迪士尼对耗资2亿美元的真人翻拍版《花木兰》寄予厚望，希望这是一部终于能在世界第二大电影市场中国的电影观众中引起文化共鸣的大片。
但电影上映后，中国电影观众却抱怨连天。
他们极力试图迎合中国，却又未能弄清历史事实。
他们将木兰过度西方化，然而又落入西方眼里的东方刻板印象，基本是东方元素的大杂烩。
他们请来了有名的华裔演员，却让他们说英语台词，在中国背景中也让人感觉错位。
电影中很多细节也不符合历史传说，让很多观众不满。
尽管1500年前的诗歌《木兰辞》在历史上被不断演绎改编，但花木兰依然是中国文化想象中的中心人物，她是中国早期民族主义和女性主义的英雄。
在中国，花木兰是所有人都知道的故事，所以如果改编的电影只是对中国或者中国文化的想象，那么这是中国观众无法接受的。
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 迪士尼 | Dí shì ní | Disney, American entertainment conglomerate / Walt Disney (1901–1966), American animator and film producer |
| 对 | duì | towards; at; for / concerning; regarding |
| 耗资 | hào zī | to spend / to cost |
| 亿 | yì | 100 million |
| 美元 | měi yuán | American dollar; US dollar |
| 的 | de | possessive particle (of; 's) / modifying particle (used after an attribute to modify a noun or to form a nominal expression) |
| 真 | zhēn | real / true / genuine |
| 人 | rén | person; people |
| 翻拍 | fān pāi | to make a photographic reproduction of an image or document etc; a reproduction / to remake a movie or TV series; a remake / to adapt (a novel etc) as a movie; an adaptation |
| 版 | bǎn | a register / block of printing / edition / version / page |
| 花木兰 | Huā Mù lán | Hua Mulan, legendary woman warrior (c. fifth century), Northern dynasties folk hero recorded in Sui and Tang literature |
| 寄予 | jì yǔ | to place (hope, importance etc) on / to express; to show; to give |
| 厚望 | hòu wàng | great hopes / great expectations |
| 希望 | xī wàng | to hope |
| 这 | zhè | this; these |
| 是 | shì | to be (followed by substantives only) |
| 一 | yī | one / single / a (article) |
| 部 | bù | classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc |
| 终于 | zhōng yú | at last / in the end / finally / eventually |
| 能 | néng | can / to be able to / might possibly |
| 在 | zài | (of sb or sth) to be (located) at |
| 世界 | shì jiè | world |
| 第 | dì | (prefix indicating ordinal number) |
| 二 | èr | two / 2 |
| 大 | dà | big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest |
| 电影 | diàn yǐng | movie; film |
| 市场 | shì chǎng | (economics) market |
| 中国 | Zhōng guó | China |
| 观众 | guān zhòng | spectators; audience; visitors (to an exhibition etc) |
| 中 | zhōng | within; among; in |
| 引起 | yǐn qǐ | to give rise to; to lead to; to cause; to arouse |
| 文化 | wén huà | cultural |
| 共鸣 | gòng míng | sympathetic response |
| 大片 | dà piàn | wide expanse / large area / vast stretch / blockbuster movie |
| 但 | dàn | but; yet; however; still |
| 上映 | shàng yìng | to screen; to show (a movie) |
| 后 | hòu | afterwards / after |
| 却 | què | but / yet / however / while / nevertheless / even though |
| 抱怨连天 | bào yuàn lián tiān | to complain incessantly; to grumble all day long |
| 他们 | tā men | they; them |
| 极力 | jí lì | to make a supreme effort |
| 试图 | shì tú | to attempt / to try |
| 迎合 | yíng hé | to cater to / to pander to |
| 又 | yòu | and yet |
| 未 | wèi | not yet / did not / have not / not |
| 弄清 | nòng qīng | to clarify / to fully understand |
| 历史 | lì shǐ | history |
| 事实 | shì shí | fact |
| 将 | jiāng | (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) |
| 木兰 | Mù lán | Mulan; the legendary Chinese woman warrior, or by extension the name Mulan. |
| 过度 | guò dù | over- / going too far |
| 西方化 | xī fāng huà | to westernize; the process of becoming more Western in style, culture, or outlook |
| 然而 | rán ér | however; but; yet |
| 落入 | luò rù | to fall into |
