Our final Disney film is 1998’s MULAN. After some reviews, we talk about the ways in which this film starts from a position of naivety, but grows into a much more adult movie: which leaves us both intrigued as to what the reboot will be like.
Next Up
Next time, for the last time, we turn to the live-action version of a Disney animation, with the 2020 MULAN.
Recent Media
SAFE (2012): Boaz Yakin, Jason Statham, Catherine Chan
NOMADLAND (2020): Chloé Zhao, Jessica Bruder, Frances McDormand
Recommendations
JURASSIC PARK (1993): Stephen Spielberg, Sam Neill, Laura Dern
MARY POPPINS RETURNS (2018): P.L. Travers, Rob Marshall, Emily Blunt
STREET FIGHTER (1994): Steven E. de Souza, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia
ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (2011): Sarah Smith, Barry Cook, James McAvoy
MR ROBOT (2015–19): Sam Esmail, Rami Malek, Christian Slater
Footnotes
We start off (and end, actually) by talking about Disney sidekicks; this is a fun article, if only for nostalgic reasons, remembering all the films: www.buzzfeed.com/jamiespain/times-disney-sidekicks-were-terrible (While we’re on the subject of Disney sidekicks, I also quite enjoyed this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J46XJImeQbc). Rob goes all academic (oooh, get him) and talks about the Greek chorus, of which more here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_chorus. Here’s the promised link to Orientalism (from which this film is, refreshingly, remarkably free): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism_(book). If like Sam — not Rob — you were a nerdy kid in the late 90s, you might remember this, around the time of MULAN: www.imdb.com/title/tt0188478 — not actually Shakespeare, but something even more academic……Here’s another reminder of one of the concepts Rob mentions towards the end of this episode: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey#:~:text=Summary%20%20%20%20Act%20%20%20,road%20back%20The%20resurrection%20Return%20wi%20...%20. Finally, as Rob says, neither of us are best placed to be authorities on the subject of Gender Studies; if you’re interested, here’s a short reading list to get you started: www.lse.ac.uk/gender/Studying-Gender-at-LSE/recommended-literature.
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5.7 - MY STRAIGHT SON (2012) & Acceptance
5.6 - EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (2015) & Madness
Small Batch - Titane (2021)
5.5 - MADEINUSA (2005) & Dislocation
5.4 - CITY OF GOD (2002) & Corrupt Space
5.3 - 25 WATTS (2001) & Futility
5.2 - THE ACCUSED (2018) & Intensity
Small Batch - Free Guy (2021)
Small Batch - White House Down (2013) & Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
Small Batch - Pirates Of The Caribbean
5.1 - EMA (2019) & Seeds
200! - 300 (2007) & Fourteen Years
4.50 - MULAN (2020) and Honour
4.48 - THE LION KING (2019) & Hyperrealism
4.47 - THE LION KING (1994) & Privilege
4.46 - ALADDIN (2019) & PRETENCE
4.45 - ALADDIN (1992) & Worth
4.44 - BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (2017) & Loneliness
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