Thursday, April 23, 2009

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

Watching Aladdin raised an interesting point. You get arrested and you think you're in prison pretty much for the rest of your life. At a young age, that could be a long time. You're sitting in the prison convinced you've met your demise much earlier than you'd expected, until an old man comes up to you with quite a convincing assertion of a "Cave of Wonders" where treasures stretch beyond your wildest imaginings. He proceeds to present a handful of rubies, the equivalent of which I can not even fathom (I usually roll with 20s). "What good are rubies," you may think to yourself, "if I'm stuck in this damned prison cell?" Almost as if he was reading your mind, this man takes a cane and pushes one of the stones on the wall out, and reveals an exit.

This old man has proven a few things, mainly that he has no value for his life. Show a much younger, much more able-bodied man a handful of rubies and a way out. Cue the "whoopass." Once that stone is pushed out of the way, I'm taking the cane, striking the old man (in the head most likely), and rolling out. He can figure out what happened later. All I'm saying is, Jafar was playing a risky game with how he planned to get Aladdin to the Cave of Wonders. He could've - and should've - died right then and there.

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