This new Mulan was explicitly created to woo jaded Chinese audiences. When the original Mulan was released in 1998 it was dismissed as being “too western” and notoriously bombed at the box office. ![]() Mulan is another expression of Disney’s courtship of China. Former Disney CEO and current chairman Bob Iger had made the Shanghai Disneyland project a cornerstone of his tenure it was a lengthy and painful process that took an insane amount of time to get approved and built (he details it thoughtfully in his memoir). Of course, this is hugely symbolic and synergistic – the Shanghai Disneyland park is the first Disney park in mainland China and cemented the company’s foothold in the Middle Kingdom (with its restrictions on Western popular culture and state-run television, Disney had been blocked from the country for decades). And international Disney fanatics will undoubtedly instantly recognize the castle that appears before Mulan – it’s Enchanted Storybook Castle, the mammoth visual centerpiece of Shanghai Disneyland. A movie-specific castle isn’t all that rare but it is always super exciting (our favorites include the Tron Legacy castle that placed it on the grid or the retro-futuristic Tomorrowland castle, Space Mountain beaming in the background, a jet age rocket pack replacing the magical twinkle). ![]() When the movie opens, we’re greeted with the familiar, glittery Disney logo (the original Mulan had the more traditional, 2D “Walt Disney Pictures” logo from that period).
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