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But or Rent - Anastasia - • Anastasia
The evil wizard Rasputin (Christopher Lloyd) puts a hex on the royal Romanovs and young Anastasia (Meg Ryan) disappears when their palace is overrun. Years later, the Grand Duchess (Angela Lansbury) offers a reward for Anastasia's return. Two scheming Russians (John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer), planning to pawn off a phony, hold auditions and choose an orphan girl with a remarkable resemblance to the missing princess. They bring her to Paris for the reward, not knowing she's the real Anastasia.
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I can not watch this movie for YEARS and Once Upon a December will still creep into my head on a nearly daily basis.
Ok so not just me then
I watch this movie with my mom every so often 🥰 it’s one of the few hand drawn movies she actually likes
I use to dance around with my kids, when they were little, to it. They still love it and they are in their 20's now.
@@MsWillowbayOrelse cute 😭
This 👏 Ever since I watched this movies when I was a kid, I’ll sometimes just start humming or singing Once Upon A December
When you asked if the dog (Pooka) is her spirit animal, I actually have a theory that the dog is a reincarnation of her younger brother that we see in her memories and the grand painting inside the castle… just because at the beginning she asks for a “sign” and this dog appears from nowhere in inches of snow and the cherry on top is that historically this dog was inspired by the real-life pet, but the dog, named joy, was the younger brothers dog). So in a way, yes Pooka is her spirit guide.
Also in some Slavic traditions, Puka is known as a playful or mischievous spirit, so you're not too far off here!!
A year later, but I agree completely. The dog and brother have the same haircut!
@@morganmise7658 Celtic...it got adopted by the Germanic people and Scandinavians but I don't think it ever transferred to Slavs. Whatever, Celts and Slavs were pretty similar so who knows
To answer the question about Kirsten Dunst and Lacey Chabert, they didn't play Anastasia, they played Young Anastasia. Kirsten Dunst did the speaking lines and Lacey Chabert did the singing. The Anastasia that we follow for the majority of the movie is voiced by Meg Ryan and sung by Liz Callaway.
Thank you. I came here to post this and am thrilled someone beat me to it.
@@julienichols5333get a life
This movie is inspired by the rumor which started after the Russian Revolution in 1917.
The Czars of Russia, The Romanov family were massacred (in Yekaterinburg) after the Czar abdicated that year and rumors started to spread of Anastasia and her younger brother Alexei about they scaping and being alive (which later bringed a lot of girls to say they were Anastasia) then in the 90s when the bodys of the Russian family were found they discovered that it was not Anastasia but her sister Maria and Alexei's bodies that were separated from the others but everyone died in 1917 that night. It was a tragedy. (The movie is inspired by those girls who tried to make the Empress (the Czars Mother who was still alive) believe Anastasia was alive and it was them.
+leadertaeyeon Those gold-digging imposters were heartless, trying to fool a grieving old woman who lost everything.
"Abdicated"
I mean that's one way of putting it
DON'T LOOK UP WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IF YOU HAVE A WEAK STOMACH
This movie was based on the legend of the Grand Duchess Anastasia. The Romanov family was murdered in 1918 but, for a long time, it was believed that Anastasia might had survived and several women falsely claimed to have been Anastasia. In 2007, ten years after this movie was made, it was confirmed that Anastasia died in 1918 with her family.
"Why are they so upset? Hm that palace is gigantic."
You have answered your own question
This movie was completely a "what if Anastasia lived" movie. It was still beautiful and I remember my old dance studio used a couple songs from the movie.
It’s kind of weird to think about it because by the time the film was out, Anastasia’s body still wasn’t found so the rumors of her survival were still weren’t that far-fetched. Her body wasn’t found until 2007, 10 years after the movie came out.
I love how they constantly emphasize the light shining in her eyes whenever Dimitri is really looking at her. It happens when they meet, when they almost kiss on the boat, and especially noticeable when he tries to confess his feelings at the ballet
actually the light is meant to show whenever she talks about family and the love she wants from it, but the reason it shows when she talks to Dmitri at the ballet is because she realized that love does not just mean blood.
1. It would be remiss of me not to point out that this is based on the actual fall of the Russian monarchy, and the youngest daughter, Anastasia's rumored survival.
2. "In The Dark Of The Night" is one of my all-time favorite villain songs.
3. I can't wait to see your reactions to the other Don Bluth movies. They seriously gave Disney a run for their money in the 1980's.
_In the Dark of the Night_ was sung by Jim Cummings. Aka Winnie the Pooh.
i'm pretty sure Don Bluth worked for disney for a while then had a falling out with them so he started to try out preforming disney, this one was great.
