‘Mulan’ Falters in China: What Possibly Went Wrong?

The Film Addict
6 min readSep 16, 2020
Source: Disney

Disney’s latest live-action adaptation certainly does not resonate that well with the Chinese audience. The reasons to why Mulan — being a film that centers around a Chinese heroine, and a live-action remake of Disney’s own 1998 animated hit- under-performed during its first weekend could be many, but demystifying them is not as intimidating as it appears to be.

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