What the corpus says about Mulan (2020)

The 50 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (22)

[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:26:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Mulan ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says the remake is what happens when filmmakers do not know what is good about the original. · "I think Mulan is kind of what happens when you don't really know what's good about your movie."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:28:58 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · lineage · The remake's wuxia/mystical style follows the wave of Chinese films that grew popular after Crouching Tiger and the Zhang Yimou films. · "they've gotten very big, kind of post, crouching tiger hidden dragon, and the Jang Yi-Mu films"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:29:22 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Hero ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · lineage · The remake borrows wuxia conventions in an attempt to appeal to international audiences, reading as a try at remaking Hero or House of Flying Daggers. · "it really just feels like an attempt to remake hero or house of flying daggers, which obviously makes sense to Amanda's point about appealing to international audiences"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:43:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi · lineage · Sean says the remake made him think most of The Last Jedi and the sequel trilogy, turning Mulan into a Rey type figure. · "The movie I thought of the most while watching this movie is the last Jedi."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:43:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Mulan ↔ Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker · lineage · Sean says the Rise of Skywalker screwed up expectations and he wonders whether Mulan will become an influential text like it. · "kind of how the rise of Skywalker kind of screwed up all the expectations that we had."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:21:31 · Mallory Rubin (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Mulan · theme · Mallory says making Mulan magical undercuts the story's point that her ordinary self is good enough. · "I was not a fan at all of turning Mulan into a, in essence, magical superhero"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:47:15 · Mallory Rubin (0.85)] Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi ↔ Mulan · theme · Mallory loves The Last Jedi's idea of Rey as a nobody who does not need a magic name or lineage, while Mulan leans on lineage and family. · "The thing that appealed to me so much about it was the idea of Ray being no one coming from nowhere"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:13:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker · theme · Amanda says the love interest tacked on at the end of Mulan 1998 echoes Rise of Skywalker's putting girls back in the romantic box. · "This is also what made me mad in Rise of Skywalker."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:20:32 · Mallory Rubin (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Mulan · craft · Mallory says losing the songs removes the efficient storytelling and character bonding the music provided. · "in the film, it is such an efficient way to move the story forward. It helps with the characters."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:41:07 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Mulan ↔ Mulan · craft · Jason says the 2020 version replaces advising characters with ancestral words on the sword, so Mulan is guided by the past not a person. · "Mulan, in this tale, is guided by the past, is guided by the words of her family"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:25:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Mulan ↔ The Lion King · contrast · Sean says the Lion King and Aladdin remakes hewed too close to the originals, while Mulan overcorrected by not knowing what was good in its source. · "I think Aladdin and the Lion King, I thought, worked a little bit too hard to retain the tone and the approach and story of the original films."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:33:28 · Jason Concepcion (0.75)] Harry Potter (films/books) ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · contrast · The remake's fox, witch, and magic lore feel borrowed from Harry Potter and Game of Thrones without gelling. · "There is these kind of, um, Game of Thrones and uh, Harry Potter kind of lore."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:34:12 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Mulan ↔ Ip Man · career · Jason says that after the remake he binged the Ip Man films because Donnie Yen barely does anything in Mulan compared with being the star there. · "I just, I binged like all the Ipmans on Netflix and it's like, you, this is not a fair comparison because he is the star of that, those, that series."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:24:20 · Jason Concepcion (0.85)] Mulan ↔ Mulan · verdict · Jason's verdict: in a vacuum the remake is a fine action movie but a disappointment as a follow-up to the original. · "In a vacuum, it's fine, I guess, you know, it's fine. It's a fine action movie."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:31:28 · Mallory Rubin (0.85)] Mulan ↔ Mulan · verdict · Mallory says revealing her identity by choice is better than being found out in an injury tent, but the overall list of improvements is smaller than the list of misfires. · "That's, to me, vastly superior to being found out in an injury tent."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:14:50 · Jason Concepcion (0.85)] Mulan ↔ Rumble in the Bronx · industry · Jason says Mulan, Rumble in the Bronx, and Better Luck Tomorrow were rare 90s movies for Asian American audiences. · "Rumble in the Bronx and Better Luck tomorrow, you know, from that era."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:18:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Tenet ↔ Mulan · industry · Tenet reopens theaters while Mulan goes to Disney+ at $29.99, two different pandemic release strategies. · "2999 price point, which is, um, some would say quite high"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:26:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Aladdin (live action remake) · industry · Amanda says the live action remakes are made for money and the question is always who they are for, with Mulan being for everybody and nobody. · "I think they're trying to make a movie for everybody and no one at once."