Mulan movie boycott calls grow over scenes filmed in Xinjiang

Aways someone crying about something.

Don't want to watch it, fine, then don't.

This is a more worthy reason for protest (or crying) than BLM. The Chinese government are victimizing a whole country & a whole race - But you won’t see anyone taking a knee or wearing masks with victims names on it.

Let's boycott "made in China" said absolutely no one ever in response to the tons of violations by China against mother nature, human rights, military overtaking regions and expanding, lame Tik Tok videos, etc.. But an actor shows his/her political views and lo and behold, THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS, we need to show them now!

I heard the movie was meh and overall and not worth price of admission.

I'm still confuse about what the main lead an (american citizen) is gaining by being a shill for the CCP.

But I'm also glad that China is seeing first hand how irresponsible behavior hurts our bottom line

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hurts their* bottom line

I wasn’t planning on watching it before, now I’m REALLY not planning on watching it.

For redemption, Disney would have to produce a live action remake of Winnie the Pooh.

Disney seems to be losing the plot, thanking the government in Xinjiang, really??????

I hope people don’t watch it, teach Disney that sucking up to dictators doesn’t pay!!!

I recommend watching the south park episode where they try legalise marijuana china for a good sumary of the disney/ china relationship

@garthgoyle

obviously you haven’t read any other articles about China.

For redemption, Disney would have to produce a live action remake of Winnie the Pooh.

They did, with Ewan MacGregor. It was banned in China.

Disney.......caught in a very embarrassing situation here I see!!

Disney sure AINT now what I grew up with as a kid!

Disney should change its name to: Dollars Anyway ANYHOW!!!

I'm guessing that the CCP and Disney made an agreement for Disney to thank the Chinese companies in their credit as part of CCP's PR stunt of seeming generous and for Disney to receive subsidy and to showcase the movie in China.

I wasn’t planning on watching it before, now I’m REALLY not planning on watching it.

same.

I was going to watch this, actually, but I won't be, now.

For years Disney, Hollywood, NBA, Google, Facebook, have groveled at China's feet....censoring anything and everything the Communist Party finds "offensive." Well, I for one find concentration camps and citizen scores offensive.  I hate cancel culture but boycotting this movie and anything altered just to please China is a cause I can get behind. The only thing Disney listens to is money.

Always someone crying about something.

I 100% agree!

It is just a movie!

It is just entertainment!

Go to cinema, watch it and enjoy!

But don't eat Popcorn "Made in China"!

Disney cut by its own SJW sword; good.

Ok, I've watched it, and if you are planning on boycotting it then I'll say you are not missing much. It was a bit of a feast for the eyes, but that is all... lacking in almost every other department. A little disappointed in Niki Caro as she is a much better director than this film shows. I feel like there was too much influence on this from outside... trying too hard not to offend. A very disappointing effort.

@rainyday same here. Because the last thing that I wanna be thinking about while watching any movie, is current events and politics. I’ve been inadvertently doing that too much as of late, so I certainly don’t wanna do it again with this movie. Yeah, I’ll pass.

Over a million people in concentration camps.

This is worth a boycott.

Millions in concentration camps, beatings, murders, women being forcibly sterilised - yup, Disney has made friends with the devil.

shame on disney, what a kiss up. money can buy evil.

I guess South Park was right, Hollywood bowing to Chinese propaganda censors

Millions in concentration camps, beatings, murders, women being forcibly sterilised - yup, Disney has made friends with the devil.

The question is, where are all the celebrities with causes when it comes to the nightmare in China? Surely Naomi chan could spare a sentence, or just print “Uigur” on one of her fashion masks ?

SILENCE.

Now, now, all those nice celebrities who constantly inflict their vacuous opinions on us don’t want to upset those nice CCP dictators, after all they might lose some money! The murder, forced sterilisation, rape, cultural destruction and the live harvesting of organs without anaesthetic isn’t “cool” so let’s ignore it and make a pointless fuss about someone “culturally appropriating” something instead, that’s so much cooler and we don’t have to address the real hard issues that just might cause us some personal inconvenience.

shame on Disney!!!

Disney projects a clean, family, image, but that isn't the truth and hasn't been for decades. They are a media company with all the faults that others have. They are just better at hiding their warts.

For redemption, Disney would have to produce a live action remake of Winnie the Pooh.

It will never be seen in mainland China. They blocked Paddington.

TikTok is blocked in China, yet has Chinese govt censorship rules. Thought everyone knew that. https://www.saporedicina.com/english/list-of-blocked-websites-in-china/

Some TV news programs here have provided cameras to Han Chinese people visiting Xinjiang who showed the vastly different ways that people of different ethnicity are being treated in that part of the world. FRONTLINE: China Undercover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM1DjkPWtj0 Frontline is a weekly PBS news show.

Forced birth control: https://japantoday.com/category/world/china-forces-birth-control-on-muslims-to-suppress-population-1

Mass detentions: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html

Mulan is pretty minor, in comparison.

Disney can go eat a truckload of crap for what they did with "Mulan". There are 4 major strikes against that movie, in no particular order.

1) The lead actress Liu Yifei supporting the violent repression from Hong Kong police against protestors. She can throw her US passport to the garbage bin; the West can live without you and doesn't nedd you. If it wasn't for freedoms you have enjoyed in the US and that Hongkongers seek, you would be a mere nobody. For the record, Disney banned Keith Richards from "Pirates" after he admitted taking lots of drugs. Just Liu's political stance alone would have been worth a firing and a replacement through a combination of filming and digitalization.

2) Removing Mushu... I know some people may not agree with me on this because of cultural reasons behind the symbol that the dragon represents. However, Mushu was the anchoring point for kids watching the original movie. He's like Timon, Pumbaa, Lumière, or any funny secondary Disney character acting as a glue holding others together with a great dose of good humour.

3) No songs... LOL, WUT? How can you do a live adaptation of a great animated movie without keeping a number of original (vocal) songs in there? What makes Disney movies great year after year? The songs, of course! We also had great new songs in the last few years' readaptations/sequels of past Disney movies too (Dan Stevens with "Evermore", Beyonce with "Spirit", Naomi Scott with "Speechless", and Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda singing the whole new repertoire for "Mary Poppins Returns"). Without the songs, you cannot build that connection with wider audiences like Disney movies have always done.

4) Filming in Xinjiang... That is absolutely disgusting. It is basically like shaking hands with the Devil. No matter whatever PR Disney will pull, they cannot hide behind ignorance of the reality about Xinjiang. Repression against Uyghurs has been known for 12 years at least now.

Having said all of this, I feel good that I haven't watched it and that I will not watch it. Based on what I have read here and there, I will not be missing much. In short, it is just a Chinese movie stamped "Disney" on it - visually appealing on the surface but severely lacking in depth anywhere else.