To persuade the comic, Eric Goldberg, the supervising animator for Genie, created bits of animation of the Genie and synced them with audio dialogue from Williams' stand-up routines.
Despite this, Disney studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg did suggest names such as John Candy, Steve Martin, and Eddie Murphy, Williams was approached and was initially hesitant. John Musker and Ron Clements created Genie with Robin Williams in mind as they believed a zany, shapeshifting, chaotic character perfectly matched Williams' comedic sensibilities. However, there is still evidence of the Genie and Peddler's connections, such as both characters having blue clothing, red sash, bushy eyebrows and beard ending in a curl, the fact both characters had only four fingers in contrast to everyone else who had five, and the fact both were voiced by Robin Williams. However, the filmmakers were convinced that the audience would already be leaving by the time the reveal came, and it was ultimately cut.
ALADIN MEDLEY MOVIE
Īt one point, the Peddler that opens the movie was going to reveal himself to actually be the Genie at the end of the movie. This is mainly evident in " Friend Like Me," in which the Genie actually imitates Calloway's dancing and vocalizations. They looked to famous 1920s, Harlem jazz musicians such as Cab Calloway and Fats Waller for inspiration. Songwriters Alan Menken and Howard Ashman envisioned the Genie as a big, bombastic entertainer.
This relates to Genie's occasional use of Yiddish phrases. In terms of characterization, Eric Goldberg has always imagined Genie as being Jewish. The Genie was originally going to be purple, but the color theme of the film established that red represents "evil" while blue represents "good"-thus, the Genie was given blue skin. When designing the Genie, Goldberg looked to the artwork of the famous caricaturist Al Hirschfeld for inspiration. Eric Goldberg was assigned as the Genie's supervising animator. As the first character to be conceived, the Genie's design would set the stage for the other characters, as well as the film's art direction on the whole. The production of Aladdin was greatly influenced by the creation and development of the Genie. Genie's true name (if he has one) has never been revealed he answers to being called "Genie" and never says he has a real name. Robin Williams is responsible for most of these because he improvised many of the lines in the film. His supernatural disposition permits him to break the fourth wall, as well as parody real-life people and popular culture completely outside of the boundaries of the universe in which he is contained.
He is shown to have shapeshifting abilities, which allow for many and varied sight gags. After enduring 10,000 years of imprisonment, the lamp comes into the possession of Aladdin during the course of the first film, and Genie remains in servitude until Aladdin uses his third and final wish to grant Genie his freedom at the end of the film.Īs well as largely driving the plot in the first film, Genie serves as a comic relief element in each of his appearances. Each master has three wishes, and cannot exceed this amount by wishing for more wishes. Alternatively, it could mean that while he can revive a person's corpse, he cannot bring them back properly. It is possible, however, that he can do the third one, but as he puts it, "It's not a pretty picture. He is also bound by three laws he cannot kill anyone, he cannot make people fall in love with each other, and he cannot revive the dead. Though he possesses "phenomenal cosmic powers", he is bound to an "itty bitty living space" and can only use his powers when the owner of the lamp (his master) makes a wish he occasionally does things without granting a wish, but never anything that greatly affects the world around him. Genie was originally a slave imprisoned within his lamp, which, itself, was sealed away in the Cave of Wonders for 10,000 years. Being a Genie, he was created from the smokeless fire, along with the Angels by God at the beginning of time.
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