Editing Aladdin (1992 Disney film) (section)

== Production ==
=== Script and development ===
In 1988, lyricist [[Howard Ashman]] had [[Pitch (filmmaking)|pitched]] the idea of an animated musical adaptation of ''[[Aladdin]]''. Ashman had written a 40-page [[film treatment]], remaining faithful to the plot and characters of the original story but envisioned as a campy 1930s-style musical with a popular 1930s-style Genie.<ref name="Rhodes">{{cite news |title=What Would Walt Say? |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-11-08-ca-4-story.html |last=Rhodes |first=Joe |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=November 8, 1992 |access-date=July 11, 2015 |archive-date=July 12, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150712195754/http://articles.latimes.com/1992-11-08/entertainment/ca-4_1_walt-disney-studios |url-status=live }}</ref> With partner, [[Alan Menken]], Ashman composed several songs and added original characters to the story, such as Aladdin's friends, Babkak, Omar and Kassim.<ref name="Mouse Under Glass">{{cite book |last=Koenig |first=David |url=https://archive.org/details/mouseunderglasss0000koen |title=Mouse Under Glass: Secrets of Disney Animation & Theme Parks |chapter=Aladdin |location=[[Irvine, California]] |publisher=Bonadventure Press |pages=216–226 |isbn=978-0-964-06051-7 |year=1997 |url-access=registration}}</ref>{{rp|216}}<ref name="time">{{cite magazine|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,158290,00.html|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|title=Aladdin's Magic |author=Corliss, Richard |author2=Cole, Patrick E. |author3=Smilgis, Martha |author-link=Richard Corliss |date=November 9, 1992 |access-date=March 16, 2007 |quote=Chuck Jones' verdict is judicious: ''Aladdin'' is "the funniest feature ever made." It's a movie for adults – if they can keep up with its careering pace – and, yes, you can take the kids. It juggles a '90s impudence with the old Disney swank and heart. |archive-date=October 25, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161025203702/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,158290,00.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

However, [[Michael Eisner]] did not think that a story set in the Middle East would be commercially appealing,<ref>{{cite book|last=Stewart|first=James B.|title=DisneyWar|year=2005|url=https://www.archive.org/details/disneywar00jame_0/|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/disneywar00jame_0/page/106/mode/1up 106]|isbn=0-684-80993-1|author-link=James B. Stewart|url-access=registration}}</ref> and their project was removed from active development. Ashman and Menken were soon recruited to compose songs for ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1992/11/25/ashmans-words-were-music-to-his-ears/ |title=Ashman's words were music to his ears |last=Hunter |first=Stephen |newspaper=[[The Baltimore Sun]] |date=November 25, 1992 |access-date=July 11, 2015 |archive-date=August 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801234847/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1992-11-25/features/1992330079_1_alan-menken-ashman-howard | url-status=live}}</ref> [[Linda Woolverton]], who had also worked on ''Beauty and the Beast'', used their treatment and developed a draft with inspired elements from ''[[The Thief of Bagdad (1940 film)|The Thief of Bagdad]]'', such as a villain named Jaf'far, an aged sidekick retired human thief named Abu, and a human handmaiden for the princess.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://howardashman.com/blog/john-musker-question-countdown-number-9/ |title=John Musker Question Countdown – Number 9 |date=February 21, 2012 |access-date=July 11, 2015 |archive-date=April 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406212441/http://howardashman.com/blog/john-musker-question-countdown-number-9/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://animatedviews.com/2005/aladdin-crew-reunion/|first=Christian|last=Ziebarth|title=Aladdin: Crew Reunion|website=Animated Views|date=April 23, 2005|access-date=May 31, 2009|archive-date=November 19, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101119185940/http://animatedviews.com/2005/aladdin-crew-reunion/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Directors [[Ron Clements]] and [[John Musker]] joined the production, picking ''Aladdin'' from three projects offered; the other two were an adaptation of ''[[Swan Lake]]'' and ''King of the Jungle'', which eventually became ''[[The Lion King]]''.<ref>{{cite podcast|url=http://animationpodcast.com/ronandjohn-part-three/|title=Show 009 – Ron and John, Part Three|website=The Animation Podcast|date=November 1, 2005|access-date=May 31, 2009|archive-date=March 9, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100309041355/http://animationpodcast.com/ronandjohn-part-three/|url-status=live}}</ref> Before Ashman's death in March 1991, he and Menken composed "Arabian Nights", "Friend Like Me", "[[Prince Ali (song)|Prince Ali]]" and Ashman's last song, "Humiliate the Boy".<ref>{{cite news |title=Lyricist's life ended on poignant note |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1991/11/22/lyricists-life-ended-on-poignant-note/ |work=Los Angeles Daily News |publisher=The Baltimore Sun |date=November 22, 1991 |access-date=July 11, 2015 |archive-date=November 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107233721/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1991-11-22/entertainment/1991326070_1_alan-menken-ashman-song-we-wrote | url-status=live}}</ref>

