Synopsis
In the boorish city of Agrabah, kind-hearted street urchin Aladdin and Princess Jasmine fall in love, although she can only marry a prince. He and power-hungry Grand Vizier Jafar vie for a magic lamp that can fulfill their wishes.
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Directors Ron Clements and John Musker studied the 1940 British-American fantasy epic The Thief of Bagdad, producer Alexander Korda's lavish, Technicolor adventure. Korda's use of scale—towering palaces, magical transformations, the sheer spectacle of production design—became the visual foundation for Disney's Agrabah. This wasn't cartoon world-building. This was early Hollywood fantasy translated into animation.
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