Right; he's supposed to be the best thief in all of Agrabah, or thereabouts, so giving his stolen bread to some starving kids really isn't that much of a sacrifice, since he could probably just go and steal some more. The only bigger question than how he stays so fit living on the streets is how he stays so pale living in the blazing Arabian sun without a shirt.
When Jasmine says "release him, by order of the princess," Aladdin looks up like WTF. Maybe he thought she was rich, but he clearly didn't know she was royalty.
Ichibot K9869 She literally said "princess" in the sentence. If she was just a high ranking individual, she likely would have said, "By order of the King." not "princess".
As someone who remembers the entire animated series: Abu was a trained thief, owned by a trio of thieves who took Aladdin under their wing to help him survive. When a big heist goes wrong, the other three are turned into monsters and trapped. So Abu sticks with his new best buddy. So yeah.
missed one: at the end when the sultan decides to just change the frickin marriage law............... why didn't he just DO that at the beginning of the movie when he realized how unhappy his daughter was? also. imagine how insulted all the nobles and neighboring princes (and by extension, kingdoms) were w/ how they were treated by jasmine, after having been INVITED by her own father to meet and eventually marry her. honestly, it would've been a thousand times easier to just let jasmine marry whoever she wanted then to royally (pun intended) piss off all your potential allies! war breaks out? attacked by bandits? famine? other potentially life-threatening occurrences that require the help of the nearest kingdoms to agrabah?? good luck gettin it after all the shit you're princess and future queen/sultana put all the high ranking nobles and royalty through!
I mean, that might actually kick off a war when you think about how she sets a f*cking TIGER on her suitors. Some of them might have taken it personally.
I'd like to point out the flaw in his Aladdin does what anyone else would point: Yes anyone would give those kids food, but unlike most others in the city Aladdin literally has nothing but that food and the clothes on his back, so him giving up his own meal and going hungry that night does actually show him to be a better person. Also the crown bit, the fire eating guy clearly saw the 'crown' too but didn't react, and seeing as he would probably be better informed on royalty than Aladdin would I'm fairly certain it's safe to assume all Al did was get a boner
I was saying the same thing about the crown. I really don't think that was a crown. I say that because later Aladdin shows the castle as if he thinks she has never seen it before. And in the dungeon he is like "She was the Princess?". Why would he say that to himself if he knew she was one. And the food merchant would have allowed her to steal the food if he had seen said crown. And not one mention about how Aladdin saved the boy from being hit by the Prince on his horse. That showed what an awesome person he was.
nickopeters logical, I get that this is satire but it falls flat when it's so easily beaten, good satire makes you stop and think "yeah that's entirely possilbe' this one was just poorly thought out
Aladdin couldn’t have kidnapped Abu. The monkey that is Abu would come from far away. Traveling, especially during that time, would be expensive. Aladdin probably has never left his home town so how did he get Abu? My theory is that someone else caught Abu and brought him to Agrabah to sell. Aladdin saw Abu suffering and saved him and became his friend.
Abu is not a capuchin monkey, unless Alladin is set in an alternative universe where the new world was discovered earlier Nah Abu is clearly an African monkey, from somewhere close to Agraba
blaming Aladdin for a militaristic police force destroying lots of precious food in a desert and killing that nailbed guy because they had to get back a baguette
I think you forget something when talking about Jasmine, Jasmine is a girl. In Islamic culture, it is the men who rule, not women. She would be married off to someone who would become the new sultan, she is just the sultana. She could influence her husband, but she has had an incompetent father who hasn't educated her about politics, and the suitors he brought were domineering and saw her as a trophy wife. It's no wonder she knew nothing about life outside and doesn't want to marry anyone, and doesn't want to be a princess. If being a princess only means being ignorant and married off, I'd run away too. The only problem is she didn't get very far before she ran into trouble, which is a shame. Would have been cool for Jasmine to learn about her people and how to be an influence for good when she did marry the next sultan.
