Things You Probably Didnt Know About AladdinNearly a quarter century after its original release, AladdinDisneys Oscar winning animated film from 1. Blu ray and digital edition. Read on to discover a whole new world of dazzling things you might not have known about this beloved Disney classic. TO LAND ROBIN WILLIAMS, THE ANIMATORS CREATED TEST SEQUENCES OF THE GENIE PERFORMING THE COMEDIANS STAND UP ROUTINES. Eric Goldberg led the team of animators who were in charge of creating Genie. When he was first handed the script by co directors Ron Clements and John Musker, Goldberg was also told to dig up some old Robin Williams comedy albums. John and Ron said, Pick a couple of sections from his comedy albums and animate a genie to them, Goldberg told Entertainment Weekly. Thats essentially what I did. Williams came in to see the test, and, Goldberg says, I think what probably sold him was the one where he says, Tonight, lets talk about the serious subject of schizophreniaNo, it doesntShut up, let him talk What I did is animate the Genie growing another head to argue with himself, and Robin just laughed. He could see the potential of what the character could be. Im sure it wasnt the only factor, but then he signed the dotted line. THE PRODUCERS HAD BACK UP CHOICES IF WILLIAMS DECLINED THE ROLE. Disney, via disneyscreencaps. Costumes of Nashua LLC Quality, Value, Service, Integrity. Costume Sales Rentals for Adults, Plus Size, Children. Sales of Costume Accessories including Wigs, Hats. Buy Shrek Read 2293 Movies TV Reviews Amazon. Though the role of Genie was written specifically for Williams, then studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg had many reasons to doubt that theyd be able to sign him Money, timing, contracts, and, of course, landing an A lister for a voiceover role. He insisted the team come up with alternative choices. Had Williams declined, Genie could have been voiced by John Candy, Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Martin Short, John Goodman, or Albert Brooks. ALADDIN MARKED THE END OF VOICE ACTORS IN DISNEY MUSICALS NEEDING TO BE MAGNIFICENT SINGERS. Josh Zyber is a veteran movie and video disc reviewer from Laserdisc to DVD and beyond. Hes previously written for DVDFile. DVDTalk. com and Home Theater magazine. Directed by Byron Howard, Chris Williams. With John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton. The canine star of a fictional scifiaction show that believes. Pretty good. Not as good quality as I expected but still very watchable and enjoyable. Getty Images. Linda Larkin was the voice of Princess Jasmine. However, she never sang a single note attributed to the princess that was done by singer Lea Salonga. Aladdin marked one of the first times a voice actor in a Disney musical didnt also have to be a magnificent singer. Larkin says that this was the result of the film being built around Robin Williams, who was such a powerful force that Disneys priority was finding strong actors who could keep pace with him. They came to me and asked, Do you sing Larkin recalled. And I said, I do but not like a princess And they said, No problem, well find a singer to match your voice. And they did. And to me its such an amazing match to my voice that its almost seamless when they go from dialogue to the song and back to dialogue. And you see what happened from that point forward that opened up the world of Disney animation to everybody. They no longer needed actors who sang. The character of Aladdin was meant to do for Disney Princes what Ariel and Belle had done for Princesses. Disney, via disneyscreencaps. Megamind Movie Dvd Quality' title='Megamind Movie Dvd Quality' />Disney in the 9. According to Glen Keane, lead animator for the character of Aladdin, I could never understand why Snow White and Sleeping Beauty fell for those princes. Those guys were cardboard symbols, and the love relationship was assumed. We wanted there to be a how to the princess falling in love. So they set about doing something Disney hadnt really done before Making a prince who was cunning, bold, funny and lovable, not just handsome. But Aladdin still had to be really handsome. Enter Tom Cruise. Disney, via disneyscreencaps. At first, animators sort of modeled Aladdin after Michael J. Fox, but found the end result too cutesy. So they upped his age to late teens, took off his shirt, and watched Tom Cruise movies. Theres a confidence with all of his attitudes and his poses, Keane said of Tom Cruise. Once Aladdin could reflect that sort of sexy cockiness, it was more believable that hed be the sort of boy Jasmine might risk everything for. Gilbert Gottfried wasnt the first choice for Iago. Disney, via disneyscreencaps. The role of the sarcastic evil parrot was first offered to Danny De. Vito and Joe Pesci, but they both declined. The boy who voiced Aladdin was the boyfriend of D. J. on Full House. Seventeen year old Scott Weinger was sure hed blown the voiceover audition when his voice cracked on the first song. Luckily, he had no idea he was auditioning for Disneys next powerhouse feature, or he would have been much more worried. In the end, it didnt matter. Disney thought his voice personified the cocky street urchin perfectly Aladdins singing voice, however, would be performed by Brad Kane. At the same time he was voicing Aladdin he was also playing Steve Hale, D. J. s boyfriend, on Full House. The series made a bizarre nod to Weingers dual roles when the Full House girls visit Disneyland as seen in the clip above. The genies lines were recorded up to 2. Disney, via disneyscreencaps. Williams was only available for a handful of recording sessions, so hed give a rapid fire delivery of each line as writtenin as many different styles as he could create. Robin had so much freedom, and ad libbing was always encouraged, Goldberg told Entertainment Weekly. He always gave us such a huge amount to choose from. He would do a line as written, but he would do it as 2. John and Ron and I would take those tracks back to the studio and really put the ones in that made us laugh the most and were the ones that we thought were best suited to the lines. So even though he gave us a W. C. Fields, Groucho Marx, and a Peter Lorre on No substitutions, exchanges, and refunds, we said, OK, the Groucho one goes here. JEFFREY KATZENBERG USED A SECRET BOX TO INSPIRE WILLIAMS PORTRAYAL OF THE PEDDLER. At the beginning of the film, the Peddleralso voiced by Williamstries to interest the audience in his wares. The products werent in the script they were in a box. Says Goldberg, One of Jeffrey Katzenbergs great ideas was to fill a box with stuff, put a cloth over it, and then when Robins in front of the mic, pull the cloth off and he riffs with whatever he picks up out of the box. And thats exactly how we did that character. The illustrators tried make the characters look unrealistic on purpose. Disney, via disneyscreencaps. In Aladdins predecessor, Beauty and the Beast, immense effort was devoted to making the characters faces, bodies, and movements as realistic as possible. Supervising animator Andreas Deja, who drew Gaston in Beauty and Jafar in Aladdin, told the Los Angeles Times that We now refer to some of our earlier efforts as chiseled realism On Gastons face, we established a lot of planes on his cheekbones and chin to achieve that realism. They did away with that approach for the magical world of Aladdin and used simple two dimensional shapes as references for all the characters. Aladdin is composed of two interlocking triangles formed by his chest and his pants Jasmine is sort of pear shaped, Jafar is basically a Ta very skinny body with these broad shoulders, Deja said. Loud House Movie Movie Dvd Watch. I kept that T shape in mind while I was animating making sure it came through kept me from cluttering up the drawings. That unrealistic fashion was inspired by great artist and caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. Disney, via disneyscreencaps. You know Al Hirschfelds work, even if you dont think you do he famously created exaggerated line drawings of everyone from Charlie Chaplin to the The Rolling Stones. Aladdin supervising animator Eric Goldberg wanted to recreate Hirschfelds use of clean flow lines. I look on Hirschfelds work as a pinnacle of boiling a subject down to its essence, so that you get a clear, defined statement of a personality, he said. Hirschfeld was alive to see the honor bestowed, but he took no credit. Im very flattered that the animators say they were influenced by my use of line, he said. But art isnt a 5. You keep handing it on to somebody else, and theres no beginning or end to it.