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Mulan (1998) - 24 corrections

starring Eddie Murphy, George Takei, Miguel Ferrer (add more)

Genres: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical

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During the morning training session, Shang shot an arrow to the top of the pole so his soldiers can get it, but the arrow is stuck in a horizontal position. A difficult position to achieve, for someone shooting an arrow from below. [Difficult, but not impossible. The arrow is shot at an angle, which will create an ark before before going downwards. That means that if it struck the pole while it was at the apex of that ark, it would go in horizontally.]
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During the fight caused by Mulan when she first arrives to the camp, Ling gets several of his teeth knocked out. But the next day, his teeth are all back in his mouth. [You cannot honestly think this is a mistake in a CARTOON (where this joke happens in quite alot of cartoons) in a movie with a cricket who can write and a dragon who came to life out of stone.]
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When Mulan and the other girls go to see the matchmaker they are all wearing kimonos. A kimono is a traditional Japanese 'dress' composed of a lot of fabric and accessories including an obi where the Chinese they would were a cheongsam which is a very simple 'dress' made of a minimal amount of fabric and no accessories. [This is not an error. Mulan wears a 'hanfu' - the traditional Chinese clothing which has been worn for thousands of years in China, and which influenced the Japanese kimono. The Chinese 'cheongsam' is actually a very modern Chinese costume.]
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When Shan Yu holds the doll and says "We should return it to her", his lips don't match his dialogue. [Yes they do.]
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When the troops are marching towards the village which is now destroyed, they would have noticed it long before they actually do. (The makers did this on purpose so that the song "A Girl We're Fighting For" would end on a good note). [Would haves and could haves don't make a mistake. Therefore it's possible they wouldn't notice it until they reached it.]
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You can see the whites in the eyes of nearly every horse in the movie, but in real life you can't see the whites in horses' eyes at all. [Animating a horse without showing the white in its eye would give it a really evil look. If you look at the humans their faces aren't exactly proportional, when you animate you have to make changes in appearences.]
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When Mushu finds Mulan and does the whole big shadow thing, the shadow has holes for eyes. [That was put in for the humor of the cartoon to give it a more spooky feeling. It's artistic license.]
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How in the world would Mulan be able to have a cricket cage that was just put underneath a bit of cloth be able to stay even when she is climbing on top of tables and running around the room to put out the matchmaker? [How in the world does a cricket have the ability to jump back into the cage and close the door? Much of what is seen is purely for the humor of this animated movie, it is artistic license.]
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In the scene where Mulan wipes off her make up while she is singing, her lipstick comes off easily, but it should have smeared on her face. [In reality it would have but it doesn't have to if this is a cartoon.]
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At the end of the movie, when the ancestors are having a party, the sunglasses on the cricket appear out of nowhere. [We didn't see the cricket instantly before we saw him with glasses. We saw him about 10 seconds later, he has time to put glasses on.]
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How would the rest of the Huns (after the avalanche) be able to beat Mulan to the Imperial City when they only have two feet and Mulan has a horse? [The Huns are closer to the city than Mulan are and they know the city very well. They most likely know a shortcut to get to the city because if they didn't and went the way Mulan did they would have been spotted.]
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How in the world would all of the bad guys in the dragon costume know the routine or something like it? They would have to know some kind of routine because if the didn't then they would be going in all different directions and people would be pretty suspicious. [It is possible those huns have had previous experience so they know the routine.]
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In the scene where Mushu breaks the Great Stone Dragon, he hits the statue with his banger thing, breaks off an ear, then he hears the crumbling sound of rock cracking, next the camera shows us a wide shot of the statue crumbling, in that scene the statue crumbles from the bottom up when Mushu had obviously hit it from the top, so the top portion should crumble into hundred of pieces not the bottom. [If the bottom of the statue had a weakness and not the top, it's normal it should have crumbled this way, notwithstanding the place where it was hit. Besides, this is a cartoon, and that's often how things collapse.]
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At the end when Granny Fa says, "She brings home a sword. If you ask me she should've brought home a man." The voice says "Man" but the lips say Ma. The lips don't say the N. [When she says, "...man.", you should not even see her lips form the letter 'n', as she speaks, it is her tongue that creates the 'n' sound. Try it yourself.]
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When Mulan is in the pass after she has been discovered, there are two seperate shots of the city down below. In one, the palace is facing away from the pass, and in the other it's facing to the right of it. The city rotates ninety degrees. [It looks like Mulan is in a totally different place than the Huns, so it would be logical to see the city from a different angle from her position in the mountains than from the position of the Huns. ('Proof' for this is that Mulan drives her horse to the city down the path that looks upon the city -from her position-. This can't possibly be the same path as the one the Huns are taking to get to the city; if it were she would run into them.).]
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The Emperor comes down the stairs of the palace to thank Mulan after she's defeated Shan-Yu. He should be coming up the stairs not down, Chien-Po transported him out of the palace yet the Emperor comes walking from the palace. [Chien-Po took him down the stairs out of a room at the top of the palace, not out of the palace itself. Therefore, he can walk down the stairs out of the palace without it being a mistake.]
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Throughout the movie, Mushu refers to Mulan's horse as a cow, but when their fireworks are going off and Mulan detaches it from her cart, Mushu says, "Oh, sure, save the horse." [Just because he likes to kid her about it being a cow, doesn't mean he can't ever call it a horse.]
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Whilst singing "I'll make a man out of you", the soldiers have to jump on sort of stepping stone things which look about a metre apart from one another. When Chim Po sings the line, "Boy, do I wish I knew how to swim", he stops and the other soldiers are right behind him. If you look closely you will see that a number of them are standing in thin air. [Chien Po stops so quickly, the soldiers are squished together. They're not really standing in thin air; they're being supported by each other.]
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When Mulan's Dad realises she has gone he runs after her, it is a wet night and he falls over, when he gets up he isn't caked in mud. [He falls on hard stone. Therefore there is no mud.]
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In real life, women found impersonating men in the military got a penalty of death. No matter how the captain felt about Mulan, she would have to be put to death or both would be killed by law, her for impersonating, and him for failing to obey the law. [Shang did not spare her because he felt something for her. He spared her because she had saved his life, a debt which could only be repaid by him saving her life in return. He even said so in the scene, "A life for a life, my debt is repaid".]
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