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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Don Bluth's 1997 very loose adaptation of a 1956 film, which itself was already 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 and their people revolted against them 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 necklace she was found with in an amnesiac state as a child.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })She heads for St. Petersburg, hoping to get a train from there to Paris, but she does not have the appropriate travel papers. Following the advice of a stranger, she locates a young forger and conman called Dimitri in the old palace. For his part, Dimitri is planning on running a con. Rumor has it that Anastasia may have survived the attack, and the Dowager Empress has offered a huge reward to anyone who can reunite Anastasia with her. Dimitri and his friend Vladimir notice that this young woman who has come to them for travel papers looks strikingly like an older version of Anastasia.The two men put to Anya the idea that she may actually be Anastasia, but don't mention the reward. Vlad then forges the papers to travel out of the country so that they can all go to Paris to meet the Dowager Empress. In the meantime, Rasputin is in limbo until all the Romanovs are dead. His animal sidekick, a bat named Bartok, upon seeing Anya, is pulled into limbo by Rasputin's mystic relic, tells Rasputin about Anya and they realize she must actually be Anastasia.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })The rest of the film deals with Anya learning how to act like how the royal Anastasia would act and learn about her history 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.Contrary to popular belief, this movie was not produced by Disney. It was actually produced by 20th Century Fox. However, it was directed by Don Bluth, an ex-Disney animator, and it showed in the animation style. As of July 2018, Disney bought the rights to the film (along with many other movie and TV properties) from 20th Century Fox, meaning it is owned by Disney now, though it is not part of the Disney Animated Canon or the Disney Princess line.Got a Direct-to-Video spin-off in the form of Bartok the Magnificentnote 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., which deals with the plucky little bat impressing people with his "special abilities". It's important to note that this is the only movie sequel that Bluth has ever been involved with.For tropes specific to the 2017 Broadway musical adaptation of this film, see Anastasia. | |
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Arc Symbol: Ballroom dancing, which crops up repeatedly on Anya's journey to discover who she is. She's introduced dancing with her family at a ball when Rasputin enters disrupting her idyllic childhood, she dreams of ballroom dancing in the Winter Palace when she reconnects with her lost past for the first time, she and Dimitri waltz on board the Tasha as they start to realize their feelings for each other, her public reintroduction as Grand Duchess is meant to take place at a ball but she hesitates on entering and the film ends with her and Dimitri dancing together on deck as she's finally discovered where she really belongs. Even her Memento MacGuffin is a music box with a dancing couple inside. | |
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Age Lift | |
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Age Lift: Anastasia is portrayed as just 8 years old when her family is killed, when actually she was 17, and 18 in 1926 when she would really have been 25 if she had lived that long. | |
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Card-Carrying Villain | |
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Card-Carrying Villain: Rasputin gets a few lines in "In The Dark Of The Night" that indicate that he knows that he is evil. He refers to his curse as a "dark purpose", and he tells his minions to "let their evil shine". | |
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Rasputinian Death | |
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Rasputinian Death: Rasputin 'dies' three times in the movie, and only the last one sticks. (The real Rasputin's death was an aversion of this trope, ironically.) The first time he is stripped to the bone due to his soul trade, but he restores himself with the powers he gains. His second death includes one element from the apocryphal real life story. He falls through some ice, and drowns. The third and last one involves Anastasia smashing his phylactery. What results from this is itself pretty Rasputinian; see Family-Unfriendly Death above. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic B.S.O.D.: Dimitri hits this hard when he discovers Anya is the real Grand Duchess and realizes he'll barely be able to associate with her anymore, let alone act on his feelings. He quickly gives up on all his hopes for the future; refusing the reward money, pushing Anya away because she can do better and returning to impoverished, oppressive Russia even though there's no life left for him there. Thankfully he snaps out of it by the end. | |
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Dream Melody | |
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Dream Melody: Once Upon a December is sung during the Dream Ballet. | |
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Lessons in Sophistication | |
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Lessons in Sophistication: Orphan Anya gets schooled in all things mannerly and urbane by Lovable Rogue Dmitri and Count Vladimir, because the men aim to pass Anya off as the missing Romanov princess, Anastasia. She's coached in ballroom dancing, dining etiquette, complete royal genealogy, and much more. | |
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Secret Path: Oddly enough saves Anastasia and her grandmother; when the siege happens, she runs back to her room for her grandmother's music box despite the revolutionaries with guns outside that will kill them all. Marie screams at her to come back but follows. While they're in Anastasia's room and the castle doors break down, Dimitri comes out through the servants' quarters entrance and shoves them inside after she drops the music box. | |
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Kirk Summation | |
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Kirk Summation: Marie to Dimitri after his Keep the Reward moment: "Young man, where did you get that music box? You were that boy, weren't you? The servant boy who got us out. You saved her life, and mine, and you restored her to me. Yet you want no reward . . . why the sudden change of mind?" | |
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At the Crossroads | |
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At the Crossroads: In the Journey To The Past sequence. | |
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Trampled Underfoot | |
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Trampled Underfoot: Rasputin steps over a drinking glass that a guest at the ball had dropped as he makes his evil Power Walk through the crowd. Given a nice Call-Back later at the end of the film, when Anastasia destroys his reliquary by stepping on it multiple times, dedicating the blows to her family, Dimitri, and to Rasputin himself—"Da svidanya!" | |
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And This Is for... | |
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And This Is for...: Anastasia does a rundown of the trope when she destroys Rasputin's reliquary, thereby killing him. | |
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Mr. Fanservice | |
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Mr. Fanservice: Dimitri. When they originally animated him, they thought he was too "obviously cute" - so they added the bump on his nose to tone it down. It backfired. | |
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Visual Pun | |
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Visual Pun: During "Paris Holds the Key" we see Sigmund Freud slipping on a banana peel. | |
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The Heavy | |
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The Heavy: The entire plot kicks off because Rasputin used his newfound dark powers to trigger the revolution against the Romanovs, which indirectly causes Anastasia to get separated from her grandmother. It also bears noting that he and Anastasia only encounter each other for a very brief moment at the very beginning, and during the climax—the rest of the time, Rasputin is trying to kill her with his demons while he's stuck in Limbo to get revenge and fulfill his curse, but the heroes are completely unaware of his presence until the climax. | |
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Thinker Pose | |
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Thinker Pose: Dimitri does one of these next to the actual sculpture during a musical number in Paris. | |
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Reformed, but Rejected | |
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Reformed, but Rejected: Dimitri is rejected by The Dowager Empress and "Anya" once they learn about his "Anastasia Auditions". Even after he tries to make up for it Anya still rejects him, thinking he was Only in It for the Money and then the climax happens. The Empress, however, realizes that he did it out of love for her granddaughter. | |
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Villain Song | |
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Villain Song: "In The Dark of The Night" is Rasputin talking about the return of his powers and how nothing will stop him from killing the final Romanov. | |
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Never Recycle a Building | |
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Never Recycle a Building: In the movie, the entire Winter Palace has been abandoned and boarded up in the ten years since the Revolution. In real life, this trope was averted. After the Revolution, the Winter Palace was added to the Hermitage Museum, which it is still part of today. | |
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Reality Ensues | |
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Reality Ensues: The Dowager Empress has offered a ten million ruble reward to anyone that can reunite her with her granddaughter Anastasia? Seems easy enough for Dimitri and Vlad to con the money out of her with an Anastasia lookalike and the "jewelry box" she gave her. Once they get to Paris, it turns out the same reward money that tempted them has tempted countless conmen with their own Anastasia lookalikes, to the point the Dowager Empress has grown fed up with being disappointed time and time again, and refuses to see any more girls claiming to be Anastasia... before they even roll into town. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: One of the historical cameos is Sigmund Freud, who slips on a banana peel. | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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We see (presumably) Mensheviks storm the palace, but rather than having diverse public grievances, it's indicated to be the result of Rasputin's rabble-rousing and Deal with the Devil. | |
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Take My Hand! | |
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Take My Hand: During Anastasia's and the Empress's escape from St. Petersburg, the Empress gets on a moving train, and tries to grab hold of Anastasia's hand. She fails, and Anastasia is left behind. Twice between Anastasia and Dimitri. First she offers her hand to pull him up to safety when he almost falls off the runaway trains, and he later returns to the favour by grabbing her hands when Rasputin tips her off a bridge. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Anya gives Dimitri a budding rose during the "Paris Holds the Key" sequence. It turns up later when Dimitri is leaving Paris and finds the rose fully bloomed in his pocket, which prompts him to go back and save Anya from Rasputin in the nick of time. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: "Do svidaniya!" Said first by Rasputin as he's about to kill Anya, then repeated by her when she's breaking his reliquary. Also "All men are babies" which Anya tells Dimitri when he complains about her hitting him when they were squabbling. He repeats the line after they've defeated Rasputin and she thought he'd been killed. It's also a sign of how far their relationship has come and how differently Anya views him. | |
