Line #27 Trivia/Aladdin


1	!!Works with their own Trivia pages:
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3	* ''Trivia/Aladdin2019''
4	* ''Trivia/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar''
5	* ''Trivia/AladdinTheSeries''
6	* ''Trivia/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves''
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8	!!Trivia in general:
9	* DuellingMovies: ''Creator/GoldenFilms'' also had [[WesternAnimation/AladdinGoldenFilms an animated Aladdin movie]] in 1992.
10	* NonSingingVoice:
11	** Even though Creator/ScottWeinger (Aladdin) and Linda Larkin (Jasmine) are pretty decent singers, they did '''not''' sing for their respective characters, the latter joking that she wouldn't have even auditioned if she'd known Jasmine had a song. Brad Kane did Aladdin's singing while Lea Salonga did Jasmine's singing (Liz Callaway in the sequels).
12	** One that was oddly used for someone who ''did'' do his own singing in ''all other scenes''--''Robin Williams'' of all people. Even though Robin Williams also voices the Merchant (who [[WhatCouldHaveBeen was going to be revealed in the end to be the Genie]] before the scene was cut), he does ''NOT'' sing for him. Bruce Adler does the Merchant's singing.
13	* TheOtherDarrin:
14	** Throughout the first sequel and the TV series, Genie is voiced by Creator/DanCastellaneta, before switching back to Creator/RobinWilliams in ''The King of Thieves'', and back again to Castellaneta in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series, then is replaced by Creator/JimMeskimen in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsCoded'' and ''TabletopGame/SorcerersOfTheMagicKingdom''. Averted in the Japanese version where Koichi Yamadera's done the role since day one.
15	** Sultan: Is tied with Genie in this trope.
16	*** Douglas Seale: First movie.
17	*** Val Bettin: Sequels and TV Series.
18	*** Creator/JeffBennett: More Than a Peacock Princess
19	** Jasmine keeps the same speaking voice (Linda Larkin), but her singing is done by Lea Salonga in the first film and Liz Callaway in the sequels.
20	** In Japan, after voicing him for years, Creator/AkiraKamiya retired from the role of Iago in 2001 (about the same time he retired as [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Kenshiro]]). He's now voiced by Creator/ToruOkawa.
21	** In ''LEGO Disney Princesses: The Castle Quest'', Barrett Leddy takes over from the late Gilbert Gottfried as Iago.
22	** In Spain, Josema Yuste was replaced by professional voice actor Pep Antón Muñoz in the TV series and ''The King of Thieves'', probably because of Yuste's CelebrityVoiceActor status. Also, Rubén Trujillo (who has always dubbed the Genie himself) replaced his fellow Mexican voice actor Hectór Lee as Iago in the series but imitating Lee's accent. Creator/SergioZamora, who is much well known as a voice actor than for his singing, and for voicing [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Simba]] and WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}} for Disney, temporarily replaced Miguel Morant as Aladdin's singing voice in ''The Return of Jafar''. Juan Antonio Gálvez replaced Joaquín Muñoz, who retired in the early 2000's, as Jafar since ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' and would voice him again in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''. Jordi Boixaderas briefly voiced Jafar in one of Disney Channel's Quiz Show shorts. However the entire cast was darrined in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' with Madrid established voice actors (the films and series were originally recorded in Barcelona).
23	** In Poland, Aladdin had two different voice actors: Paweł Tucholski (who later voiced [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 adult Simba]] in the first TLK movie) and Jacek Sołtysiak. Tucholski voiced him in the first and third movie, while Sołtysiak did in the second (and was also a NonSingingVoice, unlike the previous VA; the singing was performed by Kacper Kuszewski). As for the TV series, Aladdin was dubbed by Tucholski when it first aired in 1995 and later by Sołtysiak when a redub was made. This is also the case with Jasmine: she was voiced by Katarzyna Skrzynecka in the first movie and then by Olga Bończyk in all her other appearances.
24	* ReferencedBy: Click [[ReferencedBy/{{Aladdin}} here]].
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26	!![[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} The original movie]]:
27	* AbilityOverAppearance: Jasmine was first envisioned as having a huskier, Creator/LaurenBacall-sounding voice. Linda Larkin's higher pitch however won them over.
28	* ActingForTwo: Creator/FrankWelker voices Abu, Rajah, and the Cave of Wonders.