@@80sCanadian Exactly. Rasputin was brought into the picture because it was rumoured that he might be able to heal the crown prince's haemophilia.
@@80sCanadian it says youngest daughter and Anastasia was the youngest daughter as Alexi was the youngest son
I love his movies, like quest for Camelot or Thumbelina
The majority of this movie is set in 1926, 10 years after the prologue (which is set in 1916). So electricity was relatively widespread, cars had been invented, and sewers had been present in Paris for centuries at that point. Also, the play was Cinderella.
“I guess it’s not a Disney film.” Yeah, that’s always a common misconception with Anastasia. Being a musical film like most of the well-known Disney films, it’s common for many to mistake this Fox film to be part of the Disney film library, even more so since Anastasia is on Disney+ now.
That's because Disney bought 20th century fox along with all their movie properties.
@@chuckrothans7535 I don't think so, people thought Anastasia was Disney long before Disney bought Fox.
@@kiraalldredge48 yes but it wasn't Disney to begin with. I wasn't saying that people thought it was a Disney movie because it was on Disney plus please actually read what I wrote. Many people thought it was a Disney movie because it literally looks like a Disney movie. Literally back in the day the vast majority of good hand drawn animated movies were made by Disney. Most people didn't even both to even watch other animated movies from other studios because many of them didn't have that special quality that Disney's hand drawn animated movies did. Anastasia was one of the lucky few because it's animation style and quality looks like Disney's.
@@kiraalldredge48 that’s true
@@chuckrothans7535 what was the point of your first comment then? How were they supposed to interpret what you wrote since they apparently read it wrong, sassy pants 😑
This movie is very beautiful and touching. And what makes it even more interesting is that it was inspired by the real Romanov family. I’m so glad that you’re reacting to this movie. 😊
No, actually, the Romanovs and Rasputin were friends. It’s just that no one knows whether this friendship was real or Rasputin used it. But in any case, they had a good relationship! (But all this does not mean that I do not like this cartoon)
@@KoychyOdo inspired by is different from based on. This movie was definitely loosely inspired by the real Romanov family and the 1917 Red October Revolution. Its just that the story strays pretty far from what really happened because it is a children's animation. You can't really make a children's movie that's based on the real events because you'd have to show things like the entire Romanov family get slaughtered and their corpses burned.
I love how it got you when Vlad says “Our Anya has found her family” cause that part always makes me emotional 🥲 maybe because he called her OUR Anya and I just think it’s so darn sweet how close they all got on their journey and this line really solidifies that
The true story is depressing and devastating. The royal family basically made their people starve and work in terrible conditions. Nicholas wasn't a strong leader, sort advice from bad people, didn't want or knew how to rule Russia, made bad decisions, causing the death of his family, except his mother.
My mom use to sing me Once Upon a December but the spanish version by Thalia for me to go to sleep as a kid. Sucks Anastasia wasn't considered a Disney Princess, but she was my favorite princess and still is now as a 23 year old woman.
Well she wasn't a disney princess. Fox was a whole different company, disney just bought it
Why does it "suck" that she is not a Disney princess? Disney doesn't have to OWN all princesses!
The reason why Rasputin would hate them is actually in history. Anastasia’s mother trusted him for his spiritual practices and thought he could save their young son that had an incurable disease but the people of Russia didn’t like a lot of them and what they did.
Anastasia had a HUGE impact on me as an artist along with the '90s Disney Renaissance movies (Hunchback and Aladdin in particular). I was 13 when Anastasia hit theaters, and I drew Anya and Dimitri endlessly because I loved the art style.
Now that I'm a 37-year-old illustrator for a living, I STILL get people who ask me if I used to like Anastasia because they recognize the style influence in my work (especially cheeks in profile), which amuses me to no end.😂
Hello fellow artist. Do you post your art anywhere? I'd love to see!
@@artsysabs I tried to answer you once, I didn't use any external links, and YT still axed it.🙄 Besides a speedpaint I have here on YT, all of my other socials where I post stuff are listed on the About tab of my channel. I post to all the major places, basically.
@@kriscynical cool thanks :)
I was a baby when this came out! Have always loved Dimitri tehe
Fun fact: ITunes had Anastasia listed/filtered as a Disney film for years, before Disney bought Fox Animation.
Ironic fact: Don Bluth left Disney over an argument of hand animation vs CGI. Yet this film of his opened on CGI with the music box.
Surprise fact: _In the Dark of the Night_ was sung by Jim Cummings. Aka Winnie the Pooh.
From what I remember learning in class, the Russian revolution took place because the Romanovs ruled Russia for over 300 years and people (especially lower class) has grown sick and tired of living in poverty, while royalties lived in such luxury and grandeur, which they accuse to be made possible by endless corruption (basically same thing that triggered the French Revolution).
