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This dynamic comes to a head in the film’s spectacular climax atop the Vanishing Isle. Saluk, now in possession of the Hand of Midas, uses it to devastating effect, turning the entire treasure chamber and several of his own men into golden statues in his wake. He represents the logical end of a life without love—a lonely king atop a throne of gold, surrounded by silent, gilded corpses. He doesn’t want to rule a kingdom; he wants a monument to himself.

But the comedy—and the horror—of the Hand of Midas is that it turns everything to gold. Sa’luk’s victory is instantaneous. He realizes too late that he is holding a curse. He screams as the gold travels up his arm, freezing him in a literal statue of his own greed. aladdin and the king of thieves saluk