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Aladdin

reviewed dir. Ron Clements & John Musker (Disney) · 1992 · film

The reading

The bead. A street kid told he is nothing — "a diamond in the rough" — wins the princess and the kingdom, and learns the worth was always his, not the disguise's.

Engines

The bundle. A four-engine stack: repricing spine (the diamond in the rough) + the double life (Prince Ali) + being-desired (Jasmine) + the Genie's liberation — an animated film that breaks past three because its subplots each carry a distinct wish.

Dual-use read. Repricing's counterfeit is grievance-revaluation, the double life's is "secretly superior, the masses can't see it" — and Aladdin runs against both: the lesson is that the borrowed grand identity is the lie, and the worth is the unhidden self.

Verdict. A repricing spine that stacks to four — and a tidy demonstration that the diamond-in-the-rough wish wants the disguise dropped, not maintained.

Evidence. ~ reviewed — from the film (in-copyright). Aladdin as a street urchin, Princess Jasmine, Jafar as evil vizier, the Sultan of Agrabah, the Genie, and the Prince Ali masquerade verified against the Wikipedia article (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_(1992_Disney_film)); "diamond in the rough" is canonical to the Cave of Wonders sequence.