Kirsty de Paor I can't fully tell if this is supposed to be Islamic times (some of their laws) or pre-Islamic times (clothing like Jasmine's would be for a harem girl instead of a princess)? I think in the Arabian Nights, it might be during Islamic times.
Aladdin doesn't look like someone on a hitlist, and exaggerations to make yourself look cooler and tougher is a time honored tradition among young men, especially those that live on the streets.
Appearance is not a good factor to determine if a person is on a hit list or not. Not saying that the second point is invalid, it is a good point, just the first part is a bit flawed.
That is true, however at that part of the movie we clearly see that Aladdin is running around for scraps of bread. That doesn't seem like something a criminal important enought for a place on a hit list would eat. Also I don't think he sleeps with the paranoia of someone on a hitlist when he's in that abandoned tower.
Gorinich Serpant Stealing bread is still different than appearance though. I'm not saying that he would be on a hit list, I'm simply stating that looks can be deceiving and are not a good way to tell who would or would not be on a hit list.
Good point. We won't know for sure unless we try to analyze the movie for subtle details. Which would be far more investment for the amount of possible gain.
Hitman is one word. When he says one jump ahead of the hit man, you can see the subtitles in the video, he means one jump ahead of being struck, dude, bro etc.
Im so glad that I'm to a point in my life that the Disney films I watched as a child can now be broken down among (fairly) likeminded people in contentious debates involving the economic structure of fictional worlds. Its a solid time to be alive.
This it's the worst film revise i Ever see nd i have feminist Anita. 1 jazmín can't chance the rules of the country , thats the Themetation, she it's a woman whitout power, she lives in a Golden Cage. No one tells jazmín about económy or law because jazmín only job it's to get married. She it's not a ruler she it's the Princes who need yo marry And have childrens she Will never rule on the country. The rest of your review it's Even more stupid , it's as bad as my English
Because if she didn’t get married and have kids, who’s gonna succeed after her? Kids back then had to grow up fast. There’s no time for love. No time at all because life expectancy wasn’t long for humans then. You need kids to take care of your land. You need kids to make sure there’s someone to rule after you
+Champstamp83 I don't think his girl is a disney princess which would mean he is not a Disney Prince, even though he is literally the prince of the gods
The example you use of people giving food to the homeless everyday to be a reason why Aladdin is awful doesn't stand up at all. It's not on the same level because people who give things like that away everyday can afford to be giving it away, the charity Aladdin gives the kids is what he desperately needs himself, it shows more of a selfless personality rather than making him an awful person.
It's funny the times we live in, when a true selfless act is seen as reason to diminish the one who acted that way. This video really has a sour taste... It's clickbait.
lol he gave some kids bread, that's great but it's not a noble act, it's literally how humans are programmed to function, my dad who is disabled, was holding my baby sister and fell he turned around and landed on his broken spine so she would be fine he didn't even let out a cry of pain, because it would have scared her, but yeah Aladdin gave some kids bread, make him the fucking king.
Well, there is goodness, there's omission and there's malice. Just because an act seems less altruist than the other, doesn't mean it's not altruist. AT ALL. Alladin didn't decide not to help or to simply worsen those children lives. Good that your father did such a selfless act, that maybe should be told to inspire others, but it doesn't justify diminishing other good exemples. That's vanity. From you, btw, not from your dad.
That wasn't to brag, or to diminish what Aladdin did, it's to say yeah he gave bread to a kid but that doesn't make him the best person in the kingdom, which was the criticism leveled by this video. Though I understand how I came across as vain in my comment which I will leave unedited so you reply can be seen in full context.
ok, just spitballing here, but you remember that Aladdin, in that same tv show, found Abu at a circus of thieves, right? careful cracked, don't want to be a matpat, cherry picking data like a politician.
Aladdin didn't know Jasmine was the princess til she revealed herself to the guards. So it wasn't money that attracted him to her. And when the guards pushed Jasmine to the ground and called her a street mouse, he tried to break free to help her. Plus, a second time he showed people he didn't who she was, was when he was in prison. He started talking about that he couldn't believe she was the princess and he can't believe how he acted towards her. He obviously had no idea that Jasmine was the princess and he had no idea she was from money. He saw take from the stand and couldn't pay for the apple. He still stepped in and saved her, thinking that she was as poor as him. The jewelry she is wearing must not have been worth shit if people didn't recognize it right away.
