Film Theory: Did Mulan REALLY Save China? (Disney Mulan Trailer)

With the imminent release of Disney's live-action version of Mulan, a question looms large on the Internet: Will there be Szechuan sauce? 1988 they had this promotion for the Disney movie Mulan where they were, they created a new sauce for McNuggets called Szechuan sauce and it's delicious with that Rick and Morty clip McDonald's special limited edition nugget sauce released to match the movie Mulan's original became the sauce heard around the world and after that clip the company did a limited re-release in the The legendary Szechuan sauce launches at some Rick and Morty fans who misbehaved with the Loki riot, but now we're on the cusp of a new Milan movie and a second chance for the world to experience that liquid gold once again.

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The show where our reflection shows intense overanalysis and mild anxiety It's no secret that I've been excited about Hay Disney live-action remakes come out every time they come out, and sure, sometimes you can't recreate the magic of a beloved childhood classic, no matter how much you give it to Beyoncé, but if my hopes are high for one of these remakes, honestly. they're probably the highest for Mulan, for one thing Mulan won't have to revolve around CGI animals that somehow feel less realistic than the two-dimensional drawings they're based on, but I also feel like Mulan is the youngest kid forgotten and Disney's.

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strong stretch of 90s movies Oh Mulan, you made the football team good for you, that's nice, meanwhile your older siblings Aladdin Lion King and Beauty and the Beast got full scholarships, were named queen of the dance and won the Oscar for Best Original Song, but you.

I know we are proud of you too, although we love you all equally. The original Mulan, while she deserves some respect, I mean no one doesn't sing when I will make a man of you, shows up at karaoke and Mu Shu belongs in the Canon. of big animated sidekicks, I mean, when you think about it, it's not Mu Shu, basically just a donkey from Shrek in dragon form to Eddie Murphy, wait a second, a movie about a protagonist who reluctantly goes on a journey to save your hidden home. his true identity of his love interest, all accompanied by a companion with the voice of Eddie Murphy is Mulan actually the first Shrek movie no, no, in any case Mulan also offers us one of the best action sequences in a movie from Disney when Mulan fires a rocket. on a mountain to create an avalanche and bury the invading Huns who historically would have been Mongols due to history, but who's keeping track of that stuff.

It's a cool piece of Disney's encounter with MacGyver and is one of the most epic moments in all of the Disney movies. It's also one of the deadliest moments we've seen in a Disney movie as we calculate a no-go

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, but now that we're on the cusp of this new movie, the theorists and I are wondering how realistic that scene was. could you

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? Causing an avalanche with a giant Roman candle, could Mulan have done it hundreds of years ago when the movie took place? A number of questions from history and physics will need to be investigated to get to the bottom of the matter, so let's get down to business and do some puns to find out how realistic this whole scene is.

We have to answer a series of initial questions. Question number one. In a small explosion. Create an avalanche. We've all heard that if you're climbing mountains, you should do it. Don't shout for fear of causing an avalanche, but that's not really a thing, it's no joke, it's a complete myth, sure your voice can be powerful, yes, it may echo off the mountain tops, maybe, but Your voice alone simply doesn't have enough strength, scientifically speaking, pressure. The amplitudes caused by whoops are about two orders of magnitude smaller than the amount needed to trigger an avalanche, which then begs the question: what can cause an avalanche?

Well, an avalanche is much more complex than just a bit of snow sliding into more chunks of snow. snow Believe it or not, there are actually three different types of avalanches dry snow wet snow and slab for each one it's as much about having the right conditions for an avalanche as anything else you need a steep mountain slope you need a layer of snow a weak layer on that snow layer and finally a trigger now a dry snow avalanche or a dust avalanche occurs after a new snowfall, these things tend to travel very fast up to one hundred and ninety miles per hour, that is about 300 kilometers per hour.

