Disney's Mulan Fighting Against The Huns

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Disney’s Mulan is a well-made film, but many scenes featured in the movie included inaccuracies. One accurate plot point from the movie was Mulan fighting against the Huns. This is shown in many movie scenes, including when Mulan killed many Huns when she caused an avalanche (“[The cannon hits the overhang with a bang, and causes an avalanche that rains down on the Hun Army, burying in them]”). In the ballad, it is also shown that she is fighting an enemy: “The Khan is calling many troops”. Mulan is said to have lived in the Southern and Northern Dynasties period (420–589) (Wikipedia, 2017). This is similar to the time when the Huns historically lived, which was between the 4th – 6th Century AD (Wikipedia, 2017). This proves that the Huns lived

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