History Fridge / Aladdin2019

* Also applies to the 1992 movie, but anyone familiar with Mansa Musa of Mali might have some concerns about how celebratory the people of Agrabah are being after Ali's generosity, mentioned in fridge heartwarming above. The Mansa's gifts were so generous as to collapse the local economy, most particularly the value of gold, of Egypt for over (or almost) a decade. Those people might be happy to have all that gold right now, but that's not going to last long. (Granted, the Mansa's visit lasted several days, but given the apparent size of Agrabah, it probably wouldn't take as much to crash their economy.)

** That HumanityEnsues for the Genie after he's freed from the lamp also means the same for Jafar, in a sense. He wished to become a genie so that he would never be inferior to another being, but all that power comes at the price of his freedom and can only be used toward the whims of another person. However, if he seeks to re-attain his freedom, then he loses all that power and becomes an ordinary human again. There is no means by which he becomes all-powerful without any drawbacks; just as Aladdin tried to warn him of, he will ''always'' be second.

* Jasmine becoming the Sultan at the end is more than just a case of society changing it's essential to the parallel between Aladdin and Jafar. Jafar's FatalFlaw is that he cannot stand to be the second strongest person in the room, and Aladdin gets uncomfortably close to developing that same obsession with power. By ending the movie with Jasmine as the Sultan and Aladdin as her consort, Aladdin is put into the position of always being at best the second most powerful person in Agrabah, and the fact that he's just fine with that shows how different he is from Jafar in the end. If Aladdin had ended the movie as the HeirInLaw as he did in the original, it would have been a severe BrokenAesop.

* While the movie follows the western idea of genies rather than the original concepts of ''jinn'', the movie still manages to show ''exactly'' what the danger of messing with a ''jinni'' is and why one should act with the utmost respect even to a bound one:

** Jafar treats Genie as a slave... And [[JackassGenie Genie goes out of his way to screw him over]]: when Jafar wishes to be the Sultan Genie effectively enacts a coup without forcing anyone's loyalty, something that allows Jasmine to enact a counter coup; when Jafar wishes to become a legitimate sorceror Genie gives him the power and ''no idea how to use them'', so Jafar's actual abilities are restricted by his own bias; and of course, when Jafar wishes to be the most powerful being in the universe Genie turns him into an even stronger genie, thus bound to a lamp. The latter would work even ''better'' in Arabian folklore, as ''jinn'' aren't necessarily bound to lamps or other objects, so turning Jafar into a bound ''jinni'' would be the ultimate way to screw him over.

* Jasmine becoming the Sultan at the end is more than just a case of SocietyMarchesOn, it's essential to the parallel between Aladdin and Jafar. Jafar's FatalFlaw is that he cannot stand to be the second strongest person in the room, and Aladdin gets uncomfortably close to developing that same obsession with power. By ending the movie with Jasmine as the Sultan and Aladdin as her consort, Aladdin is put into the position of always being at best the second most powerful person in Agrabah, and the fact that he's just fine with that shows how different he is from Jafar in the end. If Aladdin had ended the movie as the HeirInLaw as he did in the original, it would have been a severe BrokenAesop.

** Another example from the same song: Instead of: "brush off your Sunday Salaam" they changed it to "Brush off your Friday Salaam". Of course it's a Friday Salaam. Muslim day of worship is one Fridays.

* It has been noted that this version of Aladdin is much more bound and determined to pursue the deception of "Prince Ali" than the original animated version, going to much greater lengths to pull off a haughty, and in his own mind dignified and superior air. This is because here, Jafar, speaking with him well before Aladdin obtains the lamp and assumes the "Ali" persona, poisons his mind with how the two of them come from similar backgrounds and are ultimately NotSoDifferent, driving home the belief that people who come from nothing will always be perceived as nothing, unless they perpetually pretend to be someone else.

* Genie’s human form is that of a mariner. This fits with this genie having a preference for blue (the color of the sea and the sky).

** This also extends to Jafar. In the animated sequel where he returns to Agrabah in service to his own master, he has to try to have the heroes killed through indirect means since he isn't able to just off them. Apparently, if he ever comes back in the live-action version, he will have no such limitations.
*** And if they decided to also adapt the Return of Jafar into live action, there is no help from the good Genie who became human unlike his animated counterpart who still got some degree of powers to help combat Jafar Genie.