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Who is the main character of "Aladdin"?

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[quote="AladdinsGenie"][quote="zitagirl"]However, I'm not sure about the whole "exploring his backstory" thing.[/quote]

Well, when I say he could have benefitted from a little more backstory, I don't necessary mean exploring it like a flashback to the day he turned bad or something like that. What I mean is a lot of the Aladdin villains are after power of some sort. It's one of those built-in themes that rolled over from the first movie because power in and of itself is not inherently good or bad. It's what you do with it that makes a difference. So giving him more infused reasons to help distinguish why he's after power would have benefitted his character in comparison to the others, in my opinion, because relying on the fact he's Aladdin's supposed narrative foil doesn't do much.

We don't know if he gave his right arm for power before, during, or after meeting Destain (especially since he mentioned he was looking for the book of Khartoum for seven years, which would have made him like 12-13 at the time). He mentions to Aladdin that the power of a genie was "handed to him on a silver platter" - does he feel entitled to power? Does he has something to prove? Was he taught that's the only way to gain respect? Does he want power for revenge? Power for power's sake? Did something bad happen because he didn't have power and now he's on a quest to gain as much of it as possible to prevent that from ever happening again? Is he, too, trying to attain some type of 'freedom' through power (another central Aladdin theme), but is now essentially 'trapped' having to constantly seek it out to possibly save himself as his body caves in on itself? That's what I mean.

[quote]Am I really the only 1 who would be happy with the Sultan just die due to old age? Like I know the Sultan is capable a lot of things if he gets his mind on it, but I really just imagined his last years pretty calm and be able to spend some time with the grandkids and just see how happy Jasmine is. [/quote]

No, I don't mind if he died of old age. Me mentioning that film wasn't to say he needs to die like Stoick did (I hope I'm not ruining this movie for anyone - I think we have a spoiler code but I don't remember how to use it if we did :lol:). Just that it can be done (and done well) in media meant for kids and demonstrate what kind of tone can be struck without having to water it down too much.[/quote]

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