Krystine the Dragoness Wait, didnt that fire-breathing guy look freaked out when he touched her- almost as if he knew he put hands on royalty and could be killed for it? Watch it again, he gets a panicked look RIGHT AFTER touching her. But yea, its safe to assume that the dumb girl alone in the slums with nice jewelry cant be the Princess. No one that powerful could be that stupid. Or at least, that could be a common theory of the layperson.
How can you argue the characters' reactions prove shit like that while also saying the princess' jewellery must be worth nothing to justify your version of events? Maybe it's just badly written and they didn't think about it when they made it.
2:10 Thanks, for nothing Dan. I had the video paused when I was sharing my life story to you so I couldn't hear that reality check. You just kept staring at me with those silent, motionless eyes until I started sobbing. I think your little theory about how reality works is just an excuse to avoid taking responsibility for my feelings.
feeds hungry kids saved girl he doesn't know helped an old man and didn't steal any money for himself even when his life was in risk still helped old man cared about genie freed genie yeah Aladin is just horrible...
@@aceofspades4930 You do not know that. The whole point is that a guy who is good rules the country now instead of someone born into royalty. The implication is that he got rid of the men who tried to murder him every day and used his endless wealth to feed the children.
Well the type of monkey he’s supposed to be is not native to the area. Aladdin has no problem with stealing. Abu could’ve been a monkey brought in from somewhere else and Aladdin stumbled upon him and the trader. Possibly stealing him. That does make sense. You see any other monkeys like Abu in the movie? No. Is his monkey breed native to the area? No. So how would you suggest Aladdin got him? He clearly wouldn’t buy him off a trader
Of course no one bothered teaching her "Economics 101". At the time, no woman were given such education, they learned it on the streets or not at all. Princesses in particular were "sheltered from the harsh realities of life". Dose the phrase "Let them eat cake" ring any bells. Here ignorance was completely believable.
And when you take that into account, the whole "Must marry a Prince" rule starts to make a lot more sense. You don't want your country being ruled by a pair of uneducated monarchs.
she wouldn't be ruling. I am willing to bet she didn't receive the education because of the previously mentioned bias against women. They most likely would view women as incapable of ruling, and therefore would not make laws, or even have a hand in ruling. This leads to the creation of a law requiring a prince, who would have been educated, to be sultan. If no prince is found, the royal advisor gets the princess, because he can rule.
Just gonna say: Marie-Antoinette never said that. She had no authority nor did she bother in the affairs of her people, so no one would have gone to her saying "the people cannot even afford bread". It was confirmed to be something that Jean-Paul Marat made up for his propaganda paper which was one of the biggest fuel of the revolution. He was also the one who coined Madame Deficit for her because of her frivolous and lavish lifestyle. (To be clear I'm not on MAs side or anything, just stating historical facts)
Thank you! Marie-Antoinette was the victim of anti-Austrian bias. She and Louis XVI were sympathetic to the people and much less lavish than the previous two reigns.
in thoes times a princess would never become sultain. some male cousin or uncle would have taken the throne . so she didnt really need to know how the world worked.
Watch twisted!! It's a musical that is about Aladdin and it's so good and funny! Trust me it basically talks about almost all the points your making! I highly recommend it!!
The guards destroyed the market over Aladdin getting a piece of bread. That's hardly his fault. Also, the reason him giving those kids the bread was altruistic was because he would then go hungry after having the whole market thrown at him to get it. You liken him to a dictator, but he's not exactly dropping crumbs off his extravagant dinner table. Who cares what excuse he used to save Jasmine? He talked her out of getting her hand cut off. And what Jasmine was wearing isn't necessarily a crown. Just a very expensive piece of head-wear, but clearly his mind was elsewhere. Considering how getting married is such a big deal with Jasmin's father Jasmin probably was never going to have any power. Seems all this over analyzing just leads to you ignoring the context.
