Aladdin and Jasmine’s original meet-cute was more CREEPY than cute… #disney #disneyexplained

[DragicaOfficial]

"stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about" classic parent

[ClobberingSocks]

“oh my beautiful daughter whats bothering you so much?”
“nothing dad i’m fine”
“bitch dont make me chop off your head”

[yaboidre]

All Disney stories are secretly horror stories.

[wj]

The original "Little Mermaid" is also a brutal story.

[bella]

Idk if you have already but the main story of Scheherazade minus all the stories she told. She was the narrator in 1001 nights I believe. The king she was married to would marry, sleep with and kill a wife each night until he met her, She would tell the king most of one story every night so he would want to hear the ending the next night, She did for 1001 nights until she had no more stories to tell, but the king had fallen in love with her over those nights and resolved to let her live.

[juliusnovachrono]

Having read the original story, the character of Aladdin really represents how change can occur, even if it is small and slow with the genie and uncle representing one's carnal desires and how we can have our desires whilst foregoing any sense of morals or empathy, rendering the wishes eventually meaningless. The Slave of the Ring and the Genie of the Lamp also shows how even the world of the jinns have a hierarchy and that power and rank often can and will mean everything.

The funniest fact is how Aladdin's dad died because, in the original story, he is described as "a careless, idle boy who would do nothing but play all day long in the streets with little idle boys like himself. This so grieved the father that he died", showing that Aladdin was such a loser that he killed his own father because of this.

[cosmicfails]

Genie: now I can't kill anyone
Aladdin: aight. dump his ass in the night time desert.
genie: *(sweating)*

[Mexican_cat-oojw]

Now I know why genies say they can’t kill anyone make anyone fall in love with you and can’t bring people back from the dead

[aikikaname]

No wonder his father ‘died of disappointment’ in the original

[GreenPhoenix]

Aladdin and Badroulbador a match made in sulfuric acid.

[jaydavis]

“What’s wrong? Head weighing you down? I can fix that.”

[YeshuaIsTheTruth]

That's why Aladin tells her "Don't you dare close your eyes" in the Disney version.

[fleetcenturion]

The last panel is also accurate. In the original _Arabian Nights, _ Aladin is Chinese.

[MountainPearls]

My dad read the original as a kid. Apparently his face was a picture when he learned they Disney had made it into a movie. He made Mom let him watch it before she showed it to us as kids.

[jagged]

"Aladdin was one creepy motherfucker"
-JonSolo

[EntertainmentSupplyCo]

Completely reasonable response to your daughter suffering from PTSD

[sewsinthedark]

If Disney stayed true to any of the original stories we would all be disturbed.

[salimyasini]

For those who don't know the Sultan promised to marry Aladdin to his daughter after Aladdin discovered the lamp in the cave and it gave him wealth. The Sultan forgot his promise which made Aladdin mad and he used the lamp to fix the other would be bride groom

[phantom]

Moral of the story?: Aladdin's secretly a pervert

[atheistlinguist]

If you think about it, Disney arguably preserved more elements of the original plot than you might think, aside from the bathhouse peeping bit. The creepy stuff that wasn't cut just got transferred onto Jafar. He hypnotizes the Sultan into betrothing Jasmine to him, and later in the movie, he traps Aladdin in a turret of the palace and sends it rocketing off to a remote and snowy location. So at some point in the movie, Jasmine was engaged to Jafar, and in an interesting role reversal, he was the one who sent his rival out into the cold. It's all a bit roundabout, but the parallels are still there.