Back in 1992, Disney's flick Aladdin brought in $504 million dollars which, in today's money comes to over a billion US Dollars. A huge part of the success of the film, of course, was Robin Williams's incredible performance as Genie.
Back in 1992, Disney's flick Aladdin brought in $504 million dollars which, in today's money comes to over a billion US Dollars.
A huge part of the success of the film, of course, was Robin Williams's incredible performance as Genie.
He started out recording the script as written a few times, then took off in a multitude of directions… "And he was consistently hilarious.
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Back in 1992, Disney's flick Aladdin brought in $504 million dollars which, in today's money comes to over a billion US Dollars. A huge part of the success of the film, of course, was Robin Williams's incredible performance as Genie. He started out recording the script as written a few times, then took off in a multitude of directions… "And he was consistently hilarious.
Robin Williams was paid only $75,000 for his role Robin recorded around 30 hours of written and improvised dialogue for Aladdin and he revealed to New York Magazine that he did this because he wanted to "leave something wonderful behind for the kids." Sounds like...
Speaking to Variety, longtime Disney animator and co-director of Aladdin, Ron Clements said: "On the first day of recording [Genie's intro] we had script pages written in Robin's improv style and storyboards illustrating some of the visual metamorphosing we were planning.
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