Mulan: Honour or dishonour on your cow?

This image released by Disney shows Yifei Liu in the title role of "Mulan." (Jasin Boland/Disney via AP)

Be careful. People like to be told what they already know. Remember that. They get uncomfortable when you tell them new things. New things... well, new things aren’t what they expect. They like to know that, say, a dog will bite a man. That is what dogs do. They don’t want to know that man bites a dog, because the world is not supposed to happen like that. In short, what people think they want is news, but what they really crave is olds... not news but olds, telling people that what they think they already know is true. – ‘The Truth’, Terry Pratchett

IN the time I’ve gone from kid to adult, it feels like the proportion of adapted or remade material to original material has been steadily rising.