How ‘Mulan’ Goes to Battle | Anatomy of a Scene

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For the live-action film “Mulan,” putting together a sequence where an avalanche drives back an army was no big deal. It only required two years of preparation, multiple location scouts, intense horse training and a cast of more than 80 Mongolian and Kazakh trick riders. In other words, a cinch.

Niki Caro, the director of the anticipated film (finally on a home screen near you via Disney+), worked tirelessly with a large team of crew and cast to pull off a sequence many will remember from the animated version. But the new scenes have some narrative updates.

In this video, she discusses the moment when Mulan (played by Yifei Liu) comes into her own as a warrior and uses her smarts with an assist from nature to beat back an aggressive army.

“The key for me to creating and executing a sequence of this size, scale and complexity was the collaboration of some really singular women,” Caro said. That collaboration included her cinematographer Mandy Walker, and one of her first assistant directors, Liz Tan.

They found the right location, one with multiple levels to stage a battle, in the Ahuriri Valley, on the South Island of New Zealand. In managing all of the moving parts, like extras, stunts and the use of a trebuchet to fire a real flaming cannonball, Caro said “it was like being the conductor of a really brilliant orchestra.”

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Two things: unethical business practices, and bad movie.

ZJ

They literally just turn the slow and inaccurate trebutret away from a pinned enemy force to fire at what look like some random flanking enemy.
10/10 tactics

rency

2:10
mushu: YOU MISSED!!! HOW COULD YOU MISS?!? HE WAS THREE FEET IN FRONT OF YOU!!!

jorgecastillo

How come the trebuchet had pin point accuracy when hitting the army but misses Mulan by a mile??

billyyan

When you took out Mushu is when you failed a generation who grew up watching mulan

BeastMaster-huzs

this was the most confusing scene of all, she suddenly arrives to battle as a powerful woman just because she took off her armor, then jump from one place to another almost liked teleportation and then gets away of the avalanche like nothing happens

they really crossed the line after they accused donelij of "transphobia and homophobia"

honestpenaldo

Shadiversity did an autopsy on this scene.

kasaibouF

Free CGTN Journalist Cheng Lei (Australian Citizen) detained in China

dl

Boycott Mulan I stand with Hong Kong.

Other Asian countries like Taiwan, Hong Kong and others are boycotting the Mulan movie because of the actors in the movie made a remark about supporting HK police and a few political takes.

Boycott Mulan!!

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