In 1998, Disney released the animated film Mulan, a Disney-fied tale of a young girl who risks it all to join the Chinese army in an effort to save her father from dying on the field. It was one of Disney’s better girl-power movies—there was no prince, no clock strike at midnight, no magic. Granted, a statue did come to life and act as Mulan’s guide, but that was ancestral, not magical, two very different signifiers in the Disney canon.\n
Knowing all of this ahead of time, I still chose to fork over 30 bucks to Disney with the hopes that they did right by a film that played a pivotal role in my youth. I have no one to blame but myself.
Mulan tries to convince Xian Lang that she can follow the “noble path” and not aid in killing the emperor. But Xian Lang has seen too much and knows that she will never be accepted for who she truly is: a badass witch with a sense of style better than anyone in China., could be accepted for who they truly are as long as they stick to their convictions. Xian Lang wasn’t a bad witch;
she was just looking for a place to belong and was being manipulated by the real villains of the movie: the nomadic army. She could have easily saved China herself and been accepted, or Mulan could have at least put in a good word with all her newfound clout. Had Xian Lang been treated better by the film, as a person rather than an evil version of Mulan, there’d be at least one positive thing to say about the film. But just like in the story, Xian Lang is treated by the filmmakers as a disposable muppet, even though she was the most interesting addition to a deflated story that wanted to be so many different things and ended up being a pro-imperialist vehicle.
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