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Who is the main character of "Aladdin"?

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[quote="Ariellen"]Hello, Minerva!

I was seven when Aladdin came out, and that's when I saw it.  I ended up seeing it a total of four times in release (my personal record, shared w/ Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King).  What drew me to it?  I loved Disney from my baby days...no joke; the baby book says I was a Mickey lover. :D  And I'd absolutely ADORED The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, so I was very interested in a new Disney movie!  Actually, I remember NOT being terribly interested in Aladdin when I FIRST heard about it (the really early previews didn't give me enough of an idea of the plot for me to really care about it...hey, I was six or seven!), but when I started learning what it was about (and heard some funny Genie quotes and a snippet of "A Whole New World" in one of the previews), I knew I REALLY wanted to see this movie!

Why did I like it?  Well, at the time, because it was a Disney movie with a funny character and a love story and good songs, which was about all that I cared about when I was seven.   Aladdin was really cool and Jasmine was someone I'd like to be, Genie was funny, and Jafar was mean.  I was happy.  :)  The things I most remember about my first time seeing it were:

1.  My dad turning to me when Aladdin first appears on screen, loaf of bread in hand, and whispering "So what's his name?" (I THINK he was probably kidding, but I took this very seriously as a kid!), to which I replied, in true early '90s fashion, "Daddy, that's Aladdin!  DUH!" which my dad found amusing.

2.  Really liking the way Jasmine delivered the line "And does...ABU have anything else to say?"

3.  Genie made me laugh, especially when he referenced other Disney movies or wore a Goofy hat.

4.  "How DARE you?  ALL of you!  Standing around deciding MY future?  I am NOT a prize to be won!"  - I discovered shortly after seeing the movie that I could do a really good imitation of Jasmine's voice (I'm really out of practice at it now, though...), and I said this on the playground a LOT, often by request.  :D  (I wasn't popular, but people DID think it was cool that I could talk like Jasmine!)

4.  The "A Whole New World" scene/song was SO PRETTY AND COOL!

5.  JASMINE KISSED JAFAR!!!! which simultaneously was SO WRONG and SO BRAVE of her!  That really stuck with me...when I saw the track "The Kiss" on the soundtrack (which I got for Christmas that year...the old one with the non-P.C. Arabian Nights and original version of "Happy End in Agrabah"), I remember listening to it and thinking "That's not the music that plays when she kissed Jafar!"  I'd almost forgotten there WAS a cool kiss with Aladdin in the movie because I was so shocked that the princess kissed the bad guy!

6.  At the end, I REALLY thought that Aladdin and Jasmine weren't going to be able to be together!  And that was sad.  But then they were.  And it was happy.

Why do I love Aladdin now?  (I promise the short version, since this is a long post already!)

-It really is a good movie, and I still think the music is really good.  (And I'm a music major, so I like to give myself at least a little credibility on the matter.  That discussion is for later, though, if at all.)

-It's very varied in its "style," if you will.  So many people just call it a comedy, but I think it has such strong elements of other styles that it's a disservice to just say "comedy."  It's funny (for kids AND adults), exciting and adventurous, romantic, and touching, and it doesn't feel forced most of the time.  It's paced well and has lots of interesting elements to it.

-The sequels and TV series (among other follow-up adventures) actually develop the characters and their relationships further, in addition to introducing some new characters who weren't only cool because they could be sold as action figures.  :D  I LOVE the sequels and series!

Oh, and I think the title character is absolutely wonderful...in personality and appearance.  I envy Jasmine so much.  :-P[/quote]

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