Aladdin and the King of Thieves FIXED!!!

I think I've found a new obsession. I was happily enjoying my family's VHS copy of Aladdin and the King of Thieves. It was my favorite Aladdin movie as a kid. I especially loved Genie saying, "Brought to you by SAND. It's everywhere. Get used it." My favorite song is "Welcom to the Forty Thieves"--I always get Cassim's line 'larceny is in the genes' stuck in my head. He sounds so much like Sean Connery, I love it!

When the movie reached its climax and Cassim confessed to Aladdin that HE was the ultimate treasure, not the hand of Midas, it really bugged me that Cassim was still holding the hand of Midas and the dialogue just didn't drive the point home like it should have. It worked...but the scene could have been stronger. It should have been a LOT stronger. Cassim holding the golden hand while telling Aladdin that he's the most important thing in the world? Nah. Didn't buy it. So I decided to add a couple lines myself and rewrite the scene! I'm pretty pleased with the result, but I'd love to hear feedback from other people. I've posted a video of the original scene below and my rewritten dialogue below, with the new parts in bold. Let me know what you think! (please pardon the lines on the top of the TV screen. And the closed captions. I figured the captions were good to have in case the audio didn't come through)

Rewritten Scene:

Aladdin

                                        After all these years, you finally have you treasure.

Cassim

                                        This thing?

Cassim looks at the hand, then looks away, ashamed.

Cassim

                                        No. This wretched thing nearly cost me the ultimate treasure.                                                                 Because of this, I’ll never see my wife again.

Cassim drops the hand and hugs Aladdin fiercely.

Cassim

                                        And because of my greed, I almost lost you. 

Cassim pulls back to look Aladdin in the eye.

Cassim

                                        When Saluk was there, I knew that all the gold in the world could never                                         heal the pain of losing you again. You, my boy, you are my ultimate                                                   treasure. I’m sorry it took me this long to realize it.

Cassim picks up the hand of Midas and looks at it disdainfully.

Cassim

                                        The hand of Midas can take its curse to the bottom of the sea!

Cassim throws the hand into the ocean.

I really liked having Cassim mention his wife again. He only talks about her once, and I felt she should have been an important part of his 'admitting I was wrong all along' scene. By the way, recording video from a TV screen works okay, but the audio quality is LOUSY. Too echoey and spread out to get picked up by the camera's microphone. But, remembering that in film school we used sound blankets to soak up echoes and block out unwanted noise, I convinced my family to help me hold up blankets around the TV while my sister filmed the scene. The sound was 50x better! I love it when college degrees come in handy.

If you liked this scene, I'd love some suggestions on other scenes to fix in movies or current TV shows. Scenes that got under your skin because they didn't quite work and it messed up your enjoyment of the movie :)