Since the birth of cinema in the early 1900s, Hollywood has continually recreated elements of history for future generations to reminisce. To clearly convey a specific theme or message to viewers around the world, Hollywood executives tend to embellish real-life events, in order to provide a “fairytale” aspect to a seemingly not-so-happily-ever-after story. happy." history. As part of this “fairytale” aspect, Hollywood tends to delegitimize and provide a more disrespectful and more comical version of the societies and cultures in the specific time frame in which the film is set. Through the art of storytelling, the films Mulan and Kung Fu Panda describe the two sides of Hollywood, the falsification and mockery of the Chinese people, their society, the beliefs and true events of history and accurate representation. In Walt Disney Pictures' Mulan, Disney attempts to tell the story of the Chinese heroine, Hua Mulan, described in the Chinese poem, The Ballad of Mulan. The legend begins by telling the story of an old man, who has no older sons, who was called to fight in the Chinese army. Knowing that her father will likely face death, Mulan agrees to fight in his place and pretend to be a man, unbeknownst to her fellow soldiers. The film builds on this premise as we are told a fictional account of Mulan's life from before she took over from her father to after. Disney's version of the Mulan story depicts Mulan as a young girl in what appears to be medieval China, who from the first scene through the second half of the film is shown studying and memorizing the rules by which she is supposed to live. In the film, unlike the original Mulan story, Mula... middle of paper... Isney does it again.'”. The Baltimore Sun. Published June 19, 1999. Accessed November 10, 2013. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1998-06-19/features/1998170047_1_mulan-ancient-china-eddie-murphy Nancy Chen . "Panda Kung Fu goes around the world". United States China today. Published June 20, 2008. Accessed November 10, 2013. http://www.uschina.usc.edu/w_usci/showarticle.aspx?articleID=12140&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 Maureen Fan. "The success of 'Kung Fu Panda' is a sore point in China." Washington Post. Published July 12, 2008. Accessed November 10, 2013. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2008-07-12/world/36880763_1_chinese-culture-kung-fu-panda-s-kung-fu-panda Andrew Lam. “Chinese Culture and the Politics of “Kung Fu” Panda'”. A Vietnam. Published June 17, 2011. Accessed November 10, 2013. http://talk.onevietnam.org/chinese-culture-and-the-politics-of-kung-fu-panda/