Also, I just looked Rasputin up. He was apparently a real figure. He was a drunken peasant who claimed to be a holy man with healing powers and ability to predict the future. He gained favor of the czar when he helped heal Nicholas II's son. Rasputin was later murdered by Russian nobles to cease his strong influences and manipulations over the royal family.
As many people have said in the comments, Anastasia is a loose adaption of the fall of the Romanov family and the rumors of her survival after the revolution. Historically, Rasputin has his own significant history and played a significant role in the family and royal decisions. Both are histories you should check out because the movie is written with assumption that people are knowledgeable (to at least a basic extent) of the histories. Absolutely LOVE this movie though.
Anastasia is one of my tops for Don Bluth films! Being an animated musical, I was very engaged in the story. I never saw it on the big screen, only on vhs. I really like the soundtrack to this film, my favorites being “Once Upon a December,” “In the Dark of the Night,” and At the Beginning.” Also, I love the animation as well, probably the best I’ve seen in any Don Bluth film!
I'm sobbing like I don't know who in this one scene, where Anastasia and the Grandmother recognized each other.
Angela Lansbury is the voice of the grandmother and she looks like my own granny, who died in 2015.
I read her the lyrics of "Once upon a December" to her birthday, one year before her death. She lived her whole life in Russia, I moved to Germany at the age of six. She always told me to not forget where I came from.
I'll never forget, Бабушка.
This movie means everything to me. So glad you liked it!
FINALLY!! I adore this movie so much, and the singing is gorgeous, and the voice cast!!! The art! Just... gorgeous.
this movie is so special to me! such a powerful story
Oh my god, MY MOM AND I LOVE ANASTASIA!!!!!! I grew up watching this movie my whole life!!!! It's one of my favorite Don Bluth movies next to Thumbelina! You should add Thumbelina to your list.
Totally agree!
This and Thumbelina are my all time favorite princess movies.
I only know the soviet Thumbelina 😂
@@KoychyOdo I don't believe I've seen that. I watched the 1994 20th century thumbelina religiously as a child. I was so excited when ot got onto Disney plus I watch it there immediately xD
When I was a kid, I considered Anastasia a Disney princess to me even though she’s originally from Fox lol (and my most favorite) also that Once Upon a December is the most saddest song I’ve ever heard- I still can not cry whenever I hear it today.
Love this movie and this music so much.
Another movie like this that is not Disney, but I still think is good is The Swan Princess from 1994.
"What else is there?"
I love this movie!!!
@@CrystalGoddess90 "You should write a book: How to offend a women in five syllables or less!"
I loved that movie as a kid
I love this movie and grew up watching it all the time, but the actual history is pretty glossed over. I do appreciate it a lot because it inspired me to look more into the real life events and how so many factors played into the Russian Revolution. It’s really fascinating if you ever have the time or desire to read books or watch documentaries on it!
Barton was my favorite character in this show aside from the main loved this dude. “And then I’ll kick her sir.” 😂
Thank you for reacting and as Anastasia fan, I'm happy you enjoy it! Anastasia is really a journey finding home, love, and family. I agree Rasputin isn't that great of a villain, but I still stand by that Anastasia 1997 has the best romance in animated movie! Anya and Dimitri are such a delight!
So to answer, there is no Anastasia II, they end it on a open note (a perfect beginning) because the movie want to potray the ambiguity of Anastasia whereabouts (Anastasia is a real life daughter of the last Emperor of Russia). But I love how it ended! Anya finding her family, which is her grandma and elloped with the man she loves. She doesn't care about her titled and royal life, she found home, love, family 💗 and that's all that matter.
Also yes, because Dimitri is not royal he can't marry or even in same social league of Anya. If Anya take her title, even tho Russian empire had been dethroned, she will still be royal cuz well European royals all related anyway. And in fact it's true that "Princesses don't marry kitchen boys"
Same director/producer as Titan AE, Don Bluth, he's the guy who got me to want to be an animator with the first film he did after leaving Disney, The Secret of Nimh. He followed up with An American tail, Land before time, All dogs go to heaven, Thumbelina,Anastesia, Troll in central park and Titan AE. I might be forgetting one or two. Also did laserdisc based video games using the same style of animation Dragon's lair, Dragon's lair 2 and Space Ace. He's been pushing for years to try to turn Dragon's lair into a movie. Failing to make it animated, he is currently working on a live action version.
On a side note, worth checking out is the live action 1956 version of Anastasia staring Yul Bryner. A very different take on the Anastasia rumor.
