Comment on Cultural impact
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 day agoTIL that the Arabian aesthetic can only be one person’s intellectual property /s
And yeah, I just read about The Thief and the Cobbler. The reason it didn’t turn out well was because it was in production for 40 years, changed plots/themes/characters multiple times, was started and finished by different producers, and there was a falling out early on with the owners of the original story it was supposed to be based on.
So that had nothing to do with Aladdin incidentally also borrowing themes and tropes from 1001 Arabian Nights.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I don’t remember the director himself instigating this feud.
I mean, I’m sure it reached him. Maybe he felt bitter, maybe he got over it. I think the plagiarism thing was pushed moreso by fans and Disney haters, though.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I didn’t mean to imply that he did, just the fact that the critics try so hard to make something out of nothing.