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:36:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Maleficent · industry · Amanda reads the witch as Disney setting up a spinoff, 'maleficenting' the film to make way for franchise action figures. · "I was just like, oh, you made a maleficent character and you're setting up your maleficent spinoff."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:55:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Niki Caro ↔ Mulan · people · Sean says Caro's earnest, humorless films centering women make her a logical pick but tonally wrong for Mulan. · "all of her films have one thing in common, which is they're kind of humorless. They're very earnest, dramatic stories that center women in the middle of the frame."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:56:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Mulan ↔ Yifei Liu · industry · Sean says Liu's tweet backing Hong Kong police triggered a #BoycottMulan movement a year before release. · "triggered the hashtag band Mulan movement when she tweeted support for Hong Kong police"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:57:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Mulan ↔ Daryl Morey · industry · Sean compares the Mulan China controversy to the NBA's controversy after Daryl Morey's tweet last year, another Disney-style cultural flashpoint with China. · "we saw a version of this conversation in the NBA last year when Daryl Morey tweeted"

Films put beside it more than once (3)

[pairs] Mulan ↔ Mulan · said 6 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Mulan ↔ Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Mulan ↔ Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:23:10 · Jason Concepcion (0.85)] Mulan (2020 live action) · fun · Jason's one-line summary of the remake's magic: add Harry Potter's fox and a witch with dragon hands for no reason. · "let's throw fox from Harry Potter in there and why don't we add a witch for no reason with dragon hands?"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:34:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mulan (2020 live action) · fun · Sean on Donnie Yen and Jet Li: one training segment and half a fight for Yen, with Li held captive for the whole film. · "where Donny and Jelly is basically held captive throughout the movie. So it's a very unusual use of of 2 incredible performers."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:37:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Mulan (2020 live action) · fun · Amanda was so lost on the witch's shapeshifting that when her husband walked in she couldn't tell which bird was the witch. · "Also, my husband came in at some point and started watching and so I had like every time the bird showed up on the screen. I was like, that's the witch."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:38:43 · Jason Concepcion (0.85)] Mulan (2020 live action) · fun · Jason's logic complaint about the witch: shapeshifting only makes her easier to kill. · "I was confused as to what the advantage of shapeshifting for the witch was other than she's very killable in that form."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:49:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Mulan (2020 live action) · fun · Amanda skips the music debate by calling the Reflection ballad 'an average ass ballad about finding yourself' after eight emails about Christina Aguilera's cover. · "this is just like an average ass ballad about finding yourself. Okay, whatever. It's not Elton John."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:56:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Mulan (2020 live action) · fun · Controversy: filmed in Xinjiang, where Muslims are held in mass internment camps; lead Yifei Liu's Hong Kong police tweet triggered #BoycottMulan. · "was filmed in uh, Jinjiang, the region in China, where uh, Muslims have been detained in mass internment camps."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (13)

[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:54:33 · unknown (0.30)] Mulan ↔ Robin Hood · programming · A speaker (likely Sean or Amanda, unclear) says their favorite Disney songs are Roger Miller's from Robin Hood. · "my all of my favorite Disney songs are from Robin Hood. They're all written by Roger Miller."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:14:49 · Chris Gethard (0.50)] Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens ↔ Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi · theme · Chris jokes both films are secretly about Nien Nunb. · "Force Awakens and Last Jedi have both secretly been about Nee and Nub."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:10:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] The Little Mermaid (upcoming live action remake) ↔ Aladdin (live action remake) · theme · Jason and Amanda debate whether the horniness in Disney remakes is a bug or a feature, with Amanda saying the Little Mermaid's real problem is its motivation, giving up her voice to land a guy. · "the little mermaid is ultimately like about Ariel just like giving up her voice and many other things in order to be able to fuck a dude"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:23:14 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Westerns (genre) · lineage · Lee reviving an old genre like making a Western, but engineered for a worldwide audience. · "It was like if somebody made a Western, but it also was implicitly built to and engineered to appeal to a worldwide audience as much as it appealed to an American one."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:17:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Beauty and the Beast · lineage · Sean places Mulan at the end of the 90s Disney peak run that included Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and The Lion King. · "it is really kind of at the end of the peak of that 90s Disney run with Beauty and the Beast and the Little Mermaid and Aladdin and the Lion King and Mulan."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:24:55 · David Sims (0.40)] King Hu ⇒ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (the host's read) · lineage · CTHD plays in the milieu of King Hu and the wuxia classics, but with a more modern sensibility. · "this movie is playing in a, in a Milu that is inherent to like King Hu movies and Musha, like the classics"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:17:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Aladdin · craft · Sean says Eddie Murphy's Mushu works for adults like Robin Williams's genie did. · "the same way that Robin Williams might have appealed to adults as the genie, you get, you get some Eddie Murphy in this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:07:21 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Last Action Hero · lineage · Jen worshipping Shu Lien and living her dreamed-of story is very Last Action Hero. · "It's very last action hero."