I once dated a guy in college that loooved Aladdin. I suggested we watched it one night and he got all excited and when we got to the “A Whole New World” part, I was quietly singing along and just enjoying the movie, and he paused it and asked me if I knew that words and I said of course. He then insisted that we sing it together and would not let it play until I agreed. I got kind of embarrassed but did it anyways. Complete and total duet of A Whole New World in this tiny dorm room.
With the live action version out today, I’ve been thinking about it a lot and I hope he is out there, just enjoying the hell out of this.
It’s easy to be cynical about the Disney juggernaut of rolling out live action remakes of their classic animated properties. We’ve already had Dumbo earlier this year which was watchable but felt like a little misstep by Tim Burton. Next comes Aladdin, which along with The Lion King releasing July 17 will be the 1-2 sucker punch of 90s movies remakes. And if you’re a kid of that era, ensuring…
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So y'all stop complained, Indian representation was important there too.
FIRST
This is Disney’s Aladdin, since the animated movie from 1992, Disney combined Arabic and Indian elements.
The Taj Mahal was constructed during the Indo-Islamic period in Agra, India.
But wasn’t just an architectual inspiration, the story behind the Taj Mahal is a love story, it was constructed after the dead of the Queen, the prince Shah Jahan met princess Arjumand Banu Begum, in the bazaar, sounds familiar?…
SECOND
Disney was indeed looking for a Indian girl to play Jasmine
She say that wasn’t able to say the reasons.
She had even gone to London and stayed there for a couple months prepping during the workshop, but Disney decided to give the role to Naomi.
THIRD
Mena Massoud aka Aladdin himself telling the truth.
PD: this is just a curious fact lol
The One thousand and one nights stared from a Persian book with tales from Iran, India and Greece.
Some of you haven’t listened Arabian Nights properly and it shows.
ARABIAN NIGHTS (movie version)
Oh, imagine a land, it’s a faraway place
Where the caravan camels roam
Where you wander among EVERY CULTURE and tongue
It’s chaotic, but hey, it’s home
Disney fanally give visibility to the culture they don’t even mentioned and inspired them for this movie too.
