This is essentially an amazing piece of cinema, with a talented cast and a talented director. This is so effectively displayed by the acting skill of the lead that it could be mistaken for lacking any substance at all, but with such interpretive subject matter the leads pull you in and make you share in the joy and the hurt that their lives are taking. At it's heart is a love story that is put aside by the burdens of war. For the tone and content of a film that has no provable substance in fact, Vicki does an outstanding job of expressing the bland emotion and lack of compassion that would be synonymous with the era and situation with which the film is set. Vicki is a potentially under rated actress who displays a versatility that is often never matched by over paid Western A - listers. The casting of Wei Zhao was a smart move. Mulan: Rise of a Warrior 2009 6.7-,- adventure,drama,romance,war 1h 54min CHI PLAY When barbarian hordes threaten her homeland, the brave and cunning Mulan disguises herself as a male soldier to swell the ranks in her. House of flying daggers it is not, but as an interpretation of Chinese folklore that was based on a poem, it is a piece of cinematic creativity in it's own right.
He avoids the "strong female character" trope or the male gaze, thankfully.Having Just watched this film, and whilst it is still fresh in my mind I found the movie to be a refreshing change to traditional epics offered by Asian Cinema. Hong Kong director Jingle Ma directs the 2009 movie without a sense of exoticism about the heroine's gender even as he explores her dilemma in keeping her gender secret in the army. Hong Kong movies are the one culture where women warriors were commonplace before any other country featured them. The earliest WuXia movies from the 1920s featured swordswomen because male martial artists refused to act in movies at the time. Movies about woman warriors are commonplace in Hong Kong cinema. The Chinese co-opted her for their own later. She might have been a foreign woman fighting a Chinese invasion. Some historians speculate that the earliest story of Mulan, told in oral traditions before the ballad, was not even a Chinese tale. Another version ended with her committing suicide to escape becoming the emperor's concubine.
The UK uses 2 different titles, Mulan: Warrior Princess (DVD), and Mulan: Legendary Warrior. As can be seen here, only the USA uses the current title. Later versions from, say, the Tang Dynasty had her fall in love with a fellow soldier. Mulan: Rise of a Warrior Mulan (2009 film) IMDB lists the film under the current title, but even the DVD cover art on IMDB has a different English title. She was enough of a blank slate for subsequent eras to impose different stories to the spaces in her story. Mulan: Rise of a Warrior (2009) Back to main TB TMDb Bot 22 m m1nty 16 Movie Mills 14 z zurman1 9 k kyrsos 8 g gits 7 T TheWiz 6 r riovell 6 x xxstranger 6 Karelnellie 6 Morgan Wong 6 yukoff 6 S ShiningDragon 6 6 b. She went to war disguised as a man in place of her elderly father, became a general who led the army to victory against the invaders, then returned home 12 years later and put on a dress again. The original ballad, believed to be from the 6 th Century, was fairly basic.
She was probably an amalgamation of several real female soldiers of the era. Mulan: Rise of a Warrior (2009) 720p BluRay YTS YIFY When barbarian hordes threaten her homeland, the brave and cunning Mulan disguises herself as a male soldier to swell the ranks in her aging fathers stead.