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:46:30 · David Ehrlich (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Brokeback Mountain · lineage · CTHD as the first of Lee's 'fuck mountain diptych' of transgressive sex movies, with Brokeback. · "This is the 1st of Angley's fuck mountain diptych."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:30:13 · David Ehrlich (0.45)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · Ang Lee's bottled-emotion movies; CTHD as Sense and Sensibility with a magic sword. · "This is one of his great bottled emotion movies, which is like a big running theme for people who don't know how to express those. Sensibility with a magic sword."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:37:29 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · After 15 minutes the movie goes full Jane Austen. · "But like 15 minutes later, when the movie goes full, Jane Austen"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:42:52 · David Ehrlich (0.55)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lady Bird · theme · Seen as a coming-of-age story where Jen is the surrogate daughter holding the adults together and apart. · "I never really looked at it through this lens until I was just, you know, on ambient and trying to apply ladybird quotes to everything"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:30:33 · David Sims (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ The Remains of the Day · theme · The repressed never-expressed love is very Remains of the Day. · "Yeah, I mean, it's very remain to the day."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Jason Concepcion · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · Loves a musical, Donnie Yen action, and the 1998 Mulan with its Eddie Murphy humor. Finds the remake kind of boring and wants a grounded, historical version. Sucker for political and economic framing of film controversy. · stances: The remake is fine in a vacuum, a disappointment as a Mulan; Wants a more historical, less magical take; Sees the Mulan controversy as a symptom of the West-China economic experiment; Missing music means missing storytelling
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Mallory Rubin · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · Devoted to the Friday Night Lights show and cares most about its marriage, character work and Texas setting. Loves a high school football film, small-town Texas and Billy Bob; a sucker for Kyle Chandler, Tammy and Eric. Can't stand the film leaving Sharon unused. · stances: The TV show can't be matched, but that does not slight the film; Coach Taylor's speeches beat Coach Gaines's; The film needed a Gaines marriage sex scene; The reboot must stay in Texas; Cruise would make a deranged, mesmerizing Gaines

The shows' running bits (2)

[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Mulan (2020) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Mulan (2020) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:26:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Mulan ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says the remake is what happens when filmmakers do not know what is good about the original. · "I think Mulan is kind of what happens when you don't really know what's good about your movie."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:28:58 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · lineage · The remake's wuxia/mystical style follows the wave of Chinese films that grew popular after Crouching Tiger and the Zhang Yimou films. · "they've gotten very big, kind of post, crouching tiger hidden dragon, and the Jang Yi-Mu films"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:29:22 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Hero ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · lineage · The remake borrows wuxia conventions in an attempt to appeal to international audiences, reading as a try at remaking Hero or House of Flying Daggers. · "it really just feels like an attempt to remake hero or house of flying daggers, which obviously makes sense to Amanda's point about appealing to international audiences"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:43:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi · lineage · Sean says the remake made him think most of The Last Jedi and the sequel trilogy, turning Mulan into a Rey type figure. · "The movie I thought of the most while watching this movie is the last Jedi."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:43:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Mulan ↔ Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker · lineage · Sean says the Rise of Skywalker screwed up expectations and he wonders whether Mulan will become an influential text like it. · "kind of how the rise of Skywalker kind of screwed up all the expectations that we had."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:21:31 · Mallory Rubin (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Mulan · theme · Mallory says making Mulan magical undercuts the story's point that her ordinary self is good enough. · "I was not a fan at all of turning Mulan into a, in essence, magical superhero"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:47:15 · Mallory Rubin (0.85)] Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi ↔ Mulan · theme · Mallory loves The Last Jedi's idea of Rey as a nobody who does not need a magic name or lineage, while Mulan leans on lineage and family. · "The thing that appealed to me so much about it was the idea of Ray being no one coming from nowhere"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:13:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker · theme · Amanda says the love interest tacked on at the end of Mulan 1998 echoes Rise of Skywalker's putting girls back in the romantic box. · "This is also what made me mad in Rise of Skywalker."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:20:32 · Mallory Rubin (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Mulan · craft · Mallory says losing the songs removes the efficient storytelling and character bonding the music provided. · "in the film, it is such an efficient way to move the story forward. It helps with the characters."