Genie tries to inform Jafar that he cannot use his magic to make people fall in love, but Jafar, grabbing him by the beard, demands him to do it anyway. An angered Jafar decides to use his final wish to wish for Jasmine to fall desperately in love with him. Jasmine angrily refuses and throws a cup of wine in his face. Jafar, seeking a queen to rule Agrabah alongside him, offers Jasmine his hand in marriage. A horrified Jasmine begs Jafar to stop and Jafar does so. Jafar then turns the Sultan into a puppet, allowing Iago to torture the Sultan by force-feeding him crackers as revenge for the crackers the Sultan fed Iago. Jafar assumes control of the palace (which is lifted off the ground and put on the main top of a mountain by Genie) and banishes Aladdin to a frozen wasteland. Jafar uses his first two wishes to become Sultan and the world's most powerful sorcerer. Iago steals the lamp from Aladdin and Jafar becomes the Genie's new master. After a second attempt by Jafar on his life, Aladdin (with the help of the Genie and his second wish) survives and then exposes Jafar's plot against the Sultan however, Jafar learns that Aladdin possesses the lamp before making his escape. Seeing “Prince Ali” as a potential threat to his plans and a rival for Jasmines’s hand in marriage, he plots to dispose of him. However, he is impeded by Aladdin, who had discovered the Genie and used his first wish to become a Prince. This plan also instigates Jafar's limerence towards Jasmine and thus he genuinely wants to have her as his bride. When his pet parrot Iago suggests an alternative plan, Jafar decides to use the hypnotic powers of his cobra-headed staff to manipulate the Sultan into mandating a marriage between himself and Jasmine. The Sultan later scolds Jafar for supposedly executing an innocent life behind his back without consulting him, in which Jafar pretends to regret his actions and promises not to do it again. When the plan fails, Aladdin and the lamp are lost. In exchange for Aladdin's help in retrieving the lamp from the Cave of Wonders, Jafar reveals an escape route from the prison and promises him a reward if he succeeds, it is soon revealed that the reward is death. That night Jafar (disguised as a fellow prisoner) approaches Aladdin, striking a deal with him. When Princess Jasmine angrily confronts him over the incident, Jafar pretends to have believed that Aladdin abducted her, and that he was already executed. Early in the film, Aladdin is imprisoned in the palace dungeons, as arranged by Jafar due to his influence over the guards. Jafar secretly plots to obtain the Genie's magical oil lamp and rule Agrabah. He is also an evil and sinister sorcerer who strongly dislikes being second best. In the 1992 adaptation of Aladdin, where he is voiced by Jonathan Freeman, Jafar is the grand vizier of Agrabah, the Sultan's most trusted advisor. When Deja first met Freeman, he was surprised to see the lack of physical similarity to the character, but included some of Freeman's acting and gesturing into Jafar's animation. He stated that "once I saw those heavy lidded eyes, that long narrow face, I knew that Jafar was going to be something really special." He was the first actor cast, and spent one year and nine months recording dialogue he went months without any other actors to interact, and later interrupted theater tours to fly to Los Angeles and record newly written lines. Jonathan Freeman, who composers Alan Menken and Howard Ashman met when he auditioned for Little Shop of Horrors and had previously invited Freeman to audition for both The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, said that the artwork was what got him truly interested in the role. Development Īnimator Andreas Deja decided to design Jafar in a way he was contrasting to the other characters, with many vertical lines against the curvy designs based on Al Hirschfeld. He is loosely based on the real-life Persian Abbasid vizier Ja'far ibn Yahya. The Jafar of Disney's Aladdin plays essentially the same part as the character from the 1940 film, and is drawn with notable similarity to Veidt's looks. Jafar also appears in the 1994 sequel to Aladdin, but he is not in the 1996 third film or the TV series.Īn inspiration to the character is the villain Jafar, played by Conrad Veidt in The Thief of Bagdad, from which Aladdin borrows several character ideas and plot elements. He is voiced by Jonathan Freeman, who also portrayed the character in the Broadway musical adaptation. Jafar is a fictional character in Walt Disney Pictures' 31st animated feature film Aladdin (1992).
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