37 of the biggest differences betwixt the alive-activeness 'Aladdin' and the animated movie

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Jasmine doesn't wear a bracelet of her mother'south in the blithe film.
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  • Warning: In that location are spoilers ahead for Disney's live-action "Aladdin."
  • "Aladdin" makes a lot of changes from the 1992 movie.
  • Many of the big changes involve Jafar, a new female grapheme, and a new song for Princess Jasmine.
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Disney's live-activity "Aladdin" is now in theaters and while the principal story is still in tact, the remake takes a lot of liberties from the original animated classic.

Keep reading to see the biggest changes the live-action movie makes from Disney's original blithe classic.

i. The "Arabian Nights" vocal at the flick's kickoff is completely revamped and expanded.

This version of "Arabian Nights" is much more than family friendly from its original incarnation.
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In the original movie, "Aladdin" opens on the song "Arabian Nights" with a peddler riding across the desert on a camel on his way to Agrabah. The story of Aladdin (played by Mena Massoud) and Jasmine (Naomi Scott) is then told to us by the unnamed peddler.

The remake scraps this entirely. The original opening of "Aladdin" contained the lyric "where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face," a line which was changed when the motion picture was released on video to the friendlier "where it'south flat and immense and the heat is intense."

In the 2019 film, a future version of the Genie recalls the story of Aladdin and Jasmine years later to his two children. Information technology'south 1 of the best changes the live-action film makes to the story in terms of story. The peddler was merely telling viewers about a legend. Disney also changes the lyrics to "Arabian Nights" once again. Information technology's tough to compete with the original lyrics, though. Yous can heed to the new version of "Arabian Nights" here.

2. Aladdin doesn't steal whatever staff of life at the motion-picture show's start.

Instead of stealing food to live, Aladdin steals other items to pawn off for food. He seems to have a better human relationship in this motion picture with the people who run the food carts.
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Instead, he trades stolen goods for food and receives a bag of dates. When he spots a hungry family, Aladdin gives the pocketbook of food to them. In the blithe movie, Aladdin hands off his breadstuff after a mad dash from guards during his opening song "Ane Jump."

3. Aladdin has shoes!

Have you ever tried walking on hot sand barefoot? It'south hot!
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It never made sense that a barefoot Aladdin was running around Agrabah. His anxiety should take been cut upwards and injured. It fabricated less sense to see a barefoot Aladdin in the wintry scene about the film'due south cease. He could take lost some toes! So it made much more sense to see Aladdin given some fresh kicks in the new film.

four. Jasmine is in the Agrabah market from the moment the movie begins and meets Aladdin right away.

Different the animated motion-picture show, Jasmine wears a pretty white shawl while trying to conceal her identity. In the original movie, she wears the equivalent of a murphy sack over her clothes.
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In the original movie, Jasmine sneaks out of the palace afterward to head into the market to defy her father.

v. Jasmine steals and gives breadstuff, not an apple tree to a young child.

Information technology leads the duo to run through the city of Agrabah.
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Perhaps this is a nod to the breadstuff Aladdin steals and gives away to a child in the animated version.

6. Aladdin tells Jasmine to trust her at a different point of the motion-picture show.

This happens nether dissimilar circumstances in the blithe motion-picture show.
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Subsequently Jasmine gives a child a piece of bread with no way to pay for it, the bread owner goes after her. Aladdin swoops in at just the right moment and asks Jasmine if she trusts him to go her out of a pickle.

In that location are two changes here. The first is that Aladdin originally pretends to exist Jasmine's concerned brother searching for his mentally sick sister. That's completely scrapped hither.

The other change is the new timing of the "Practise y'all trust me?" line. In the blithe picture, Aladdin and Jasmine are running away from guards. When they reach a seemingly dead end, Aladdin asks Jasmine if she trusts him and the 2 dive off of a building together.

seven. Jasmine is with Aladdin as he runs through the Agrabah market for the singing of "Ane Jump."

Jasmine appears in the remake much earlier.
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Aladdin still sings it, but Jasmine was never running from palace guards with Aladdin this early on in the moving-picture show.

8. Jasmine'south nervous to use a stick to jump from edifice to building in the remake.

Aladdin doesn't take to convince Jasmine to accept a leap of faith in the original.
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Her animated counterpart was fearless and did it without whatsoever coaxing from Aladdin, immediately impressing both him and his monkey Abu.

nine. Jasmine has a handmaid named Dalia.

