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| Aladdin - Arabian nights Lyrics Album:  Send “Arabian nights” Ringtone to Your Cell Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place Where the caravan camels roam Where it's flat and immense And the heat is intense It's barbaric, but hey, it's home [Original first verse (1992-93):] Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place Where the caravan camels roam Where they cut off your ear If they don't like your face It's barbaric, but hey, it's home } When the wind's from the east And the sun's from the west And the sand in the glass is right Come on down Stop on by Hop a carpet and fly To another Arabian night Arabian nights Like Arabian days More often than not Are hotter than hot In a lot of good ways Arabian nights 'Neath Arabian moons A fool off his guard Could fall and fall hard Out there on the dunes |
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
REEL BAD ARABS
our class watched watched the film "Reel Bad Arabs" which was very interesting to me. This film talked about how in movies the bad guys are played by "Arab people or actors. i never noticed this until we watched the film. The film also talked about the Disney movie Aladdin. i love Disney movies and Aladdin is one of my favorite Disney movies. In the film the director had the lyrics to Aladdin. The lyrics talked about how your ear would get cut off, i never heard this version and later found out that the lyrics had been changed. I thought that was very interesting that aladdin is a Disney movie and they were going to have the bad version in the movie where little children sing along.. i was shocked!
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The crazy thing about the Aladdin lyrics, for me, was that I had the original movie AND soundtrack, and still never noticed. At the time, I think I thought of it more like just a scary song, comparative to the "Be Prepared" song in "The Lion King" that the hyenas sing. I can't believe no one ever stepped up and pointed it out to me as a child!
ReplyDeleteI know, it is just weird to think about!
ReplyDeleteI thought as a note to your blog post layout wise, I thought it was really cool how you not only had the link to the lyrics of Aladdin, but the text as well. Oh, I really like how we're looking at underlying meanings of Disney films and soundtracks. If we could take a few days, I know its a tangent, but I think it would be interesting to look at some positive and negative messages that Disney is sending our county's youth.
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