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:41:07 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Mulan ↔ Mulan · craft · Jason says the 2020 version replaces advising characters with ancestral words on the sword, so Mulan is guided by the past not a person. · "Mulan, in this tale, is guided by the past, is guided by the words of her family"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:25:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Mulan ↔ The Lion King · contrast · Sean says the Lion King and Aladdin remakes hewed too close to the originals, while Mulan overcorrected by not knowing what was good in its source. · "I think Aladdin and the Lion King, I thought, worked a little bit too hard to retain the tone and the approach and story of the original films."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:33:28 · Jason Concepcion (0.75)] Harry Potter (films/books) ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · contrast · The remake's fox, witch, and magic lore feel borrowed from Harry Potter and Game of Thrones without gelling. · "There is these kind of, um, Game of Thrones and uh, Harry Potter kind of lore."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:34:12 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Mulan ↔ Ip Man · career · Jason says that after the remake he binged the Ip Man films because Donnie Yen barely does anything in Mulan compared with being the star there. · "I just, I binged like all the Ipmans on Netflix and it's like, you, this is not a fair comparison because he is the star of that, those, that series."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:24:20 · Jason Concepcion (0.85)] Mulan ↔ Mulan · verdict · Jason's verdict: in a vacuum the remake is a fine action movie but a disappointment as a follow-up to the original. · "In a vacuum, it's fine, I guess, you know, it's fine. It's a fine action movie."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:31:28 · Mallory Rubin (0.85)] Mulan ↔ Mulan · verdict · Mallory says revealing her identity by choice is better than being found out in an injury tent, but the overall list of improvements is smaller than the list of misfires. · "That's, to me, vastly superior to being found out in an injury tent."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:14:50 · Jason Concepcion (0.85)] Mulan ↔ Rumble in the Bronx · industry · Jason says Mulan, Rumble in the Bronx, and Better Luck Tomorrow were rare 90s movies for Asian American audiences. · "Rumble in the Bronx and Better Luck tomorrow, you know, from that era."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:18:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Tenet ↔ Mulan · industry · Tenet reopens theaters while Mulan goes to Disney+ at $29.99, two different pandemic release strategies. · "2999 price point, which is, um, some would say quite high"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:26:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Aladdin (live action remake) · industry · Amanda says the live action remakes are made for money and the question is always who they are for, with Mulan being for everybody and nobody. · "I think they're trying to make a movie for everybody and no one at once."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:36:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Maleficent · industry · Amanda reads the witch as Disney setting up a spinoff, 'maleficenting' the film to make way for franchise action figures. · "I was just like, oh, you made a maleficent character and you're setting up your maleficent spinoff."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:55:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Niki Caro ↔ Mulan · people · Sean says Caro's earnest, humorless films centering women make her a logical pick but tonally wrong for Mulan. · "all of her films have one thing in common, which is they're kind of humorless. They're very earnest, dramatic stories that center women in the middle of the frame."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:56:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Mulan ↔ Yifei Liu · industry · Sean says Liu's tweet backing Hong Kong police triggered a #BoycottMulan movement a year before release. · "triggered the hashtag band Mulan movement when she tweeted support for Hong Kong police"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:57:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Mulan ↔ Daryl Morey · industry · Sean compares the Mulan China controversy to the NBA's controversy after Daryl Morey's tweet last year, another Disney-style cultural flashpoint with China. · "we saw a version of this conversation in the NBA last year when Daryl Morey tweeted"
[pairs] Mulan ↔ Mulan · said 6 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Mulan ↔ Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Mulan ↔ Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:23:10 · Jason Concepcion (0.85)] Mulan (2020 live action) · fun · Jason's one-line summary of the remake's magic: add Harry Potter's fox and a witch with dragon hands for no reason. · "let's throw fox from Harry Potter in there and why don't we add a witch for no reason with dragon hands?"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:34:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mulan (2020 live action) · fun · Sean on Donnie Yen and Jet Li: one training segment and half a fight for Yen, with Li held captive for the whole film. · "where Donny and Jelly is basically held captive throughout the movie. So it's a very unusual use of of 2 incredible performers."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:37:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Mulan (2020 live action) · fun · Amanda was so lost on the witch's shapeshifting that when her husband walked in she couldn't tell which bird was the witch. · "Also, my husband came in at some point and started watching and so I had like every time the bird showed up on the screen. I was like, that's the witch."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:38:43 · Jason Concepcion (0.85)] Mulan (2020 live action) · fun · Jason's logic complaint about the witch: shapeshifting only makes her easier to kill. · "I was confused as to what the advantage of shapeshifting for the witch was other than she's very killable in that form."