The Corruption Of The Arab Culture In The Film Aladdin

The movie Aladdin was never meant to be created so that the people of the Middle East could have a film to cherish about their culture. The film was scripted, animated, and released all during and within a year of the gulf war. This film, just as Disney has done since the world wars, was used as a form of propaganda and a method to gain nationalism from the people when we entered a foreign land for war. Therefore, Disney had to incorporate western values into the film to display what actions are correct, and how the Arab culture is dangerous for the American people. The original Aladdin story was about a Chinese boy in China, who was tricked by an African sorcerer to do tasks. To which, the boy, with the help of a genie, defeats the sorcerer …show more content…
Coinciding with the common theme of American news, that media displays erroneous news of conflicts in the middle east. Several scenes depict raunchy women hidden by shear clothing constantly present around the town, representing the mass presence of brothels. One of the fewer Disney movies to display women in such an non-classy way, only to further highlight the “normal Arab culture.” In fact, almost all female characters in the film are sexualized. The raunchy brothel women are dark in their brown complexion, with the western vision of them belly dancing and their only mission in life is to serve the evil men of Agrabrah. Which completely goes against normal female roles in society, where they can be constantly seen with their fixation on veils: hijabs, niqab, burkas. All with the full intention and focus to hide their sexual nature in society. But even Jasmine, the white example of all the women uses her sexual nature when captured by Jafar to overwhelm his plans. Therefore, in this case, a western viewer will accept this as courage and cleverness to trick him and the western white character will not be regarded the same as the other