![]() ![]() When the mirror is shattered, splinters get into the eyes and hearts of people around the world, freezing their hearts. In 'The Snow Queen', the Devil makes a magic mirror which shows people only the bad and ugly aspects of themselves. With her female identity revealed Mulan is ordered to become a concubine, but she commits suicide rather than submit to this fate.ĭisney’s spectacularly popular animation is loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen’s 'The Snow Queen', but while Frozen is an empowering story of sisterly love and learning not to fear your power, 'The Snow Queen' has much darker beginnings, though a similarly happy ending. They are eventually spared, but when Mulan returns home she finds that her father has died and her mother has remarried. ![]() ![]() The two become inseparable, and when the king is defeated they offer to be put to death in his place. When Mulan takes her father’s place in the army she meets the king’s daughter, who is also a warrior. Both films follow quite closely the original poem, 'The Ballad of Mulan', but the 1695 version of the tale included in the Sui Tang Romance takes a darker turn. Disney have been inspired by the heroic female warrior not once but twice, first in their 1998 animated adaptation and now in the live-action remake starring Liu Yifei. ![]()
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