# 5: Sebastian from Little Mermaid in Aladdin Looking through his 'Royal Recipes' book, the Genie from Aladdin finds none other than Sebastian from Little Mermaid hanging on his finger as we hear 'Under The Sea' play for a couple of seconds.
The main characters in the first film. From top left to right: Magic Carpet and Genie. From bottom left to right: The Sultan, Jasmine, Aladdin, Abu, Iago, and Jafar.
The Peddler attempts to show the audience some of his fine merchandise, but they are not interested until he unveils the Genie's lamp. He then begins to tell the story of how the lamp "changed the course of a young man's life". He doesn't appear again for the remainder of that movie.
Genie then appears in the lower right-hand corner of the screen and pushes the film strip with the final scene up into the air, revealing the code "BG 1454." This is likely a reference to the frame number the shot was edited on.
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What are the Easter eggs in Aladdin?
In Aladdin Genie pulls out Sebastian the crab from The Little Mermaid In the Sultan's palace, Beast from Beauty & the Beast was seen as one of the figurines. The live action Aladdin is now available to watch at home, and it continues the tradition of being loaded with Easter Eggs.
According to a piece of conversation in The Return of Jafar, Jafar had picked up Iago in Agrabah's bazaar and reared him as his accomplice-in-crime. He also mentions in the animated series of having a criminal twin brother named Othello, reference to his name's supposed origins.
After receiving criticism last year, Disney is changing the way it addresses racism in its older animated films. On Oct. 15, Disney Plus introduced a new disclaimer that appears before older films like Dumbo (1941) and Aladdin (1992), warning viewers that the films include harmful stereotypes.
Here are a few examples of titles receiving an advisory, along with an explanation of some of the negative depictions in each title:
Aristocats. The cat is depicted as a racist caricature of East Asian peoples with exaggerated stereotypical traits such as slanted eyes and buck teeth. ...
While some claim Jasmine is Arab because the movie opens with a song called Arabian Nights, others believe that the architecture in Agrabah is clearly based on the Taj Mahal, making Jasmine Indian. It's a debate that has fueled speculation that in Hollywood, Indians and Arabs are interchangeable.
Jafar is a fictional character in Walt Disney Pictures' animated film Aladdin (1992). He is voiced by Jonathan Freeman, who also portrayed the character in the Broadway musical adaptation.
Jasmine, meanwhile, is turned into Jafar's slave. While lounging about in the palace, Jafar offers to make Jasmine his queen, which she hotly refuses. Unfazed, Jafar wishes to have Jasmine fall desperately in love with him, but the Genie tries to explain that his magic can't make people fall in love.
Background. Cassim is the father of Aladdin. Long before the events of the first film, he left his wife and young son in order to find a better life for the poverty-stricken family. While he was gone, Aladdin's mother died, leaving Aladdin as a presumed orphan.
Background. Cassim is the father of Aladdin. Long before the events of the first film, he left his wife and young son in order to find a better life for the poverty-stricken family.
Being a street urchin, Aladdin didn't have a surname (that is something that only the elites really had until relatively recently in human history). Not even Aladdin's dad had one, if we want to count the third movie.
Galland's tale isn't even set in the Middle East - it's actually set in a Chinese city, and Aladdin is not an orphan but a poor Chinese boy living with his mother, with the only other location mentioned in the story being Maghreb, North Africa, where the sorcerer is from.
Is the character of Aladdin based on a real person? Despite the fantastical elements of the story, scholars now think the main character may actually be based on a real person's real experiences. “Now a lot of new research being done about the man behind Aladdin,” says Razzaque.
When Emilia discloses the truth about the handkerchief, Othello tries, unsuccessfully, to kill Iago, and Iago kills Emilia. Othello, aware of his enormous error in regarding Desdemona as unfaithful, stabs himself, falling dead on the bed beside Emilia and Desdemona. Iago is taken away to be tortured and killed.
Sadly, the biggest issue with Return of Jafar is how rushed and unfocused it is, as it would rather focus more on Iago trying to make amends with Aladdin and the gang than on Jafar plotting his master plan to rule all of Agrabah.
