To ensure this cultural authenticity, the filmmakers formed a story trust of Southeast Asian cultural experts, including choreographers, musicians, linguists, architects, cultural experts, martial artists, and anthropologists. It was something to celebrate a culture that Adele and I grew up in and to make legendary heroes that our kids can aspire to.” Of that synthesis, Lim said, “When you truly look at what makes our culture amazing, whether it's our arts or our food, the best street food in the world, it is because of all these different elements really coming together and creating something transcendent.” The cast and crew agreed that those who have a Southeast Asian cultural background would find much to identify with in Raya and the Last Dragon. He added, “This is our chance to create our Excalibur and our Arthurian legend.
“Rather than the simpler task of having one Southeast Asian country being reflected in one Kumandran land,” she explained, “to Disney's credit, they really, really went deeper to find the underlying inspirations and core and threads that ran through so many of the communities.” Her partner in writing, Qui Nguyen, compared it to the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, and how those were based on the cultures of multiple European nations - the cultures of several real countries were synthesized into something fictional. Writer Adele Lim emphasized that Kumandra is a fictional land, and that Southeast Asia served as its inspiration. Raya and the Last Dragon is a fantasy film set in the fictional land of Kumandra, but that world is inspired by the beautiful cultures of Southeast Asia. With Kelly Marie Tran voicing Raya, Awkwafina as Sisu, the last dragon, and Gemma Chan as Raya’s unrelenting nemesis Namaari, Raya and the Last Dragon is now in theaters or order it on Disney+ with Premier Access.
Along the way, Raya must learn that she can’t do everything herself, and that she must open herself up and trust others to save Kumandra. Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Raya and the Last Dragon tells the story of Raya, a lone warrior on a quest to bring back the last dragon, so that she can save her homeland of Kumandra from the sinister Druun.
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