Mulan (Live-Action)

[Farerb]

I saw it as well and I agree with you Marce82. The best thing I can say is that I didn't hate it and that I do appreciate that they tried to do their own thing instead of copying someone else's homework (though they did copy other films IMO, mainly the MCU films or Star Wars or Wonderwoman). However, I don't think it was good and some things were stupid and I didn't like what they did with Mulan and her character development.
In term of other remakes, I guess it was less awful than BatB, Aladdin, Lion King and Maleficent, but worse than TJB and Cinderella. I guess it's the most similar to Cinderella, not really a remake but just another version of the story of Mulan.
Definitely not interested in watching this again.

[Sotiris]

Christina Aguilera participated in a virtual watch party for the new film. Here's some of her most interesting tweets.

Q: Do you have a favorite part of the movie you're looking forward to seeing in the live-action movie?

Christina Aguilera: In the beginning! Of both the original animated Mulan and this one, when Mulan is being “made up” to be mated. It is a fun visual scene & telling moment. I love a good makeover/ glam moment personally. But appreciate Mulan’s desire to remain true in to how she feels.

Source: https://twitter.com/xtina/status/1302062108771786757

Q: What was your reaction when you got the call for Reflection 2020?

Christina Aguilera: I felt a new sense of pressure of course to challenge myself in adding new elements to the song vocally, but in a great way- being as this song holds so much meaning and importance to me & was the start of my career.

Source: https://twitter.com/xtina/status/1302033809446236162

Q: What was the best part while making the music?

Christina Aguilera: Recording the new Reflection was actually very emotional for me. I teared up many times (had to swallow the emotion because I’m not an accurate singer while crying). I realized & appreciated how much has changed from the original place & time I recorded this song. Back then, I was so nervous & young. I wanted so badly to please & be heard, unsure of any future in the business. Now 20+ years of hard work later, I felt blessed & humbled to see my Grammys in view while recording in my own home studio. At my own pace & on my own terms.

Source: https://twitter.com/xtina/status/1302047240039673856

Q: Which is your favorite version of Reflection? Can you pick between your babies?

Christina Aguilera: I am partial to the new version of Reflection for sure. Although I look back and smile at the version I did as a teen...I can hear the youth of a girl who doesn’t fully know herself or the power of her instrument yet. I’ve gotten to know myself better over the past 20 years and I am more aware of what I am capable of- having developed a deeper and more self assured tone, owning my voice now as a grown matured & experienced woman.

Source: https://twitter.com/xtina/status/1302059806342209536

Q: Any special memories from recording Reflection back in the '90s?

Christina Aguilera: It’s funny I remember the label (my A&R guy at the time Ron Fair amongst others), freaking out as I had cut my hair RIGHT before shooting this video back as a teen just wanting to “experiment”. Little did we all know the power of a wig or extensions back then! An easy fix AND a discovery I’d have fun playing with the rest of my life! Just the start of realizing you can’t please everyone with the decisions you make & how image-conscious this business makes you. But that never stopped me from experimenting with endless looks for years to come.

Source: https://twitter.com/xtina/status/1302054451239366657

Q: Do you and your kids have a favorite Disney film?

Christina Aguilera: Summer’s favorite movies right now are the Toy Story series. We particularly love to cozy up and watch old Disney classic cartoons — there’s one about “Bongo the Circus Bear”... it’s on Disney+!

Source: https://twitter.com/xtina/status/1302060584972808193

Q: If you could sing any Disney princess songs (besides Mulan), which would you sing?

Christina Aguilera: Well I love the songs from Alice & Wonderland but I guess she’s not really technically a “princess” — I love the song “Once Upon a Dream” from Sleeping Beauty and “A Dream Is a Wish your Heart Makes” from Cinderella.

Source: https://twitter.com/xtina/status/1302057741729529858

Q: What are your top 3 Disney movies?

Christina Aguilera: Alice in Wonderland, Sword in the Stone, original Mary Poppins with Julie Andrews.

Source: https://twitter.com/xtina/status/1302057118191812609

[Sotiris]

Mushu is trending on Twitter because people are just finding out he's not in the remake. Even Akwafina participated. Other common complaints in the thread are the lack of songs, the absence of Li Shang, Cri-Kee, and the grandmother, Mulan having superpowers, and the phoenix being her spirit animal.