Ultimately, Aladdin still sucks. He could have wished for the poor people of Agrabah to never go hungry or sick again, but he was only concerned with getting with the girl he just met.
Also including the fact that Agrabah could be engulfed in sand at any given moment. EVERYBODY and everything would suffocate or choke to death in sand if the wind became strong enough because Agrabah is in the lower portion of a desert valley! Remember that scene where Jasmine almost drowned in the sand from Jafar's Hourglass? FORESHADOWING!
+slayer_91 +slayer_91 Last Time I Was This Early, Someone else took advantage of the Comment's section simplistic ideas and predictable algorithms to become the Top comment with a generic and stupid joke that's been said in at least 50 other videos
The thing is, Jasmine doesn't need to know anything about economics because she was never in line to rule the country. The only thing she was in line to do was marry a prince who would then take over the responsibilities of ruling the country. She may argue that she is not a prize to be won, but in reality, that's about all she is.
Funny thing is, Dan and dead kids are kind of a recurring theme. Like the one about living in a Shakespeare play and the one about the first hunger games.
Aladdin ditches Abu (his "only friend") the second the Genie comes into the picture and basically forgets about him. It's almost like he favors people with power or powers to basic everyone else.
But the point was that he himself is a starving homeless person and instead of being selfish and keeping the bread to eat he gives it away to children. I dont think allot of starving people would give up a meal the had to escape murderous captors for. That was the significance.
Man, Jafar seems more and more reasonable the more we look at the people around him. And now that I think about it, did the sultan just kind of give up on having additional heirs? I won't fault the man for loving his deceased(?) wife, but he's got exactly one daughter and apparently the only way to prevent a succession crisis is to hand leadership of his country over to the first foreign member of royalty to express an interest in his daughter. And Agraba seems pretty wealthy, the crippling poverty of its lowest societal rung aside, so it really doesn't seem like that would be a difficult person to find. If anything, you'd think he would be worrying about the safety of any male heirs as their neighbors recognize that so long as his only child is female, he essentially *has* to hand the country over to one of their own heirs. Meanwhile, Jasmine isn't even aware that things cost money, Aladdin is a prolific enough criminal that he's A) got hitmen after him and B) the guards are quite clearly not trying to bring him in alive, and the sultan himself is a big neon sign reading 'YOU DON'T EVEN NEED TO INVADE US TO TAKE OVER.' Kinda running out of reasons to fault Jafar for trying to take over.
+Evan Sageser This makes me think that there may be an even bigger cover up/scandal. What if the reason the Sultan has only Jasmine is because he is incapable of producing children and she is in fact not his child at all? Maybe his wife got desperate or something and sexed up a guard, jasmine was born, the Sultan had both his wife and the guard quietly executed to keep things hidden, claimed Jasmine as his biological daughter, and now waits for a chance to marry her off and produce him a male heir. With his wife gone, he can now use her and his supposed love for her as an excuse for not having any other lovers, thus keeping his erectile dysfunction or sterility or whatever a secret.
