of the cartoon i know it was important to many of us i'm just pointing stuff out for purely educational purposes also i first live tweeted this on twitter and two artists who actually worked on mulan NUMBER_TOKEN showed up to add their commentary so i'll be including those on the screen alright let's start so this movie opens with an ink drawing on a landscape to let you know how asian it is right away this is the asian disney princess you guys this is a reference to the most prominent style of painting in chinese art ink brush painting classical chinese painting isn't like in europe where they try to go for realism and they use realism as the golden standard for how good art is though i know they didn't do that during odd periods so don't come for me art nerds in classical chinese art the goal is to capture abstract vibes and as little strokes as possible mostly because it was black ink on pale paper so if you mess up one stroke you messed the whole thing up so like classical chinese artists i i assume that they were basically painting like so it was very minimalist and all about the vibe the energy and the artists really liked to paint mountain landscapes and plants maybe the occasional bird or cat this cat painting was done by an actual emperor by the way what have you been doing with your life so yeah being realistic isn't everything in ireland and therefore you shouldn't bring out realistic european oil paintings to make fun of other cultures art i've seen it happen stop doing it some brush strokes of the great wall make a neat transition into the actual great wall on it the watchtowers are flying dragon flags in history they probably would have flown the name of the dynasty instead but i understand that this movie wasn't trying to go for like an actual dynasty it's just like a general chinese inspired fantasy movie which is valid because a mulan doesn't even technically belong to a single dynasty because she's a folklore figure not a historical one sorry to those of you who thought she was real she probably wasn't but her stories generally take place from about a thousand to one point seven thousand years ago in the northern and southern dynasties or the soy dynasty or even the tang dynasty
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