Musker and Clements wrote a draft of the screenplay, and delivered a [[Storyboard#Animatics|story reel]] to studio chief [[Jeffrey Katzenberg]] in April 1991.<ref name="time" /> Katzenberg thought that the script "didn't engage", and on a day known by the staff as "Black Friday", he demanded that the entire story be rewritten without rescheduling the film's November 25, 1992, release date.<ref>{{cite AV media |people=John Musker, Ron Clements, Eric Goldberg, Amy Pell, Ed Gombert, Terry Rossio, Ted Elliot |title=Reflections On Black Friday |at=Disc 2 |type=DVD |publisher=Walt Disney Home Entertainment |year=2004}}</ref> Katzenberg requested for Clements and Musker to not be heavily dependent on Ashman's vision,<ref name="Mouse Under Glass" />{{rp|217}} and the removal of Aladdin's mother, remarking: "[[86 (term)|Eighty-six]] the mother. The mom's a zero."<ref>{{cite news |title=Retread country |last=Steyn |first=Mark |newspaper=[[The Spectator]] |url=http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/18th-october-1997/76/cinema |date=October 17, 1997 |access-date=July 11, 2015 |archive-date=April 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170409171334/http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/18th-october-1997/76/cinema |url-status=live}}</ref>

Katzenberg also influenced changing the plot element about Jasmine's marriage, which originally had her to be married by age sixteen as required by law, to remove the age—the Sultan says only, "your next birthday"—and make it more specific that her suitor needed to be a prince, which would also set up the ending in which the Sultan, inspired by Aladdin's altruism, changes the law to make it legal for Jasmine to able to marry anyone she deems worthy.<ref name="making" />

Screenwriting duo [[Ted Elliott (screenwriter)|Ted Elliott]] and [[Terry Rossio]] were brought in to rework the story,<ref name="time" /> and the changes they made included the removal of Aladdin's mother, the strengthening of the character of Princess Jasmine, and the deletion of several of Ashman and Menken's songs.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/article/1992/12/04/unsung-aladdin-songs |title=Unsung ''Aladdin'' songs |last=Daly |first=Steve |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=December 4, 1992 |access-date=July 11, 2015 |archive-date=September 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924010322/http://www.ew.com/article/1992/12/04/unsung-aladdin-songs |url-status=live }}</ref> Aladdin's personality was rewritten to be "a little rougher, like a young [[Harrison Ford]]";<ref name="time" /><ref name="ultimate">{{cite web|url=http://www.dvdizzy.com/aladdin.html|title=Aladdin DVD review|website=DVDizzy.com|access-date=March 20, 2007|archive-date=June 29, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629191947/http://www.dvdizzy.com/aladdin.html|url-status=live}}</ref> the parrot, Iago, originally conceived as an uptight British archetype, was reworked to a comic role after the filmmakers saw [[Gilbert Gottfried]] in ''[[Beverly Hills Cop II]]'', who was cast for the role.<ref>{{cite AV media |people=John Musker, Ron Clements |title=Aladdin: Platinum Edition |at=Disc 2 |type=DVD |publisher=Walt Disney Home Entertainment |year=2004}}</ref> By October 1991, Katzenberg was satisfied with the new version of ''Aladdin''.<ref name="Rhodes" /> As with Woolverton's screenplay, several characters and plot elements were based on ''The Thief of Bagdad'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fosteronfilm.com/fantasy/thiefbagdad.htm|title=Fantasy: The Thief of Bagdad|publisher=Foster On Film|access-date=May 31, 2009|archive-date=March 2, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160302070727/http://fosteronfilm.com/fantasy/thiefbagdad.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Visions of the East|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q2_E_gl9BbYC|author=Bernstein, Matthew|author2=Studlar, Gaylyn|publisher=I.B.Tauris|year=1997|isbn=978-1-86064-305-7|access-date=September 21, 2016|archive-date=January 11, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111212045/http://books.google.com/books?id=q2_E_gl9BbYC|url-status=live}}</ref> although the location of the film was changed from [[Baghdad]] to the fictional Arabian city of Agrabah due to the [[Gulf War]].<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Johnson|first=Zach|title=Disney Myths Debunked by Ron Clements and John Musker, Directors of The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Hercules|url=http://www.eonline.com/uk/news/706239/disney-myths-debunked-by-ron-clements-and-john-musker-directors-of-the-little-mermaid-aladdin-and-hercules|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|date=October 15, 2015|access-date=December 19, 2015|archive-date=February 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216221731/http://www.eonline.com/uk/news/706239/disney-myths-debunked-by-ron-clements-and-john-musker-directors-of-the-little-mermaid-aladdin-and-hercules|url-status=live}}</ref> Because the war prevented them from travelling to Baghdad for research, most of their research took place at the Saudi Arabian expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-05-18/the-director-who-shook-up-disney-and-hollywood-animation-with-a-mermaid-a-genie-from-a-lamp-and-a-polynesian-princess.html |title=The director who shook up Disney and Hollywood animation with a mermaid, a genie from a lamp and a Polynesian princess |last=Jiménez |first=Eneko R. |date=May 18, 2024 |work=[[El País]] |url-status=live |archive-date=December 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241201235931/https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-05-18/the-director-who-shook-up-disney-and-hollywood-animation-with-a-mermaid-a-genie-from-a-lamp-and-a-polynesian-princess.html}}</ref>

