Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 6 (click to see context) from:
to:
** Characters from the story "1001 Nights" appear in Creator/DaveMalloy's song-cycle Music/GhostQuartet. Scheherazade appears as-is, but Shahryar is renamed "Shah Zaman".
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 5 (click to see context) from:
to:
* ReferencedBy: In ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', Morpheus [[LiteraryWorkOfMagic helped shape]] the anthology. The city of Baghdad is originally full of magic and wonders, but Haroun al-Rashid grows afraid it wouldn't survive that way, so he makes a deal with Morpheus; Baghdad would become a mundane city, and Morpheus would preserve a dream version which became the stories in the ''Arabian Nights''.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
YMMV
Changed line(s) 19,21 (click to see context) from:
* RetroactiveRecognition:
** Creator/BenedictWong, later to become famous as the [[TheDanza similarly named]] Wong in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, features here in a very minor role as Aladdin's sidekick (unnamed on screen, listed in the credits as Hassan).
** Creator/AndySerkis, a couple of years before Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers shot him into the A-List, plays Ali Baba's ill-fated brother Casim.
** Creator/BenedictWong, later to become famous as the [[TheDanza similarly named]] Wong in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, features here in a very minor role as Aladdin's sidekick (unnamed on screen, listed in the credits as Hassan).
** Creator/AndySerkis, a couple of years before Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers shot him into the A-List, plays Ali Baba's ill-fated brother Casim.
to:
** Creator/BenedictWong, later to become famous as the [[TheDanza similarly named]] Wong in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, features here in a very minor role as Aladdin's sidekick (unnamed on screen, listed in the credits as Hassan).
** Creator/AndySerkis, a couple of years before Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers shot him into the A-List, plays Ali Baba's ill-fated brother Casim.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 19 (click to see context) from:
* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/BenedictWong, later to become famous as the [[TheDanza similarly named]] Wong in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, features here in a very minor role as Aladdin's sidekick (unnamed on screen, listed in the credits as Hassan).
to:
* RetroactiveRecognition: RetroactiveRecognition:
** Creator/BenedictWong, later to become famous as the [[TheDanza similarly named]] Wong in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, features here in a very minor role as Aladdin's sidekick (unnamed on screen, listed in the credits asHassan).Hassan).
** Creator/AndySerkis, a couple of years before Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers shot him into the A-List, plays Ali Baba's ill-fated brother Casim.
** Creator/BenedictWong, later to become famous as the [[TheDanza similarly named]] Wong in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, features here in a very minor role as Aladdin's sidekick (unnamed on screen, listed in the credits as
** Creator/AndySerkis, a couple of years before Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers shot him into the A-List, plays Ali Baba's ill-fated brother Casim.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 18 (click to see context) from:
* SeparatedAtBirthCasting: In an odd use of this trope, Mili Avital and Amira Casar look alike enough for the latter to be a believable AuthorAvatar in the former's story.
to:
* SeparatedAtBirthCasting: In an odd use of this trope, Mili Avital and Amira Casar look alike enough for the latter to be a believable AuthorAvatar in the former's story.story.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/BenedictWong, later to become famous as the [[TheDanza similarly named]] Wong in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, features here in a very minor role as Aladdin's sidekick (unnamed on screen, listed in the credits as Hassan).
* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/BenedictWong, later to become famous as the [[TheDanza similarly named]] Wong in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, features here in a very minor role as Aladdin's sidekick (unnamed on screen, listed in the credits as Hassan).
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 4,5 (click to see context) from:
* NeverTrustATitle: The popular translated name ''Arabian Nights'' comes from the earliest English translation titled ''Arabian Nights Entertainments,'' which is misleading. The many stories included in One-Thousand-and-One-Nights have diverse origins that can be traced to all over West and South Asia. The famous frame story is speculated to originate from ''India," while the original earliest prototype (of which no copies exist) was possibly Persian.
to:
* NeverTrustATitle: The popular translated name ''Arabian Nights'' comes from the earliest English translation titled ''Arabian Nights Entertainments,'' which is rather misleading. The many stories included in One-Thousand-and-One-Nights have diverse origins that can be traced to all over West and South Asia. Asia, and regardless of what version you read, there is little chance the stories are all from Arabia. The famous frame story itself is speculated to originate from ''India," ''India,'' while what is theorized to be the original earliest prototype (of which no copies exist) of the work was possibly Persian.
Persian. The original title of ''One Thousand and One Nights'' has no such issue.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
!!Trivia for the original stories:
* NeverTrustATitle: The popular translated name ''Arabian Nights'' comes from the earliest English translation titled ''Arabian Nights Entertainments,'' which is misleading. The many stories included in One-Thousand-and-One-Nights have diverse origins that can be traced to all over West and South Asia. The famous frame story is speculated to originate from ''India," while the original earliest prototype (of which no copies exist) was possibly Persian.
* NeverTrustATitle: The popular translated name ''Arabian Nights'' comes from the earliest English translation titled ''Arabian Nights Entertainments,'' which is misleading. The many stories included in One-Thousand-and-One-Nights have diverse origins that can be traced to all over West and South Asia. The famous frame story is speculated to originate from ''India," while the original earliest prototype (of which no copies exist) was possibly Persian.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 5,6 (click to see context) from:
** The miniseries has an AndYouWereThere theme where Dougray Scott plays Sharyhar and Amin the beggar, James Frain plays Schahzenan and Sultan Harun Al-Rashid and Jim Carter plays Ja'Far and the Harun Al-Rashid's advisor. Pik-Sen Lim plays Aladdin's mother and a woman shown in the harem, while Ayesha Dharker plays the demon's wife and another harem girl.