29	* AwesomeDearBoy:
30	** In order to convince Robin Williams to voice the genie, animator Creator/EricGoldberg [[https://youtu.be/XMnaRjvbSVw created a reel of the Genie doing several minutes of Williams's stand-up routines, including parts from his album "Reality... What A Concept,"]] and screened it for him. Williams thought it was hilarious and accepted the role on the spot.
31	** When he heard that Disney was doing an adaptation of ''Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp,'' Creator/HowardAshman, a huge fan of the story and who had starred in a production of it at his homegrown black box theater, dropped everything he was doing for ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and wrote ''a pages-long outline and some template lyrics'' just so he could be involved (Ashman had already been diagnosed with HIV at this point and knew he was going to die soon, so time was of the essence).
32	* CelebrityVoiceActor:
33	** The TropeCodifier for animated films, with Creator/RobinWilliams getting star billing (and much marketing push was made on his name, all against his wishes).
34	** In the Japanese dub, the titular hero was originally voiced by movie actor Kenji Haga, who many {{Anime}} fans can recognize him as the voice of Ken Masters in ''Anime/StreetFighterIITheAnimatedMovie''. However, Haga was arrested and convicted of fraud and extortion later on, so he was later replaced with Creator/ShinichiroMiki, who already voiced him in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' games, the TV series and the direct-to-video sequels, as well as in the 2008 remaster of the film in Japan.
35	* CreatorBacklash: Creator/RobinWilliams has gone on record prior to his death stating that he hated how the marketers played up him being Genie, as he specifically requested his presence be downplayed, and hated how he contributed to A-List actors taking jobs away from professional voice actors.
36	* CutSong: Tons. By both songwriters. Many were reinstated in the stage adaptation.
37	* DiedDuringProduction: During the early stages of production, Howard Ashman died in 1991 of AIDS complications. Tim Rice wrote new songs with Music/AlanMenken after Ashman's death. Three of Ashman's songs, specifically, all three song sung by a character played by Robin Williams, remained in the final film and were credited to Ashman ("Arabian Nights", "Friend Like Me", and "Prince Ali"; the rest were written by Rice). ''Aladdin'' is the last project Ashman had any involvement in.
38	* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: [[https://www.eonline.com/news/706200/disney-myths-debunked-by-ron-clements-and-john-musker-directors-of-the-little-mermaid-aladdin-and-hercules The first treatment had the film set in Baghdad,]] but after the Gulf War broke out Roy Disney demanded this be changed, so co-director John Musker came up with the "jumbled anagram" of Agrabah.
39	* DoingItForTheArt: Robin Williams signed on to the film immediately because he loved cartoons and jumped at the chance to be part of an animated film from Disney, whom he called the "Rolls Royce of animation." He even tried to [[EnforcedTrope enforce]] this by taking a much lower salary than he could have and requiring in his contract that Disney limit the use of his performance in the marketing and not use it at all in merchandise (a rare case where it stuck was the official artbook, which features no pictures of Williams and only refers to him as "[[TheScottishTrope the voice of the Genie]]" and such). Disney, of course, had other ideas, and skirted around or blatantly ignored these requests, angering Williams and causing a rift between him and Disney for a few years.
40	* DuelingWorks:
41	** One of the most convoluted examples ever with Creator/RichardWilliams' ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'', which had been in production for over two decades when this film's production started and was not released until long after this movie was completed and became a big hit, by which point the movie had been taking out of Williams' control, shipped off to overseas studios for rushed completion and drastically re-cut to be an ''Aladdin'' knockoff. This has led to some dispute amongst animation fans as to whether Disney [[SerialNumbersFiledOff plagiarized]] Williams' film or if it only borrowed some ideas as homage. Williams had shown footage of ''Thief'' to the animators on ''Roger Rabbit'' in hopes of recruiting them, which obviously backfired. According to some of his collaborators, when asked about it, Williams just shrugged and said "It is what it is."
42	** With ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest''. Creator/RobinWilliams was recording for the role of Batty Koda at the same time ''Aladdin'' was in production, and Jeffrey Katzenberg was not happy with this. He begged Robin to turn the role of Batty down as he was already cast as Genie, but Robin refused. Katzenberg had already broken his promise to Robin about not using his voice to market the film, so he was already mad at him as it was, so trying to sabotage a movie Disney had nothing to do with made matters between them worse. Robin finally put his foot down and basically told Katzenberg, "It's my voice and I'll do what I want with it."