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Fire-Forged Friends | |
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Fire-Forged Friends: Anya and Dimitri eventually become this thanks to Rasputin's schemes. First, Dimitri realizes that Anya can keep a cool head in a dangerous situation when their train is sabotaged; she points out they can't jump from the train because the fall would kill them, hands him a stick of dynamite to disconnect the engine car and gives him a chain and anchor by which to brake their car before it crashes over a broken bridge. Anya also shows admiration for Dimitri's latter idea by following his orders without question. Then Dimitri saves Anya from sleepwalking off the ship, and gives her a Cooldown Hug when she wakes up repeating "The Romanov curse, the curse, I kept seeing so many faces." | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: It might be more reasonable to identify what isn't anachronistic, but among obvious examples, Petrograd militsyia (police) on horseback are clearly modeled after Soviet cops...from the Seventies, complete with modern uniforms. The Spirit of St. Louis is seen flying over Paris, even though Lindbergh made his historic flight in 1927, a year after the film is set. Even more egregiously, the Paris song features Auguste Rodin carving The Thinker, with a conflicted Dimitri as his model. Not only was The Thinker finished in 1902, Rodin died in 1917. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: A subtle penis joke is made in a scene involving Sigmund Freud slipping on a banana peel. | |
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She Cleans Up Nicely | |
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She Cleans Up Nicely: Yes, Dimitri, that elegant lady in the Parisian Opera dress you're ogling is the "skinny little brat" that trekked across Europe with you. | |
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Birds of a Feather | |
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Birds of a Feather: Anya and Dimitri are both snarky, gutsy, resourceful and outwardly confident orphans with a lot of hidden insecurities, troubled pasts and deep-seated loneliness. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: Anya's pet dog is named Pooka (пука). A 'Pooka' (or Phouka) is also a mischievous fae-creature that often takes the form of a dog, though the dog is usually scary and black. Still, considering the mysterious origin of Anya's pet... It also sounds similar to the Russian for "farting", "pukat' (пукать)," but this presumably was not intentional. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Anya's entire family got decimated in the revolution, and ten years later she seeks to reunite with whoever is left, guided by a cryptic message. Unusual for an animated film in that this is a driving force behind her journey throughout the film instead of just being there for the sake of it. Also Dimitri who was an orphan even at the beginning of the film when he was working as a kitchen boy, and in the intervening years Vlad is clearly the closest he had to a parental figure. | |
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In the Past, Everyone Will Be Famous | |
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In the Past, Everyone Will Be Famous: A few historical characters show up in the song "Paris Holds the Key to Your Heart": Maurice Chevalier, Sigmund Freud, Charles Lindbergh, Josephine Baker, Claude Monet, Isadora Duncan, Auguste Rodin, and Gertrude Stein. All of them are going shopping on the same night in the same street and all happen to know the words to the song. The movie features a singing Gertrude Stein. This might be the most historically correct part of the movie as both Hemingway and Bennett Cerf wrote of Gertrude's inability to walk by someone playing a piano without sitting down and singing along. | |
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Sexual Karma | |
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Sexual Karma: Rasputin's bat sidekick abandons him at the climax and is awarded a female bat at the end with no explanation. | |
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Damsel out of Distress | |
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Damsel out of Distress: Anastasia at the climax. Though Dimitri arrives and attempts to save her from Rasputin, the latter sics a giant, animated horse statue on him that keeps him from interfering. Anastasia ends up fighting Rasputin all by herself and, with some help from Pooka fetching her the reliquary, ultimately defeats and kills him. | |
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Give Me a Sign | |
Anastasia / int_2b9e3fb0 | comment |
Give Me a Sign: When Anya prays for a sign, a dog steals her scarf and runs over to the path to St. Petersburg. | |
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Stuff Blowing Up | |
Anastasia / int_31a2a33c | comment |
Stuff Blowing Up: The film loves this trope, mostly for the effects animators to show off (such as the Runaway Train violently exploding in a large, stereotypical Hollywood explosion with sparks flying upward!). | |
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Anastasia / int_31a2a33c | |
Anastasia / int_31da1e24 | type |
Shipper on Deck | |
Anastasia / int_31da1e24 | comment |
Shipper on Deck: Vlad catches on pretty quickly that Anya and Dimitri have a Slap-Slap-Kiss thing going. He also gets the two to dance and sings a song about this... on the ship to Paris. It's also fun watching his face in the background as the two interact. The Empress gets on board pretty quickly after realizing Dimitri was the boy who saved them at the palace, and he refuses her reward. She even encourages Anya to be with him rather than becoming a princess again. | |
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Anastasia / int_325a15f1 | type |
Rags to Royalty | |
Anastasia / int_325a15f1 | comment |
Rags to Royalty: Inverted, played straight and then averted as Anya goes from Royalty to Rags back to Royalty and to presumably fairly comfortable but not royalty. The ending is rather ambiguous as Dimitri refuses the reward, but it's possible Anya may her have own income or inheritance now or the Empress could be providing her with money. (As the ending established Anya and her grandmother were going to remain close). If nothing else, Dimitri and Anya are more than capable of supporting themselves, especially now they're out of impoverished Russia. | |
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Anastasia / int_325a15f1 | |
Anastasia / int_33d5b7f2 | type |
Adapted Out | |
Anastasia / int_33d5b7f2 | comment |
Adapted Out: Prince Paul von Haraldberg, Anastasia's Disposable Fiancé in the 1956 film, has no counterpart in this version. Although he was the closet thing the 1956 version had to a villain, so maybe his counterpart is Rasputin. | |
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Anastasia / int_33d5b7f2 | |
Anastasia / int_33fa230b | type |
Your Princess Is in Another Castle! | |
Anastasia / int_33fa230b | comment |
Your Princess Is in Another Castle: Or rather, your princess doesn't belong in a castle. In her quest to discover where she belongs, Anya actually uncovers her past and lost family about three quarters of the way through the film. However, the last part of the movie has her wondering if her old, royal world really is her true home and realizing she's fallen in love with a former kitchen boy. She ends up not reclaiming her title and status in favour of marrying Dimitri, though she does remain close to her grandmother. That said, the Rasputin storyline spans the whole film. | |
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Anastasia / int_33fa230b | |
Anastasia / int_35f57671 | type |
Minion with an F in Evil | |
Anastasia / int_35f57671 | comment |
Minion with an F in Evil: Bartok is not particularly evil for serving such a dark master, and not very competent either; he almost kills Rasputin when he tries to break his phylactery on a whim. | |
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Anastasia / int_35f57671 | |
Anastasia / int_39271aee | type |
The Backwards Я | |
Anastasia / int_39271aee | comment |
The Backwards Я: The train's speedometer reads SPEEФОШЕТЕЯ ("sreyefosheteya"). | |
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Anastasia / int_39271aee | |
Anastasia / int_392ecd12 | type |
Fake Aristocrat | |
Anastasia / int_392ecd12 | comment |
Fake Aristocrat: Dimitri's plan is to set up Anya up as one — not knowing that she's not a fake aristocrat at all. | |
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Anastasia / int_392ecd12 | |
Anastasia / int_39f93a5f | type |
Hypnotize the Princess | |
Anastasia / int_39f93a5f | comment |
Hypnotize the Princess: Rasputin uses magic to make Anya sleepwalk off the side of the ship she's on in a storm. Dimitri fortunately stops her and wakes her up before she can jump. | |
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Anastasia / int_39f93a5f | |
Anastasia / int_3a2db192 | type |
The End of the Beginning | |
Anastasia / int_3a2db192 | comment |
The End of the Beginning: At the end: "It's a perfect ending!" "No. It's a perfect beginning." | |
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Anastasia / int_3a2db192 | |
Anastasia / int_3b113b7 | type |
Character Development | |
Anastasia / int_3b113b7 | comment |
Character Development: Dimitri goes from a dishonest conman planning to trick Marie for her money to a selfless and principled gentleman who refuses the reward even if it means returning penniless to Russia, and walks away from Anya because he believes she'll be better off without him. Anya starts out as insecure and unsure of what she wants or who she is, and becomes much more confident and secure in herself by the end. Bartok finally stands up to Rasputin and leaves his evil-sidekick days behind him. | |
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Anastasia / int_3b113b7 | |
Anastasia / int_3b20d7f4 | type |
Runaway Train | |
Anastasia / int_3b20d7f4 | comment |
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." | |
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Anastasia / int_3b20d7f4 | |
Anastasia / int_3d2c6d30 | type |
Skewed Priorities | |
Anastasia / int_3d2c6d30 | comment |
Skewed Priorities: After their train car breaks off from the ones behind, Vlad is more concerned about losing the dining car. | |
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Anastasia / int_3d2c6d30 | |
Anastasia / int_3e8c87a3 | type |
Dated History | |
Anastasia / int_3e8c87a3 | comment |
Dated History: We're sorry Princess, but DNA testing has now confirmed that you're really most sincerely dead. | |
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Anastasia / int_3e8d9cd3 | type |
Historical Hero Upgrade | |
Anastasia / int_3e8d9cd3 | comment |
Historical Hero Upgrade: The Romanovs have a very small role in this film. All we see is Nicholas telling Rasputin to leave his party, and given how Obviously Evil he looks, Nick looks good in comparison. In reality they were infamously bloody rulers and criticised for it both nationally and internationally. The story also starts in 1916, but their mismanagement of World War I is not even mentioned, nor are such massacres as "Bloody Sunday". All this is omitted to focus on the glamour of royalty and Anastasia's journey back to it instead, possibly because Everything's Better with Princesses. Additionally, the film's Anastasia is essentially Anna Anderson, who was a fraud in real life. Her claim to being Anastasia was debunked before this movie was made. Notably, Anastasia is actually referred to as "Anna" in the 1956 Ingrid Bergman version, which was made at a time when Anna Anderson's story still seemed vaguely plausible. This version refers to her instead as "Anya", perhaps to distance itself from the Anna Anderson legacy. | |
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Anastasia / int_3e8d9cd3 | |
Anastasia / int_3ec27f76 | type |
Costume Porn | |
Anastasia / int_3ec27f76 | comment |
Costume Porn: The movie is full of this. Most notable examples would have to be Anya's yellow silk Dream Sequence dress, the svelte navy and sparkly Parisian Opera dress, her blue court dress at the beginning of the movie, and her yellow court dress at the end of the movie. | |
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Anastasia / int_3ec27f76 | |
Anastasia / int_40cc0c7e | type |
Bittersweet Ending | |
Anastasia / int_40cc0c7e | comment |
Bittersweet Ending: Though it lends more on the happier side, Anastasia leaves Marie again, but to get eloped with Dimitri. And even though she's leaving, Marie is nothing but content with her granddaughter's decision. Plus, Bartok apparently becomes a couple with a female bat. | |
