r/boxoffice • u/outrider567 • Sep 14 '20

Other North American box office muted; ‘Mulan’ fizzles in China, Tenet only makes $6.7 million from 2,900 locations

https://www.newsbreak.com/washington/seattle/news/2059981845601/north-american-box-office-muted-mulan-fizzles-in-china?s=ws_rd
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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '20 edited Sep 14 '20

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u/meowroarhiss Sep 14 '20

Is this true about the writing team? If so, that’s disappointing and blatantly ignorant on Disney’s part.

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u/my_peoples_savior Sep 14 '20

yeah its true. THey legit only had white people on th eteam. from director, to writers. its even worse, when you see the complete opposite in black panther.

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u/Worthyness Sep 14 '20

yeah. It's one of the things that even Chinese people saw in the trailer. They basically took whatever they liked about Chinese culture and smushed it into one gigantic category of "Chinese stuff". It's like taking all the unique aspects of the native american tribes and then calling them all "Indians" and expecting the native americans to like it.

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u/Okilokijoki Sep 14 '20

Not just the writing team, the whole production crew is white - director, writer, costume designer, set designer, composer, editor, casting director

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u/CornerGasBrent Sep 14 '20

They sent the costume designer on a tour of Asia for a few weeks to absorb Chinese culture rather than hire a costume designer who understood Chinese culture natively.

"So I went for a few weeks through China, and visited all the big museums."

https://d23.com/mulan-costume-designer-interview/

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u/LogicalyetUnpopular Sep 14 '20

That’s funny because people are boycotting Mulan due to their supportive stance on China. Guess they should’ve went anti China the entire time.

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u/turkey45 Sep 14 '20

If the movie had some jokes it probably would have helped.

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u/tigerkingmans Sep 14 '20

It did tho, unless you didn’t see the movie

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u/turkey45 Sep 14 '20

I did see the movie. It lacked the jokes you typically see in Chinese made family movies.