Computers were finally getting advanced enough to create cartoon movies that looked just as good as the stuff skilled artists could draw. Within three years of Aladdin 's release, Pixar would change the game entirely with Toy Story , the first full-length animated movie done completely on computers.
Aladdin was still old school. That means the movie was mostly drawn by hand, basically through the same process that Uncle Walt had first introduced with Snow White. First, animators would draw images on paper, one by one.
Then, each image would be painted onto clear pieces of transparent plastic called cels. Photograph those cels and run them through a camera really fast, and the animation would look like it was moving. Okay, we made that sound easy, but it definitely is not. It takes hundreds of animators years to create just one movie. A single second of animation for just one character requires about 24 drawings. Eric Goldberg, the animator in charge of all the Genie's scenes, made around 10, drawings for "A Friend Like Me" alone.
Poor Iago. One of the best parts of the animated movie doesn't make it into the live-action adaptation. When Jafar becomes Sultan in the original film, he uses it as a chance to humiliate Aladdin in front of Jasmine and her father by singing a reprisal of "Prince Ali.
It's not alluded to at all in the remake. Instead, Jafar simply tells Jasmine Ali is actually Aladdin, something she suspected. It all makes for a very unsatisfying reveal. Jafar sends Aladdin packing in a palace tower to a wintry unnamed destination with Abu and the magic carpet in the animated movie. Once there, Aladdin needs to find and save both Abu and the carpet while avoiding being crushed by the massive tower. It's thrilling and there's a moment where you're genuinely afraid for Aladdin's life.
In the remake, Jafar simply sends Aladdin and Abu away to an unnamed location but not in a palace tower. The omission of the tower deflates the moment entirely. Aladdin merely needs to find Abu before he quickly gets rescued by the magic carpet sent by the Genie. Sending Aladdin away was fruitless here. The scene merely seems to exist as a nod to the original film. After Jafar becomes the Sultan, he makes some dark changes to the palace interior.
Among them are new red outfits for the Sultan and Jasmine. In the movie, Jafar wishes for Jasmine to fall in love with him. He doesn't know that's beyond the Genie's powers, so Jasmine takes advantage of the moment and plays along to distract Jafar as Aladdin tries to take back the magic lamp.
This never seemed like a scene that would appear in the live-action film. It's too sexy and inappropriate, especially since Jafar refers to Jasmine as his "pussycat. Instead, Jasmine is given a gorgeous pink outfit near the end of the film in which she sings her new song, "Speechless.
Read more: 12 iconic moments missing from the live-action "Aladdin". When Jafar becomes Sultan and quickly asks to be the world's greatest sorcerer afterwards, he makes a lot of changes that don't make it into the remake so no one can get in his way. He turns Abu into a toy, Jasmine's tiger into the size of a kitten, and the magic carpet is unraveled and made into a long thread. When Jasmine deceives him, Jafar places the princess into a larger hourglass filled with sand.
The tables are turned on the Sultan and Iago is seen stuffing his face with crackers. Arguably the biggest and most memorable moment from the animated movie is when Jafar transforms into a giant snake near the movie's end. Aladdin calls Jafar a cowardly snake, causing the villain to transform into a larger version of his beloved staff. Aladdin goes up against the serpent with a sword before convincing Jafar to become a genie himself. In the remake, the big showdown cuts past the most interesting moments of the third act and fast-forwards to Aladdin tricking Jafar to wish himself into the cosmic being.
Instead, we see Iago transformed into a larger version of himself which is far less interesting. Sorry Aladdin, you're never going to be Sultan of Agrabah in this film. Honestly, that's a great fix. As Jasmine explains in the live-action movie, she has been training and studying for this her whole life. Aladdin hasn't and, from what we see in the movie, he doesn't have the greatest public speaking skills.
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Many of the big changes involve Jafar, a new female character, and a new song for Princess Jasmine. The "Arabian Nights" song at the film's start is completely revamped and expanded. Aladdin doesn't steal any bread at the film's start. Aladdin has shoes! Jasmine is in the Agrabah market from the moment the movie begins and meets Aladdin right away.
Jasmine steals and gives bread, not an apple to a young child. Aladdin tells Jasmine to trust her at a different point of the film. Jasmine is with Aladdin as he runs through the Agrabah market for the singing of "One Jump. Jasmine's nervous to use a stick to jump from building to building in the remake. Jasmine has a handmaid named Dalia.
Jasmine lies to Aladdin and tells him she's a handmaid to the princess. The remake tells us that Jasmine's mother died. Jasmine wears a beloved bracelet that belongs to her mother in the remake. Prince Andars is the prince who tries to win over Jasmine in the live-action film. Jasmine gets her own song called "Speechless. This Jasmine wants to be Sultan. Aladdin is arrested by the palace guards for a completely different reason.
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