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Anastasia / int_40cc0c7e | |
Anastasia / int_41271766 | type |
HappilyEverAfter | |
Anastasia / int_41271766 | comment |
Happily Ever After: In the movie, Anya is reunited with her grandmother, but decides to stay out of the spotlight and elopes with Dimitri. | |
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Anastasia / int_41271766 | |
Anastasia / int_41acc7e | type |
A Hell of a Time | |
Anastasia / int_41acc7e | comment |
A Hell of a Time: Actually Limbo, but it's really boring rather than torturous. The only thing that's really hell-like about the place is being Beneath the Earth and all the bugs, but they're actually OK guys-y'know, for sapient, supernatural beetles... | |
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Anastasia / int_41acc7e | |
Anastasia / int_43175028 | type |
Compressed Hair | |
Anastasia / int_43175028 | comment |
Compressed Hair: Anya appears to have a small ponytail for most of the movie, but when she lets her hair down later when she's all dressed up, her hair is much longer than the ponytail would account for. If you look closely, at the small "ponytail", though, you can see that it's actually a small ponytail tightly braided around by the rest of her hair. | |
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Anastasia / int_43175028 | |
Anastasia / int_434a6d40 | type |
Evil Sorcerer | |
Anastasia / int_434a6d40 | comment |
Evil Sorcerer: Rasputin, even before he sold his soul, is known as a nasty mystic. | |
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Anastasia / int_434a6d40 | |
Anastasia / int_43b154c9 | type |
Not Even Bothering with the Accent | |
Anastasia / int_43b154c9 | comment |
Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Realistically speaking, every character in this movie should have had some kind of European accent, but in the main cast, the only ones who made any attempt were Kelsey Grammer, who honestly does a pretty good job making Vlad sound Russian, and Angela Lansbury, who uses her natural British accent as the Dowager Empress. (The real Marie Feodorovna was born Princess Dagmar of Denmark.) | |
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Anastasia / int_43b154c9 | |
Anastasia / int_43d612b7 | type |
Disney Acid Sequence | |
Anastasia / int_43d612b7 | comment |
Disney Acid Sequence: "Once Upon a December", where Anya half-remembers, half-imagines a ball in the Imperial Palace, complete with Pimped-Out Dress. | |
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Anastasia / int_43d612b7 | |
Anastasia / int_44abc60d | type |
FictionFiveHundred | |
Anastasia / int_44abc60d | comment |
Fiction 500: The Romanovs, and Marie included, which is Truth in Television. She's able to commission a music box with a locket key for her granddaughter and intends it as a present so that she and Anastasia can handle their separation. | |
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Anastasia / int_44abc60d | |
Anastasia / int_44f5d199 | type |
Pretty in Mink | |
Anastasia / int_44f5d199 | comment |
Pretty in Mink: A few, like the fur-trimmed coat Anya wears to the opera, and her grandmother's fur wrap. | |
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Anastasia / int_44f5d199 | |
Anastasia / int_455c710d | type |
Gag Echo | |
Anastasia / int_455c710d | comment |
Gag Echo: Dimitri and Anya promising to thank each other in the midst of dire situations. | |
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Anastasia / int_455c710d | |
Anastasia / int_46118dc5 | type |
Adult Fear | |
Anastasia / int_46118dc5 | comment |
Adult Fear: The opening scene. To wit, The Dowager Empress only manages to get one of her grandchildren out of the violent murdering spree. The apparent instigator tries to kill the only one who got out personally, but survives. Then, finally, when they get on a train to safety, she loses her. Also, Dimitri is a young child when the siege happens. Even though it's implied that he's treated harshly, and that his crush Anastasia doesn't even notice him, he decides to save her and her grandmother by forcing them to leave via the servants' quarters. When the revolutionaries storm in just after they've vanished, they pistol-whip Dimitri in the stomach for tossing a vase at them. | |
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Anastasia / int_46118dc5 | |
Anastasia / int_46f464b | type |
Well, Excuse Me, Princess! | |
Anastasia / int_46f464b | comment |
Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: Even though they just think she's impersonating a princess at first, Anya and Dimitri have this dynamic. | |
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Anastasia / int_46f464b | |
Anastasia / int_4781adbb | type |
Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
Anastasia / int_4781adbb | comment |
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Dimitri is a snarky con-artist who is perfectly willing to manipulate a young orphan in order to scam an old lady out of her money... but also risks his life numerous times to protect Anya, is increasingly uneasy about the con and when it comes down to it he does the right thing. Bartok comes across as this too. He teamed up with Rasputin and helped him out a bit with his evil deeds but he he’s not all that bad of a bat. He got away from Rasputin in the end so he wouldn’t have to hurt anybody. | |
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Anastasia / int_479d4e5a | type |
Would Hurt a Child | |
Anastasia / int_479d4e5a | comment |
Would Hurt a Child: The revolutionaries kill all the Romanovs they find, including Anastasia's siblings - her older sisters are between the ages of 10 and 14, and her little brother, Alexei, is 5. They also pistol-whip Dimitri for tossing a vase at them. Rasputin tries to kill Anastasia as an eight-year old when seeing her and her grandmother flee across the frozen river. | |
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Anastasia / int_47fea76b | type |
Butt-Monkey | |
Anastasia / int_47fea76b | comment |
Butt-Monkey: Dimitri, mostly in the first half of the movie. | |
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Anastasia / int_4852f325 | type |
I Just Want to Be Normal | |
Anastasia / int_4852f325 | comment |
I Just Want to Be Normal: In the end Anya decides to live a private life with former servant Dimitri rather than return to her old royal lifestyle, which it's implied she was uncomfortable with. | |
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Anastasia / int_4852f325 | |
Anastasia / int_488422f | type |
Angel Face, Demon Face | |
Anastasia / int_488422f | comment |
Angel Face, Demon Face: Bartok the bat starts out a little sinister, but is downright cute by the end of the movie when he's given up on serving Rasputin. | |
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Anastasia / int_488422f | |
Anastasia / int_48da376b | type |
Game Changer | |
Anastasia / int_48da376b | comment |
Game Changer: Dimitri schools Anya with every fact regarding the lost Princess Anastasia that he can think of. When Sophie asks something he hadn't thought to tell Anya about, he thinks the con is blown - until Anya describes, vaguely but correctly, how it was she managed to escape the riots at the palace. This is something that only Grand Duchess Marie, Dimitri, and Anastasia herself could possibly have known about. Only then does Dimitri realize that, rather than a lookalike, he's found the real Anastasia. | |
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Anastasia / int_48da376b | |
Anastasia / int_49d59be9 | type |
SceneryPorn | |
Anastasia / int_49d59be9 | comment |
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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Anastasia / int_49d59be9 | |
Anastasia / int_4edbce3e | type |
InterClassRomance | |
Anastasia / int_4edbce3e | comment |
Inter-Class Romance: Anastasia whose family ruled all of Russia and Dimitri a former kitchen boy. Played with, as for most of the movie neither of them know who she really is and are both penniless vagrants. Of course this only makes the revelation more painful and gut-wrenching for Dimitri, as before he thought they were both equally poor commoners and he had a chance with her, but now she's hopelessly out of his reach. For bonus angst it's hinted he had a crush on her when they were children meaning he got hit with this trope twice. | |
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Anastasia / int_4edbce3e | |
Anastasia / int_50ca4422 | type |
Unresolved Sexual Tension | |
Anastasia / int_50ca4422 | comment |
Unresolved Sexual Tension: Between Anya and Dimitri. Dimitri might have even been in love with her since they were kids, but they lost each other due to the revolution. | |
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Anastasia / int_50ca4422 | |
Anastasia / int_525df529 | type |
Not Using the "Z" Word | |
Anastasia / int_525df529 | comment |
Not Using the "Z" Word: Three examples with Rasputin, one of which gets bonus points for involving the Trope Naming creature: Though he gets progressively more gruesome throughout the film, "zombie" is never used, nor even "undead". It's said that he sold his soul but the Devil is not brought up, he only ever refers to those he sold he soul to as "the dark forces". Some of the foreign dubs do make it explicitly Satan. Back to the undead part. He's portrayed as an undead wizard, so that makes him a lich, complete with a phylactery. The movie never calls him that, either. | |
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Anastasia / int_525df529 | |
Anastasia / int_5313c266 | type |
Bookends | |
Anastasia / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book-Ends: The film opens with Anya laughing as she dances with her family at a grand ball and ends with her dancing and laughing with Dimitri. Likewise, Dimitri's second and penultimate appearances both have him getting knocked out protecting Anya. (At the beginning when he's beaten unconscious after helping her escape the soldiers and at the end he's knocked out helping her fight Rasputin.) | |
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Anastasia / int_5313c266 | |
Anastasia / int_5327b609 | type |
Badass Driver | |
Anastasia / int_5327b609 | comment |
Badass Driver: Dimitri is able to navigate his way through the streets of Paris at top speed without any concern for safety. | |
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Anastasia / int_5327b609 | |
Anastasia / int_55b1f9a1 | type |
Easy Amnesia | |
Anastasia / int_55b1f9a1 | comment |
Easy Amnesia: Or at least, it was easy for her to get it... The bump to her head caused no other damage, and as far as we can tell, only made her forget who she was. As pointed out by the manager of the orphanage, Anya never stopped behaving like a princess. | |
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Anastasia / int_55b1f9a1 | |
Anastasia / int_56515a39 | type |
Artistic License – History | |
Anastasia / int_56515a39 | comment |
Artistic License – History: Rasputin's sour relationship with Russia's royal family, as well as him having any role in their deposing, as he was two months dead by that time. Anastasia's survival. To be fair, while Anastasia's survival had never been likely, her death wasn’t confirmed until 2007, a whole ten years after the release of this film. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera! | |
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Anastasia / int_56515a39 | |
Anastasia / int_56d8c375 | type |
Nostalgic Music Box | |
Anastasia / int_56d8c375 | comment |
Nostalgic Musicbox: Literally. Dimitri has carried Anastasia's music box for years since he last saw her as a child. (Which raises the question of why he kept it for so long rather than selling it. Did he hope it could be useful for some kind of con and it paid off when the Empress offered a reward for Anastasia? Or was he holding onto it for more sentimental reasons?) | |
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Anastasia / int_56d8c375 | |
Anastasia / int_583ec33e | type |
Snark-to-Snark Combat | |
Anastasia / int_583ec33e | comment |
Snark-to-Snark Combat: Good lord Anastasia and Dimitri. They start at it from basically the minute they meet, and keep going through the emotional near-death finale. | |
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Anastasia / int_583ec33e | |
Anastasia / int_5941d75 | type |
Beta Couple | |
Anastasia / int_5941d75 | comment |
Beta Couple: Vlad and Sophie are happily in love (the thought of her makes Vlad deliriously joyful). It's a fine contrast to our bickering Alpha Couple. | |
