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Aladdin · 2019 — Chapter 3 of 24 · 3'34" · B1

Aladdin Shares His Rooftop Home, Explained: Come and go as we please

Two strangers on a rooftop aren't just flirting. "Come and go as we please" is Aladdin's pride in a life nobody owns, and she quietly answers with a life she can't leave. Under the talk of bracelets and silk is a shared ache: both lost their parents, both feel trapped by where they were born.

What happens

Aladdin brings a girl up to the rooftop he calls home and, from her bracelet and imported silk, works out that she serves the princess in the palace. They talk: about coming and going as they please, about the song their mothers taught them, and about feeling trapped by the life they were born into. Then she has to return to the palace.

First datesSmall talkConfessingSmall talkStrangersB1slowamericanClean
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Come and go as we pleasequite thenothing to do withborn into

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Phrase of the scene

Come and go as we please

来去自由；不受约束地进出

阿拉丁带达莉亚回到自己在屋顶的住处，说这里只有他和阿布，来去自由。

In this job you can come and go as you please.

Also in this scene

  • quite the

    真是个……、相当……

  • nothing to do with

    与……毫无关系、不关……的事

  • born into

    出身于某种境况或家庭

Everything marked in this scene

20 notes across 70 lines

Phrase · C1come and go as one pleasesJust me and Abu. Come and go as we please.
SoundCome and go

liaison

Just me and Abu. Come and go as we please.
Phrase · B2quite the somethingYou are quite the magician.
Phrase · B1get out of thereThank you. And thank you for getting me out of there.
Soundout of there

liaison

Thank you. And thank you for getting me out of there.
Phrase · A2from the palaceFrom the palace.
Grammar · B2could afford a bracelet

could

Well, only someone from the palace could afford a bracelet like that.
Grammar · C1which means you are

non-restrictive which

At least, not most servants, which means you are a handmaid to the princess.
Phrase · B2get out moreI should get out more.
Phrase · B2in yearsThe people haven't seen her in years.
Phrase · B2lock someone awaySo she's kept locked away.
Phrase · B2have nothing to do with somethingBut the people of Agrabah had nothing to do with that.
Phrase · B1on one's ownBeen on my own ever since.
Soundon my own

liaison

Been on my own ever since.
Phrase · B2get byWe get by.
Grammar · B1things will be different

that-omission

Every day I just think things will be different...
Phrase · B1seem to do somethingbut it never seems to change.
Phrase · B2be born into somethingLike you can't escape what you were born into?
Grammar · B2what you were born into

what-clause

Like you can't escape what you were born into?
Phrase · A2get back to somewhereI have to get back to the palace.

Aladdin Shares His Rooftop Home, explained

What's really going on

On the surface this is a charming rooftop meet-cute: a street thief guessing a girl's rank from her jewelry, the two of them bonding over a song. But the scene keeps turning toward what each of them can't escape. "Come and go as we please" sounds like freedom until she answers with "They won't let her," describing a princess locked away since the queen was killed. The line about the people having "nothing to do with that" is a first real glimpse of the injustice under the palace walls. When she admits she feels trapped and he asks, "Like you can't escape what you were born into?" the gap between them shrinks: the thief and the handmaid share the same sentence, just different cages. The ease of the rooftop - tea, songs, a view of the city - is exactly what the rest of the story is fighting to keep.

Theme

IdentityBoth admit they feel trapped by the lives they were born into, and the rooftop becomes the one place they can say it out loud.
ClassA street thief reads a girl's rank off her bracelet and silk, making the wall between palace and street the scene's quiet subject.

Listen for

  • Come and go — liaison
  • out of there — liaison
  • on my own — liaison
Just me and Abu. Come and go as we please.

He's showing off the one luxury a street kid has: a home with no rules, where nobody tells him when to stay or go.

You are quite the magician.

A playful compliment dressed as a fact: the guess about her being from the palace was clever, and she says so with a smile.

But the people of Agrabah had nothing to do with that.

He refuses to let the city be blamed for the queen's death, separating ordinary people from the crime that frightened the palace.

Like you can't escape what you were born into?

He names the fear exactly: that your birth decides your whole life, whether you're a thief or a handmaid.

It's all I remember of her.

The song is the only thing left of his mother. Saying it plainly, without self-pity, is what makes the moment land.

Questions about this scene

How does Aladdin figure out that she's from the palace?

He spots her bracelet, which only palace money could buy, and the imported silk lining of her clothes - details most servants wouldn't have.

Why does she say she feels trapped?

She's a handmaid kept inside the palace walls; since the queen was killed, the sultan has kept the princess and everyone around her shut away, so she can't leave.

Do Aladdin and the girl already know each other?

No. They've just met after he helps her escape a chase, and the rooftop is where they start trading stories instead of insults.

Is the rooftop scene romantic?

It leans that way. The two share songs and loss, and by the end neither wants her to go back, though she says she has to return to the palace.

Aladdin · 24 chapters

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Up next · Chapter 4Remember your placeJafar Manipulates the Sultan
Chapter 1The diamond in the roughThe Mariner Tells Aladdin's StoryChapter 2one jump aheadAladdin's One Jump Ahead ChaseWatching · Chapter 3Come and go as we pleaseAladdin Shares His Rooftop HomeChapter 4Remember your placeJafar Manipulates the SultanChapter 5like you own the placeAladdin Sneaks into the PalaceChapter 6nothing comes for freeJafar Offers Aladdin a DealChapter 7see the light of dayAladdin Enters the Cave of WondersChapter 8ring a bellGenie Explains the Three WishesChapter 9the cherry on topAladdin Becomes Prince AliChapter 10weak in the kneesPrince Ali's Grand ParadeChapter 11out of the gamePrince Ali's Awkward First ImpressionChapter 12see right through someoneAladdin Panics as Prince AliChapter 13in a charming sort of a wayA Prince Calls on the PrincessChapter 14crystal clearAladdin's Magic Carpet RideChapter 15shine throughJafar Unveils Aladdin's LieChapter 16in the neighborhoodGenie Backdates a Wish to Save AladdinChapter 17under a spellJasmine Exposes JafarChapter 18live a lieGenie Confronts Aladdin's LieChapter 19seen and not heardJafar Seizes the Sultan's ThroneChapter 20written in stoneJasmine Turns Hakim Against JafarChapter 21the ends of the earthJafar Exposes AladdinChapter 22nothing withoutJasmine Grabs the LampChapter 23mark my wordsJafar Wishes to Be the Most PowerfulChapter 24owe you everythingAladdin's Last Wish Frees the Genie
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