Many were spot one though Some were “eh maybe 🤷♂️” they could of went either way mind you the man was a maniac but that Adrian bit at the end was beautiful
And that's the beauty of the way these references were made. If you don't understand them, you think it's just him being silly, and you have a laugh. If you do understand these references, you still laugh either way.
I was just old enough to know a few of the impressions, so the whole time I knew that he was doing it, I just didn’t know who they were impressions of. I’m 26 now.
RIGHT?! It wasn’t until 2017 that I found out his “uh..uh, master? There are a few, uh, provisos? uh, uh, a couple of quid pro quo” was a certain William F. Buckley, Jr. It makes Williams’ impersonation that much funnier.
It's interesting because impressions of a lot of these people were pervasive in cartoons so I was like, aware of the caricatures but not the original person. Like you see Peter Lorre impressions in cartoons basically all the way back to when he was acting
Fun Fact: 70% of Genie's lines were not in the script, Robin Williams improvised it, thus giving the animators extra headache in animating those lines. LOL. Williams is such a genius!
Actually, less of a headache and more of freedom. Having a character like Genie who does so many improvizations and impressions gives the animators a lot more freedom.
There's an interview where Robin talked about it. He asked if he could improvise and they said of course. One day an animator asked if he could stand in the booth with him so he could draw while Robin did the voices and eventually there was a bunch of animators standing in this tiny booth with him scribbling madly while he said his lines
Man Robin was just a masterpiece, if only he were here to play Genie in the live action Aladdin. Also I am not hating on Will Smith I just think the movie would have been more funny if it was Robin. But a lass RIP to the legendary Robin Williams
In a way, it was a form of payback for Disney not giving in to his simple demands. For those who don’t know, he DIDN’T want his name used to market the movie, but Disney did so anyway.
I'm from Denmarks and Aladdin was one of THE first Disney movies I ever saw and owned (on VHS), and I had NO IDEA about the references since I didn't know about any of the american celebreties and the internet wasn't a thing yet, but the characters were still funny so they work.
Animator: "Sir Robin horrifically off script" Director: "just deal with it and animate around him" Animator: "What?" Director: "I meant what I said!!!"
If you didn't know. They actually did that. I think the tribute video by Disney had some of the animators saying that he just went off with impressions and jokes and they had to pick out things they wanted to use and animate to that.
Even if you didn't get the references, they were still funny, I had no idea who William F. Buckley Jr. was and those scenes still made me laugh out loud.
@@jeffreygao3956 Somewhere on RU-vid, there must be a video of Gore Vidal making Buckley lose his cool during a nationally-televised debate. That moment is *so sweet* despite Buckley's homophobic epithets...
The Genie is basically Disney’s version of Deadpool. Incredibly powerful but uses said powers in a childish, eccentric way. Makes references no one in the set universe would understand. Gets bullied and bossed around by people barely a fraction as powerful as them. Breaks the 4th wall basically all the time and are completely self aware, able to reference and even name the actors who portray them.
List of Genie's impressions 0:01 Arnold Schwarzenegger (Born on July 30, 1947, in Thal, Austria) 0:08 Superman II (Released on June 19, 1980) 0:25 Señor Wences (Born on April 17, 1896, in Peñaranda de Bracamonte, Spain. Died on April 20, 1999, in New York City) 0:37 Ed Sullivan (Born on September 28, 1901, in Harlem, New York City. Died on October 13, 1974, at the Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City) 0:52 Groucho Marx (Born on October 2, 1890, in New York City. Died on August 19, 1977, at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA) 1:04 Cab Calloway (Born on December 25, 1907, in Rochester, NY. Died on November 18, 1994, in Hockessin, DE) 1:18 William F. Buckley Jr. (Born on November 24, 1925, in New York City. Died on February 27, 2008, in Stamford, CT) 1:41 Peter Lorre (Born on June 26, 1904, in Austria-Hungary. Died on March 23, 1964, in Los Angeles, CA) 2:01 Robert De Niro (Born on August 17, 1943, in Greenwich Village, New York City) Taxi Driver (Released on February 8, 1976) 2:30 Carol Channing (Born on January 31, 1921, in Seattle, WA. Died on January 15, 2019, in Rancho Mirage, CA) 2:55 Arsenio Hall (Born on February 12, 1956, in Cleveland, OH) 3:06 Jerry Lewis (Born on March 16, 1926, in Newark, NJ. Died on August 20, 2017, in Las Vegas, NV) 3:29 Walter Brennan (Born on July 25, 1894, in Lynn, MA. Died on September 21, 1974, in Oxnard, CA) 3:46 Mary Hart (Born on November 8, 1950, in Madison, SD) 3:56 Ethel Merman (Born on January 16, 1908, in Astoria, New York City. Died on February 15, 1984, in Manhatten, New York City) 4:12 Rodney Dangerfield (Born on November 22, 1921, in Deer Park, NY. Died on October 5, 2004, at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA) 4:20 Jack Nicholson (Born on April 22, 1937, in Neptune City, NJ) 4:46 Airplane! (Released on July 2, 1980) 5:01 Das Boot (Released on February 10, 1982) 5:15 Robin Williams (Born on July 21, 1951, at St. Luke's Hospital. Died on August 11, 2014, at Paradise Cay, CA) 5:35 Adrian Crouner (Born on September 8, 1938, in Pittsburgh, PA. Died on July 18, 2018, Troutville, VA)
0:01 Genie Schwarzenegger 0:08 Genie in the Phantom Zone 0:25 Senior Genie Wence and his puppet 0:37 Genie Sullivan 0:52 Groucho Genie Marx 1:04 Genie Calloway 1:18-1:22 William F. Genie Jr. 1:38 Genie Lorre 2:00 Genie De Niro from Taxi Driver 2:27 Genie Channing 2:53 Arsenio Genie Hall 3:04 Genie Lewis 3:29 Genie Brennan 3:46 Mary Genie Hart 3:56 Genie Merman 4:11 Genie Dangerfiled 4:20 Genie Nicholson 4:46 Genie as Pilot Bee 4:59 Submarine Genie 5:15 Robin Genie Williams 5:32 Genie Cronauer Genie: Made you look
As a kid most these went over my head as I didn't really experience these people but I remember reruning my VCR tape over and over giggling at night to the movie Robin Williams was a great man. Glad he had a good impact... Hope he rests peacefully knowing all the hearts he touched.
