Posted on 06/19/2020 9:25:21 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
Comcast-owned Sky has added trigger warnings to Disney’s Aladdin — both the 1992 original and the 2019 remake — warning its “outdated attitudes” may “cause offence today”.
Sky, a British broadcaster that offers a pay-per-view film service, describes the ’90s classic first and foremost as a film which “has outdated attitudes, language and cultural depictions which may cause offence” — and only after that as a “Disney animation featuring the voice of the late Robin Williams”.
Still more remarkable, however, is the fact that the 2019 remake of the Disney staple on offer in Sky’s online store contains the same trigger warning of having “outdated” content despite being just 13 months old.
The 2019 film’s primary description boasts that it is a “Live-action re-imagining of the Disney classic about a street urchin who unleashes the power of a genie (Will Smith), sparking a magical adventure” — but further down the page potential viewers are again warned: “This film has outdated attitudes, language and cultural depictions which may cause offence today.”.
Gawain Towler, a long-time lieutenant of Nigel Farage during his leadership of both UKIP and the Brexit Party, articulated his views on the trigger warning, observing sarcastically: “Yes, that’s Aladdin, from last year with Will Smith. In those distant days supposedly the world had different attitudes.”
“It didn’t but we hadn’t realised how spineless corporations were,” he added, for the avoidance of doubt
This is not the first time Aladdin has faced the wrath of the censors, however, with the 1992 original’s opening song ‘Arabian Nights’ having been awkwardly doctored to appease the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) previously.
Originally, the song’s opening lines were:
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.
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IIRC those lyrics were written by a gay man, so that would make them Homophobes.
“It’s barbaric, but hey, it’s home.”
Sounds like California.
I always thought magic carpet ride was a sexual euphemism/slang thing ... :)
Go ahead burn everything
Scheherazade is speechless....................
It was a paean to LSD..............
Effingbabies. If you don’t like it....don’t watch it.
This is the offensive line? I always thought it was the one that went, "... a dark man waits with a dark purpose..."
Yes, Aladdin 2019 is so, 2019. This is 2020. When have progressed so much since 2019! Anyone with 2019 attitudes is an old reactionary!
We have progressed so much since 2019, is what I meant. And this is not 2020, more like Orwell’s 1984.
It is funny. Disney started making movies to include racial groups of each so called race. Aladdin was for the middle Eastern of course. We have Mulan, and, there was a black princess in a movie so forgettable that I forgot it’s name. They then began to make movies where the heroines are kind of riot grrrrrls, all very feminist. The men in them are kinda useless or stupid.
Instead of entertaining, although there were occasional good moments and songs, they are just politically correct semi stories.
So it’s hard to be sorry about Aladdin. I think the last really good Disney movie was Little Mermaid. Change my mind!
I love when the left eats it’s own.
Wait until Amazon tells Google, Twitter, and FB about your book buying habits!!!!
The perverts were already there. There is a dildo in the castle and the preacher has an erection.
https://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/12-hidden-sexual-images-in-disney-movies/83782825/
FYI,
What have the artists said about the song?
In an interview with Marc Myers for the book Anatomy of a Song, John Kay said,
I didn’t drop acid before writing the lyrics, as many people have assumed. And the lyrics weren’t about an acid trip. I may have smoked a joint that night, but that was it. Since birth, I’ve had achromatopsia: complete color blindness. If I had dropped acid, I would have been hallucinating in vivid black and white. I doubt that would have helped me or the song very much.
Yeah they were there. But the movie was really good and not strained for political correctness.
so in order to ‘fight racism’ everyone is demanding that all cultural depictions of people and fables and characters be removed from sight? Leaving only depictions of white folks only in media now? Gee- that’ll teach everyone not to be racist-
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