History Headscratchers / Aladdin2019

** It's also possible that Jasmine was willing to give Aladdin ''some'' benefit of the doubt about the bracelet. After all, he had it with him when they split up right before "One Jump Ahead"; if he really wanted to steal it, logic dictates he would've run off with it right then and left her to get caught by the guards. Rather than showing her the way to his hideaway, getting to know her, and then escorting her home before admitting that he doesn't have it with him.

** They know that while Jafar is after the lamp, they don't know that he has treasonous intentions for it. As far as they knew at the time, Jafar was gonna give it to the sultan and say something like "Your highness, this is a magic lamp that houses an all-powerful genie. He will grant three wishes to whomever releases him from the lamp. I'm sure you will find great use for him to aid our people and kingdom."

** Jafar in the cartoon knew of secret passages to get in as the old man and Aladdin out without notice. This version could easily know how to escape from the prison without notice and all he would need is a few hours to find Aladdin and take the lamp at an opportune moment.
** He also has the background of a thief who served prison time before, albeit in Shirabad, in this version.

** Actually, the Genie ''didn't'' say 10,000 years. He alludes at various points to having been alive for 10,000 years, but when Aladdin asks, he says his most recent confinement inside the lamp lasted only ''1'',000 years.
** Not true - there are archaeological records of civilizations from over 20,000 years ago. And language is far older than that.

** In the original, it's a bit more clear. The Genie was TRICKED by Aladdin into getting him out of a VERY dangerous situation...so he made a deal for no more freebies.

*** He was not dead. Many people who were brought back from the brink of death with modern medical science would have been declared dead by medical knowledge centuries or even decades before. Furthermore Aladdin started breathing again on his own once he had air to breathe again; Genie was begging him to start breathing again and then Aladdin hacked up lungwater onto a dually disgusted and relieved Genie. As for Genie's action on Carpet: since the whole nature of Aladdin's Second Wish to "save you from certain death" was already in a gray area in invocation, and Genie already had been on an extended job in full faith of Al's first wish, he considered surreptitiously blinking Carpet to Aladdin's location to be in the spirit of Al's second wish. Al's second wish was to be "saved from certain death"; death would have been certain and cold where he was sent.

** Genie actually used the wiggle room from the second wish in order to send Carpet to save Aladdin. The specific wording of the wish was "to be saved from certain doom." Not from any one specific case of certain doom, just certain doom. Being banished to one of the poles of the earth would definitely spell certain doom.

** Because he knew of Aladdin's want to woo Princess Jasmine, and then suddenly this "Prince Ali Ababwa" shows up with the hype turned up to eleven right after that whole incident at the Cave of Wonders. Jasmine figured it out because of prior knowledge too.

** Genie explains that his glamour magic is just "an Illusion" and will only allow people to see what they want to see. Genie's rules of not being able to make anyone fall in love with you can be extended to mean "I cannot change someone's free will", and that includes forcing someone to believe you are someone or something you're not. Genies transformation doesn't change what you actually look like, instead only giving you enough external accessories to pass when it comes to cursory inspection/being glanced at for a second or two by people that don't know who you are. Jafar can break this immediately because he is an accomplished sorcerer but most importantly knows what Aladdin looks like. Jasmine took longer, but still got through because the Magic is paper thin, and all it took was a closer look at his face from up close and some trapped questions for her to recognise him. Someone that doesn't know Aladdin at all would likely be totally unable to break the "Prince Ali" disguise because "Prince Ali" is all they have ever known.

** The Genie says that the disguise magic is purely visual -- "people see what they're told to see." (Or some such.) Presumably, the way it worked was that you wouldn't recognize Aladdin just by looking at him. But Jasmine saw through it because Ali said something Aladdin once said, while we don't have proof that Jafar truly saw through the disguise at all; instead he used context clues (the carpet, the lack of Ababwa on his maps, and Ali surviving the assassination attempt) to piece his identity together, and didn't see Aladdin as anything but a prince before then.

[[folder:Did they say 10,000 years?l]]

* If there's a real-life analogy, I don't know of any ruling dynasty in that part of the world that had a monopoly for a whole millenia. Perhaps, Constantinople? Besides, if it was an Islamic-based society. The Abbasid Caliphate which this is based off lasted 750-1258
** It’s a movie set in a fictional place it doesn’t have to gel with real history.

* In this version, the rule for the Cave of Wonders has been changed from "touch nothing but the lamp", to "take nothing but the lamp". This might be because it's impossible to get to the lamp without treading through all the coins and jewels (Which Aladdin and Abu DO in fact), but it does raise a few extra questions. The cave collapses after Abu picks up a gem. Picking something up doesn't mean you're actually "taking" it. Have you ever picked up a DVD or toy at a retail store only to look at it and put it back afterwards? If Abu intended to do the same (Kleptomaniac monkey, so not likely), would the cave have still collapsed? If so, the more strict "touch nothing but the lamp" rule from the animated version seems more legit.

*** Another principle however is that 20 years ago, I visited Yosemite National Park California. We saw these huge Sequoia pine cones . We were allowed to pick up and hold these pine cones as long as we put them back afterwards. Other than that being a more difficult rule to explain, I don't see why the cave wouldn't allow THAT.

** The sultan does admit that they're "running out of kingdoms," so it's easy to infer that Anders was far from his first choice. And I think people tend to give Anders himself a bit too much flak -- the guy is definitely slow on the uptake, but he's not completely brainless or incompetent, or that bad of a person. As Dalia says, you could find a great number of princes worse than him to marry Jasmine off to.

** Having just rewatched the movie, when Genie is giving his explanation spiel in the beginning, he outright says that he, as a genie, is the most powerful being in the universe. Therefore, if someone asks to be "the most powerful in the universe," they'd have to be a genie.

*** Oh...I see. Thanks for pointing that out. I swear, it was a detail that I seemed to remember subconsciously, but the way his imprisonment factored into his motivation didn't occur to me until you explained it.

** Genie DID send Jafars lamp back to the Cave of Wonders, where only a Diamond in the Rough could get it. Unfortunately, Iago burrowed out of the cave in the sequel. Maybe Iago's status as neither genie nor diamond in the rough made the cave reject Jafars lamp somehow, so the lamp just got stuck in the sand.

** Thanks to all of Genie's hard work, at the end Alladin marries Jasmine and becomes her prince-consort. Sounds like a wish granted if you ask me!

** To give a more cynical answer, ViewersAreMorons may have been in effect during writing.

** To give a more cynical answer, [[ViewersAreMorons]] may have been in effect during writing.