Editing Aladdin (1992 Disney film) (section)

== Themes ==
{{Quote box|width =33%|quote="The original story was sort of a winning the lottery kind of thing&nbsp;...&nbsp;Like having anything you could wish for would be the greatest thing in the world and having it taken away from you is bad, but having it back is great. We didn't really want that to be the message of the movie."|source=–Ron Clements<ref name="making"/>}}
The filmmakers thought that the moral message of the original tale was inappropriate, and decided to "put a spin on it" by making the [[Wish fulfillment|fulfillment of wishes]] seem like a great solution, but eventually becoming a problem.<ref name="making"/> Another major theme was avoiding an attempt to be what the person is not—both Aladdin and Jasmine get into trouble pretending to be different people,<ref name=popup/> and Prince Ali's persona fails to impress Jasmine, who falls for Aladdin only when she finds out who he truly is.<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Disney A to Z: The Official Encyclopedia]]|author=Smith, Dave | author-link = Dave Smith (archivist) |publisher=Disney Editions|date=August 15, 1996|isbn=978-0-7868-6223-8}}</ref> Being "imprisoned" is also presented, a fate that occurs to most of the characters—Aladdin and Jasmine are limited by their lifestyles, while the Genie is attached to his lamp, and Jafar to the Sultan—and is represented visually by the prison-like walls and bars of the Agrabah palace and the scene involving caged birds, which Jasmine eventually frees.<ref name=popup/> Jasmine is also depicted as a different type of [[Disney Princess]], being rebellious against the royal life and the social structure.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AKd6mZSGsVUC&pg=PA276|title=The Arabian Nights reader|first=Ulrich|last=Marzolph|publisher=Wayne State University Press|year=2006|isbn=978-0-8143-3259-7|access-date=September 21, 2016|archive-date=May 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512082153/https://books.google.com/books?id=AKd6mZSGsVUC&pg=PA276|url-status=live}}</ref>