Woah what a baby 🥺🥺🥺
NAOMI SCOTT as PRINCESS JASMINE ALADDIN (2019) dir. Guy Ritchie
In the Original Beauty & the Beast, the story is about sacrificial love. In the Live Action, it’s about freedom. One is fundamentally selfless, the other is not.
In the Original The Little Mermaid, Ariel is willing to sacrifice everything to go where she is understood (by Eric.) In the Live Action, Ariel is willing to sacrifice a few things to go where she can explore some more. Another “let’s change the main theme from love to freedom.”
In the Original Mulan, Mulan left her family to save her father and prove she could do things right—when all along, her father loved her regardless of how well she performed. In the Live Action, Mulan left her family to save her father—even though all along she had chi superpowers that she was dying to use anyway. Once more, the remake subtly shifts so that the main character values something within themself, taking the spotlight off of sacrificial love.
In the Original Aladdin, Jasmine teaches Aladdin trust. In the Live Action, Jasmine teaches Aladdin nothing because she’s busy wanting to be Sultan.
What I’m saying is, it used to be enough for female characters to have actual character and integrity, and their stories highlighted those aspects of their nature. Then every other character in the movie learns from or changes because of the Princess’ heart. Nowadays, her character is not powerful. It’s what she does, what she forces and fights her way into, that is focused on—usually to the detriment of all the other characters around her.
In Aladdin, the main character does not believe anyone will see him for who he really is and still choose him. He doesn’t trust anyone in Agrabah to love him the way he is. But when Jasmine first meets him, she trusts him. When she sees him again as a suitor, she trusts him again, despite knowing he lied to her. When he is faced with the reality that he, not Jasmine, has to be Sultan, that’s when he wakes up and realizes that not only does he have to trust Jasmine with the truth, but he can trust her with the truth the way she trusts him.
In Beauty and the Beast, the Beast starts out hopeless and brutal, and then gains hope. Not because Belle talks him into it with powerful-woman speeches or savage one-liners. Not because she hunts down the Enchantress and defeats her, breaking the spell. But because the Beast witnesses that Belle is the kind of woman who’s love and compassion would give up freedom. He’s betting that kind of love can break his curse, even though he started the movie with “who could ever learn to love a Beast?” And then her continued love for him teaches him how to love her, sacrificially.
In The Little Mermaid, Ariel sacrifices her tail and her safety to have a chance at being with Eric—because she knows she understands him, and he can understand her. That, in turn, reinforces Eric’s one big character trait: he believes in the idea of “the right girl” and when he learns that Ariel is a mermaid who saved his life, he sacrifices his life and safety for her, too.
I can go on and on.
My point is: If you’re a Princess in a Remake, you make decisions based on what you want, not on what you love.
Unless you’re Cinderella.
1. One is a Thief, and the other is a person in a Higher Position
2. Both are very flirtatious with each other. Their chemistry is 😘🤌
3. The Thief goes in disguise to swoon the Girl.
4. Both ladies have a big reveal of their true identities in order to save their thieves.
5. Both couples have amazing dance numbers.
Jasmine evolution
So, Aladdin (1992) but with some 2019 aesthetic.
I tried to be as Disney as I could with Will Smith, but eh, close enough.
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carpet ships it.
aladdin (1992) // aladdin (2019)
Until tomorrow, Princess.
ALADDIN, dir. Guy Ritchie (2019)
I’ve been on a mission to redesign some Disney Princesses!
(I’m having a lot of fun though so I can’t promise it will be only the princesses I redesign. Or only Disney characters….)
I started this project when a friend suggested I redesign Jasmine since both of us were super disappointed with how Aladdin turned out. To see/read the full breakdown of these illustrations and what & why I have 3 long posts on Insta that have a bunch of sources & explanations.
This is the first of two different “historical” design-eras for Jasmine. This is the time & period that most people talk about or reference when redesigning Jasmine. My thesis statement was essentially if little old me could do enough research in a short period… a millions of budget Disney movie should do even better. ;) What can I say? Bad costume design really burns me up. AND Aladdin (1992) set the bar low (in hell) with the costuming…. I implore you to look into the 1992 production because the short version is YIKES.
(this is a link to the first post about Jasmine! But feel free to peek ahead at more princesses!!)
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Jasmine and Jasmine!!!
Here are two coloring pages, one left alone and one I’ve drawn over to look like the Aladdin remake. I love both versions of the movie so much. 💛
And here we have them dancing together. <3
“Thank you for getting me out of there…. Aladdin, isn’t it?”
“…….by order of the princess.”
2D Animation / 3D Animation / Live-Action