43	** While Virgin Games developed [[Videogame/AladdinVirginGames their tie-in game]], Capcom still had a deal for Disney games on Nintendo consoles and released [[Videogame/AladdinCapcom a whole different game for the]] [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] (years later ported to the Game Boy Advance), with both being by very prominent designers, namely David Perry (''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'') and Creator/ShinjiMikami (''Franchise/ResidentEvil''). The former is the best remembered one, hailed for translating the movie's atmosphere, the buttery-smooth animation which had help from Disney's animation team, and overall fun if [[NintendoHard oft-punishing]] gameplay. The latter is technically proficient and fun, but it doesn't push the console's limits or redefine the state of video game animation, so it's not on anyone's top SNES games list. (If anything, the 90s were over-saturated with [[PlatformGame platformers]]... and the Virgin version at least offered more than a GoombaStomp by having Aladdin wielding a sword, something even Mikami agreed was an advantage.) This is compounded by the Usefulnotes/SegaGenesis ''Aladdin'' being included along with Virgin's ''VideoGame/TheLionKing'' on the 2019 compilation ''Disney Classic Games'' (although the re-release ''Disney Classic Games Collection: Aladdin, The Lion King, and Videogame/TheJungleBook'' included the Capcom version for players to properly compare both). And unrelated to both, SIMS developed an ''Aladdin'' game for Sega's 8-bit consoles [[UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem Master System]] and [[Usefulnotes/GameGear Game Gear]], which combined endless running with ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia1''-style cinematic platforming, as well as graphics that looked pretty good for 8-bit.
44	* ExecutiveMeddling: In exchange for working for union scale, Creator/RobinWilliams had a few contractual agreements. The biggest one, outside of not using his voice for merchandise, was that they not make a big deal about him being in the movie (''Film/{{Toys}}'' was coming out the following month, and he didn't want this film to overshadow his friend Creator/BarryLevinson's pet project), which included the requirement that they not use his lines in commercials and the poster not have the Genie take up more than 25% of merchandise. Studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg either ignored the stipulations (talking Genie dolls were made) or used LoopholeAbuse (as seen on the main image, Genie doesn't [[ExactWords technically]] exceed the maximum allowed amount of space, but he's still by far the most obvious character). Robin Williams was livid and vowed never to voice the character again. CEO Michael Eisner went as far as to purchase ''an original [[Creator/PabloPicasso Picasso]]'' for Williams as an apology, but Williams still refused. After Katzenberg resigned and was succeeded by former Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox production chief Joe Roth in 1994, Williams and the studio patched things up and he returned for ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'' (as well as other Disney projects such as ''Flubber'').
45	* FakeBrit: Cleveland-born Jonathan Freeman as Jafar, who, like everyone else in the movie, is technically supposed to be Arab or Persian, but was portrayed a [[EvilBrit villainous British accent]] anyway. Amusingly, Douglas Seale, who voiced the Sultan, actually ''was'' British.
46	* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: Parts of the script would just say "Robin says something like this:" to allow Creator/RobinWilliams to improvise. This led to over ten hours of Williams riffing as Genie, much of which couldn't make it into the finished film. Some of it ended up on Blu-ray.
47	* KidsMealToy:
48	** At [=McDonald=]'s, it had special edition character toys situated on flying carpets.
49	** At Burger King, there were action figures of Aladdin, Jasmine, Abu, Genie, and Jafar.
50	* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: Disney sold the 2004 2-Disc Platinum Edition DVD both by itself, and as part of a Collector's DVD Gift Set. Both contain such extras as deleted scenes, two audio commentaries, and the almost-two-hour documentary ''A Diamond in the Rough: The Making of Aladdin''. The Gift Set also includes a companion book, sketches autographed by the animators, and a reproduction of a film frame.
51	* TheOtherMarty: Aladdin himself: Aladdin was originally drawn as a scrawny 12-year-old. (Or thereabouts.) It was only ''after'' animation had begun that they realized they needed a more buff look for their hero. However, it was too late to re-do the animation that had been done already, and the 'scrawny' Aladdin can be seen in the "Friend Like Me" sequence[[note]]Pay attention to Aladdin during the lines "''You gots power in your corner now''" and "''you ain't never had a friend like me''" just before "''yes, sir, we pride ourselves on service''", where it's particularly obvious[[/note]]. In fact, Aladdin's original design was based on Michael J. Fox, which would make him an Other Marty for the ''[[Film/BackToTheFuture1 original]]'' Other Marty.