Nasim Pedrad plays Dalia.
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This is a completely new grapheme who doesn't exist in the animated motion-picture show at all. Different the animated moving-picture show, the Genie takes a romantic involvement in Dalia.

10. Jasmine lies to Aladdin and tells him she's a handmaid to the princess.

Jasmine never tells Aladdin that prevarication in the animated pic.
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In the animated motion-picture show, Aladdin finds out early on that Jasmine is a princess when palace guards arrest him and she tries to forbid it from happening. Aladdin doesn't find out until subsequently in the remake that Jasmine is actually the princess.

12. Jasmine wears a beloved bracelet that belongs to her mother in the remake.

Aladdin originally offers Jasmine's bracelet to a homo in the market place to relieve her life.
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Jasmine has no such bracelet in the blithe movie. Abu steals the bracelet from Jasmine in the new motion-picture show and information technology acts as a goad for Aladdin to go and run across the princess again.

thirteen. Prince Andars is the prince who tries to win over Jasmine in the live-activity film.

Billy Magnussen appears equally a version of the prince seen above in the live-action movie.
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In the blithe movie, the prince, who's dressed in similar colors, is referred to as Prince Achmed. Rajah bites into the rear of his pants.

fourteen. Jasmine gets her own vocal called "Speechless."

Naomi Scott's vocalism here is transcendent.
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Jasmine teases the song early in the flick when Jafar tells her to stay silent. She sings the vocal in opposition to the idea that women should be seen and non heard. Jasmine sings the full song at an important part well-nigh the film's terminate.

15. This Jasmine wants to exist Sultan.

Jasmine wants to have a say in the way her kingdom is ruled.
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The animated Jasmine wanted to escape the laws of Agrabah that held her back and ally for love, not be paired with someone in an arranged marriage.The new Jasmine is still beingness forced to see potential suitors to ally, something she doesn't take kindly to, only she's more than ambitious and asks her father why she simply can't be the next Sultan.

16. Aladdin is arrested by the palace guards for a completely different reason.

Aladdin is caught in the palace after meeting with the princess.
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In the blithe moving-picture show, it's simply because Jafar wants to become shut to him. He knows that Aladdin is the true "diamond in the crude" he's been searching for to gather a magic lamp for him.

In the remake, Aladdin is arrested for sneaking around inside the palace while trying to render a bracelet to Jasmine.

17. We never see Jafar disguise himself as an old human to visit Aladdin in prison.

This Jafar somewhat tries to befriend Aladdin.
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Instead, Jafar immediately takes him on a trip to the Cave of Wonders to get together the magic lamp. Jafar doesn't attempt to hide his advent from Aladdin. Instead, he tries to bail with him by telling him he was once a thief as well.

eighteen. The Cave of Wonders isn't much of a wonder.

The difference is night and solar day.
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it's much smaller than the one we meet in the animated movie, confined to one minor and dreary cavern. In the animated motion-picture show, the cavern is brightly lit with several rooms for Aladdin to explore earlier he finds the lamp. There actually is no search necessary in the remake.

19. Aladdin meets the magic carpet in a different way.

The carpet is also larger than we call up it.
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In the animated movie, the shy carpeting sneakily approaches Aladdin and Abu earlier joining their crusade for the magic lamp.

The remake shows the rug stuck under a giant rock and Aladdin comes to his rescue before they become pals. The magic carpet does get trapped under a rock briefly in the animated film, just it'southward not until subsequently the cave starts to crumble.

20. The magic carpet doesn't try and finish Abu from touching the jewel stone.

The magic carpet is just standing past on the sidelines.
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In the animated moving-picture show, the carpet tries desperately to hold Abu back until he can't concur him dorsum any longer. Abu snatches the red jewel from the hands of a golden monkey in the original film. In the remake, Aladdin trips over and kicks the crimson precious stone off of a small ledge and information technology lands right in forepart of Abu.

21. The sexy women in the song "Friend Like Me" are all replaced.

Aladdin doesn't get sexy dancers in the remake.
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It isn't shocking that Disney avoided using the scantily-clad women from the original "Aladdin." If you know how the song plays out in the original picture, it's a little silly to see them replaced all of a sudden with multiple versions of the Genie (no matter how comfortable and absurd his Genie pants wait).

