Archetypal Figures in Movies

I chose one of my favorite strong-female role model movies, Mulan. The story revolves around Mulan, a Chinese girl trying her hardest to honor her family by following the traditions handed down to all of the female gender. She isn't particularly good at any of that, and when her father is drafted into the war against the Huns, a savage army trying to take down the Emperor, she disguises herself as a boy to fight in his place.
Archetypal Figures:

• Great mother: Mulan’s mother is pretty loving and understanding. No one blames Mulan for her failures, including her mother. She isn’t the strongest character, but she does have a kind and gentle personality to be a more important one.
• Father: Mulan’s father is integral to the story. He is the source of her desire to do what she does. It is almost as though it is his honor that Mulan is trying to obtain, as she looks to him for guidance.
• Child: It may be a stretch, but I see Cri-kee the cricket as a child-like archetype in this movie. He doesn’t say anything but a series of chirps, but in his innocence, he helps Mushu , and therefore Mulan, in their quest to fight the Huns.
• Devil: Shan Yu is the major antagonist in this movie. He kills many Chinese soldiers and even an entire village of innocent people. Doesn’t get much more evil.
• God: I suppose the temple guardians would play the role of “God”. The spirits in the temple also watch over the family from whom they came from. We never see any save for Mushu, but they apparently do wake up at times.
• Wise old man: I see the Emperor as the keeper of all knowledge in this movie. Proverb and all, he sums up the movie quite nicely with his all-knowing eyes and words of true wisdom. He is also the first one to bestow “honor” upon Mulan and her family, if one thinks of honor in that way. Personally, I believe Mulan achieves her own honor by following her own destiny.
• Wise old woman: Mulan’s grandmother is a wise, joke-cracking, old woman. She gives Mulan the “lucky” cricket, Cri-kee, who helps the girl on her journey.
• The trickster: Mushu starts off as a kind of selfish jokester. He is a failed guardian, as he is unsuccessful at saving the man from the beginning of the film who he was apparently watching over. Like Mulan, he has something to prove, and takes his destiny into his own hands, but not without some clever jokes and a misleading note for the Emperor’s advisor.
• Hero: Mulan is obviously the hero of this story. She risks her life for her father and ends up saving all of China. Not your average girl.