• epicthundercat@lemmy.world
    51·
    16 hours ago

    Some of the comments here feel like the lefts version of complaining when a kids movie gets the wrong culture put into a lead role and the right complains… Like when the right complained about the Little Mermaid.

  • Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca
    193·
    1 day ago

    Even if it wasn’t different media.

    “Look guys! Here’s Aladdin in a dark alley in the evening and then later he’s in the open air in broad daylight and the fucking cartoonists colored his skin lighter!”

  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
    66·
    1 day ago

    The original Aladdin story in One Thousand and One Nights is set in China (Aladdin is also Chinese), is based on a middle eastern folk tale, and was written and added to the book by a Frenchman. And then it’s most recognizable incarnation (at least to a western audience) migrates the setting and characters to a fictional Arabic kingdom and gives him an American white guy voice. The character, Aladdin’s, cultural identity as we know it is a little all over the place.

    • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      16 hours ago

      And part of the reason the setting is almost never China in adaptations is that the original 1001 Nights version of the story is very much set in China in name only, with the setting being modeled after the Middle East anyway. I mean, there are two jinns, a sultan, and the sorcerer is from Morocco. And when characters are actually named, they have decidedly non-Chinese names like Mustapha.

    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      16·
      1 day ago

      An American white guy voice from the 90s

      Aladdin is the most stereotypical, tv trope, radalicious, woahhhh, duuude voice

      It’s like one or two steps away from being a Ninja turtle.

        • Melllvar@startrek.websiteEnglish
          30·
          1 day ago

          It is a theory to explain how genie knows about things like automobiles and 20th century movie stars. It posits that these are only anachronisms if the story is set in the past, as commonly assumed. But setting it in the far distant future eliminates the problem. It also explains the apparent “magic” in the world as remnants of a fallen high-tech civilization.

          Rajah the tiger? Genetic engineered. Magic carpet? Hover tech. Buried stop signs (video game only)? Ancient relic. It’s really quite surprising how well this theory fits.

          • GreenShimada@lemmy.world
            3·
            11 hours ago

            I’m 100% on board with this. While the “Genie doesn’t experience time the same way” theory is also plausible, why would the genie be trapped in the lamp for 10,000 years and have a problem with it at all if time means nothing to him? Also, if time means nothing to Genie, why can he 1) get duped by Aladdin, and 2) do the things that allow Jafaar to use him to do terrible things?

            Also, the Merchant scene really sets a lot of this up as well. The combination hookah and coffee maker also makes French fries - potatoes didn’t even make it to the Eastern hemisphere until the 1500s. The Dead Sea Tupperware, obviously, sets the date after the 1960s.

            Also, there’s other lamps around. The vendor talks about a lamp, while handling a clearly polished lamp, meaning that it’s not the Genie lamp. In the market scene, there are lamps at a stand as Aladdin and Jasmine run off. If Genie was stuck in a brass lamp for 10,000 years, it would have been made around +/- 9,000 BCE, before brass was first created. In fact, before writing had been invented, and Genie can read and write. In English.

            Finally, that the Cave of Wonders would contain much of the world’s gold mined up until the Medieval period. Estimates the global mined supply, including mined in ancient China and the Americas and not likely to end up in a cave, would be an order of magnitude more than estimates of what Scrooge McDuck had in his Money Bin, and the cave seems to have more than Scrooge had. There was no shortage of gold in Agraba - especially since we see gold elsewhere in the movie. Clearly this is the bunker of a prepper who used an advanced AI system to guard it all, stockpiled billions in gold coins, and died before they could spend it all.

            Additional theory element: Genie experienced 10,000 years in the lamp because Genie was on Earth the whole time. During the apocalyptic event, several ships left the earth and used advanced propulsion to explore nearby star systems for a new home. None of them looked good enough, and after traveling at close to c for what seemed like a few years, some of the ships started to return to Earth, including the seed ship the AGRABA. The city was founded by a seed ship trying to repopulate the Earth. They were gone for what seemed like a few years, but due to time dilation, the journey from Earth’s perspective was closer to 9,800 years. So the advanced technology makes sense still as newer tech scavenged from the seed ship and forgotten about, like the AI tiger head guarding the cave.

  • andros_rex@lemmy.world
    352·
    1 day ago

    I feel like this kind of bullshit is a distraction from actual criticisms of the way the movie Aladdin depicts the Middle East.

  • Kairos@lemmy.today
    85·
    1 day ago

    Ahh, back when clickbait had to scourge scour for fake things instead of just boiling 1000 gallons of water.

  • idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works
    50·
    2 days ago

    Ok, I never thought I will type “Aladdin yaoi” in my search engine, but here we are. There are far more Aladdin x Hercules hentai than I expected, so I couldn’t find where this exact screenshot is coming from.

  • Kairos@lemmy.today
    16·
    1 day ago

    Okay. The Aladdin thing. THAT’S NOT FUCKING

    And yet it’s literally a blowjob. Checkmate (/s)

  • Madu@fedinsfw.appEnglish
    112·
    1 day ago

    This reminded me of the crush I had as a kid on Jasmine and that rule34 is a thing… Fuck yeah!