According to a 1994 article in ''[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]'', Katzenberg asked [[Thomas Schumacher]], an openly [[gay]] producer, if any of the gay references in the film offended him, such as a scene in which the Genie becomes an "[[effeminacy|effeminate]] [[Cloth merchant|clothier]]", and another in which he tells Aladdin: "I really like you too, kid, but that doesn't mean I want to pick out curtains with you." Schumacher responded that such references were in "good fun", remarking: "I know we all argue amongst ourselves, but why try to deny the fact that swishy [[fashion designers]] exist? They do! What are we running from? Show me ten hairdressers; I'll show you eight gay men."<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Tom |last=Provenzano |title=The Lion in Summer |magazine=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]] |page=71 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L2MEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA71 |date=1994-06-28 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>

=== Design and animation ===
[[File:Aladdin Disney lg.gif|thumb|alt=A style guide, depicting above the characters, and below the geometrical shapes they follow. Notes on design, such as "High hip" for Jasmine and "Broad shoulders" for Jafar are scattered through the page. Atop the page is written "0514 – Aladdin Style"|[[Style guide]] depicting the main characters. The animators designed each character based on a different geometrical shape.<ref>{{cite video |people=John Musker, Ron Clements |title=Art Review |location=Aladdin: Platinum Edition |at=Disc 2 |medium=DVD |publisher=Walt Disney Home Entertainment |year=2004}}</ref>]]

The design for most characters is based on the work of caricaturist [[Al Hirschfeld]],<ref name="diamond"/> which production designer, [[Richard Vander Wende]], also considered appropriate to the theme, due to similarities to the flowing and swooping lines found in [[Arabic calligraphy]].<ref name="making">{{cite book|title=Disney's Aladdin The Making of an Animated Film|last=Culhane|first=John|date=August 15, 1993|publisher=Disney Editions|isbn=978-1-56282-757-1}}</ref> Jafar's design was not based on Hirschfeld's work, because Jafar's supervising animator, [[Andreas Deja]], wanted the character to be contrasting.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://tech.mit.edu/V112/N64/aladdin.64a.html|title=Aladdin animator used subtlety to design strong villain|date=November 20, 1992|newspaper=[[The Tech (newspaper)|The Tech]]|access-date=May 28, 2009|archive-date=October 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181005013140/http://tech.mit.edu/V112/N64/aladdin.64a.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Each character was animated alone, with the animators consulting with each other to make scenes with interrelating characters.