"What play are they doing?"
Sergei Prokofiev's "Cinderella" ballet.
I actually remember watching an episode of Unsolved Mysteries which was about one of the actual women claiming to be princess Anastasia who was an old lady at that point and whether it was her or not. Unfortunately in 2007, after this movie was made, DNA evidence confirmed that the real princess Anastasia was indeed murdered with the rest of her family in 1918. But when this movie was made there were still rumors that she survived
Sounds like someone needs a Bolshevik Revolution refresher course!
not just a refresher course, more like an entire history lessons!
He hadn't even heard of Anastasia and the Romanov’s before the film. But he is Canadian and therefore his head of state is Queen Elizabeth the II of Great Britain and Anastasia was Elizabeth's second or third cousin
Anastasia was QE2's second cousin once removed through Queen Victoria as well as second cousin once removed through Christian IX. She also was Prince Phillip's first cousin once removed. The Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna (Anastasia's grandmother) and Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom (Queen Elizabeths great grandmother) were sisters, both daughters of Christian of Denmark.
All those 90s voices! Meg Ryan was Anastasia (except the singing). Angela Lansbury, Christopher Lloyd, John Cusack, Kelsey Grammar, Hank Azaria!
always excited to see your reactions! the word you're looking for when you talk about the Once Upon a December scene is rotoscope animation or rotoscoping, when animators trace over frames of real life footage to make realistic looking animation :D
I always forget this, but Rasputin is voice by Chritopher Lloyd. Same guy who plays Doc Brown!
Time for the other Don Bluth films!
Watch Thumbelina if you want Dimitri as a fairy prince, American Tail if you want Vladimir as a mouse, or Land Before Time if you want a heart-wrenching scary film.
This movie was definitely a favorite of mine growing up. I even had the Anastasia and Dimitri dolls that you put on special stand and they waltz together. I remember seeing this movie in theaters for one of my birthdays with a bunch of friends and then we went to go eat at Burger King where they had the Anastasia toys with the kids meals lol 🤣 damn, I totally just remembered that lol
So this movie is based on the real life lost princess story of Anastasia. She was the youngest daughter of Nicholas Romanov II. He and his German queen had 5 children. Four girls and one boy. The boy was the youngest. His name was Alexi. He was a hemophiliac, which means his blood could not clot and stop cuts from bleeding. This is where the Character Gregori Rasputin comes into the picture. He was a Keneth Copeland type figure in Imperial Russia. He was a faith healer. The man himself was demon possessed (more on that in a moment). The Tsar called him in to heal Alexi. The creepo prayed over the kid after a bad fall and he was better within a few days. That was proof enough for the royals that Rasputin was the real deal. He became a trusted fixture within the Romanov household. However, he soon gained an unhealthy amount of influence over Russia, and the common people along with the royal guard all soon recognized it. It became known that Rasputin engaged in sexual debauchery and even had an affair with the Russian queen herself. He was eventually ousted from the palace, but eventually let back in. Time passes and the royal guards have had enough. They decide to assassinate Rasputin. They invited him to a party in the basement of the Hermitage, where they had set out a number of plated desserts which were laced with cyanide. Rasputin gobbled down four cupcakes, which had enough cyanide to kill four men, and was completely unaffected. A guard excused himself and came back a short time later with a pistol and shot Rasputin several times, and he fell to the ground. The guards left for a time and came back to dump the body. Rasputin however jumped back up and tried to run. They shot him a few more times and he fell again. The guards then took Rasputin to the river and threw him in. (He was dead long before the Bolshevik Revolution, unlike portrayed in the movie). His body was found the next day and an autopsy was done. Despite there being a bullet in his head, that wasn’t what killed Rasputin. It wasn’t even cyanide. It was drowning. Anyhow, WW1 was in full swing and the Germans decided to get Russia out of the war, and the way they did it was to sent Vladimir Lenin back to Russia by train. (He was in exile) when he arrived in Russia, Lenin was greeted by crowds of cheering people. This kicked off the Bolshevik Revolution. It ended with Nicholas abdicating the throne. The White guard had initially taken control of the capitol, but the Bolsheviks came not long after and took it from them, and captured the royal family. He put them in house arrest for a year. At some point, they finally decided to massacre the entire family. Anastasia, the youngest daughter did not escape. Sorry :( Her remains were eventually found in 2007 not far from the rest of the family. Somehow, not long after the massacre, a legend started up that she had somehow escaped and was alive. The legend was partially created by the grandma character, who in real life was in Paris at the time of the revolution and thus escaped. She lived out her days in Paris, and offered a huge reward for anyone who could reunite her with her granddaughter. She was certain that Anastasia had escaped.