** Subverted with Mili Avital, who plays Scheherezade. It looks like she's going to play Morgiana too, but the Sultan notes that Morgiana sounds like an AuthorAvatar - and Scheherezade immediately insists she isn't. She's then switched to be played by Amira Casar.
** Subverted with Mili Avital, who plays Scheherezade. It looks like she's going to play Morgiana too, but the Sultan notes that Morgiana sounds like an AuthorAvatar - and Scheherezade immediately insists she isn't. She's then switched to be played by Amira Casar.
to:
** The miniseries has an AndYouWereThere theme where Dougray Scott plays Sharyhar and Amin the beggar, James Frain plays Schahzenan Shahzman and Sultan Harun Al-Rashid and Jim Carter plays Ja'Far and the Harun Al-Rashid's advisor. Pik-Sen Lim plays Aladdin's mother and a woman shown in the harem, while Ayesha Dharker plays the demon's wife and another harem girl.
** Subverted with Mili Avital, who playsScheherezade. Shahrazad. It looks like she's going to play Morgiana too, but the Sultan notes that Morgiana sounds like an AuthorAvatar - and Scheherezade Shahrazad immediately insists she isn't. She's then switched to be played by Amira Casar.
** Subverted with Mili Avital, who plays
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added line(s) 7 (click to see context) :
** The miniseries has an AndYouWereThere theme where Dougray Scott plays Sharyhar and Amin the beggar, James Frain plays Schahzenan and Sultan Harun Al-Rashid and Jim Carter plays Ja'Far and the Harun Al-Rashid's advisor. Pik-Sen Lim plays Aladdin's mother and a woman shown in the harem, while Ayesha Dharker plays the demon's wife and another harem girl.
Changed line(s) 7 (click to see context) from:
* FakeNationality: The Chinese Princess Zubaida is played by Vanessa Mae, who is British-born but whose family are from Singapore. Elsewhere it's mostly averted. While the cast may not be the exact nationalities of their characters, most of them have the corresponding heritage at least. Rufus Sewell and Dougray Scott are ethnically British, but look dark enough to pass for characters who lived during ArabianNightsDays.
to:
* FakeNationality: The Chinese Princess Zubaida is played by Vanessa Mae, who is British-born but whose family are from Singapore. Elsewhere it's mostly averted. While the cast may not be the exact nationalities of their characters, most of them have the corresponding heritage at least. Rufus Sewell Sewell, Jim Carter and Dougray Scott are ethnically British, but look dark enough to pass for characters who lived during ArabianNightsDays.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
!!Trivia for the Hallmark miniseries:
* ActingForTwo:
** John Leguizamo plays both the Genie of the Lamp and the Genie of the Ring.
** Subverted with Mili Avital, who plays Scheherezade. It looks like she's going to play Morgiana too, but the Sultan notes that Morgiana sounds like an AuthorAvatar - and Scheherezade immediately insists she isn't. She's then switched to be played by Amira Casar.
* FakeBrit: Scottish actor Dougray Scot puts on an English accent to play the Sultan.
* FakeNationality: The Chinese Princess Zubaida is played by Vanessa Mae, who is British-born but whose family are from Singapore. Elsewhere it's mostly averted. While the cast may not be the exact nationalities of their characters, most of them have the corresponding heritage at least. Rufus Sewell and Dougray Scott are ethnically British, but look dark enough to pass for characters who lived during ArabianNightsDays.
* PlayingAgainstType:
** Rufus Sewell, normally typecast as slimy villains, gets to play the gentle and bumbling Ali Baba.
** James Callis also usually plays vain, narcissistic characters. Here he plays the heroic Prince Ahmed. But of course this was his first role, before his type had been formed yet.
** Likewise for Andy Serkis, who was not yet known for his SerkisFolk roles. Almost ironically, in a miniseries that features three such characters, he has a small role as Ali Baba's lazy younger brother Kasim.
* SeparatedAtBirthCasting: In an odd use of this trope, Mili Avital and Amira Casar look alike enough for the latter to be a believable AuthorAvatar in the former's story.
* ActingForTwo:
** John Leguizamo plays both the Genie of the Lamp and the Genie of the Ring.
** Subverted with Mili Avital, who plays Scheherezade. It looks like she's going to play Morgiana too, but the Sultan notes that Morgiana sounds like an AuthorAvatar - and Scheherezade immediately insists she isn't. She's then switched to be played by Amira Casar.
* FakeBrit: Scottish actor Dougray Scot puts on an English accent to play the Sultan.
* FakeNationality: The Chinese Princess Zubaida is played by Vanessa Mae, who is British-born but whose family are from Singapore. Elsewhere it's mostly averted. While the cast may not be the exact nationalities of their characters, most of them have the corresponding heritage at least. Rufus Sewell and Dougray Scott are ethnically British, but look dark enough to pass for characters who lived during ArabianNightsDays.
* PlayingAgainstType:
** Rufus Sewell, normally typecast as slimy villains, gets to play the gentle and bumbling Ali Baba.
** James Callis also usually plays vain, narcissistic characters. Here he plays the heroic Prince Ahmed. But of course this was his first role, before his type had been formed yet.
** Likewise for Andy Serkis, who was not yet known for his SerkisFolk roles. Almost ironically, in a miniseries that features three such characters, he has a small role as Ali Baba's lazy younger brother Kasim.
* SeparatedAtBirthCasting: In an odd use of this trope, Mili Avital and Amira Casar look alike enough for the latter to be a believable AuthorAvatar in the former's story.