I was 5 when I first saw this movie, I'm 35 now and I still recognise maybe 4 of the references. Still looks like Robin and the animation team had a blast making this movie.
When you're little and watch this, Genie's being a goofball. When you're older and watch it again, Genie's still a goofball but he makes so much more sense and is probably a lot funnier.
Like everyone else has said, we don't have to understand the references to enjoy the Genie's antics and personality. In my case, I had no idea who Jack Nicholson was, but Genie wearing sunglasses and acting "cool" has always been my favorite Genie antic
When watching this as a kid, I was so proud that I was the only one in my class to recognize Genie's impressions of William F. Buckley Jr. and Jack Nicholson.
I think the Peter Lorre one is harder to see the similarity because he's yelling in that clip but usually he was very soft spoken and breathy. Lots of characters are based on him, most notably the maggot from corpse bride
This is a Golden First Place you've made! I wish you millions of views! many, many more! I was 4 in 1992 when I saw this in theaters, my first visit to the theaters. I'm 36 & a half now. I twas a fool, to not seek this out sooner. You are my hero, dude. I have never known pretty much all of these references. I figured out a few, but others I just didn't know because my parents didn't tell me. I remember knowing who Rodney Dangerfield was because he was SO popular & I recognized the Jack Nicholson face, but didn't know his name yet. Thanks so much for this fun video.
@@Lolbama2012It makes more sense that the movie is set in the distant future than in the past. It's not just Genie's references, but also the magic carpet ride, where they see the Sphinx being built and visit Beijing's Forbidden City, which was built nearly 4000 years (!) later, so it should be impossible, unless they are all being rebuilt after a global apocalypse. Also, the Genie says that he was in that cave for 10,000 years, yet there are apparently solid historical records of his existence and usage instructions, since Jafar knew exactly what and where the lamp is and how to use it. There are no historical records from that long ago in our time, but if the movie is set 10,000 years in the future, then it all makes sense.
The Groucho Marx reference was to his TV show where a duck would fall from the ceiling carrying the "secret word" of the day. Some of these chosen examples aren't very close to the parodies! But great to see them all the same.
the references work well because you can enjoy it as just a part of genie’s fun personality without knowing what he’s referencing the animation and robin Williams performance really do a lot
Kids today will never know these references that Robin Williams is referring in Aladdin Parents sees these movies with their children they know what these references were that Robin Williams is impersonating.
Thank you for this. I've been watching this movie all my life, as a kid in the 90s and now my children watch it. I use some of these lines regularly and never realized who some if them were impersonating. RIP Mr. Williams, you're a legend.
Thinking back. The fact the he ad libbed a good chubk of that. Means he consumed all of that media, and then could call on it randomly responding to something that was just said. Its sad he suffered from depression he was a genius. Could you imagine how fast his brain worked??
This is 1% of what Robin Williams could do. He had an arsenal of impressions the size of China, from celebrities to common archetypes, that he could reference with minimal effort. There is one interview with Letterman in which he pulls up his trousers and lo, he becomes an old Jewish man! In his Actors' Studio interview, he gets a scarf from the audience and uses it to turn into Mother Theresa, then Gandhi, then a belly dancer... Most performers didn't like working with him because they just couldn't keep up; the only one fearless enough to handle him was Billy Crystal, who knew to play it straight while Robin literally bounced all around. Williams in many ways was of his time, his work relied on a shared body of knowledge: everyone watched the same TV and movies so everyone got his references. But he was, without a doubt, the best improviser of his generation, and definitely in the short list of the very best comedians and actors ever (he had insane range).
I actually didn’t know most of these out side the most obvious 3 (dangerfiend, Nicholson and De Niro) as many 90’s kids wouldn’t but this is great. Thanks for putting it together.
I knew nothing of references as a kid, but once he brought the carpet out, I always kinda thought, from his tone, he was pulling off Rod Roddy, famous announcer for game shows, more well known for price is right after the first announcer, Johnny Olsen, passed away.
I think what I like most about the William fuck the thing is you never see him use a impersonation twice in this so it's kind of funny that it's almost like the genie has a persona for every sort of behavior it's not just random if that phrasing made sense
I love how I didn’t get any of the references back then but they fit so perfectly, they’re timeless and they sort of spot on even if I don’t who he is imitating, it fits the line!