Now, these things start out light and fluffy and are very visually beautiful. Beneath that hazy cloud of dust is a huge snow that when it stops is about four times denser than when it started, while a wet snow avalanche is caused by the decreased strength of snow due to melting or rain because everything is very wet. There is no pillowy cloud in the snow and this makes everything look much more like a landslide. It also makes wet snow avalanches much slower, at 10 to 20 miles per hour or 15 to 30 kilometers per hour, but both types of avalanches pale in comparison to third type avalanches, which account for about 90 % of all avalanche related deaths, you basically have a solid slab of snow resting on a less stable layer of snow underneath and when that weak layer fails, the top slab slides away taking everything with it. and when I say take everything, I mean that a typical slab is about half the size of a football field and about 1 or 2 feet D 30 to 60 centimeters.

They start out slow but can accelerate rapidly to around 80 miles per hour or 128 kilometers per hour in just a few seconds, so basically a giant sheet of snow and ice is heading straight down a mountain at 80 miles per hour. All that said, the avalanche we see at Moulin is absolutely a slab-style avalanche, so what can trigger an avalanche, well, it really can be any number of things, from earthquakes to wind to snowmobiles, if it can alter the snow layer enough to loosen the top layer of snow. Gravity will do the rest, assuming all other conditions are correct.

Act with the explosion of a rocket. as a trigger, well yes they do it frequently, small controlled explosions are often used to trigger small periodic avalanches in order to reduce the likelihood of giant catastrophic avalanches, just as controlled burns are vital to preventing large forest fires . Small man-made avalanches prevent skiers from becoming human popsicles The explosion we see when the Milan projectile hits the top of the mountain doesn't have to be gigantic, it just has to disturb the snow enough to cause a snowball effect, so it's safe to say that the answer to the first question is yes.

Question number two: can an avalanche really wipe out an army? The short answer is yes and we have the history to prove it. During World War I, Austro-Hungarian troops built barracks and fortifications in the Italian Alps and settled them at high altitudes in the hope of breaking out. of the range of mortar fire, but it turns out that the mortars should not have been the biggest of their worries as the barracks were buried by a series of avalanches in December 1916 and the largest of these came in what is now known as the White Friday. The avalanches caused massive casualties to both the Austro-Hungarians and Italians, with total estimates of loss of life that day between two thousand and ten thousand people, so avalanches definitely have the power to decimate an army, but these troops were in mostly stops in Milan.

Xiang Yu's army is charging on horseback towards the Chinese when they are swept away by the Avalanche, so Calvary's charge has simply overwhelmed the Avalanche. If you're paying attention, you know the answer is no, at their fastest, most Calvary charges peak. 10 meters per second, which translates to about 22 miles per hour, short horses can go faster than that, but since the human army isn't technically charging through the snow, it's probably safer to say they weren't going. faster than 22 mile per hour avalanches. On the other hand, it can easily reach speeds of over 80 miles per hour, so turning around or moving out of the way will not be part of the car for the Huns, the avalanche we see in Mulan will overtake those troops and will likely devastate full force, so the answer to question number two we can definitely say again is realistic, but that's okay, avalanches are dangerous and it's not that hard to cause a big scream, says you, the disgruntled viewer who just tuned in In the discussion about Chinese rocket artillery the real question is number three, whether Mulan could have hit the top of the mountain with the rocket to cause that avalanche in the first place.

This is the question that gets more complicated because it requires us to make some decisions about the world Mulan exists in. For one thing, when exactly Mulan establishes the type of weaponry she would abuse depends largely on the era, but the movie gives us some mixed messages: the original Legend of Hua Mulan placed her life in the 5th or 6th century. AD during the Northern Wei period of Chinese history, but the Huns did not exist at this point in history to make things even more confusing, the depiction of the Great Wall of China and Mulan looks like the parts of the wall that were built during but the surprising thing to me here is the existence of the imperial city in the first place, which was also built during that Ming dynasty, so for the sake of argument, let's say that the Disney version of the story of Mulan takes place in a later medieval China, no earlier than the 14th century, in which case the rocket we see Mulan fire on the mountain would have been historically accurate for that time period, the first recorded use of rocket weapons by the Chinese occurred against the The Mongols at the Battle of Pike hung in 1232 AD.