22. There are new rules to making wishes in this "Aladdin."

At present, the lamp glows blue when information technology's rubbed.
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In the animated film, Aladdin could simply brand a wish. In the remake, y'all need to make a wish while rubbing the lamp for whatever reason. Aladdin takes advantage of this new clause in the remake by fooling the Genie into believing his commencement wish was to exit of the Cavern of Wonders. Aladdin never rubbed the lamp though while making the wish, so it didn't count, effectively giving Aladdin an extra wish.

23. A lyric in "Prince Ali" is changed to a cruder i to have an entirely different effect.

In the animated picture show, Jasmine is rubbed the wrong way by Aladdin's actions during this song, not the Genie.
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Jasmine gets turned off by the idea of Prince Ali in the animated movie when she catches him blowing kisses to a bunch of ladies at random.

In the live-action movie, Jasmine is put off by a lyric the Genie sings during the Prince Ali number: "Heard your princess was hot. Where is she?"

That line is completely unlike from the one Robin Williams sings in the animated version. Once he enters the palace he heads over to the Sultan and sings the words, "Heard your princess was a sight. Lovely to see." No one is offended by those lyrics in the original version.

24. There'due south a big dance party added to the "Aladdin" remake.

Jasmine leads the women during this dance sequence until Aladdin steps in.
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The Bollywood-inspired dance scene is ane of the remake'southward highlights. We even get to meet Aladdin bust a motility with a piddling help from the Genie. (Aladdin makes it very articulate he'due south not a dancer.)

25. Abu and Prince Ali's crew never bust through the palace doors.

Abu is too large to fit comfortably inside the palace in the new "Aladdin."
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The moment leads to Jafar getting crushed backside the door with Iago. Instead, Aladdin and the Genie but appear within the palace after the song'due south end to meet with the Sultan, Jasmine, and Jafar.

26. Jafar never creepily demands to marry Princess Jasmine early on in the film.

Jafar doesn't inquire the Sultan to ally Jasmine at all in the remake.
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In the original picture show, the Sultan rebukes, saying that Jafar is "and then onetime." Information technology's one of the film's funniest lines in an otherwise uncomfortable scene. In 2019'southward "Aladdin," the topic is never brought upwardly until the flick'south very stop and it feels shoehorned into the moving-picture show.

27. A lot of the "A Whole New Globe" carpet ride feels watered down.

The entire carpet ride feels similar Aladdin and Jasmine are on a ride at Disneyland. They're seen holding onto the rug here.
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Nosotros don't get to see Aladdin requite Jasmine a flower that the magic carpet plucks for her or meet the two tumbling through the skies of Agrabah. Instead, Aladdin and Jasmine move side to side and up and down on a rather lifeless rug. According to press notes, the actors were tied in, kneeling on a cream mat, and were placed on a giant rig that was in forepart of a blue screen. It makes the unabridged scene sound a lot less magical.

28. When Jafar'south scheme to pull a fast one on the Sultan goes awry, he doesn't make a run for information technology.

Jafar makes a grand escape in the animated movie.
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In the animated film, Jafar uses magic and a smoke bomb to make a quick escape before he can get arrested. In the alive-action pic, Jafar'due south not nearly as handy. He allows himself to exist arrested and has his parrot Iago release him from his prison cell.

29. Jafar steals the lamp from Aladdin, not Iago.

Iago doesn't do all of the dirty work for Jafar here.
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In the blithe film, Iago humorously disguises himself every bit a flamingo and sneaks into a office of the palace to steal the lamp when Aladdin isn't looking. In the remake, Jafar walks past Aladdin discreetly on the street, and swipes the lamp in passing.

thirty. Iago is never strength-fed any crackers.

The Sultan is obsessed with giving the parrot crackers in the original movie.
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The Sultan made it a habit to shove crackers down Iago's throat. It made for a few laughs in the original. That concept is ditched in this film.

31. When Jafar wishes to exist Sultan he doesn't receive white robes.

Jafar's Sultan reveal is less dramatic.
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One of the most iconic moments of the original "Aladdin" is seeing the Sultan's royal white robes transfer over from Jasmine'southward father to Jafar. In the procedure, Iago gets his ain fiddling Sultan lid, too. Non only does Jafar get darker robes instead, only Iago remains hatless in the new movie. Poor Iago.

