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- From: rcook@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Robert Cook)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.disney
- Subject: Re: Just Saw Aladdin...
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 15:40:28 GMT
- Organization: University of California, San Diego
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- In article <athos-301292011330@kip2-50.apple.com> athos@apple.com (Rick Eames) writes:
- >
- >1) I was happy with the movie up until Aladdin refused to honor his promise
- >to free the Genie. What an ass. He then just looked STUPID to me.
-
- There wasn't a strong sense of learning a lesson at the end. Aladdin
- gets rich and presumably "never [has] to worry about anything." The
- Sultan decides to change the marriage laws all of a sudden (he was
- more than reluctant earlier), a la Triton in The Little Mermaid.
-
- >2) I was laughing at Robin Williams, but wonder if 20 years from now the
- >references will be understood. I doubt it.
-
- I'm pretty sure that most of the references, especially the Disney
- references, will remain valid for 20 or 30 years at the very least.
- The ones in Warner Brothers' Looney Tunes are mostly recognizable
- (to me, anyway) and some of them are 40+ years old.
-
- >3) Can we get a woman who doesn't look like Belle/Ariel/EveryOtherWoman?
-
- They've got different hair, eyes, noses :^), mouths (well,
- Ariel's is different), and even skull shapes. That seems to be
- quite a bit of variation. On the other hand, I can't see much
- difference between the various human fashion models on TV and such--
- ones of the same race, that is. It is funny, though, how the "Disney
- women" do tend to look somewhat alike.
-
- While I'm at it, here are a few of the many, shall we say, similarities
- between Aladdin and The Little Mermaid films:
-
- 1. The princess's father stands in the way of her love life.
- 2. After that, as I've mentioned above, her father has a change of
- heart.
- 3. The evil villain attempts to steal the throne by using the
- princess. Jafar tries to marry Jasmine just like Ursula tries to
- marry Eric, although the circumstances were different.
- 4. Aladdin takes Jasmine on a tour of the world, just Eric like took
- Ariel on a tour of his kingdom.
- 5. In the battle near the end of Aladdin, Jafar boasts about all
- the power he's just received, and swells to an enormous size to toy
- with the heros.
- 6. Ron Clements and John Musker as writers and directors.
-
- It's not that the plot of Aladdin is flawed, but I think that most
- of us have seen it somewhere before. ;-)
-
-
- - Robert Cook
-