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  1. industry (industry): Mulan → Rumble in the Bronx. 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 · 0:14:50 · Jason Concepcion (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Tenet → Mulan. 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 · 0:18:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Mulan → Mulan. 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 · 0:20:32 · Mallory Rubin (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. theme (theme): Mulan → Mulan. 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 · 0:21:31 · Mallory Rubin (0.90 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Mulan: 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 · 0:23:10 · Jason Concepcion (0.85 sure it was them)
  6. verdict (verdict): Mulan → Mulan. 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 · 0:24:20 · Jason Concepcion (0.85 sure it was them)
  7. contrast (contrast): Mulan → The Lion King. 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 · 0:25:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  8. lineage (lineage): Mulan → Mulan. 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 · 0:26:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  9. industry (industry): Mulan → Aladdin (live action remake). 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 · 0:26:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  10. lineage (lineage): Mulan → Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. 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 · 0:28:58 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  11. lineage (lineage): Mulan → Hero. 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 · 0:29:22 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  12. verdict (verdict): Mulan → Mulan. 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 · 0:31:28 · Mallory Rubin (0.85 sure it was them)
  13. contrast (contrast): Mulan → Harry Potter (films/books). 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 · 0:33:28 · Jason Concepcion (0.75 sure it was them)
  14. career (career): Mulan → Ip Man. 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 · 0:34:12 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Mulan: 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 · 0:34:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  16. industry (industry): Mulan → Maleficent. 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 · 0:36:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Mulan: 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 · 0:37:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Mulan: 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 · 0:38:43 · Jason Concepcion (0.85 sure it was them)
  19. craft (craft): Mulan → Mulan. 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 · 0:41:07 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  20. lineage (lineage): Mulan → Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi. 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 · 0:43:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  21. lineage (lineage): Mulan → Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker. 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 · 0:43:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  22. theme (theme): Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi → Mulan. 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 · 0:47:15 · Mallory Rubin (0.85 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Mulan: 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 · 0:49:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  24. people (people): Niki Caro → Mulan. 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 · 0:55:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about Mulan: 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 · 0:56:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  26. industry (industry): Mulan → Yifei Liu. 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 · 0:56:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  27. industry (industry): Mulan → Daryl Morey. 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”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:57:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  28. fun, about Mulan: Jason ties the Mulan and NBA controversies to the failed bipartisan theory that engaging economically with China would liberalize it.
    “if we engage economically with China, we will liberalize them through our influence, right?”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:58:20 · Jason Concepcion (0.85 sure it was them)
  29. fun, about Mulan: The producer said Shang was split into two characters in a Me Too-era decision to avoid a romance between commander and soldier.
    “a producer on the film, is just said outright that it was a decision made, uh, taking the Me Too era into account”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:11:49 · Mallory Rubin (0.80 sure it was them)
  30. fun, about Mulan: Amanda would drop the love interest entirely; she is the world's number one romantic comedy fan but hates when a liberated heroine still gets a wedding.
    “Why do we need a love interest? Let's just let her”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:13:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  31. theme (theme): Mulan → Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker. 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 · 1:13:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  32. fun, about Mulan: Closing joke: a proposed episode recorded as a musical, where they start singing the outline mid-section.
    “We do the outline and then just in the middle of one of the sections. We just start singing what's written down on the outline.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:14:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)