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6[[caption-width-right:310:''[[TagLine Imagine if you had three wishes, three hopes, three dreams, and they could all come true.]]'']]
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8->''♫ Oh, I come from a land\
9From a far away place,\
10Where the caravan camels roam.\
11Where it's flat and immense\
12And the heat is intense.\
13It's barbaric, but hey it's home.\
14When the wind's from the east,\
15And the sun's from the west,\
16And the sand in the glass is right,\
17Come on down, stop on by, hop a carpet and fly\
18To another Arabian Night! ♫''
19-->-- "Arabian Nights" (revised, as of 1993)
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21''Aladdin'' is the 31st entry into the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon. Released on November 25, 1992, the film is a loose adaptation of the ''[[Literature/ArabianNights Thousand and One Nights]]'' tale of "[[Literature/{{Aladdin}} Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp]]".
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23Taking place in the fictional [[ArabianNightsDays Arabian city]] of [[{{Qurac}} Agrabah]], the [[TheHero title character]], a StreetUrchin, meets and falls in love with the RebelliousPrincess Jasmine--until he's arrested, by orders of the [[EvilChancellor evil vizier]] Jafar, to acquire a magic lamp which is hidden in a cave only Aladdin can enter. Although Jafar has nothing but the worst intentions, Aladdin uses his magical allies--a sentient Magic Carpet and a huge blue Creator/RobinWilliams--to court the princess, expose Jafar, and save the day.
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25The film received a series of continuations in the form of a [[Franchise/{{Aladdin}} franchise]], entailing [[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar two]] DirectToVideo [[WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves sequels]] and a [[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries TV series]] in the mid-'90s; production-wise, it's more accurate to view the two sequels as the pilot and finale (respectively) to the TV series than as forming a conventional trilogy of films with this one. Needless to say, this film's biggest contribution was to [[TropeCodifier permanently establish]] in Western Animation [[CelebrityVoiceActor the value of star power in casting voice actors]], thanks to Williams’ performance as the Genie.
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27''Aladdin'' was inspired very heavily by both the silent film ''Film/TheThiefOfBagdad1924'' (arguably bearing a greater resemblance to the aforementioned film's narrative than the original "Aladdin" tale, save for the presence of a genie; similarly, Aladdin's design was initially inspired by Creator/DouglasFairbanks' likeness) and the unfinished animated film ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'', from which ''Aladdin'' cribbed several noticeable aesthetic and narrative elements. Designer Andreas Deja, in particular, had previously worked under ''Thief'' creator Creator/RichardWilliams. The release of ''Aladdin'' contributed to Williams losing control of ''Cobbler'', which was retooled to be similar to ''Aladdin'' and released without his final input. ''Cobbler'' subsequently [[BoxOfficeBomb bombed]].
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29A [[Theatre/{{Aladdin}} theatrical adaptation]] was performed in 2011 and a LiveActionAdaptation was released in [[Film/Aladdin2019 2019]], with Creator/GuyRitchie as the director and Creator/WillSmith as the Genie.
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31!!You ain't never had tropes like these:
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33[[index]]
34* Aladdin/TropesAToD
35* Aladdin/TropesEToL
36* Aladdin/TropesMToR
37* Aladdin/TropesSToZ
38[[/index]]
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40----
41->''"[[TheStinger Made you look]]!"''

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