[DisneyFan97]

So i am not the only one who misses the grandmother ?!

[Farerb]

So i am not the only one who misses the grandmother ?!

To me not having the "Stitch" prototype dog was the worse offense.

[Disney's Divinity]

Aw, yay, The Sword in the Stone is one of Christina’s favorites, too!

So Mulan had superpowers in this film? Wow, they couldn't have fudged this more if they were deliberately trying to.I'm not surprised to see more backlash. I expected that to happen once people saw the film—especially if they paid $30 to do so—because most people don't track the makings-of news for films. Because the film modeled itself after and advertised itself as a re-make of the Disney film in its marketing/poster re-creations, the bubble was going to burst when people finally saw it and realized it was nothing like Mulan (the original Disney film or the tale either for that matter). I always thought the first one's success would be off the back of the animated film, the sequel's floppage will be because of the re-make itself.

Apparently the actress's Hong Kong comments have taken new life with the film finally having landed as well. It all makes me smile.

[Sotiris]

Apparently, Disney considered putting the songs back in after the film tested poorly in late summer 2019 (The film currently sports a mere 56% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes which means audience's feelings haven't changed since then). Niki Caro and Sean Bailey were against it and the plan was ultimately scrapped. Wilder and Zippel wrote new lyrics and arrangements for the songs and tried their hardest to make them work in a hostile creative environment. Poor Wilder. He seems heartbroken. Disney didn't even bother including his demos on the soundtrack. They also didn't include the English version of Reflection sung by Liu Yifei that Wilder worked on.

If you're upset the film did away with most of the original film's music, that wasn't always the case. Disney considered adding musical montages for some of the film's hits, including "Reflection" and "I'll Make a Man Out of You." They just couldn't find a way to make them work. "They were trying to figure out how best to honor the songs from the animated version, but they were struggling," Matthew Wilder, the animated film's composer, told Insider in March. "They were playing with the idea of creating montages for the movie to include song moments against picture, without the characters breaking into song," Wilder said.

Wilder wrote all of the songs to the 1998 animated film along with lyricist David Zippel. While Harry Gregson-Williams composes the live-action movie, both Wilder and Zippel returned for the 2020 film after pushback from fans at test screenings about the lack of music in the live-action remake. Wilder said he was invited to collaborate and try to weave some of the film's original songs into the score. Wilder had his first discussions with director Niki Caro and Zippel about the music direction of the film in late summer 2019. "I was working with Niki, one-on-one primarily to try to land the moments that she was looking for, focusing on 'Reflection' and 'I'll Make a Man Out of You," Wilder said.

By the time Wilder had joined, Disney had major successes with "Aladdin" and "The Lion King" back-to-back in May and July 2019. Both of those movies brought in well over $1 billion at the box office worldwide and may have placed an immense amount of pressure on what "Mulan" should be. Should "Mulan" have more music? Should it have a more serious tone? "We were there to experiment and [Caro] didn't really know what she wanted," said Wilder. "It was up to me, to a large extent, to try to understand how best to put into play the notes that she was giving me. She knew in her heart of hearts that she just wanted this movie to be different and not necessarily be a rubber-stamped version, if you will, of the animated film." "The conversations, as you can imagine, were very animated," he continued. "Things are being put up and discarded very quickly. No, that's not it, that's not right. That's not it. It's trial by error. I had my frustrations in that process, but, I was there to serve the film."

Wilder didn't know when he joined they would forgo a lyrical version of 'Reflection.' "I didn't know that," Wilder said, noting that the version of the film he saw when he first joined was different from where it wound up. "David rewrote the lyrics to 'I'll Make a Man Out of You' and rewrote the lyrics to 'Reflection' to try to accommodate this updated version and the context in which the song needed to exist." Wilder said, similar to the 1998 film, "I'll Make a Man Out of You" would have played along with the training sequence. Mulan and her comrades are seen fighting, shooting arrows, and in formation. "Then there's a very long scene with Mulan doing the sword training by the water and then carrying the pails up the mountain. We were using 'Reflection,' with lyric as scoring," Wilder said. "The collective decision was that it wasn't working in the film that [Walt Disney Studios motion picture president of production] Sean Bailey and Niki Caro really wanted to make," he added.