The revolution happened in 1917, so this movie actually takes place in 1927 minus the scenes when she's a child. Also, adult Anastasia is voiced by Meg Ryan, Kirsten voiced her as a child
If you are into history, the story of Anastasia and Rasputin is fascinating.
Ooooooh, this is my favorite animated movie of all time. Nice!
7:50 I think the term you were looking for is rotoscoping. They pretty much trace over live action film of an actress frame for frame. The animated Lord of the Rings film uses the same technique
the joy i felt getting this notification!!! thank you for giving this non disney/pixar/dreamworks classic a chance. it's one of my all time favourites and I'm so excited to see your reaction!
WOOHO Anastasia is one of my childhood movies! Thank u for reacting to it 🤍🫶🏽
Rasputin's song is one of the BEST villain songs ever.
He was also just a scorned employee and they 'fired' him because he was doing dark magic. No empathy for him.
Anastasia was also nothing like any Disney princess in her day because she killed the villain. Maybe now they do that but none of that was happening with Disney princesses back when I was a child. She is still my favourite princess, period.
I was heavy into singing and musical theater at the time this came out, and loved all the songs. Thank you. Have fun with more Don Bluth
Nicholas II of the house Romanov rose to the throne as Emperor of Russia and King of Poland in November 1894, after the demise of his father, the very conservative Tsar (Emperor) Alexander III, inexperienced, he (sadly) followed in his father's footsteps as Autocrat (absolute monarch) instead of his grandfather's own, the reformist Alexander II, his reign was the last thing Russia knew of glory. Even at the very beginning, his reign had been stained with blood, as on his coronation day, many died trempled to death as it was so badly organized (seen as a bad omen), furthermore, his reign was one of the least stable of Russia's history, as he was one of the many monarch who launched WWI, being illprepared militarily and always as historically backward both technologicaly and socially, Russia's regime was not as it best when it started. At first, things went well, then they lost Poland, Estonia, Lituania, Lettonia, etc.
But matters became worse when Wilhelm II, the Kaiser of Germany and cousin of Nicolas II, sent bck Lenin, the then communist exile (who had a personnal grudge against the Romanov's rule), back to Russia as a way to weaken Russia into surrender.
Though the Kaiser probably didn't thought it would become that bad, it matter not as he only sealed the coffin of the Romanov Dynasty's fate even more.
In 1917, it all went down the drain, Lenin caused a riot in Saint-Pertersburg which spread to most of Russia's western parts, Nicholas II abdicated on a train ride with his entire close family, they were then put into house arrest by the reds, but as a civil war broke out, Lenin ordered their execution, it occured in a basement, when the entire family, including the children, were shot.
In the end, only Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, the communists, remained, bringing about a new and darker age for Europe, Asia and the world.
This is the sad reality that wasn't shown into that movie, which I'm glad was not depicted in this masterpiece, as it keep the memories of a beautiful Russia and fairytale alive.
I highly reccomend the Movie "BArtok, the Magnificent." Yes. The Main Character is the bat. And it is a _RIDE_ !
I really love this movie, but the Real Life Story that inspired it is also extremely interesting.
Why were the People so angry? Well, apart from a growing discontent with Royalty throughout Europe that got started by the French Revolution and never really stopped since then, There was a famine and also WWI. Tsar Nicholas was, to put it mildly, wildly incompetent as a battlecommander, but insisted on doing all the decisions himself, Costing thousand of lifes on the battlefront. It is often said that, without WWI Nicholai would have probably been rememberd with disregard, if at all, but this unique position in history exaggerated his worst qualities.
The whole beginning is the start of the Russian Revolution, which brought the communist Regime to the forefront. If that was better or worse for Russia in the long haul... who can say.
Rasputin. Rasputin, Rasputin, Rasputin... well, he probably wasn#t an evil sorcerer and, most notably, he never split with the Rpoyal Family. Rasputin was called a holy man and a miracle healer, but had also quiet a Reputation for enjoying the.. worldly things in life, shall we say. There were Rumors that he had an affair with the Queen. This isn't confirmed and while they were very close, this was mainly because of the "Miracle Healer" Aspect of his Character. See, Anastasia was the Youngest of four Sisters. She didn't even get a typically russian Name, because her Parents were so dissapointed that she wasn't a boy - as they needed an Heir to the throne. But then Alexei was born. Alexei was quickly diagnosed with Haemophilia, a disease that he got from his mothers side, on which it was rather prevelant. Alexandra, the Tsarina blamed herself terribly. Thus, she did everything she could to help Alexei and ease his symptoms. As an Example: Alexei once nearly died from Bruises he got when a carriage ride was too bumby, because he was so terribly fragile.
