• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    6 days ago

    TIL that the Arabian aesthetic can only be one person’s intellectual property /s

    And yeah, I just read about The Thief and the Cobbler. The reason it didn’t turn out well was because it was in production for 40 years, changed plots/themes/characters multiple times, was started and finished by different producers, and there was a falling out early on with the owners of the original story it was supposed to be based on.

    So that had nothing to do with Aladdin incidentally also borrowing themes and tropes from 1001 Arabian Nights.

    You can’t just take 40 years to do a shitty job at something and then blame someone else for taking less time to do a better job at something only vaguely similar…