Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-25008763-20170725225546/@comment-25008763-20170726112954

also the tone of a movie should come into account as much as the setting, Mulan is about the struggles of a female protagonist in a male-dominated society.. whether of not Chi-Fu is following that society or not in the context of the film he symbolizes the hateful side of patriarchy and the "old ways" that threatened not just Mulan but her loved ones.

was it Chi-Fu's fault the society was unjust? no.. was it his fault that he enforced it sadistically and without care for others? yes..

the tone of the movie was to show that the "Old Ways" were wrong, much as Prince of Egypt was about how slavery was wrong..

remember that Hutep and Hoy were doing what society at the time deemed acceptable, yet they are kept here as villains because they continually tried to have Moses executed and more importantly were a real, continued threat in the movie's context.

Chi-Fu was a continual and tangible threat in the movie's context, whether he was following "law" or not.. he did so in a manner that made him a petty tyrant and when a jerk endangers the life of another (especially a main protagonist) they are no longer "just a jerk".