Because Aladdin's animator, [[Glen Keane]], was working in the California branch of [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Feature Animation]], and Jasmine's animator, [[Mark Henn]], was in Florida at [[Disney's Hollywood Studios|Disney-MGM Studios]], they had to frequently phone, fax or send designs and discs to each other.<ref name="making" /> The animators filmed monkeys at the [[San Francisco Zoo]] to study their movements for Abu's character.<ref name="popup" /> Iago's supervising animator, [[Will Finn]], tried to incorporate some aspects of Gottfried's appearance into the parrot's design, especially his semi-closed eyes and the always-appearing teeth.<ref name="popup" /> Some aspects of the Sultan were inspired by the [[Wizard of Oz (character)|Wizard of Oz]], to create a bumbling authority figure.<ref name="popup" />

Andreas Deja, Jafar's supervising animator, tried to incorporate Jonathan Freeman's facial expressions and gesturing into the character.<ref name="diamond" /> Animator [[Randy Cartwright]] described working on the Magic Carpet as challenging, since it is only a rectangular shape that expresses itself through [[pantomime]]—"It's sort of like acting by [[origami]]".<ref name="making" /> Cartwright kept folding a piece of cloth while animating to see how to position the Carpet.<ref name="making" /> After the [[character animation]] was done, the carpet's surface design was applied digitally.<ref name="diamond" />

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Designed by a team led by supervising animator, [[Glen Keane]], Aladdin was initially going to be as young as thirteen, and was originally made to resemble actor [[Michael J. Fox]]. During production, it was decided that the design was too boyish and lacked appeal, so the character was made "seventeen to eighteen", and redesigned to add elements derived from actor [[Tom Cruise]] and [[Calvin Klein]] models.<ref name="thomas"/><ref name="ew"/>

For the scenery design, various architectural elements seen in 19th-century orientalist paintings and photographs of the [[Arab world]] were used for guidance.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Emperor's Old Groove: Decolonizing Disney's Magic Kingdom|last=Ayres|first=Brenda|year=2003|publisher=P. Lang|isbn=9780820463636|page=181|language=en}}</ref> Other inspirations for design were [[List of Disney theatrical animated feature films|Disney's animated films]] from the [[Golden age of American animation|1940s and '50s]] and the 1940 film ''The Thief of Bagdad''.<ref name=making/> The coloring was done with the computerized [[Computer Animation Production System|CAPS]] process, and the color motifs were chosen according to the personality—the protagonists use light colors, such as blue, the antagonists darker ones, such as red and black, and Agrabah and its palace use the neutral color, yellow.<ref name=popup/><ref name=diamond/> [[Computer animation]] was used for several elements of the film, such as the tiger entrance of the Cave of Wonders and the scene in which Aladdin tries to escape the collapsing cave.<ref name="diamond">{{cite video|location=''Aladdin'' Platinum Edition |at=Disc 2|title=Diamond in the Rough: The Making of Aladdin|medium=DVD|publisher=Walt Disney Home Entertainment|year=2004}}</ref> Some of the software that was used was [[Pixar]]'s [[Pixar RenderMan|RenderMan]].

Musker and Clements created the Genie with Robin Williams in mind; although Katzenberg suggested actors such as [[John Candy]], [[Steve Martin]] and [[Eddie Murphy]], Williams was approached and eventually accepted the role. Williams came for voice recording sessions during breaks while filming two films he was making at the time, ''[[Hook (film)|Hook]]'' and ''[[Toys (film)|Toys]]''. Unusual for an animated film, much of Williams's dialogue was [[Ad libitum|ad-libbed]]. For some scenes, Williams was given topics and dialogue suggestions, but allowed to improvise his lines.<ref name="diamond"/><ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=August 12, 2014 |title=How Robin Williams became 'Aladdin's' Genie |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-robin-williams-genie-aladdin-20140812-story.html |access-date=June 14, 2023 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> It is estimated that Williams improvised 52 characters.<ref>{{cite episode |people=James Lipton (host) |year=2001 |series=[[Inside the Actors Studio]] |title=Robin Williams |network=[[Bravo (American TV network)|Bravo]]}}</ref> [[Eric Goldberg (animator)|Eric Goldberg]], the supervising animator for the Genie, reviewed Williams's recorded dialogue, and selected the best gags and lines that his crew would create character animation to match.<ref name="diamond"/>

