When you first meet Mulan, 16-year-old Melina Ospina-Wiese said, you’ll see “She starts out soft and demure, not much of a ...

Independent and unconventional by her community’s standards, Fa Mulan leaves home disguised as a man to enlist in the army to protect her father. And even though she is kicked out after her ...

In the new film, as with the original ballad, Mulan enlists in the army, disguised as a man, in the place of her fatherCourtesy Disney Enterprises, Inc. “As an historian, to me it’s very ...

A young woman pretends to be a man, fearful of what could happen if her deception is found out, but willing to risk everything to keep her father safe. This dramatic tension at the heart of Mulan ...

The first record of Mulan emerges from "The Ballad of Mulan," which can be traced back to the Northern Dynasties of China (386 to 581 AD). As the story goes, a girl dresses up as a man and joins ...

As shown by the movie's first few scenes, Mulan was all set to be married off to a nice man as she was dressed in traditional garb and set up for a meeting with a matchmaker. This was true of ...

Here we find Mulan, played by Liu Yife, returning to battle, this time no longer in disguise as a man. She has had a confrontation with the witch, Xian Lang, played by Gong Li, who has seen ...

For a dozen years, she serves nobly, all while disguised as a man; in the end, she refuses rewards and honors to return home, where her former comrades learn at long last that, surprise ...

This means no live-action versions of Disney classics like "Reflection" and "I'll Make a Man Out of You." This is not the only difference between Mulan's animated and live-action incantations.