There are at least two Accounts of Alexandra contacting Rasputin after an especially hard case of the Illness and after following his advice to leave the young Tsarevitch alone so he could pray fro him, Alexei recovered remarkably fast.
Now, this probably had less to do with Rasputins healing prayer and more with the fact that Alexei was left alone by his doctors, who gave him Aspirin, a _bloodthinner_ . Not the best thing for someone who is already bleeding internally....
Sadly, the Story of the Romanov Family ends n even more tragedy then in the movie. After the Palace was stormed, they were held by the new regime for quite some time and during this time fully expected to be released and freed by ransom through one of the other noble houses of Europe, many of which had bloodties to the Romanovs. But the Red army had no intention of risking a re-emergance of Royalty. So when the rescuers got to close, they ordered the whole family into the basement and shot them. it wasn't an easy death either, for more details, watch a documentry or the Video by Caitlyn Doughty from the " Ask a Mortician" Channel.
Now, the Reason why it was believed that Anastasia had survived is rather morbid: To obsure the identitoes of the Romanovs, the Corpses where buried in two seperate graves. Only one of them was initially found and two of the children were missing: Alexei and one of the girls, though it was inconclusive to say whether it was Anastasia or her Sister Maria. That, plus the fact that Anastasias Name means "Ressurection" Lead to the rumors of her being still alive.
One part that is very sadly true to Reality is the string of fake Anastasias vying for her grandmothers attention. One even lived multiple Years with her. It is absolutely heartbreaking that after all this time, her Grandmother had to live with the fact that the whole Romanov Family was indead dead.
+Saiyasha I love this post!
The animators on this movie were from Disney. Don Bluth was the head animator who was also from the company. They left after they felt unheard and ended up with fox. Don Bluth also did Secret of Nimh, American Tail, Land Before Time and Titan A.E. to name a few.
You should check out the Broadway Musical version of this! The production was so much more devastating and haunting
In her nightmare, before the scares began, those were her actual siblings. A for Rasputin's motivation, check out the Bolshevik Revolution.
As someone who's obsessed about the Romanovs (since I was 11), even watching the cartoon/ fantasy version of their fate still feels sad. I think if any of their close relatives are still alive to see this, they would've wanted this ending instead. About 8 months after this movie was released, she and her family were finally laid to rest.
The real story of the Romanov family is creepy, none of them survived irl and I think the biggest reason they got overthrown was poor leadership…? Been a while since I brushed up on my history lol. Love this movie, though! It’s whimsical, had a great soundtrack and the art was amazing.
This movie has one of the best non-disney soundtrack ever
12:13 the passports are out of date when Russia was under control of the Soviet Union at that time when passports are then in red and used to be blue. Btw Don Bluth used to work for Disney as a background animator along with Gary Goldman and then he got himself involved for the animation scene in Xanadu, he make his own studio by their first film The Secret of NIMH and The Land Before Time but unfortunately for the rest of his films flopped big time except for Anastasia. That is until Titan A.E. Flop miserably. Will anyway, the point is Don Bluth is getting back in the swing of things with making a live action video game based movie Dragon’s Lair (he also worked for the video game industry) but for me personally from what I heard about Don valued to to make live action ever again scene his previous production on Rock a Doodle.
“Was there electricity?”
*pauses*
That’s a good question.
Yes! We humans started using electricity in 1878. ✨✨✨
Fun fact: Romanovs even had a lift in their palace, installed before 1900 and a screening booth to show movies.
@@lalalalalalwlla the lift makes sense since Alexandra Feodorovna (mother of Anastasia) suffered from sciatica for many years and was pretty bound to a wheelchair for her pregnancies.
You really think there wasn't a sewer system back in the 1800's? Come on JV, a history recap wouldn't harm you.
This movie is rlly underrated-
Im obsessed with it since my childhood and i still watch it everyday
I love this story and movie so much. The music and costums etc are amazing.
I saw the Dutch musical in 2020 and it took me awhile to adjust to the songs having hear them in English. The story is a little different but the costums/set/actors were amazing!!! The blue dress she wears was a vision to see on the stage😍
My god I remember renting this, Thumbelina and We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story from the library over and over as a kid. This was one of my favorites!
Thank you for reacting to this.
This movie always hits so close to home...
I was born in America, and then my mom and dad were forced to give up after 2 weeks.
Then I somehow ended up here in Finland.
I of course don't remember, at least not much from that time... I remember only like silhouettes of my parents and I feel their warmth.
I never felt at home with the parents who raised me.
