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Who is the main character of "Aladdin"?

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[quote="Lennox Macbeth"]I think Calluna and Nez meant that it's difficult to picture Aladdin and Jasmine singing Christmas carols because Christmas carols didn't exist in their time OR place.  Genie, on the other hand, jumps around in time and on the globe, so he would run across them at some point.

http://www.moviemistakes.com/ points out some of the places where the historical accuracy of the Aladdin movie (and subsequently the series) was compromised in favor of political correctness, humor or better comprehension for children.

If you consider that...

[quote]Disney created the fictitious Agrabah for the film because the story is traditionally set in Baghdad. This was done because of the notority of Iraq (whose capital is Baghdad) in the Persian Gulf War a year before the film's release.[/quote]

and

[quote]The Magic Carpet Rids passes the Pyramids of Giza, which have already been stripped of the smooth limestone sheathing, as they appear today. This wasn't done until the 9th century by treasure seeking Arabs. The movie takes place sometime before 1 AD.[/quote]

and

[quote]This movie takes place sometime before the year one AD. When Abu rescues Aladdin from the shackles in the dungeon, he picks a padlock of type and style invented after the 15th century.[/quote]

and

[quote]The pants everyone wears are turkish pants, except for Aladdin's. His are a style worn in Thailand.[/quote]

...it's a 100% chance that NO ONE in the series, except the "semi-phenomenal, nearly cosmic" genie(s) would have even heard of Christianity, let alone Christmas carols, which weren't adopted even in their earliest forms until several hundred years after Christ's death.

Baghdad, now currently the capital of Iraq, would have been under Muslim control for most of the time span that the "Arabian Nights" tales would have covered.  In past centuries, it would have been inside the boundaries of the growing and shinking Persian Empire, was run through at one time by Alexander the Great, was run across by the Mongol Horde, was part of Mesopotamia, was part of Assyria, but was NEVER part of the Christian world.

The last factual error I posted I might quibble on, depending on the exact time that the story took place.  Baghdad is on the Silk Road, and Silk Road cities (which also include Buhkara and Samarkand) were widely diverse and had many features different than their local cultural counterparts, because of the heavy amount of trade taking place along the road.  Also, the Turks travelled the road almost as extensively as the Arabs and the Chinese - in fact, after the Persian Empire receeded from what is today Iraq, Israel, Syria, Turkey, etc, Baghdad was inside the boundaries of the Ottoman Empire - ruled, of course, by the Ottoman Turks.

That's what makes it hard for [b]me[/b] to conceive any of the characters except Genie celebrating Christmas in ANY way - there would have been 0 contact for any others.[/quote]

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