Disney dropped Li Shang character from Mulan because of #MeToo

[indoshakespeare]

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51707188

""I think particularly in the time of the #MeToo movement, having a commanding officer that is also the sexual love interest was very uncomfortable and we didn't think it was appropriate," Reed told Collider. "

Do you thing the character Li Shang is inappropriate today?

 

[BrianL]

I mean, I don't really. He didn't become a real love interest until after she was out of the military. He never did anything inappropriate. That said, it seems the new movie has a somewhat different storyline anyway - I don't mind the change but I also wouldn't have been bothered if they kept it the same.

 

[old lady]

He didn’t sexual assault her and what’s the political correctness have against good old fashioned romance.

 

[tinkerdorabelle]

Omg, it's too bad they take things too far and ruins and gives a bad name to what I think is an important movement. Seems that's the way everyone rolls nowadays in so many things.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

In the modern day military, relationships between commanding officers and subordinates is frowned upon. In a lot of companies, relationships between managers and employees is frowned upon. Mulan does end up with a love interest, which I still think was a bad move, but whatever. He is a recruit named Chen Honghui

 

[BrianL]

In the modern day military, relationships between commanding officers and subordinates is frowned upon. In a lot of companies, relationships between managers and employees is frowned upon. Mulan does end up with a love interest, which I still think was a bad move, but whatever. He is a recruit named Chen Honghui

Yeah, but Mulan and Li Shang didn't really become a couple until after it was all said and done and Mulan was no longer in service of the military. All she really does is make secret goo-goo eyes at him when she first sees him. That said, I don't mind that they changed it but only because I don't want a carbon-copy of the original.