You know, technically Hera would be Heracles's stepmother, not Hercules, as Hercules is Roman. ;)
But, seriously, you make very excellent observations that others feel they should ignore for the glory of Disney. (I had no idea Aladdin was Chinese, though. Fascinating!) Disney tends to modify stories then claim them as their own, and, while this does produce some classic and beautiful movies, like "Beauty and the Beast" or "The Little Mermaid," it's rather dishonest and a sneaky way to conduct themselves.
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peter_schilling_fan
17 years ago
Wizard of Oz was not Disney, Disney only bought the rights to the story, but they never made it into a movie. They did make "Return To Oz"
I also heard The Blue Fairy was responsible for a few crimes herself in the novel
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Nizzemancer-1
15 years ago
What the hell are you on? Alladin? CHINESE? I'd say that he's ASIAN but not CHINESE...It's based on a story in "A thousand and one nights".
Now...What all this has got to do with this movie is beyond me, but maybe you guys know a connection somehow...
Light travels faster than sound,
that's why people seem bright,
until you hear them.
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eljuma_1
14 years ago
Precisely. "A thousand and one nights" says the story happened in China. But then everything told in it fits more a Middle Eastern setting like the one in which the book was written and has nothing Chinese at all. The author just said "China" to add exotism, at a time when very little of China was known (aside of "it's big, it's far, and it's rich and powerful"). By the timethe book arrived in Europe a setting in Medieval Arabia was exotic enough (though to be exact... the book itself was written in Medieval Persia).
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