The producers added many [[in-joke]]s and references to Disney's previous works in the film, such as a "cameo appearance" from directors, Clements and Musker, and drawing some characters based on Disney workers.<ref name="comm1">{{cite AV media |people=Ron Clements, John Musker, Amy Pell |title=Aladdin [[Audio commentary]] |location=''Aladdin'' Platinum Edition |at=Disc 1 |medium=DVD |publisher=Walt Disney Home Entertainment |year=2004}}</ref> [[Beast (Disney character)|Beast]], [[List of The Little Mermaid characters#Sebastian|Sebastian]] and [[Pinocchio (1940 film)|Pinocchio]] make brief appearances,<ref name="popup">{{cite video|title=Pop Up Fun Facts|location=''Aladdin'' Platinum Edition Disc 1|medium=DVD|year=2004|publisher=Walt Disney Home Video}}</ref> and the wardrobe of the Genie at the end of the film—a [[Goofy]] hat, a Hawaiian shirt, and sandals—are a reference to a [[The Magic of Disney Animation|short film]] that Robin Williams did for the Disney-MGM Studios tour in the late 1980s.<ref name="comm1"/>

=== Robin Williams's conflicts with the studio ===
[[File:Robin Williams 1996.jpg|thumb|upright|Initially, Robin Williams voiced the Genie under the condition that his voice not be used for excessive marketing or merchandising.]]
In gratitude for his success with [[Touchstone Pictures]]'s ''[[Good Morning, Vietnam]]'', Robin Williams voiced the Genie for [[Screen Actors Guild|SAG]] scale pay ($75,000) instead of his usual asking fee of $8&nbsp;million, on the condition that neither his name nor image be used for marketing, and that his character take no more than 25% of space on advertising artwork, since Williams's film, [[Toys (film)|''Toys'']], was scheduled for release one month after ''Aladdin''{{'}}s debut. For financial reasons, the studio reneged on both counts, especially in poster art, by having the Genie in 25% of the image but having other major and supporting characters portrayed considerably smaller. The [[Disney Publishing Worldwide|Disney Hyperion]] book, ''Aladdin: The Making of an Animated Film'', lists both of Williams's characters, "the Peddler" and "the Genie", ahead of main characters, but was forced to refer to him as only "the actor signed to play the Genie".<ref name="ew">{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/1992/12/04/aladdin-gamble/ |title=Disney's Got A Brand-New Baghdad 1 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=September 4, 1992 |access-date=March 16, 2007 |first=Steve |last=Daly |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110806042954/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0%2C%2C312562%2C00.html |archive-date=August 6, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/1992/12/04/aladdin-gamble/ |title=Disney's Got A Brand-New Baghdad 2 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=September 4, 1992 |access-date=March 16, 2007 |first=Steve |last=Daly |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025122146/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0%2C%2C312562_2%2C00.html |archive-date=October 25, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/ew/article/0,,312562_3,00.html |title=Disney's Got A Brand-New Baghdad 3 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=September 4, 1992 |access-date=March 16, 2007 |first=Steve |last=Daly |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025122132/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0%2C%2C312562_3%2C00.html |archive-date=October 25, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The Genie Has a Gripe With Disney : Movies: Robin Williams goes public with his beef with Disney over 'Aladdin' marketing and says he won't work for 'the Mouse' again.|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-11-25-ca-60882-story.html}}</ref>

Disney, while not using Williams's name in commercials as per the contract, used his voice for the Genie in the commercials and used the Genie character to sell toys and fast food tie-ins, without having to pay Williams additional money. Williams unhappily quipped at the time, "You realize when you work for Disney why the mouse has only four fingers--because he can’t pick up a check." Williams explained to ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine that his previous ''[[Mork & Mindy]]'' merchandising was different because "the image is theirs. But the voice, that's me; I gave them myself. When it happened, I said, 'You know I don't do that.' And they [Disney] apologized; they said it was done by other people."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-11-25-ca-60882-story.html|title=The Genie Has a Gripe With Disney|last=Welkos|first=Robert W.|date=November 25, 1993|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=February 12, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035|archive-date=March 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190318071017/http://articles.latimes.com/1993-11-25/entertainment/ca-60882_1_robin-williams|url-status=live}}</ref>

