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[[File:anastasiagu4.jpg|frame| The answer? [[Reality Subtext|Anastasia and her family were all killed in real life.]] Kind of a [[Downer Ending]], huh?]]
{{quote|"''All right, Disney, you win -- with your [[
|'''[[The Nostalgia Chick]]''' on ''Anastasia''.}}
[[Don Bluth]]'s 1997 [[Disneyfication|very loose adaption]] of a 1956 Ingrid Bergman film, which itself was already [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story|very, very loosely based]] on the 'life' of the Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia. The story of '''''Anastasia ''''' goes like this...▼
▲{{quote|"''All right, Disney, you win -- with your [[Princess|princesses]], and your [[The Musical|musicals]], and your [[Coming of Age]] stories with sweeping, snarky romances -- you win. If you can't beat them, join them. [[Follow the Leader|Copy the Disney formula and marketing strategy]], and you will make money.''"|'''[[The Nostalgia Chick]]''' on ''Anastasia''.}}
In 1916, Nicholas II, Czar of Russia, and his family, the Romanovs, were very happy until they were cursed by the evil [[Grigori Rasputin
▲[[Don Bluth]]'s 1997 [[Disneyfication|very loose adaption]] of a 1956 Ingrid Bergman film, which itself was already [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story|very, very loosely based]] on the 'life' of the Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia. The story goes like this...
▲In 1916, Nicholas II, Czar of Russia, and his family, the Romanovs, were very happy until they were cursed by the evil [[Rasputin the Mad Monk|Rasputin]] and their people revolted against them [[Hammer and Sickle Removed For Your Protection|for some mystical reason]], aided by demons. All of the Romanovs apparently died in the attack except the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna Romanova, the Czar's mother. A young kitchen boy helped Marie and one of the Czar's daughters, the eight-year-old Anastasia, escape. However, she and Marie got separated when Anastasia fell from a train and, presumably, died.
Ten years later (1926), Anya, an eighteen-year-old orphan making her way in the world for the first time, decides to head for Paris. She hopes to find her family there, guided by the message "Together in Paris" inscribed on the [[Orphan's Plot Trinket|necklace she was found with]] in an [[Easy Amnesia|amnesiac state]] as a child.
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The rest of the film deals with Anya learning to become more ladylike while Rasputin calls upon the powers of hell to try and kill her. The ending, like most animated movies, is a happy one; however, it is enlightening in a few ways. It's better if you see it.
Contrary to [[All Animation Is Disney|popular belief]], '''this movie was ''not'' produced by Disney'''. Though ironically enough, the film ''now counts as a Disney movie'' following The Walt Disney Company’s purchase of 20th Century Fox. The acquisition of Fox also made Anya a ''nominal'' if not ''de facto'' member of the [[Disney Princess]] franchise, and assuming she is acknowledged as such, the second to be based off a real person after [[Pocahontas]] (or the third if you count [[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs|Snow White]] being allegedly based off German countess Margaretha von Waldeck).
Got a [[Direct to Video]] prequel in the form of ''[[Bartok the Magnificent]]'',
▲Got a [[Direct to Video]] prequel in the form of ''[[Bartok the Magnificent]]'', <ref> (though all it has in common with the first movie is...Bartok. And that it's set in an even less historically accurate version of Russia.)</ref> which deals with the plucky little bat impressing people with his "[[Blatant Lies|special abilities]]". It's important to note that this is the only sequel that Bluth has ever been involved with.
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* [[All Animation Is Disney]]: Falls victim to this quite often. One of its more [[Disneyesque]] home video covers even provides the page image.
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** Most likely back to Rags, as girls from orphanages and reformed conmen who refuse reward money aren't known to be rolling in it. Unless {{spoiler|in addition to writing a hurried goodbye note, they stopped by her grandmother's office to take the reward money, but probably not. Though it is possible Grandma could be sending them something to live on. The ending more or less implies that Anya and Grandma will remain close.}}
* [[Rasputinian Death]]: Well, they got ''this'' part right.
** Not really. He {{spoiler|falls through some ice}} and {{spoiler|Anastasia smashes his [[Soul Jar|phylactery]].}} That's missing several important
*** Though he was made pretty much unkillable due to his [[Deal with the Devil]], so that could explain things...
* [[Red Headed Heroine]]: Anya/Anastasia.
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* [[Road Trip Romance]]
* [[The Roaring Twenties]]
* [[Rule of Symbolism]]: By [[Word of God]], the reason for the seeming [[
* [[Runaway Train]]: Complete with a graphically-explosive crash to top it all off, and Dimitri commenting afterward "I HATE trains, remind me to never get on a train again."
* [[Scenery Porn]]: The usage of CinemaScope ''really'' shows off some great views of St. Petersburg, Paris, and the interiors of palaces.
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* [[Villain Song]]: "In The Dark of The Night".
* [[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!]]: Anya & Dimitri, even though they just think she's impersonating a princess at first.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: The original draft was intended more as a political thriller and less a mythic one. Pandora Radio has some songs that were left out of the movie, as well as much more politicized, ''Rumor in Saint Petersburg.''
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