Wilder said they made several demos of the songs that were never utilized in the live-action movie. They also pitched an all-female version of "I'll Make a Man Out of You" for a possible end title to the film. "They didn't go for it. They felt it was not part of the fabric of what they wanted to convey in the mood of the new Mulan," Wilder said, adding, "And it kicks ass. I'll tell you."

The final version of the film, uses the "Reflection" theme in a few different moments, including the bucket scene. "I'll Make a Man Out of You" is referenced in a moment of dialogue. "Honor to Us All" can be heard when Mulan prepares to visit the matchmaker. "You can imagine after all of that work, the songs being placed in that context with no lyric and just melody, it had a very different impact for us as songwriters and the way that it plays in the movie," Wilder said of how the songs exist in the live-action film.

When asked how he felt, knowing only the melodies for some songs would appear in the movie, Wilder took a moment to respond. "I don't want to imbue this interview with any kind of negativity, but emotionally, it's difficult because we worked so hard on the '98 version," Wilder said. Wilder added, "For me to tell you that I wasn't disappointed that we didn't get the opportunity to really fly our flag, if you will, as songwriters, I'd be lying if I told you that there wasn't an element of disappointment there."

Source: https://www.insider.com/live-action-mul ... reflection

[Marce82]

Ooooh... Fareb...


I can TOTALLY see what you mean about certain elements "borrowed" from Wonder Woman and Star Wars.... and they don't fit here.

And I agree, this one is one of the better live-action remakes... but to me, that is a pretty low bar, cause I think most of them are terrible. And I agree, this is like another adaptation of the source material, not an adaptation of an adaptation. I just wish they had made better choices, cause I felt this movie had REAL potential.

But yeah, I don't think I'll revisit this movie... like most of the live action remakes. I recently saw the live action Jungle Book, and it was one of the better ones, but still mediocre.

Is it weird that the only live action remake I truly enjoy is the first half of 101 Dalmatians?

[DisneyFan09]

I saw the movie today and I must say that it was just meh. But it was as expected. As I`ve stated before, nothing about the movie seemed intriguing to me, so that`s why I kept my expectations low. I wasn`t dissappointed, but this remake of Mulan truly fills the bill of the stereotypical, soulless Disney-remake.

The movie actually worked well with it`s first five minutes or so, where the exposition of Mulan`s background actually was the best part. But the movie felt soon into mediocrity and blandness. I liked the instrumental cues of the songs at their sequences, but the few comedic bits felt jarringly out of place. The same could be said about the witch, who never seemed to fit into the concept of a sweeping war movie. Speaking of which, Mulan`s sister was absolutely pointless, as was most of the character changes. It`s not that this live action remake needed to be a carbon copy of it`s animated predecessor, but none of the new choices payed off.

But the very worst part of the movie was Liu Yifei, who was a complete miscast as Mulan! Besides looking much younger than her actual age, she was completely absent of any charisma, spark or appeal! Everything about her was completely bland, wooden and stilted and didn`t put any emotion whatsoever into her acting. None of the other actors were particularly memorable, either, but Yifei was completely unbearable at her part! It was just painful to watch her!
I know that I`ve previously ranted about the miscast of Emma Watson as Belle, but I never thought that the miscast of Mulan would be absolutely worse than her! Nor did she made her transition as a male soldier believable, either, as it would be easy to tell that Mulan was a girl. Perhaps it wasn`t such a huge issue in the animated Mulan either, but at least such a issue needs to be handled with more credibility in a live action feature (Sorry for being so hard on Yifei, but she`s indeed among one of the least appealing actresses I`ve ever seen on screen and therefore should never be considered to carry a movie on her own).

All in all, one of the worst remakes that Disney has put. I`ve never hated these remakes with a burning passion as the majority has done, but Mulan is indeed among the worst of them. It wasn`t bloody awful, but it was just as expected: Generic, soulless and wooden. I can`t believe that it`s earned such a high rating at Rotten Tomatoes, though.

[Farerb]

Ooooh... Fareb...


I can TOTALLY see what you mean about certain elements "borrowed" from Wonder Woman and Star Wars.... and they don't fit here.

And I agree, this one is one of the better live-action remakes... but to me, that is a pretty low bar, cause I think most of them are terrible. And I agree, this is like another adaptation of the source material, not an adaptation of an adaptation. I just wish they had made better choices, cause I felt this movie had REAL potential.

