Aladdin (Disney Aladdin) (Little Golden Book)

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The protagonist of ‘The Tinder Box’, like Aladdin, is not a squeaky-clean pure-hearted hero either, but someone who attains material advantage over others which enables him to marry the princess and acquire vast wealth. Both protagonists also lose everything at one point, until they recover their magic gift and are able to use it to regain their possessions.

The opening sentences of the story, in both the Galland and the Burton versions, set it in "one of the cities of China". [12] On the other hand, there is practically nothing in the rest of the story that is inconsistent with a Middle Eastern setting. For instance, the ruler is referred to as " Sultan" rather than " Emperor", as in some retellings, and the people in the story are Muslims and their conversation is filled with Muslim platitudes. A Jewish merchant buys Aladdin's wares, but there is no mention of Buddhists, Daoists or Confucians. Chirag-e-Cheen ( Lamp of China) is a 1955 Indian Hindi-language film adaptation by G.P. Pawar and C. M. Trivedi. [35] The 1940 British movie The Thief of Bagdad borrows elements of the Aladdin story, although it also departs from the original story fairly freely: for instance the genie grants only three wishes and the minor character of the Emperor's vizier is renamed Jaffar and becomes the main villain, replacing the sorcerer from the original plot.Aladdin". www.its-behind-you.com. Archived from the original on 5 February 2008 . Retrieved 2008-01-22. Syfy released a made-for-TV horror adaptation called Aladdin and the Death Lamp on September 15, 2012. One of the main distinctions of the original story is Aladdin’s mother. In the early versions of the tale, she is alive and well and plays a significant role in aiding Aladdin to meet the beautiful princess. However, in later versions, he is orphaned and homeless and has to find his own way to win the princess. Theatrical films [ edit ] Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (1917) Animation: Europe and Asia [ edit ] Adam Robert, The History of Science Fiction, Palgrave Histories of Literature, ISBN 978-1-137-56959-2, 2016, p. 224

Aladdin features as one of five stories in the Hallmark Entertainment TV miniseries Arabian Nights in 2000, featuring Jason Scott Lee as Aladdin and John Leguizamo as both of the genies.Another character dropped in later versions is the second genie. Yep, that’s right, there are two genies in the original story. The first we all know and love is the Genie of the Lamp. The second is not as well-known and is the slave of a magic ring which Aladdin receives from the evil magician. In 1986, the program Faerie Tale Theatre based an episode on the story called " Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp", directed by Tim Burton and starring Robert Carradine as Aladdin and James Earl Jones as both the ring Genie and the lamp Genie.