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I'm wondering how the Cave of Wonders Guardian is going to be handled.

The original one TERRIFIED ME as a kid, so I'm hoping they can bring that level of uneasy menace and otherworldly terror into a live-action version.

Never was I more relieved then to discover that the Diamond Edition blu-ray did NOT share the same theming as the 2003 DVD release xDDDD
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Sotiris wrote:Didn't know that. For a company that gets boycotted so often by Christian groups, there sure are a lot of religious zealots employed there.
Tony Bancroft wrote:I remember we even had animators that were Christians that had a hard time on “Aladdin,” because the Sultan said, “Praise Allah!” instead of “Praise God!”
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Which is even more ironic since Allah is literally just God in Arabic. It's referring to the same person. I'm used to these type of remarks though coming from a small Texan town.
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MrXemnas1992 wrote:I'm wondering how the Cave of Wonders Guardian is going to be handled.

The original one TERRIFIED ME as a kid, so I'm hoping they can bring that level of uneasy menace and otherworldly terror into a live-action version.
I think you got the wrong thread. This is for the original movie. But I hope they do a good job with the Cave of Wonders, too. :)
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Gilbert Gottfried looks back on bringing the parrot Iago to life in Aladdin
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Imagination to Animation: Aladdin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqS04WNs9YU
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That one was quite short compared to the others, wasn't it?
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Indeed, it was so short I was like...why bother?
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Q: What was it like to develop Aladdin's Genie with Robin Williams?

Ron Clements: One of the great joys in all my years at Disney was getting to watch Robin Williams at work on Aladdin. The script was written for him in an improvisational style, and he always started with the script as written. Then he would start embellishing, adding stuff, changing stuff, going faster and faster as he went along. He recorded in four-hour sessions and hardly ever stopped. By the end of each one, it was like he had gone through an intense physical workout, covered in perspiration. He was like a tremendous athlete at the top of his game. Almost everything he did was great, but there were times when he was especially "in the zone" — on another level — and the stuff he was coming up with was jaw-droppingly awesome. He was a marvel to witness.

John Musker: We wrote Aladdin with Robin Williams in mind. … We felt that we could do things with Robin's brilliant mercurial improvs that live action couldn't match. Animated and shaped by Eric Goldberg, I think we did just that. Robin was an absolute joy to work with, indefatigable and generous with his time and unique talents. Our world is a little dimmer without Robin.
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Genie isn't among my top characters, but I imagine he is for the public. That ability for animation to match Williams' insanity is why it was/is so memorable.

You know, it's funny. So many comedians have been used in animation (a trend jumpstarted by this film), but never so well. It's similar to how The Little Mermaid spawned twenty thousand family and/or animated films with the whole outsider-with-an-impossible dream--fighting-against-the-restrictions-of-their-family-and-society plot, but almost none have managed to do it so well as with Triton and Ariel, imo. Triton actually had weight, dimension, and humanity unlike many authority figures in other films with the same storyline/story structure. And there are parts of the film, like the fight in Ariel's grotto and subsequent explosion of her things as well as the ending when they hug, that have such a raw intensity to it that most don't manage to re-create. More often than not, those attempts come off overdramatic or artificial in other films. It's a fine line.
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Disney's Divinity wrote:It's similar to how The Little Mermaid spawned twenty thousand family and/or animated films with the whole outsider-with-an-impossible dream--fighting-against-the-restrictions-of-their-family-and-society plot, but almost none have managed to do it so well as with Triton and Ariel, imo. Triton actually had weight, dimension, and humanity unlike many authority figures in other films with the same storyline/story structure. And there are parts of the film, like the fight in Ariel's grotto and subsequent explosion of her things as well as the ending when they hug, that have such a raw intensity to it that most don't manage to re-create. More often than not, those attempts come off overdramatic or artificial in other films.
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Matthew Morrison's rendition of "Friend Like Me".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhsa_XCVD5U
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For some reason I find him annoying. Don't know why.
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:lol: Sometimes certain people just rub us the wrong way. There doesn't have to be a reason.
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farerb wrote:For some reason I find him annoying. Don't know why.
Have you ever seen him in Glee, Finding Neverland, or American Horror Story?
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JeanGreyForever wrote:
farerb wrote:For some reason I find him annoying. Don't know why.
Have you ever seen him in Glee, Finding Neverland, or American Horror Story?
I saw the first season of Glee.
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farerb wrote:
JeanGreyForever wrote: Have you ever seen him in Glee, Finding Neverland, or American Horror Story?
I saw the first season of Glee.
Ironically enough that's his best season on Glee. He gets really annoying afterwards and they even sorta write him out towards the middle. He was much better in AHS though...really enjoyed him there.
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I always like Mathew Morrison but enjoyed him most in every season of Glee.
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Apparently Beauty and the Beast is not the only film Disney didn't bother fixing.
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Apparently Beauty and the Beast is not the only film Disney didn't bother fixing.
I’m not an expert, but I do know a lot about this stuff as a tech nerd. I’m not 100% sure on this, but that looks to me to be a compression issue from an old master and not an edit. I’d guess this wasn’t how it looked in theaters, but the right was. So once it was mastered for home video in High Definition, the banding disappeared. However, Aladdin did have the touch ups done to it for the IMAX version, and the change may have taken place then too.

EDIT: Did some snooping and it looks to be the latter. I’d assume this change was made during the IMAX restoration.
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Hmmm... where is that old frame taken from? vhs?

Cause that light on the ground is definitely not in the platinum edition.

That said, I hate all the changes they made to Aladdin.
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