I've decided to go see Aladdin today because I heard that the movie was cute.
Before I do that, however, I thought I get all my thoughts down about what I think might happen... and other nit-picky junk like that. Just so you know that if I do spoil anything for myself and/or for you, it was not intentional. Thus, if you were feeling how I was a long time ago about Avenger's Endgame and didn't want to hear any spoilers, now would be a good time to run.
Unless you were also like me and realize that it didn't matter? ๐
Might as well move on, right?
Okay, so my biggest concern right from the get-go is that Aladdin is going to follow the steps of what happened in Beauty & the Beast because, and let's not kid ourselves, Beauty & the Beast didn't change much of the plot-line but it still made a lot of money.
From what I've seen from various Google searches, Aladdin is following right behind it's predecessor, doing very well in the box offices, in which I will be giving my contribution this evening via cinemas.
In speaking of following the same plot, I'm starting to have my doubts about it following word for word, seeing Aladdin and Jafar interact at all during the trailers has sparked my interest, so that concern might have just been a figurement of my imagination. After all, there's a new girl in the pictures, and I can't help but wonder if she's important to the plot somehow, like if she's working with Jafar behind Jasmine's back like LeFou worked for Gaston.
Heck, given the potential plot changes (a breath of fresh air, I might add), I've wondered from time to time if Iago was going to die. Again, all of this is just speculation.
But what I'm also hoping to be a figurement of my imagination is who they chose to be Aladdin and Jasmine. Yes, I confess to some level of disappointment, but this is the first time I've seen or heard about these actors, so I don't want to jump into the water without first checking its temp.
However, despite all this concern, there are two things I do have a good feeling about in addition to potential changes to the plot-line.
The first is Will Smith - at first, I was skeptical of him playing the Genie (heck, I thought Gabriel Iglesias or Jack Black would have been better candidates), but after legitimately laughing during the trailer, I felt like I was too hard on someone who was given a role that was famous on the account of another, being Robin Williams.
Before the trailers were even out, I decided that as long as Will Smith tried being himself and not try to imitate Robin Williams, he would be fine, and that's the feeling I got when I saw the trailers. I will keep to that opinion as I go and see this movie.
The second thing is the mild-level nostalgia that I feel when I heard Jasmine and Aladdin sing "A Whole New World". Their voices are different, I won't hide that fact, but I confess that not only do I get chills every time I hear them sing, but there is enough familiarity there for me when I grew up with the cartoon version that made it so popular.
However, despite all the good and bad feelings in regards to all the live action movies that are being made, I can't help but wonder if they are just overly glamorized because of the fact it's Disney. Like, if you took that label off, how would have that affected sales?
Then again, from what I understand, Dumbo (2019) didn't do very well in that department, but then again, neither did Dumbo (1941) and comparing the cartoon counterparts to each other (Dumbo to Aladdin), Aladdin did much better.
I suppose that if we looked at the numbers, then, and assumed the same sales based on which movie was made live action, then that would say a lot about which ones would actually get a live-action counterpart, which (imagination-wise) is disappointing because I was hoping that there might be some classics at least getting a movie comeback, such as Gargoyles or something that was less popular during its time...
Oh well... one can only dream...
And I'm going to go see a movie, which (looking back) I think I have a good feeling about as a whole, since I had mostly positive things to say about it.
Only time will tell if those feelings were right.
I'll let you know what I think about it later.
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