Aladdin (1992)

The story takes place in the mystical city of Agrabah, which is

based mainly on a medieval city in the Middle ast, the home
of the 1!!1 Arabian "ights, and there are some inconsistencies
in the time period# The s$ltan (who is never given a name) of
Agrabah is secretly being controlled by his grand vi%ier, &afar#
&afar, who is also a sorcerer, is wanting to be the s$ltan himself
and r$le Agrabah' to f$rther his goals, he has spent years
searching for the (ave of )onders, so he can harness the
magical mystical power of the genie of the lamp fo$nd within#
*owever, &afar discovers that only one person, a metaphorical
+,iamond in the -o$gh+, can enter the cave, or anyone
accompanied by that person#
The +,iamond in the -o$gh+ that &afar is looking for is a
street $rchin named Aladdin# Aladdin is a poor boy forced to
s$rvive the streets of Agrabah by stealing food from carts with
his pet monkey, Ab$# .eca$se of his theft, the citi%ens view him
as a p$blic menace, b$t he wants them to look closer into who
he is#
The s$ltan, meanwhile, is having problems with finding a
prince for his da$ghter, /rincess &asmine, to marry# .y
mesmeri%ing him with his magical snake staff, &afar convinces
the s$ltan that &afar needs the s$ltan0s ring to find &asmine a
h$sband# &afar act$ally needs the ring to discover the identity
of the +,iamond in the -o$gh#+
&asmine, who does not want to be married off, decides to r$n
away disg$ised as a peasant girl# 1n the anarchy of the streets,
she is saved by Aladdin, tho$gh she doesn0t learn his name#
Meanwhile, &afar discovers that Aladdin is the +,iamond in
the -o$gh+, and he sends palace g$ards to +capt$re the street
rat#+ )hen &asmine asks what happened to her savior, &afar
lies to &asmine by saying he had been e2ec$ted at dawn for
+kidnapping the princess#+
3ater, &afar, disg$ised as an old man, shows Aladdin a hidden
passageway o$t of the d$ngeon to free and take him to the
(ave of )onders# &afar tells Aladdin that if he brings back the
lamp, he will be rewarded# The (ave0s tiger4shaped head
allows Aladdin to enter, b$t he can only to$ch the lamp# 1nside
the (ave, Aladdin s$ccessf$lly finds the lamp, b$t Ab$, loses
control and attempts to take a 5ewel, ca$sing the cave to melt
aro$nd them# Aladdin and Ab$ manage to escape with the aid
of a flying carpet named (arpet# 6pon his escape, Aladdin
hands &afar the lamp, and &afar decides to give him his
+eternal reward+, preparing to attack with his dagger# Ab$
saves Aladdin by biting &afar0s arm, and Ab$ and Aladdin fall
back into the cave as it closes#
Aladdin, Ab$ and (arpet are all trapped inside the (ave of
)onders# &afar discovers, to his dismay,
that Ab$ got the lamp from him before they disappeared#
Aladdin discovers that the lamp is home to an eccentric, f$n4
loving genie (simply named +7enie+), who will grant him any
three wishes, e2cl$ding wishes to force a person to fall in love,
to kill someone, to bring someone back from the dead, or to
give his master e2tra wishes#
Aladdin tricks 7enie into getting them o$t of the cave, witho$t
technically wishing for him to do so# 8nce o$t of the cave,
Aladdin gets to know 7enie, and asks him what he wo$ld wish
for if he had the chance' 7enie says he0d wish for freedom, b$t
that can only be granted if his master is benevolent eno$gh to
free him with a wish# Aladdin promises to set 7enie free with
his last wish#
Aladdin, who has fallen in love with /rincess &asmine, is
disappointed that he can0t wish to make her fall in love with
him# *owever, the law states that only a prince can marry a
princess, so he wishes to become a prince#
Meanwhile, &afar, who is worried that the princess might have
him beheaded as p$nishment for s$pposedly having Aladdin
e2ec$ted, comes $p with the idea to convince the s$ltan to let
him become her h$sband with the help of his parrot, 1ago# *e
later tries to mesmeri%e the s$ltan into granting this re9$est
with his staff, b$t is interr$pted when the s$ltan is startled by
the noise from Aladdin0s approaching consort#
As +/rince Ali Ababwa+, Aladdin ret$rns to Agrabah and,
altho$gh offending &asmine by appearing as another typical
rich and self4important prince, event$ally wins &asmine0s love
by taking her on a romantic ride on the flying carpet#
Afterwards, the carpet takes them to (hina and &asmine tricks
Aladdin into admitting he0s the street $rchin she met in the
marketplace# Aladdin nat$rally wishes to impress her, so he
deceives her by telling her that he really is a prince and had
5$st pretended be a commoner in order to escape the
restrictions of palace life, m$ch like what &asmine did# Aladdin
brings &asmine back to palace and the two of them have their
first kiss together#
&afar, who is afraid that +/rince Abooboo+, as he incorrectly
calls him, may win /rincess &asmine over, r$ining his own evil
plans to marry her, orders Aladdin o$t of the way# *e orders
