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- From: jch@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (jeffrey.c.halle)
- Subject: Re: Just Saw Aladdin...
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:58:46 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.205846.14477@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
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- From article <1hsftcINN152@network.ucsd.edu>, by rcook@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Robert Cook):
- > 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. ;-)
-
- Points 1 through 5 are nearly universal among fairy tales, myths, and other
- assorted stories, such as 1001 Arabian Nights. So the fact that the two
- stories have plot similarities is almost a certainty.
-