| 西方 | Xī fāng | the West / the Occident / Western countries |
| 眼 | yǎn | eye / a look; a glance / small hole / (bound form) salient point |
| 里 | lǐ | lining / interior / inside |
| 东方 | Dōng fāng | the East; the Orient |
| 刻板 | kè bǎn | stiff / inflexible / mechanical / stubborn |
| 印象 | yìn xiàng | impression (sth that stays in one's mind) / a memory |
| 基本 | jī běn | basic / fundamental / main / elementary |
| 元素 | yuán sù | element (key component of sth) / (chemistry) element / (math.) element (member of a set) |
| 杂烩 | zá huì | a stew / (fig.) a disparate collection |
| 请 | qǐng | to invite |
| 来 | lái | hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker) |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 有名 | yǒu míng | famous / well-known |
| 华裔 | Huá yì | ethnic Chinese / non-Chinese citizen of Chinese ancestry |
| 演员 | yǎn yuán | actor; actress; performer |
| 让 | ràng | to permit / to let sb do sth / to have sb do sth / to make sb (feel sad etc) |
| 说 | shuō | to speak; to talk; to say |
| 英语 | Yīng yǔ | English (language) |
| 台词 | tái cí | an actor's lines; dialogue / Taiwanese word |
| 背景 | bèi jǐng | background; backdrop; context / (fig.) powerful backer |
| 也 | yě | also; too; as well; (not ...) either |
| 感觉 | gǎn jué | to feel; to perceive |
| 错位 | cuò wèi | to be wrongly positioned; to be dislocated; to be misplaced / (medicine) to be in malposition |
| 很多 | hěn duō | many; a lot of |
| 细节 | xì jié | details; particulars |
| 不 | bù | no; not so |
| 符合 | fú hé | in accordance with; to agree with; to conform to; to meet (a requirement) |
| 传说 | chuán shuō | legend; folk tale |
| 不满 | bù mǎn | dissatisfied; discontented; resentful |
| 尽管 | jǐn guǎn | despite / although / even though / in spite of |
| 年前 | nián qián | by the end of the year / at the end of the year; shortly before New Year |
| 诗歌 | shī gē | poem |
| 木兰辞 | Mù lán cí | The Ballad of Mulan; an old Chinese narrative poem about Hua Mulan. |
| 上 | shàng | (noun suffix) on; above |
| 被 | bèi | used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb) / (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes |
| 不断 | bù duàn | unceasing / uninterrupted / continuous / constant |
| 演绎 | yǎn yì | (of a story etc) to unfold; to play out / to develop (a technique etc) / to enact / (logic) to deduce; to infer |
| 改编 | gǎi biān | to adapt / to rearrange / to revise |
| 依然 | yī rán | still; as before |
| 想象 | xiǎng xiàng | imagination |
| 中心 | zhōng xīn | center; heart; core |
| 人物 | rén wù | person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance) / character (in a play, novel etc) / (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting |
| 她 | tā | she |
| 早期 | zǎo qī | early period; early phase; early stage |
| 民族主义 | mín zú zhǔ yì | nationalism / national self-determination / principle of nationalism / racism |
| 和 | hé | and; together with |
| 女性主义 | nǚ xìng zhǔ yì | feminism |
| 英雄 | yīng xióng | hero |
| 所有 | suǒ yǒu | all |
| 都 | dōu | all; both; entirely |
| 知道 | zhī dào | to know; to become aware of |
| 故事 | gù shi | narrative; story; tale |
| 所以 | suǒ yǐ | therefore / as a result / so |
| 如果 | rú guǒ | if; in case; in the event that |
| 只 | zhǐ | only; merely; just |
| 或者 | huò zhě | or |
| 那么 | nà me | then; in that case |
| 无法 | wú fǎ | unable to; incapable of |
| 接受 | jiē shòu | to accept; to acquiesce |