But yeah, I don't think I'll revisit this movie... like most of the live action remakes. I recently saw the live action Jungle Book, and it was one of the better ones, but still mediocre.

Is it weird that the only live action remake I truly enjoy is the first half of 101 Dalmatians?

That's why I didn't say "better" cause then it would imply "good", but like you to me they range from terrible (Beauty and the Beast) to mediocre (The Jungle Book), but I'll be honest here I never particularly cared about Disney's live actions film, even the non remakes ones.

I wonder what the reception would have been if they had found a convoluted way of keeping the songs and an even more convoluted way of keeping Mushu but the story would have remained the same cause IDK to me LeFou giving people money so they would sing about Gaston (among other things, don't know why this one particularly came to my mind) is missing the point as much as Mulan having superpowers.

[Disney's Divinity]

Apparently, Disney considered putting the songs back in after the film tested poorly in late summer 2019 (The film currently sports a mere 56% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes which means audience's feelings haven't changed since then

Looks like this is a reverse situation of the Aladdin re-make, where the critics' score was awful, but the audience score was in the 90's. Of course, the critic score here isn't anywhere near the 90's, but you get the point. Not surprised really considering Aladdin was faithful to the Disney film it was re-making. This probably would've been more enjoyed if they had included Mushu played by some big name actor like Kevin Hart or Chris Rock. Disney should've put their foot down with the director's BS over the songs like they did with the Aladdin re-make. I hope she has little success getting projects going forward if she's too insipid to even hit the basics on a nostalgia-driven remake. Oh, well. Maybe Disney can make another re-make in 10-15 years that actually does the job properly. To think, they could've built a franchise here a la Aladdin and screwed the pooch.

But the very worst part of the movie was Liu Yifei, who was a complete miscast as Mulan! Besides looking much younger than her actual age, she was completely absent of any charisma, spark or appeal! Everything about her was completely bland, wooden and stilted and didn`t put any emotion whatsoever into her acting. None of the other actors were particularly memorable, either, but Yifei was completely unbearable at her part! It was just painful to watch her!

I guess those rumors about her terrible acting that came out several years back weren’t too off. To think they kept a bad actress who did nothing but bring political baggage to the film. Too bad they didn’t re-cast back while they still had the chance. But on the bright side I guess it’s another thing that will harm the likelihood of the sequel having much success at the box office; I always thought the girl who played Alice in the AiW re-make was pretty meh, and then ATtLG bombed way more than anyone could’ve expected. Is this actress worse than Alice’s to you, DisneyFan09?

[Thumper_93]

I saw the movie yesterday and I'm sorry but it's very boring to me. I thought that it was going to be much better but to be honest it looks like a compilation of scenes with no sense and without carisma. When I finished I felt like if i wouldn't have seen it. I didn't empathy for any character, I think that they could have made a better job with the story and with the relationship that Mulan has with her father and her partners in the war.

[Marce82]

Thumper93, my experience watching this movie was VERY similar to yours.

Fareb, it seems we have similar tastes when it comes to these remakes... I agree with your "rating" of their past efforts.

I don't think they needed Mushu and/or the songs. I don't think the tone of this film was off; the main problem was the story. They removed the songs, but they didn't replace them with anything, so all the character/story moments that the songs brought to the original were missing, thus leaving us with a pretty hollow film.

Let's face it, Mulan in this version has no personality traits at all (other than "brave", and I use the term loosely, cause according to this very film's script, she isn't brave, since she is seemingly never afraid)

[Thumper_93]

I agree with you @Marce82.
One thing that I liked is that She's the one who reveals the truth about herself. But I would like to see a moment of her having an identity crisis or something like that. They didn't develope the character so good as they could have done

[estefan]

In Caro's defense, if she specifically directed the movie without the need for songs, it's a little hard to then insert them into the movie in post-production, even in montage form. And if she set out to differentiate her "Mulan" from the animated film, it has to be frustrating to have corporate give you notes to make it closer to said animated film.

