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    Aladdin Analysis

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    industry manipulating the youth in movies such as “Aladdin.” Aladdin is a cultural production about a young man, Aladdin, who endures the malicious vizier, Jafar, while attempting to win the heart of Princess Jasmine. In this work, I will discuss the orientalist portrayal, the source of knowledge, the effects of American exceptionalism in “Aladdin”. This will be done by reviewing the symbols in the film that represent the Middle East. In the film “Aladdin,” the portrayal of the Middle East – specifically

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    Disney's Aladdin

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    (1) In the Disney’s Aladdin, a street rat named Aladdin is the hero of the movie. Aladdin’s birth and childhood is rather an unusual one and to state it in mythological terms, he belongs to the world as he grows up without both of his parents. Moreover, he has neither money nor a home, so to survive in the world he learns to steal and lives in an abandoned building with a view of the beautiful Palace, where he sits and dreams of becoming rich one day. (2) Aladdin receives his call to adventure when

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    Aladdin Analysis

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    “Aladdin” is a cultural production about a young man, Aladdin, who endures the malicious vizier, Jafar, while attempting to win the heart of Princess Jasmine. Consequently, I will discuss the orientalist portrayal, the source of knowledge, and the effects of American exceptionalism in “Aladdin”. This is done by reviewing the symbols in the film that represent the Middle East, which are depicted through Disney’s lens of intermingling of Arab and American values creating a postcolonial interpretation

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    marry a street rat causing her to be able to marry Aladdin. She is also kind as demonstrated when she takes an apple and gives it to a hungry child. Jasmine was the sixth princess to grace our screens and she did so in 1992 in the movie Aladdin. Aladdin is about a street rat who is kind of heart, which is shown when he gives the bread he merely escaped death to retrieve, to a little girl and boy he sees rummaging through the trash to find food. Aladdin re-enters the town from the back alleys and finds

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    Aladdin Interpretation

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    I chose the 1992 Disney interpretation of “Aladdin”. This story revolves around a young man named Aladdin and his quest to find his place in life. He lives in the fictional kingdom of Agrabah. It is ruled by a Sultan who has a daughter named Jasmine, who is unwilling to marry any royal suitor that comes to court her. The Sultan is advised by his royal Vizier, Jafar. Now Jafar has ambitions of becoming the ruler. The way he sees he can achieve it is by obtaining a sacred lamp containing an all-powerful

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    Archetypes In Aladdin

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    Aladdin The film is about Aladdin, a young man who unintentionally obtains a magic lamp from the Cave of Wonders. A jovial genie from the lamp helps Aladdin, a wandering orphan, have all what he dreamed of such as wealth and a beautiful wife. Aladdin is a homeless youth living and wandering on the streets of Agrabah. One day, while fleeing the arrest of soldiers, he meets a girl who is finding somewhere else to hide just like he is. Actually, she is Princess Jasmine, who is impersonating a civilian

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    that is expressed through the Disney film ‘Aladdin’ and how these elements affect the characters. These elements will be represented within the characters personality and back story which is then visually represented in the characters design. In this Disney film there is a great importance to know the history in the world during the time that this film was established. The history during 1991 is shown through the characters. The filmmakers established Aladdin in 1991 Gulf War that lasted six months

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    Paper On Aladdin

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    Aladdin is a Walt Disney movie that released in 1992. The animated movie is based on an Arab-style folktale of Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from One Thousand and One Nights. This movie is based upon a street rat named Aladdin, who lives in Agrabah with his monkey friend Abu. When a princess named Jasmine gets tired of being told what to do she sneaks out to the marketplace, where she accidentally meets Aladdin. Under the orders of Jafar (the sultan's advisor), Aladdin is thrown in jail and gets tricked

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    A long, long time ago, in the year of 1992, a very famous Disney Fairytale hit the big screen. Aladdin is about a young orphan on a fascinating journey to becoming a heroic man. The majority of people are unaware of the qualifications of a real hero. Many people think the only way to achieve heroism is by dying for something or someone you love. There are heroes everywhere you look, Disney movies, fairytales, cartoons, books etc. A hero doesn’t have to possess unusual superpowers like, immortality

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    The movie Aladdin’s main characters were barely redeemable at the end; they emitted an abundance of negative implicit messages. Aladdin deceived everyone without much backlash and fell in love based on looks. While Jasmine, the strong female character, trusted and forgave too easily, used her sexuality to escape a predicament, and was dependent on being saved. Even the background characters were quite horrible, but because they were written from Middle Eastern/Arabic stereotypes; the guards were

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