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Anastasia / int_5941d75 | |
Anastasia / int_5be919ae | type |
Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario | |
Anastasia / int_5be919ae | comment |
Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario | |
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Anastasia / int_5be919ae | |
Anastasia / int_5c3e7ad6 | type |
Oh God, with the Verbing! | |
Anastasia / int_5c3e7ad6 | comment |
Oh God, with the Verbing!: "Enough with the glowing and the smoke people!" Well said, Bartok. | |
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Anastasia / int_5c3e7ad6 | |
Anastasia / int_5da37ab5 | type |
Triumphant Reprise | |
Anastasia / int_5da37ab5 | comment |
Triumphant Reprise: "Journey To The Past" is reprised instrumentally in a celebratorial manner when Anastasia is dressing for her reunion ball upon regaining her memory as princess. | |
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Anastasia / int_5da37ab5 | |
Anastasia / int_5fb5dad8 | type |
Royal Blood | |
Anastasia / int_5fb5dad8 | comment |
Royal Blood: Anastasia is the last of the royal Romanov bloodline, although there's no throne to reclaim since the revolution. This is why Dimitri is so devastated when he realizes the woman he's in love with is a genuine royal rather than a fake as he knows there's no way a former servant could marry into the Russian royal family. The Dowager Empress Marie and her cousin Sophie are also of royal blood by association | |
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Anastasia / int_5fb5dad8 | |
Anastasia / int_60547993 | type |
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy | |
Anastasia / int_60547993 | comment |
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Dimitri, shown most clearly when he refuses the reward money for reuniting Anastasia and her grandmother. The Empress after realizing that Dimitri saved Anastasia and refused the reward because he loves her granddaughter tells Anastasia that no matter what she decides with her life or where she decides to go, the Empress will be content knowing Anastasia is alive. Hence she gives a bittersweet smile after Anastasia returns her crown. | |
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Anastasia / int_60547993 | |
Anastasia / int_605cf3f | type |
Something Only They Would Say | |
Anastasia / int_605cf3f | comment |
Something Only They Would Say: There are many hints that Dimitri and Vlad miss on hearing that indicate Anya is the real Duchess: Subverted during "Learn to Do It" Anya remembers a Romanov's yellow cat, something Vlad and Dimitri didn't tell her. They get distracted by their driver honking before they can ponder it. Subverted in one instance when Anya starts rambling about the Romanov curse after Dimitri wakes her up before she can sleepwalk off the bridge. Dimitri, though shaken since as a boy he saw Rasputin cast the curse, tells her she was just having a nightmare. Played straight when Anya says that she escaped the siege thanks to "A boy, a boy who worked in the palace" and opened a wall. This makes Dimitri go Oh, Crap! because only the real Anastasia would remember him. Marie after meeting Anya only starts to believe that she wasn't knowingly part of Dimitri's con when the latter remembers spilling a bottle of peppermint oil on a carpet and lying on it whenever her grandmother was away. Anya also remembers how to wind the music box and even sings the lyrics. This convinces Marie that Anya is Anastasia, since no one else knew about their secret. | |
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-0.3 | |
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Anastasia / int_605cf3f | |
Anastasia / int_6140b3f2 | type |
Form-Fitting Wardrobe | |
Anastasia / int_6140b3f2 | comment |
Form-Fitting Wardrobe: Anya's opera gown. | |
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1.0 | |
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Anastasia / int_6140b3f2 | |
Anastasia / int_619bc34b | type |
High-Class Gloves | |
Anastasia / int_619bc34b | comment |
High Class Gloves: Both Anya and Marie wear long gloves to the opera, as was the fashion at the time. Marie scenting hers with peppermint triggered Anya's memories. | |
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Anastasia / int_619bc34b | |
Anastasia / int_642594ea | type |
Pygmalion Plot | |
Anastasia / int_642594ea | comment |
Pygmalion Plot: Two con-men, Dimitri and Vlad, style an orphan to pass for the Empress's long-lost granddaughter, and the younger, Dimitri, is smitten when he sees his creation succeed. Unbeknownst to all of them, she really is Anastasia. Though, of course, he loved her all along. | |
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Anastasia / int_642594ea | |
Anastasia / int_64f3ea6e | type |
Disneyfication | |
Anastasia / int_64f3ea6e | comment |
Disneyfication: Of the play and history itself. Bluth has admitted he never intended it to be accurate. | |
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Anastasia / int_64f3ea6e | |
Anastasia / int_653c5c73 | type |
Cannot Spit It Out | |
Anastasia / int_653c5c73 | comment |
Cannot Spit It Out: Right before meeting with the Dowager Empress, both Anastasia and Dimitri act like they want to confess their feelings to each other, but both back out. | |
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Anastasia / int_653c5c73 | |
Anastasia / int_65c0f3fa | type |
DanceOfRomance | |
Anastasia / int_65c0f3fa | comment |
Dance of Romance: Anastasia and Dimitri on the Tasha, while Vladimir lampshades this with a brief song. They have another one at the end when they're eloping. | |
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Anastasia / int_65c0f3fa | |
Anastasia / int_6924443d | type |
Girliness Upgrade | |
Anastasia / int_6924443d | comment |
Girliness Upgrade: Anastasia and her outfits become progressively more refined and feminine during the story and as she gets closer to becoming a princess again. In Russia she's dressed in a ragged, peasant tunic and her hair is thrown in a scruffy knot, during the journey she changes into a simple blue dress and lets her hair down, in Paris she wears fashionable flapper and opera dresses and gets her hair done properly, and once she regains her title is decked out in an elaborate court gown and tiara. When she leaves with Dimitri at the end she keeps the court gown but it's damaged and ripped from their battle with Rasputin and her hair is messy again. | |
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Anastasia / int_6924443d | |
Anastasia / int_694da243 | type |
At the Opera Tonight | |
Anastasia / int_694da243 | comment |
At the Opera Tonight: The ballet in this case, and it's for "Cinderella". | |
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Anastasia / int_694da243 | |
Anastasia / int_69e4f7b7 | type |
Historical Fantasy | |
Anastasia / int_69e4f7b7 | comment |
Historical Fantasy: All the complaints about the movie's historical inaccuracies seem a little weird when you stop and think that it also includes an undead wizard and a talking bat. | |
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Anastasia / int_69e4f7b7 | |
Anastasia / int_6b27162d | type |
The Remake | |
Anastasia / int_6b27162d | comment |
The Remake: The film is officially a Disneyfication/fantasticization of the 1956 Ingrid Bergman film (itself a play adaptation).note Fox specifically presented the director with a list of works they owned the rights to that he could adapt. It boiled down to this or My Fair Lady. | |
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Anastasia / int_6b27162d | |
Anastasia / int_6bd689ca | type |
Meaningful Echo | |
Anastasia / int_6bd689ca | comment |
Meaningful Echo: During the "Paris Holds the Key" sequence, the main chorus is "Paris holds the key to your heart" but Dimitri uses "Paris holds the key to her heart" instead. (Referring to the fact that the city is the key to Anya finding her past and family, but the luxury and life Paris represents is inaccessible to him so he's actually lost her heart.) | |
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Anastasia / int_6bd689ca | |
Anastasia / int_6ef6417b | type |
Disney Death | |
Anastasia / int_6ef6417b | comment |
Disney Death: Dimitri. | |
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Anastasia | hasFeature |
Anastasia / int_6ef6417b | |
Anastasia / int_7046be0a | type |
Shopping Montage | |
Anastasia / int_7046be0a | comment |
Shopping Montage: When Anya and co. get to Paris, Dowager Empress Marie's cousin Sophie takes them shopping while "Paris Holds The Key (To Your Heart)" is sung. They also go sightseeing during the song. | |
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Anastasia / int_7046be0a | |
Anastasia / int_70558fc5 | type |
OminousChanting | |
Anastasia / int_70558fc5 | comment |
Ominous Chanting: During the prologue's recapitulation of the coup set off by the curse, the chorus is singing in Russian pretty ominously. It happens again in the finale during Rasputin's death scene. | |
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Anastasia / int_70558fc5 | |
Anastasia / int_71098e78 | type |
Hammer and Sickle Removed for Your Protection | |
Anastasia / int_71098e78 | comment |
Hammer and Sickle Removed for Your Protection: Very little is mentioned in the way of politics after the fall of the Romanovs (as well as before, for that matter). The original script for Anastasia inverted this; during the scene where Anya attempts to get train tickets, several of the people waiting in line were going to be refraining from making complaints about the Soviet government in case they were being watched. One guy later would, and was going to be abruptly abducted and taken away. There are several 'blink-and-you-will-miss-it' moments though: Vlad complains when the colour of the ink for travel papers changes from blue to red, blowing his forged ones: "That's what I hate about this government, everything is in red!" We see (presumably) Mensheviks storm the palace, but rather than having diverse public grievances, it's indicated to be the result of Rasputin's rabble-rousing and Deal with the Devil. When Anya tries to get a ticket, the man at the ticket counter does in fact have a hammer and sickle on his hat. On the train, the camera momentarily looks over one of the character's shoulders at his tickets. One can make out 'Union of Soviet Socialist Republics' with the attendant emblems. The song "Rumor in St. Petersburg" has the line "since the revolution, our lives have been so gray" and shows workers in a factory, a possible reference to the rapid industrialization that occurred under the new regime. Though St. Petersburg, at that time, was called Leningrad. | |
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Anastasia / int_71098e78 | |
Anastasia / int_716c0b1b | type |
And the Adventure Continues | |
Anastasia / int_716c0b1b | comment |
And the Adventure Continues: The movie ends with Anastasia and Dimitri eloping. Sophie says it's a perfect ending but Marie tells her it's a perfect beginning. | |
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Anastasia / int_716c0b1b | |
Anastasia / int_72b0dfd2 | type |
Being Good Sucks | |
Anastasia / int_72b0dfd2 | comment |
Being Good Sucks: Dimitri as a child and as an adult. As a child he risks his life to save Anastasia and Marie, only to get pistol-whipped. As an adult, when he realizes that Anya is Anastasia, he decides to let her think he was a conman and to reunite her with Marie without any benefit to himself. | |
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Anastasia / int_72b0dfd2 | |
Anastasia / int_7453bc5b | type |
Spared by the Adaptation | |
Anastasia / int_7453bc5b | comment |
Spared by the Adaptation: Sadly, Anastasia herself - it was finally confirmed in 2008 that the real Anastasia did in fact die with the rest of her family that night. | |
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Anastasia / int_7453bc5b | |
Anastasia / int_75d6bf40 | type |
Belligerent Sexual Tension | |
Anastasia / int_75d6bf40 | comment |
Belligerent Sexual Tension: Quintessential example between Anya and Dimitri, starting as soon as they get on a train together. Vlad knows exactly what's really going on, even when they don't. | |
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Anastasia / int_75d6bf40 | |
Anastasia / int_7ea2a915 | type |
Animation Bump | |
Anastasia / int_7ea2a915 | comment |
Animation Bump: In addition to having significantly better funding than his previous indie features, this was also Don Bluth's first film to use digital ink and paint, making this one of his slicker-looking films. | |