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:49:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Mulan (2020 live action) · fun · Amanda skips the music debate by calling the Reflection ballad 'an average ass ballad about finding yourself' after eight emails about Christina Aguilera's cover. · "this is just like an average ass ballad about finding yourself. Okay, whatever. It's not Elton John."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:56:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Mulan (2020 live action) · fun · Controversy: filmed in Xinjiang, where Muslims are held in mass internment camps; lead Yifei Liu's Hong Kong police tweet triggered #BoycottMulan. · "was filmed in uh, Jinjiang, the region in China, where uh, Muslims have been detained in mass internment camps."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:54:33 · unknown (0.30)] Mulan ↔ Robin Hood · programming · A speaker (likely Sean or Amanda, unclear) says their favorite Disney songs are Roger Miller's from Robin Hood. · "my all of my favorite Disney songs are from Robin Hood. They're all written by Roger Miller."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:14:49 · Chris Gethard (0.50)] Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens ↔ Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi · theme · Chris jokes both films are secretly about Nien Nunb. · "Force Awakens and Last Jedi have both secretly been about Nee and Nub."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:10:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] The Little Mermaid (upcoming live action remake) ↔ Aladdin (live action remake) · theme · Jason and Amanda debate whether the horniness in Disney remakes is a bug or a feature, with Amanda saying the Little Mermaid's real problem is its motivation, giving up her voice to land a guy. · "the little mermaid is ultimately like about Ariel just like giving up her voice and many other things in order to be able to fuck a dude"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:23:14 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Westerns (genre) · lineage · Lee reviving an old genre like making a Western, but engineered for a worldwide audience. · "It was like if somebody made a Western, but it also was implicitly built to and engineered to appeal to a worldwide audience as much as it appealed to an American one."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:17:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Beauty and the Beast · lineage · Sean places Mulan at the end of the 90s Disney peak run that included Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and The Lion King. · "it is really kind of at the end of the peak of that 90s Disney run with Beauty and the Beast and the Little Mermaid and Aladdin and the Lion King and Mulan."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:24:55 · David Sims (0.40)] King Hu ⇒ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (the host's read) · lineage · CTHD plays in the milieu of King Hu and the wuxia classics, but with a more modern sensibility. · "this movie is playing in a, in a Milu that is inherent to like King Hu movies and Musha, like the classics"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:17:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Aladdin · craft · Sean says Eddie Murphy's Mushu works for adults like Robin Williams's genie did. · "the same way that Robin Williams might have appealed to adults as the genie, you get, you get some Eddie Murphy in this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:07:21 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Last Action Hero · lineage · Jen worshipping Shu Lien and living her dreamed-of story is very Last Action Hero. · "It's very last action hero."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:46:30 · David Ehrlich (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Brokeback Mountain · lineage · CTHD as the first of Lee's 'fuck mountain diptych' of transgressive sex movies, with Brokeback. · "This is the 1st of Angley's fuck mountain diptych."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:30:13 · David Ehrlich (0.45)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · Ang Lee's bottled-emotion movies; CTHD as Sense and Sensibility with a magic sword. · "This is one of his great bottled emotion movies, which is like a big running theme for people who don't know how to express those. Sensibility with a magic sword."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:37:29 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · After 15 minutes the movie goes full Jane Austen. · "But like 15 minutes later, when the movie goes full, Jane Austen"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:42:52 · David Ehrlich (0.55)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lady Bird · theme · Seen as a coming-of-age story where Jen is the surrogate daughter holding the adults together and apart. · "I never really looked at it through this lens until I was just, you know, on ambient and trying to apply ladybird quotes to everything"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:30:33 · David Sims (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ The Remains of the Day · theme · The repressed never-expressed love is very Remains of the Day. · "Yeah, I mean, it's very remain to the day."
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Jason Concepcion · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · Loves a musical, Donnie Yen action, and the 1998 Mulan with its Eddie Murphy humor. Finds the remake kind of boring and wants a grounded, historical version. Sucker for political and economic framing of film controversy. · stances: The remake is fine in a vacuum, a disappointment as a Mulan; Wants a more historical, less magical take; Sees the Mulan controversy as a symptom of the West-China economic experiment; Missing music means missing storytelling
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Mallory Rubin · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · Devoted to the Friday Night Lights show and cares most about its marriage, character work and Texas setting. Loves a high school football film, small-town Texas and Billy Bob; a sucker for Kyle Chandler, Tammy and Eric. Can't stand the film leaving Sharon unused. · stances: The TV show can't be matched, but that does not slight the film; Coach Taylor's speeches beat Coach Gaines's; The film needed a Gaines marriage sex scene; The reboot must stay in Texas; Cruise would make a deranged, mesmerizing Gaines
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Mulan (2020); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Mulan (2020) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.