The MCU - Shang chi

 Shang chi plot 


  • Shang Chi and the legend of the 10 rings is the 25th film in the MCU
  • It made $432million worldwide, it became the 9th highest grossing film of 2021.
  • the budget was reported to be around $150million
  • The original artwork for Shang chi in the 1970s was inspired by the great Shang Chi
  • Shang chi serves as an origin story for the first Asian superhero to lead his own marvel movie, scrolls back and complicates the way Iron Man 2 dealt with the comics' Asian villain, the mandarin 
  • The mandarins first appearance in 1964, it was a racist Chinese caricature 
The mandarin 
  • Super - villain
  • Enemy of Iron Man and other avengers
  • The ten rings that gave him his power were taken from a crashed alien spaceship
  • The negative stereotypical presentation of the character would have gone down very badly in China and other Asian countries 
  • Disney has become a global conglomerate and needs to be careful with its lucrative markets in China and elsewhere 
The new villain
  • the character of Xu Wenwu is an evolution/composite of a previously problematic character - the politically acceptable 'mandarin' of you will
  • In the comics and early MCU films the character was called Fu Manchu or the mandarin, this is very stereotypical
  • Disney/marvel tackles this by changing the characters name, giving him a motivation and personality and casting Tony Leung, on of the most respected actors in Asia 
The 'Ten rings' that form a central part of the Shang Chi film have been embedded subtly into the MCU over the last two decades 

Shang Chi is a diverse production, with a global audience, cast, locations etc 

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