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Anastasia / int_7ea2a915 | |
Anastasia / int_7eb49b31 | type |
Almost Kiss | |
Anastasia / int_7eb49b31 | comment |
Almost Kiss: Anya and Dimitri do this at least twice. They finally get to kiss for real at the end. | |
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Anastasia / int_7eb49b31 | |
Anastasia / int_801c7e4a | type |
Quest for Identity | |
Anastasia / int_801c7e4a | comment |
Quest for Identity: Anastasia goes to St. Petersburg in the hopes of finding her original self, i.e. her past. | |
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Anastasia / int_801c7e4a | |
Anastasia / int_823c6e3e | type |
LargeHam | |
Anastasia / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: Rasputin loves shouting and gesturing with his Soul Jar. (considering his voice actor, this isn't surprising) His acting is about as subtle as a screaming hyena. | |
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1.0 | |
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Anastasia / int_823c6e3e | |
Anastasia / int_82a4fadc | type |
Our Liches Are Different | |
Anastasia / int_82a4fadc | comment |
Our Liches Are Different: Rasputin is a pretty straightforward example, except for lacking a real drive for immortality or power above all else, which were more a byproduct of his quest for vengeance than his main objectives. He was already a powerful sorcerer before he made his Deal with the Devil, but he became undead upon selling his soul (not after he went to Limbo; he loses all his flesh when he gives up his soul, and restores it with the powers he gains). | |
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Anastasia / int_82a4fadc | |
Anastasia / int_8338de89 | type |
"I Want" Song | |
Anastasia / int_8338de89 | comment |
"I Want" Song: "Journey to the Past", sung by Anya as she dares to travel to Paris, to find a real family. Then "Once Upon A December" where she struggles with her empty past. | |
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Anastasia / int_8338de89 | |
Anastasia / int_835d1cd2 | type |
Satellite Love Interest | |
Anastasia / int_835d1cd2 | comment |
Satellite Love Interest: Taken to its logical extreme. Bartok the Bat abandons Rasputin near the end, and is rewarded with a pink bat who flies in and kisses him. Averted with Dimitri who is remarkably fleshed out for a Princesses love interest in the period of animation. | |
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Anastasia / int_835d1cd2 | |
Anastasia / int_85832a47 | type |
Gay Paree | |
Anastasia / int_85832a47 | comment |
Gay Paree: The song "Paris Holds the Key to Your Heart" shows off the swanky, fashionable and romantic aspect of Paris. | |
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Anastasia / int_85832a47 | |
Anastasia / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
Anastasia / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: It's unclear what became of the train conductor when the train was set aflame by Rasputin's minions. In the ice show Rasputin pulls him off and lets him skate into the curtains. | |
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Anastasia / int_863fa679 | |
Anastasia / int_8a409f7c | type |
The Flapper | |
Anastasia / int_8a409f7c | comment |
The Flapper: Some Fanservice Extras during the "Paris Holds the Key (To Your Heart)" number, with Anya herself also wearing flapper fashions during the same sequence. It is The Roaring '20s, after all. | |
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Anastasia / int_8a409f7c | |
Anastasia / int_8c9e724c | type |
Big Beautiful Woman | |
Anastasia / int_8c9e724c | comment |
Big Beautiful Woman: Sophie is very fun and kind-hearted, as well as really big. Vlad refers to her as "a decadent pasty covered in whipped cream and laughter". | |
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Anastasia / int_8c9e724c | |
Anastasia / int_8d0785d5 | type |
Didn't Think This Through | |
Anastasia / int_8d0785d5 | comment |
Didn't Think This Through: Rasputin really didn't think through the wisdom of jumping from a bridge onto a frozen river to catch Anastasia and Marie. The ice holds up just long enough for him to grab Anastasia's leg, only to crack so that the freezing current sucks him under. Dimitri when deciding to hide the con from Anya doesn't consider that eventually she'd find out that they were meeting Sophie, or that other conmen would have the same idea. Marie also reveals that she heard about his Anastasia auditions. | |
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Anastasia / int_8d0785d5 | |
Anastasia / int_90e31482 | type |
Laser-Guided Karma | |
Anastasia / int_90e31482 | comment |
Laser-Guided Karma: Dimitri plans to take advantage of an innocent girl and a heartbroken old woman by making Anya pose as Anastasia to get the reward money for himself. He ends up falling in love with Anya and then discovers that she is the real Anastasia, meaning that his actions have placed the woman he loves out of his reach and actually reunited the people he tried to con. Luckily karma works both ways because his change of heart, refusing the reward money and walking away so Anya will be happy, results in her choosing to marry him anyway. | |
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Anastasia / int_90e31482 | |
Anastasia / int_912b24c4 | type |
Art Shift | |
Anastasia / int_912b24c4 | comment |
Art Shift: While most of the movie sets are drawn realistically, the background for Paris is done with very Impressionist-style art, most obvious in the "Paris Holds The Key" sequence. | |
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Anastasia / int_912b24c4 | |
Anastasia / int_916c72b3 | type |
Rule of Symbolism | |
Anastasia / int_916c72b3 | comment |
Rule of Symbolism: By Word of God, the reason for the seeming Big-Lipped Alligator Moment, "Paris Holds the Key to Your Heart", is not merely to show off Bernadette Peters, nor 1920's Paris, but a reflection of both cultural progress at the time and Anastasia's Character Development. On the one hand, by the '20s the Soviet republics were reeling from the White Army and foreign invasion, something Europe did not contend with, with much of this renaissance based in Paris; on the other hand, this ties into Anya leaving a dead world for one vibrant and alive, paralleling her leaving behind an empty, soulless existence for one where she could bloom, grow, and begin a new, happy life. A more contained example with Anastasia's tiara: After she's defeated Rasputin, she and Dimitri go to kiss, only for Pooka to interrupt them to give her the crown so she's holding it between the two of them - not so subtly symbolizing how her princess status is separating them. In the final scene the tiara is gone and they can kiss with nothing coming between them. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
Anastasia / int_95b7c400 | comment |
Faux Affably Evil: Rasputin. | |
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Big Damn Reunion | |
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Big Damn Reunion: Between Anastasia and her grandmother towards the end, courtesy of Dimitri. | |
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Orphan's Plot Trinket | |
Anastasia / int_9673d7f0 | comment |
Orphan's Plot Trinket: The "Together in Paris" necklace, which the viewer knows from the start of the movie is a key to a music box the Dowager Empress had commissioned for Anastasia as a child. And of course Dimitri has the music box that goes with the necklace. | |
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Big Bad | |
Anastasia / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: Rasputin, whose quest to avenge himself on the Romanovs caused their downfall, and is still out to kill Anya in the present day. | |
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Head Desk | |
Anastasia / int_9923f95e | comment |
Headdesk: Before they meet Anya, Dimitri and Vlad are holding an audition for girls to play Anastasia. One prospect is a middle-aged woman, who says in a sultry voice, "Granmama! It's me, Ana-STASIA!" Their reaction is a combination Head Desk and Face Palm. | |
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Been There, Shaped History | |
Anastasia / int_9a1d239e | comment |
Even more egregiously, the Paris song features Auguste Rodin carving The Thinker, with a conflicted Dimitri as his model. Not only was The Thinker finished in 1902, Rodin died in 1917. | |
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Family-Unfriendly Death | |
Anastasia / int_9afa05c7 | comment |
Family-Unfriendly Death: Rasputin's death was another offender. His body parts melt into nasty green ooze and his cloak collapses to the ground. And then his skeleton emerges, screaming in agony while being shocked by green electricity. His final death comes as a relief. Oh, and it isn't a Karmic Death, Anastasia knows just what she's doing when she destroys the reliquary that is keeping him alive. | |
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Greater-Scope Villain | |
Anastasia / int_9b06e314 | comment |
Greater-Scope Villain: The Dark Forces that Rasputin sold his soul to and gained most of his powers from to get revenge on the Romanov family. The deal he made with them spectacularly backfires; first he's reduced to a decaying zombie stuck in limbo after he drowns and stuck like that until the last Romanov dies, and when his reliquary is destroyed, they immediately claim him, and he dies a rather horrific death. | |
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Heroic Russian Émigré | |
Anastasia / int_9b3251b3 | comment |
Heroic Russian Émigré: The titular protagonist who had to escape the execution of the Romanov family is portrayed very sympathetically. The main antagonist is Grigory Rasputin who used his dark magic to cause the October Revolution. | |
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Inhuman Human | |
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Inhuman Human: Rasputin Came Back Wrong, and is rather narked about it. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
Anastasia / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: In the beginning of the film, Dimitri says that the music box will persuade the Empress that the actress they choose to portray Anastasia is the real deal. Dimitri uses the music box to convince Marie to meet Anya, so that she learns that her granddaughter is alive. | |
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This Is Gonna Suck | |
Anastasia / int_9dfb8296 | comment |
This Is Gonna Suck: Before the final confrontation between Anastasia and Rasputin, Bartok abandons his master, saying, "This will only end in tears." | |
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Elopement | |
Anastasia / int_9ed90b36 | comment |
Elopement: Anastasia and Dimitri at the end. They're certainly not having a grand public wedding. | |
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Evil Is Not a Toy | |
Anastasia / int_9fb2452d | comment |
Evil Is Not a Toy: Rasputin was so blinded by his hate for the Romanovs that he really didn't think his deal with the dark side through. Swearing "not to rest until the last Romanov is dead" unwittingly turns him into a decaying lich, then when his Soul Jar gets wrecked, the dark forces immediately intervene to claim him and he dies horrifically with, his soul likely in their possession for all time. | |
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Awesome Moment of Crowning | |
Anastasia / int_a00c13e0 | comment |
Awesome Moment of Crowning: Sure, the communists have taken over Russia and Anya runs off with Dimitri in the end, but she still gets a sparkly crown. She gives it back before leaving with her commoner husband-to-be, though. | |
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Forgotten First Meeting | |
Anastasia / int_a0774be0 | comment |
Forgotten First Meeting: Dimitri worked as a servant in the Winter Palace when he was a boy, and he was the one who saved Anya and the Dowager Empress from being captured in the Revolution. By the end, both Anya and Marie remember him and what he did. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
Anastasia / int_a1b141f4 | comment |
My God, What Have I Done?: Vlad when he has Anya and Dimitri dance and realizes they're falling in love. "Vlad, how could you do this? How will we get through this? I never should have let them dance." | |
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Grand Staircase Entrance | |
Anastasia / int_a36fb848 | comment |