Okay I disagree with a lot of this- first, do you think agraba give free food to the homeless? its a preindustrial society where stealing can legally be punished with maiming, or at least noone would care if a poor person stealing food for a starving child was maimed- people laugh when someone saving two poor kids from being whiped is thrown into the muck- aladin's song references teh bread line as the line to buy bread so yeah jsut a theiving reference, the hitman reference is refering to the guards, the ones who actually cause all the property damage while chasing aladin you listed, he actually looks back at them while saying that-its an insult to the thugs that are teh closest thing to cops in the city. As for the whole everyone would give food to the starving kids- noone else did and the crowd was willing to let them get whipped by a foreign fop and again, laughs when aladin gets dirty stoping the jerk- aladin isn't perfect but the whole diamond in the rough is about how he could be a great person if he had the chance- And they never say the diamond thing refers to morality, we just assume that because we like aladin and see him as good, considering that the other person to try going in the cave was a theif and how aladin only jsut manages to survive the cave going nuts, maybe diamond in the rough refers to "hero form the common people" it's about aladin has the qualities to be a hero but currently is a poor as dirt theif- the only person whoever made the cave wanted to have the lamp- heck maybe it is about morality, but in combination with bad circumstances, its easy to be a good person when you are rich- not when you are poor, maybe the whole cave of wonders thing was an attempt to ensure whoever got the genie was both a good enough person to use the wishes for good purposes, and poor enough to appreciate things or at least benefit the most from getting said wishes. Back to refuting your points danny- aladin is clearly surprised when jasmine reveals she is a princess and that the guards could be after her when she yells that- and frankly while the hairband with a jewel on it is fancy it doesn't need to be exclusively princess quality, she was clearly a sheltered rich girl and I can see aladin noticing that, the calling her crazy was the choice for two reasons, her excuse about the palace and general confusion over the concept of paying for things while not having any servant to do things for you would only alow for crazy to be the explaination if she was clearly hiding that she was a rich girl, the other reason for the lie, is so he can baffle the stall owner and crowd with antics as they manuver clear so they can run. For abu his backstory-you know the whole deal, stop ignoring facts to prop up your pet theories For Jasmine- yeah her ignorance is disturbing, but understandable for two reasons 1 she was never intended to run agraba her husband was, sexist but true 2 her father is an idiot who spends his days playing with toys and letting jafar make all the important descisions (a ongoing trend in teh cartoon was actually dealing with foreign affairs like diplomacy and the other weird countries, which presumable Jafar handled offscreen for years, if in a likely far less hands on way) Jasmine was never expected to have to deal with any real issues of day to day running the city and that is terrible for her and that kind of sheltering of her is part of why she was disatisfied with being stuck in the palace, she is not at fault for that. Her continuing on the "date" with aladin is part interest in the guy who saved her, and part of why she left the palace, getting to see the city for real, she jsut got shown how horrible it can be for poor people in the city so she goes and now is hanging out with a guide to the dark underbelly of the city- she was still trying to learn about things, important and a reasonable reaction considering what she already learned. Her "seducing" Jafar wasn't likely her first choice, she jsut needed to distract aladin just when Jafar tried to magically mindwarp her to love him- Blame Jafar for his creepy wish and urge to dominate and control agrabah- likely working out pent up feelings after working to keep the place running while the sultan was an idiot and jasmine was kept from doing anything useful. On that note, everything you said about the sultan is true- but bear in mind that this guy is desperate for a suitor that his daughter won't hate and sick wild animals on, on top of how flamboyant a royal procession can be and lets cut him a little slack there- the law thing, that whole deal is jsut starting on solving the actual problems with agrabah- starting to hand off running the place to Jasmine and Aladin- the Sultan KNOWS he isn't the best ruler his entire concern was for finding someone that could run agrabah and take care of Jasmine, in the end he sees that she knows better than him about that sort of thing and lets her choose- once again the cartoon series sees aladin and Jasmine make way more moves politically than the sultan- diplomacy with other nations, waging and negotiating the end of wars, and other such things. As for the kids considering Jasmine and aladin now can decide the city's policies, so yeah maiming is probably off the table and homeless shelters might become a thing, certainly better than when Jafar was running things and didn't care about anything other than his own power.
I agree with everything you've said :/ actually kinda wanted to put an argument in here as well, but your obviously anger induced ramblings were all spot on to my thoughts. Thanks for taking the time to write this. I hope he sees how little they actually thought out their script.
Very well said. Usually i like videos that throw funny shade at movies and cartoons, even if the things being said are not true. However this video just came off as very stupid and trying too hard for.... something. Ether way good job.
One thing that always bothered me: The genie failed the wish about being a prince. Aladdin wished to BE a prince. Not just to dress like one. BEING a prince would have included a royal pedigree, and a legitimate claim to a land and his title. Genie would have had to rewrite history to grant the wish properly, which would have completely invalidated Jafar's claim that Al was an imposter.
