"Ten thousand years in a lamp can give you a really big crick in the neck!"

[elvenpiratelady]

I watched Aladdin for the first time last night. Strangely, I've read the book and seen Aladdin and the Prince of Thieves, but I've never seen the original film. I didn't intend to watch it the whole way through, but it grew on me.

For a start, the story about the Disney people doing the Hammertime dance during production was amusing. I'm not so sure about Jafar as the villain. He looks stylish, sure, but I think Iago's the brains of the outfit. Speaking of which: Shakespeare refs ftw! Bro was watching it with me, and we agreed that Abu was acting like a jealous girlfriend most of the time. We thought his voice sounded familiar, and a quick trip to imdb.com proved it - he's voiced by the same guy who does Nibbler on Futurama. The carpet is my favourite character, because hey, he's a magic sentient carpet, and he can travel at Mach 2.5.

Here is my reasoning:

Distance from Agrabah (which, for this situation, I have assumed to be Baghdad) and the random Chinese temple they visit (Beijing, for the same reasons) = 6300 km

Time taken to travel there = we'll say 2 hours

And as we all know, speed = distance/time = 6300/2 = 3150km/h

Divide by speed of sound (1238km/h) and you get 2.5.

Therefore, Carpet can travel at speeds of up to Mach 2.5. That's awesome.

We are also convinced that Rajah is Shere Khan doing community service.

Thankyou, that is all.

Comments

[cat-empress.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I like the way your mind works.

[little-baldwin.livejournal.com]

XD

The carpet is probably my favorite character, too. And I think Aladdin might be my favorite Disney movie. I'm never sure, though. Lion King probably means more to me...

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

Hee, thanks. I put it down to exam stress.

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

Aladdin is cool, but I was brought up on the 'animal' Disney movies rather than the 'human' movies, ie. The Lion King, The Jungle Book, Bambi, etc. Carpet is an awesome character though.

[little-baldwin.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. For years Fox and the Hound was my absolute favorite, but I'm not so sure anymore. I love Disney movies, in any case.

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

Yes. Occasionally you need happy movies with relatively simple plots and dancing animals. :D

[little-baldwin.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[breo-saighit.livejournal.com]

You'd never seen Aladdin?! =O I am shocked! I love that movie, it's my favourite Disney movie of all time. When I was younger, I wanted to be Princess Jasmine and have a pet tiger *is lame*

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

Well, I've seen it now, haven't I? And one of the sequels.

I cut out the middleman and wanted to be the lion/tiger/animal, so you're not alone there.