Disney’s Mulan Deleted Scene: Reflection
In my opinion, deleting this scene from “Reflection” was a terrible mistake. The song is beautiful, don’t get me wrong, but this added part takes a somewhat disparing song and makes being different empowering and strong.
Yeah, Lea Salonga was heartbroken that they cut the song. I can understand why. This part is inspirational.
I watched the movie recently for the first time since my childhood and I realised just how short Reflection actually goes for. They really needed this scene not only for beautiful imagery (Oh God, the thought of Mulan’s long hair as she’s racing through the wind, just let me die happy) and character development/story-telling, but for the pacing of the song. I honestly don’t understand why they could take this out.
This is super gorgeous and absolutely amazing, but I (unpopular opinion alert) think it’s fine that they took it out. The way it is now makes it look like Mulan doesn’t know who she is in the beginning. All she wants is to make her family proud by doing what they expect of her, and it’s not until she’s forced into action for love of her father that she realizes what she can do. She finds herself then. This scene would change the whole movie by trying to assert that Mulan is purposefully hiding her true self. In the movie as it is now, she’s not. She wants to bring honour to her family by being a beautiful bride, and doesn’t realize until later that it’s not the only way to honour her family. Am I making sense?
(via sukitoitte)