32. Jafar doesn't sing one of the best songs in the entire motion-picture show.

You never get to hear Jafar sing the line, "Then Ali turns out to exist just Aladdin."
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1 of the best parts of the animated picture doesn't make information technology into the live-action adaptation. When Jafar becomes Sultan in the original moving-picture show, he uses it every bit a chance to humiliate Aladdin in front of Jasmine and her begetter past singing a reprisal of "Prince Ali." The song which introduced Aladdin in such a g manner to Jasmine is now used to strip him of the imitation championship he claimed to great effect.

It'due south non alluded to at all in the remake. Instead, Jafar simply tells Jasmine Ali is actually Aladdin, something she suspected. Information technology all makes for a very unsatisfying reveal.

33. Aladdin is sent away by Jafar in less dramatic style in the remake.

While fans may appreciate the scene actualization in the remake, it'due south one that could accept been cut or changed.
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Jafar sends Aladdin packing in a palace tower to a wintry unnamed destination with Abu and the magic carpet in the blithe movie. Once there, Aladdin needs to find and salvage both Abu and the carpet while fugitive beingness crushed by the massive tower. It's thrilling and in that location's a moment where you're genuinely afraid for Aladdin'south life.

In the remake, Jafar only sends Aladdin and Abu abroad to an unnamed location only non in a palace tower. The omission of the tower deflates the moment entirely. Aladdin merely needs to observe Abu before he apace gets rescued by the magic carpet sent by the Genie. Sending Aladdin abroad was fruitless hither. The scene merely seems to exist as a nod to the original moving picture.

34. Jasmine is non seen in her iconic scarlet outfit in the remake and she never tries to seduce Jafar.

This is scrapped all together.
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After Jafar becomes the Sultan, he makes some dark changes to the palace interior. Among them are new ruddy outfits for the Sultan and Jasmine.

In the 1992 film, Jafar wishes for Jasmine to fall in honey with him. He doesn't know that's beyond the Genie'south powers, then Jasmine takes advantage of the moment and plays along to distract Jafar as Aladdin tries to take back the magic lamp. This never seemed like a scene that would appear in the live-activity film. It'south too sexy and inappropriate, especially since Jafar refers to Jasmine as his "pussycat."

Instead, Jasmine is given a gorgeous pinkish outfit about the end of the 2019 pic in which she sings her new song, "Speechless."

Read more: 12 iconic moments missing from the live-action "Aladdin"

35. So many small moments are inverse considering of the third act's overhaul.

None of this is seen in the remake.
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When Jafar becomes Sultan and quickly asks to exist the world's greatest wizard afterwards, he makes a lot of changes that don't make information technology into the remake so no ane can get in his style.

He turns Abu into a toy, Jasmine'south tiger into the size of a kitten, and the magic carpeting is unraveled and made into a long thread. When Jasmine deceives him, Jafar places the princess into a larger hourglass filled with sand. The tables are turned on the Sultan and Iago is seen stuffing his face with crackers.

36. Jafar never becomes a massive ophidian to fight head-to-head with Aladdin.

Jafar goes from being a magician to a snake in the blithe picture.
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Arguably the biggest and almost memorable moment from the animated moving-picture show is when Jafar transforms into a behemothic snake near the picture'south end.

Aladdin calls Jafar a cowardly ophidian, causing the villain to transform into a larger version of his love staff. Aladdin goes up against the serpent with a sword before convincing Jafar to become a genie himself.

In the remake, the big showdown cuts past the near interesting moments of the third human activity and fast-forwards to Aladdin tricking Jafar to wish himself into the catholic being. Instead, nosotros run into Iago transformed into a larger version of himself which is far less interesting.

37. Jasmine is made Sultan at the motion-picture show's end.

This makes more than sense than Aladdin becoming the ruler of Agrabah.
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Sorry Aladdin, you lot're never going to be Sultan of Agrabah in this film. Honestly, that'southward a smashing gear up. As Jasmine explains in the live-activeness picture, she has been grooming and studying for this her whole life. Aladdin hasn't and, from what we see in the moving picture, he doesn't have the greatest public speaking skills.

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