robin williams did the voice of the genie in aladdin.
who does the voice of the genie in aladdin?
robin williams
bullet::::- in the 1992 disney film "aladdin", the title hero becomes the master of a benevolent and comical genie, voiced by robin williams, after rubbing the side of a magical lamp. genie offers aladdin three wishes on anything he wished, with explicitly only three limitations: genie could not kill anyone, make anyone fall in love, or bring people back from the dead (although his words implied that he "could" bring people back from the dead, but it is so horrifying that he "will" not do it) - and also underscoring that he grants only "three wishes", so one cannot "wish for more wishes". he is also required to obey the specific wishes of whoever holds the lamp, thus forcing him to work for aladdin's enemy jafar when jafar steals the lamp, although he was also able to assist aladdin without aladdin explicitly making a wish, even if he appeared to disapprove of the concept. in the spin-off tv series, genie was freed from his lamp, now able to come and go from the lamp as he wished, which apparently resulted in his powers being 'downgraded' so that he had less power than demonstrated in the film (now describing himself as possessing 'semi-phenomenal nearly-cosmic power' as opposed to his previous description of himself as possessing 'phenomenal cosmic power'). the tv series spin-off features an additional genie named eden, originally a genie of the bottle, who becomes the girlfriend of aladdin's genie, although her master's third wish that they could always be together puts genie's relationship with eden on hold until her master dies. will smith plays the genie in the 2019 live action adaptation of the animated film, by walt disney pictures.
genies in popular culture
the genie first appears in "aladdin", where he is released from a magical oil lamp by the titular character in the collapsed cave of wonders. after he explains that he can grant three wishes, aladdin, knowing that genie would only grant his wish to get out of the cave if he used one of his wishes, dupes him into freeing aladdin and abu from the cave without using a wish. at a faraway oasis, the genie is shocked when he finds that aladdin didn't use his first wish to get out of the cave and reluctantly agrees to let aladdin's first wish to be spared. asked by aladdin what he would wish for, genie admits he would wish for freedom, since genies must follow the orders of a master—in this case, aladdin. he accepts aladdin's promise to use the third wish to set him free, then grants aladdin his first wish: making him a prince so he can legally court princess jasmine. genie goes into hiding after leading a parade to the agrabah palace. genie is released again when aladdin is shackled, gagged, and thrown off a cliff into the ocean by jafar's guards. he rescues aladdin as the second wish upon liberally interpreting aladdin's nodding head. later, genie has a falling out with aladdin when he starts to think he may have to break his promise to use the third wish, out of fear of what will happen should someone find out he is not royalty.
genie (disney)