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Heroic Tales, Wednesday, Period Two

There was a television screen at the front of the classroom, and a bag of popcorn on each desk. Yes, indeed, it was a movie day. Of a sort.

"The Lady Rapunzel mentioned that she enjoyed tales of lady-heroes," Thor began. "So I thought today we could watch a film, and then read the tale that the film was based on."

The tale in question? Mulan ~~not meta'ed since it is- however loosely- based on an actual legendary person~~.

Once the film concluded, Thor handed out a translation of the original ballad. "As you can see, the modern retelling embellished many of the details, and added many things not present in the original story. Why do you think they may have done so?"

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Getting down to business!

Flick

Cosette Fauchelevent ~~who is not actually here to defeat any Huns~~

Rapunzel ~~is a daughter who was sent when he asked for sons!~~

Four ~~part of the saddest bunch you've ever met~~

Liara T'Soni ~~can bet before we're through~~

Daphne Blake

Johnny Storm DON'T STOP BELIEVIN'! HOLD ON TO THAT FEELIN'!

I never saw this movie, so Journey.

Vider Bearskin ~~will make a man out of you~~ ~~not dirty~~

Emma Swan ~~is tranquil as a forest~~

Alex Mack

Raven Darkholme ~~put the glad in gladiator~~

As you do.

Flick's mind was not on class or the movie today. It was off elsewhere and he didn't think anyone would mind if they knew the reason. He tried to give off the impression that he was paying attention though.

Movies movies movies! Cosette had really come to enjoy movies, and this was no exception.

She did think the tiny talking dragon was a bit strange, but how was she ever going to complain about what as far as she was concerned was an hour and a half of moving artwork with songs?

Rapunzel was completely enthralled for the entire movie, moving only to eat popcorn (and feed some to Pascal, who was perched on her desk.)

She was going to have all of these songs stuck in her head all day. Not that she was complaining, at all.

Daphne was very interested in the movie, and seemed to be either getting ideas or remembering something.

What were some of the differences between the original and the movie? Why do you think they did that?

"Well," Cosette said practically, "it would be a very short movie if they hadn't added things to it, and given her people to talk to. And I do like the singing."

She paused, chewed on her lower lip briefly as if she were trying to decide whether or not to go on, then (having evidently decided) added, "Though I do wish we'd paid more attention to her family, and less to some of the sillier soldiers, and I don't see why they had to add romance to it at all."

. . . yes, she was a bit old for it, but she was still at the stage where she found romance vaguely embarrassing.

"I know, right?" Rapunzel made a face. "I mean, they started off so well with her realizing that maybe she wasn't all that well suited to the whole training-to-be-a-wife thing, and then they tacked on this weird romance with her captain that just kinda came out of nowhere. Couldn't he just admire her for being a good soldier in spite of the fact that she's also a girl? Like, why does she need to get the guy? That was never part of the goal for her."

"The dragon's not in the original ballad?" Rapunzel asked, dismayed, as she looked it over. Pascal let out a little whirr of disappointment, and actually drooped a little. "I know! He was my favorite, too."

She patted Pascal on the head. "It's okay. I thought it was nice that there was a talking lizard at all." They were going to end up watching this a lot, now that Rapunzel knew about it, just to appease Pascal.

"Um, anyway," she added, actually addressing the question now, "I think they mostly changed it so that kids would like it, right? I mean, the original story is awesome, but it's not very funny, and there aren't all those songs. This way you can appeal to a whole bunch of people, and everyone can know about and be entertained by the story."

Thor nodded in agreement. "Appealing to a wide audience was almost certainly their goal. I can only hope that if the real Mulan were somehow able to see this film, she would believe it paid the proper respect to her story."

Who is humming 'Make A Man Out Of You' now, thanks, Disney.

Who may or may not have Disney earworms now.

Daphne was not sure if she was amused or not about having "Make A Man Out Of You" running on a never ending loop in her head.

Vider could relate, Mulan. Vider could relate.

Wednesday keeps sneaking up on me, augh.

*insert my obligatory grumbling here about how you get LEA FREAKING SALONGA AS THE SINGING VOICE FOR YOUR MAIN CHARACTER AND GIVE HER LIKE ALL OF 1.5 SONGS WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF*

*ahem* No, I'm never gonna be over that.

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