Grand Staircase Entrance: Anya makes her debut as a princess by going down one of these. Dimitri is certainly amazed. | |
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Award-Bait Song | |
Anastasia / int_a3eae597 | comment |
Award-Bait Song: "Journey to the Past" by Aaliyah, nominated for Best Original Song at the Academy Awards. "At the Beginning" by Donna Lewis and Richard Marx at the end credits | |
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Stripped to the Bone | |
Anastasia / int_a4070b5e | comment |
Stripped to the Bone: Rasputin has his flesh torn off as a result of his deal with the dark forces. He is forced to restore it with his phylactery. Averted during Rasputin's death scene. He melts down to the bone and writhes briefly, but he then decays further into dust. | |
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Rotten Rock & Roll | |
Anastasia / int_a48a05c4 | comment |
Rotten Rock & Roll: Rasputin's Villain Song, "In the Dark of the Night", has a rocking tune, complete with electric guitars. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
Anastasia / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: The "Paris Holds the Key (To Her Heart)" sequence alternates between Sophie and the crowd taking the main characters around Paris with zany antics, and Dimitri brokenly reflecting on how he's lost Anya forever. | |
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Cool Crown | |
Anastasia / int_a5439ea9 | comment |
Cool Crown: Anya wears a gorgeous sparkly diadem with her princess dress. Though she returns it by the end of the story. | |
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Ascended Extra | |
Anastasia / int_a65288e2 | comment |
Ascended Extra: The villain's Non-Human Sidekick bat Bartok got a movie. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
Anastasia / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: Vlad had zero problems with helping Dimitri scam the Duchess out of her money and, unlike Dimitri who goes through a Change Of Heart borderline Heel–Face Turn and at least gets a beating from Rasputin's magical minions near the end, never suffers any kind of repercussions or learns a lesson. If anything, his life only improves after setting out on such a cruel scheme! | |
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Keep the Reward | |
Anastasia / int_a8476736 | comment |
Keep the Reward: After Dimitri returns Anastasia to her grandmother he refuses the reward and leaves without telling Anya what he did, so as to draw her contempt and hoping to sever any ties so that she could live happily without him to drag her down. | |
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Age Without Youth | |
Anastasia / int_a9317105 | comment |
Age Without Youth: Rasputin gets hit particularly hard with the short end of the stick. He never even explicitly wished for immortality in the first place, he just made a vow that he "would never rest until the Romanov line is no more!". The evil forces that he bargained with for his soul took him at his word: so long as at least one Romanov survives, he cannot die even though his body is rotting apart. | |
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Really Royalty Reveal | |
Anastasia / int_ab30ac9 | comment |
Really Royalty Reveal: Anya, Dimitri and Vlad spend most of the movie having Anya learn to act like royalty, only for them all to discover she really is the Grand Duchess and the last member of the Russian royal family. True to this trope, Dimitri immediately thinks he's not good enough for her. | |
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Held Gaze | |
Anastasia / int_abdc0b3f | comment |
Held Gaze: Two happen between Anya and Dimitri during the Almost Kiss scenes and another one happens before The Big Damn Kiss scene at the conclusion. | |
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Off-Model | |
Anastasia / int_ac7b87df | comment |
Off-Model: Anastasia looked very different and oddly emaciated on the "Family Fun" DVD case◊ than she does in the movie. Fortunately, corrected◊ versions are available. The dress Dimitri buys for Anya when they get on the ship, the one she wears when learning to waltz, changes from the scene in which he gives it to her to when she's first seen wearing it. When he gives it to her, it has distinct white ruffles on the collar and sleeves. When she emerges on deck actually wearing it, it's a plain blue dress. Alternatively, that could have been due to Anya changing it, as she expressed a dislike for its original appearance. | |
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Halfway Plot Switch | |
Anastasia / int_ace24b2c | comment |
Halfway Plot Switch: Well two thirds plot switch, as the story is originally focused on Anya uncovering her lost past and finding her grandmother. After they arrive in Paris the focus switches to the new social barriers between Anya and Dimitri, him struggling against his feelings for her and whether she wants to return to her life as Grand Duchess. Rasputin's plot to kill her lasts throughout the whole film though. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
Anastasia / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Played straight when Anya says that she escaped the siege thanks to "A boy, a boy who worked in the palace" and opened a wall. This makes Dimitri go Oh, Crap! because only the real Anastasia would remember him. | |
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Final Girl | |
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Final Girl: Anastasia, as the only member of the Romanov family to survive Rasputin's curse. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Anya and Dimitri both spend most of the movie snarking at either each other or the trouble they find themselves in. | |
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What You Are in the Dark | |
Anastasia / int_afc6df04 | comment |
What You Are in the Dark: The Dowager Empress offers Dimitri the 10 million rubles as a reward after he reunites her with Anastasia. (Even knowing he originally planned to con her). At this point Anya believes he's a cheat and liar, and he's returning to Russia and never going to see her again so no one would know if he took the money or not. Dimitri refuses it anyway. In the following scene he even implies to Anya that he did take the money so she wouldn't want anything more to do with him and can live the life she deserves. Eventually it's the Empress who tells Anya the truth. | |
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Coming of Age Story | |
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Coming-of-Age Story: After the prologue Anastasia sings a song about wanting to find out who she is and where to find her future. She finds both over the course of the journey. As the audience knows all along she's the Grand Duchess, but she decides her future is with Dimitri. | |
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Genki Girl | |
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Genki Girl: Sophie. | |
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Sickly Green Glow | |
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Sickly Green Glow: Rasputin's reliquary oozes with this, as do his phantom minions. | |
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Track Trouble | |
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Track Trouble: Rasputin's goblin minions try to kill Anya first by detaching the train car she's in, then by destroying the bridge up ahead. | |
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No OSHA Compliance | |
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No OSHA Compliance: During the end of the song Paris Holds the Key to Your Heart, Anya and company take the elevator to the top of the Eiffel Tower. They're standing on the exterior roof of the elevator. | |
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Pig Latin | |
Anastasia / int_b4b006fb | comment |
Pig Latin: Dimitri tells a terribly lovestruck Vlad this: "Ix-nay on the Ophie-say!" | |
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Was It All a Lie? | |
Anastasia / int_b5619979 | comment |
Was It All a Lie?: Anya asks Dimitri this as soon as she overhears he was planning to con the Dowager Empress. | |
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Doomed New Clothes | |
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Doomed New Clothes: Out of all of Anastasia's outfits that Rasputin could destroy, it had to be the fancy one commissioned for her debut ball. | |
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Lost in Translation | |
Anastasia / int_b7920c43 | comment |
Lost in Translation: A section of the "Paris Holds the Key" song is built on the pun of "can" (the verb) and "can-can" (the dance). English is practically the only language in which this works, so the pun is lost in practically every foreign dub. | |
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Fiery Redhead | |
Anastasia / int_bb0c0a4d | comment |
Fiery Redhead: Anya/Anastasia. She has auburn hair and spends much of the movie in a Slap-Slap-Kiss dynamic with Dimitri. | |
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Everything's Better with Princesses | |
Anastasia / int_bbc79d08 | comment |
Everything's Better with Princesses: The real Anastasia was recognised as "Grand Duchess", but is more often referred to as a "Princess" in the West. For its part, the movie uses the terms "Grand Duchess" and "Princess" interchangeably. It's even Lampshaded when Anya says, "If I don't remember who I am, then who's to say I'm not a princess or a duchess or a whatever she is, right?" | |
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Anastasia / int_bcbb5596 | type |
Not Afraid of You Anymore | |
Anastasia / int_bcbb5596 | comment |
Not Afraid of You Anymore: Anastasia says this to Rasputin at the end right before killing him again. | |
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Anastasia / int_bd4264a3 | type |
Slasher Smile | |
Anastasia / int_bd4264a3 | comment |
Slasher Smile: Rasputin shows this in his first entrance. Bonus points for this happening as the narrator talks about the danger he presents. | |
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Anastasia / int_bdcfd50 | type |
Conspicuous CG | |
Anastasia / int_bdcfd50 | comment |
Conspicuous CG: This is the first movie where Don Bluth swapped out his almost-trademark "oh, let's just build a small model of this horrifically hard-to-draw-and-animate thing and rotoscope it" special effect for computer generated imagery, and it definitely shows, especially with the following: The crashing chandelier looks like it comes from a different movie entirely. Ditto the boat and the music box. Rasputin's reliquary. The train! The Pegasus statue (minus the mane which is obviously 2D, creating an odd effect overall). | |
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Anastasia / int_bdf2a460 | type |
Tragic Dream | |
Anastasia / int_bdf2a460 | comment |
Tragic Dream: Downplayed. Anya’s dream and driving motivation for most of the film is to be reunited with her family, whom she cannot remember. Although she does regain her memories, finds her grandmother and gets with Dimitri, technically, she is never reunited with her whole family, because most of them were killed in the Revolution. | |
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Anastasia / int_be60241 | type |
Fingerless Gloves | |
Anastasia / int_be60241 | comment |
Fingerless Gloves: Anya's purple gloves in snowy Russia. | |
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Anastasia / int_bf927e82 | type |
Non-Human Sidekick | |
Anastasia / int_bf927e82 | comment |
Non-Human Sidekick: Bartok the bat for Rasputin and Pooka the dog for Anya. Bartok talks, Pooka doesn't. | |
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Anastasia / int_c027dd64 | type |
Kicking Ass in All Her Finery | |
Anastasia / int_c027dd64 | comment |
Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: In the climax Anya defeats Rasputin decked out in a ball gown, royal sash and crown jewels. Granted, the dress ends up rather more ripped and bedraggled than it started out, but still. Despite the state of her dress, crushing that reliquary beneath her high heels still qualifies. | |
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Anastasia / int_c2393191 | type |
Show Within a Show | |
Anastasia / int_c2393191 | comment |
Show Within a Show: Anya, Dimitri, and Vlad are treated to the Parisian ballet by Marie's assistant (and Vlad's "cream puff"), and the ballet in question is Cinderella - what do you mean, there's no parallel? Quite fittingly the first act of the ballet ends with the prince chasing after Cinderella after the ball and holding her slipper. | |
