So let’s talk about that death scene for a second.

I remember finding it especially haunting when I was a kid.

Jasmine is trying to convince everyone to stop fighting and just listen to each other. We’ve established that Arbitus actually isn’t all that bad, just genuinely misunderstood and convinced that these people (kind of rightly so) are there to harm him and his creations.

And then Aladdin fucking kills him.

The animation here is really interesting because I’m used to this group of animators using very crisp but fluid movements and everything is slowed down, and somewhat blurred, and uses fewer frames per second to make it look more dramatic (and probably less grisly).