I'll Make a Man Out of You
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I'll Make A Man Out Of You is a song featured on the Disney film Mulan. Donny Osmond provided the singing voice for Captain Li Shang in the movie.
Throughout the song, trainees are shown failing at each drill or exercise, in the case of Mulan to the point where she is told to return home. However in one last effort, Mulan uses her natural ingenuity to successfully complete the challenge of climbing up a vertically mounted log with heavy weights attached to each arm, by using the tethered objects as counterweights to aid in climbing. In doing so, she impresses her comrades and is allowed to stay. Her feat marks the beginning of improvement in all of the recruits, as well as gaining their utmost respect in the process. From this point on in the song, the individual recruits are shown excelling at tasks that had previously proved daunting. The group as a whole also progresses, exhibiting unity and coordination where before disorder and confusion reigned. At the end, all the recruits have improved dramatically and successfully complete their training.
The song's title and lyrics are, of course, deliberately ironic in light of the fact that Mulan is a woman disguised as a man. The irony is furthered in the film's climax where the song is reprised by an unseen choir when the male soldiers disguise themselves as women in order to fool the enemy Huns.
A bonus feature on the Mulan DVD features Jackie Chan singing the song in Cantonese and Mandarin.
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| Mulan | |
|---|---|
| Films | Mulan | Mulan II |
| Characters | Fa Mulan | Mushu | Li Shang | Shan Yu |
| Songs | "I'll Make a Man Out of You" | "Reflection" |
| Soundtracks | Mulan: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack | Mulan II Soundtrack |