The artillery in this battle was known as fire arrows, which were basically small explosives attached to arrows that helped them fly in a straight line before exploding on impact. Basically, they were the equivalent of bottle rockets, but what we see in Mulan's battle scene is something much bigger and much more complex. The most likely inspiration for the Milan rocket launcher was a device called V and apologies for altering the pronunciation of Long Shu shway, which translates to fire dragon coming out of water. Shu shway was one of the first examples in history of a multi-stage rocket where an initial fuse was lit to propel small rockets that would then fire the larger wooden rocket.

The wicks burned. It's a pretty sophisticated technology given that the world was still several centuries away from electricity and indoor plumbing, the estimated range of the entire long swoosh was a pretty impressive 1,800 yards, a little over a mile, so it's definitely It's a long-range weapon, but is it long enough to reach the top of the mountain Mulan is aiming for? that we need to determine exactly where in the world we are and that's where things start to get a little complicated. Everyone in Milan refers to the battle site as the language will pass, which would make things easier if the language will pass actually existed nor is there a super obvious mountain pass between the Great Wall and Beijing that would be the real world substitute for languages. will happen, however, the Disney production team traveled to several locations in China while researching for the

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and one of those locations was Luo Yang, very close to whom Lao passed near Mount Song, this is the most likely culprit of our inspiration for Tung Shao Pass because the low pass is the site of a few different battles from Chinese history, including one that coincides with the original story of Hua Mulan, so let's assume that the real-life version of the mountain pass that We see in Wulin it is a round mountain song that at its summit has a height of 4900 61 feet or 15 12 meters.

As we just mentioned, the Wolong shoosh had an approximate range of 1,800 yards, which is 5,400 feet or 1645 meters. Now, Mulan is not firing the rocket upwards and Pythagoras would be quick to tell us that the measurement we are looking for is the hypotenuse of a right triangle which takes into account both lateral and vertical distance, so if we take a If you look at the angle at which Mulan launches the rocket, we get a launch angle of around 45 degrees, which means that if the total range of the rocket is 5400 feet, the rocket could travel both ahorizontal distance as a vertical distance of approximately 3818 feet. or 1164 meters which is not high enough to reach the top of Songs Mountain from ground level, but remember who LAN is, she is not at the base of the mountain, she is already pretty close to the top of the cliff , as long as they are already there. about a thousand feet up the mountain, which seems likely because of the treacherous cliffs below the Mullins rocket absolutely has the range it needs to hit the sweet spot and cause that avalanche, so in today's episode of the theory of the movie Mythbusters we can say that the Mullins artillery is enough to cause a potential avalanche, it is historically accurate that the Chinese military is using that device and that the result of the avalanche would be as devastating as we see in the movie, it requires some estimation, but the scene seems plausible to me in all aspects.

As long as Mulan is just a good sniper, but here's the real twist of today's episode, my friends, even if Mulan didn't hit that mountain with the rocket, there's still a good chance that the non-Huns would die in the width of Naville. Anyway, you see, National Geographic estimates that 90% of avalanche disasters are caused by humans, whether climbing, skiing, or snowmobiling, and if that's enough to cause an avalanche, how about a load of cavalry composed of hundreds of stampeding horses? I mean, we just talked about the various avalanche triggers and necessities, including small explosions, snow breaks, or earthquakes, and something about hundreds of horses running down the mountain at the same time suggests that there might be enough force there to cause a chain reaction, As long as the other conditions we mentioned before are no cover, steep slopes, and weakened layers in the snowpack, it doesn't really matter whether the trigger was a rocket explosion or a charging army.

Milan made a big shot for sure, but the Shan army was doomed as soon as they decided to go through the mountains in the first place, the quickest way to the Emperor already went through that pass, but hey, that's just a theory. Oh, movie theory, now if you'll excuse me, Mulan was just late. I guess I have to settle for rocking out to some. I'll make a man of you mm-hmm oh. You're wondering what headphones I'm using that give me such tremendous sound. I'm glad you asked, these are actually my new wireless recognition headphones, our sponsor for today's episode, buying a pair of recognition headphones is a great time for the brain, not only are they.

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