Mulan live action film flaw

[Jasperdc]

Couldn't find anything about this so I have a question about the film Mulan live action.

Throughout the film, everyone is speaking about 'saving the kingdom'. Isn't China at this moment an empire? Even Mulan herself has a quote "I know my place, and it is my duty to fight for the kingdom and protect the emperor." Which is a really strange (and false) thing to say. You can be an emperor of an empire or a king of a kingdom but not combined. This is not really relevant for the film but this looks to me like a silly mistake. Am I wrong here?

 

[lazyboy97o]

China is the Middle Kingdom. The European distinction of empire, kingdom, principality, duchy, etc. don’t really apply and historically such distinctions were considered lesser than the Son of Heaven.

 

[erasure fan1]

Wait, so the flaw wasn't they made the movie in the first place?

 

[MisterPenguin]

What's the difference between an empire and a kingdom? It's all hereditary autocracy.

 

[networkpro]

Couldn't find anything about this so I have a question about the film Mulan live action.

Throughout the film, everyone is speaking about 'saving the kingdom'. Isn't China at this moment an empire? Even Mulan herself has a quote "I know my place, and it is my duty to fight for the kingdom and protect the emperor." Which is a really strange (and false) thing to say. You can be an emperor of an empire or a king of a kingdom but not combined. This is not really relevant for the film but this looks to me like a silly mistake. Am I wrong here?

How would you classify Ghengis Khan ?

 

[Hakunamatata]

I guess it was important enough to create an account for.

 

[Archie123]

The whole movie was flawed.

 

[champdisney]

New working title for Mulan 2020...

Auspicious Honor: Flawed & Forgettable

 

[Sctble]

What's the difference between an empire and a kingdom?

A significant difference.

How anticlimactic would it be had Luke, Han, Leia, and the Rebellion teamed together to defeat the Kingdom?