![]() ![]() She first meets Honghui after she’s accidentally knocked back in line by some bickering soldiers and falls on her butt. ![]() They do, admittedly, get off on the wrong foot, but Mulan gets off on the wrong foot with just about everyone in the army. That character description did him dirty. He’s cocky, but he’s far from the mean bully that the casting call made him out to be. But aside from that brief interaction, Mulan and Shang don’t ever spend much time together off the battlefield.īy placing Honghui in closer proximity to Mulan, the filmmakers immediately build more of a relationship between the two characters. (After that conversation, guardian dragon Mushu scolds her for checking him out and getting distracted from the mission at hand). They have a brief conversation when the emperor’s adviser, Chi Fu, tells Shang his soldiers aren’t ready, and Mulan assures Shang that he’s a great captain. In the original 1998 movie, Shang doesn’t really interact with Mulan, beyond the musical sequence where he’s barking orders at everyone. Placing him on equal footing with Mulan gives the story a different flavor, and a fulfilling arc for the character, building up from an attraction to a mutual respect. Which means Hongui should be considered just as much a bisexual icon as Li Shang. But hear me out: because Honghui is now just a soldier, he establishes an actual rapport with Mulan early on in the movie, so the burgeoning attraction he feels toward her is present from the very beginning. He may even be a more nuanced character than Shang, especially when it comes to his sexuality.īlasphemy, I know. ![]() ![]() But Chen Honghui won my heart when I saw him in action. Look, I love bisexual icon Captain Li Shang as much as the next Disney fan. Li shang was our bisexual icon and you took him from us- shoe February 28, 2020 When it came to his erasure in the movie, many felt that it was a deliberate move on Disney’s part to erase the queer subtext from the original animated movie. Mulan, with its interrogation of gender roles, has always been chock full of queer subtext and it doesn’t take a lot of deep reading or fan theories to read Shang as bisexual. Animated Disney movies are still bereft of any meaningful LGBTQ representation, so audiences have eagerly claimed characters and stories for their own. For years, fans have argued that Shang, who starts to develop feelings for Mulan while she’s disguised as Ping, is bisexual. People weren’t happy with that, claiming the take ruined Shang’s supposed bisexuality. The casting call that circulated around the internet described Honghui as “full of himself, with a mean, bullying streak to him” and positioned him as a chief rival to Mulan, until he realizes she’s a woman and starts to respect her. In the live-action Mulan, Li Shang is split into two characters: Commander Tung (Donnie Yen), who serves as a sort of father figure to Mulan (Liu Yifei), and Cheng Honghui (Yoson An), a fellow soldier. Part of the reason director Niki Caro chose to change Shang was because of the unfortunate implications of Mulan getting together with her commanding officer. LI SHANG IS THE BEST AND SEXIEST DISNEY “PRINCE” EVER AND THEY DID HIM DIRTY I SAID WHAT I SAID- Kelly ⁷ February 27, 2020 ![]()
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