Influences On The Movie Aladdin

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It is going to be about the garments and the major events that happened and were influenced in the movie Aladdin. But not all of them were related to the movie or the fairytale. You will also be reading how the era influenced the movie. This is going to be a compare and contrast essay, it is also going to tell what is the difference between the fairytale and the Disney movie. In the original Disney movie, the accessories and objects had a great influence with the culture of Arabia and the era. Princess Jasmine had to wear a red and golden bedlah outfit, with a red strapless crop top, red harem pants, golden slipper-like shoes. Her earrings, bracelets in various shapes, and her crown that was made from her chains, were all golden. The other girls in the movie had similar outfits, but she was the princess, so she had to wear fancier clothes. The architecture in the movie is Persian inspired. The name of Jafar, his name strongly implies a significant Shi'a (follower of Ali) in the time. Agrabah is a surrounded desert and is close to mountains filled with snow that Jafar sends Aladdin. The clothes and the objects of the movie were …show more content…

It’s the tale of a country boy called Aladdin, who finds a magical oil lamp with a genie inside, who allows him to wish whatever he wants, and the only wish he wanted is that him and his mother be rich and live happily, so the genie conceded. "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp",maybe have been written by an 18th Century French translator named Antoine Gallard, better than coming from an Indian, Arab or Persian folklore. Aladdin's fairy tale has almost the same story as the original movie. There are few things different, in the fairy tale, Aladdin is a poor youth living in the streets of Middle Eastern and in the original movie, he lives in Agrabah, Arabia. Something they have in common is that in the fairytale and in the movie they both have Arabian

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