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There’s one (1) think in Disney’s Mulan that irks me.
The jaw line.
Mulan’s jaw line is drawn differently when she’s acting as Ping. No kidding:
this is her “regular, Fa Mulan” face. In this version her jaw is even highlighted by the makeup. Look how round is it.
and this is her Ping jaw. Square. Totally square.
WHY?????
Isn’t consistency in the character base shapes like, an important thing??
Not to mention how she immediately regains her long lashes as soon as she is exposed. With her round jaw obviously.
?????
That feel when you’re Asian and your father with a bad leg was about to be sent off to surely die in a war for your great empire so you squared up both metaphorically and physically.
it’s on the fricking vhs cover
this has bothered me since 1999
Why do you have to come for Mulan like this
It’s called contour sweetie
This has little to do with writing but I had an idea and I wanted to comment.
Unlike in literature where you can describe things in metaphor or flowery language, movies are forced to use visual/audio cues to slant a viewers perspective. Often this is done with lighting and music. In this case, it’s using small differences in shapes to represent a skew in perspective.
When you see someone who you deem a man, you most likely [everyone does this to an extent, it’s how brains function] assign assumptions about what it is to be a man to what you are perceiving. In this way, you might not literally see a squarer jaw when you see someone who you think is a man, but you will probably see some qualities over others based on your assumptions. The same goes for when you see someone who you believe is a woman.
In this way, when Mulan is revealed as a woman and everyone around her sees her as a woman, the choice to draw her in a more feminine way, in my opinion, represents the characters’ paradigm shift and therefore shift in perspective the animators are trying to convey.
The men around her have realized she is a women, and women must be feminine according to the social law of the time [and arguably still today in many ways], and so the men around her literally see her as more feminine.
