The best things about the new 'Aladdin'? A super-feminist Jasmine, and Will Smith's street-smart Genie
di Michael O’Sullivan The Washington Post
Right off the bat, you can tell that Disney's live-action "Aladdin" has avoided some of the missteps of the original animated film. The lyrics of the song "Arabian Nights," which is sung in a prologue that frames the new film as a children's fairy tale, have been changed from this description of the film's Middle Eastern setting - "It's barbaric, but hey, it's home" - to this: "It's chaotic, but hey, it's home." (Some of the more offensive lyrics to the song were already softened once before, in response to accusations of racism, when the 1992 film came out on home video, although the word "barbaric" was left in. [...]
di Michael O’Sullivan, articolo completo (3881 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Washington Post 22 maggio 2019
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