So when I finally did the dna test in 2019, after my father passed away, I was shell shocked to say the least. Not because I'm not from here, but because of the fact that my real parents died after a few days from when they were forced to give me up.
I'm just glad that I remember how I felt with them, and that they're not suffering anymore.
And that I'll meet them again, some day.
I somehow had it in my head that everyone had heard of Anastasia Romanov and the rumors around her death. She was a real life person. this is a highly romanticized film and not at all true, but the mystery of Anastasia had captivated people's imaginations for an entire generation and eventually spawned this film. I LOVE this movie. You should look up who she and her family really were and how they ended in real life though. A major moment in history :)
Btw, it's not pronounced anesthesia, which is what you were saying. That's what doctors use to put patients under before surgery hehe. There are no e's in her name :)
It was made by Don Bluth who was previously a Disney animator but left the company to make his own movies.
Anastasia was what one could call an "Expensive Disney Knock-Off" done by Fox. They even got Don Bluth, a former Disney animator who started working on his own animated films in the late 1980s, to head the project (Don Bluth's responsible for fantastic and dark animated films such as "An American Tail," "The Land Before Time," "Thumbelina," and "The Secret of NYHM" as well as "The Dragon's Lair" which is one of the hardest video games you'll ever play.)
This one always hits a little hard for me. My family ancestry is Russian and my great great grandparents escaped to America a few years before the Revolution.
Also, the movie was eventually adapted into a stage musical. It's radically different from the film but it still kept some of the best songs.
@JV's Galactic Adventures The reason why the people rebelled against the czar and the royal family in real life had to do with the rise of the soviet union(communist part) because they felt that their imperial leaders were basically hogging all the wealth, resources, and power to themselves. Back then the people felt that the solution to the problem was to over throw the government, replace it with the political party that they felt had their best interests at heart ( but was actually even more crupt than the previous regime) and then loot the place of all the valuables and then capture and do horrible things to all the members of the czars family( things that wouldn't be appropriate to say on here) right before finally killing them all.
Yo I just recently started watching your videos and I LOVE this movie lol ☺️🥰 Also another GREAT Don Bluth movie is called A Troll in Central Park ☺️🥰🥰🥰
OH MY GOD YESSSS this is one of my ultimate favorite movies 🤍
And I recall his yellow cat..... I don't believe we mentioned that 😂
The first and only movie to feature the 1997 TCF fanfare (until 1998).
The greatest reaction 💯
About Rasputin's motivation the thing is Rasputin is based on a real person. Rasputin was very close with the czarina (the russian queen, kinda) and with her son. The son was ill and Rasputin was the only one who knew how to help him, this made Rasputin very important for the Royal family.
He was kinda creepy and he influenced the queen badly, thats why many important people didnt like him. They tried to kill him several times because he was a bad influence and actually his influence sped up the russian revolution against the monarchy.
The movie is loosley based on this. So in the movie, Rasputin is considered kind of a traitor who was first their confidant but after that, he became a traitor. Then he makes all the dark magic to make the revolution happen and during the revolution the royal family is killed.
The fact that anastasia was not killed by the revolution in the movie, is also based on the real history, as anastasia and his little brothers bodies were not found with the bodies of the rest of the family. So people suspected that they escaped and were alive, somewhere.
Some girls even pretended to be anastasia for the money. And this was the inspiration for this movies plot.
Unfortunatelly, the bodies were eventually found and it is confirmed that anastasia and her brother also died at the revolution.
This movie is so magical ✨💖✨
I have always loved Anastasia. Not only did I love the storyline, despite most of it being inaccurate to the actual account of Anastasia, but I loved the songs, the animation, and of course the characters. My favorite songs especially would be “In The Dark Of The Night,” “Learn To Do It,” and “At The Beginning.” Anyway, thanks for reviewing this film. Also, as far as non-Disney animated films at least go, I would still recommend Quest For Camelot, The Road To El Dorado, and Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron to name a few. Anyway, thanks again!
I know the 1920’s were a long time ago but, yes, sewers systems and cars, electricity were already a thing…I mean we’re not talking about the meddle age’s.
this movie is all! i started watched it with 4yo in 98 and it was in english bc it was pretty new so i did learned some words until i had it in spanish and I've been watching it for over 20 years now haha I love so much the music and the amazing drawings on every background scene😍 thanks to this movie i was so happy to learn about the russian revolution too in history classes, is a very dark story tho but interesting. There's a mini documentary about how they did the movie narrated by Aaliyah, who made a song for the soundtrack.
Originally a Fox 21st century feature, but in the buy-out became a Disney Princess. More Mysticism than magic. Kirsten Dunst, young Anastasia, Meg Ryan adult Anya/Anastasis, Liz Callaway as the singing voice of adult Anya. If you liked this movie, the same director did Thumbelina, All Dogs Go to Heaven and An American Tail.
