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"I'll Make a Man out of You" is a song written by composer Matthew Wilder and lyricist David Zippel for Walt Disney Pictures' 36th animated feature film ''Mulan ''(1998). Appearing on the film's soundtrack ''Mulan: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack'', "I'll Make a Man Out of You" is performed by American singer Donny Osmond as the singing voice of Captain Li Shang in lieu of American actor BD Wong, who provides the character's speaking voice. The song also features appearances by Lea Salonga as Mulan, Eddie Murphy as Mushu, and Harvey Fierstein, Jerry Tondo and Wilder himself as Yao, Chien-Po and Ling, respectively. "I'll Make a Man Out of You" was written to replace the song "We'll Make a Man of You" after the film's original songwriter Stephen Schwartz departed from the project in favor of working on DreamWorks' ''The Prince of Egypt ''(1998). Prior to ''Mulan'', Osmond had auditioned for the role of Hercules in Disney's ''Hercules'' (1997), a role for which he was ultimately turned down by the directors because they felt that he sounded too old. Disney eventually cast Osmond as the singing voice of Shang because his singing voice is similar to Wong's speaking voice. An up-tempo military-style song, "I'll Make a Man Out of You" is performed by Shang during a rigorous training montage in which his young, inexperienced soldiers attempt to justify their worth. The song's title is considered ironic because Mulan, who relies on intelligence, ultimately proves more competent than her male comrades. "I'll Make a Man Out of You" has received mostly positive reviews from film and music critics, some of whom dubbed it the film's best song, while praising Osmond's performance. Critics have also drawn comparisons between the song and Disney's ''Hercules'','' ''while likening Mulan's role and transformation to actress Demi Moore's performance as Lieutenant Jordan O'Neil in the film ''G. I. Jane ''(1997). The song has since appeared on several "best of" Disney songs lists, including those of ''Total Film ''and the'' New York Post''. Discussed by film critics, film historians, academic journalists and feminists, the song has gone on to be recorded and covered in several different languages—namely Mandarin, Cantonese and Spanish—by entertainers Jackie Chan and Cristian Castro, respectively. == Background == "I'll Make a Man Out of You" was written by composer Matthew Wilder and lyricist David Zippel, who were hired to write the songs for ''Mulan'' because, according to co-director Tony Bancroft, "Disney was trying to find different songwriters that ... would give kind of different sound to each of the songs." While Zippel, a Broadway lyricist, was recruited because the directors were impressed by the songwriter's work on Disney's ''Hercules ''(1997), at the time Wilder, a pop singer and record producer, was best known for his hit single "Break My Stride".〔 Bancroft believes that, although the songwriters "had two different sensibilities ... I think the() blend worked well together, especially on (Make a Man Out of You' )". Originally, songwriter Stephen Schwartz, who had just recently worked as a lyricist opposite composer Alan Menken on Disney's ''Pocahontas ''(1995) and ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' (1996), was slated to write the lyrics for ''Mulan'', but he was replaced by Zippel "at the last moment." Schwartz had written a song called "We'll Make a Man of You" for "when Mulan is trying to learn to be a soldier". The song was eventually replaced by Wilder and Zippel's "I'll Make a Man Out of You" when Schwartz was forced to resign from ''Mulan'' by Disney executives Peter Schneider and Michael Eisner because the songwriter had also agreed to write the songs for rival film studio DreamWorks' animated feature film ''The Prince of Egypt'' (1998).〔 〕 According to ''The Musical Theater of Stephen Schwartz: From Godspell to Wicked and Beyond'', Schwartz believed that he would have been able to work on both films simultaneously, but ultimately chose ''The Prince of Egypt ''instead because he felt pressured by Disney. Before ''Mulan'', American singer Donny Osmond had auditioned for the lead role of Hercules in ''Hercules'', a role for which he was ultimately not cast because the directors felt that is voice sounded "too old" and "too deep" for the character. Osmond later revealed in an interview with ''People ''that he was so embarrassed by his ''Hercules ''audition that he had nearly considered ending his singing career prematurely. A few months later, Disney contacted Osmond with interest in casting him as the singing voice of Shang after comparing his audition tapes to BD Wong and determining that both actors have "very similar voices."〔 In one scene, Osmond's character, Shang, is hit in the stomach while singing "I'll Make a Man Out of You". In order to sound as realistic as possible, Osmond punched himself in the stomach several times while recording the song. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I'll Make a Man Out of You」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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