the g$ards to have Aladdin gagged with a white handkerchief
and tied $p in metal manacles (which is not a problem, as
-a%o$l, the chief g$ard, is plag$ed with a l$st for killing)# *e
tells him that he has +worn o$t his welcome,+ and a g$ard hits
Aladdin over the head, knocking him $nconscio$s# The g$ards
then drop Aladdin over a cliff into the sea# They have attached
to his ankles a large metal ball4and4chain to his ankles, so that
he sinks 9$ickly# *e hits the bottom, and his t$rban floats
down# The lamp t$mbles o$t and he begins to str$ggle towards
it (which is diffic$lt as the ball4and4chain attached to his ankles
p$lls him back), b$t passes o$t from the lack of o2ygen before
he can reach it# Aladdin, bo$nd and gagged, slides down
towards the lamp, and rolls over, ca$sing it to r$b against his
fingers# 7enie appears, and saves Aladdin, $sing $p his second
wish# Aladdin and 7enie ret$rn to the palace and Aladdin
confronts &afar over having him almost killed# &afar $ses his
staff to try to convince the s$ltan that Aladdin is lying, b$t
Aladdin, seeing what he is doing, grabs the staff and shatters it#
*e then shows the s$ltan that &afar has been controlling him
and plotting against him# The :$ltan calls for the g$ards to
arrest &afar, b$t &afar manages to escape, and, before doing so,
sees the lamp in Aladdin0s possession# The :$ltan is convinced
that his tro$bles are over as &asmine has finally chosen a
s$itor#
All seems well, b$t the f$t$re responsibilities of being begin to
distress Aladdin# *e begins to consider going back on his
promise to free 7enie so he can keep a wish in reserve# The
7enie angrily goes back inside the lamp, pointing o$t how
m$ch Aladdin has lied to get where he is# (hastened, Aladdin
decides to tell &asmine the whole tr$th of the matter#
6nfort$nately, Aladdin leaves the lamp in his chamber and
&afar sends 1ago to steal it# )ith the lamp in hand, &afar
becomes 7enie0s ne2t master, giving him three wishes# *is ;irst
wish was to become s$ltan# )hen the former :$ltan and
&asmine ref$se to bow to him, he wishes to be the most
powerf$l sorcerer in the world# )ith his new powers, &afar
forces them to bow to him#
&afar then $ses his magic to reveal that +/rince Ali+ is merely
the street $rchin Aladdin, and after &afar slaps Aladdin in the
face, he banishes him to +the ends of the earth+, in one of the
palace towers# +The ends of the earth+ appear to be
Antarctica, the mo$ntains of A$stria, the Arctic or possibly the
*imalayas# 3$ckily, Ab$ and (arpet were banished with him,
and Aladdin is able to fly back to Agrabah, with the intent of
reclaiming the lamp#
Meanwhile &afar, who is angry that &asmine does not wish to
become his 9$een, makes a wish for 7enie to ca$se her to fall
in love with him so he canmake her his 9$een# 7enie tries to
tell him that he cannot grant that wish, b$t &afar does not
listen, telling him that he has to do what he tells him to do#
&asmine, who sees Aladdin sneaking into the palace, pretends
that the wish has been granted, m$ch to 7enie0s s$rprise, in
order to distract &afar# :he even goes so far as to kiss him,
ca$sing Aladdin, Ab$, the 7enie and even 1ago to nearly vomit
in disg$st# At first it seems to be working' &afar, however, sees
Aladdin0s reflection in &asmine0s crown (made from her
shackles via a performance of sorcery) and confronts him
before he can reach the lamp#
&afar $ses magic to imprison or transfig$re all the good
characters other than Aladdin himself so they cannot steal the
lamp back# &afar event$ally t$rns himself into a giant cobra
and fights Aladdin# )hen Aladdin appears to be defeated,
&afar tells Aladdin he was a fool for thinking he co$ld defeat
+the most powerf$l being on earth#+ Aladdin reminds &afar he
is not the most powerf$l being on earth and that that honor
belongs to 7enie, since he gave &afar his power in the first
place#
&afar decides to $se his final wish to become the most powerf$l
genie in the world# &afar is at first convinced that his new
powers will allow him to r$le the $niverse, b$t he reali%es too
late that Aladdin tricked him, since as a genie, &afar is no
longer free# &afar is imprisoned in his own lamp along with
1ago# 7enie sends them to the (ave of )onders#
8f co$rse, since Aladdin is now no longer a prince he is not
eligible to marry &asmine# 7enie however insists that Aladdin
$se his final wish to make himself a prince again, b$t
nevertheless, he keeps his promise and wishes for 7enie0s
freedom# )hen all seems lost for Aladdin and &asmine, the
s$ltan decides that, between his loyalty to 7enie and his
co$rage in defeating &afar, Aladdin has proven his worth' the
s$ltan therefore changes the law so that +the princess shall
marry anyone she deems worthy+ meaning Aladdin and
&asmine can be married# 7enie flies away to see the world
while the happy co$ple begin their new life together#