I get the sense it's frustrating being Disney and hearing different audience demands for the remakes. "The Lion King" and "Beauty and the Beast" were knocked for being too close to the animated film, while before release, there were already complaints of "Mulan" lacking songs and Mushu. And there also seems to be a divide with "Mulan" from critics who are pleased it's not a carbon copy and audiences who are underwhelmed at the lack of elements from the animated film. If I was running Disney, I would be thinking "So you don't want the same movie? But you also want the same movie?"

[Thumper_93]

In my case I don't want the same movie. I want the feelings that the original classic has. This movie has no soul. You can make a remake and conserve the spirit and the touch that made the original one so beloved. This movie could have used some moments from the animated one and they didn't for example the scene where all the imperial city kneels because Mulan saved them I want a different movie but please, make it with passion, with love and if you're going to add new things in the story please make a good development of it.

[DisneyFan09]

]I guess those rumors about her terrible acting that came out several years back weren’t too off. To think they kept a bad actress who did nothing but bring political baggage to the film. Too bad they didn’t re-cast back while they still had the chance. But on the bright side I guess it’s another thing that will harm the likelihood of the sequel having much success at the box office; I always thought the girl who played Alice in the AiW re-make was pretty meh, and then ATtLG bombed way more than anyone could’ve expected. Is this actress worse than Alice’s to you, DisneyFan09?

My problem wasn`t Liu`s acting, but her overall presence. She was completely absent of any charisma or appeal whatsoever, even more so than the other actors (but I guess I`m being too hard on her). And yes, though Mia Wasikowska was not particularly better, I thought she was tolerable in the first movie. In the sequel she was totally bland.

[Disney's Divinity]

Last night I thought it would be interesting to make a comparison list of the RottenTomatoes critic / audience scores just for myself. Then I decided to do it for all the films this morning (even some I don't really think of as "remakes" exactly, like Oz and Christopher Robin) and post it here as food for thought:

Alice in Wonderland 2010
Critics: 51% (276 reviews)
Audience: 55% (480,200 user ratings)

Oz the Great and Powerful 2013
Critics: 57% (268 reviews)
Audience: 56% (292,900 user ratings)

Cinderella 2015
Critics: 84% (246 reviews)
Audience: 78% (77,700 user ratings)

Maleficent 2014
Critics: 53% (268 reviews)
Audience: 70% (176,300 user ratings)

Alice Through the Looking Glass 2016
Critics: 29% (254 reviews)
Audience: 48% (37,800 user ratings)

The Jungle Book 2016
Critics: 94% (322 reviews)
Audience: 86% (94,600 user ratings)

Pete's Dragon 2016
Critics: 88% (240 reviews)
Audience: 72% (37,100 user ratings)

Beauty and the Beast 2017
Critics: 71% (374 reviews)
Audience: 80% (86,300 user ratings)

Mary Poppins Returns 2018
Critics: 79% (370 reviews)
Audience: 65% (7,300 user ratings)

Christopher Robin 2018
Critics: 73% (270 reviews)
Audience: 83% (5,700 user ratings)

Aladdin 2019
Critics: 57% (370 reviews)
Audience: 94% (59,000 user ratings)

Lady and the Tramp 2019
Critics: 66% (64 reviews)
Audience: 51% (650 user ratings)

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil 2019
Critics: 40% (251 reviews)
Audience: 95% (19,100 user ratings)

The Lion King 2019
Critics: 52% (420 reviews)
Audience: 88% (76,300 user ratings)

Dumbo 2020
Critics: 46% (362 reviews)
Audience: 48% (4,400 user ratings)

Mulan 2020 (I'll update as the numbers shift over the next few days)
Critics: 73% (300 reviews)
Audience: 49% (10,125 user ratings)



Audience Ratings Ranked:
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil 2019 95%*
Aladdin 2019 94%
The Lion King 2019 88%
The Jungle Book 2016 86%
Christopher Robin 2018 83%
Beauty and the Beast 2017 80%
Cinderella 2015 78%
Pete's Dragon 2016 72%
Maleficent 2014 70%
Mary Poppins Returns 2018 65%
Oz the Great and Powerful 2013 56%
Alice in Wonderland 2010 55%
Lady and the Tramp 2019 51%
Mulan 2020 49%
Dumbo 2020 48%
Alice Through the Looking Glass 2016 48%

* Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’s is the only one that’s weird. But, if you notice, the number of audience ratings for it is dwarfed by the number for the first Maleficent (176,000 v. 19,000 ratings). My guess is its high audience score is due to the fact that only the people who liked the first film actually watched / rated the second, which is why it’s higher than makes sense. You’d think the same would’ve been true for Alice Through the Looking Glass, but, tbh, I think I can understand it. I ended up disappointed by that film even as someone who was vaguely interested in seeing more of HBC’s and Hathaway’s characters. *shrug*

Critics Ratings Ranked:
The Jungle Book 2016 94%
Pete's Dragon 2016 88%
Cinderella 2015 84%
Mary Poppins Returns 2018 79%
Christopher Robin 2018 73%
Mulan 2020 73%
Beauty and the Beast 2017 71%
Lady and the Tramp 2019 66%
Aladdin 2019 57%
Oz the Great and Powerful 2013 57%
Maleficent 2014 2014 53%
The Lion King 2019 52%
Alice in Wonderland 2010 51%
Dumbo 2020 46%
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil 2019 40%
Alice Through the Looking Glass 2016 29%

The most recent films in particular highlight how out-of-tune the critics have become with audiences.

I get the sense it's frustrating being Disney and hearing different audience demands for the remakes. "The Lion King" and "Beauty and the Beast" were knocked for being too close to the animated film, while before release, there were already complaints of "Mulan" lacking songs and Mushu. And there also seems to be a divide with "Mulan" from critics who are pleased it's not a carbon copy and audiences who are underwhelmed at the lack of elements from the animated film. If I was running Disney, I would be thinking "So you don't want the same movie? But you also want the same movie?"

I don't think it's that complicated. It's clear critics and audiences aren't on the same page with the re-makes, especially the last couple of years... Critics want something new and audiences want a re-make to be, well, a re-make of what they liked in the first place. Is Disney looking to create "new," quality films that please critics with this re-make fad of theirs? Or are they looking to make money / build franchises, which requires pleasing audiences the first go 'round in order to get them to come back for more? Even if we pretended Disney was making these simply to create quality films (they're not), I can't help but feel it would be a pointless endeavor to chase the critics considering the best of the re-makes are still pretty bad quality-wise, aren't they? And the awards shows would never make over them regardless.

As far as the audience reaction, Mulan's down there with Alice so far. Maleficent's sequel actually managed to hit half a billion at the box office, which still wasn't enough for Disney to consider it successful, and the first Maleficent did better with the audience than Mulanis currently doing (again, so far). I hope they're not dumb enough to give Mulan II an enormous budget otherwise they're about to repeat the mistake they made with Alice Through the Looking Glass. I remember feeling snookered by how bad Alice in Wonderland turned out when the trailers looked really good. I imagine a similar thing is happening with Mulan here, with people feeling cheated out of what the marketing was selling them. Why would they come back for a sequel if you've left them feeling that way? And the film having been priced so high will just rub salt in the wound for those who fell for it.

[Sotiris]

This weekend, Mulan began a soft theatrical rollout in the markets where Disney+ is not a factor. The live-action update on the animated classic grossed an estimated $5.9M from nine hubs, landing No. 1 in the UAE, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. In both Singapore and Thailand it scored the best opening weekend of 2020. The UAE weekend was 6% ahead of Cinderella. In Taiwan, it bowed No. 2 with $1.2M.

Disney’s Mulan arrives in China next Friday. It’s going to be a crowded market leading into the National Day celebration.

Source: https://deadline.com/2020/09/tenet-chri ... 234571675/

Disney hasn’t reported Mulan Disney+ revenue figures, and I imagine they won’t until an earnings call, together with the pic’s overseas box office. This weekend, the Niki Caro-directed movie opened to $5.9M from Croatia, Czech Rep, Middle East, Slovakia, Turkey, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand.

Rival industry sources with knowledge of PVOD are figuring that Disney may not have earned great presales on Disney+ for Mulan, where the pic was available for $29.99. The studio quickly announced it would be free in early December on the service, and all eyes are watching to see how quickly the film floats to Amazon and GooglePlay services before that free-date.

Source: https://deadline.com/2020/09/tenet-open ... 234571662/

[Disney's Divinity]

The problem with Mulan: why the live-action remake is a lightning rod for controversy
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/s ... kong-china

This was more interesting than I expected, with information about both the animated film and the legend.