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UNITED STATES · 2019
Aladdin
Synopsis
A kindhearted street urchin named Aladdin embarks on a magical adventure after finding a lamp that releases a wisecracking genie while a power-hungry Grand Vizier vies for the same lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true.
Cinematic DNA
Directors Ron Clements and John Musker studied the 1940 British-American fantasy epic The Thief of Bagdad, producer Alexander Korda's lavish, Technicolor adventure. Korda's use of scale—towering palaces, magical transformations, the sheer spectacle of production design—became the visual foundation for Disney's Agrabah. This wasn't cartoon world-building. This was early Hollywood fantasy translated into animation.
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