Well, the premise is still the same, but several plot points could've changed. We don't know yet how much the story has been affected by the addition of new characters and the removal of others. Plus maybe the characters that are in both versions will have a different personality and background here, so the songs may not fit with them now.Sotiris wrote:But the basic story didn't change. She still goes to the matchmaker where she could sing Honor to Us All, she still comes back disappointed where she could sing Reflection, she still gets training where Commander Tung or Sergeant Qiang could sing I'll Make a Man Out of You (this one might have required some lyric changes). It's the tone that has changed the most but I still believe songs could work if the arrangement was changed to match the tone more.
Anyway, I've listened to the songs again paying attention to the lyrics, and maybe I went too far by saying that they couldn't have been added even if the filmmakers had wanted. I guess if the characters weren't too different here and if the situations in which the songs take place still existed in this movie, they could've made them fit, but not without a lot of changes to the lyrics. The only one that could maybe fit without being reworked, in my opinion, is "Reflection".
But, I don't know, even in the remakes that are very faithful to the originals, like Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin, some lines seem a bit out of place in their new context, so I think it'd be a difficult task to make the songs work in Mulan, especially if the rumors are true and the musical numbers weren't shot with the rest of the movie. If they wanted to add them now through reshoots, the results could be quite jarring.
Why would it be more difficult to make that song work in the remake than the others?Disney's Divinity wrote:I agree, all of the songs except for “A Girl Worth Fighting For” could still work in Mulan as it is. The story for that one didn’t change dramatically, imo. All they did is cut all of the comic relief.
