‘Aladdin’ is a fun hightly entertaining movie. lost of laught , gerat sets and castames.second haft is far superior to the first. Will simith does his to interpret his own.Aladdin was delihtfull ! Guy ritchic found great ways to expand on the original.
Disney’s live-action version of its 1992 cartoon “Aladdin” hits movie theaters this week, but some fans already feel the remake has fallen short of expectations after casting a British actress of Indian descent, Naomi Scott, as the movie’s heroine, Egyptian-Canadian actor Mena Massoud as the title character and Will Smith as Genie.
Despite its purportedly Eastern origins, it was the French archaeologist and translator Antoine Galland who penned “Aladdin” in the early 18th century. He was famous in his homeland for bringing exotic tales from the Arab world to the salons of Paris and the court of Versailles. Educated in a Jesuit school in Noyon, Galland was sent to the French Embassy in Istanbul in 1670 as an antiquary of King Louis XIV.
Galland discovered a manuscript entitled “The Voyages of Sinbad” in Istanbul, and published a translation of it in 1701. The relative success of his “Sinbad the Sailor,” as it came to be known, inspired the Orientalist to translate a three-volume Syrian manuscript called “One Thousand and One Nights,” which dated back to the 14th or 15th century.