He then goes in his place, but rather than fetching Mulan, hopes to make her a war hero and bring himself to glory. Fearing that her father's old age and crippling injuries will result in his almost certain death against the Huns, she steals his sword and armor, cuts her hair, and goes in his place, disguised as a man.Īs Mulan is the only lineage of the Fa family, her ancestors order the disgraced guardian Mushu ( Eddie Murphy), who is small and has a penchant for comedy, to send the Great Stone Dragon to fetch Mulan home safely, but Mushu accidentally breaks the Stone Dragon's statue. The title character, Fa Mulan ( Ming-Na Wen), has no brothers, resulting in her veteran father being forced to accept the conscription. The film deals with Huns invading Imperial China, led by the vicious warlord Shan Yu, resulting in every Chinese family receiving a conscription order requiring one male from their household to serve in the army. note Disney chose to romanize the heroine's name as Fa Mulan, in effect giving her family name the typical Cantonese pronunciation, but her personal name the normal Mandarin one. It was inspired by the Ancient Chinese folk legend of Hua Mulan (花木蘭). Mulan is an animated film released in 1998, as the 36th film on the Disney Animated Canon.
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