52	* PromotedFanboy: Will Finn is the self-proclaimed world's biggest Creator/GilbertGottfried fan and was ecstatic to have him working on the film, which meant he got to meet his hero. He and Gottfried remained close friends after the film finished.
53	* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Jeffrey Katzenberg's reckless actions in promoting ''Aladdin'' was one of a few factors that led to his resignation from Disney in 1994, with another factor being the "Black Friday" cut of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1''.
54	* RoleReprise: Creator/JonathanFreeman reprised his role as Jafar for the Broadway play.
55	* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Disney began arranging plans for a live-action Genie prequel as an origin story which would take place before the LiveActionAdaptation of the film, but it got canceled thanks to a clause in Robin Williams' will. His estate informed the company the clause bars any further usage of voice recordings and likenesses that had not been already made available to the public for 25 years after his death, meaning Disney cannot move forward with using Williams' likeness until August 11, 2039. Plus having Creator/WillSmith portraying the Genie in the 2019 live-action adaptation makes it useless to have a prequel with him being portrayed by Williams, anyway. Disney also had plans to make a third sequel with unused Robin Williams recordings, but it ended up being scrapped for the same reason.
56	* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The IMAX re-release of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' had a preview for a large-format edition of ''Aladdin'' attached to its run. Unfortunately, the low grosses of IMAX DAC movies[[note]]before ''TLK'', Disney released ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'', the ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' Special Extended Edition, and ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000'' in this format[[/note]] prompted Disney to cancel ''Aladdin'''s engagement (the remastered animation was eventually used for the DVD release). Similar circumstances later turned it into the only one of the Renaissance's four most famous movies without a 3D conversion; while Disney never actually announced one in the works, the failures of those of ''Beauty and the Beast'' and some TurnOfTheMillennium Creator/{{Pixar}} movies[[note]]They failed so badly, that the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Little Mermaid]]'' conversion, which Disney ''did'' announce, went straight to Blu-ray 3D.[[/note]] guaranteed that ''Aladdin'' wouldn't get one.
57	* SoMyKidsCanWatch: At first, Creator/RobinWilliams refused to voice the Genie, since it was a Disney movie, and he did not want the studio profiting by selling merchandise based on the movie. He accepted the role with certain conditions:
58	-->I'm doing it basically because I want to be part of this animation tradition. I want something for my children. One deal is, I just don't want to sell anything—as in Burger King, as in toys, as in stuff.
59	* ThrowItIn:
60	** As stated in ExactWords, the 'Applause' sign on the Genie's back after "Friend Like Me". This came up due to Jeff Katzenberg, then creative head at Disney, wanting the audience to clap after every musical number. So the animators put the sign in, and just for good measure, made the Carpet clap (The Sultan claps at the end of "Prince Ali" as well).
61	** Many scenes are Robin Williams ad-libbing, particularly the opening one with the Peddler. Gilbert Gottfried also did it at times, a notable example being the line "gotta pack up the guns, the weapons, the blades, and how 'bout this picture, I don't know, I think I'm making a weird face in it." line shortly after Ali Ababwa/Aladdin unveiled Jafar and Iago's treacherous ambitions to the Sultan.
62	*** There was so much ad-libbing, ''Aladdin'' was disqualified from any screenplay Oscars.
63	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/{{Aladdin}} See here]]
64	* WordOfSaintPaul: According to Jonathan Freeman, Jafar's obsession with power came from being a neglected ChildProdigy forced to spend his youth in a boarding school and then tend to a none-too-bright sultan.
65	* WriteWhoYouKnow: Jasmine is heavily based on Mark Henn's (the leading animator) younger sister.
66	* WriterConflictsWithCanon: [[https://ew.com/article/2015/10/17/aladdin-fan-theory-genie/ In 2015]], the film's co-directors said the revelation that Peddler was Genie, despite being cut from the final version, was still canon. They were either ignoring or just unaware of the end of ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'', where the two are shown to be separate people, although Genie splitting himself into multiple people at once has always been an established power of his.
67	* {{Vaporware}}: Disney announced a ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' style game set for release on October 17, 1997 called "Aladdin: The Fate of Agrabah" but for some reason was never released despite having a trailer appearing on one of their demo samplers (with a demo of ''[[VideoGame/{{Hercules}} Hercules - The Action Game]]'' and ''VideoGame/NightmareNed'') as well as box art appearing on the back of the instruction booklet for Nightmare Ned.

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