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Anastasia / int_c3286b8e | type |
Uptown Girl | |
Anastasia / int_c3286b8e | comment |
Uptown Girl: Anastasia for Dimitri. A rather heartbreaking example as for most of the movie they're equal penniless vagrants, despite their past lives as Grand Duchess and servant. When Dimitri finds out the truth, he immediately feels inferior and cut below her. | |
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Anastasia / int_c3963bc4 | type |
No Place for Me There | |
Anastasia / int_c3963bc4 | comment |
No Place for Me There: Dimitri says this to Pooka when the dog and Vlad both object to Dimitri leaving, but Dimitri insists he doesn't belong in Anastasia's world of royalty that Anastasia had rejoined. | |
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Anastasia / int_c3bafbce | type |
Satan | |
Anastasia / int_c3bafbce | comment |
It's said that he sold his soul but the Devil is not brought up, he only ever refers to those he sold he soul to as "the dark forces". Some of the foreign dubs do make it explicitly Satan. | |
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Anastasia / int_c3cb84e2 | type |
Simple, yet Opulent | |
Anastasia / int_c3cb84e2 | comment |
Simple, yet Opulent: Anya's blue dress for the opera looks simpler than her other ones but is no less elegant. | |
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Anastasia / int_c867e57 | type |
TheRoaringTwenties | |
Anastasia / int_c867e57 | comment |
The Roaring '20s: "Paris Holds the Key" is a montage of this era. | |
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Anastasia / int_c868a42a | type |
Freudian Excuse | |
Anastasia / int_c868a42a | comment |
Freudian Excuse: Adult Dimitri is a manipulative con man planning to trick a heartbroken old woman into believing a random girl is her beloved grand daughter and run off with the reward money. But given what he must have lived through under the oppressive government since the revolution and that he's been living in near-poverty his whole life, you can't help but sympathize with him wanting to find a way out. (And there's the question of exactly how well he was treated as a 10 year old kitchen boy at the Romanov palace, especially after defying the revolutionaries). The movie also builds sympathy by showing he was much less self-serving as a child and risked his life to save Anastasia, and you see more of his past self coming through during the story. | |
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Anastasia / int_c973fe1d | type |
If We Get Through This… | |
Anastasia / int_c973fe1d | comment |
If We Get Through This...: There's a literal example in dialogue. | |
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Anastasia / int_ccfb490 | type |
Weapon Stomp | |
Anastasia / int_ccfb490 | comment |
Weapon Stomp: Rasputin's Soul Jar rolls away and Anya catches it under her foot, stomping on it with an "And This Is for...…" with each one. | |
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Anastasia / int_ce27dc3f | type |
Protagonist Title | |
Anastasia / int_ce27dc3f | comment |
Protagonist Title | |
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Anastasia / int_d043ab87 | type |
Armor-Piercing Slap | |
Anastasia / int_d043ab87 | comment |
Armor-Piercing Slap: Poor Dimitri gets found out shortly after finally deciding to do the right thing, and Anastasia reacts about as well as one might expect. | |
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Anastasia / int_d1a2a4c7 | type |
Musical Exposition | |
Anastasia / int_d1a2a4c7 | comment |
Musical Exposition: The first song, "A Rumor in St. Petersburg", picks up after the prologue and a Time Skip. It introduces two of the main characters, Dimitri and Vlad, and establishes their plan and motives. | |
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Anastasia / int_d1cedb73 | type |
Slap-Slap-Kiss | |
Anastasia / int_d1cedb73 | comment |
Slap-Slap-Kiss: Literally at the end, where Anya accidentally smacks Dimitri in the face, and then cradles his face in her hands for an Almost Kiss. | |
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Anastasia / int_d2979712 | type |
Old-Timey Bathing Suit | |
Anastasia / int_d2979712 | comment |
Old-Timey Bathing Suit: In Anya's dream sequence on the ship, her family is wearing these. | |
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Anastasia / int_d33e263 | type |
"Somewhere" Song | |
Anastasia / int_d33e263 | comment |
Somewhere Song: "Journey to the Past". Anastasia dreams of going to Paris, which she believes holds all the answers to her mysterious childhood. | |
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Anastasia / int_d39e327f | type |
What the Hell, Hero? | |
Anastasia / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: Anya to Dimitri when Vlad accidentally lets slip that Anya has to "convince Sophie," the Dowager Empress's cousin, that she is Anastasia. Up until this point, Anya's understanding of their plan was simply to get in contact with the Dowager Empress and see if Marie recognized her as her granddaughter or not; since Anya grew up in an orphanage and has no memory of her childhood, presenting herself to Sophie as the real thing seems no different to her than outright lying. She reacts in a very similar way when learning that Dimitri and Vlad were running a con and using her to get the Empress's reward money. | |
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Anastasia / int_d50a5478 | type |
Unlimited Wardrobe | |
Anastasia / int_d50a5478 | comment |
Unlimited Wardrobe: Anya/Anastasia, counting the clothing she wears as a child, has 13 different outfits during the course of the movie (although two are completely hallucinatory). Blue court dress, nightgown, overcoat, peasant outfit, yellow Disney Acid Sequence ballgown, blue short-sleeved dress, pajamas, sailor bathing suit, 2 flapper dresses during a musical number, blue evening dress, pink pajamas, court dress (make it 14 if you count the Clothing Damage incurred on the last court dress as a costume change). To compare, Ariel in The Little Mermaid had 7 (her purple Seashell Bra, a ship's sail wrapped around her, a pink dinner dress, a pink nightgown, a turquoise dress, a blue sparkly dress and a wedding dress). | |
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Anastasia / int_d5b06fbb | type |
It Has Only Just Begun | |
Anastasia / int_d5b06fbb | comment |
It Has Only Just Begun: When Sophie refers to Anya and Dimitri's elopement as 'the perfect ending', the Empress corrects her, saying 'No, it's a perfect beginning.' | |
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Anastasia / int_d8e1b5a3 | type |
Soul Jar | |
Anastasia / int_d8e1b5a3 | comment |
Soul Jar: Rasputin's reliquary was already a powerful magical weapon before it became this, but he turned it into a phylactery as part of his devil bargain, as well as the source of his magic. Whether or not it siphons off his soul's power is up for debate. | |
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Anastasia / int_d9cf40fa | type |
Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
Anastasia / int_d9cf40fa | comment |
Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: Subverted when Anya starts packing her bags after learning about Dimitri and Vlad's con. Before she can leave, Dimitri kidnaps the Empress and convinces her to meet Anya and give her a chance. Subverted again when Dimitri after claiming to Anya that he won't miss Russia prepares to go back after the Empress identifies her long-lost granddaughter. After smelling the rose that Anya gave to him, he decides to go back and saves her in the nick of time from Rasputin. | |
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Anastasia / int_da4d59ae | type |
Memento MacGuffin | |
Anastasia / int_da4d59ae | comment |
Memento MacGuffin: Anya's "Together in Paris" necklace key and matching music box which her grandmother gave to her so they could be together even when separated. In a twist while Anya has the necklace half, her grandmother doesn't have the music box half...Dimitri does. Which foreshadows the fact that her grandmother isn't the only person to help Anya discover who she is and where she belongs. | |
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Anastasia / int_dbd2c15e | type |
Everyone Can See It | |
Anastasia / int_dbd2c15e | comment |
Everyone Can See It: Vlad definitely can, Sophie appears to share his suspicions, and the Dowager Empress figures it out pretty quickly. Even random people at the opera think Anya and Dimitri are a couple having a spat. | |
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Anastasia / int_dc057cf3 | type |
Adaptation Name Change | |
Anastasia / int_dc057cf3 | comment |
Adaptation Name Change: Dimitri's counterpart in the 1956 film was General Sergei Bounine, who was also very different from Dimitri in terms of appearance, personality, and backstory. In fact, organizing the con and falling in love with Anastasia are about the only things they have in common at all. Sophie's 1956 counterpart was Baroness Elena von Livenbaum. | |
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Anastasia / int_def5d614 | type |
Suddenly Suitable Suitor | |
Anastasia / int_def5d614 | comment |
Suddenly Suitable Suitor: Inverted. Rather than Dimitri taking the reward money or trying to become a suitable husband for a Grand Duchess, Anya chooses to leave her wealthy world and elopes with him to live an ordinary life. | |
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Anastasia / int_def5d614 | |
Anastasia / int_e16217f8 | type |
Historical Villain Upgrade | |
Anastasia / int_e16217f8 | comment |
Historical Villain Upgrade: While many things have been said of him, the real Rasputin wasn't an evil undead warlock who sold his soul to the forces of evil for revenge on the Romanovs. Rasputin was an enigma but undoubtedly an ally of the Romanovs; the important ones, anyway. Several relatives kinda hated him and plotted his death like Grand Duke Felix Yusupov. In one of the older drafts for the film, Rasputin only became a bad guy after surviving the historical assassination attempt against him, leading him to orchestrate their downfall out of a genuine desire for revenge (this is referenced in his Villain Song by "When the royals betrayed me they made a mistake"). He would also justify this trope in a later scene by revealing his lying low over the years meant historians never realised how connected he was to the fall of the Romanovs. | |
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Anastasia / int_e207247 | type |
Technicolor Death | |
Anastasia / int_e207247 | comment |
Technicolor Death: Rasputin decomposes in flashes of green light after the title character steps on his talisman. | |
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Dub Name Change | |
Anastasia / int_e2c4b927 | comment |
Dub Name Change: Bartok the bat is renamed as "Bartek" in the Hungarian dub, to avoid any association with Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. | |
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I'm Not Afraid of You | |
Anastasia / int_e2d7a02f | comment |
I'm Not Afraid of You: Anastasia uses this line verbatim near the end of the movie, when Rasputin is attempting to drown her in the river. | |
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Anastasia / int_e4965307 | type |
Composite Character | |
Anastasia / int_e4965307 | comment |
Composite Character: Rasputin as he appears in this movie is a mix between the historical character, and a character from Russian folklore called Koschei the Deathless. Vlad fills the role of two characters from the 1956 version, Petrovin and Chernov. | |
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Anastasia / int_e4b69188 | type |
Very Loosely Based on a True Story | |
Anastasia / int_e4b69188 | comment |
Very Loosely Based on a True Story: To levels rivaling Disney's Pocahontas. We should mention that it's not intended to be accurate... which is why the focus in on the undead sorcerer and a con that has nothing to do with Russia's politics. The real Anastasia was just shot alongside her family in July 1918 at the age of 17. After this movie was made, the actual Romanovs were dug up and DNA typed. All the Romanov children were in the graves, including Anastasia.The Other Wiki has the details. Two of the children were discovered in a grave near Ekaterinburg, apart from the original discovery site in early 2008: Alexei and one of his other sisters, either Marie or Anastasia. Rasputin was an ally of the Romanovs, and was murdered before their own demise. He was also (probably) neither a lich nor powered by demons. And bats can't talk. A very, very small one: In the Rasputin-created dream sequence where Anya sees her family swimming, her father greets her by calling her "Sunshine." In the actual Romanov family, this was the nickname of Anastasia's little brother, but since her little brother was standing in front of her during the dream sequence, it's likely her father was talking to him and not her. | |