1:57 A)is nobody gonna comment on Allantin's face? B)R U CRAZY??? THERE IS A RULE THAT SAYS:"NEVER PAUSE A DISNEY MOVIE" AND YOU PAUSE A FYCKING DISNEY MOVIE SEVERAL TIMES IN 10 MINUTES!!!!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought "a diamond in the rough", refers to a person that is awful, but has enough redeeming qualities that, with a lot of work, can turn him or her into a great person. By that definition, Aladdin really was the best example of a diamond in the rough in the entire movie.
Well, the Abu thing is explained in the series, so that's moot. The series had Abu's backstory, Abu was trained to steal by the circus he was part of way before he met Aladdin... and yet he still used the series as an example on how the Genie is horrible, ugh, this is the perfect example of twisting facts to suit theories, not theories to suit facts.
Right. He went through a lot of work to get that bread. Despite him talking to himself about how quick and good at stealing he was it took the whole song for him to get safely away. If i was starving and took the risk of stealing bread in a city where they cut off your arm if you get caught, and then had to use all the energy I had to run away, barely escaping with my life, I'm not so sure if I would be a good enough person to give up ALL if any of the bread i stole.
+Doug Becktroyd which shows that unlike what Daniel says no one gives the poor kids of his city food, or Aladdin wouldn't need to steal Boom lawyer-ed!
It's funny at the end where he acknowledges that he left information out because it's better. And that it's the writers choice. And now he works writing for an award winning news show.
Twisted: the story of a royal vizier, every one go watch it now. You will be happy that you did. Find it on youtube now, you will not be disappointed. (probably)
Apu and Jafar? the dead kids? I really don't know anymore, he doesn't specifically state it, so it could be any character that he doesn't tear apart... The guard captain and the merchant?
Why do I come back to this 7 years later??? Is it the intro name, Daniel the maniel O'Brien the lion? No. It's DOBs singing, "he beat the galloping hoards, a hundred bad guys with swords." I hate my brain.
Can't believe I'm commenting but you know he meant "disturbing" as in "disturbing" that no one taught Jasmine what the punishment for stealing was in her own kingdom. He literally says that. Pretty much exactly that. Never says that the form of punishment (cutting a hand) was disturbing. Just saying.
Frankly they don't seem particularly valid, all his points seem to really be stretching to demonize Aladdin. like claim Aladdin was responsible for smash barrel of fish/broken fruit/etc, despite the fact that the over-zealous city guards are clearly the ones perpetrating all of this in pursuit of him. It's not even like Aladdin was egging them on to destroy property, they were doing it all on their own.
Not to mention the outright negligence of the captain in dedicating a good five or more guards to cut down a boy who stole one measly loaf of bread. That's some straight-up Skyrim levels of excessive force.
For #4 Jasmine was just raised to be a pretty face and arm candy, not to run a country. Not to have a brain. That's the whole story behind A Whole New World.
The worst thing is Disney makes live action versions consisting of the exact same stories with huge amounts of none live action (CG) and then makes every costume despite being on a poor thief in a dusty desert town, imaculately clean and ironed and with straight teeth. Making being poor and hungry seem so great to young kids. Like its all just fun and games to be poor and sick and hungry. Thats the real scam.
I'm laughing so hard at the Abu part that Abu has body horrors daily his face from fear to confusion to anger and the body horrors I can't stop laughing so hard ahhh!
Im a former career criminal who has survived an assassination attempt, but i dont go around killing people or causing other mayhem. You wouldnt even know that by looking at me or observing my behavior. I just try to enjoy my life.
This is the creepiest comment I've read on RU-vid. I really hope you are just kid LARPing for fun and not an actual criminal cause that would be terrifying.
@@NA-qn4zp Former criminal, not current. And like i wrote: i dont go around causing mayhem. And even when i was involved in criminal activity i didnt bother random bystanders. I wasnt what you might consider a "gangbanger", there are more sorts of criminal than one stereotype.
