Pleeeease don't have the only Black actor in Aladdin play a magical being whose arc revolves around enslavement http://deadline.com/2017/04/will-smith-genie-role-aladdin-disney-1202072355/ …
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I just remember telling fellow kids the "real" Agrabah was Baghdad and they changed it because of the war
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Oversimplified but basically true
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The thing is they did edit Beauty and the Beast to be more "historically accurate" and the edits sucked so idk
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The things that would actually be sensitive, like having Jasmine et al wear niqab and not make a big deal abt it, they won't ever do
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I'd settle for nominally good guys like Razoul and the palace guards not being Scary Brown Man stereotypes
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There's thoughts to be had on how Aladdin's class warfare tropes strengthened the story but were always thru an orientalist lens
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No one would've thought to portray poverty in Cinderella or Beauty and the Beast as being as crushing and desperate as in Aladdin
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(And note that Aladdin being a homeless thief as opposed to just poor is a Western addition to the source material)
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I remember Young Me entering into spirited debate with my parents over whether Aladdin's theft was morally justified
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