Ancestral Name: Abu's father and grandfather are also named Abu, and, apparently, they're all thieves.Always Accurate Attack: The Bow and Arrow of Justice, when used to attack the unjust, results in this.This is taken directly from the story, "The Fisherman and the Genie."
For example, when Abu frees the genie, it's initially angry at being held captive and wants to kill his rescuer, but is tricked back into the bottle and finally agrees to grant Abu three wishes. Adaptation Distillation: It borrows heavily from the Arabian Nights, merging plot elements from several distinct stories into a single narrative.
THIEF OF BAGDAD MOVIE
This movie was the first instance in which he was portrayed as a villain. He was a polymath who sponsored the building of libraries and introduced the use of paper to Baghdad (thus almost single-handedly kickstarting the Golden Age of Islam). The historical Ja'far ibn Yahya of the Barmakids (and the fictional version of him in the Arabian Nights tales) was not a bad guy, but possibly the greatest Grand Vizier Persia ever had. Adaptational Villainy: Grand Vizier Jafar.It's also the first film to use Chroma Key.Ĭo-directed by Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger, and Tim Whelan, with three other uncredited directors shooting some scenes-it had a Troubled Production. It had a lasting influence on Hollywood many of the tropes the Arabian Nights made were actually codified by this movie, and its influence on movies like The Golden Voyage of Sinbad and especially Aladdin is hard to miss. The Thief of Bagdad was very popular in its day, partly due the charm of child actor Sabu.
He is sentenced to death in the morning, but luckily for Ahmad, he's trapped in jail with Abu, a young thief who has Bagdad - and the dungeon keys - in his pocket.Ību and Ahmad embark on an amazing journey involving ancient prophecies, captured princesses, mechanical horses, magic spells that turn seeing men blind and thieves into dogs, assassinations, giant spiders, ship wrecks, flying carpets, and an absolutely enormous genie who will grant three wishes to anyone clever enough to survive him. Jaffar, sensing a chance to seize power, sends guards after the king Ahmad has just enough time to hear a prophecy about a boy saving his city before Jaffar's guards capture him and throw him into the dungeons. One day, Ahmad decides to go out into the city disguised as a peasant, so he can learn more about his people. His vizier, the wily Jaffar, has kept him isolated in his castle his whole life. (There have been several movies using the name, including a 1924 silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., but this article is about the first remake.)Īhmad is the king of Bagdad. It borrows heavily from stories of the Arabian Nights. The Thief of Bagdad is a 1940 movie, starring Sabu, John Justin, Conrad Veidt, and June Duprez.
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