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Anastasia / int_e5421161 | type |
Expy | |
Anastasia / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: Vlad is basically Papa Mousekewitz as a human. | |
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Anastasia / int_e542d80a | type |
Gonk | |
Anastasia / int_e542d80a | comment |
Gonk: Even before he became a rotting corpse, Rasputin, what with his bone thin physique, pale skin, skull like face with bulging eyes, a pointy nose and ears, messy hair and grotesquely large hands with pointy nails, was not a pretty sight. | |
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PimpedOutDress | |
Anastasia / int_e5448c9 | comment |
Pimped-Out Dress: Three! Though only two figured prominently in the marketing - the yellow silk Dream Sequence dress and the svelte navy and sparkly Parisian Opera dress. They made an Anastasia Barbie with the blue sparkly dress, as well as the Disney Acid Sequence dress, AND a line of dresses that didn't appear in the movie at all, but they were 'inspired by' it and made to fit the Anastasia doll. | |
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Anastasia / int_e61d9a3c | type |
Clothing Damage | |
Anastasia / int_e61d9a3c | comment |
Clothing Damage: Happens to Anya during the battle with Rasputin, and it was her pimped out princess dress too! | |
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Dark Is Evil | |
Anastasia / int_e8b0f099 | comment |
Dark Is Evil: Rasputin is the darkest-coloured character, says he obtained his powers by selling his soul to "the Dark Forces", and his musical number is called "In The Dark Of The Night". Then for some reason, his powers often manifest as green light. | |
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Anastasia / int_e8ca5cb3 | type |
Freudian Slip | |
Anastasia / int_e8ca5cb3 | comment |
Freudian Slip: Used in a literal sense when Sigmund Freud, singing along with "Paris Holds the Key," slips on a banana. | |
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Beethoven Was an Alien Spy | |
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Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Rasputin gets a Historical Villain Upgrade here, as he's responsible for the downfall of the Romanov dynasty and thus the rise of Soviet Russia. | |
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Match Cut | |
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Match Cut: When Anastasia tries on her tiara and looks in the mirror, her reflection changes to her wearing her princess gown. | |
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That Russian Squat Dance | |
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That Russian Squat Dance: Appears rather prominently with the crowd during "A Rumor in St. Petersburg." | |
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Dream Ballet | |
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Dream Ballet: The "Once Upon A December" number, where the portraits in the imperial ballroom come to life and dance for Anya. | |
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A Minor Kidroduction | |
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A Minor Kidroduction: Both Anya and Dimitri are shown as children in the intro. | |
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Dances and Balls | |
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Dances and Balls: Rasputin curses the royal family during a ball to celebrate the Romanovs' multiple centuries of rule over Russia. It works, because shortly afterwards not-Lenin and the not-Bolsheviks raid the palace and Anastasia barely makes it out of there. Near the end of the film Anastasia is going to be presented at an equally fancy ball but ends up fighting Rasputin and then leaving with Dimitri instead. | |
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Plot-Irrelevant Villain | |
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Plot-Irrelevant Villain: Rasputin. Of course, he was never much of a villain in real life, but even the movie treats him like an afterthought. This has gone to the point where the stage adaptation removed Rasputin and Bartok from the plot altogether. The movie makes it clear that there was serious unrest in Russia's citizens before Rasputin's sorcery incited them into killing the Romanovs, making it seem as though an uprising was going to happen anyway, for reasons unexplained by the movie. The protagonists were already planning to bail out of the train, which Rasputin used his magic to destroy, in order to avoid being arrested for having the wrong passports. Furthermore, most of the drama in the movie doesn't come from Rasputin's plot to kill Anya, but from Anya reuniting with her grandmother, and her relationship with Dimitri. | |
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I Remember It Like It Was Yesterday | |
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I Remember It Like It Was Yesterday: Used for irony: a young woman claiming to be Anastasia uses the stock phrase before rattling off a list of facts about Anastasia's childhood in an effort to prove her identity to Dowager Empress Marie. The viewer of course already knows that she's lying, and furthermore that the real Anastasia doesn't remember anything about her childhood. | |
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Crowd Song | |
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Crowd Song: "A Rumor in St. Petersburg" and "Paris Hold the Key (to Your Heart)". | |
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Evil Plan | |
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Evil Plan: Everything is kicked off by Rasptutin's desire to kill the Romanov family. He continues with this plan after the time skip once he realizes Anastasia's still alive. | |
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Road Trip Romance | |
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Road Trip Romance: Dimitri and Anya travel from St. Petersburg, Russia to Paris, France and by the time they arrive they are deep in Belligerent Sexual Tension. Then they elope and leave Paris. | |
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Not My Driver | |
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Not My Driver: Dimitri hijacks the Dowager Empress's car in order to force her to see Anastasia and be convinced that she's the real deal. | |
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Took a Level in Cynic | |
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Took a Level in Cynic: Somewhat justified in that trying to be a good person got Dimitri severely injured as a child, but by the time the main plot starts, he decides he's going to con the Empress by using the music box Anastasia left behind. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: Sophie takes Anastasia shopping at a Chanel store during the Shopping Montage in Paris. | |
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Natural Spotlight | |
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Natural Spotlight: Anya's lit face. The eyes are the ones in focus, which makes one wonder whether or not she notices; most people would certainly be blinded by such thing. | |
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Roadside Wave | |
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Roadside Wave: On her way to St Petersberg, a carriage passes Anya and covers her with a wave of snow. | |
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Cool Big Sis | |
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Cool Big Sis: It's implied Anya was this at the orphanage to the kids younger than her, given they give her loud goodbyes when she's leaving to find a job. She returns the friendly farewell with a large grin when not talking to the orphanage head. | |
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Shoo Out the Clowns | |
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Shoo Out the Clowns: Just before the final confrontation, Bartok decides he's had enough of Rasputin obsessing over murdering an innocent girl, and abandons him. | |
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Nurture over Nature | |
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Nurture over Nature: Alluded to as Anya seems to feel uncomfortable with the old, royal lifestylenote Protesting when officials tell Dimitri to bow to her, Pooka's boredom at her new surroundings, and Anya's reluctance join the ball at the end. after spending most of her life as an ordinary citizen, and chooses to leave with Dimitri to live privately instead. Her grandmother indicates she's realized her situation as well. | |
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Evil Is Petty | |
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Evil Is Petty: A being who was, by the forces of darkness, given the ability that establishes the Communist Revolution, for god's sake, comes back into this world. What does he intend to do next? Take Over the World? Destroy it? Nah. He is going to devote his entire existence to wrecking one girl's chance for happiness. Bartok even calls him out on this. | |
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Evil-Detecting Dog | |
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Evil-Detecting Dog: Pooka always begins to bark or notice the reliquary's demons just before each of Rasputin's attempts on Anastasia's life. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: When Dimitri does his Keep the Reward moment and tells the Empress that what he wants is something she can't give him, she comes to realize that he saved her and her granddaughter during the siege as the kitchen boy, and reunited them because he loves Anastasia. Thus when Anastasia plans to enter the grand ballroom, she tells Anastasia that Dimitri didn't take the money, and that knowing Anastasia is alive is enough for her. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: Despite the historical liberties taken (some for the sake of the medium and length, some to spare children the grisly truth about the Russian Revolution, and some for simple poetic license) and myths bought into (aside from the urban legend about Anastasia herself, nods are given to Rasputin's alleged exaggerated death), a great deal of work was done to otherwise display geographical and biographical accuracy. Photography, including aerial shots, enabled startlingly true-to-life likenesses of St. Petersburg and Paris and the inside of the Winter Palace; Period costumes and trains were duplicated, as well as historical figures living in Paris at the time; Actual relics of the Romanovs were scanned into the computers and inserted within the movie, including photographs of the family shown on Marie's wall and the drawing Anastasia made when she was eight years old, which was drawn by the real Anastasia... All of the bathing suits worn by Anastasia, her father, and her sisters during the dream sequence, and the sailor suit worn by her little brother, are also reproductions of the actual suits worn on their frequent family vacations. Even the notion of Rasputin cursing the Romanovs is based off of an anecdotal account that, on one of the few occasions Nicholas and other nobles became worried about the influence he had over Alexandra and foreign policy, Rasputin threatened the family with a pox if he were dismissed from court. In the number "Paris Holds the Key to Your Heart" the backgrounds all look very Impressionistic, and that was the popular painting style at the time. Pooka bears some resemblance to Anastasia's real dog, a springer spaniel named Jimmy who died with the family in 1918. You can see Jimmy in the painting during Marie's opening narration. | |
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Flowers of Romance | |
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Flowers of Romance: Dimitri and Anya give each other budding roses during the "Paris Holds the Key (To Your Heart)" sequence. Anya later throws hers away when she discovers his original con. Dimitri finds his - now full bloomed - in his pocket just as he's about to leave for Russia which prompts him to go back to Anya. | |
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