Awesome movie. You need to watch a Romanov family documentary to have more context ☺️
If you get the chance to see the broadway musical of Anastasia from a few years ago you should absolutely do so! The music is just as incredible as the og animation and the story incorporates the rise of the Soviet Union and communism at this time which makes a more compelling villain in my opinion.
Pooka, the dog, isn't a spirit animal, but there is a dog on the family portrait that looks a lot like him, if he wasn't super-well groomed for a while. But that's would make Pooka a senior dog, at best. At worst, he's the puppy of the dog on the portrait.
I know this movie isn't the true story, but I still love the movie for what it is. I saw it in theaters with my grandmother years ago and as you can figure from my last sentence it was a favorite (my favorite right after the movie for a short time). I'm so happy I was finally able watch your movie reaction here on RUclips. I love Once Upon a December. Such a beautiful song. Anastasia in this movie is no damsel in distress or whimp in my book. Yes there are times Dimitri helps save her, but she did defeat Rasputin at the end once Pooka snatched Rasputin's reliquary and gave it to her. Also Anastasia shakes Dimitri's hand so hard it hurts him and then later on says something about men being babies. Anastasia is so strong and she's a fighter, yet she welcomes the help when needed in life and death situations. Her character is a good role model for anyone, not just girls. I agree on more of a back story on Rasputin and that other than that this film is perfect aside from I wish we could have seen Anastasia fix the dress Dimitri got for her or say something about tailoring it make it work. I heard there was a book that had her fixing it in it.
I STILL WOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND TO CHECK CAPTURE THE FLAG, though Anastasia is also one of my animated favorite non disney ones
This movie is based on real people. The Romanov family was murdered in 1918 and for many years it was a rumor going around that Anastasia survived and many people pretended to be her, but later we found out that she actually died with her family.
Rasputin was also a real person that worked for the Romanov family and he was a “sorcerer” of some kind.
Really interesting history!
In the Broadway musical the villain is a different person and has a way clearer backstory and motive
I absolutely love this film. I grew up with it. About 3 years ago I saw the touring Broadway musical of this, and it was amazing!
You should also watch THUMBELINA if you liked this.
when you mimic the accents/words is😂
7:45 If nobody else has said it, what you're talking about with the live actor reference in traditional animation is called rotoscoping.😊
7:50 it’s called rotoscoping!! It’s not really used too much anymore in major movies, but its a very popular way to animate
The metal cover of "In the dark of the night" by Jonathan Young is even more powerful
The context of the movie is real life. From what I remember, the royal family was living in extreme luxury while the people of Russia were dying in poverty, so they started a revolt against the tsar and imperial court members (kind of like the French revolution) and eventually the tsar, his wife, daughters and son were captured and later executed (although I think they spent some time in a camp, like a few weeks). Shortly after that, rumors said that Anastasia, the youngest daughter, hadn't actually been killed, or at least had survived. I think people said her younger brother had survived too. Many women later pretended to be a grown up Anastasia, but were all proven to be con artists, and they ended up finding the skeletons of Anastasia and her brother after some years. Also, Rasputin was a real person! He somehow helped healing the tsar's son who had hemophilia, and that gave him a lot of power over the royal family because they were grateful and thought he was some kind of magician (hence why he has magical powers here) or maybe a Jesus type of person, like a miracle healer. He abused that power a lot, was sleeping with many women including members of the royal court, got a lot of money, etc. Because of his influence and growing power, religious people and the aristocracy saw him as a threat, and in the end some aristocracy people tried to murder him, but he survived poison, being shot once, being beaten severely, and being shot a second time, all in the span of a couple hours, which sounded impossible and later started the rumors that he made a pact with the devil or something similar. They threw him in the water and he eventually drowned. If you have some time, it's worth looking up in my opinion.
It's based on a true story, Nicolas II of the Romanov, was the last Zar from Russia, the last emperor. And this is based on the legend that said that Anastasia survived.
She is not a Disney Princess, it was originally made by 20th Century Fox, but now Fox is owned by Disney, and that's why you can find it in Disney+
It's okay to cry.
Actually, Anastasia and Rasputin are actually based on real historical figures. Rasputin didn't sell his soul for immortality, but he did survive attempted murder several times (poisoned with cyanide in his food and drink, shot 3 times, and finally drowned). He was buried in secret so that no one would desecrate the body. Anastasia really did disappear, but there was not true magic involved in either her or Rasputin's story.
Great film!
Mr.Long Beard needed to brush his teeth!!!