Aladdin's grand entrance as Prince Ali really seemed more like a parade than an invasion. The only guys with weapons were sword dancers/jugglers, everyone else was playing instruments or showing off his fabulous collections of exotic shit. If I was gonna roll into a foreign country and try to conquer it I think I'd rather use an actual army, not a bunch of peacocks and belly dancers.
"You know what, we can change that. You know why? Cuz I'm the sultan." Was that a Hamilton reference? Because that sounded exactly like Thomas Jefferson's inflection.
Only prince to get his own movie? What about Wart in The Sword In The Stone? Granted, he does skip straight to king. But what about Simba in The Lion King? Bambi?
I don't think jasmine has any real power (at least not to begin with) and isn't expected to make decisions or run the country she's expected to marry a prince who would then become sultan and make those decisions I'm not surprised that she's completely ignorant.
Let's not forget those three harem girls were sad that Aladdin had "hit the bottom" (gone broke). Pretty much this implies he was a regular at the city brothel. And he wonders why he's starving.
Is it just me, all these years later, or did they sneak a 'Hamilton' reference in here? At around 7:10, as he is talking about the Sultan and the Princess law, he says, "We can change that; you know why? 'Cause I'm the sultan", which seems to be a reference to Jefferson (in 'Hamilton') regarding the vice presidency: "Oh we can change that; you know why? 'Cause I'm the president." Even has the same tones from the musical.
I'm just gonna go ahead and recommend the musical Twisted, the untold story of a royal visear. It's professionally recorded here on RU-vid by the theater company StarKid, and is a really funny parody of Aladdin that addresses all these points in funny musical form, while also being seriously heartwrenching at times. Watch it, it's really good!
aladdin? arabia. though the country that's in the move is fictional. agrabah? though google says it was originally set in china? this was based on 40000 arabian nights though, wasn't it?
It’s like he’s oblivious to the fact this was Saudi Arabia. if it were historically accurate Jasmine would have been wedded to the first man brought to the palace.
The series actually explains how Abu and Aladdin ended up together. Abu was running with some criminals who recruited Aladdin for a big heist on something mystical. It… did not end well for them. Abu and Aladdin realized that this was going to end the way it did, backed out, and lived. Then they went into crime together, because Aladdin treated the monkey better than the other criminals. It’s also implied the street rat is “a Diamond in the Rough” specifically as a reward for not screwing with said mystical thing, or something like that, but IIRC, it was a lot more complicated that that.
What, you thought most Arabs are good intelligent people with strong morals? This is pretty realistic. Well, aside from the magic and stuff, obviously.
While i do agree that most muslims very much are just as good and intelligent as everyone else (Remember, we had chrisrian terrorist running around a few decades ago and our government did norhing about it, so dont act so benevolent) Aladdin isnt accurate in any sense in terms of anything. Not clothing, not region, not customs. Nothing.
+lol101lol101lol10199 same region though, I do have Arab friends and I can say the same about them, that they're nice, kind, and have a beautiful culture
Jasmine is not "about to take over the place". She is a woman in the 1200s under Abbasid rule Whom ever she marries is about to take over the place. While unfortunate, it is not unrealistic that her father would not teach her the running of state, because she is not a son. She would have been cloistered from pretty much everything.
Firaro pretty sure midriff bareing is forbidden in Islam too but that ain't stopping Jasmine. Clearly she doesn't have any hang ups about law reflecting a religion she clearly doesn't practice herself. Besides, pretty sure this is pre-Islamic times anyway
RL Gill I had remembered the ruler's name as "ali" so pegged him as a reference to the 4th (i think, might be 3rd) caliph of the muslim world. Now i realize my mistake, his name was hamed. And ali was aladdins alternate name, and not a reference to the caliph As such may be before islamic times, my bad
RL Gill definitely an Islamic setting and most likely in the Indian subcontinent. It's the only place where you'd find everything in the film, especially things like Indian culture in an Islamic palace e.g. royal Muslim women bearing their midriffs.
in most country the men rule so her husband would be sultan, so he would rule, that why she had no idea about ruling or crime becosue she was not train to rule at all.