Disney attempted to assuage Williams by sending him a [[Pablo Picasso]] painting worth more than $1&nbsp;million, but this move failed to repair the damaged relationship, as the painting was a self-portrait of Picasso as [[Vincent van Gogh]], and apparently really "clashed" with the Williams's wilder home decor.<ref>{{cite web|last=Weisman|first=Aly|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/robin-williams-disney-feud-picasso-gift-2014-11|title=Robin Williams Once Got So Upset With Disney That The Company Sent Him A$1 Million Picasso Peace Offering|website=[[Business Insider]]|date=November 19, 2014|access-date=May 5, 2017|archive-date=March 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321133407/http://www.businessinsider.com/robin-williams-disney-feud-picasso-gift-2014-11|url-status=live}}</ref> Williams refused to sign for the 1994 direct-to-video sequel ''[[The Return of Jafar]]'', and he was replaced by [[Dan Castellaneta]] as the Genie's voice actor. When [[Jeffrey Katzenberg]] was replaced by [[Joe Roth]] as chairman at Walt Disney Studios, Roth organized a public apology to Williams.<ref>{{cite news|last=Welkos|first=Robert|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-24-ca-54095-story.html|title=Abracadabra: Disney, Robin Williams Quit Feud|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=October 24, 1994|access-date=July 12, 2017|archive-date=June 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170614154408/http://articles.latimes.com/1994-10-24/entertainment/ca-54095_1_robin-williams|url-status=live}}</ref> In turn, Williams would reprise the role in the second sequel, ''[[Aladdin and the King of Thieves]]'', in 1996.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-09-27-ca-50412-story.html | title=Genie Grants Disney's Video Wish : Marketing: Robin Williams will reprise his 'Aladdin' role in 'King of Thieves,' continuing the emergence of direct-to-video projects as an industry gold mine. | last=Cerone | first=Daniel Howard | newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] | date=September 27, 1995 | access-date=August 15, 2014 | archive-date=May 12, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512082228/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-09-27-ca-50412-story.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Music ===
{{main|Aladdin (1992 soundtrack)}}
''Aladdin'' was the third—after ''The Little Mermaid'' and ''Beauty and the Beast''—and final Disney film that Alan Menken and Howard Ashman had collaborated on, with [[Tim Rice]] as lyricist after Ashman had died in March 1991.<ref>{{Cite video|location=''Aladdin'' Platinum Edition, Disc 2|title=Alan Menken: Musical Renaissance Man|medium=DVD|year=2004|publisher=Walt Disney Home Entertainment}}</ref> Although fourteen songs were written for ''Aladdin'', only seven are featured in the film, three by Ashman and four by Rice.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/1992/12/04/unsung-aladdin-songs/ |title=Unsettled score |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |author=Daly, Steve |date=December 4, 1992 |access-date=June 12, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110806042928/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0%2C%2C312563%2C00.html |archive-date=August 6, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> Menken, Ashman and Rice were praised for creating a [[soundtrack]] that is "consistently good, rivaling the best of Disney's other animated musicals from the '90s".<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r110157|pure_url=yes}}|title=Aladdin soundtrack review|website=Allmusic|author=Phares, Heather|access-date=March 18, 2007}}</ref>

The Special Edition soundtrack released in 2004 included four songs in early animation tests and a music video of one, "[[Proud of Your Boy]]", performed by [[Clay Aiken]],<ref name="ign">{{cite web|url=http://dvd.ign.com/articles/549/549036p1.html|title=Aladdin: Ultimate DVD review|website=IGN|date=September 17, 2004|access-date=March 16, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312234759/http://dvd.ign.com/articles/549/549036p1.html|archive-date=March 12, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> which also appears on the album, ''[[Disneymania 3]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://disneymusic.disney.go.com/albums/disneymania3.html |title=DisneyMania 3 |publisher=Disney |access-date=May 25, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090519070127/http://disneymusic.disney.go.com/albums/disneymania3.html |archive-date=May 19, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The pop duo version of the song, "[[A Whole New World]]", performed by [[Peabo Bryson]] and [[Regina Belle]], which plays over the end credits, is, {{as of|2024|lc=yes}}, the only Disney song to win a [[Grammy Award for Song of the Year]].<ref name=":0">{{cite news|last=Pareles|first=Jon|date=March 2, 1994|title=Top Grammy to Houston; 5 for 'Aladdin'|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/02/movies/top-grammy-to-houston-5-for-aladdin.html|url-status=live|access-date=May 25, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090602224016/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/02/movies/top-grammy-to-houston-5-for-aladdin.html|archive-date=June 2, 2009}}</ref><ref name=":12">{{Cite web |title=36th Grammy Awards - 1994 |url=http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1994/grammys.htm |access-date=May 1, 2022 |website=Rock On The Net}}</ref>