{"id":5970,"date":"2015-05-29T06:03:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T10:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=5970"},"modified":"2022-07-24T17:19:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T21:19:07","slug":"did-robin-williams-ad-lib-so-much-during-aladdin-that-the-movie-was-ineligible-for-a-best-screenplay-academy-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2015\/05\/29\/did-robin-williams-ad-lib-so-much-during-aladdin-that-the-movie-was-ineligible-for-a-best-screenplay-academy-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Robin Williams Ad-Lib So Much During Aladdin That the Movie Was Ineligible for a Best Screenplay Academy Award?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about movies and whether they are true or false. Click here<\/a> to view an archive of the movie urban legends featured so far.<\/p>\n

MOVIE URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: Robin Williams ad-libbed so much of Aladdin<\/em> that the movie was rejected for a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. <\/p>\n

Tragically, Robin Williams passed away last year at the age of 63. With the sudden passing of such a comedy icon, the internet was filled to the brim with tributes to Williams. Along with these tributes came a number of, for lack of a better term, “lists of interesting facts about Robin Williams.” This is not surprising, of course, as numbered lists have become very popular on the internet. However, I noticed something a bit distressing about these lists – they seem to use a lot of the same “facts” and these facts did not seem to be fact checked at all, instead seemingly going under the theory of “Well, if Site X and Y are reporting it, I guess we can, too.” That’s pretty standard behavior for small independent websites, but I’m talking about this behavior from the Huffington Post and CBS News. Honestly, it looks like writers just pulled things from the Internet Movie Database (IMDB)’s Trivia page and just ran them as facts. The issue, of course, is that these “facts” are user-submitted and are often unsourced, leaving the truth behind them up in the air. One fact I saw repeated a number of times on these lists in the weeks following Williams’ death is that Robin Williams ad-libbed so much of his dialogue as the Genie in Aladdin<\/i> (a role which ended up causing him a lot of aggravation, as we covered in an old Movie Legends Revealed<\/a>) that the film was ineligible for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. <\/p>\n

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