ALL RIGHT BY POPULAR DEMAND HERE WE GO: Everything culturally right and wrong with Mulan 1998, the thread -
(Disclaimer: This movie never marketed itself on authenticity, so I'll only be nitpicking for educational purposes)
The movie immediately lets you know IT'S VERY ASIAN, YOU GUYS by referencing classical Chinese landscape paintings, which were very minimalist and used tons of white space. It was all about achieving a certain VIIIBE instead of realism, which shouldn't be the end goal of all art
these inkbrush paintings were very technically demanding because literally one wrong stroke or a stray drop of ink anywhere could ruin the whole thing. so classical Chinese artists were presumably in full *sweats* mode whenever they painted
The spiciest takes on my YouTube comments are those that think I have no ground to speak about Chinese culture bc I "speak English like a native" and must be "westernized" when I am NATIVE-BORN CHINESE and ironed my accent out due to bullying after coming to Canada in my TEENS
I've faced 2 different sets of assumptions before and after I made the conscious effort to mimic a Canadian accent it's wild
Before: Must be international student, won't integrate well
After: Must be diaspora-born, disconnected from own culture, can't speak Mandarin
When u can in fact speak Mandarin and English equally perfectly and are also equally immersed in both Chinese and Western cultures
I'm Xiran and my book Iron Widow debuts Fall 2021 from @PenguinTeenCa. It's a Pacific Rim x The Handmaid's Tale reimagining of Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in Chinese history
Zetian voted most likely to hang a real corpse by her door on Halloween and have people be like OMG THIS IS AMAZING YOU'RE SO DEDICATED TO YOUR DECORATIONS before realizing something is terribly wrong in about 24 hours
in the 2016 yugioh movie Seto Kaiba flies a jet straight from his space station and into the ancient Egyptian afterlife, transcending space, time, and dimension just to see Yami Yugi again, and some people still claim he's straight
PS be sure to turn sound on so you can hear the mUSIC they put in this scene because DEAR GOD
Seto Kaiba, literally disintegrating as he speaks: WHERE'S MY REMATCH
Yami Yugi: adl;fjafsl;f ARE YOU SURE IT'S A REMATCH IN A CARD GAME THAT YOU WANT