Aladdin

choose Aladdin because I watched it as a young girl and didn’t realize all the hidden messages. Aladdin is a character that lives in the streets of Agrabah with his faithful monkey friend Abu. Aladdin doesn’t have an education, is very poor and survives by stealing from others. On the other hand, princess Jasmine has it all. She is well educated and lives in a palace with her father. One day Jasmine becomes

heteronormativity. Indeed, female characters have either a male partner at the end or are alone (happens rarely, though). The main subliminal messages might be that female can use their body in order to obtain something from their men counterparts. In Aladdin, Jasmine is using her body to save him from Jafar by charming, and later luring the sorcerer. This can therefore generate a bigger impact due to the cultivation theory, in which we get used to these images that shape our personality, and behavior

Aladdin For my theatre critique, I went to see Aladdin written by Chad Beguelin and performed by the Disney Theatrical Productions. This production was performed at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco. I saw this performance November 7, 2017. Overall, I thought that the production was magnificent. In the opening number the Genie, despite him being the understudy, sang beautifully and set up the show very nicely. He started off with comedy right away by holding up a Golden State Warriors hat after

Eastern cultures. An example of this is the movie Aladdin; a childhood favorite that only when educated shows a tale full of white-sided stereotypes of “barbaric” Arabic people. Through, postcolonial literature and cinema, the audience is able to see how white perceptions of postcolonial lands still negatively effect perceptions of the East today and widen the gap between Western and Eastern relations. In order to understand the ways in which Aladdin communicates negative stereotypes of the East,

The characters in Aladdin are all striving for the American Dream. Aladdin, Jasmine, and the Genie are all victims who seek their freedom from social oppression or from being “trapped” by law or outdated custom (Wise 106). This unifying thread throughout the film shows how anyone despite their circumstances change their life and make it what they want it to be playing off of the ideal of the American Dream. One way that the American Dream is intertwined into Aladdin is through the dual nature of

We can see that many of these negative stereotypes come from kids movies or shows. The mic.com showed us that in the movie Aladdin some of their song lyrics are screening a bad representation of who the Arabs truly are. Disney used Arab and Oriental tropes as the characters to sing these song lyrics “Where they cut off your ear, If they don't like your face...”. Here they are

to introduce Aladdin, the male protagonist of the movie, to the audience. It can be said that the character of Aladdin represents a sector of the stigmatised poor; a bright boy who has potential that goes unnoticed because of his position in society, a “diamond in the rough”. Throughout the movie one can clearly observe Aladdin being repeatedly dehumanized and insulted for living in the streets. This is only emphasized by the constant use of the term “street rat” to describe Aladdin. Through characterization

believes the East is to be feared. I will explore the key elements of Orientalism and explain how this functions in the film Aladdin (Ron Clements, John Musker: 1992). In Aladdin, there are distinctive differences between the ‘East’ and the ‘West’ which Said states, creates binary oppositions between them. This is demonstrated through the exploration of characters Aladdin and Jaffar. The key elements of Orientalism I will be exploring are: representations of race, sexualisation of the Orient and

Racism: discrimination which exemplifies stereotypical differences between the ethnic groups to which people belong. While Disney animated films are the ideal family movies, it is undisclosed to many that such racism is being portrayed. Disney’s movie Aladdin (1992), “was a high-profile release, the winner of two Academy Awards, and one of the most successful Disney films ever produced” (Giroux, 104); however, what is often disregarded is the obvious depiction of careless racism towards Arabs seen in the

“Aladdin” the Disney Version Aladdin is a classical Arabian fairy tale that was used as a basis for many movies and cartoons. The main character of the story is a poor young man who achieves the princess and other rewards with the aid of magical powers and own personality. Writers from many countries used similar plots. For example, Danish author Hans Christian Andersen used such characters and situations in his tales The Tinder-box and The Flying Trunk. Stories have many differences, like author