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Aladdin. The name conjures up images of a quick thief in the streets, an Arabian city from centuries ago, an evil vizier, and a large terrifying blue genie. Some things just don't translate well from the cartoon version to a live film with actual people on the silver screen. It turns out that the genie from Aladdin is one of them. With comments on social media describing 'Will Smith as Genie is straight nightmare fuel' (sic) director Guy Ritchie may have to work some magic of his own to get this whole new world off the ground and into cinemas.
I would like to know if he is cosplaying as a smurf or something from Avatar.
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Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie
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It's raisins that make Post Raisin Bran so raisiny ...
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @10:48PM
I am not certain, but Aladdin was not in the original Arabian Nights. It was added later by some French compiler.
And you are wrong about the Arabs and the Chinese.
Arabs knew of the Chinese in real life - it was the allied Arab-Turk force that put a stop to Tang Chinese incursion into Central Asia. Europeans saw China as some far-away fantasy land, but the Arabs had no such illusion because they faced them in real life in the battlefield.