"Mushu, beloved as that character is in the animation, was Mulan’s confidante ... are the costumes for a girl that likes to ride a horse, and a girl that likes to kick a ball, and are not ...

We trained all of the horses for it ... and it’s no different here. Mulan is an insistently attractive character, no matter how indifferently conceptualized or bluntly politicized.

The other characters in "Mulan," such as Li Shang ... were drawn for the mountain attack scene, plus, 2,000 more horses. After Mulan sets off an avalanche with a rocket, only six of those Huns ...

With a timeless story as beloved as “Mulan,” it seemed Disney had backed a winning horse. But they managed ... Caro gives us a character stuck in the patriarchal system she is born into ...

And then seeing her on horseback; she could ride a horse better than the ... the antithesis of who she is as a character.” “Having something like ‘Mulan,’ one of the biggest budget Disney ...

The slo-mo, horse-riding scene in which Mulan realizes ... the clumsy “Mulan” script often puts plot above character, depriving Mulan of a robust personality. Defined by her determination ...

And I made the horse stop. I helped her. So I’m so happy," he says. But on the "Mulan" set, it was Liu's warrior character who was tasked with saving Li's Emperor. "She said to me ...

But it was nothing like the three-and-a-half months of action boot camp she went through to prepare for Mulan's martial arts, sword-battling and, yes, horse ... I sing as the character feels ...

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 ...